Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-09-17
Minor state Happenings.

State that had no Prohibition candidate for
Congress.
Minor State Happenings.
-Neebish, Chippewa County, is new
postofiice.
-Manistique harbor is receiving great
many improvements.
Book agents when they strike Man
istique are compelled to pay license of 81
per day.
The Pioneer says that Manistique is
soon to have an Episcopal Church Society
organized.
Neither blossom nor peach has been
seen in Washtenaw County this year, says
the Saline Observer.
M. II. Morehouse, of Clyde, has
thrashed 36j bushels of white chaff Egyp-
tan wheat from seven acres.
Prof. G. B. Thomas resigns the Su-
perintendency of the Saginaw Public
Schools, after seven years service.
The New Orleans Exposition cost Mich
igan $s.934.G7. After paying all expenses
there is still balance of So, ,383.62.
"A new st'ge route will soon be in
operation between Manistique and Es-
canada, touching at Fayette and other
points.
The finest MOsonic temple in the State
will be dedicated at Ann Arbor Sept. %.
Regent Clark will be master of ceremonies
ON tho Occasion
"A Bay City man has q tobacco plant
growing in his yard. The plant is six feet
ten inches hi and the stalk is five inches
in circumference. The largest leaves are
twenty-six inches long and nineteen inches
wide.
1t is now thought Marquette will have
the branch State prison. Hon. Peter
White has offered to donate forty acres of
land for site. The commissioners were
understood 10 favor site halfway be-
tween Ispheming and Negaunee. but no
land could be secured on any terms, the
mining corporation refusing to sell.
Almost every town of any pretensions
whatever in the State sends in complaints
of burglaries more or less severe, from no
Doodle up to goodly haul. The trade is
either becoming more fascinating or more
profitable, or else the times have made
more peop'e reckless from being hard up
or without opportunity of employment.
"A Michigan girl outdid her compan-
ions in a craze for autograph albums by
having about one hundred letters from the
fame number of men bound in volume
for her parlor table. AS the missives rep
resented her extensive and unusual senti-
mental corr espondence since she had ar
rived at the age of chirography the collec-
tion proved very interesting to callers.
The imaginative individual who gave q
description of that $2.OOO,OOO ton rock
discovered near Negaunee was too previous.
All well-informed mining men draw the
| line ut 81 900, 900 ton, and man whose
rock exceeds this is looked on with suspi-
cion. A million dollars a ton is richness
enough for all practical purposes. es.-Mar-
quette Mining Journal
The establishment of County Ho use"
in Schoolcraft County seems 10 be paying
arrangement. The Manistique Pioneer
says: Before the Poor House was opened
it cost the county 81 per week to board
each pauper; now it costs $1.25. Thepoor
are cared for just as well, aud in some cases
better, than they were before. Then, too,
the poor are where they can be frequently
seen by the officers; they are subjected to
better discipline; they are better off.
The Huron Times recalls the memory
of the awful fires which devastated the
thumb of Michigan" commencing Sept.
| 5, 1881. As an anniversary reminder il
says: "Traces of tho great calamity are,
each year, growing fainter, unless We ex-
cept the lines of care and suffering on the
faces of many who faced the awful dangers
and endured the piivation and suffering
which followed. God grant that our peo-
ple may never again be called upon to un-
dergo another such baptism"
The Midland Sun says that the Oldest
log-scaler on the Saginaw River, and per-
haps in the State, is s. b. Brown, of East
Saginaw, who has been engaged in the bus
mess thiity-fve years. having commenced
in Main, thirtg-fve years ago. and contin.
ued in the business since that time. Mr..
Brown hls resided in Michigan about
twenty O. ght years. He once scaled 500,
Co0,fO logs in two hundred days-a feai
never before accomplished on the river.
Though Mr.. Brown is verging close on to
70 years Of age he appears at least fifteen
years younger. and is still in active service