The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-06-20

Some talk of o commercial college at
Charlotte soon.
Temperance work-A Hudson brew
cry is being remodeled into residence.
Union City is to be replatted, In or
der TO straightep out some oil the Kinks
in the streets.
The Niles wooden mill and knitting |
establishment employ 90 hands, and
will soon need 100.
The Stree methodists" are to hold q
camp meeting a few miles from Flint,
commencing June l4th.
Don't move west just yet. There are
8, ,23I ,2O6 acres of public land in this
state yet to be given away.
The Bsrrien Springs editors are call.
ing each other dogs and 'damphool.
Correct, both OF 'em.
At Crystal, Montcalm county, boy
while out cutting a switch. fell on his
knife and severed the iugular vein. Of
course he soon died.
Three thousand dollars is the price
of liquor bonds at Hudson, and i've
out OF the eight saloon-keepers there
have found bondsmen.
At Bronson there is an old hermit
living who has painted over 900 feet OF
canvas in scenes representing Christ
while on earth.
There has not been time before in
years when our lakes and streams have
yielded such quantities OF fine fish as
they have this spring.
June Sd, the body OF John Collier
was found hanging in the woods half
mile out of Grand Rarpids; insanity in
duced self-destruction.
The wife OF Capt. Hodges, Kalama.
zoo, was thrown from a top buggy,
June 1st, during runaway, and fatally
injured.
Mrs. Bradford winney, OF White
water has Just received three centen-
nisl additions to her family. Their az
grsgate weight at birth was eighteen
pounds.
Capt. Z. W. Watson, of Dstr oft, has
accepted the position OF superintend-
ent Of life saving stations on the lakes,
and left home Friday on tour OF in
spection.
! Hon. Charles 8. May intends to remove
to Detroit, and to make that city his
permanent home.
The Michigan Southern Is having
large number of coal cars built, to
accommodate Ithe steadily increasing
freight trade in that line through this
section.
Gallant Gen. Loomis' equally gallant
old war-horse, was out in the process
sion Mt Coldwater on Decoration Day
The veteran equine seemed TO actuall,
recognize the old cannons.
Henry Monroe, a farmer, living in
Sandstone township. near Jackson, hai
been arrested for mixing strychnint
with the tea and drinking-water OF hi
sister-in- law and her husband.
The tally Of drowned boys is swell
ing fearfully this summer. The nam'
of Freddie d. Bell, Of st. Joseph, aged
8. was added to it yesterday. Cours
ing about on the lake in q small boa
did il.
} The wool-buyers are pursuing thei
usual tactics this year. They are buy
| ing low but coming up as the seasol
advances and competition increases =
Thirty-three cents has been paid II
some places already.
: Hon. VIM. L. Webster, Of East Sag
. inaw, the man who our Michigan dem
ocrats ara beginning to want for Cover
nor of the state, Is the man who dre'
j. mp the platform adopted by that part
a at its recent state convention.
Flint opens its heart and pocket
Q book for its Fourth Of July celebration
. II appropriates $500 for the proper er
d tertainment Of visiting military con
q panies.
Q A special feature OF the Kalamazoo
e Fourth OF July splurges will be th
monster choras now being organize
9 for the purpose OF singing pa'riot
d anthems.
q More crookedness. John Ludbridg
i treasurer of the town OF Belvider
\ Montcalm county, is wanted by u
:. sheriff of that county. He would hi
n 10 find $500 Of the towns money ais
!, Nothing special has yet been disco
=, =, cred in the university investigation
Beal. of the Courier, has refused
testify. as, by 80 doing, he wonld she
- - his lines Of defense in his s2o.OOO lib
- suit.
ii Miss Waldron, of Webster, daught
ie of w. II. Waldron, is afflicted with
10 cancer in the stomach, and Tor thr
to weeks has been confined TO her bed
I'd able TO retain so much as q drop OF
a ter upon her stomach.
,n Charles NJ. Moses, ono OF the earle
o. settlers Of Owosso, and one OF its I'll
of postmasters, died June 4, OF consum
Nv ton. aged 65 years. He was
n fourth mayor of the city, and until
he past two years one OF the directors
en- the First national bank.
oy A poor widow Of Paw Paw paid
70 for a S35 coffin in which her husba
"' was buried. He died Is years ago. q
she promised to pay for it, and die
the other day, interest making the 8
COS. The undertaken had crossed
name off as a dead-bsat years ago.
tic
,u- A Mrs. Stern aud Mrs. Hodges
len Kalamazoo were injured by ho
ed running away with them June 1. N
,ed Hodges injuries we're very serious
ate Her right arm was broken, her h'
,ne and face badly larcerated, aud up
aid Jaw broken so that it hung down
the pended from the flesh.
The lunatic OF the Grand Raj
Democrat stops his political raw
long enough to assure its readers
- "Grand Rapids is 800 feet above
lon level of the sea-" As Lake Michi
E .a,a is a fraction over $50 feet above the
~ il follows that Grand River flows
,;,b hill on a grade Of about seven feet
49, the mile. Better stick to politics
rate leave geography alone.
y A dispatch from Carson City, \
It OF reports sixty to one hundred men,
and posed 10 be an anti-coolie club OF
tied city stopped gravel train in the
de- mel west OF the town, on the All
INST and Truckee Railroad, ordered
AT the Chinese laborers on the train
g In would not allow them TO work
ortn kinds Of rumors are afoat, partisl
Ine both sides are srming IN anticiPs
JAKE Of q fight. Chinatown is 10 osns