Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1881 — MICHIGAN. [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN.

Logs are running down Flat river. Navigation has at last opened sit Muskegon. ~ -C't Sheep shearing festival at lonia May 7th. Mrs. T. Hoppin, -an old resident of Niles died aged JI. Peter Murry waa killed on a roll way near White Cloud. The young ladies of Greenville are talking of forming a boat dub. A. W. Lobdell has sold the Hart mill at Greenville to J. 8. Crosby. A sawdust peddler in Detroit got tired of life, took a dose of rat poison and died, y William Cummings, the boy who shot himself a few days ago at Otisville will die. A. W. Lobdell Is putting in a dam at Arnsden, in place of the- one washed away recently. Theuaeof dynamite la the north part of the state. In breaking ice is killing off the fish by wholesale. Cheboygan has six miles of foe to open water on Lake Huron, and no water can be seen up the straits. ♦ > 1*» Daxid R. Coon has been elected state senator from the fifteenth district, in place of Senator Durkee, deceased. Henry Forbes has got three years in Jackson for stealing a horse and buggy in Grand Rapids sometime ago.

The barns of Simon Pone and Wright Nall at Cassopolis burned as side shows to some children's bonfires. Village Marshal Fogarthy, of White Cloud, has skipped out just as the authoritie swere getting anxious to see Postmaster Jenks, of St Clair, has resigned, and there is. a lively scramble lor the honors and emoluments of the office. The first snake story of the season comes from Greenville, and 4s not a very big one—a little over six .feet. Next. • The lakes and strtanw about Dexter are filled with dead fish. Jrogs, etc., * supposed to have been killed by the tong winter and dryioe. lJ : * Harrison is overrun with all kinds 1 Qf business except banking. They■.* want a good exchange bank there, and will no doubt soon have ft? William Mason, of Forestville fell through the open hatch of the propeller Asia at Sarnia, and received injuries which resulted in his death. The funeral of Hon. William Graves at Niles was attended by over 8,000 people, including masonic delegations torn South Bend and other places. . Hiram Wightall, station and express agent at Inkster, aged 88 was instantly killed by being struck by a train while he was standing on a side track. A large quantity of bogus half dollars were found in an old log shanty near Caro, and it is supposed that counterfeiters have been in the neighborhood. r

A long petition was presented to the council at lonia asking that that body to fix the liquor bonds at the highest figures that the law would allow. - J A party of fishermen caught two-, stiver eels in Mattison lake, one of them over two feet and three inches in length and weighing one and three fourths pounds. ~ A Washington dispatch says Edward Israel, a graduate or Michigan university this year, will be the astronomer ” of the expedition soon to sail in search of the steamer Jeannette. i According to the Utica Sentinel, there is a girt in the town of Lenox who drinks three pails of water every 24 hours and is growing robust on it. Her hydraulic powers are extraordinary. The Alaska schools, which have been erased about two weeks for the want of teachers, are again In operation. Prof. W. E. Watt, formerly' the principal, is now principal of the Howard City schools. Long A Shorter is the descriptive name of an Edmore firm, in which the Shorter is the longer and the Long is the shorter of the two partners. They may be as good as their word, but the firm name gives th epi away. Osceola county has elected a lawyer , of Harrisville as prosecuting attorney v judge of probate, and circuit court commissioner, all at once. He seem* ■to be the only man that wants office in that county. He is evidently ah Ohia man. ■ Nashville has shipped 88,000 pounds of maple sugar of this season’s make. -If the demand keeps up at this rate some enterprising glucose mill will have to put fa. the necessary mu. chlnery an go to making maple sugar all the year around., A fire broke out in the Southern Michigan hotel block at Coldwater, destroying the entire stock and fixtures oi Mana Bros.,’ meat market. Loss SX,OOO, Tully insured; the damage to the building will & about sl,b 7 ln ve*ted some fa#* in a silver mix* near Ourey Col. They heard nothing from their investment until the other day, when they had an offer from * Sntleman from Ouray of $85,000 for eir little interest, and theytold. The present proprietor of the notorious gaming establishment at Monte °“ 8 tociiative # kich will not expire till tP 1 ® Prince of this anomalous oto6 receives as ground rent ••>O,OOO francs per annum,and a tenth of the Profits of the tables; besides which h.fejtttle • r nn l forty soldiers in light blue uniform, and his twenty gendarmes in cocked hats, are clothed and maintained from the same source. The number of suicides last year traceable to losses atthe tables is officially < reported as fourteen only, and the number of delinquencies attributable to the same cause as. forty-seven. A gentleman of high official ,po ition at Nice estimates the real number of suicides at an average of about -three a week. . The San Francisco Bulletin says that an apparently 'inexhaustible quarry of beautiful red-brown handstone, compact and close-grained, easily carved, and susceptible of a smooth finish, has been discovered, on an island called Coronda fr riiiiaa westward from San Diego, Cal. ”