Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-09-11
Minor State Items.

VIM. Harper sent 10 the insane hSy
.um from Romeo several years ago,
died in the asylum Aug. 81.
Athens, Calhoun county, has 40 bust
ness firms, and has $30,C0 for the first
railroad which viii enter the town.
John McDonough, formerly promi-
nent stock buyer in South Michigan,
died at East Buffalo, N. Y. Aug. %.
Kalamazoo will ship double the
amount of celery this year than she did
last, but competition shrinks the profits.
II. c. Thurber of Marquette sent a
raft over the Sault st. Marie rapids last
week, and every 10y went safely
through.
Mrs. II. G. Lewis, has been appointed
20 the Coldwater library board, TO fill
the vacancy caused by the death of her
husband.
Statues of Marquette, La Sale, Cad
lilac and Richard, the famous French
pioneers, have been placed on the city
hall in Detroit.
r. C. Aud of Aberdeen, Scotland,
has bought farm near Ann Arbor,
and will go extensively into the raising
of blootled stock.
The Baptists of Lenawee county de-
sire n ChautauGua circle and are dis
cussing the project of raising $4,000 to
build tabernacle.
w. Ii. Raymond will open a fruit
drying establishment i'll Marshall, Sept.
/, which will dispose of 100 bushels OF
apples in "a hours.
The Tittabawassee boom company
has RATED 425, 900 900 feet OF logs this
season and expects to increase the fig
ures to 600,000,000.
Tho forest fires between East Tawas
and Au Sable are spreading rapidly.
Many acres of valuable cedar and pine
have been destroyed.
A Mrs. Kerener of Battle Creek died
on an express train near Bowmanvllle,
Ont, the other night. She was ID the
last stages of consumption.
A son of Z. w. Thorp of Little Prai-
RE Ronde was killed by the accidental
discharge of a gun. He was hunting
in boat on the Dowagiac river.
The result at McMorran & Co.'s oil
well at Port Huron is most encourage
ing, and otLer wells will probably be
drilled. There is much excitement.
The Detroit stove works of Ham,
tramck covers nearly seven acres of
ground, employs 1000 to l,5CO men,
and turns out on an average 800 stoves
per day.
James A. Chase, James Ii. TibLitSs,
and Miss Carrie M. Comstock, all Of
Michigan, have been appointed to clerk
ships in the treasury department at
Washington.
Henry Kiper, one Of the pioneers of
Eaton county, died at Onondaga, where
he lived for 40 years. He suffered from
a cancer in the face for five years, and
was "a years old.
DR. l.. N. Keller, of Concord, Jack
son county, has been bound over for
trial September 10, charged with caus.
ing the death of Rhoda Keys Of Claren-
don, Calhoun county.
A woman named Carrie White, of
Muskegon, was shot by Thomas Mills
because she refused to marry him. The
wound is not serious. Mills gave him
self up and is now in Jail.
Peter Gerant, Muskegon youth of
10 summers has been sent to the reform
school until he is Is years old. He has
acknowledged that he set fire to the
school house in North Muskegon.
The prisoners in the state prison at
jackson prepared for an escape on a
recent evening by taking TO pieces the
Jail water closet, but the plan was be-
Lraved to the officer by one of the con-
victs.
John Smith, Jr., has an elm tree on
his farm, that measures from one ex-
IRENE end of limb TO another directly
opposite, 10i feet. This is probably
the widest tree in the state Romeo
Hydrant-
An effort is being made TO finish the
Coldwater & Mansfield railroad which
has been graded several years. A new
company is surveying the lime, and If
the engineers report favorably they
will commence it Immediately.
The Lansing Republican charges the
common council men of that unfortu-
nate city with "superb heedlessness
and disposition to attend to every 9TH
or kind of business save that for which
they were elected to watch ever"
We would not strike woman under
any circumstances, but we must ac-
knowledge that when we see girl
wearing one of those horrible garments
known as Mother Hubbards," we feel
inclined to give her belt.-Romeo Hy-
drant.
VIM. Maybury, of Clarendon, Cal
houn county, possesses two acres OF
ground which is practically untillable
on account of the multitude of hornets
nests with which IL is infested. Numer-
Gus brave plowmen have tackled the
Job, only to give il up with disgust and
many stings. Who's nextP-Burlington
Echo.
Frank Laughlin of Grand Rapids, en-
gagged a row boat at Reeds Lake the
other morning and went out on the
water alone. In the evening the boat
was found floating near the shore and
I.aughlin was gone. His coat WIS in
the boat and in the pocket was q letter,
evidently intended for the public, in
which he confessed one or two forger-
les for small amounts. A case of sui
eide.
Profs. Campbell and Kent of the uni
versity law department have accepted
the terms lately offered them by the re-
gents and will retain their chairs. Prof.
Hennequin has received the professor
ship of the French language and litera-
ture in tho Western correspondence
university. He will, however, continue
as an instructor in Michigan university,