The Lake County star., 1877-11-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK .
MICHIGAN.

. Second Lieut.. Frank y. kice, OF tne |
First u. s. artillery, has been detailed as
professor of military science and tactics |
at the Orchard Lake military academy.
A bed of "novaculite," or oil stone, has
been discovered near Marquette, and will |
be worked. The stone Is said to be quite |
equal to the finest Arkansas hone stone. |
The Ralkaskian says the immigration
into that county this season Is greater
han that of any season since settlements
began there.
Late Michigan Patents:
Multiplying Show Cases, ETC. w.
steam Cookers-A. A. Brooks, Battle
Creek.
Tanning Compound-F. Funke, De-
troit.
.Saw-mill Dogs-G. w. Rodebaugh'
Jackson.
Match Splint Machines-H. w. Under
wood. Kenosha, Wis.,, and VIM. +. Hoh-
day, Detroit.
Lasts. r. Jacques, Hancock.
Gates-M. ]. Mcpherson, West Camp
bell.
Bridles-O. +. Webster, Ann Arbor.
The total shipments of iron ore from
Marquette, L'Anse and Escanaba for the
season has been SS6, ,O44 tons, being an IN
crease of Sc, 1888 tons over that OF the cor
responding period last year.
In n fire at jackson, on Wednesday,
the two Norman stations, Zingara and
!. Victor, were burned. They were valued
at &, 500 each and belonged to j. r. Both
wick, of Dowagiac.
State fish superintendent Jerome, OF
Niles, has $50, 900 California salmon near
ly ready for distribution.
Some of the Muskegon mills, which
had shut down for the season, have start
ed anew under the influence of the rising
prices of lumber.
About o per cent. of the number of stu
dents at the Michigan University this
year are young women.
Jose G. Barbosa, of Porto Rico, the stu
dent who was refused admission to the
College of Physicians and Surgeons OF
New York on account Of his complexion,
has entered the Medical Department. OF
the Michigan University.
A dispatch from Keokuk, Iowa, says
that under the leadership OF ). z. Bonte-
cou. of jackson, Mich. "a most remarkable
temperance reform has been instituted.
The attendance upon the meetings Is 80
large that no hall in the city will hold the
audiences, and 1t is found necessary 10
divide the meetings. UP to the night or
the 10Th over 1000 converts had been
made, and they are now coming forward
by hundreds. In the ranks are now TO De
found several of the former saloon keep
ers, who have closed their shops, quit
the trade, gone into other business, and
engaged in reforming others.
The shipments of lumber from the Sag
inaw River during October aggregate
8O,4l6,541 feet, being an excess OF lO,Zl7,-
$50 feet over that of the corresponding
month last year. The shipments TO Nov.
/ show an excess of n, ,254 ,806 feet Of lum-
ber, and 30,0O0, 900 shingles, with large
excess In salt.
A fire at Muir Tuesday night burned
several buildings and damaged some
what the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad
depot.
A lad named Byron Everhart. was at
tackled by vicious hogs, near Ransom,
the other day, and would have been torn
to pieces but for the timely arrival OF as
sistance. He was badly lacerated.
The Hon. G. d. Nelson expects to cut
5000. 900 feet of lumber at Clam Lake this
winter, which will be shipped east by way
of Traverse City.
A witness called in n case in the Sagi-
nav City court, on Wednesday, was lO4
wears old. He could remember when the
suit first began.
The burnt portion of Cadillac (Clam
Lake, is being rapidly rebuilt, and soon
will show few signs of the recent disas-
trous fire.
A Kalamazoo firm has shipped load
of windmills to Cape Colony, south Al
rica
A few days ago Esther Coffeen, of Ken
county. was sentenced to the State Prison
at Jackson for life. AS there is no provi-
sion for caring for women at that 1nstitu-
tion. the warden declined to receive her,
and she was placed in Jackson jail until
the Governor shall commute her sentence
SO as to have her sent to the Detroit House
of Correction. On the ground that she Is
illegally confined at the Jackson jail, a
move has been made to have her released
on writ of habeds corpus.
Battle Creek correspondent writes :
/" A farmer arrived here to-day, and gave
YOUR correspondent a startling piece OF
Johnstown news. He said that adisguis-
ed man broke into a house there and de-
manded of q little boy large sum oi
money. known to be in the building. The
boy was alone, and, going into the next
room to get the money. brought back q
gun and shot the would-be robber deao:
farm house to tell the news, but found
the farmer not at home. When the dis
puise was taken from the dead man, the
discovery was made that 1t was the neigh
Dor himself.
A 3O-acre mari bed has been opened al
Caro-, and fine quality OF mari lime Is
being made from it. The supply is enor-
nous, the bed being from three to ten
feet thick.
A Corunna man ships consignment Of
wheat I'm sacks direct to Scotland.
Christian Collins, Of Augusta, has los
his wife. She went out to look for the
cows a few days ago and has not return
cd.
Never before has the growing wheat
been SO high at this time OF the year as a
present. In some places 1t is two 100
high.
A $4,000 apparatus for making aceti'
acid from the smoke of the coal kilns
the Bangor furnace Is in progress.
The Jackson State Prison received A
new tenants in October. There are NOV
76g convicts in that institution.
The diptheria is so prevalent and sc
we're in Flint that the Common Counci
has directed that signs be placed on hous
es where the disease prevails.
A nude wild man, supposed to be tn
deaf-mute Ackles, who fled from tn
= Flint ASYLUM some weeks ago, Is rovinI
in tho woods OF Chosaning.
Potter's clay of fine quality exists a
Caro-, :and0 visions OF the erection OF
huge pottery fit through the brains OF tn
Caroites.
$1O4, POI, ,473 has been expended on tn
new Capitol. 1'he plastering In most Q
the rooms and halls Is finished, and rapi'
progress Is being made with the floor AM
Inside castings. The tin covering Is bein
put on the dome, which completes tn
roofing of the building. The steps an
porticos to the east, west and north en-
frances are completed and give the build
ing quite finished appearance. There
now every reason TO expect that the ne'
capitol will be ready FOR occupancy b
July !, 1878.
w. III. Fairchild has what the Glot
calls the premium farm In Genesse cour
ty. Itconsists of so acres, and from 1t
raised this season 600 bushels OF whea
2s Of barley, 425 of oats, 1000 of cor,