The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-03-20
STATE NEWS.

/ SIAIE NEWSs
James NJ. Neasmith, OF Kalamazoo,
will be appointed TO fill the other trus-
teeship caused by Mr.. Irving Hans
combs resignation.
Jas. A. Maury, the absconding Cir.
cult Court Commissioner of Van Buren,
County, is in southern Kansas lectur-
ing on psychology.
Several townships in Berrien county
will unite with the Paw Paw Valley
Agricultural Society in holding an an
nual fair this year.
An inferior debating club has decid-
cd THAT farmers need more knowl-
edge of their business, rather than
more cash capital"
VIM. Washers residence, Grand
Rapids, was destroyed by fire Saturday
morning, with the entire contents.
Loss, $500; insurance small.
Twenty-Five years ago, Lawrence
Barrett, the now eminent actor, was a
poor bell-boy at the Michigan Ex-
change, in Detroit.
A Grand Rapids blacksmith, Walter
Cummings, was kicked by a horse he
was shoeing, on March 1st, and died
from the effects.
| A man named Brewel was shot IN
Union township, Branch county, Tues
day night, while charivaring a newly
married couple. His hilarity will
probably cost him an arm.
There is n report in Grand Rapids
that the executive committee OF the
State Grange has resolved TO organize
aplaster company.
The union iron company of Detroit
are going to make charcoal in Corunna.
They have contracted for 10000 cords
of wood, and are preparing to build
extensive kilns.
Richard Mayer attempted suicide
Tuesday at Battle Greek, by taking
morphine. He has suffered severely
with spasms OF the heart, and was
crazed with pain.
The Lansing Republican suggestive
ly says that about the only sensible
work Rev. John Russell ever did in the
temperance reform, was when he in
dorsed the red ribbon movement.
Jackson is having hard work to raise
81 200 TO secure the State Fair. Seven
hundred dollars is due from last year,
and $500 is required 10 make necessary
repairs on ground and buildings.
A number Of flint policy-holders in
the American Insurance company, OF
Chicago, threatened with prosecution
for non-payment OF premiums, have
banded together TO contest the matter.
The Paw Paw Courier has changed
proprietors and politics. IL is now a
Democratic sheet, AID il is sad to
think the new managers were not in
duced to pa-pause before making SO
rash change.
At Battle Greek, the Potter House
saloon and billiard hall was entered by
burglars Tuesday night, and O revolv-
or, billiard balls, and other property
stolen, amounting to 800.
Bay City liquor dealers are pledging
themselves to have no dealinga with
red ribbon men. The fact that the red
ribbon boys won't have dealings with
them is what ails these swill suppli-
ers.
Oovoruvr Crusweli IHs appointed
Victory p. Collier regent of the univer-
sity, to fill the vacancy caused by Mr..
McGowan's resignation. McGowan's
term would nave ended next January.
Lieut.. l.. w. Heath, OF Grand Rap
ids, now quartermaster of the Second
regiment NJ. s. T., will be appointed
this afternoon inspector general, vice
Gen. L. G. Trowbridge, resigned.
Receipts and disbursements at the
Stute Treasurer's Office for February;
Balance January 81, 1862, ,572.72; re-
ceipts for month, s430, 452. IS; disburse-
ments, s412, ,623.7 "A; balance February
%, $3.50. 401.26.
A young Detroiter named Eaty who
tried to demonstrate with crowd OF
resident hoodlums, who were sporting
red ribbons in derison while half drunk,
was assaulted by one of the gang NAM
ed Sutherland, and fatally stabbed.
Avoid the one-armed young man
claiming to have been a soldier, who is
doing Michigan as an agent for dress
patterns for a prominent firm in Chica-
go. He takes orders and pay in adj
vance, and then you never, never, see
him any more.
A high-toned Detroit family Of the
name Of Myers prosecuted n poor SER
want girl for stealing five handker-
chiefs. 1t was indisputably shown
that four OF the wipes we're her own,
and the fifth had been taken by mis-
take.
An officer at Detroit police head.
quarters, has Just received an Egyp'
tian mummy by express, from former
army comrade, now in the service OF
the Khedive. The stranger from the
land of the spinx will find himself in
copgenial company.
In the House an attempt was made
to cut down the appropriation for sala'
ries for the Normal School from S18,.
600 to $4,000. Little and Wood fa.
vored the reduction, and Sawyer and
Allen opposed n. The committet
arose without taking vote.
Senate bills passed: Amending the
Jackson union school act; amending
Otisville village charter, and creating
the city OF Cadillac out OF Clam Lake
Wexford county, and giving her thre'
county supervisors.
At Whitehall, February 2sth,
Swede, John Anderson, cut his throa
from ear to ear with jack-knife, jump
ed out of q two-story window, raj
around the house to well fifty fee
away, and jumped in. No family
Supposed insane.
"vat you call re game where one b
cry out 'Kenor and ze ozer fellers sa
'Oh h-lY'" asked Frenchman Of a
, American acquaintance. The name o
il hereafter will be Electoral Com
mission" Hayes cries Keno? AM
the democrats make the wicked excls
nation. L Bay City Tribune.
Democrat at our elbow adds to th
|, inconselable grief which fills our Dem
ocratic bosom at the thought OF havin
wasted so much time in learning thos
postofice boxes, and studying the n
bic of import duties and marine mat
ters generally, by boldly ASSERTING
, "we'd ben all right ef IL hadn't bee