Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-13

mat ls Tie law, ana very Iooilsn one
it is.
The new nitro-glycerine factory of IL.
II. Thomas near Oak Grove, in the su-
burbs of Bay City, blew up about noon
the other day, making total wreck OF
the building, The men had warning in
time to escape. The damage IL esti-
mated at 81 900.
In less than week after the Minden
City Post had offered prizes for baby
show, three handsome children were
born in the place. Thus" says the
Mindon Post, ''has our enterprise in the
baby sho " business doomed up the pop
ulation of the town." 1t begins to look
that way.
The people of Fenton have been
greatly stirred up over the question OF
| classics in the public school. At a
meeting held for the discussion of the
subjects, it was voted to throw Greek
aud Latin out Of the high school course.
Hereafter the rising generation of Fem
ton will be instructed in the three "R's"
-'readin. 'ritin' and 'rithmetic.
You may have read of the famous
picture galleries of Europe
Something approaching them in
extent and excellence may be
seen at the Detroit Art Loan Exhibit
tior. People who come in from the in
rerior should not think of devoting less
than a day to an inspection of the Art
Loan. To study it requires much more
| time.
There is some excitement in Evart
| and Eastern Osceola county over the
alleged discovery of coal and iron de-
posts located on the various streams
that traverse the county.
Several families have left Kalkaska
County in the last few weeks, bound
for Florida.
Richard Balm, lately aloon.keeper
in East Saginaw, attempted to jump
from Flint & Pere Marquette freight
train on which he was stealing ride,
coming TO the depot and was caught,
! crushing his arm right, which was short
ly after amputated just below the shout
der.
The sensible people of Grand Rapids.
led by Aid Yates, are determined to imi-
tate the peace and order of Detroit by
forbidding the blowing of steam whistles
in the city limits. In this respect De-
troit is model city and worth to be
copied by all municipalities.
Five pound bass are caught quite
numerously at the st. Clair Flats, and
| no end of smaller fish.
An attempt of the prisoners in the
Muskegon Jail to break out was dis
covered and frustrated.
John Lewis, of Greenville, is interest
ing himself to induce manufacturers to
| establish themselves there.
James Donnelly, an inmate of the
City Prison of East Saginaw, was found
dead in his bunk in the jail the other
morning. He was picked up in a
drunken condition on the street the day
before.
A disastrous fire occurred at Norway,
Menominee County, on the 9TH inst.
Property to the value of $4,000 was
destroyed.
The bonus asked for by the Toledo
and Ann Arbor and North Michigan
railroad is secured and st. Louis will
get the road. A large and enthusiastic
meeting of citizens made the final de-
cisiOn and st. Louis is correspondingly
happy. Work on the road is expected
to commence at Owosso within few
days and the cars are promised to be
running direct to Toledo as soon as
April 1, if not by January l.
Railroad property in Cedar Springs,
Kentucky to the value of $4,000, was
destroyed by fire the other day.
Z. w. Garfield, of the State Horticul-
tural Society, promises display of
fruit Mt the state fair which will astonish
the people.
A Gillian lumber dealer is looking
around the Saginaw Valley and other
portions of our numbering districts, with
view to buying lumber for shipment
to Chilli.
The post-office at Maple Rapids was
burglarized the other night.
Corn and potato crops of Northern
Michigan have been injured by the ex-
cessive dry weather.
There are only two vacant houses in
sand Beach. The population of the
place is 1881.
The cribs are all down at the Sand
Beach breakwater. The several appro-
priations of 5000, 900 have been expend-
ed and $4,000 more is needed TO COM
plete the work. Last year LOOP vessels,
with tonnage of 2S6, 703, found shell
ter at the harbor of refuge. When the
proposed dredging is finished there will
be an area of 100 acres outside the
eighteen foot line and 800 acres outside
the twelve foot line.
The secretary of state in his report for
September estimates the wheat crop of
the state at 23,000,000 bushels, nearly
100000 bushels less than the July esti-
mate. The oat crop is estimated at
20 4 bushels per acre in the southern
four tiers of counties and 30.17 bushels
in the northern counties. The corn
crop is nearly ruined, except Oh high
sandy soil. The crop of winter apples
will be only 20 to 40 per cent. of an
average; peaches. 10 to 40 per cent.
clover seed, 103 per cent.
Ramsey. one of the naval cadets at
Anapolis,gets seven days imprisonment
for hazing.
Forest fires are causing great destruc-
ton in Massachusetts,.
President Arthur has returned from
his western trip, greatly improved in
health, If not in appearance.
AnArch@ologist at Oharlevoix.
Charlevoix Sentinel.
Prof. E. H. Crane, the we'll known |
arch@ologist Of Petoskey. has been dig
giuo i'm the bluffs on the Lake Michigan |