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Panic of 1857, 853.
Panic of 1873, 854.
Paper cities, 37, 849.
Papier-mache stereotyping first used in Michigan, 687.
Parent's Creek named Bloody Run, 9.
Parent's Creek tragedy, 238. Paris, 6.
Pardon of Gen. Hull, 289. Parade of firemen, 507.
Park commissioners, 75, 76.
Park lots and ten-thousand acre tract, 25.
Park lots sold at auction, 40, 41. Parks and boulevard, 73, 74. Party, The Democratic, 108.
Party, The Democratic Repub- lican, 108.
Party, The Know-Nothing, 114. Party, The Republican, 110. Party, The Whig, 108. Passengers and freights, 890.
Pastures and pounds, 79. Patents for land, 38.
Patriots encamped near Bloody Run, 302.
Patriots on Bois Blanc, 8. Patriot War, 301, 302, 303. Patrol guards provided, 272.
Patrolmen to cry " Fire !" 503. Paving of streets commenced, 929.
Paw Paw, railroad to, first opened, 899.
Peace between England and France, 237.
Peaches, immense, 16.
Pear, apple, and cherry trees, 13.
Peche, Isle la, 7. Peddler's Point, 928. Peninsular Car Works, 805. Peninsular Stove Co., 816.
Pensions and pension agents, 226.
Pennsylvania, 258, 832. People of the lakes, 321.
Peoria Chamber of Commerce visits Detroit, 790. Periodicals, see newspapers. Perry's fire pump, 502.
Perry's victory at Put-in-Bay, 283.
Pestilence among the Indians, 281.
Pestilence among the soldiers, 284.
Petersburgh, railroad to, first opened from Monroe, 902. Philadelphia, 818, 826, 832.
Philadelphia, locomotive from, 893.
Phoenix Fire Company No. 5 organized, 507.
Photographic work, 360.
Piano first brought to Detroit, 357.
Pic-nic described by Miss Pow- ell, 350.
Pic-nic grounds, 351.
Piety Hill, 351, 928.
Pigeons killed with walking sticks, II.
Pig iron, production of, 802. Pills, manufacture of, 823.
Pin Co., National, 820.
Pitt, Fort, 233.
Pittsburgh, 829.
Pittsburgh Commonwealth, 670. Pittsburgh paper, official no- tices in, 179.
Pittsburgh, The Gazette of, 669.
Planing machines, Wilder's. 364. Plank road Act passed, 925.
Plank sidewalks provided for, 931.
Plaster, price of, quantities of, in Michigan, 802.
Plat of the city, 30.
Plums of large size, 16.
Plumbers, 70.
Plymouth, First National Bank of, 872.
Plymouth, Wayne Co. Bank of, 851.
Poem by De Peyster, on a bon- net, 338.
Poem by De Peyster, on sugar making, 12.
Poem by De Peyster, "The Drill Sergeant," 248.
Poem on Whitefish, 16.
Polacktown, 928.
Police, 202.
Police Commissioners, 205.
Police Commission created, 204. Police, duties of, 205, 206.
Police Life and Health Insur- ance Fund, 208.
Police, sanitary, 206.
Police stations, location of, 208. Political parties and campaigns, 108.
Political power of firemen, 507. Ponies, French, 887.
Pontchartrain, Fort, 3, 17, 18, 24, 221, 231, 232, 334.
Pontiac's Conspiracy, 235.
Pontiac, railroad to, first open- ed, 893.
Pontiac road, now Woodward Avenue, 947.
Pontiac, first flour shipped from, 15.
Poor Commission, 645.
Poor-house farm, 648, 649. Poor, vaccination of the, 59.
Port Huron, railroad to, first opened, 904. Portrait of J. A. Van Dyke, 521. Portland, Me., 811, 835. Portland, Or., 827.
Portugal, 829.
Post boy's horn, The, 880. Post coaches, 888.
Postmasters, names and terms, 883.
Post-office and mails, 879. Post-office carriers, 882.
Post-office established, 879. Post-office, locations of, 882. Post-office money orders, 881. Post-office receipts, 881.
Post-office street letter boxes, 882.
Postage rates, 880, 881.
Postage stamps as currency, 853.
Postage stamps introduced, 881. Postal cards first used, 881.
Postal currency, 853.
Postal system under the Eng- lish, 879.
