Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-09-17
STATE sIFTINGs.

We clip tie following from a Detroit paper
Mrs. Annie H. Smith, wife OF the station agent
at Colon, has sprung suddenly into no.oriety
through some extraordinary cures Of sick
people In the neighborhood. She Is a lady of
small stature, quick and nervous tempera-
ment, and seems possessed of great magnetic
power The remarkable cures she performed
last week cause some OF the more ignorant to
think her possessed of witch-t raft. Probably
the most remarkable ease is that of Mrs San
fo:d wife OF Colon's liveryman, who has been
under treatment OF a leading physician for
several months, and was "given up" week
ago today, and friends called to her bedside
to bid her farewell. Mrs Smith saw her then,
and on Wedne sday the patient took an hours
ride with her husband, instead of TO her grave,
and was at last accounts rapidly improving in
health. Another case Is that OF MIR. Mellow
ell, whom the physicians pronounced dead, but
who on Friday, after 4S hours treatment by
Mrs Smith had so far recovered as to be able
to walk the room. She gives no med cine,
simply reading and taking TO the patients
mind cure, in fact. Thcre is great rush to
her rooms since the e developments.
cyclone struck the barn of Alfred Ed.
wards, farmer liiing three and half miles
northwest Of Adrian. The barl was demolish-
ed In ii at the tim were Mr.. Edwards and
two hired men. Edwards is reported as r
iously If not fatally ini red The OF er two
men were but slightly hurt Mr.. Edwards
house was badly shaken and another barn near
was also wrecked. Further east the end of a
barn of A. j. Hood was torn out. The blow
was followed by exceedingly heavy rain, the
fall lasting for some minutes. A terrific storm
of wind. amounting almost To n hurrcaI e,
struck Tecumseh about the same time. The
roof of the res dence OF Chauncy Vedder was
blown of, wheat stacks were blown down, the
st aw scattered in every direction, and other
injury done. From Tecumseh the storm Travelled
eastward. and passing over the Paradise farm,
one of the finest in this section, damaged
several buildings. The farm Of j. Cauldin suf-
fered from I e oss OF barns and crops.
Hunters, post this in your hat: The Mlchi
gan game law provides that deer may be killed
In the upper peninsua from August IL to No
vember 10, and In the low.r peninsula from
October to Dec mber ]. No deer in its red
coat or fawn In its spotted coat can be killed
at any time. The law allows other game to
lie killed within the folio wing periods: Wild
turkey, October ] to January !: woodcock,
August TO January !: quail, Nov, mber l to
January 1 /; snipe, or wi wat n fowl, Septem-
b.r 1 to May ]; pnnated grouse or prairie
chicken, September ] to November |; part.
ridge, ruffed grouse and wood teal, malard
end gray dlcks September to January /
Robins, lar'Ss, thrushes and Other song birds
cannot BE- killed at any time.
For the first time in the history of the salt
industry of the Saginaw Valley salt Is now
ing made with the use OF coal as fuel instead
of slabs. L. would at first seem that the man
Ohio or Pennsylvania, would be SO costly In
conn arson with slabs that 1t could not be done
with pecuniary advantage. At the Cincinnati
works of Malone " Co., on the west side OF the
river. with hundreds OF cords of slabs at their
disposal the firm Is using coal In their salt
blocks and using 1t to successful degree,
preferring TO sell slabs AZ their market figure
than 10 burn them In the furnaces. This Is an
experimental city Tribune.
The Newark machine company of Columbus,
Ohio, has just entered suit In the United states
courts against Gaar, Scott ~ Co. of Richmond
Ind ana, for the use OF certain patents on the
clover huller manufactured by the
latter which tie Newark machine
company clam to be infrngements
on their Victor Clover Huller manufactured
by them This is an important suit, for, II IL Is
gained by the Newark machine company, they
can pursue all the clover hullers built by Gaar,
Scott IL Co, and can collect damages from any
one u log them.
The Midland Sun says that the Oldest leg
scaer on the Saginaw river and perhaps In the
state, is 8. b. Brown, OF East Saginaw, who has
heen engaged in the bus ness 30 years, having
con m enced In Maine 80 years ago, and contin
ued In the business since that time. Mr.. Brown
has resided in Michigan about % years. He
once scaled 500 600, 900 feet OF logs In 200 days
"a feat never before accomplished on the
river. Though Mr. Brown is vergipg close on
70 20 years of age he appears nc least ID years
younger, and Is still In active service.
The jury In the case Of Maggie Wilson, on
trial in Big Rapids for administering poison to
the old man Mclean, brought in a verdict OF
guilty. The murder for which she was tried
was that of Henry Mclean, stock dealer,
who went TO Big Rapids and was subsequently
missed. He was traced 10 house Of ill-fame
kept by Maggie Wilson, and the fact that he
bad large amount OF money on his person
led TO susp cions Of foul play, which we're fol-
lowed up, and resulted IN the woman's arrest
and trial
propossds w" su .' NH a. " Jschson visit
| Noah keeler's farm, eight miles south OF the
! prison town, and enthnscj him In the enter