Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-12-23
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS

alcohol, and yet out or 500 OF them there
is none who has been arrested.
"A Grand Rapids minister announces
that there is one divorce for every four and
q half marriages in that county.
An Adrian man paid $45 into the city
treasury for keeping his horse standing.in
the street all day while the mercury was be-
low zero. The Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty TO Animals reported him.
The building firms of Detroit have de-
cls9ed boycott against all the local build
ing contractors who purchase their bricks
of outside parties. The consequence is to
delay work on some buildings in process of
I'm the highway near Cedar Springs
there is an upturned pine stump, from the
upper side of which two poplar trees are
growing. They have no nutriment except
what they get from the stump. Eeach Of
the trees is thilteen inches in circumfer-
ence.
Push the hotel scheme. With sufficient
hotel accommodation Detroit can have all
the conventions it is worth while for any
city to have, and all the summer visitors
that the surrounding country can feed. The
city has been hiding its light under a
bushel.-Free Press.
Joseph Jackson of Burr Oak wrote his
name on piece of paper to oblige stran-
ger, who said he wanted it for reference.
When the paper was returned to him some
time later, in the shape of contract for
5000 worth of goods which he did not want,
jackson threw it into the fire, and drove off
with a revolver the men who presented it.
sporJsmen tne upper p-nInsuIa
are indignant at the way in which pot
hunting is carried on. Two hunters in
ninety days killed 2S4 deer, most of which
were shipped out of the State. The Leg
islature will beAsked to make further pro-
vision for enforcing the present laws, or
make others more stringent. Complaint is
made that brook trout is also shipped out
of the State by the ton.
The death of Rev. Father Ehrenstras-
ser, of Grand Rlpids, is the fourth which
has occurred in the priesthood of the
| Catholic churches there, the first being
Rev. Father Andrew Vizoisx, during
whose administration the old stone church
on what is now Monroe street was built,
| and who died il 1853; the second was
Father Limpens, of st. James; and the
third Father McManus, of St. Andrews.
hood now living is Rev. Father Pnlcher.
who sat beside Father Ehrenstrasser during
his last moments.
Isaac Stevens, of Kalamazoo, while
out Lunting came upon flock Of ducks.
As the fowls arose ne snapped both barrels
of his gun at them, but neither barrel was
discharged. Then, firing the gun into the
empty air, he reloaded, started the ducks
up again, with the same result on the part
of the shotgun. Becoming disgusted, he
went home, where he stood the apparently
worthless gun in the corner of the room,
muzzle down. In the evening one of the
barrels was discharged of its own accord
and hole was torp in the floor.
| Michigan's Deceased Ex-Governor
The Hon. Charles M. Croswell was born
at Newburg, Orange County, N Y, Oct. 81,
1925. He was the only son of John and
Sallie Hicks Croswell His father was
| of scotoh-Irish dosoont ona tho un0vst0rB
on his mothers side were of Knickerbocker
descent. When but z years OF age mis-
iather was accidentally drowned in the
Hudson River, and within three months
preceding that event his mother and only
sister had died, thus leaving him the sole
surviving member of the family, with
out fortune or means. Upon the death.
Of his father he went to live with an
uncle, who, in 1887, emigrated with him to
Adrian, Mich. At Is years of age he com.
menced 10 learn the carpenters trade, and
worked at it very diligently for four years,
maintaining himself and devoting his spare
slime to reading and the requirement OF
knowledge. In 1916 he began the study OF
Lenawee County, the duties OF which Office
he performed for four years, when he was
elected Register of Deeds, and was re- elect
ed in 1852. In 1854 he took part in the first
| movements for the formation OF the Re-
publican party, and was member and
Secretary of the convention held at Jack
son in that year which put in the field the
irst Republican State ticket in Michigan
In 1855 he formed law partnership witt
Judge Cooley, which continued until the
latter's removal to Ann Arbor. In 1862 Mr.
. |
Adrian, and was also elected Mayor of the
! city in the spiing of the same year. In the
! Fall of 1862 he was chosen to represent
Lenawee County in the State Senate, where
| she compliment of chairman of the Com
mittee on the Judiciary was paid hin
/, | He was reelected to the Senate IL
! 1864, and again in 1866. In 1856
J | he was elected member of the
: Constitutional Convention, and was chos
en- its presiding officer. In 1868 he wal
chosen an elector on the Republican Presi
Dental ticket. In 1872 he was elected
Representative to the Legislature fIon
Lenawee County, and was chosen Speake
. of the House. In 1876 he was electe'
r Governor of Michigan, and was renomi
T mated and reelected in 1878. He ha'
been twice married, and is survived by hi
n second wife and a son and two daughter
by his filst wife, who died in 1868. Gov
= Croswell was q man of broad culture, ant
u y in intellectual ability had few superiors il
Z Michigan. He was an eloquent and pol
k ished speaker, and strong in argument. II
& his personal intercourse he was alway
4 courteous, affable, and pleasant, and n
n n. l. L..