Post road, first, in Michigan, 879.
Potato, a large, 16.
Potowatamies, 21, 52, 231, 235, 238, 322.
Potomac, The, 928.
Pound-keepers, the oldest offi- cers. 79, 80.
Poux, 322.
Poverty and its relief, 644.
Powder magazine built for U. S., 36.
Prayer meeting, Union morn- ing, 642.
Presbytery of Detroit created, 594.
Presidential electors, 102.
Presidential visits to Detroit, 103.
Presiding elders, 580.
Presque Isle, Fort, 12.
Presque Isle, death of Gen. Wayne at, 269.
Printing, first book in Detroit, 694.
Printing press, first, 670, 694. Printing first by steam, 686.
Printing press, first power, 686. Prices of articles at various times, 799.
Prices of land, past and present, 40.
Priest killed by Indians, 529.
Primary school fund, first money from, 738.
Prisoners, ransoming of, 280, 281, 282.
Private bankers, 872.
Private claims in Wayne Co., 977.
Private claims, survey of, 37.
Proclamation of Gov. Hamilton to rebels, 249.
Profanity, prevalence of, 201. Professorships in university, 728.
Propeller wheel, invention of, 364.
Prosecuting attorneys, 209, 210. Protestant Cemetery, 55. Protestant Church, ground ask- ed for, 553.
Protestant clergyman, first mar- riage by, 550.
Protestants in Canada, 550.
Protestant Society becomes Presbyterian, 594.
Protest of citizens against exile, 281.
Provisions from Ohio and New York, 338.
Provisions, scarcity of ; letter of Henly to Wilkins, 223. Public domain, 24.
Public exhibitions discouraged, 351.
Public drinking fountains, 71.
Public lands appropriated for schools, 735.
Public library, 759, 760, 761.
Public schools, colored children admitted to, 751.
Public schools, first text books. 740.
Public surveys, 37.
Public Works, Board of, estab- lished, 936.
Publishing, early methods of, 669.
INDEX -- MISCELLANEOUS.
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Pulleys, manufacture of, 808, 820. snow-plow, 364.
Pumpkins, large product, 15. Pupils, number of, in public schools, 742, 743.
Pupils in schools in 1834, 717. Pupils, non-resident, 742. Put-in-Bay, Perry's victory at, 283.
Quails and turkeys plentiful, 11. Quaint business signs, 778.
Quarter centennial of Congre- gational Church, 614.
Quartermaster-General of the Territory of Michigan, 89. Quebec, 3. Quebec Act, The, 84.
Quebec, arrest of Cadillac at, 766.
Quebec, Cadillac goes to, 332.
Quebec captured by the Eng- lish, 83.
Quebec Gazette, first issued, 669. Quebec restored to France, 83. Quebec, voyage of Cadillac's wife from, 327.
Quebec within Acadia, 327.
Quebeis, or Quelibec, 3.
Quince, a large, 16.
Quincy, 806.
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Racing between Indians and Canadians, 349.
Railroad conspiracy case, 494. Railroad ferry, 890.
Railroad turn-tables, manufac- ture of, 805.
Railroads, 893.
Chicago & Canada Southern, 900, 901.
Chicago, Detroit, & Canada Grand Trunk Junction, 904. Cincinnati, Hamilton, & Day- ton, 905.
Detroit & Bay City, 900, 901. Detroit, Butler, & St. Louis, 792, 906.
Detroit, Grand Haven, & Mil- waukee Railway Co., 893, 895.
Detroit, Hillsdale, & South- western, 903.
Detroit, Lansing, & North- ern, 900, 905.
Detroit, Mackinaw, & Mar- quette, 905.
Detroit, Romeo, & Port Hu- ron, 890.
Detroit & St. Joseph, 895.
Detroit & Toledo, 902.
Erie & Kalamazoo, 901.
Flint & Pere Marquette, 900, 904.
Great Western, 890, 903, 904. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, 901, 902.
Michigan Central, 859, 897, 899.
New Albany & Salem, 899. New York Central, 890. Oakland & Ottawa, 895. Pontiac & Detroit, 893. Shelby & Detroit, 890. Railroad Aid Bonds, 905. Railroad conspiracy, 900.
Railroad ferry-boats, 901, 904.
Railroad bridges and gates, 906. Railroad coaches, 893.
Railroads equalize prices, 800.
