•Grand Rapids has a young ladies cooking club.
•Detroit has 15,137 persons liable to military duty.
•Grand Rapids wants a bathing and swimming school.
•Marshall has a new boiler-making establishment.
•Niles has $3.20 in her city treasury.
•The saloons of Chelsea are all closed.
•The temperance crusade is progressing favorably in Niles. •A cheese factory has just been opened in Maybee, Monroe county.
•A clerk in Saginaw tried in vain to suicide on the 28th.
•The past winter killed 200 apple trees in an orchard at Ecorse.
•Maybee, on the Canada Southern road, wants a grist mill.
•The Russell House, Detroit, came near burning on the 29th.
•Kalamazoo had a golden wedding on the 28th.
•A sash and blind factory was burned at Howell on the 27th. Loss $6,000.
•A widow horsewhipped a lawyer in Detroit on the 30th ult.
•Detroit has a self-propelling fire engine.
•A Detroit policeman has been tried for maltreating a prisoner.
•A Reed City saw mill was burned on the 30th. Loss $2,500.
•Detroit is to have a Public Library building to cost $125,000.
•Hon. N. P. Jacobs, formerly U. S. Consul at Calcutta, died in Detroit, on the 29th.
•Wm. Marsh, of Lapeer, had his left foot cut off, a few days since, by a log rolling against an axe.
•By a vote of the city council, Marshall cows are allowed the freedom of the streets.
•Lansing boasts of a pig with two bodies, eight legs and three ears. It is to be sent to the University museum.
•Out of nearly 500 prisoners at the House of Correction, only ten are on the sick list.
•The dwelling of D. Olmstead, Jackson, was destroyed by fire, on the night of the 2d.
•A Kalamazoo grocery was burglarized on the 25th. The thieves escaped.
•The dwelling house of Mr. Edgar, of Augusta, was burned on the night of the 26th.
•Prosecutions have been commenced against the Kalamazoo liquor sellers.
•A man was fatally wounded in an affray at St. Louis, on the 28th. Whiskey the cause.
•A station agent at Fife Lake, has been arrested for embezzling the company’s money.
•The new University laboratory building has just been commenced, and will cost $10,000.
•A Chester, Ionia county, youth, has become hopelessly insane by too close application to study.
•Four hundred maple trees in Ionia county yielded 2,200 pounds of sugar the past season.
•The trustees of Hillsdale college are undecided whether to build one large building or a group of small ones.
•A Negaunee brute, named John Dunn, left a team of horses locked up in a stable until they literally starved to death.
•A boiler in a grist mill at Douglas, Allegan county, exploded on the 1st inst., killing the engineer and his daughter.
•No fishing has been allowed in Stony lake, Cass county, for three years, yet the lake is covered with fishermen.
•A church in Saginaw was burglarized, and the organ sacrilegiously dissected, by a fifteen year old boy, one night last week.
•W. H. Burk, the Detroit Commercial Advertiser man, has been held for trial at the Recorder’s Court, for running a lottery.
•A Port Huron lumberman went to Detroit a few days ago, got drunk, disputed a hack bill, and was knocked senseless for his rashness.
•Some excitement exists in the western part of Marquette county over the supposed discovery of a silver vein on an island in Lake Michigamme. The vein is in mica slate, from 18 to 20 inches in width. The gangue is quartz, containing beautiful aggregations of white mica, which has been taken for silver.
•On the afternoon of the 23d, a switchman on the Grand Trunk railroad at the Junction, near Detroit, named I. B. Willard was fatally injured while making up a train. He stepped in between the cars as the engine was backing up to couple them, when he slipped and was caught between the buffers, and crushed in a shocking manner.
•On the morning of the 28th, a bold robbery was perpetrated in the Pearl saloon, East Saginaw, kept by a noted courtesan named Rosa Judson. in which she lost $100 in money, a gold watch and chain valued at $140, and a pair of earrings valued at $12. Three parties have been arrested on suspicion, but none of the articles or money have been found.
•A rumor is current in Grand Rapids that the body of Charles C. Pratt, Treasurer of the town of Jamestown, Ottawa county, was found in his garden in such a condition as to suppose he was murdered. Pratt disappeared last January, and with him $3,000 of the town’s money. It was supposed at the time that he had run away, and that Louisa Myers, wife of his stepson W. H. Myers, had gone with him. Mrs. Pratt and W. H. Myers offered $500 reward for his arrest, and so did Sheriff Waltman, of Ottawa county, but no tidings of him had been obtained until his body was found