Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-04-22
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.


Grant Rogers, Of Adrian, has succeeded
in writing 3,243 words on postal card.
-Missaukee County has five we'll
equipped logging railroads in operation.
The proposition for bonding Lake
County for $4,000 for new county buildings
at Baldwin was defeated.
A Hudson man has seventy five old re-
liable White Leghorn hens that have laid
1852 eggs the past month.
The Globe Flourng Mills, of Tocum-
sch, have been running on 5000 barrel
order, to be shipped to Ireland.
"A wealthy farmer of Blackman has
been arrested on a charge of cruelty TO ami
leaving his horses unfed, two of which died
from starvation.
Isaac Rayxin, of Flint, has bust of Lin
coin. made of redeamed oreenbaeks which
were macerated by the Government, after
which the pulp was pressed and nodded to
form the likeness.
The committee ON the location of the
central soldiers and sailors reunion has
unanimously decided to hold the meeting al
owosso, Aug. IL, ~, and Is. Citizens
have subscribed $1,000.
Judge Hugh McCurdy's residence, at
Corunna, has been destroyed by fire, to-
gether with valuable Masonic manuscripts,
papers, books, and furniture. The financial
loss is $780, 900; insurance, $4,000.
"A fire broke out in the dry kiln OF
Gardner & Peterson's stave mill, at Reed
City, by which it was entirely consumed.
| This is the third time it has burned within
three years. The origin is unknown.
The Rev.J. b. Little, prominent Pres
| byterian divine of Adrian, who had just re-
turned from temporary charge at Santa
Barbara, Cal, has accepted call from the
| First Presbyterian Church at Davenport,
| Iowa.
| Henry Wilson, colored man, at Flint,
was arrested and confessed to having muir
dered his seven-year- old daughter, because,
he said, the child had been terribly misused
by its step mother, and he couldn't stand
it to see the little thing suffer; SO he put hel
quantity of carbolic acid.
For the April crop report the Secretary
of State has received reports from 673
townships, the majority being from the
southern tier of counties. The condition
of wheat in the southern counties is 81 and
in the northern 90 per cent, but corre-
spondents state It's too early to make sat
isfactory estimate. The roots are believed to
be in good condition, Notwithstanding al
te rnate freezes and thaws. Ten per cent.
OF clover is winter killed. the condIuon or
the remainder being 92 per cent. The total
number of bushels of wheat reported mar
keted from August to March is 2, 2,O24 ,524. or
80 per cent of last years crop.
The use of cocaine is becoming too prev
alent. bank cashier named Macdonald
and J. A. Fisk, proprietor of the City
Laundry, of Detroit, are the two latest vic
tins. Fisk began using cocaine last sum
mer for catarrh by painting his nostrils
with it, and later took it internally. few
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pital for treatment. He is full of vagaries,
alternately imagining that he is the Al
mighty, and again asserting that he has
been raised from the dead. Macdonald
, wandered'to Toronto while suffering from
mental alteration caused by the drug.
, Several other more or less prominent De-
! troiters are said to be in bad way from
: using the drug.
The Greenbackers OF this state held q
: conference at Lansing the 18th inst. The
! Executive Committee of the State Central
Committee was reorganized and resolutions
offered and adopted inviting laboring mer
g to unite with them in the common cause ol
Q relieving labor of the burdens now imposed
8 upon it, that of producing all and paying al
I and still being denied every luxury tha
' capital enjoys. On making the call for the
= next convention general enough TO include
d all parties who believe with them, it wa
e also resolved, "that this conference is II
3 deep sympathy with the Knights of Labo
r. and all the laboring classes in their struggl
a for life, liberty and bread" with only on
81 dissenting vote. A resolution indorsing lib
l. issue of gold and silver certificates was ia
!; bled.
u The Detroit Assessors are considerin
an addition to their books, directly involv
ing nearly $4,000, 900 in that city and in
directly affecting $2O,OOO,OOO throughor
q the State. Outside banks were restricted
in many States by usury laws and in Other
ID by a slack demand--from loaning the
m funds at more than six per cent. The de
velopment of the northern part OF the Stat
o' took about $15,OOO,OO0 of this outsid
money into the State. In Detroit aboI
70 $4,000, 900 was invested. Local mortgage
amounting to many million dollars pa
IN their full rates, but the foreign ones d
h not: The reason why this enormous sui
IN escaped taxation was that the law provide
" " no means for collecting the tax after it vi
levied. The lender being resident OF ar
=, other State, had nothing here on whic
nv levy could be made. II is believed tn
= recent changes of the law have provided
'ol means for reaching foreign mortgages, nj
it is intended to make up case to test IN
ne settle the matter.
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A serious mistake was made recently
gu gu Marlette druggist in filling prescrip.iC