Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-11-07


arrests during the month of October,
n of them being DRINKS,
Accounts to the amount of $4,000
were allowed at the recent session of
the Board of Supervisors.
The Grand Trunk House, at Port
Huron, burned to the ground Monday
morning. Loss $1,000. Insured.
Geo. VanMarter, of Marysville. was
quite seriously injured while working
around stump machine recently.
The Fibre Works and the r. G.
Nudge Paper Clothing industry of Pt.
Huron are both in a very flourishing
condition.
Chas. Wager, Port Huron mason
fell from the scaffold of the new Grace
church on Monday doing himself seri-
ious injury.
Last Friday was the festival of All
Saints, observed by the Roman Catho-
lie, Protestant, Episcopal and Luthe-
ran churches.
Last Sunday a refrigerator car and
engine were wrecked in the Grand
Trunk yard at Fort Gratiot. \ switch
was misplaced.
The receipts at the county treasurer's
Office during the month of October
amounted to S1,276. The disburse-
ments were $2l 1866.
Frank Downer. of Port Huron, Capt.
on the schooner ID. G. Dobbins, died
Monday. He was 81 years Of age and
well known as boat captain.
Port Huron allows such entertain
ments as Duncan Clark'S Female Min
strels in its city opera house. 1t is one
! of the lowest class of variety shows.
The Ladies Aid of the NJ. p. church,
of Berlin. with their friends surprised
their pastor, Rev. W. II. Flint, by a
visit the other day and left him about
$40 better off.
w. +. Jackson. who was the founder
of the The first paper ever published in
Alger county, is the pastor of the
Universalst church at Port Huron at
the present time.
The attorneys of Robt. Judge have
been given until December 10Th to set
tie a bill of exceptions. Judge still
hopes TO be released from the Detroit
house Of correction.
The First Presbyterian church. Of
Marine City, has just closed its first
year in its new building and a very
successful year it has been. 1t begins
the new year with bright prospects and
all debts paid.
Halloween was celebrated by Port
Huron boys in setting fire to buildings.
an empty dwelling house and another
small building were burned to the
ground by them and numerous other
depredationS committed.
The total amount that the county
paid out for sparrow heads for the first
nine months when the price was one
cent per head was SOL 80. For the first
month when the price changed to three
cents per head $l59.96 was paid out.
Port Huron's chief Of police will not
allow sparring or prize-fghting in that
city. A contest which was taking
place between +. Conley, of Duluth and
Geo. Peters, of Port Huron, was stop
ped by the police the other night and
about 300 witnesses dismissed without
their moneys worth.
An accident resulting in the death of
David Donohue, a Switchman, occurred
in the Grand Trunk railway yards ut
Port Huron last Thursday. Donohue
was riding on the draw head of a
freight car, when he slipped and fell
under, breaking both legs, badly smash
ing his left arm, head, face and
shoulders.
Several changes were made on the
customs force last Friday. George +.
Adams, of Armada, takes b. G.. BeDell's
place as marine clerk, VIM. Hunter, of
Capac, has position at Fort Gratiot,
Chas. w. Bunham, of Millington, Tus-
cola county has Geo A. Carleton'S Mace
at Stratford and James M. Sutherland,
of Fort Gratiot, succeeds Fred G.
Buzzell.
The opium smuggler. Capt. Harry
Durant, was arrested at Royal Oak last
Thursday. Officers have been on the
lookout for Durant these twelve months
but he has been living at Victoria, Van
Couver's Islands in safety. until he
thought he would revisit Michigan.
THE extreme penalty Of the law i'm Du-
rants case is fine Of $1,000 and two
years imprisonment.
Mrs. Mary Wickersham, of Rattle
Run. st. Clair county. is III possession
of an old time relic, a bed curtain
which is 100 years old. It is made of
royal Irish linen in bright colors, light
and dark blue, unfaded. She has also
string of beads more than hundred
years old. The curtain was bought
some time before the Revolutionary
war. Three weeks ago she cut and
fitted herself dress and the work was
done remarkably well. She is nearly
50 years of age. She retains her hear
ing and is very pleasant companion
for old and young.-St. Clair Repub-
lican