Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-09-30
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

-Dext or has q young mems cooking
club.
The City Physician of Lansing receives
$3.50 year for his services.
Nine pupils in the Allegan public
schools are married women.
Lightning struck the house OF Earl
Ross, at Monterey, and burned baby's
feet.
-Four Of the prettlest girls of Caledonia
were caught stealing watermelons by moon
light.
A Sanilac County farmer raised forty
six bushels of pease from one acre OF
ground this year.
e. X. Webster was given two years
imprisonment at Grand Rapids for forging
name to a check for $40.
--Ishpeming claims to have more secret
societies In proportion TO its population
than any other city in the country.
Of her thumbs while cutting bread with a
patent bread at the Fair grounds at
Jackson.
-Swindler representing themselves to
be travelling agents Of city grocers have vic
timized farmers in the vicinity of Maple
Rapids to the extent Of $4,000.
"A number of Mount Pleasant people
who adopted orphan children from Boston
last spring are tired of their undertaking,
and intend sending their charges back.
Kalamazoo has no city ordinance
against drunkenness, and now there is no
State law against it; consequently Kalama-
zoo policemen refuse to arrest drunken
men.
"A Kalamazoo medical student boiled
human body in the rear of house in the
thickly populated part of that city. The
act created a good deal Of excitement
among the neighbors.
The manager of the Soldiers Homo at
Grand Rapids, who is caring for over
three hundred veterans in temporary
quarters, refuses to accept further guests
until the buildings are finished.
&C. F. Jackson, of Onondaga, who was
tarred and feathered by Lis neighbors, has
brought suit for $1,000 damages against
twelve of the men engaged in the job. and
the woman who ripped open her bed to
furnish the feathers.
Buffalo IN. W telegram: To-day oc-
CURED the fifth incineration at the Buffalo
crematory, and, like all its predecessors, it
was successful in every respect. The body
cremated was that of Col. Richard Bayls,
OF st. Johns, Mich. Col. Baylis was
prominent in the politics of his State, and
tsnIs--n mo- wus- vvrvruft -dr rIic- DrexIe1in
war, and also served through the rebellion,
being severely wounded at the battle of the
Wilderness. He was one Of Clusters ablest
assistants, and was commonly known as
Fighting Dick His will also provided
that the ashes Of his body should be
placed in an urn and deposited in the Mich
igan State Military Academy. In accord
ance with this direction William Collins, nm
executor, and the Rev. ID. R Sterns arrived
here Thursday, the cremation taking place
this morning. The Episcopal burial SER
vice was read and the body committed TO
the flames. The incineration was priyate.
| A Detroiter who was working Ncross
one Of the northern counties with h,r
and buggy, this summer, met farmer O
foot and asked him how far it was t6,
Greenville. (Which one?" was the query
after half a minute spent in reflection.
"Why, didn't know that there was but one
Greenville." Didn't you? There's one in
South Carolina, a second in Kansas, third
in Ohio, and fourth in Iowa. Which one
do you want to go to?" "The nearest one. I"
"Well, that's about seven miles OF. Next
time you inquire for Greenville you had
better name the State. Got any tobacco?"
(which tobacco do you want2" "Why,
didn't know as there was more'n N one tobac-
CO." 40, yes, there Is. There's plug to-
bacco, fine-cut, shorts, and smoking.
Which did you want2" wall, I'll take
plug" Il haven't got any. Next time you
inquire for tobacco you'd better mention
the kind" The two looked each other over
for minute and then separated for life
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