The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1879-02-11
NUMBER 1854
STATE NEWS.

Dlrds, naive and foreign.
East Saginaw's poultry show proved
q large and successful one.
Peach trees do not seem 10 have been
extensively killed by the cold snap.
Snow is so deep in the upper penin-
sula that numbering is entirely sus-
pended.
Daring 1873 there were received az
the Jackson State prison $4,000 letters
for the convicts.
The First National Bank OF Center
vile has divided 25 per cent OF its
surplus account to its stockholders.
Andrew w. Clover is now rusticating
in Jail at Cassopolis. Too much clover
too much married.
John Donnelon's hotel and barn az
Minden, Sanilac county, was burned on
the 18th. Loss, $1,000.
Peter F. Sharz, OF New Baltimore,
Macomb county, has been appointed
land agent of the Central Pacific rail.
road.
A school officer of Cedar, Gladwin
county, is charged with selling orders
in Saginaw that have been ence paid
by him.
This State has produced over 1,000,-
600 tons of charcoal pig iron, most Of
which was manufactured in the upper
peninsula.
Stephen Randall, charged with muir
dering a man at Union City, was ar
rested at Niles on Tuesday and taken
to that place.
Prof. A. II. Pattengill, formerly as
sistant professor of Greek in the uni
versity, is about to take the chair in
Greek at the Wisconsin university.
The Manufacturers National Bank
OF Three Rivers divided Sl5, 600 among
its ten stockholders last week. The
bank couldn't use il profitsbly.
Flint stock dealers have opened mp
quite an extensive trade direct with the
English market and have already ship
ped quite u number Of car ioads.
Mrs. John G.. Kentner, OF Sterling,
died on the 22d after long suffering
from q complication OF diseases. She
was remarkably feshy, weighing over
400 pounds.
Two girls said to be the daughters Of
wealthy parents in Chicago, came to
Grand Rapids last week and at once en-
tered a house of ill-fame. They we're
A.. l. l.
During the last 10 years the brown
stone quarry at Marquette has pro-
duced $50, $50 cubic feet Of building
material. The one at L'Anse during
the past three years has taken out 2S,-
900 cubic feet.
A heavy built mastiff hound recently
followed his master on a train OF cars
from Ceresco to Battle Greek, dis
tancs OF eight miles, keeping up with
the train till near the end, and making
the distance in half an hour.
Mrs. Edwards, wife OF farmer hv-
ing near Summerville, Cass county,
d.ed on the 2Sth, after few minutes
illness. She had been washing and
suddenly felt sick, and sitting down
expired in few minutes.
The Great Western Railroad has been
experimenting with the coal mined at
Corunna and are so we'll pleased with
it that they have ordered 1000 tons
shipped TO Detroit for use on their
transfer boats.
A man at Alma lost 81 900 few days
ago and rewarded the finder with six
cigars "Died from enlargement OF
the heart" is the epitaph which will
undoubtedly be written on the tomb
stone Of the moneyed man.
Theodore Lee and William Marshall,
colored young men, have been sent,
the latter to Ionia for two years, the
/ former to Jackson for three years, for
breaking into store, and stealing 4
small sum OF monev.
Ernest Gertz, Flint saloonist. after
/ getting a customer beastly drunk, took
his overcoat to pay for the liquor he
bad furnished him. And now the
mans wife has had the dispenser Of
/ fluids arrested.
/
/ loon taxing ordinance at Charlotte is
\ getting on well. IL has been already
/ fought through the Circuit Court with
verdict in favor of the city. II now
goes to the Supreme Court.
Solomon Lepaugh's residence in
/ Sumner, Gratiot county, was burned
\ with all its contents on the 2lst. Mrs.
/ L., in endeavoring to rescue q child
that was sleeping upstairs, was badly
/ burned. Loss 81 500; insured for 81
I 600.
Lucien Popert, OF Gore, Huron coun-
/ ty, went TO Port Hope with q load of
wood on the Goth, and was found dead
/ by the side Of bis team where he had
driven to unload. Heart disease is sup
posed 10 be the cause. He leaves Q
wife and seven children.
An elderly man named M. Imboden,
\ in Pipestone, Berrien county, while
/ walking in the road in company with
two other persons, on the 18th, stopped
aud complained of being warm, and in
attempting to take of his overcost,
fell TO the ground and Immediately e1-
pired.
Silas Hollis, postmaster al Bunker
Hill, Ingham county, and q highly re-
spected citizen, left home on the 18th,
saying he would be back on the 18Th
He went 10 Jackson, sold bis horse and
cutter for a small sum, and bought q
ticket for Chicago. That is the last
that is known OF him.
Chas. l.. Anderson while at work re I.
Gently in the Cleveland iron mine, at
Ishpeming, was killed by an explosion
Of four pounds Of blasting powder and
as much more nltrc-glycerine, the re-
suit OF carelessness on his part. He
was terribly mangled. being cut into
just above the hips, and limbs blown
into ielley.
The examination into the civil case
pending against Robert II. Morrison,
the alleged defaulting treasurer OF The
Michigan Grand Lodge Of Odd Fell
lows, has been in progress at Lansing
for several days before Hon. John J.
Adam, Of Tecumseh, referee. The
prosecution have proved a deficit OF
s6, IA by Mr.. Morrison's books.
Reuben Wright, q deaf aud insane
person Who bad been under the care Of
Z .,,tIt., g. On IL