The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-05-23
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Hon. G. s. Msy is to deliver the ad-
dress before the State Soldiers and
Sailors Association in Detroit on May
31th.
They claim for Mambrino Gift, OF
Flint, the best three heat record in the
world. His second heat, 2:20, is only
equalled by one horse, Smugglsr.
: A rousing meeting was held at the
Court House in Kalamazoo last week,
and the citizens resolved TO have O big
centennial celebration OF the Fourth Of
July.
A writer in the Mason News who has
looked the matter over pretty careful
ly says farmers cannot expect to sell
their wool this season for more than
from % to 80 cents pound.
A letter to a gentleman in Kalamazoo
from q friend in st. Johnsbury, YER
mont, dated April 10Th. says that snow
there was about four feet deep, and at
Danville, seven miles up from there, IL
was three feet deep.
John Knowls, of Pennfisld, brings
in the boss hens eggs. II measures
six and three-fourths inches by eight
and one-fourth. IL is from q buff CO.
chin hen. = Battle Greek Journal.
Mr.. Cyrus Aldrich, Of Reed City,
committed suicide by swallowing prus-
sic acid at the house OF Mr.. II. Noble,
ut Otisco, Ionia county. He leaves Q
family at Reed City. No cause il as
signed for the act.
Mayor Pierce, of Grand Rapids,
wisely suggests In his inaugural that
mo more expensive, thrse-story school
houses be erected, unless demanded by
the public voice, and that the primaries
be of only two stories.' Sensible sug-
gestion.
The annual report af the l.. s. < NJ.
s. railroad shows the capital stock 10 be
$50, ,000, 900, and the bonded debt &c.,
$50, 900. The gross earnings Of the
year we're sl4, 434, ,199, the net earnings
80, ,902 ,69S.
The survivors of Andersonvills and
other rebel prisons who reside in the
western part of the State are request
ed to send their names and those Of
their company and regiment TO II. Z.
Dewey, 12 Canal street, Grand Rap
ids. II is proposed 10 form au organi-
zation, as is done in other parts Of the
country.
The papers of the day are glorifying
big trees. which leads MS TO remark
4
section %, in the town of Owosso, has
upon his farm an elm tree that meas
ures in circumference (two feet from
the ground) twenty-nine feet and two
and-a-half inches Corunna Ameri-
can. A
| On Saturday last X. ID. Barry, Of
Dundee, was brought mp for trial be-
fore Justice Mcbride on the charge OF
furnishing liquor to an habitual drunk
ard, one Barnes, Was found guilty and
fined s.. At the close of the trial Bar
~ was Immediately re-arrested on q
like charge in distinct case, and will
be sp for trial on Saturday next. 18th
inst Monroe Com.
On Friday, Frank Richardson, mill
ler at Mair's mill, met with an accident
that came near b~ing fatal. He was
engaged in mending q belt, when the
skirt Of his coat caught in the main
shaft, which was in motion, and wound
up instantly, squet zing and bruinng
him quite severely. Timely assistance
helped to tear the coat from him and
relieve him Of danger, but not until he
had become insensible. -tLapser Clsr-
ion.
Mason was favored with public lec-
ture The other evening. but 10 does not
seem to have been an oratorical sue
cess. The Mason News says of the
speaker: His voice was loud, but in
distinct. at times Il sounded very
much like cats clinging 10 an cave
troush--at others IL resem bled the noise
OF bull dog with tea -ksttle tied 10
bis tail. He has conceit enough 10
supply ten regiments.
Mayor Spalding has issued an order
10 The city marshal and constables Of
tho city, directing them TO take proper
measures for the enforcement OF the
Law requiring saloons. restsurants, ,barp.
etc, TO keep closed doors on the Sab
bath. We understand IL to be the pur-
pose Of the Mayor and City Council 10
see this law enforced. II is what ought
&C. have been done long aRo--in iacs
when the Law frst took effect--and Il
. could have been enforced othen with
much less trouble than nov. Eat 70 h
, better late than svsr.--t Monroe Con'
mercisl.