Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-01-14
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS
-1shpeming's Public Library contains

$500 books.
Nearly 200 poor people are being cared
FOR by Bay City this winter. U
In Fenton, Andrew Brink, bartender,
Totally stabbed Frederick Foote in a quar-
ref t4a tse
1t is proposed at Kalkaska TO erect an
artificial hill for the school children to
s,ast upon. flr,h
1t is estimated that Jackson has one
iCcret or other society, association, or
organization for every twelve inhabitants.
Pieces of wreck, including the stern
Of yawl with the name "Orphan Boy"
ire scattered along the shore at Grand
Point au Sable. ttl
The First National Bank of Calumet,
.apitoI stock 100000, has been organized,
nd will bc Incorporated at once. Aaron +.
$50, 900 worth of stock each, and the DaI-
ance was nearly all subscribed for in
Calumet.
Free Press: Up 10 this year there has
been general belief that the number Of
theaters in Detroit exceeded the require
ments of the community. The New Years
FIRE and the Governments purchase for the
Postoffice site leave only one large first
class place of amusement in the city.
There are ten young Japs receiving
their education at Ann Arbor. OF these
/ II L.. aud
four in the high school. The Japanese
Government will not support students i'll
| American institutions, preferring to send
them TO Germany. So all in this country
pay their own expenses. They are dhgent
and very courteous young men.
The parties interested in the Douglass
property near Negaunee, on which consid-
erable exploratory work was done during
the year with very satisfactory results, have
force of men engaged in sinking a shaft
at present, and expect to have developed
mine there in time for next seasons bust
ness. A diamond drill will probably be pun
in operation shortly, to further test the ex
tent of the ore deposit, which, from all in
cations, promises to prove very large
Marquette Mining Journal.
The City Government of New York
costs $50, 1000, 900 annually. This amounts
to the sum of $36.65 per head. In COM
parison with this the $11 head in Brook
lyn, or even the SIG In Chicago, and the
$40 in Detroit-not counting the water-taS
seems moderate. But, when it is remem-
bered what magnificent streets, pavements,
and other improvements are gotten for the
money in the chief capitals of Europe, and
what apologies are offered for all these in
Detroit in return for the money, $40 in this
city seems extravagant and wasteful. For
in London, the tax is only $470 each in
habitant Paris $40, and Berlin $7.35.
Even when allowances are made for the
difference in wages, it is plain enough that
the people of Detroit like the people of all
American cities, do not get the value of
their money. But inasmuch as they govern
themselves, it is nobody's fault but their
own.-Free Press.
While visiting last August in Connecti-
cut, Miss Joe Nj. Riddell of Jackson, with
others, one day was inspecting a cheese
factory of relative, when she wrote note,
placed it in n small vial, and then made
hole in n cheese, In which she placed the
vial and sealed it up. The substance of
the note was request for the person into
whose hands it should fall TO correspond
with the writer thereof. Recently Miss
Riddell received somewhat voluminous
correspondence from Castleton, England,
embracing several letters. The first was
from grocer of that place, who was the
purchaser of the cheese, which fell into his
hands in October last, Upon opening it he
found the note in the vial, and having a
neighbor named Riddell he passed it over to
him. This Riddell answered the note, and
passed it around to other relatives of the
same name, one or two of whom also sent
replies, giving considerable interesting in
formation regarding their ancestry, etc.
The letters were all sent to Miss Riddell to-
gether, and after reading them she for
warded them to her father, in Nebraska,
who has a history of the Riddell family for
several generations past.