The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1877-11-13
STATE NEWS.

10 costs Detroit SlO,OOO per month 10
pay its city officials.
Jackson is going TO have a new ward
school house costing $1,000
Two Kalamazoo brewers have been
fined S25 each, for selling beer on Sun
day.
Diphtheria is subsiding in Chesan-
ing. The few new cases reported are
of a milder type.
A ST. Johns man, named McCloud
had horses, worth about SlO0 each,
killed by the cars few days ago.
A man named Burch was arrested
at Bronson Saturday and lodged in lail
at Coldwater to await trial for forgery.
Rev. Bishop Borgess. administered
the rite of confirmation to l30 persons
at the Polish church in Bay City Oct.
2s.
Two men in Gratiot county have just
paid $50 for sheep killed by their dogs,
and the dogs are not worth much
either.
A petition is circulating in Allegan,
asking congress TO appropriate $4,000
for a preliminary survey Of the Michi-
gan ship canal.
During four days last week over 30,
600, 900 feet of lumber was received at
Chicago, more than half of which was
from this state.
An appartus costing $4,000, for
manufacturing acetic acid from the
smoke OF the furnace at Bangor, Van
Buren county, is being made.
There are too many men nowadays
who in the winter want 10 work i'm har-
vest and in the summer want 10 shovel
snow.- Manchester Enterprise.
Rev. Mr. Portman raised on his farm
near Wateryliet, Berrien county, this
season sweet potatoes weighing FIVE
and a half pounds.
The Port Sanilac postoflice was rob-
bed Tuesday morning of S26l in mon
ey, stamps, etc, and IL registered
packages, value not known.
The diptheria is so prevalent aud Sc
veie in Flint that the common council
has directed that signs be placed on
houses where he disease prevails.
The machinery and fixtures of the
knitting and wooden mills at Niles are
advertised to be sold at auction, under
a chattel mortgage.
A two-year-old son of III. w. Chester,
OF Port Huron, fell in such a way as to
cut its tongue with its teeth, and on
Monday it died from loss OF blood.
Some boys lighted n fine in John
Wilson's barn at st. Joseph for the
purpose of soaring some doves out
They succeeded in putting the doves
out, but it cost 81 600 to do it.
The Flint red ribbon club has raised
money to pay OFF its Indebtedness, and
is going forward now in a new career
of usefulness. Judge Mitchell, Of
Port Huron, will soon address the
club.
Lyscom Brigham on Gun marsh,
near Plainwell, Allegan county, has
raised this season from l3i acres of
land, 1000 bushels of corn, 10000
heads of cabbage, 1000 bushels OF
onions, and 200, 600 heads Of celery.
Over $40, ,OOO, 900 worth of goods
have come or gone through the Port
Huron custom house in the last eleven
years. The duties received here figure
no about g, 100000. In that time 49,
7l3 immigrants entered the United
States at that port.
The Coldwater Republican says that
a sporting dog of that place has been
trained to climb trees after squirrels.
Well, the big potato and squash stor-
les are nearly over for the season, and
the dog stories may as we'll commence,
if they are rather large.
There is an item going the rounds OF
the state exchanges saying that there is
a girl in the Brubaker settlement,
Glare county, with feet l5l inches long,
but that she manages TO get around
without damaging the standing timber
much.
A strange young man, entirely naked
mas Qetu WauueIluB III lllt WpOus NEAR
Chesaning for several days, but has
eluded all attempts at capture. A large
number of men have been in pursuit
for the past two days. He is supposed
TO be an escaped lunatic.
DIR. Thomas S. Armstrong, charged
with being the chief actor in n grave
robbery which was committed in Rox-
land township, Eaton county, some
time in June last, was recently arrested
by Sheriff Smoke in Abilene, Kan. and
brought back TO Charlotte.
There is weeping and wailing among
the young men OF Gratiot co1nty. They
refrained from winning the heart and
hand Of Miss Frankie Millard, young
and pretty school marin, when she was
only school marin. Now comes an
English attorney, and shows that she Is
heiress to nn estate OF $40, 600.
At Muir, Nov 1st, at IL A. NJ, fire
broke out in Armstrong 4 Swarthouts s
furniture store. which was burned to
the ground, taking with il Christ. Reh-
fuses saloon and Persons meat mark
ct. Supposed to have been the work
Of an incendiary. The loss is about
| AZ 600. insurance small.