The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-09
MICHIGAN NEWS.

IS, 600 acres of swamp and 1000 acres
of asset and primary school land at auc
ton at Lansing, on Tuesday oflast week
HIRAM BUNcE, of Barry county, has
been arrested on complaint of Il. ID.
Russell, of Kalamazoo, charged with
spearing in Gem Lake during the for
hidden season.
THE Postoflice ut Marshall has been
designated as one of the additional mon
ey-order offices ut which the German in
ternational money-order system is to be
put in operation.
THE Battle Creek Journal says that
the deposit Of salmon spawn i'll Goguac
Lake has yielded well, and that myriads
of young salmon, from two to four inches
long, are now sporting in lis clear
waters.
EDWARD WARD, fireman, injured in
collision on the Michigan Central railroad
nearly four years ago, died at his resi-
dence in Marshall from the effects of in
lures sustained in the above mentioned
collision.
The State Treasury balance for the
month of June, 1875, is as follows
Balance May 81. 1873 ..............S1,197 .03
Receipts for June l92,ll3.9i
Total. .................... ,59O'O,49l
1aNlutllS lOi JUNE. -'-'"o's"'
Balance June 80, 1873 81 PSI ,535 40
ANTo1SErrE SLAVERY, deaf and
dumb woman, while crossing the track
Of the Lake Shore and Michigan South
ern railroad n few days since, was
Knocked down by Car attached to n
switch engine, and both her legs cut off.
AT Lansing, on Monday last, scat
fold broke III the third story of the new
Capitol, letting four men fall to the sec
ond floor below. Thomas Leilwesll,
Polander, was fatally injured, his back
being broken. The other three were not
seriously hurt.
The annual meeting of the Michigan
State Pathological Society was held ut
Monroe last week. A large number of
delegates and strangers We're present,
and the gathering was of unusual in
terest. The display OF fruits, flowers
and wines was very fine.
The Attorney General has given an
opinion to the Board of State Auditors
that the claims of the 9Th, 9th, and It'll
regiments of Michigan infantry for SER
vices when mustered into the State ser
vice cannot be paid under the law
passed by the Legislature of last win
ter.
For some time the telegraph south
from Lansing has only worked "by fits
and starts" A careful examination OF
the wire showed that it was swayed by
the wind against bridge at damon
dale, where it would touch and cling tc
the head of spike nail which served as
a ground wire, breaking the circuit.
CHARLES DUFFIE, night telegraph op
orator at Kalamazoo, went to get drinl
one evening last week, and by mistake
dipped into pail containing a solution
of sulphate of zinc and copper used Il
making the battery. He had taken tw'
or three swallows before he tasted il
He went home in great agony, but b.
the prompt use of remedies was soon on
of danger.
A few days ago, while some laborer
l were at work on some excavations nea
{ Big Prairie, in Monroe county, the
{ came upon a quantity of bones, formin
0 the skeleton of mastodon, which wer
{ sxhumed. One of the immense tusks wa
$ eleven feet in length, and seven inche
{ in diameter at the smallest extremity
e where q portion seemed to have bee
s broken off. Several teeth were foun