The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-08-07
NUMBER 1905.


] AtnPiun nu1 90 bLICEL8.
named aud opened TO travel.
Wayne county is the place where 400
acres OF peppermint are growing.
The ID. a NJ. railroad has steel rails
to within Is miles of Grand Haven.
There is in circulation a IS counter
felt bill on the First National Bank OF
Pontiac.
In Lapeer county turtle has been
1873"
Wheat and potatoes in northern
Michigan are said To be the best they
have been 10 90 years.
An Ithaca undertaken refused 10 take
a corpse TO the grave because il was in
a coffin purchased Of some one else.
w. q. Cameron, editor and Justice
OF the peace at Reed City, is credited
with having married IL couples July 4.
John Lindsey, Of Elk Rapids. sold
nre-water To the noble red man, and il
now summering Mt the Honse OF Cor
rection,
A train OF n ore-cars was taken into
Marquette by one engine recently, said
to be the most extensive train ever
hauled over the road.
The average yield of wheat in Oak
land county is estimated at 30 bushels
per acre. In some instances 40 and 48
bushels have been obtained.
E Ross, an Adrian drug-clerk, had
| his face and hands badly burned by
nitric acid July %, while performing
some experiments.
The Lawrence (Van Buren, county)
| Advertiser says: During the past ~
days Cornwell Brothers OF this village
have weighed out to customers 5.657
pounds Of sugar"
Some female prisoners confined in
! the Jail at Alpena, tried TO burn the
building the other day. The fire was
discovered before il had done much
harm.
Berrien Springs has q red-ribbop
think that in proportion to the size OF
the place they have the star lodge OF
the state.
Will F. Goldie, the absconding East
! Saginaw bank teller, has returned. He
has been travelling most of the time
since he left, having visited England
There is an 8S-year-old woman in
Peninsula, Grand Traverse county. who
does the house work for family OF ten
persons. including washing, ironing,
and baking.
DR.. Beach of Battle Greek is cult.
vating butterflies He raises beautiful
butterflies from that horrible poison
GUS monster, the tomato worm, aud
only two months are required for the
change.
TIE Gratiot county girls are tendCr
and loving. One Lately wrote 10 her
lover that she would soon like TO see
him in that mysterious region from
whose bourne no traveller returneth.
Whortleberries, owing TO the de-
mand for them outside, still brig
they are unusuaiIy plenty tni5 year.
Newaygo Republican.
The editor of the Marshall Expound-
er was on July 2lst presented with n
basket of golden russets grown in 1876,
firm and we'll preserved. They bad
been kept in q cool cellar tightly bar
relied.
The West Bay City Herald says:
'Berry-pickers are abundant now-a-
days. but they seem TO make no per
ceptible dimInutIon in the amount OF
berries. as large numbers go 10 waste
on the vines and bushes"
During the passage OF the German
benevolent society procession through
the streets of Coldwater July %,
farmers team got frightened aud ran
over a small child five years old, nam
ed Cheeseman, injuring it fatally, 1t is
feared.
Mr.. F. Simmons OF Gaines Station
writes 10 the Detroit Tribune as fol-
lows: "I have Just finished threshing
nv wheat, Of which had % acres OF
Delhi and five acres of Clawson. / re-
ceived from the % acres $50 bushels.
or "a bushels per acre, and $50 from
the FIVE acres, equal TO 80 bushels per
acre. How is that for high2"
At Manistee, July 25, the boarding.
h 1use OF John Dellow and barn; loss,
e. .000.-A Wayne, July "a, the resi-
dence OF +. p. Earle, who was also
dangerously injured. Cause, Kerosene;
loss, p, ,000.-At fenton, July "a, three
stacks OF wheat supposed TO have con-
tanned 4l0 bushels. Cause incendiary.
The prisoners in the Pontiac Jail,
managed to steel a table-knife recently
and with an old jack-knife made il into
a saw and took turns filing the bars OF
the windows. They sung and danced
so boisterously to hide the noise OF
fling that they were suspected, and q
search revealed their plot.
Two men named Terrence Callahan
and Frederick kimball, while excavat-
ing for a coal.bin under the sidewalk
in Adrian July %, we're buried by the
falling Of an unsupported brick wall
and the caving Of the earth around IL.
They were rescued by the bystanders.
Kimball was not much hurt, but Gala
han is seriously injured, it is feared In
ternally.
A report read ut meeting OF the ex.
ecutive committee of the working girl's
home in Detroit, recently, shows that
the books Of the home were opened
May Is, but that no boarders we're re-
ceived until June ]. From May Is to
July 2l there wero 800 applications for
help and 374 for work. Five or six
girls per week on an average are enter
tanned by the home.
David Nicholson. a fireman on en-.
gine No. 33, was run over on the Jack
son, Lansing aud Saginaw road Friday
last, aud probably fatally injured. He
was assisting in switching car at
Lansing aud caught his foot in q frog
so firmly that he could not get IL out 10
time 30 escape the advancing car. He
was thrown down and the car passed
over his right leg, side and arm, bruis-
ing him terribly.
Ayankee Hotel Trick.