The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-25
MICHIGAN NEWS.
The physicians of Albion have adopt
ed new fee bill. e'

JENNIE hATOH, Oh ot. Joseph, caught
seventy whitefish in about an hour.
The railroad builders have struck
bed of sandstone suitable for building,
in Hope, Barry county.
LAST week Marshall paper boosted
that their Jail was without an occupant.
The next day it had seven.
THE Kalamazoo Board of Education
has made rule that no presents shall be
made to teachers by the pupils.
FRANK DODGE, of Niles, has mysteri-
ously disappeared, and all efforts of his
parents to find his whereabouts have
been unsuccessful.
PROF. OsBAND, of the Department of
Natural Sciences Mt Albion College, and
his wife, the Preceptress, will withdraw
to spend year in study and travel.
LAST Thursday about 200 feet of the
Kalamazoo railroad dropped out Of
sight, but large gang of hands have
been filling it, and Saturday afternoon
the train passed over it.
A RAILROAD employee named Radcliff,
of Flint, has been arrested in that city,
and a large quantity of stolen goods
found in his possession. In default of
800 bail he was committed to Jail.
GEORGE ASuDoN was shot by his step
son near Six Lakes, in the town of Belvi-
dere, few days since. The wounded
man walked one-half mile after being
shot, and lived about six hours. Before
his death he declared that the shooting
was intentional, while the son, young
man 10 years of age, claims that it was
accidental.
AT Jackson, the other day, a boy II
or IS years old, unknown except to two
or three who had employed him in farm
labor, an orphan from an Eastern city,
utterly friendless and out of money,
with no refuge from starvation but death
or thievery, forlornly threw up the
sponge and committed suicide by taking
laudanum.
A Mr.. HARDING, of Kalkaska, was lost
in the Manistee swamp, and wandered
around for six days with nothing to eat
but lunch which he took from home
and ate on the first day. He did not see
human being until the sixth day, when
he came TO q house. He was weak and
emaciated, and his reason, upon discov.
ering the house, nearly deserted him.
The organization of the Sacred Temple
in Marshall has rented the Facey Hall
for the use of the society. 1t is to be
fitted up as parlor, kitchen, ETC. For
merly no persons were admitted as mem
bers but relatives of Masons, but this
restriction is now removed. Mrs. S. A
Peterman is the presiding officer of this
odge.
THE forty-frst annual convention of
the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan was in
session at Flint last week. A large num-
Ser of clergymen and lay delegates were
in attendance. The service was opened
by the Rev. DR.. Schetky, of Marshall;
reading of the psalter by the Rev. w.
w. Raymonds, of Hillsdale. The les
sons were pronounced by the Rev. G.
NJ. Skinner, of Mt Clemens; creed and
htany by the Revs. Lewis, of Port HUI
ron, and Brown, of Detroit. The Bish-
op, with assistants, administered the rite
of communion to large number of
communicates. The Bishop announced
that under the amendment to Sec. /,
Canon 81, he would divide the diocese
into three conventions, to be known as
Southern, Central, and Northern Convo-
cations, and committees were appointed
for the same.
A SINGULAR discovery was made at
Niles, few days ago. The firm of d.
& w. X. Lacey purchased some waste
paper of rag peddler, among the lot
being paper bag, with the following
written on the back:
Emotional insanity has been increasing on
me for about eight months, and don't want to
go to an insane asylum. No Coroner's inquest
Plain coffin, no casket. Lay me out and bury
me in the clothes / have on. Don't remove
them. Basket OF books and papers are Treas
urer's papers, except one package, which be-
longs to the estate of Thos. G.. Wickham Give
this to Benjamin f. Fish. In the pocket-book
is $3.50, which give to Allan as directed on
package.
(Signed) GEo. n. BOND.
The handwriting on the bag was COM
pared and found to be exactly like that
of Mr.. Bond on several official papers. If
true, the above will explain the default
er's sudden departure.
The E7art Revieto has the following ::
"The Sheboygan express going east on
the Flint and Pere Marquette railway
last evening had narrow escape from q
terrible accident at the Hagadone rail
way, about four miles west of Evart.