The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-11-21

is 105 years old.
Dowsgiac has shipped over 900
hogs and 1000 barrels Of apples this
fall.
During Oetober $40 vessels passed
the Geneses street bridge at EasI
Saginaw.
The magnetic springs bath-house al
st. Louis is going to be kept running
all winter.
VIM. Brecker was killed near Men.
don, recently by grub flying from 9
threshing machine, striking him on
the head.
A huge oak tree, long landmark on
the Dix road, near Detroit limits, has
been struck by lightning, and entirely
destroyed.
Mrs. J. f. b. Stuart, widow OF the
famous rebel cavalyman, was in De-
troit last week. the guest of Gen. p.
st. George Cooke.
The house OF Burgett Henry, freight
clerk at Coldwater, was broken into
Oct. 20. and robbed of a watch, chain,
and 9l2 in money.
October 2sth, Robert Scrafford, en-
ploye at the Lake Shore depot. Trenten
decamped with Si06.50, belonging to
VIM. Saunders, Jr.
Albert Chapman. bar keeper, and
Louis Schloss, a jeweler, are going to
wrestle, collar and elbow, at Detroit
Opera House, for 500 a side.
Capt. John Pridgeon, Saturday,
made a wager OF $500 even with Bar
ney Youngblood, Detroit, that Hayes
would be our next President.
A barn belonging to Mr.. Crane, OF
Marshall, was burned Nov. /. A large
number of hogs were roasted. Total
loss $1,000. incendiary; no insurance.
Iu Milford. Oakland county, potatoes
are selling at from 80 to IS cents per
bushel. One man, Joseph Openo,
raised 500 bushels of peachblows.
The Saginaw Republican says that
Alex. Cooper OF Bay City has contract
TO put 10, 900, 600 feet Of logs into the
Pigeon and Sebewaing rivers, for ii.
w. Sage OF Wenona.
An unknown sailor was drowned off
the schooner George Murray below st.
Clair. Oct, 80. Scrubbing the side of
the vessel the staring broke and ."
Efforts to save him tailed.
A store owned by Z. w. Lewis. with
Q stock OF goods owned by T.. Fisher,
together with a meat market and mil
linery store, at Pewamo, were burned
Oct. 29. Loss 81. 1000, insurance $500.
II, as we hope, our depicting grain
system OF farming is to be changed or
checked. even little, by q new foreign
trade in beef, it will be some relief to
our tired grain felds.-[ Detroit Tri-
bune.
Two boys of Detroit, aged respect
fyely nine and eleven. got into an al
tsrcation Nov. /, when the nine-years
old one threw a jagged stone at the
other, hitting him under the left ear,
and killing him.
DIR. Garrigues, the State Salt Inspec-
tor, thinks that the Saginaw valley will
this year produce 1900, 900 barrels.
Saginaw now outstrips Syracuse in the
manufacture OF salt, and supplies about
one-fifth of the amount consumed in
the Unitod States.
In many OF the Eastern States at
least one-half the apple crops will 60
to waste. being too much 10 be take care
Of. The Indianapolis, Ind, vinegar
factory has purchased 10000 bushels,
at fourteen cents per bushel, to make
cider vinegar.
Charles Otto, q workman on the road
train on the Detroit, Hillsdale and
Southwestern railroad, was dancing on
the fiat cars near the edge, Nov. Sd,
when Q sudden jerk OF the train threw
him off and under the wheels, where
he was instantly killed.
A Bay City saloon-keeper got into
trouble down in Toledo, and was incar-
cerated in Jail. He was engaged TO be
married, and as his business affairs
we're being badly managed during his
absence, the woman OF his choice went
down to Toledo, was married to him
in Jail, and returned TO take charge OF
his saloon.
The Bay City Tribune says: "a
party from the city went up the river
in boat the ether day on a hunting
tour. They were gone four days, dur
ing which time they shot a spile all TO
pieces (thinkipg it was a hell-diver),
killed one wood.pecker, and reached
home only by hiring q man to hold
their engine together with two crow
bars.