Railroad freight cars, 893. Railroads reduce lake travel, 910.
Railroads sold by the State, 897. Railroad surveys by War De- partment, 895.
Railroad strike, 901.
Railroad tracks torn up, 894.
Railroads, wooden rails and flat bars for, 893.
Railroads, State management of, 897.
Railway track - cleaner and
Rain-fall, 45.
Raisin, escort of 200 men sent
to, 275.
Raisin, battle of, 280.
Randolph Street, first wharf at, 793.
Ransoming prisoners, 280, 281, 282.
Rear concessions provided for, 22.
Rebels, Hamilton's proclama- tion to, 249.
Rebel plot to burn Detroit, 309. Receivers of Taxes, 167, 168. Reciprocity treaty, 790.
Recorder, office of, created, 195. Recording of deeds and mort- gages, 39.
Recreations and amusements, 349.
Red Chapel burned, 530.
Red ribbon reform movement, 844.
Redemption fund of city, 158. Redemptorist order, 538.
Refreshments furnished to fire- men, 508.
Reform Hall, 479.
Regattas, 7, 353.
Regents of the University, 731.
Register in Bankruptcy, 177.
Register of Probate, obsolete duties, 39.
Registration law, 115.
Registry system of post-office introduced, 881.
Regulations as to bread, 797.
Relics from fire of 1805, 533.
Rent paid to the French crown, 149.
Rents, range of house, 376. Re-occupation of Detroit, 286. Reporters of Chancery Courts, I91.
Representatives, names of, Leg- islative, 100.
Republican party organized, 110. Republicans, large campaign meeting of, 110.
Reservoir on Dequindre Farm, 65
Restaurant of Woman's Chris- tian Temperance Union, 842. Review, first firemen's, 504. Revised Statutes of 1846, 99. Revivals and revivalists, 642. Revolutionary War, 242.
Richardson's Match Factory, 828.
Richmond, fall of, 309.
Richmond, Va., 827.
Ride and tie system, 887.
Riflemen, mounted, 285.
Rink, first skating, 352.
Riot against negroes, 307, 308. Riot by negroes, caused by ar- rest of slaves, 202, 345.
Riot of 1833, troops called to city, 341.
Riot of 1863, 348, 497.
River, Collot's map of, 270.
River front, improvement of, 8.
River, islands in, 78.
River, never low, never over- flows, 802.
River Raisin, massacre at, 280. River transportation, 889.
Roads, gravel, 926.
Roads, military, 925. Roads, plank, 925, 926.
Rochester, 826.
Rogation days, 534.
Roller skates and velocipedes, 352.
Roller skates, manufacture of, 811.
Rome, 4, 6.
Rome, death of Bishop Rese at, 547.
Roof cresting, manufacture of, 810, 811.
Roofs, first gravel, 374. Round house and reservoir, 65.
Royal Oak, railroad to, first opened, 893.
Ruddle's Station, 260.
Russel Wheel and Foundry Co., 805.
Russell House guests, 483.
Russia, 818, 829.
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St. Andrew's Hall, 478.
St. Clair, Bank of, 859, 864.
Ste. Claire, Lake and River, 3, 907.
St. John's, railroad to, first opened, 895.
St. Joseph, 806.
St. Joseph, Fort of, 221.
St. Louis, 334, 670, 826, 906.
St. Martin's Day, 18.
St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal opened, 890.
St. Nicolas de la Grave, 326, 33I.
St. Paul, 811, 835.
Sabbath breaking, 201. Sacramento, 816.
Sacs, 321.
Saengerbund, meeting of North American, 356.
Safe Co., Detroit, 810.
Safe Deposit Co., 870.
Safes, fire-proof, manufacture of, 810.
Saginaw Chief, suicide of, 161. Saginaw turnpike, now Wood- ward Avenue, 947.
Saline, railroad to, opened from Ypsilanti, 903.
Sailing vessels go direct to Eu- rope, 910.
Saloons closed on election day, 114, 841, 844.
Salt Lake City, 818, 829, 832. Sand abundant in Wayne
County, 802.
Sand Beach, life-saving station at, 920.
Sandusky Bay, 282.
Sandusky or St. Duski, 173.
Sandwich, Hull crosses to, 275. Sandwich Islands, 826, 828, 836.
San Francisco, 811, 818, 835.
Sanitary police, 59, 206.
