Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-02-05
County Column.

Will Dullu new cnurcn.
A large number of Port Huron
teachers are on the sick list.
The elevators ut Port Huron receive
/ 900 cars of grain month.
Joseph Lavene, of Port Huron has
been sent to the Pontiac asylum.
Mary Kitilhut, of Capac, died recent
ly, of consumption, aged IL years.
The name of the Market hotel at
Port Huron has been changed to New
Market.
There has been only one death at the
county house during the past l6
months.
The Cooley-Gould organ factory, at
Port Huron will be in operation about
March LIST.
A tramp at the Capac depot made
free with razor and it had to be taken
away from him.
About 1000 people passed from Port
Huron to Sarnia on the ice one after
noon last week.
John Batlen, of Marine City, an old
resident, died suddenly in his chair
one day last week.
Policeman Shorter, of Port Huron,
has been discovered Sinking his duty.
He was suspended.
Algonac expects to keep right on
booming. Several new buildings are
going up in the spring.
Henry Thomas residence at Kimball
was destroyed by fire last week. No
insurance on house or contents.
The decorations of the parlor of the
Burt House, Capac, we're ruined by u
lamp being left burning too high.
Postmaster Avery, of Port Huron, is
working to have the salary of the post
Office raised from 81, 500 to s., 800.
The new steamer being built in st.
Clair by s. Langell for III. l.. Borden,
will be launched about the lst of June.
Last week Lake Huron was covered
with smooth ice for the first time in
35 years and the skating was excellent.
The Holland Co.'S fishery above Fort
Gratiot, burned Sunday morning. The
loss is about $4,000 with $500 insur-
ance.
Port Huron Sons of Veterans will
give a war drama entitled "Dixie or
the Spy of Chickamauga" March 24th
and 25th.
John Caple, of Port Huron has serv-
ed 30 years in the United States Army.
Now that he is old and feeble he is
allowed 81 month.
James Stewart, of Fort Gratiot, was
badly hurt at the car shops last week,
his arm was broken by being caught in
a belt and head cut.
II. g hna Hoo, l~Ntnhk
for the Hotel Somerville also $500 rolls
of paper with which the walls will be
decorated. This hotel will soon be one
of the finest.
On Wednesday OF last week the
County =. of |. met at the court house
in Port Huron. Officers were elected
with ii. ID. Spencer, of Berlin, as Pres
ident.
Lizzie A. Mccormick, of Marysville,
has become insane. There is no room
for her at the asylums and she is con-
fined ut the county Jail until there is
an opening for her. She is very violent.
During the past three years fifty st.
Clair county people have been sent to
the insane asylum, of these nine have
died at the asylum, IL have been dis
Sile'l SCh NN'iNN, WV POI ''''iiy NNiSd "hN
one escaped.
James Ivers and William Haight,
both of Port Huron, were severely in-
jured while packing ice by the ice fall
ing upon them in some manner. lvers
was injured internally and Haight had
u leg broken.
On Friday of last week train passed
through the tunnel bearing three huge
cannons. They were billed to govern
ment officials in San Francisco and
were each over % feet in length. Each
car was marked Crush"
Members of the st. Clair county
board have been in the habit of spend
ing few days on the board and draw
ing pay for the full session. Supervis-
ors will now receive pay for the days
he works.
Some scamp pulled the coupling
pins of fourteen cars of a freight train
which was standing on the grade near
the mouth of the tunnel. 1t was for
tunate that it was discovered before the
train started or al accident would have
been the result.
Conductor George III. Hawthorne
and Brakeman Joseph Whalen were
ONcICollo ny gas III luc IuhhSi carly
Sunday morning while waiting for the
engine to come back from the Canadi-
an side after freight cars which had
become detached 10y the breaking of
the coupling pins. Whalen was found
before he had become unconscious but
Hawthorne died soon after being rescu-
ed. This is the first accident at the
tunnel and an investigation was held
TO locate the blame. Hawthorne leaves
Il wife and three children in London.
The greatest worm destroyer on earth
is Dullam's Great German Worm Loz-
enges, only % cents per box. For sale
by Grant Holden d Bro.
They sat under the moonlight, with
clasped hands trying to guess "what
would be their home when love be-
came immortal" but soon, alas how
soon she caught cold and they had
temporarily to stop guessing. They
cured her, however, with one bottle of
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
At BoiCe'S.
Oar new store nearing completion