The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-25
MICHIGAN NEWS.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.

THE United States Patent Office has recent
ly granted the following patents to Michigan
inventors Machine for setting thimble-
skeins, Edward F. Edwards, Plainwell; car
riage-top support, Zebulon G. Brown, Albion;
seeder, plaster and harrow, Levi Dague,
Sherwood; bench plane, James Duncan,
buchanan; saw mill dog, John A. Fordon,
Bay City; chain-pump bucket, Solomon c.
Hamlin, Ypsilanti; screen window blind John
p. Clark Jr., Jackson; fruit protector Aaron
S. Dyckman South Haven folding tables for
undertakers, Curtis b. Simmons, Jackson ;
wheels for indexing Henry II. Edwards,
Grand Rapids feather renovators, John c.
West, Morenci; mechanisms for propelling
vessels, Ebenezer Raynale, Birmingham ;
windmills, Henry j Wolcott, Albion.
THE brickmakers of Grand Rapids made,
during the past season, l6, 600, 900 brick.
THE annual meeting OF the Executive Com
mitteo Of the MICHIGAN S tate Agricultural
Society, for the purpose of revising the pre-
MUM list for the year 1875, and for the trans
action Of such other business as may be
deemed necessary, including the location of
the fair for the coming year, will be held at
Pontiac, commencing on Tuesday, the 18th
OF January 1875.
| The Detroit Free Press presents reports
from the principal producing points in Michi-
gan exhibiting the number OF dressed hogs
already marketed, their condition and the
prices paid, together with an estimate Of the
probable amount yet to be marketed The
amount already sold is put down at Il, 900, 900
pounds, and the amount to 10 marketed is
estimated at 5,468,0C0 pounds. The Free
Press says the prices are mod rately uniform
throughout the State, and, on the whole,
very satisfactory to sellers The condition of
the pork is good, being quite up to the
average.
THE annual report of the State Salt Inspec-
tor gives the following as the total amount
of salt inspected in the State during the year
1674
Barrels.
Fine sat :......'.'...'..'.'':'. 96O,75I
Packers salt. 10000
solar SAT-. 1881
Second quality. ........... .............. 1874
Grand total. i, 02G,979
This would represent 5,13i,S75 bushels Of
SALT an increase of 1881 45 bushels, or
203, 633 barrels more than the product of 1873.
There are twelve salt inspection districts in
the State, and the Inspector estimates the
total manufacturing capacity of tue State at
1900 900 barrels. The revenue derived from
the salt inspection during the year was
1910, 46S, and the expenditure s1,327359,
leaving a balance of 1918, 100.
THE Michigan Bee-Keepers' Association held
an interesting and largely attended meeting at
Kalamazoo last week. Hon. A. C. Balcb pre-
sided.
CASUALTIES.
A HILLsDALE student, while cleaning
closet recently, threw bottle into the stove
which he supposed to be partly filed with
dirt. His suppostions were quickly dis
PEELED and gave way to firm convictions In
less than second he knew it was gunpowder.
He is now nursing a mangled hand.
DEATHS.
JOHN BATES. ar old resident and merchant
Of Mackinaw, died recently of pneumonia.
PERSONAL.
A NEwsBoY entered a Detroit street-car the
other day and asked passenger il he wanted
apaper. No, git out !" exclaimed the man.
The boy stepped as far as the door and turned
around and asked: Say, mister, did they
have this compulsory education law when YOU