Sault Ste. Marie, 323. Sauteux, 323.
Savages, English alliances with, denounced, 245.
Savages, English plans for in- citing, 248.
Savings Bank, Dime, 871.
Savings Bank, Michigan, 870.
Savings Bank, People's, 868.
Savings Bank, State, 871.
Savings Bank, Wayne Co., 869. Savings Bank, Wyandotte, 872. Savoyard, 8, 9, 60, 74.
Scalping knives for savages, 243, 246.
Scalping parties to spare neither men, women nor children, 253. Scalps and prisoners, number of, 246.
Scalps as merchandise, 232.
Scalps, bounty for human, 244, 253. Scalps, Indian methods of ob- taining, 280.
Scalps, number of taken by In- dians between 1783 and 1790, 261.
Scavengers, 59, 61, 206. Schenectady, 344.
Schools and Colleges-
Academy granted for a com- mon school, 735.
Academy, Ladies', estab-
lished, 720.
Academy of the Sacred Heart, 724. Barstow School opened, 745. Bible in public schools, 740, 741.
Brothers of the Christian Schools, 721, 722, 723.
Schools and Colleges - Cont'd. Catholic schools in 1808, 720. Census of children of school age, 753.
Church Farm school, 720. Church schools, 719-727.
College, Detroit, organized, 725.
College, Homoeopathic, open- ed, 734.
Colored school established, 738.
Colored schools, 750, 751.
Commercial colleges, 732.
Commissioners of common schools, 735.
Contagious diseases, precau - tions against, in schools, 743.
County Superintendent of schools, 126.
Detroit College, 725.
Detroit Female Seminary, 718.
Detroit Homoeopathic Col- lege, 734.
Detroit Medical College, 733. Director of the Christian Schools, 720.
Directors and moderators in 1837, 738.
Directors and statistics for 1838, 737.
Districts formed, 737.
District schools, close of, 739. English academy with kin- dergarten, 719.
Evening schools, 742.
Expense per capita of public schools, 743.
Fair of Ladies' Free School Society, 736.
First common school, 735.
Free School Society, 735, 736. Funds from State, 738.
Funds not to be divided among religious sects, 754. High School, admission to, 749.
High School Alumni Associ- ation, 750. .
High School, beginnings of, 748, 749.
High School cadets, 749.
High School text-books, 742. Holy Redeemer School, 524. Holy Trinity Anglo-Catholic School, 719.
Homoeopathic College, 51, 734.
Hours for school, 743. Immanuel Evangelical Luth- cran School, 726.
Industrial School, 654.
Inspectors, district, elected, 736.
Inspectors of schools, names, terms, 755-758.
Inspectors to be elected at large, 754.
Janitors of schools, 746.
Kindergarten School, 665.
Lancasterian Schools, 730, 731.
Law of 1837, 736.
Location of, in 1838, 737. Medical colleges, 50.
Michigan College of Medi- cine, 733.
Number of schoolsin 1841, 739. Primary school fund, 739. Private schools, 715.
Public lands granted for schools, 736, 785.
Public school system attack- ed, 114.
Pupils, attendance of, 742, 743. Pupils in 1834, 717. Pupils in High School, 750. Pupils, non-resident, 742. Rooms rented for schools, 744. Sabbath schools, buildings used for, 745.
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INDEX - MISCELLANEOUS.
Schools and Colleges - Cont'd. Sacred Heart German School, 724.
St. Anthony's School, 724. St. Albert's School, 724. St. Boniface's School, 723. St. Cassimer's School, 724. St. Joachim's, formerly Sa- cred Heart French School, 724.
St. John's German Evangeli- cal School, 726.
St. Joseph's School, 723. St. Paul's Lutheran School, 727.
St. Mark's German Evangeli- cal School, 726.
St. Mary's German Schools, 722.
St. Matthew's Lutheran School, 726.
St. Paul's Second German Evangelical Schools, 727. St. Peter's German Evangeli- cal School, 727.
SS. Peter and Paul Schools, 722.
St. Philip's College, 720, 721. St. Vincent de Paul School, 723.
St. Vincent's Seminary, 921. Salem Lutheran School, 726. School of Our Lady of Help, 723.
Seminary, Female, discon- tinued, 717.
State primary school fund, 799. Statistics for 1839, 738. Statistics for 1840, 739. Statistics, general, 751.
