The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-05-13
NUMBER 1897
STATE NEWS.

nance 10 tax It's saloons not less than
$500 nor more than $500 per annum.
The Saranac Local says that 13 es-
capped prisoners from the Ionia house
OF correction are still at large.
A long-haired Indian medicine man
who heals the sick in this State was
formerly shoemaker in Washtenaw
county.
Mrs. j. s. Upton, wife of the promi-
nent Battle Creek manufacturer of that
name, died at Mobile, Alabama, on
the 26th.
to remove the State capitol from Jeffer-
son City, and ST. Louis would like to
have II sent TO that city,
The Brighton market fair a,socia-
tion will hold it's fair about the 1st of
June. II will probably have a horse
race attachment.
Thomas Lamphier his son John and
Ellery Wilkinson have been arrested in
Lapeer county on charge of cattle
stealing.
The whisky business done by Mr..
| Quinlan, of Lexington, last election
day. was robbed of its profits by fine
OF S25 and costs.
During the last three months the De-
! troit police made 83S arrests, aud gave
lodging TO 5000 destitute persons. OF
the latter only Al were females.
Caleb II. Rawson, farmer near
Schoolcraft, .choked 10 death the morn
ing of May l. The cause if supposed
to be the bursting Of blood-vessel in
his lungs.
J. p. Sarderson, chief elephant
catcher in India, has caught ninety
four elephants since his arrival at NY
/ sore In December -Four men Of the
elephant-catchiDg force have been
killed.
The Greenback supervisor Of Wat
son, Allegan county, was discovered
last week taking the assessment of his
town without having legally qualified.
He did not know enough 10 take his
oath of Office.
The widow Of Horace Thompson.
who was drowned ia Stiff's mill-pond
at Holly, last October has just obtain
| I'd a verdict Of $500 against William
Steel, a saloon keeper. for selling her
husband liquor, by which he be-
came intoxicated and fell into the
pond.
The balance of cash in the Stals
treasury April 10 was $500. 25l. 81; re-
ceipts for the week ending April 26
were S33, ,635 81: payments for the
same time Sl5. .443 81; leaving a bIl.
ance April 26, 1879. of Ssls, 444; IN
crease for the week SlS, 1928.
The Cincinnati Enquirer casts its
eagle eye over the Michigan ell. ction
returns, sees the corpse Of bastard coal
ition lying hopelessly in its grave. and
feelingly SAYS: Nobody in the Dem.
Ocratic party is demanding fusion in
the convention or out of IL, because,
as rule, fusions work harm to both
sides.
Most Of the contracts for carrying
the mails over stage routes in northern
aud eastern Michigan were gobbled mp
by spectators who probably never saw
the State. They took the contract at
very low prices and are now flying
about to sublet them at still lower
rates. Thus far but few of them have
been taken of their hands.
A quarrel is now going on between
Democrats aud Greenbackers as 20
which party ate the most crow, in the
recent bastard coalition banquet. The
! Hpsilanti Sentinel saws that the Demo-
crats swallowed the nasty stuff like lit
tie men or else staid away from the
polls.
Jacob Grozinger, of Grass Lake, was
sentenced IN the circuit court 20 ten
years in State prison on a conviction
of con mitting incest with bis daughter
- years old. She gave birth to II child
Of which he is supposed to the father.
Sam Carey told just thirty nine per.
sons at Detroit, Sunday afternoon, the
Goth. what he did know about Moses.
His audiences are being reduced TO
such low numbers, that the g. b's. are
IN great haste 10 to raise funds 10 send
him TO Maine.
A girl - years old, OF Riverside.
Berrien county. beard the dog making
a great ado few days ago, and upon
/ going 20 him found him tussling with
an otter, which she speedily dispatched
with a club. The skin brought 81.
A little child Of John Tuttle, OF Rock
ford, Kent county, was poisoned April
\ %, by drinking cup Of milk into
which black spider had fallen. The
nurse noticed the spider and threw il
out, but few moments after drinking
the child went into spasms, and dospi'e
the efforts Of physicians died IN q
couple Of hours.
Abisha Hoisington. one Of the old
settlers of St. Joseph county, died Mt
his home in Floverfield, April 2lst,
aged 20 years He was drum-majnr in
the llth Michigan infantry during the
war OF the rebellion, aud had four sous
and three son-iu-laws in the union
army.
| Mr.. Thomas Wilson, one of the
wealthiest farmers of Franklin, Lena
wee county, while trimming apple
trees, a short time since, became sud-
! denly and totally blind In his right
eye. The best medical advice pro-
nounces the eve hopeless lost ami the
other liable To become 80 at any time.
| The blindness was brought on by the
bursting OF blood vessel.
The son Of Patrick st. John, Of Hick-
ory Corners. Barry county, deaf mute,
left home last November and has not
since been heard frnm. He is about
Ave feet three inches high, light hair
aud eyes, and has an enlarged neck
tie was engaged rs a book canvssser
at the time he left home. Any iofoF-
nation concerning him would be thank
fully received by his parents.
This noon, two gentlemen were en-
gagged in pleasant chat at the Hibbard
house. They were Hon. r. q. Grosve-
nor Of Jonesville aud COL Geo. Z.
Sanford Of Lansing. These gentlemen
we're opposing candidates for regents
OF the university nj the late election,
and the Colonel's forces were vorsted:
they coalesced, but coalition didn't
coalesce, "by a maiority."-IJsckson
Citizen.
The Kendall correspondent Of the
Paw Paw Free Press and Courier says:
There isneed OF a temperance reform
in this place, as there Is not another
place of its size in Michigan where