The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-04-29
NUMBER 1895


Eddie Thompson, OF whitehall, tried
to make gun cotton. He succeeded in
nearly blowing his head OF.
The late Volney Hascall, OF Kalama-
zoo. willed 5000 to the ladies' library
association Of that place.
The Evening News thinks the Re-
publicans have q clear majority Of 25,-
600 in Michigan, when they all vote.
Mrs. Symington, a notorious charac-
ter OF Port Huron, gets two years at
the Detroit house Of correction for
robbery.
Traverse township, Grand Traverse
county, is entirely ont OF debt, for the
first time since the war Of the rebell-
ion.
The people Of Mt. Pleasant, Isabel.
Ia county, expect TO have railroad COM
munication with the outside world be-
fore snow flies next winter.
Some OF the leading citizens OF Bron.
son wanted a town house, and the
| question was submitted 10 the voters.
They said mo" by large majority.
Chss. Ii. Rider, a young man Of %,
and fugitive from the Vermont state
| prison, where he had been sent for
horse appropriation, was arrested last
week in lumber camp in Montcalm
county.
John Bowen, a second hand dealer
in furniture on Michigan avenue in
Detroit, was the other day presented
by Mrs. b. with the second pair OF
twins in eleven months.
Perry Runyan, OF Plainfeld, was
lodged in Jail at Grand Rapids on the
llth, charged with attempting to kill
his wife. He would have succeeded
had not bystsnders interferred.
Two girls are missing from Kalama-
zoo. They left without warning their
parents, and no tidings can be obtain.
ed OF their whereabouts. One is Elec-
to Baker and the other Miss Tolles.
The asylum investigating committee
have finally got done investigating,
and are now at work evolving their
conclusions from the ocean OF testi.
mony with which they have been del.
uged.
Geo. r. Biain has received his COM
mission as postmaster in Newark
refutatiop OF the slander that Demo
Gratis are not permitted 10 hold Office
under a Republican administration. -
Gratiot Journal.
Jeff. Groner, living near Wacousta,
Clinton county. is very sick. When he
was 9 years old he was bitten by
massasaugar, and on the Sd was taken
with fits called "snake fts." He froths
at the mouth, and raves around very
badly. 1t requires from three to Ave
men to hold him when his fts are on.
The dead body OF a woodsman,
named Benz. Young. OF Young's Point,
Canada, was found on the farm Of
Jesse hoyt. in East Saginaw on the
Sth. There were four stabs in the face
and the jaw had been broken, which
proves Iconclusiyely that he was muir
dered.
Mrs. d. G. Johnson, of Ithaca, Ora
tiot county, died on the 18th, after an
! illness OF only II hours, aged a.
| Spasms OF the stomach succeeded by
apoplexy. Her death was great shock
to the community on account Of its
suddenness and because she was great
! ly esteemed.
Joseph D. Roman was elected super
visor in Monroe by the counting Of o
ballot for Jos. d. Roman, which was
decided fairly TO be intended for him.
In like manner, Francis X. Solean was
chosen alderman, ballot for Frank X.
Solean being allowed for him. Sensi.
BILE and right.
The number Of inmates in the State
house OF correction at Ionia. March /,
1879, was 244; number received during
the month %; number discharged dur
ing the month 20, leaving the number
April !, 2il. Whole number in the in
stitution since its opening, GA.
An astonishing case OF depravity has
recently come 20 light in South 1.-Two
MIA, Wayne county. Last fall Hiram
| Fiske, an old man nearly so years OF
age, living just west o! Schwartzburg.
attempted four different times to ruin
young girl OF l3. Upon being con
froDted with the charge he confessed it.
The Michigan Central Railroad Co.
has just paid to the State it's specific
taxes for the past year, which amount
ed, on the main line TO sl34, ,063. 90
interest on same, 81, ,s77. l6, and on the
Grand River Valley route, slI, ,o34-in-
terest on same. s209.0i. Total sl5l,-
l03. 40.
One OF the boldest burglaries which
has been committed in here for some
time Was perpetrated upon Pickard's
auction and commission store, last
! Friday. Some one went into the alley,
removed glass from the window.
raised il, went ia while q savage dog
lay upon the lounge, and made no
noise. Several watches aud other val.
uables to the value Of $40 were taken.
Flint issued bonds TO the amount -
| SlO0, 900, in 1874, with which 10 build
high school They are paid in in
stallments up TO 1890, those running to
1884 carrying 10 per cent. interest, and
those after that year \ per cent. The
| Globe has figured out when the debt il
paid. principal and interest, that IL will
have cost the city Sl70, 40.
About the neatest effort 20 announce
disagreeble truth We have seen in the
Greenback newspapers, ~ this election
news heading from the Three Rivers
Reporter: "Elections-the figures de-
note the majorities in all cases.
The coalition days are gone,
The saddest Of the year
Ger Shipman's grave his friends unite
To drop a briny tear;
While Writings fostering corse doth lie
| Beneath a Greenback Sun.
Aud Sanfords tombstone bears the line
| His race was quickly run"
Gone 10 meet Orlando.
J. H. Maze, OF the Leader, said 10 O
gentleman OF this city during the time
negotiations we're going for coalitios
ticket. that bis party could not put any
Of their Republicans of the ticket, f5r
IL they did, the Republicans would 60
back 10 the Republican party. To
which the gentleman remarked: "Tf
they would do that they must be
fools" TO which Mr.. Maze replied:
That is the kind Of men Of which our