Statistics of Catholic Schools, 725.
Sunday Schools, 631.
Sunday School conventions and celebrations, 636.
Sunday School, first notice of, 631.
Sunday School Missions, 653. Sunday School statistics, 634, 635, 636.
Sunday School Union, 633. Superintendents of public schools, 126, 752. Superintendents of public schools, 126, 752.
Taxation for schools, 753.
Terms and vacations, 743, 744.
Text-books, changes in, 741, 742.
Text-books, uniformity in, 737.
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran School, 726.
Trinity Schools, 721.
Trowbridge School, 752. Zion Evangelical Lutheran, 727.
Zion German Reformed Lu- theran, 726.
Schooner Gladwin sent to Ni- agara, 237.
Schooner Swan brings first troops under United States flag, 908. Sciota Gazette, 669. Schooner Ann seized, 301. Scotland, 826, 828.
Scrip issued by Governor and Judges, 475, 847.
Sealer of weights and measures, 797.
Seal of Northwest Territory, 86.
Seal of Michigan Territory, 87. Seal of State of Michigan, 90, 91. Seals of City, 138.
Sealers of leather, 89.
Seamless copper and brass tubes. 364.
Search, right of, 274.
Secretary of Board of Trustees, 140. Secretary of Detroit, 133.
Secretaries of State of Michi- gan, 92.
Secretaries of the Territory of Michigan, 88. Secretary of War, letter to Hull, 274. Seed business, increase of, 776. Senecas, 234, 322.
Senatorial districts (Legisla- tive), 100.
Senators, State, names of, 100. Sentinels and patrols, 202,
Settlers, bounties offered to, in 1749, 333.
Settlers first arrive at Detroit, 332.
Settlers from the East, 335.
Settlers in need of wives, 334.
Seventh Legislative Council at Green Bay, 99.
Sexton's duties, 57, 58.
Shafting, manufacture of, 808, 820.
Sheriffs, 209.
Sheriff's residence erected, 216.
Shelby, Fort, 8, 36, 52, 222, 224, 225, 283.
Shinplasters issued by city, 154, 155
"Shinplasters," or small bills, largely circulated, 847.
Shinplasters to aid in building St. Anne's, 533.
Ship building, 907, 908.
Ship building by the Detroit Dry Dock Co., 914.
Ship canal at Sault Ste. Marie asked for, 918.
Shipments are made from De- troit to -
Africa, 811, 826. Alaska, 810.
Argentine Republic, 828.
Arkansas, 820.
Augusta, Ga., 811.
Australia, 804, 811, 814, 829. Austria, 829.
Baltimore, 811, 826.
Belgium, 826, 828.
Bismarck, 806.
Boston, SI1, 816, 818, 826, 827, 835.
Brazil, 811, 827, 828.
Bridgeport, Conn., 808.
British Dominions, 829.
Buffalo, 814, 816.
Burlington, 805.
California, 810, 820, 826, 836.
Canada, 811, 818.
Chattanooga, Tenn., 835.
Chicago, 811, 814, 816.
Chili, 825.
China, 811, 818, 827, 829.
Cincinnati, 826.
Constantinople, 820.
Dakota, 835.
Delaware, 832.
Denver, 811, 818.
El Paso, 832.
England, 811, 818, 826, 828.
Eureka, Cal., 808.
Europe, 814, 816, 820, 826.
France, 811, 818, 826, 828, 829.
Frankfort, Germany, 814.
Galveston, 811.
Germany, 818, 828, 829.
Greece, 811.
Hannibal, Mo., 806.
Hong Kong, China, 823. Honolulu, 827.
Illinois, 820.
Indiana, 820, 832. Italy, 829.
Jacksonville, Fla., 835.
Japan, 809, 811, 829. Latakia in Asia, 818.
Lisbon, Portugal, 820. London, 814, 827. Louisiana, 820. Louisville, Ky., 811.
Lyons, N. Y., 811. Maine, 810. Manitoba, 820. Maryland, 832,
Shipments are made from De-
troit to- Cont'd.
Massachusetts, 835.
Mexico, 810, 811, 826.
Minneapolis, Minn., 811, 825. Montreal, 836,
Nashua, N. H., 818.
New Brunswick, 814, 836.
New Hampshire, 835.
New Mexico, 828.
New Orleans, 829.
