The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-12-11

J. ii. Kilbourne has started mp Q
handle factory at Big Rapids.

bridge IN hopes 10 capture the Saginaw
City trade.
Nearly 100 converts have been made
at recent revival meetings at Sherwood,
Branch county.
DIR. l.. q. Hall, of Hudson, deceas-
ed, left 81, 900 10 the episcopal church
society Of that place.
The Flint reform club has 5S paying
member and holds weekly meetings in
its new hall.
II is estimated that nearly 80 900. 900
feet of logs will be put in Plat river
the coming winter.
Wages for men in the pine woods OF
Western Michigan range from s16 to
S22 per month.
The sale OF Agricultural College
swamp lands last year aggregated ST.
6l2, and H. q. Biard is now in charge
OF the sale.
Fred. Glinkey, OF West Bay City
(Wenona), stabbed woman seriously
and is now in Jail He is already play
ing the insanity dodge.
The temperance people arc having
everything heir own way at Buchan-
an. Men are being reformed" at the
rate OF 25 and 80 per diem.
Rev. Mr.. Conover, rector Of st.
Luke's church, Kalamazoo, is making
efforts to have = free reading room for
young men opened in that village.
Mr.. Walters, of Fenwick, Moncalm
county. took Sunday for day to do q
job of well cleaning, and something
fell down the well and killed him.
A ferocious wild animal, supposed to
be panther or lynx, is keeping timid
people indoors after dark around Sun.
field, Eaton county.
During the year ending September
30 there were Z, 7,0i0 people in Michigan
county jails, and 1t cost S7l, ,542.35 to
support them.
On the 30.h of January John B.
Cough will begin a short lecture tour
in this State. He opens at Grand Rap
ids on that date.
An Eagle. Eaton county. youth shot
at partridge and put charge Of shot
in comrades face. Boy and part
ridge are both alive yet and doing we'll
Up north they have way OF trading
of wives. One man recently sold his
better half for forty acres OF land in
Greenwood, Kent county.
Candilac has an oddity in the person
| Of "Wild John, a six foot hermit, who
lives in little hut in the north part Of
the city. and walks the streets in ST.
lence, rarely speaking to any one.
Now the report is sent abroad that
work has actually been begun on the
| Toledo & Ann Arbor railroad. The
money needed for its construction has
all been raised and the officers elected.
The Methodists OF Ionia were Offer
ed 500 and the Presbyterians $50 for
| the use Of their churches il they would
permit Bob Ingersoll TO lecture in eth
er of them during the coming winter.
They positively refused.
A desperate, well planned, but quite
unsuccessful attempt was made to
| break open the safe in the Lapeer
county treasurer's Office Monday night.
No clue has yet been obtained as to
who the would-be burglars were.
Albert Olds, the young gentleman of
Washtenaw county who shot Isaac Da-
Wis at a eharivari, has had his examina-
ton. 1t was proven that it was clear
case Of malicious shooting, and he was
hrf nd 10 tha
The Lansing Republican says Flint
lady sent package Of tea to DR.. Ked-
zie, Of the Agricultural College, for an
| alysis. He found no poisonous nate
rial in it, but plenty Of dirt. It SEEM
| ed to be the sweepings of the floor Of
tea houses. not fit for domestic use.
Morgan Rounds, of Adrian, despe-
rado of 20 years, whose violence has
made him a terror TO the southern part
/ Of Lenawee county, was captured and
taken to Morenci Friday 10 answer to
/ the charge OF attempted rape on the
/ adopted daughter OF Mr.. Spear, a
| farmer for whom Rounds was working.
Internal revenue collector Bailey, OF
/
| crooked whisky dealers at Beaver
Island and seized their whisky. Capt.
| Goss, Of the schooner Ebenezer, Of
/ Chicago, was manager Of the crooked,
and he with all his crew were taken.
They are held for examination in S1,-
600 bail bonds each.
About year and a half ago q nnm-
/ Der of parties near Dectaur bought
some rose bush slips at 80 each from q
peddlcr. who said they were a new va
riety called the "Cloth Of Gold" rose.
Last year they did not bloom, but this
| year they bore n few Lawton black
berries. The Main grape man must
have been around.
The Lansing Republican says: "The
people of Michigan will have their
State Capitol finished and furnished
inside OF 81, $4,000 Ii is a we'll built
/ good-looking edifice, and the furnish
/ ing will be handsome and substantial.
/ We firmly believe there is not a taint
Of iobbery about the whole business,
from dome 10 foundation.
4 dispatch from Muir, Ionia county,
/ gives the account OF still another muir
der. II says: "Wm. Novinger was
shot last evening, by Geo. Thomas, son
OK the notorious saloonist OF this city,
named Henry Thomas. The ball PEN
etrated Hoviuger's right lung, and his
injuries are such that he cannot recov-
er. Both Thomases are under arrest
Whisky was the cause Of the ARRAY"
A stranger recently canvassed the
medical fraternity Of Lenawee county
with a scheme for protecting them
| from bad debts. His plan was to furn-
ish each doctor for tie trifiing sum Of
"a paid in advance, with q printed list
Of all the dead beats who never pay
doctor bills. A number OF doctors
paid the 81 aud the stranger having
got all he could out OF the Job. quietly
stepped out.
While temperance meeting was be-
ing held in the Baptist church, at
Hickory Corners, Barry county, few
nights ago, an alarm was given that the
church was on fire. In an instant the
widest CONSERVATION prevailed. The
main entrance was completely blocked,
and in the confusion Of the moment
the windows were broken, the crowd
( y'ng in this way 10 make an egress.-
It was finally discovered that n lantern
had exploded in the hall and the peo-
pie we're quieted. No damage was