The Lake County star., 1877-11-01
MICHIGAN.

The Supervisors, having disco vered it,
have passed vote resembling their equali-
zation. The Board have caused q war
rant to be issued for the arrest of Foy.
The Derby Block, at East Saginaw, and
its inmates, suffered by fire to the amount
of u, 500 Monday evening.
The body Of Charles Miller, q home
steader, living with his family near Pc
toskey, was found In the bay on Sunday,
badly mangled In the head. Foul play Is
suspected.
The Woodruff scientific expedition
around the world, in which Prof. Herd
man, Of the state University, and several
citizens of the State were TO join, has
postponed its departure until the middle
of May next.
Gov. Crosswell has appointed Maj. w.
G.. Fitzsimmons, Of Tecumseh, Judge
advocate ofthe Military Board and Coils.
G.. s. Wormer, of Detroit; James O'Don-
nell, of Jackson; Edward s. Pierce, of
Grand Rapids, and VIM. Jenny, Jr., aids
to the commander-in-chief.
have been shipped from Monroe this
season.
j. +. Cross, of Niles, has been appoint
ed deputy u. 8. marshal for tho Western
district Of Michigan.
The electro-hydro telephone, invented
by g. b. Richmond, of Lansing, Is in
and North Lansing.
DIR. Reynolds, thei red ribboner, has
visited the mining regions about Han
insula, and is very successful In his work
Litchfield is not good place for the
saloon business. The local tax Is $500.
This, added to the State and government
tax, makes burden that even the enor-
nous profits of the trade cannot stand.
The actual captors of JEFF. Davis-tbe
corporal and private who arrested him on
that memorable morning of May 10th,
1865, and kept him until some Of the offl-
GERS came up-were Corporal George
Munger, now of Schoolcraft, and James
#. Bullard Of Paw Paw
Fairy Arch,a romantic spot well known
to Mackinac tourists, has just acquired
additional interest. A skeleton, supposed
to be that of a young woman, has been
found inside the cave at the Arch. Evil
IDENTIFY a woman has at some period in
the last been murdered, and the body
pushed In there for concealment.
Hon. Preston Mitchell died at his home
In Marshall on Tuesday.
Several counties raised upwards of
100000 bushels of wheat each the past
season.
DIR. Charles Gatchett, of Milwaukee,
has been rendered the position Of Lectur-
er In the Homeopathic department Of the
State University.
A sale of thoroughbred swine took
place Wednesday, at the farm of VIM;
head Of the different breeds, Berkshire,
Suffolk and Essex, were rapidly sold and
about 81 900 were realized from the sale.
Several fine specimens brought 500 each,
and one Berkshire ran up to SIG.
The Democrats have nominated George
G. Langdon for Mayor of Detroit.
Several convictions have been had, and
fines imposed, IN Detroit, under the law
for prevention of cruelty to animals.
Two townships In Osceola county have
sold $500 worth Of ginseng for shipment
to China, where the root Is highly priced
as medicine.
The total shipment OF iron ore from
Marquette, Escanaba and L'Anse up to
October IL was 870,6S2 gross tons, being
an Increase of 66, 500 tons over that OF the
corresponding period last season.
The late heavy rains are bringing the
logs down the MIskegon at lively rate,
and the mills will now run to the end OF
the month, giving employment to many
hundreds of people who expected to be
idle.
Cedar, the county seat OF Gladwin
county, contains six buildings all told
a court house, three dwelling houses,
store and barn. The court house Is
three story brick building, As by go feet
in size, and will cost when completed
$4,000. A newspaper has just been
started there.
Some time last fall two men named
respectively Cross and Palmer, entered
$50 acres OF land of what was re-
Gently the Indian reservation, near
Pentwater, which they represented
and made oath was valuable only for
farming purposes. The men did not
move on the fand, but last winter cut of
10000 feet of pine logs. The United
States officials discovered the fraud and
the parties have been arrested and held
to answer.
The Michigan Air Line Railroad has
been purchased by the Grand Trunk
Railroad Company Of Canada, and meas
ures will at once be taken to proceed with
the opening of the road from Romeo west
ward.
The salt manufacturers In the Saginaw
Valley are beginning to use dynamite
torpedoes in their salt wells, and with
good effect.
The Saginaw Republican says the pros
poets are through that portion OF North
western Michigan that the temperance
work will take fresh departure the IN
coming winter, and people truly interest
ed in its success are making preparations
accordingly.
DIR. Reynolds expects to leave Michi-
gan for Illinois about November 1, and
the red ribbon men Of Adrian, where he
began work in this State, propose to give
him grand send-off.
Campbell G. Waldo, Of Tecumseh, Cal.
houn Co., staid church member and
woll-to-do farmer, has been detected in
series Of orgeries-passing forged notes
at the banks and renewing them as they
became due. The notes represented
many thousands Of dollars, and waldo
has been engaged In the work, without
suspicion, for four or five years.
The decretal order of Judge Hunting
ton, i'm the University defalcation case,
has been referred TO Charles II. Whitman,
Circuit Court Commissioner, to take and
state an account upon evidence hereto
fore taken in open court, and that he re-
port TO the court, with all convenient
speed, the amount by items and totals,
for which Rose and Douglas are respec-
lively liable on the basis aforesaid.
Saturday evening, just at dark, when
John Burke, a farmer living seven miles
north of Niles, on the Berrien road, was
returning home on his wagon, he was
shot by some one from the side OF the
road, the ball striking him just below the
knee. His leg may be saved. His team
carried him out offurther danger.
While some boys in wheatland, Hills
dale county, were carelessly playing with
revolver, It was accidently discharged
and q man named John Arnold was In
stantly killed.
Part ofthe clothes Of Mrs. Fuller, who
il IL supposed was murdered in April,
1875, with human bones, was found In
the woods in Oliver township. Suspicion
rested on w. Baker, Of Lake township,
who was arrested near Hudson.
Chester Diamond, OF Vassar, has just
found a tooth seven inches long and
weighing Ave pounds lsckingtwo ounces.
The Grand Traverse Herald says that