New York, 811, 818, 820, 823, 826, 832, 835.
New Zealand, 811, 825.
Nova Scotia, 836.
Ohio, 820, 832.
Ontario, 820.
Pennsylvania, 832.
Philadelphia, 818, 826.
Pittsburg, 829.
Portland, Me., 811, 835.
Portland, Or., 827.
Portugal, 829.
Quincy, 806.
Richmond, Va., 827.
Rochester, 826.
Russia, 818, 829.
Sacramento, 816.
Sandwich Islands, 826, 828, 836.
San Francisco, 811, 818, 835.
St. Joseph, 806.
St. Louis, 826.
St. Paul, 811, 835.
Salt Lake, 818, 829, 832.
Scotland, 826.
South Africa, 828.
South America, 804, 807, 811, 826, 829. Spain, 828.
Stockholm, Sweden, 814.
Texas, 820.
Troy, N. Y., 816.
Utah, 828.
Washington, 835.
West Indies, 811, 829, 833.
Winnipeg, 832, 836.
Winston, N. C., 827. Wyoming Ter., 828.
Shipyard on the Rouge, now Woodmere Cemetery, 23, 908. Ships of war on the lakes and river, 958.
Shoe Factory of Pingree & Smith, 833.
Show windows, 458, 777.
Side and cross-walks, 930, 931. Sieves, manufacture of, 809, 811. Signal Service, 922, 923.
Silk-worms, advertisement of exhibition, 961.
Silversmiths and goldsmiths, 358, 359.
Sinking fund of city, 156, 157. Sinking fund for water works, 67. Sisters of Ste. Claire, 49, 653, 721. Skating and coasting, 351, 352. Skins as currency, 846. Slaves, 28.
Slavery and the colored race, 344-347.
Slaves not to be held by St. Anne's Church, 532. Sleeping cars, 900. Slocum's Island, 7.
Sloop Beaver wrecked, 239.
Small-pox prevalent, 334.
Smart's Block, when erected, 457. Smithsonian Institute, 351. Snow apples, 13.
Soap Factory of Schulte Bros., 826. Soap making a novelty, 338. Societies-
Agricultural & Horticultural, 16.
Anti-slavery, 346.
Association for the Suppres- sion of Intemperance, 838. Bar Association, 199. Bar Library Association, 199. Baptist Social Union, 612. Bible, 641.
Societies- Cont'd. Board of Trade, 788.
Boys' Branch of Y. M. C. A.,
640.
Carson League for Wayne Co., 840.
Catholic Female Association, 49, 650. Catholic Union, 548.
Church Association of Michi- gan, 592.
City Library, 710. Concordia, 355. Detroit Academy of Medi- cine, 51.
Detroit Athenaeum, 710.
Detroit City Tract Associa- tion, 642.
Detroit Medical and Library Association, 51.
Detroit Merchant's Exchange Co., 786.
Detroit Musical Association, 355.
Detroit Reform Club, 844.
Detroit Scientific Associa- tion, 714.
Detroit Temperance Society, 838.
Detroit Young Men's, 710.
Evangelical Alliance, 642.
Evangelical Lutheran Or- phan Aid, 662. Evangelistic, 556. Fire Department, 520.
Firemen's Fund Association, 520.
First Evangelistic, 556. First Protestant, 558. Free School, 735. Felony, Society to suppress, 233.
Harmonie, 355.
Hebrew Relief, 629.
Hibernian, 666.
High School Alumni Associa- tion, 750.
Historical Society of Michi- gan, 710, 712.
of Homoeopathic College Physicians and Surgeons, 51.
Industrial School, 654.
Italian Benevolent, 663.
Ladies' Christian Unions, 661. Ladies' Free School, 735, 736. Ladies' Society for Support
of Hebrews, 657.
Lafayette Benevolent and Mutual Help, 654. Lutheran Orphan Aid, 662.
Lyceum of Detroit, 711.
Lyceum of Michigan, 712. Masons' Mutual Benefit, 343. Mechanics', 712, 713.
Merchants & Manufacturers' Exchange, 780.
Michigan Liquor Dealers' Protective Association, 845. Michigan State Temperance Alliance, 841.
Michigan Temperance, 838. Michigan Total Abstinence, 839.
Michigan Tract, 642.
Ministerial Union, 642. Monument Association, 312. Moral and Humane, 650.
Musical, Detroit, 355.
