Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-04-23

between his knees for over four hours, |
with over eight feet of brick piled on
top OF the planks which protected him.
j. B. Swan of Tecumseh was made Gus
todian of funds belonging to the Raisin
Valley seminary, amounting to $22, OcO.
He used the funds in his private business,
and now the seminary officials are try
ag to realize something out of his
etects.
The Babbitt sandstone company of
Ypslanti has leased its quarry near
CasSille, Huron county, to Jas. G.
Cobb, a Detroit stone man, for three
years The quarry, it is expected, will
DO oPend and vigorously worked dur
ing the lie of the lease.
Some evh disposed person reports the
maple sugar makers have discovered
that grocery brown sugar can be prof.
itably mixed NTH boiling sap. One
honest farmer y said to have utilized
four barrels of bi,wn sugar this season.
Charlotte Republican,.
A 80. pound pig belonging to Alonzo
BUSH OF Odessa disappeared about the
middle OF February and was found alive
in snow drift March IA. Piggie was
rather weak and had lo,t As pounds of
his avoirdupois, but is now able to do
his share of roofing and gsunting.
An examination of the peach orchards
in the vicinity OF Otisville by the state
crop reporter shows that Theron will
BIO small, most of the buds being entirely
destroyed or injured so that thsv will
not bear. Small fruits and berries are
injured some but not much.
The Manistique Pioneer, regretdng
that "arbor day" could not be observed
in Schoolcraft county, wisely suggests
that on memorial day trees be planted
in the cemeteries, which same NAV
prove as monuments to the dead and
objects of beauty to tho living.
John Alger, clerk in hardware store
at Flint, was hanging a hayfork and
standing upon a stepladder at the same
time. The fork fell, carrying Alger
with it, and one prong entered his left
breast close to his heart, making q
frightful wound, which may prove fatal
A Portage lake transfer team and
three barrels of Calumet & Hecla cop
per went through the ice a few days
since. The team was drowned and the
copper lost. Peter Didier, the teamster,
saved himself by making leap from
the sled as it went down. The value OF
horses and copper was about $1,7C0.
Alfred Lynn Of Marquette township,
Mason county, was buried by the cav
ing in of we'll, and although extraor
binary efforts were made to extricate
him it was not until 10 hours after the
accident that the body was recovered,
He had then been dead several hours.
Lynn leaves n wife and four children
destitute.
A SebewaiDg man with as much leis
ure on his hands as a woman vyho
makes patchwork quilt of several
, thousand pieces, recently counted the
grains of wheat in bushel and found
the number 663, 300. The paper of the
town gravely asks if any of its reader:
can tell how much bushel of wheat
will cost at one cent grain.
Robert Graham, highly respected
farmer living five miles north of Brlgh
ton in Hartford township, committed
suicide recently by hanging in his barn
He was found by his wife before life
was extinct and lived in an unconscious
state for several hours after he was dis
covered. He was deranged once anC
was sent to the insane asylum.
The black diphtheria has broken out
in Brighton and the country around il
: greatly alarmed and the streets to quite
an extent are deserted. But one death
has occurred yet, Mrs. Flora Scott
who was Immediately inferred in hel
! own door yard, and the authorities arc
doing everything in their power to pre-
: vent the spreading of the disease.
Two medical students in Ann Arbor
have been arrested, on complaint made
by Mrs. Katherine Kegan, boarding
house keeper, who says they left her aDc
trespassed ON her land in going TO and
/ from another placed to board. She hat
, signs up forbidding trespassers. The al
legged offenders are F. b. johnson anC
) E. A. Runyan, both freshmen. Mrs
Kegan wants 500.
r The Muskegon river is navigable fol
, 400 miles at high water, and 200 in dry
seasons, by fat boats. We in Evari
; consider the Muskegon river as good as
a railroad to our town and the country
! through which 1t runs. A second boat
, is nearly ready to be put into service,
, probably to be followed by others in
, time, until this becomes an important
industry.-Evart Review.
Wednesday last one of the imported
Shropshire ewes Of T. A. Bixby pres.
ented him with four lambs, the first
case of the kind any of our sheep
breeders ever heard of. The weight OF
the four within an hour after birth was
|, % pounds. There was DO April fool
: about that Cewe. Another ,Shrop.
shire eve that same evening gave him
pair OF twins weighing 203 pounds. -
South Haven Sentinel
G. G. Stocking, who deserted his wife
and two children in Fenton several years
ago, has been living at Saltwater,
: Minn., with colored woman as his
wife. Recently q woman entered his
, barber shop and began shooting at him,
, claiming Stocking as partially her hus.
band, though admitting the justice OF
, the Fenton claim. The latest returned
wife is from GAINESVILLE, Wis, though at
one time resident of Bay City. Stock
ing took an early train from Saltwater.
w. H. & F. A. Wilson's single mill,
planning mill. dry kiln, sash and door
factory, single sheds, two lumber
schutes in Harrison, also 8, 500, 900 XXX
clear shingles, $4,000 feet of dressed
lumber, 80, 900 feet of rough lumber, a
large stock of sash, doors and mould
ings, and $50 cabinet creamery woods
burned on the night of April 16, invslv-
ing loss estimated at from $40, 900 to
$50. 1000. The amount OF insurance Ia