Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-08-15
MICHIGAN HAPPENINGS.


and General News Notes.
"A letter from L'Anse says at has
been known for the last twenty years
that graphite existed in considerable
quantities in Baraga County, but not till
recently has any attempt been made TO
produce the mineral for commercial use.
The Baraga Graphite Company is now
working small force OF men between
L'Anse and Arvon. A vein Of graphite
several feet in width, near deep ravine,
is being worked. The ground covering
the seam of mineral is removed by labor
ers, after which the blacklead is blasted
out in huge chunks. Owing to its soft
ness 1t is not necessary 10 use dynamite,
as in the iron and copper mines, ordinary
coarse blasting powder doing the work az
we'll.
In Cadillac's early days n burying
ground was established east of the city,
far enough away it was thought never to
need 10 be interfered with. The rapid
growth of the place, however, soon made
necessary new one much further out.
The bodies from tho old one were, it was
supposed, all taken up and removed to
the new grounds, and the old ground
was soon laid out into city lots. and some
of these lots built upon. Other bodies
have been found, however, and work.
men are now engaged in removing
them to the new cemetery. Thirteen have
been taken up.
"A black nudge is at work on the
cherry trees in the vicinity of Chelsea,
Washtenaw County.
The Lansing Republican advertises
the accounts of its delinquent subscrib-
ers for sale.
WIN. Dorrien, of Pinconning, Bay
County, sues the Michigan Central for
500, 900 damages because Station Agent
Wood at that place whipped him and
threw him out of the station building,
breaking his leg in SO doing.
Convict II. Jones, of the Michigan
State Prison, is said 10 be poet, and was
permitted to write an Emancipation Day
poem recently.
Forty little Indilns from this State
are to go to the United States Indian
School at Carlisle, Pa.
From all indications it would seem
that the State Board Of Agriculture have
waded into the Agricultural College
trouble with view to settling at once and
for all time TO come the trouble which has
existed in that institution for several
years past. The board held ses sion at
the college, and among other resolutions
passed was one asking Prof. H. r. Pat
tengill, the well-known editor of the
School Moderator, to walk the plank.
Prof. Pattengill has held the position Of
assistant instructor in English under
Prof. McEwan for the past four years and
has been an especial favorite with his
pupils. He is gentlemap of pronounced
ideas and he has the courage to speak his
convictions. In the last Issue of the
Moderator. Prof. Pattengill severely
criticised the action of the State Board of
Agriculture in requesting the resignation
of Prof. McEwan, which he affirmed was
without good and sufficient cause, and he
bore down quite heavily upon several Of
the individuals composing the board.
Consequently he was asked to resign A
resolution was passed consolidating the
departments of French and German with
that of English, and the new department
will be known as that of English literature
and modern languages. Prof. Edward
Playfa!r Anderson was elected as the sue
cessor to Prof. McEwan.
-Rev. Frederick Mayer, pastor of the
Evangelical Church, Ian sing says a let
ter from that city, is liberal-minded
gentleman, but his congregation was
shocked the other morning to hear that
he had been investing in lottery tickets
and dumfonded when they learned further
that he had bagg.d $4,000 in recent
drawing. Rev. Mayer is about twenty
seven years old and we'll educated. He
says he bought the ticket just as he would
get married or take any other hazardous
step, and that he was overwhelmed when
he discovered that he had won big prize
He declares that he can see nothing sin
full in acquiring money in this way, and
he has put the money in bank until he
can find suitable investment. On the
other hand. the church society sees con-
siderable harm in the transaction, and
there is likely to be an early vacancy in
the pulpit.
Representatives of IN English syndi-
cate have been examining the Winthrop &
Mitchell hematite miEes Mt Ishpeming,
with o view to purchasing if they are
found satisfactory. The ore annually
produced by these mines is over 100, 900
tons, and they employ 400 men.
ed at East Saginaw the other day, charged
with the heinous crime of sleeping in a
public place. 1t is mighty lucky they
don't reckon the churches as public places
up there"
The contest for the judgeship of the
Second Judicial Circuit has been settled
by the appointment of Quartermaster
General Daboll, of st. Johns.
Andrew f. Densmore, of Michigan,
a 81, 600 clerk in the draughting division
Of the General Land Office at Washing
ton, has been promoted to he Chief Of
that division at a salary of $500. Zera
ID. Palluson, of Michigan, has been APP
pointed TO a 81, 900 clerkship in the War