Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-09-04


life.
A snake 25 feet long and as large in cir
cusnference as a stove pipe, is making IT'S
headquarters in swamp near Dowagiac.
Several reputable witnesses agree about its
size.
The Michigan salt association and its
successors have handled 40 900, 900 bar
rels of salt for Michigan manufacturers
since 1876, and lost but 81, 500 in bad ac-
counts.
Reports to the Methodist protestant con-
ference at Saginaw show that nine new
churches were dedicated last year in Mich
igan, the total membership increasing Z
per cent.
slim" Hall, the Australian pugilist. who
was slashed with knife by his trainer,
"Parson" Davies, at Mt. Clemens, will be
out in 10 days unless notwithstanding SUI
pervenes.
Two accomplished Sault Ste Marie cows
walk up stairs in the houses and manifest
evidences of great enjoyment as they view
the surrounding landscape from the second
story windows.
The Yu Lu is new steel tug which made
its first trial trip or the Saginaw river last
week. She was built by f. w. Wheeler,
and is designed for the South American
mahogany trade.
A Manistee 6-year-old, who Is utilized to
rush the growler, cultivates a precoc.Ous
taste for malt liquor by dipping big hair
pin i'll the pail of beer as she carries it and
sucking the liquor of.
Nf ho
Goff, now loading at Swift's mill, near
Cheboygan, is reported missing since last
Friday. His wife has been notified. He
was last heard of at St Igpace.
The largest reported yield of wheat in
southwestern Michigan is that OF Gilbert
White, Cass county farmer who
thrashed $50 bushels from 20-acre field,
or an average of AZ and one-half bushels
per acre.
Seventy survivors of the Nineteenth
Michigan infantry met in Constantine
last week. Capt. +. ID. Baldwin was
elected president, Leroy Cahll vice pres
ident e. 5. Amidon treasurer, and Chas.
Connor secretary.
The famous trotting dog Joe, owned by
Danny Chapman, of Cassopolis, made a
half mile at the new Marcellus driving
park in 2:0S, and the owner is now out
with challenge to trot the dog against
any pony in Cass, Van Buren, or Berrien
counties.
VIM. Babcocb, 25 years old, went west
from Mosherville seven years ago and
hasn't been heard from since. He is one
of four heirs now to his deceased fathers
large estate. The property has been sold,
and William can have the hard cash when
ever he applies.
George Beard, OF Whitehall, has lain in
a trance-like state for seven weeks, and
appears to have lost every sense except
that of feeling. Four Of his teeth were
removed and through this opening liquid
food is administered the young man. He
will die, SO the physicians says.
A 13-y ear-old Bay City boy named Jos.
Callahan has gone to Pittsburg to join the
order of the Holy Ghost in the Catholic
church. He must remain 10 years and
then go to some foreign missionary field.
He speaks French and German as well as
English, fluently, and is remarkable boy.
A building at Palmyra has recently been
undergoing repairs, previous to being oc-
cupied as a saloon. The other night the
building was blown up with dynamite.
The people at Palmyra have been outspolKen
in their opposition TO the opening of a
saloon, and this may solve the mystery OF
the explosion.
William Ellis, convict in Jackson, has
applied to the circuit court for writ of
habeas corpus. alleging that he was ar
rested in South Bend, Ind, brought into
the state without due process OF law, con-
victed in Van Buren, county in 1886 on the
evidence of one witness, and refused coun-
sci or witnesses.
Rev. William Dumont is wanted in Kali
amazoo, where the good people paid him
money for tickets to lecture which he
has failed to give. He was about to col
onize 80 Swiss families in Kalamazoo and
they were TO trade only with those who
bought tickets. That's the story which
the simple Kalamazoo people swallowed.
Kelsey Chubb, an aged aud wealthy
retired farmer of Pewamo and one of the
oldest settlers in Ionia county, died at his
home in that village Friday evening. He
was aged as years. He came to this
county il 1888, walking from Ann Arbor,
there being no railroads into what was
then wilderness, and settled in the east
ern part of the county whore he has re-
sided ever since.
AT Grand Rapids Saturday George Hy-
dorn's team ran away, and, striking a
telephone pole, loosened a wire, which
dropped across an electric light wire and
one end fell upon the horses Hydorn
leaped from his wagon to remove the wire,
hut simultaneously with his touching it he
fell and one morse fell upon him. Specta-
tors ran to his assistance, only to find that
man and horse were dead.
Maj. Tillman. who was in Michigan at
the outbreak of the civil war and after
wards served on Gen. A. S. Williams staff
and as paymaster, is in Windsor A reas-
on for his soiourn there is given in a
Louisville, KY, dispatch. which says that
he is short in his account with the defunct
Falls City bank, of which he was cashier,
TO the amount of S37, 900 and that SIS, 900
worth of bonds placed in his hands in trust
is also missing.
James Spencer, a Van Buren, county
farmer, lost his barn by fire recently under
very peculiar circumstances. He was
thrashing when dynamite cartridge
aacrafad Il, ona of the hundlea axnIodad