The Lake County star., 1877-05-17

Farmers having wheat to sell are bring
ing out their boarded stores. A dealer In
Detroit made q purchase Of wheat the
other day that had been In the farmers
granary twelve years. There are but q
few days before the new wheat In the
Southern States and California will be In
market, and the prospective crop II al
ready beginning to affect prices.
DIR. ID. NJ. Bennett, q homeopathic ply
sician, Of Port Huron, has received the
appointment Of professor OF theory and
practice and diseases OF women and chill
dren, in the Hahuemann medical college,
Of 81. Louis, Mo-, and also censor to ex-
anime candidates In the same college.
Miss Mary ID. Sheldon, of the universal
ty class OF "a, has been called to the pro-
fsssorship Of English literature at Wei
lesley college. Ah3 asib
100000 In bonds of the narrow guage
railroad from Kalamazoo 10 JIastingsa and
Lowell, will he put In the market, and II
they find purchasers the road win be
pushed through. .,... -, .,t
Mrs. Elizabeth J. Martin. of Detroit,
has commenced suit In the circuit court
Of Branch county against +: L. Warren,
5000 damages for the death OF her hus-
band, VIM. Martin, who fell over the bal
ustrade,in that hotel last October, while
intoxicated, and received injuries from
which he died the same day. She charges
that the liquor was procured In the hotel,
and that her husband came TO his death
through the effects of the liquor.
As q measure OF safety DR.. Reynolds
advises the red ribbon boys TO f1rm the
habit Of attending church regularly. "No
matter what church, bpt go" say he. Y
Aaron Brownell, charged with killing
Marvin N. Bailey, ut Quincy, on the 5thl
OF July last, has been convicted Of MUIR.
dor In the second degree and sentenced
to the State Prison for twenty years.
A reform club of 345 members Was or
ganixed Saturday evening at Algonac by
w. III. III. Bartram. Seven vessels will,
leave port bearing a red streamer, and
nearly every man on board of them will
wear q red ribbon. ~
Latest Michigan Patents: ~
Broadcast Sower-L. Collier, Flint.
Butter Pail Cover. q. Fisher, Grand
Rapids.
Damper Regulators for steam boilers
ID. c. Kellan, Detroit.
Book Supports. Bondeman, Kala-
maxoo.
Sewing Machine shuttle--D. A. DAILY,
Detroit.
The steam barge ID. M. Rust collided
with the bark +. Berriman twenty miles
southeast from Thunder Bay, Sunday
night. The ID. M. Rust sank. Two men
were killed and one injured. ~
Charles Secord, convicted at Jackson
Of the robbing of DIR. Richardson, Is sem
enced to two years and halfin the State
Prison.
VIM. Wallingfora, broker at Port
Huron, dropped dead in his chair on
Tuesday.
So much opposition has been developed
to voting bonus for q railroad tunnel ut
Detroit that the matter has been dropped.
Individual subscriptions and borrowed
capital will have to do the work.
A bear was caught on the streets of
Manistee on the 4th inst.
The Michigan State Fair i'm IS49 was
held in a five-acre lot with premiums
amounting to only 81 900. Now an eighty
acre lot Is required and the premiums ag-
gregate about ~, 900.
A short time ago Thomas Wells, of Ce-
dar Springs, lett his home for the night,
eaving several daughters from three to
thirteen years of age, in charge of TIVE
men named Armstrong and Lewis. On
the 7th Armstrong was arrested charged
with raping one Of the children, aged
thirteen, and attempting to rape two
Younger ones. The officers are hunting
for Lewis.
The last saloon at Three Rivers closed
onMonday. The former bar room Of the
Three Rivers house, the leading hote,,
Is being fitted up rs q reform club room.
'For the first time in the history Of the
place. writes a correspondent, "a drink
Of liquor cannot be had at any Of our ho-
tells"
A man by the name Of Norman Dirgy,
who was walking on the track in q fit Of
intoxicafion, was run over and killed
Wednesday night by the No: z express
ON the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad, at
aplace called Miiler's Crossing, IL miles
west OF Pewamo.
The State Library now contains 1000
volumes. besides pamphlets and manu-
scripts, and Is valued at 100000.
Judge Cooley is to deliver course of
lectures OH constitutional law before the
students of the Johns Hopkins univers-
ity, in Baltimore.
The Michigan Central Railroad has is
sued round trip tickets on its divisions at
reduced rates, ON which no lay-over In
permitted. Ae1'fAt
Anumber of barns have lat8ly been set
fire to in Lenawee county, and the losses
have been heavy. IL is known to be the
work OF incendiaries. The Farmers
Mutual Insurance Co. Is losing heavily.
A terrible accident occurred at Pearson,
Wright Il Co.'s mill, near Saginaw. Ed
win o. Fellows, the engineer, while at
work about the machinery, lost his bal
arce and fell against the fly wheel, which
was revolving with lightning rapidity.
The man was carried over the wheel and
thrown some distance beyond, q shape
less mass. His brains were scattered
every bone in his body was broken. De-
ceased was q single man, about thirty-One
wears OF age, and was born in Hartford,
Ct He was formerly an engineer on the
railroad, and much liked.
May 10th there was still blockade of
ice at the st. Clair flats, and $50 vessels |
were anchored, waiting for the ice to move |
30 that they might pass. Several vessels |
were fast in the ice and provisions for tho |
Latest Michigan Patents:
Device for Setting, Jotting and Gaging |
the Teeth OF Saws-L. III. Bigelow, Day
ton.
Tumblers for Formulation I.oeks--T. |
Fox, Bay City.
Spring Bed Bottoms--C. X. Smith aud |
k. J.. Beverstock, Allegan.
Grain Conveyors--A. J. Emlaw, Grand |
Haven.
Grain Binder-T. w. Randall, Burling- |
Railway Track Clearer--A. Day, De-
troit.
A gang of thieves, including q farmer |
named Williams and his sons, was ar |
rested in the town of Marathon near |
Flint, the other day. They had stolen |
horses, committed burglaries from barns |
and dwellings, and had In their possession |
much OF the stolen. property. Some Of
them have confessed their crimes. ~
The wholesale dealers in liquors, beer,
etc, are feeling the effect of the Reform |
movement. They get no orders from the
country. This red ribbon movement,
they say, is worse for their business than
any other crusade they have known.
GENERAL NEWS. Jsf
The Supreme Court OF Pennsylvsnia
has affirmed the decision OF the lower
court In the cases Of James Ca, roll, James