The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-07-12

Disbursements... Soosfoo II
Balance on hand June 80. 1s77........s 6ss.ls7 II
Both parties claim to haye elected their
candidate for Judge In the twenty-third
judicial district.
Grasshoppers are said to have appeared
In myriads and IS q destructive force in
OronocO, Berrien county.
The FOURTH was notso generally eel
ebrated as last year; less powder was
burned, and fewer accidents arc reported.
White q Glover's saw mill at Ferrys-
burg burned on the 4th. Loss, SS5, 900;
insured for $4,000.
A terrible storm OF wind and rain
swept over Kalamazoo Thursday even
Ing. Trees were blown down, crops
were leveled and lodged, and much dam
age was done.
The "First National Bank Of Eaton
Rapids" has been organized.
The election for circuit Judge. held on
Monday, Is still in doubt, both parties
claiming to have carried the polls. The
returns como In very slowly.
The amount OF salt inspected In Mich
igan during the month Of June was 20O.-
725 barrels.
There are thirty-five acres of straw
berries within and adjoining the village
of Plainweu, from which there have been
taken this season not less than 500
bushels.
AMiss Tipp, Of Colfax, lately killed a
large bear, and rs keeping the hide as q
trophy of her exploit
The agent who appeared In the neigh
borhood Of Constantine recently, claim
ing royalty on sliding gates, has de-
camped.
The state fair is to be held at Jackson
this year, Sept. 17-21st. and the fair Of
the State Pathological Society will be held
at the same time and place. The various
county fairs, ETC., in Michigan, will be
held as follows: Branch county, Cold
water, Sept. 25th to 18th; Monroe county
Monroe, Oct. End to 5th; Kent county
Grand Rapids, week following State ate fair;
Eaton county, Charlotte, Sept. 10Th to
2Sth; Kalamazoo county, Kalamazoo,
Sept. 18th to %; Van Buren, county, Paw
Paw, Oct. End TO 9Th; Bay county, Bay
City, Sept. 18th to 2lst; Ingham county,
Mason, Sept. Goth to %; Sanilac county,
Lexington, Oct. 9th and 10th Macomb
county, Mt. Clemens, week following
Oct. End to 5th; Livingston county, How
ell, Sept. 25th to 18th; Ionia county, Ionia,
Sept. 17th to 2lst; Grand Traverse Union
Agricultural Society, Traverse city, not
set; Shiawassee county, OwossO, Sept.
Goth to 18th; Central Fair Association,
Hubbardston, Sept. 18th to 18th; Lena
wee county, Adrian, Sept. 18th to 18th;
18th; Genesee county, Flint, Oct. End to
9Th; Oakland county, Pontiac, Sept. rs to
28th; Armada, (Macomb county, Oct. 3rd
to 9th; Saginaw county, Saginaw City,
Sept. 18th to 14th; Berrien county, Niles,
Oct End to 5th; Central Michigan Agri-
cultural Society, Lansing, Oct. End to
9Th.
There are 654 patients at the Kalamazoo
Insane Asylum, being nearly equally di.
hundred and thirty EIGHT employees are
required In and about the institution.
At Ludinglon on the LIST inst. Mrs.
Wheaton and her two boys were badly
poisoned by eating strawberries which
had, in some manner, been sprinkled
with Paris green. 1t is supposed that
they grew near potato patch upon which
the poison had been used, and that the
wind had carried It upon the berries.
Mr.. Van Week, of Augusta, recently
found q small stout bug that kills the po-
tato bug. There are thousands Of them
in his potato field, and they attack the
potato bug with long spear-like bill,
projecting from their head, piercing him
spot. They are 30 stout that they can
easily handle potato bug three times the
size of them. They are such terror to
them that they keel over, or hide them
selves in the ground at their approach.
Some Of these bugs will be sent to the
Agricultural College at Lansing for in
spection and classification.-Jackson Pat
riot.
The Michigan building at the Centen-
NAL was purchased by j. b. Lippincott,
the publisher, at Philadelphia, who has
removed 1t to Atlantic City for q summer
residence.
A. G. Glidden, near Paw Paw, finished
cutting his wheat Saturday, the 10th ult.
He has q new early variety, the "Fultx"
wheat, the seed for which came from thu
patent Office two years ago. He had four
quarts Of seed, from which he raised IL
bushels. He planted nine bushels on
nine acres, which he has just finished
harvesting.
The Bay City races, like those adver-
tised at East Saginaw, have been indefi-
nitely postponed, there not being enough
entries to pay expenses.
Mr.. Flipper, the colored West Pointer
who was graduated last month and made
lieutenant in the regular army, has been
ordered to Fort Brady, Sault Ste. Marie,
to take charge of that post. r7
The Rose Douglas trial is in progress
and promises to run to great length.
Severe local storms are reported In sew
eral localities, which have done damage
by blowing down the grain crops.
In the southwest part Of the State the
wheat harvest will be completed this
week; in the central portion farmers are
hard at work gathering in the crop while |
I'm the northern counties the harvest will
not be completed until next week. The
crop, on the whole, will be q heavy one,
and Of good quality.
$3.50 to 80 per day is being paid harvest |
hands in the southwestern portion Of the
State.
GENERAL NEWS.