The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10
MICHIGAN NEWS.

"A RIFLE club has been formed IN Mon
roe, with present membership of about
twenty.
GEORGE LAsIPARTER committedsu
at Grand Rapids last week 10y cutting his
hroat and then jumping into the river.
NEARLY all the mills in Big Rapids
are going on full time, Notwithstanding
the general depression in the lumber
market.
The Homer h,der says: Clarendon
soil beats the world for beans. II. H,
Shear showed us a specimen last week,
the pods of which were two feet long"
The validity of Capt. Wards will is to
be contested at Detroit, shortly. 1t is
limited that the contestants will make a
strong fight against the legality of Mr..
Wards last marriage.
AUDToR-GENERAL ELY the other day
notified large number of clerks in his
office that he would dispense with their
services hereafter. 1t is asserted that
some of the clerks removed were of
class who have used the office as means
of evading their creditors, the laws of the
State being such that their salary could
not be taken for debt.
MICHIGAN postal affairs: offices Is
tablished-Elgin, Antrim county, Geo.
III. Wealsh, Postmaster; Ferryville, Ma
son county, Edwin M. Comstock, Post
master. Name Changed-Headache,
Midland county, to Bradford. Post
masters Approximations, Mecosta
county, j. Z. Gruber; intermediate,
Charlevoix county, Daniel Isaman; Har
vey, Marquette county, A. A. Hart.
THERE have been erected at Dundee
thus far this season seventeen dwelling
houses and large grain depot. Beside
these, there are at present thirteen dwell
ing houses, cheese factory, one bust
ness block and two large Touring mills
in process of erection. The Touring
mills will be ready for business in the
fall and the cheese factory in the spring.
A VALUABLE bed of corundum was re-
Gently discovered by prospecting
party near Gaylord, Otsego county.
The bed is situated one-half mile from
the Mackinac division of the Illinois
Central road and covers territory of
twenty-five acres, and is from seven to
ten feet deep. Experts who have tested
samples pronounce it superior as a pol
isher to the imported article.
AT Edgerton, on the morning of the
LIST inst, the lumber piles of Vinegar &
Shaw were discovered on fire. There
being light wind the flames spread to
adjoining piles of lumber and shingles,
and the heat became SO intense that for a
distance of go feet the rails on the rail
road were warped. The following
dealers in lumber and shingles are the
principal losers, with no insurance :
Vinegar & Shaw, $50, feet lumber ;
David Monroe, IA, 900 feet ID. Porter,
10000 feet and 1901 shingles and b.
b. Bugs, 10000 shingles.
In Jackson county, last week, the wife
of well-known citizen died. In the
course of the usual preparations for the
funeral, the widower ordered coffin
from one Mr.. b., who was involved in a
bitter quarrel with one Mr.. g., a
rival undertaken. The latter, however,
owned the only hearse in the village and
he saw his way to a deadly revenge.
When application was made to him for
his hearse, he fatty refused to hire it out
for any price whatever, and as it was i'm
possible to get another or postpone the
funeral, he had the acute satisfaction of
seeing the coffin drawn to the grave on
II common wagon.
A MAN named VIM. Dagle, an attache
of circus exhibiting ut Jackson last
week, was drowned in the river, he hav-
ing leaped from hot-air balloon in
which he had been making ascensions.
People on shore, seeing him, supposed
he could swim, and made no effort to
assist him for several minutes, until they
saw him sinking, and then they put out
with boats, but too late. His body was
found in six feet of water, some twenty
minutes after he sank. Among the cir
Gus people he was known as Prof. Ariel,
and is said to have a mother living in
Grand Rapids. He was aged about 20
years, was subject to fits, and may have
fallen from the basket
Making I'm the COb,OlexiOn.