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MICHIGAN NEWS. THE Calhoun county jail bonds— $17,000-have been floated at 41 per cent. MENOMINEE wants a first-class hotel building. One costing $20,000 will answer. FLINN, a cooper of Orion, has made 25,000 apple barrels and contracted for their delivery to farmers. THE total number of books, pamphlets and maps on the shelves of the State Library at Lansing is 34,022. A TELEPHONIC connection is to be established between Jackson and Michigan Center, a distance of four miles. A MARQUETTE bee farmer sold eight tons of choicest white honey in the comb in the Detroit market this season. W. A. JACOBS, a former Battle Creek boy, has been elected to the State Senate of Missouri from the Fifth district. THE fisheries on Bois Blanc island are yielding handsomely this season, the catch averaging over 500 a night lately. THE population of Lenawee county is 48,369. The vote polled was 12,276, or a little more than one in four of the population. HARDWOOD" SMITH, of Flint, expects to make 40,000 cords of wood into charcoal and get out $100,000 worth of oak timber this winter. CALHOUN county has been compelled to pay the full salary of its Judge of Probate, which the Board of Supervisors attempted to reduce. IT is calculated that the season's operations of the Tittabawassee Boom Company will reach, if not exceed, 600,000,000 feet. THE apple crop in Lenawee county, which was SO large that no home market could be found, bids fair to be almost a complete loss, as the fruit is rotting. MRS. LUCY DAY, a resident of Hudson for forty-six years, died last week at the advanced age of 98 years. For thirty-five years she has been a member of the Congregational Church. A CORN-CRIB belonging to William Conley, of Marshall, and containing over 500 bushels of corn, gave way and crushed six hogs to death which were under it. KALAMAZOO, with a population of 12,000, flourishes under a village charter, and is not ambitious to become a city. It is one of the least-governed and bestgoverned communities in America. Gov. CROSWELL has been called upon within the last year to appoint four Circuit Judges to fill vacancies caused by resignation, and each appointment was confirmed by the people at the recent election. A SAGINAW mill owner got too near a rapidly revolving shaft, which caught his overcoat and stripped it off, taking a part of his undercoat with it. By a great effort he kept himself off the shaft till it was stopped. THERE is a remarkable and mysterious work, evidently an old fort, in the town of Sylvan, Osceola county. The finder believes from the indications that it must be at least 250 years since the fort was abandoned. THE Peninsular Car Company has assumed the obligations of the Car Manufacturing Company, of Adrian, suspended since 1873, taken possession of the premises, and expect to have 200 hands at work inside of twenty days. THE Sims Hotel, at Orion, recently burned, was the property that figured in the Orion-lottery scheme, for which many tickets were sold last summer, but on which no drawing has yet taken place. THE National Bank of Michigan, located at Marshall, having surrendered its charter, will do no more business under the above title. The heirs of H. J. Perrin found it necessary to close up the affairs of the bank for a speedier settlement of the estate. While living H. J. Perrin was the heavy man of the institution. THE constitutional amendment voted on this fall was to empower the Legislature to pass an act authorizing Detroit to tax itself for a bridge or tunnel across the Detroit river. It was opposed by the best citizens of that city, and received little support where its purpose was known through the State. The vote of Detroit was: For, 2,056; against, 8,491. OUR attention has been called to a doe
