Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-12
Moeraw's salt works in Bay City every

McGraw's salt works in Bay City every
day.
Rumored that a company is being or
ganized to build railroad from st. Louis
to Detroit, by way of Flint.
An electric street railway is to 10 built
in Owosso in the near future.
James Smith, for Al years resident Of
Hillsdale, is dead.
The summary of the state weather re
port for the year Is now ready for the
printer. The rain fall was 4.57 below the
average for the last fifteen years. The
prevailing wind was southwest. The
highest temperature was recorded July z
at 97.1; and the lowest Jan. Z at IA degrees
below zero. The largest monthly rainfall
was on Feb. :, being 81. The lowest, OS9
inches, occurred in August
Rev. DR.. William Ryder, pastor of the
Ann Arbor Congregational church, has
been called to the assoc ate professorship
of sacred literature in the theological
seminary at Andover, Mass.
Henry Perkins and George Sharp, who
have been chopping wood near Millett's
station on the Grand Trunk railroad, four
miles west OF Lansing, went to that city,
took few drinks, and started to walk
home on the rairoa | track. On the way
home Perkins shot his comrade through
the leg and in the neck, and then skipped.
Sharp says it was done without word Of
warning and he doesn't know the cause
lie is seriously wounded.
Salem, a station OH the ID. l.. a. n. rail
road, - miles out of Detroit, numbers
about 30 souls. The Congregational ana
BAPTIST societies have houses of worship
and the latter society is Just finishing a
model church building, to be warmed
with furnace, lighted with gas and
seated with chairs, for occupancy about
the 18th. There is no saloon within the
townships boundary.
Marcus Pollasky, well known in Michi-
gan, has been admitted to practice before
the United States supreme court.
The people of Ingham, Livingston and
Washtenaw counties, are trying to induce
the Michigan Central To buiid a line from
Dexter to Lansing, so as to compete with
the ID. l.. * y.
Geo. NJ. Benton, who went to the Ionia
house of correction in default OF 500, has
now found the money, but the warden, it
Is claimed, will not give him up. Benton's
friends viii take the matter into court.
ore has been found in GogeUic county
lately that pans out S5JJ worth OF silver
To the ton, and shows signs OF gold.
Several miners have left Calumet for
Australia since the fire in the Caiumet a.
Hecla mine threw them out of work.
The internal revenue receipts from the
district comprising the Upper Peninsula
OF Michigan Tor the year Just ended, aggre
gated elOl, no. This is Il gam OF - 90
over last year in the same district. lhs
gain comes chiefly from the openin u, o.!
new iron region, known as lhs 40 ,eUIa
Range, but there is u noticsaulo lncreu,s
generally throughout the DISCREET w.uc..
attests the nigh degree o. prosperity tnat
has prevailed in that pare OF Mich, : All du,.
ing the year.
Judge Cortland Hill, pioneer OF C,intor
county, is dead
Miss Estelle Bailey, for ssysn years /
teacher in the reform ,cuou. at ,.ansln :,
has resigned.
The annual meeting of the West Michi-
gan Agricultural and .ndustria, society
will be held on Tu s,day, January l., at
Grand Rapids. and the business OF the last
year will be settled.
n. l.. Barron OF Big Prairie township
Newaygo county, was killed by u falling
tree the other day.