Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-05-20
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

silkworm culture ON a small scale.
Over 70 per cent. Of the patients in the
Traverse City Asylum are foreign born.
So many Flint citizens have quit
drinking of late that three saloons have
gone out Of business.
Henry Crow, q carpenter, fell from
scaffold at Monroe and sustained injuries
which will probably prove fatal.
The sign of Nashville dentist reads,
punctuation and all, as follows: "Dentist,
teeth. extracted 25c without, pain 5Oc."
"A Lansing lady complains that the
card clubs offer all the excitement of gam
bling, though there is no money staked.
If profusion Of blossoms upon the
apple trees are an indication, there will be
great apple crop in Southern Michigan
this year.
Joseph Lomason, q well-known and
highly respected farmer living near Roches-
ter, suicided by taking laudanum. He
leaves widow and five children.
j. w. Robbins is the latest addition TO
the Mecosta County bar. He is colored
barber at Mecosta, passed ON excellent ex-
animation, and will hang out a shingle.
Joseph Vannier, Of Marquette, is Pres
ident Of the Michigan division of the Al
lance National des Societies st. Jean
Baptiste, Franco American and French
Canadian organization that is spreading
the country over.
Mayor Thurber, of Marquette, has
ordered the City Marshal to close all sa-
looms at IL p. IN. and on Sundays, notify
ing him that he will be held responsible for
the strict enforcement Of the law. There
are thirty saloons in the city, and the
prominent liquor dealers oppose the Mayors
course.
The elimination of a little romance
took place at Adrian in the marriage of
Henry B. Downie and Minnie M. Squires,
both of Elyria, Ohio. The bride is an
heiress, her guardian being stern uncle
who strongly opposed the suit of young
Downie. The other morning Minnie, who
is handsome young brunette, eluded her
custodian, and was driven by her lover to
station west of Elyria, from whence they
took the Lake Shore train to Adrian. After
brief honeymoon at the Lawrence House,
the couple will return to their Buckeye
home.
Fifty victims of the Bohemian oat
swindle have formed an association at
Flint to contest the payment of their notes.
But few will have any sympathy for the
simpletons, says the Kalamazoo Telegraph.
The swindle was pointed out in their local
papers, they went into it with their eyes
open, and with full knowledge that every
bushel they raised was SO much blood
money from brother farmers. In other
words, knowing it TO be a swindle, they de-
| lib;rately, knowingly, and willingly be-
came a party to it. Who cares for such
sufferers.
South Bend Und.) Tribune: The
writer saw, few days ago, in Sturgis,
Mich, paper, queer local item. 1t read:
Miss Smiths lame-pigeon-toed." In the
next weeks issue the editor Indignantly
| spurned the idea of so handsome and grace
full lady as Miss Smith being either lame
or pigeon-toed, and explained that he wrote
"Miss Smiths tame pigeon is dead" This
| paper could, of course, be pardoned for its
blunder when so careful paper as the Gin
cinnati Commercial had to humbly explain
that when it spoke of the "servant-gi
| graduates" of an institute, il was simply
due to the perversity Of the types, sweet
girl graduates" being, Of course, intended.
Mrs. s. d. Moore died near Adrian,
few days ago, aged seventy-one years. Her
husband, who is an atheist, refused to have
clergyman oficiate at the funeral. At the
house Mr.. Moore, who is an old man, read
an extract from the Footprints Of Life,"
and then gave a sketch Of the life of his
wife. He then extended an invitation to
any one to make remarks from O secular
standpoint. The eldest daughter read
poem which she had prepared for the occa-
sion, in which she acknowledged Heaven
ly Father, who "folds His loved ones in
His arms and quiets them TO rest" Al the
grave the husband tenderly bade his wife
farewell, closing by saying ave are of the
earth and must return to the earth again"
The daughter, standing by her father, re-
cited another verse, in which she acknowl-
edged God and the spirit land.
The Flint Democrat tells the follow
ing excellent story of well-known physi-
clan. It may not be true, but it reads
we'll: Everybody knows DIR. -, Of
this city, but everybody does not know a
little experience Of his which came to
head recently. The Doctor has been treat
ing family out in the country for some
time, and had acquired quite bill against
them for his services. He had asked for
the cash several times, but was unable to
get it. Finally the farmer said that he
would send some garden produce for the
amount of the bill, and accordingly the
Doctor received by freight yesterday eighty
four bushels of horse-radish. The Doctor
was nonplused, and is now engaged in
slxirmishing around among the dealers in
the effort to find some one who will take
the stuff off his hands. He has sue
ceeded in getting rid of about four bushels,
and still cliRss to the eighty.
Holly proposes TO become a summer