The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-02-06

STATE NEWS.
Farmers are selling good dry wood
at Grand Ledge from 30 CENTS to 81
per cord.
An immense meeting Of me ribbon
men" was held Sunday night at Kala-
mazo; 400 are now enrolled.
At Evart. the court stenographer rs-
Gently got on q spree, and Judge
Wheeler ordered him out Of the court
room.
A two-year old daughter OF James
Smith, Detroit. the other day lost two
fingers between the cog wheels OF o
wringing machine.
Quincy is an enterprising village.
Thos. Clark is preparing to build Q
brick hotel. and J. G. Bennett brick
hardware store, this spring.
The Board of Supervisors OF Sagi-
nav county have voted to pay Judge
Tennant, the Judge OF the Saginaw
Circuit, 81 900 in addition to the regu-
lar salary OF 81 1900.
The family Daniel Shea, consisting
of his wife and three children, were
burned 10 death at Marquette on the
22d inst, by the burning OF q small
house in which they were living.
Judge John Anderson, OF Plainwell,
fell dead at his home on the 18th Of
January. He was eighty years of age,
and had been long a sufferer from can
Ger. He came TO this country in 1888.
Just think of it dears. A girl left
Houghton the other day, enroute for
Sidney, Australia. A chap out there
says he loves her we'll enough to marry
her if she'll go to him, and she packed
up and started.
George +. Harris, of Adrian, one OF
the ANNAPOLIS naval academy students,
dismissed for refusing to testify against
hazers, has been admonished by the
Secretary of the Navy, aud reinstated,
but set back year in his classes.
On January 20th drunken fellow
by the name of John Flynn, living five
and half miles from Dexter, while on
q drunken spree pounded his wife in
such horrible manner as to cause her
death. Officers from Chelsea are said
to be looking for Flynn.
At the last meeting of the Board of
Supervisors of Geuessee county, a mo-
tion was introduced TO increase Judge
Turner'S salary $500, and, after being
amended to 500, was carried. The
salary OF the prosecuting attorney re-
Gently reduced TO $3.50 was increased
to 81 200 again.
III. +. Debock, a Hollander, who has
been a notary public, loan agent and
real estate conveyancer at Grand Rap
ids for years, and who had the conf
dence and esteem Of sll the citizens
has left town abruptly, and is now sup
posed TO be in Canada. IL is asserted
by his partner and. others that he has
bled his creditors and patrons to the
tune OF s., 900 or 5000.
William Foster, who lives q few
miles west of Lansing, Wednesday
night stabbed Major Stag in the abdo-
men, inficting painful aud dangerous
wound. The affair opened with sun
ling match in which Foster was thrown
and finally eliminated by Foster stab
bing Stag. The papers are out
for his arrest on charge OF assault
with intent to kill.
Shipments at Coldwater durirg the
year ending Dec 31st, 1876, were H.
735, 941 pounds of freight received at
that station, on which the charges
amounted to S36. .22S ID. During the
same time II ,555, 40 pounds were ship
ped, for which S2S. $50 Is was received.
The total amount received for tickets
sold was GAG, ,l46 22--making a total of
Sl0l, ,25i 53 received during the year.
As compared with the previous year
the receipts for tickets show an in
crease of s6, 1OS 81, while the freight
receipts show a slight decrease.-Cold-
water Rep.
A singular fatal occurrence is report
ed to have taken place in the north
part Of Ross township, Kalamazoo Co.,
ON the 10th inst. A young man named
Frank Young, while driving out with
young lady, Miss Hinckley, fell from
the cutter. The young lady stopped
the horse and went back and found him
dead. She covered him with blanket,
and ran TO his brothers q little dis
tance away, and gave the alarm. The
deceased was 90 years old, and has
been troubled with heart disease for
some time past. which so suddenly ter
minated his existence.