Show NEWS BY MAU in massachusetts 13 no as sign ment law tho law exempts certain personal property from ex also household furniture to the value of and certain tools in trade and stock in business to the value of A homestead law M in force which allows ahouse holder a home worth not more lhnn upon his recording alie claim in tho loper l oper office MICHIGAN in michigan an insolvent debtor may make an assignment of his property for the benefit ot hla creditors and obtain a discharge from his debts household furniture to alio value of and necessary tools in trade to the value of are exempt alie law alo exempts a homestead of forty acrea of landane lan dand thereon in alie country or a house and lot in alio city not exceeding in value 1000 ALABAMA one of the most successful iron makers antho state in lion willard warner proprietor furnace at Tecumseh ho ha baboul invested in alie works and ore beds his supply of the best hematite oro is practically inexhaustible he makes only is shipped mostly to northern markets As an evidence of the small cost at which iron can be produced there it it stated that alio cost of shipping iron from the furnace to new york is per ton and yet lie can compete successfully northern in own markets alio tecumseh furnace gives employment to about hands altogether including the miners and coal burners california CALIfOR XIA crop reports from all parts of alie state are of the most flattering nature with the exception of some places in tho upper portion of alie san joaquin valley and los angeles and san bernardino counties the late rains have been very beneficial and the prospects is for more alian an average crop in the state at large some of the tule islands Sacramento county are ering from high water southern california is producing every year more and more cal fruit oranges are raised in such abundance that in a few years the market will bo overstocked over stocked in the region around los angeles every land owner and settler is so desirous to orange crovea that dwellings are surrounded and even the roads are bordered by them in anticipation of an excess of fruit cultivators of tho soil aro beginning to plant almond and walnut trees in the new california constitution which will be submitted to alie people on the ath of may is an interesting te instrument it declares ahat no native of china shall enjoy the elective in the state their presence is declared dangerous ind the legislature is directed to to discourage their immigration by ill means in its power employment in public works is prohibited md all corporations chartered by alio state and forbidden to employ them the legislature is authorized to discourage their coming into the state and to delegate all necessary howera to municipal corporations to remove them from their limits on alio llio subject cf taxation it is provided that no property shall bo exempt except growing chops and public property that uncultivated land be bcd at the same rate as cultivated landi of the same quality a provision aimed directly at the largo landholding land holding system that has grown up in the state hartford social circles arc much exercised over the marriage of miss nellie youngest daughter II to red shapard the family coachman alie girl lias not yet passed her lath birthday and had u delightful homo so thal noth ing so far explains her conduct no effort i being made by alie gov the family to ascertain they are but it is supposed they have gone to now york farmers in danville ingham conny propose to cinto for a war on lie rows and foxes mr dunlay of royal oak washed in a pan that had been used hold paris breon audit killed lim there is to be a celebration on the ast 1st anniversary of modern spiritual im at battle broek on the dinst |