The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-03-12

Iu the Michigan timber districts il is
reported that Black Walnut Is fast
disappearing.
Tecumseh is to have a 5000 Opera
no ise. the stock for the purpose have
ing been all subscribed.
Adolphus Rubby. Port Huron
Vonth OF %, has been hauled up TO ans
wer the charge Of abusing his mother.
T. w. Martin, OF Muskegon. private
IN company @, twenty-sixth Michigan
fnfantry, has just received $3.50 back
pension.
The Charlotte lawyers have decided
not 10 defend any one arrested for sell
ling whisky to minors or confirmed
drunkards.
A Casco correspondent reports the
birth OF a two-faced child in that vii.
age, which is alive aud apparently
thriving well.
The lawyers have got hold OF the e.
tate OF the late Ralph Wadhams, the
cattle ring Of Clyde. There are s30,.
900 involved. Pickisgs very fat.
Hsrwood, the Dundee murderer. who
recently escaped from the Monroe jail,
~ still at liberty, and so is Frank Ran
dall who got out at the same time
Mr.. and Mrs. Josep Uphembere OF
Port Huron, celebrate the 50th anni.
versary OF their wedding to-day. They
we're married at Reiswach, Strasburgh
80 years ago.
II is rumored that on April lst, q
new democratic paper will be started
10 Aan Arbor APRIL 1st is a very prop.
nr day On which to start q paper Of
that persuasion.
Emel E. Heck, clerk in the drug
store OF Long & Huntington, Grand
Rapids, has been arrested for stealing
money aud valuables from bis employ.
ers.
A man named Dan Turner, accused
of stealing a wife, child aud three
horses in this State, was arrested at
Milwaukee last week and taken to
Adrian in custody OF the Sheriff.
Lansing wants the Toledo and Ann
Arbor Railroad extended To that point.
She can then ship her produce tn Ts
ledn, aud import fever and ague and
bull frogs right from the msnufao tory.
Five tramps stole ride from Ts-
,umseh tn Adrian, aud the expense Of
The rest OF their route to the house os
correction was borne by the county.
FOur Of them got Gj days aud the Ahh
got 10 days.
M ron J. Putnam, Of Milford, has
been arIosted on complain OF Page K
Wilson, Cf IoRia. Putnam was their
agent in buying wool. and they claim
ne embezzled sos Of their money. lie
IS ont oil bail.
A. o. Miller, an actor who 1. known
al over the State, aid who never seem.
ID able TO keep sober long enough TO
dnish any part he was cast for, is how
lecturing on temperancs. He is said
to do "the terrible example" with
great effect.
Mrs. Laroche, Of West Bay City,
keeps dog, and she also had $3.50 in
yreenbacks. The dog contracted the
currency $50 dollars worth by chewing
l. so that II is useless. He was tpgag-
ed on the other $50, but was stopped in
time 10 save il.
Mr.. Robinson. Jackson merchant,
gives each week to the poor of that city,
one hundred loaves Of bread and tie
,alico for FIVE dresses. He pledges him
self 10 DO this until April 18th. Surely
Anfe ~, ,t-ilI ,,~o.v,o,- o,,l ha.,n ha
ward Of the well done.
4 prisoner in the Marshall Jail man
g'd to get out the other day. and
snrted for the river, intending To wade
across. He was f,llpwed by number
4 persons. and uhen half way over the
intense cold Of the water made him
come back and surrender.
An old lady who was q passenger on
| he jackson branch" few days ago,
/ refused to pay the fare OF n little girl
| Who was with her. and whipped the
conductor and a brakeman who attemp-
/ 'e1 to put the child of. One Of the
rain men saws "She ft wuss nor tom
,at, so she did"
| A Port Huron tax collector choked q
AK payer the other day and compelled
rim to pay mp. The tax payer brought
complaint against him before a justice
4 the peace, who decided il was all
right as long a. the collector got the
money. Under this decision a high
Ssyman would make frst-rate collec-
tor.
J. NJ. wsttles, Of Lapeer, refusing
1 4 L. a l.. 4 -
property was assessed too high, the
city ycollector'levied upou twenty shares
II the First Eational bank stock. val
ned at about SO 900, owned by wsttles
aud sold the same at auction to Harri-
son Geer for $50. A big suit is oom-
ming.
On Friday. Sheriff Townsend arrest
ed J G. Boland at Attica, On a requisi-
,ation from the governor OF the State
4 Nebraska, on n charge Of rape, al
laged to have been committed at Flat
Rock, Nebraska, some time since.
Boland is al presept waiting in the
Lapeer county Jail for the arrival OF
The sheriff OF Pawnee county, Neb.
The Fowlerville Young men have Of
set the pink ribbon movement by
nledging themselves TO be strictly tenn
perate, and refusing to keep company
with any young lady who cannot do
her own washing and usual household
york. Their motto is: Girls who
know how to do housework, or no
wives" Are we drifting into anarchy
and revolution7
A Houghtop lad lately left for Dead
wood, and now writes back that he got
Job as pilot of n mule team as soon
~ he landed, but owing to the antipa-
hy 81 the mules 10 red-headed drivers,
,nd the partIality 81 the Indians for
fright colors, he was soon constrained
to seek less conspicuous position as q
ear admiral Of a news stand.
A barrel Of copper has been sent from
he Bohemian mine To the Paris expo
.itiop. AZ this Is likely TO be the only
sample of Lake Superior copper that
viii be sent, the Bohemian mine is en-
tiled TO credit for it's enterprise. Boz
lemiaus. by the way, are generally
vide awake, and on behalf OF the press
We way: "Hnrrah for our Ontonagon
Bohemian. ~ Hancock Journal.
Augustus Phelps, township treasurer
II Augusta, came in TO Ann Arbor
, tuesday morning and stated that be
vas robbed Saturday night by two men
,vbo entered the houee One throttled