The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-11-27

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10 S25 a month.
Il. Stewart White recently purchases
tract of pine lands in Spencer town
ship for $4,000.
The Ludington Red Ribbon Club hai
about completed its new hall, and vii
formally dedicate it.
They will make race track of the
Eaton Rapids cemetery as soon as the
bodies can be taken up and the graves
leveled of.
Work on the new canal at the Sauli
has closed for the season, and Mr..
Roach and family have returned tc
their home in Cincinnati.
The Allegan Journal announces the
death OF a resident Of Otsego in thii
wise: "Joe Arnold, an Otsego saloon
ist, died on the 9Th inst.-Snakes.
There is so much lawlessness in some
parts of Clinton county that the honest
citizens have formed vigilance commit
tees, and propose to secure order at
whatever cost.
In Clinton county the growing wheat
crop has become so rank that many
farmers have deemed it advisable to
turn in their stock to eat it down.
Some pieces have jointed.
Charles Wahl and John Maxted, two
Manistee youths, were drowned on Sat
urday. They were skating on n pond
when the ice broke, letting them into
the water.
Ten families, comprising AZ persons,
the advance guard of a colony, have
settled at Beitner's station, on the
Grand Rapids and Indiana road, near
Traverse City.
1t is estimated that the population of
Mason county has doubled within the
past four years, and the Newyago Re
publican says that village will double
It's population by this time next year.
Jacob Bovee, of Lenawee county. has
only twenty-one children living, the
eldest 40 years old and the youngest l
year. Thirty members Of the family
held a reunion at North Star, Gratiot
county.
The total shipment of iron ore from
tie Marquette district for the season
up to October 81 were 907, 93l tons, be-
ing an increase over the corresponding
period last year OF 36, 22S tons.
Nearly twice as many men have gone
into the lumber camps on the Muske-
gon and White rivers this year as did
last year, and nearly twice as many
logs will probably be put in.
The second annual exhibition of the
Saginaw Valley Poultry Association
will be held in East Saginaw, begin
ming January and continuing four
days. Nearly s4O0 will be offered in
premiums.
The mother OF Isaac Fl. Smith, OF
Green Oak, died at his residence the
other day, aged 9S years. She was q
cousin OF ex-President Graut, and had
lived in Green Oak % years.
Mr.. ID. p. Clay, President OF the
Newago and Grand Rapids railroad,
has invested $780, 600 in the water pow
er of the Muskegon River, at Newaygo
and factories, tanners, Touring mills,
etc, are soon TO be started there.
The Rev. G. II. Ellis, who took FIVE
families, twenty-five persons in all,
from Reading last week to settle at
Columbia, Brazonia county, Texas,
says it is his purpose TO add one hun
dred families to his Texan colony be-
fore spring.
Such men as Judge Cooley, chief JUS
tice the Supreme Court, and Hon. s.
NJ. Cutcheon, u. s. District Attorney,
are addressing the Red Ribbon Re-
form clubs of Washtenaw county, and
are doing good work.
On the 10Th OF October, Frank Hol-
comb, aged fifteen years, son OF j. II.
Holcomb, of Pennfield, husked III
bushels of corn, between sun and sun.
Thomas Lynch husked 11S bushels on
the same day and on the same farm.
= Battle Greek Journal.
The schooner Berlin, OF Buffalo, was
wrecked Tuesday morning near Port
Austin. Two Of the crew were rescued
by the life-saying station boats. The
balance of the crew. four men, includ-
ing the captain, were washed overborrd
and drowned.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph reports
that the lunatic who ran away with
Mrs. ID. @. Reid in a carriage some
weeks ago, is still at large, and also
that the woman who escaped few
days afterward has not returned. They
both belong to the asylum.
The Iypsilanti Commercial says
Jake Martin, the wrestler, sis as near
stone now as at is possible tor the hu-
man body TO be and exist. Then he
probably has "sand" enough to accept
Owens last challenge, though we do
not hear that he has yet done so.
James X. Greene took forty-gallon
barrel OF cider on his knee, at the resi-
dence Of Mr.. Geo. n. Hale, on the
north side, on Saturday last, and in at
tempting TO let il TO the ground his
foot slipped and tho barrel succeeded
in breaking one of his legs near the
thigh.
The lightning-rod swindlers are
operating in Clinton county, and seem
10 have little difficulty in coaxing the
farmers 10 sign $50 notes on the suppo-
sition that they are getting that amount
of rods for S15 and their influence. !"
A German farmer living in Victor says
he and half dozen of his neighbors
have been victimized within few days.
In Grand Rapids yesterday, Col.
Milo +. Clifford, formerly Of Plainwell,
died OF a disease contracted in the
army while commander OF the 59th n.
Y. Volunteers. For two yerrs during
the late war Col. Clifford rendered most
efficient service. He represented
/ lainwell for four years in the Michi-
gan legislature, and was for two years
chief Of staff of Gov. Baldwin. The
remains we're taken 30 Bradley, Allegan
Co., for interment
The country has scarcely had time 10
settle down alter the late earthquakes
and elections, before the Ann Arbor
Argus lets loose this blood curdling
crisis upon il: "If the press" il cries,
"may be throttled by either legislative
or executive decree, we have fallen up
on dangerous times. Think of the
Register getting possession OF the
council and Illuminating an order de-
| clarine the Argus a nuisance, and then
OF the marshal chasing its carrier or
sale boy through meat shops and alleys
and in the highways and byways Of the