Order of the White Cross, 845. Pioneer, 713. Police Relief, 208.
Presbyterian Alliance, 599, 604.
Roman Catholic Beneficial, 666.
Refugee Home, 345. St. Andrew's, 653. St. Boniface, 666. St. Jean Baptiste, 666. St. Joseph's, 666. St. Patrick's, 666. St. Vincent de Paul, 666. Scientific Association, 714.
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INDEX - MISCELLANEOUS.
Societies-Cont'd. Soldiers Relief, 310. Sons of Temperance, 843.
Sydenham Medical, 51, Territorial S. S. Union, 636. Union Bethel, 641. U. S. Christian Commission, 3II.
Wayne County Homoeopathic Institute, 51.
Wayne County Medical, 51. Wayne County Pioncer, 713. Woman's Christian Temper- ance Alliance, 842. Workingmen's Aid, 654.
Young Men's, 710, 711.
Young Men's Catholic Union, 549.
Young Men's Christian Union, 216, 638.
Young Men's Benevolent, 650. Young Men's Father Matthew Temperance, 842.
Young Men's Red Ribbon Club, 844.
Young Men's State Temper- ance, 839. Young Men's Temperance, 839.
Young Women's Christian Temperance Union, 844. Zither Club, 356.
Society of Detroit, character of, 339.
Solar compass, invented at De- troit, 362.
Soldiers and Sailors' Monu- ment, 311, 312.
Soldiers desert for want of pay, 332.
Soldiers' fare at Sandusky Bay, 282.
Soldiers withdrawn in 1709, 333. Songs, firemen's, 509, 511. Soubriquets, 337.
South Bend, railroad to, first opened, 902. Spain, 828.
Spain and France in alliance, 269.
Speaking trumpets given to Fire Companies, 508.
Special taxes, 157.
Specie circular, 849.
Specie payments, suspension of, 849.
Spectacles, manufacture of, 836. Spinning wheels and looms, 338, 720.
Sporting organizations, 352, 353. Spring and Steel Works, 804. Spring Bed and Chair Factory of M. J. Murphy & Co., 832. Spring Hill Farm rented for church purposes, 531. Springs for locomotives and cars, manufacture of, 804. Springwells, 4, 5, IO. Stages, first public, 888. Stamped paper, 159.
Stamping Co., Detroit, 822.
Standard Life and Accident In- surance Co., 875.
State and county taxes, 150. State Commissioner of Insur- ance, 875.
State Constitution adopted, 88. State Constitutions, differences between first and second, 91. State Fish Commission, 16. State Gazetteers, 696.
State officers, 93. State scrip, issue of, 852. State seal, 90.
State treasurers, 92.
Steam boilers subject to inspec- tion, 471.
Steam Forge, The Detroit, 805. Steam first used for heating buildings. 470. Steam Mill Co., 8.
Steam printing, the first, 686. Steam road roller procured, 930. Steam whistles, 920.
Steamboat Atlantic sunk, 910. Steamboat Caroline, 301.
Steamboat, first arrival of, 908. Steamboat Mayflower sunk, 810. Steamboat Michigan described, 909.
Steamboat racing and low fares, 910. Steamboat times and fares, 909. Steamboat Walk-in-the-Water wrecked, 909.
Steamboat Windsor burned, 917. Steamboats, increase in number of, 909.
Steamboats, inspection of, 921. Steamboats to Cleveland, 899. Steamer Great Western burned, 909.
Steamer Henry Clay brought troops, 48. Steamers, number on the lakes, 909.
Steamers seized on Lake Erie, 308.
Steamer Superior, the second on the lakes, 909.
Steamships run in connection with railroads, 895.
Steam fire companies, how or- ganized, 519.
Steam fire engine, first, 511. Steam fire engines, horses for, .515.
Steam fire engines, names of, 516.
Steam fire engines, weight and cost, 514. Steam Fire Department, 513. Steam Supply Co. organized, 470. Steel & Iron Works, Eureka, 818.
Steel & Spring Works, 804. Steelyards, large, 798.
Stereotyping by papier-mache process, 687.
Stevenson, Fort, 282.
Stockade, limekiln near, 367. Stockholm, Sweden, 814.
Stoddard's tire upsetter, manu- facture of, 806.
Stolen property found by police, 208. Stone for building from Mon. guagon, 367.
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