Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-12-03
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.
Anthony Seiffert, dealer in tobacco at
nit- has failed for 500 600

Allen Cope, n dentist of Coldwater,
was fatally injured by The explosion of a
yulcanizer in his Office.
Patrick Johnson, at Adrain, was ac-
quilted of the charge of having murdered
his twin children.
The big well at the Traverse City Asy-
lum is finished. 1t is sixteen feet in diam
eter, fifty-six feet deep, and has seventeen
feet of water.
Stephen McEnally, at Detroit, was
found guilty of the killing of Burwell Lam
gan, and recommended to mercy. He is
10 years old.
Barry county has 249 teachers, of whom
thirteen hold first grade certificates, twenty
six second grade, POT third grade, and three
have normal certificates.
Lightning is falling thick and fast
among the marriageable people of Flint,
and the more bashful among bachelors are
moving to less dangerous regions.
The wrestling hippodrome at Howell
was won by Mclaughlin. Shellenbarger,
his opponent, forgot his "cue." That is he
did not remember in which bout he was to
throw the Colonel, so the latter had to do
most of the business himself and rolled
over on his back himself.-Free Press.
The dullness in the Northern Peninsu-
lar that usually follows the close of naviga-
ton will not be felt this year to any extent,
ovino to tba loroa ,,ra,,orof;ono bo;Ds, ,oada
for an active lumber business. First-clas
pine is abundant in this district and scarce
everywhere else within reach OF a market.
Public sentiment among the settlers of
Northern Michigan is strongly opposed to
the hunting of deer with dogs, and 80 long
as this is the case persons who own valu-
able dogs will do well to leave them at
home. In most cases, if q settler has the
opportunity to shoot either the deer or the
dog that is chasing it, he will drop the dog
every time.
Some Ishpeming boys, with too much
dime-novel reading on the brain, have been
discovered in cave which they had exca-
waited in a swamp near the city, together
with a stolen barrel of whisky and case of
gin. They had evidently laid in supplies
and made everything snug for the winter.
A number of arrests have been made of
boys ranging in age from sixteen to nine
teen years, on suspicion.
S. w. Tyler & Sons mill, at Grow
Island, has shut down for the season, after
running 1913 days and cutting 14,300,000
shingles. The boys are all satisfied with
their seasons work. Nothing is left to
mark their former presence save boot and
broom placed in prominent position on
top of the mill as an indication that they
are able to "down" any crew on the Saginaw
River.--Sdginaw Herald.
The discovery of raft of logs in one
of the Detroit sewers is proof enough, if
more were needed, of the faulty construc-
ton in placing their outlets so far below
the surface of the river. There must be
powerful currents backing up in the sewers
TO wedge logs SO tightly that they could not
be carried away by the sewer currents. OBJ
structions of such a kind must, of course,
prevent discharge of tho pestilential mat
ter which the sewers are supposed to carry
away. Sewers thus choked ore well-nigh
useless, and the money expended upon
them is so much thrown away. What is
the sense, therefore, in continuing system
proved to be waste of money. 1t is a
high time for reform and the adoption of
better system.-Free Press.
The Washington Capital says: at is
not true that Mrs. Custer was an applicant
for the Pension Office at Detroit, and if she
had been she probably would have received
the appointment. There was quite an in
duential movement in her behalf, which
was encouraged not only among the old
friends and neighbors of her husband in
Michigan, but in New York, Chicago, and
other cities, and some very strong letters
we're given to the President urging her Sc
lection. She did not want the Office, but,
woman-like, permitted the movement to go
on until she thought the President was
about TO appoint her, when she came over
to Washington and attempted to throw her
influence, and that of those who had re-
commended her, in favor of her sister-in-
law, the widow of Lieutenant Calhoun, who
commanded a troop in the battle of the
Little Big Horn, and was killed by Clusters
side. AS the movement was in honor of
General Custer the ladies thought il made
no difference whether the appointment went
to his sister or his widow, but the Presi-
dent seems to have thought otherwise"
The horse car companies in this city
(says the Detroit Free Press) got their les
son a year ago or more as to responsibility
for damages occasioned by piling up the
snow in the streets. The companies in
Brooklyn have just received their instruc-
tons on the same point. The instructions
were furnished by the New York Court of
Appeals in a suit brought by person who
was injured in trying to get on car, the
injury being caused by pile of snow which
the company's plow had turned up beside
the track. The jury in the nisi prius court
gave the plaintiff $4,000 and the company
appealed. The Court of Appeals sustained
the verdict, and held that street car COM
panies were under the same obligations
with respect TO the removal Of snow as are
owners of property adjoining a street in
populous city. while they are permitted"
the court says, "to enjoy the use of their