The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-04-09

STATE NEWS.
Capt. VIM. Il. Stewart, editor Of the
South Haven Sentinel, has been ap-
pointed postmaster at that place.
Settlers throughout Emmett county
have cleared more ground during the
past wsnter than all that has been
cleared before in the county.
An Honey League. opposed TO in
fation, has beeu organized at Howell,
Robert Hunter, Jr., president. and NJ
Q. Barber, secretary.
Our Hoosier neighbors have adopted
plans for new state house at Indian
apolis, to cost 81. 750, 900. Their build
ing commissioners have paid the Mich
igan capitol one visit OF examination.
Volney II. Sanford and John Evans,
Of Amber, Mason county. have been
held for trial on q charge OF selling
liquors without the necessary United
States revenue stamps.
An Indian named Fisher was turned
out drunk from an Elk Rapids saloon,
on the night Of March %, lay all night
In the street, exposed to q cold storm,
and was found dead the next morning.
Mrs. Mary j. Kerr, Of Hamilton,
Gratiot county, aged 80, got lost in the
woods two weeks ago and was out two
days and nights before found. She
was not hungry, and was otherwise all
right, although very vet and tired.
Jackson has paid S34, ,076 of her city
debt in the past two years, aud has
S35, lDi cash on hand. Ionia has paid
$50, 900 in the same time. Monroe has
paid SO, 500 in the last year. and now
owes total Of S25. 800.
A quit-claim deed from Frank G..
Bigelow to Lewis Sand, con, eying
lands in Ostego, Crawford, Kalkaska,
Lake, Misaukee an d Wexford counties,
has just been put on record, the con-
sideration being $500
The next exhibition OF the Eastern
Michigan Fair Association, which has
always heretofore been held annually
at Ypsilanti, is TO come off next fall at
Ann Arbor, the citizens Of the former
place having had a great suficiency Of
that kind OF business.
A tendency towards the revival Of
hazine in the Michigan University be-
ing apparent, last week, President An
gell warned the students on Monday in
chapel, that any one who was discover
ed to be implicated in such proceed
ings might expect tho most stringent
visitation of the rules of the Univer-
sity.
Andrew Jackson, OF this city, has
shown US two pesch-sprouts, cut from
trees in his yard,-one of the the early
Crawford variety,-which are full Of
live buds, with no appearance of hav-
ing been injured by the recent frosts.
Lansing Republican.
The balance of cash in the state
treasury March %, 1873, was 1896, 1884,
62; receipts during the week ending
March 80 were s20, 0,506.7 20; payments
during the same time were Sl75, ,S04. SO;
balance in treasury March 80, 1878,
$40, S56.46; decrease for the week
f55. .29S.l6.
The editor OF the village paper at
Richmond, Macomb county, has had
his house invaded Just as il he was q
minister. and a regular donation party
Of good handsome dimensions got Of
on him. We're going to start q paper
in Richmond right away. That's just
the place we long have sought, and
mourned because we found it not.
The daughter-in-law Of Adam Horn
ing, formerly of Isabella county, ac-
cused her husband OF having murder
ed his father for $500, and thrown the
body into a we'll, but Prosecuting At
torney Tinker, OF Isabella county, has
Just received a letter from Adam, stat
ing that at the present time he is living
in Kansas. and has no recollection OF
having been murdered.
A telegram to the Post and Tribune
from Manistee says: "Your correspon-
dent has just returned from a sixty
mile trip through the country and find
that the recent cold snap did no per-
ceptible damage to fruit. Peaches and
cherries which, every one expected
would be damaged, are entirely unin-
iured. All kinds of fruit show evil
dence OF bountiful yield.
The village OF Attics, Lapeer county,
has been thrown into violent excite
ment over the attempt to rob the grave
Of Mr.. Elijah Harmon, who died by
accident recently. The suspicious ac-
tions Of strange men led to the setting
of watch upon the grave which re-
sulted in the discovery of four men in
the act of opening it. They succeeded
ing their escape without detection.
In the Lansing Republican OF March
26, f. II. Whitney, secretary of the
Grand Lodge of T. O. o. T., emphatic-
ally denies the statement of Morrison,
the defaulting treasurer. The Grand
Lodge rest their whole case exclusively
on Mr. Morrisou's own records and
books a. he made them mp and as he
left them; and If forgery is found any
where, his fnger-marks will be found
connected Herewith, clearly and dis
tinctly. Let us wait and see where
aud WI o will be present at the end Of
the case" Mr.. H., has since denied
that he made the charge.