Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1880 — MICHIGAN. [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN.

A wheat elevator is to be built at Bellevue. <-• The hog cholera ftaa broken out it Galesburg. ~An H. and X. club has been formed at Roscommon. The Dexter cornet band has seoeded from Lew Hoffman. The Roeoommon county jail b about ready to receive boarder*. Oarn, oateaad potatoes promtee abundant crops, in Eaton county. Another ministerial scan.ial is coming to the surface in Kent county. A council of the order of chosen friends has been established at Ml Morris. Almont ia experimenting with a wind mill and well system of water works. | A new oooper shop and anew railway warehpuse are to be built at Bellevue. _ - O. 8. Owen will superintend the Lapeer schools next year, at « salary of $1,200. A special term of the Saginaw county court is to be held, beginning September 6. James Hay, the young man injured near Dexter by a falling hay fork, has since died. '■> v New potatoes hare been sold by the load this week at Greenville for 26 cents per bushel.

The fakirs did well at Bay City. One man was robbed of a diamond pin and another of S4O. Three new salt blocks me now th operation at Midland, and more wells are to be suakstoooe. * ~ • ’< ■* An unknown woman tried to add io the excitement at Bay City by drowning her•elf. She was rescued. Another Mg end rich deposit of silver has been struck at Silver Islet. It is far below the lake surface. V:’ A new building is being erected on the race track at Eaton Rapids, for the accommodattomof spectators. Simmons, the Tecumseh laborer who so brutally mutilated his wife, has not yet beat found by the officers Lewellyn Wood, of Michigan, has been appointed agent for the Indians at Oteo, Nebraska, vice Gust lesigned. A signal station has been established at Mont.-.gue, with Alexander Beals, of the W. U- telegraph office, in charge. . There doesn't seem to be any doubt of die fact that East Saginaw feels bad about Bay City having outgrown it. John Thomaa, of Lapeer, accidentally shot himself through the right knee while cleaning a revolver a few days ago. J. W, Smith, of Eaton Rapids, baa been engaged as principal of the Monroe union school, at a salary of SI,OOO per year. The Detroit. Lansing & Northern railroad depot and freight buildings at Big Rapids are now comp eted and In use. Rev. Chss. Oldfield has been offered the pastorate of the Lowell baptist church. He was formerly pastor of that churchRather than pay for sewers, certain citizens of St. Louis get out an injunction on the Bewer work now in progress there. Nat Waaey, at St Clair butcher has bsen fined for cruelty to animals. He appeals The case is arranged as a test matter. . ; ‘ ; . * I- K Fairchild, editor of the Harrisville Review, has at last received his reward. He has been made a United States mail agent. Eels have been caught at East Saginaw and there is now strong hopes that the city may pick up sod best Bay City at the > next cen us. '

Charles Babcock, of Monroe, tried to kill himself the other day. He was sick, and did not think life had any charma for a sick man. ' ' w.. A. Dunlap, landlord of the River house, a second-class hotel at Ptontiac, left town a few days ago, taking his “traps” with him. He is still out The blind pupils u the Flint institution will be removed to. Lansing as soon as the oddfellows’ elephant there be ready for its new usee. Hie Lake Shore road is now building several temporary side track* at Adrian, in order to more the roughly obstruct the crossing of the Butler road. A farmer diove into Dearborn with a load of produce, where he sold it and ip. nt every cent of the proceeds for beer before be got out of town.

Assistant-Chief Swain, of the Grand Rapids fire department, has been suspend, ed from duty. 'He is chuged with too great fondness for whisky. Hon. JohnC. Dexter, one of the pioneers of Evart, and a prominent business ■»— ot that village, died a few days ago after a brief illness, aged 00 years. On the 22ad, during the cross-examina-tion of Mitchell, the alleged rapist, of Marshall, the young lady whom be fa accused of outraging fainted and had to be taken home. ‘ •; 'ti v. y-t ;. . The pigeon murdering tournament at Howell takes place August 10,11 and lfi. Jewett, of Howell, and Capt. Bogardes do their match od the 11th. They shoot at 100 oirds each. The editors of the independent papers in Oakland county have formed an association, and lightning will strike a certain political head in a tew days There fa blood on the moon. , ,

Henry Austin, the tramp who shot at the marshal of Hudson five times, is Under arrest It fa not known yet whether he win be punished for the shooting or his dreadfully poor marksmanship). The citizens of Niles are making preparations for k vine a grand) time on the occasion of the soldiers’ and sailors’ reunion, Angust 25, 26 and 27. They will endeavor ’o have Ben Butler, Grant Sherman, and Shriedan present. "■ l ■ '■■■■' a———— The liquor desists of Michigan held a convention at Leasing, July 29, attended by some 800 persons, of which Detroit furnished half. The object wss an organization for operation on the political parties with a view to protecting their (the liquor dealers) peculiar interests. Com. tnittees were appointed to wait upon the stste convention of each party, and to otherwise seek to influence political action.

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