The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-07-17

q. Oscar Thompson, OF Ionia, has
been appointed treasurer Of the new
House OF Correction by Governor
Croswell.
The wife OF Chas. Turner, OF Yankee
Springs, aged 81. Thursday cut her
throat with a razor and died. Sup
posed 10 have been insane.
Uncle Elijah" Woodwork, the first
pioneer OF the west half of Ingham
county. now over s5 years OF age, last
week hoed over five acres OF corn in
two and one-half days.
John Jenne found a pair of elk
horns in Chester a short time since,
while digging a ditch. They weighed
twenty-six pounds and measured eight
feet or over from tip to tip.
The Menominee Herald says: Frank
Fitch and son encountered bear and
two cubs near the Breen mine. O short
time since. The cubs ran up tree.
and the old one stationed herself at its
roots TO protect them.
The Port Huron Commercial says
Charles Shepherd, a young married
man Of Grant, has been arrested at the
suit OF deaf and dumb girl named
Van Luven, who lately gave birth to
child, of which she declares Shepherd
10 be the father. The accused gave
500 bail to appear FOR trial.
DIR. Reynolds has closed his labors
in Michigan for the present. He cele-
brated at Albion. making a short
speech there. The doctor aud his ac-
complished wife are resting quietly at
the residence Of Mr.. Norman Geddes,
at Adrian.
While grading wheat on the 9th, in
Trowbridge, Aliegan county, Charles
Keans fell on his cradle and cut four
of the toes of his right foot. Ampu-
tation was necessary. He also cut
deep cash in the bottom Of the left
foot.
A gentleman OF Grand Haven, whose
name is not giver, denies in the Grand
Rapids Democrat that Edward Z. Fer
~ was taken to Batavia, Illinois, and
adds: "The doctors have not pro-
nounced Mr.. Ferry insane, but are sub
jecting him to a course of medicine
which will, they are confident, bring
him out al right"
The Nashville News says the wife OF
John Lutzow, OF that place, has been
crazy for some time, and upon return
ing to his dwelling for breakfast Sat-
urday morning, he found the baby,
aged one year, dead, and the mother
calmly laying il out, and the supposi-
ton is that she strangled it to death.
W. L. McClintock encountered
bear in the road near Barker's, one day
last week, and blazed away at him with
rifle. The bear was only about thir-
ty feet distant, but Mack saw the ami
NAL more plainly than he did the sights
Of his gun when he fred, and bruin
made off into the woods without far
ther urging.
The Niles Republican speaks OF one
Of tho pioneers of Berrien county,
Mrs. Mary Lewis, lady in her seven
ty-frst year. living about ten miles
niles from Cassopolis, who walked to
that place Saturday, intending TO take
the train for Niles On her arrival she
found the train had passed, and she
set out on foot and reeched !ler desti-
nation, making walk OF twenty-six
miles during the day.
The Jackson Patriot tells this fish
story: Thomas Jones and George Boil
! ton, while trolling for fish in Berry
Lake on Tuesday last, both cast their
lines in the water at the same time
They lad no more than got them fair
" ia the water than each felt vigor-
Ous bite % the same instant. Both
commenced pulling in, and the reader,
especially il he has had any experience
in fishing, can Judge of their surprise
when they discovered that n fve-pound
bass Lad taken both hooks. which were
securely fastened in his gills.
Mr.. Van Week, Of Augusta, informs
the Jackson Patriot that he recently
found a small, stout bug that kills the
potato bug. There are thousands OF
them in his potato field, and they at
tack the potato bug with long, spear
like bill, projecting from their head,
piercing him through with il and kill
| ing him on the spot. They are so
stout that they can easily handle a po-
! tato bug three times the size OK them.
They arc such terror to them that
they keel over or hide themselves IN the
ground at their approach.