The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1878-07-02
STATE NEWS.
Mr.. Jonathan Holmes. Of Bronson.
Branch county. has sold hve black wal
nut trees for $500.

LAlpena Argus.
Lieut.. Frank p. Avery. Of Green.
vile. graduated at West Point Militia
rs Academy on the 18th, standing 25th
in class OF les with which he started
four years ago, AZ only OF which COM
pleted the course.
Mr. f. Sturtevant. Of the once prom
| inent law firm OF Button & Sturtevant,
at East Saginaw, died OF consumption
at Middlebury, VT, on the 10th, leav.
ing wifa and two children. Mr.. But
ton died some time since
While Mr.. John McAra, Of David.
son, Genesee county, was firing gun,
il exploded, the breech-pin hitting him
in the forehead and piepcing TO the
boue. The sight Of one eye is much
injured. IL not entirely destroyed, by
the powder.
Last year SO, 450, 900 worth OF copper
was dug from Michigan mines.
st. Joseph shipped week before last
81 900 crates Of strawberries, worth
S32, 200.
John ID. Campbell has been jailed at
Coldwater 10 await trial for forgery.
Seymour Burling's dwelling at Hol-
ton, Muskegon county. was burned on
the 10th. Loss, 1000.
The Pontiac Insane Asylum has been
accepted by the State authorities from
the contractors.
A little child OF Mr.. Foresters, OF
FrankeRlust, Saginaw county, was
drowned in n well on the goth.
Mark Brooks, OF wakelee, Cass Ce.
dropped dead on the 18th while at
work. Heart disease.
Mrs. DR.. Hall has been appointed
postmistress at Carlisle. Eaton county,
in the place OF her husband, deceased.
The "first flag" OF the old Second
Michigan Infantry has been delivered
10 Adjutant- General Robertson for safe
keeping.
The grapes on the lake shore, near
st. Joseph and Benton Harbor, have |
not been injured by frosts, and there is
every prospect OF an immense yield.
The custom OF picking and shipping
fruit on Sunday, which has been 80 |
largely practiced among fruit growers |
in the st. Joseph fruit region. has be-
come almost extinct.
Patrick Murphy. young man OF |
Houghtou, employed on the boat Ella |
NJ 1E he
couple Of weeks since, on the north |
shore Of Lake Superior.
The State is now furnishing convict |
labor from the Ionia prison for the De- |
troit, Lansing and Northern Railroad |
Company at 80 cents per day. About |
40 are working near Iopia on q grade. |
All the principal business men OF |
Traverse City have signed an agree |
ment not TO handle. sell or donate any |
kind Of fireworks during the year
This is done TO insure the greater safe |
ty Of the town from fire.
Mr.. Hugh Belford. prosperous far |
mer living northeast from Holly, was |
thrown from his buggy in a runaway
on the 18th and his skull fractured so |
that he died four days after.
Mrs. Geo. Waugler, OF Delta, Eaton
county, attempted suicide by taking |
poison some davs since. She was mar
ried bat month ago and seems pos |
sesscd with homIcidsl mania.
A miner named Philip Navin was in
stantly killed at the Saginaw nine, |
near Ishpeming. Marquette county,
few days since, by piece of rock fall
ing on him from a hanging wall. He |
leaves n wife and three children.
Jay Bills, Of Albion, advertises a
Take Notice-All persons are forbid |
den, under penalty of the law, from
selling or giving to the undersigned |
any spirituous or intoxicating liquors |
or malt or brewed beers, from and af- |
ter this date.
Mr.. NJ. E. n. Howell, formerly OF |
Pontiac, has been designated to act as
chief clerk of public lands, vice Maj
Moberly, resigned. in the general land
Office at Washington, where he has |
been q clerk for the last 10 or 20 years. |
Gee. Newman, who was being exam
ed for crookedness at Elsie, Clinton !
county, last week, cleared out while
the court and witnesses we're taking |
their noontide repast and cannot be |
found. George evidently didn't like |
the looks OF things.
Ovid VI. Sumner, formerly Of Ksla.
,,a,nn kos kaap arraata1 IN Thfaano
on complaint of Lieut.. g. Gardner, OF
the Nineteenth United States Infantry,
charging him with an attempt TO extort |
money by threatening to publish libel |
ous and scurrilous reports.
Thomas Lilly, OF Cass county, charg-
ed with killing a man named Kreiger,
of Bainbridge, Berrien county, has to. |
ken "A change Of venue from the Cass
Circuit TO Berrien county, and his trial
will come up at the October term. He
is now out on $40, 900 bail.
Chas. Byerly, the Owosso man.
charged with the seduction of young
woman at St. Louis, Gratiot county
had his examination on the 18th, and
succeeded in convincing the court that
OtneTs were eQuhliy lmpilcateu wiz
himself, and was therefore discharged.
Mr.. J. G. Westbrook. who was tried
for the reputed murder OF Matthew
Kennedy, in Henrietta, some three
years since and acquitted. died recent
ly in the State OF New York, OF con-
sumption, All the evidence went 10
show that Kennedy's death was the re-
suit OF accident. jackson Patriot.
An agency is established nj LudIng
ton for the purchase OF ginseng root,
which grows 10 a considerable extent
/ in that region, II is dried there and
shipped direct to China, where il is in
great demand. Tho trade at Luding.
ton is developing into considerable i'm
portauce. The price paid is 20 cents
per pound.
We learn from the Port Huron
/ Times that a cyclone visited the town
Of Brockway on the goth inst. about 8
o'clock. IL came with terrifying noise
and great force, destroying several
barns and dwellings, levelipg trees,
crops and fences in its path, a distance
of not far from three miles. No one,
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