The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-03-05

ASooaANt NAee PtaNANS aa0
plums, grapes, etc, are to coptain one
sixth bushel in each basket.
George ". Knight, an old resident
and one of the most prominent men OF
Eaton county, a county officer, fell out
of his buggy dead on his way home
Wednesday night. 1t is supposed that
natural causes produced II.
George n. Potter's large handle and
bedstead factory, at Potterville, aud
most OF it's contents were destroyed by
fire Tuesday. Thirty men are thrown
out of employment. Loss, $4,000; no
insurance.
The annual report OF President
Loomis of the Jackson & Saginaw rail-
road for 1877, shows a falling off in
the gross earnings of that road for that
year 10 be Sl3, 705 60, mostly in passen-
ger receipts. The total receipts Of the
road for the year were Si3S, l04. SS, only
$50, 900 Of which was from passengers.
The trial OF William Parmenter, at
Muskegon, for attempting to kill Lis
mother and setting the house on fire,
after he had killed ten head Of cattle,
was concluded in the Circuit Court on
the 18th, the jury returning a verdict
Of guilty.
The Morenci Observer SAYS IL has re-
ceived a letter from Superintendent
Woodford, of the Canada Southern and
Chicago Railroad, denying that the
branch west Of Slocum Junction is 10
be abandoned, or that the officials con-
template abandoning it.
''Up TO date there are five gentlemen
in the Ninth District OF Michigan who
stand erect before their looking glasses
and see looming up a possible candi-
date for Congressional honors next
fall. So Devereaux, of tho Houghton
Gazette says, but he does not name the
other four.
The Grand Ledge Independent says
E. A. Warren, who has been studying
for the ministry in that village, got in
to q dispute with his wife about the
punishment Of their child, and punish
ed her instead. On her complaint he
was arrested and fined, and the affair
created such n scandal that the family
have left the place.
An enterprising Adrian youth went
out rabbit-huntiDg, with ferret and a
dog. At the first burrow he came TO,
the ferret ran IN and killed the rabbit,
the dog dug in and killed the ferret,
and the boy dug in and killed the dog.
then started home satisfied in his mind
that rabbit-hunting with ferret and a
dog is one of the craziest delusions OF
the age.
The Adrian News says that Isaac
Van Auken, who was sent 10 State Pri-
son for life for numbering his wife with
an AK. near Morenci, in 1866, is likely
to be. released through some informali-
ty in the proceedings, but that he will
be liable to be sent back for the muir
der OF his step-daughter at the same
time, for which crime he has never
been tried.
Augustus Phelps, township treasurer
OF Augusta, was robbed Sunday night
10y two men who entered the house.
One throttled him while the other got
S317 from under his pillow and then
ransacked the house, stealing 80 in
checks from the desk, leaving lot of
county orders untouched. The money
belongs to the township.
The Ypsilanti Commercial tells n
story Of the detection Of farmer nam
ed John Thum who had stolen barrel
OF kerosene oil and whose little daugh-
ter filling lamp from can said: my
ma don't fill her lamps with can.
She goes down cellar aud fills them
from a barrel" This remark lei to
the farmers arrest and 10 securing the
complete proof OF his rascality.
The SAX production Of the State for
the months OF December aud January,
as shown by the Salt Inspectors book,
was 1877, ,30S barrels, against l03, 800
barrels the corresponding months last
year The shipments for January.
which were very large, included %, ,96l
barrels shipped in bulk TO Chicago, st.
Louis aud Milwaukee. This made
about $40 cars. OF this quantity l6,-
393 barrels were from Bay county, aud
1851 from Saginaw county.
btTTltu OpIAukH - rAlll NAIilAuh ONtl
its social sensation relative to l.. II.
Campbells marriage with Miss Jessie
! Graham, which was 50 unexpectedly in
terrepted by the appearance on the
scone Of Miss Jennie Moser, Of Altoo'
ma, Pen. The Methodist Sabbath
School board has dismissed him from
/ the superintendency Of the Sunday
school, and Miss Moser publishes in the
Journal some extracts from his letters
to her, which leave him in a most un
enviable light.
John Wesley Harwood, who murder
ed his brother, George Harwood, a
Dunde last Christmas aud was in thi
Monroe county Jail awaiting sentence
escaped between half-past six and eigh
o'clock Tuesday evening by tesrinf
away n portion Of the ceiling to his eel
and then forcing hole through th'
roof OF the building.
A little child Of Mr.. and Mrs. Rattle
living sonth Of the railroad, about fiv
weeks old. was found dead in its be-
one morning last week. IL was aliv
and took nourishment at o'clock. bu
was dead when its parents arose in th
morning. They claim that Il was i'm
possible for it to be smolhered. as il
face was uncovered all Of the time =
[Coldvater Republican.