The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-19


caeo last week, aged "a years.
The third annual convention of the
agricultural societies of Western Michi- |
gan will be held at Corporation Hall,
Kalamazoo, ON Thursday, Dec. q
G.. w. PARTRIDGE, of Battle Creek, has
been appointed, by Secretary Chandler,
law clerk in the Department OF the In
terror, in place OF James Remington. re-
signed
WARD GAsPAR, a file manufacturer,
went to gambling-room in Grand
Rapids the other night with $50 IN his
possession. He played it al into the
bank but S15, when he had q stroke OF
apoplexy and soon after expired.
JOHN GLOVER, Deputy Sheriff at
White Rock, went down to FOrestville
one dark night last week, to collect a
small debt of mn absconding debtor, and
while trying to catch his horse in the
street he missed his footing and fell, and
broke his leg.
MORE potatoes have been raised III the
Lake Superior country the past summer
than in any year previous; and instead
of sending to adjoining States for sup
ply, they can ship thousands of bushels
away, and still have enough left for home
consumption.
ELI GILBERT, q resident OF Texas, was
killed last Monday, while digging we'll
for O. p. Morton, in the Rix settlement,
near Kalamazoo, by bucket falling from
the top of the well, nearly forty feet,
eral hours after the accident.
The suit of Samuel +. Henderson
against the city of Grand Rapids, claim
ing SO, 900 damages for falling into an
excavation in Ioiiia street, has been con-
Guided, the jury returning verdict for
plaintiff for $500, sum just sufficient
to pay his expenses in the suit.
A LIQUOR firm in Bay City has raised
the point that, under the decision of the
Supreme Court, the liquor tax is i'm
posed upon the business and not on the
Individual selling; and a man may be the
proprietor of more than one saloon and
still be subject to but one tax.
The Supervisors of Benzie county,
were stubbornly divided in opinion as to
the county seat this year. Part of them
met at Frankfort, which they claim is
the county seat, and the others at Ben
zonia. The proceedings of the two
boards were published in the county
papers.
MICHAEL LYNCH was drowned in the
river near Eddy. Amery & Co. s mill, at
Bay City, the other night. He was mate
of the barge Empire State, and in getting
aboard he slipped and fell into the water,
at the same time receiving injuries which
rendered him helpless. The body was
soon recovered. He was from Sarnia,
unmarried aged twenty.
THE interstate rifle match ut Jackson,
last week, was decided success, and
the shooting was good. Teams from
Jackson, Fort Wayne and Chicago par
ticipated, and the Jackson team gained
the victory. The following was the total
score-distance 500 yards: Jackson, 1S1
Fort Wayne, 10; Chicago, 159. Each
team was composed o. six men, and each
marksman was allowed nine shots.
ALEX. d. CRANE, the retiring Judge
of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, was pre-
scented with silver tea set of six pieces,
valued at $85, at the Donnelly House
parlors, in Mason, one evening last week,
by the members of the Ingham County
Bar. The presentation speech was made
by Mark Nj. Atwood, which was re-
sponded to by the Judge in feeling
manner, after which sumptuous repasi
was enjoyed by all invited guests.
THERE is lake of perhaps 60 acres in
extent, situated near the railroad, about
five miles west of Farwell, Glare county,
the water of which is so muddy the year
round that the bottom is not perceptible
even in six inches of water. A good
share of the beach is sandy, and to the
observer no definite cause can be assigned
for the constant muddy condition of the
water. There is also white fungus sub
stance in small particles all over the sur
face, which gives the water filthy APP
pearance, yet this lake contains abund
ance of fish.
, A MAN named Putney, living three
miles from Francisco, Jackson county,
has come near starving himself to DEATH
His wife is partially insane, and he has
often expressed his determination to END
his life. Nearly two weeks ago he told
his friends that he had seen his share OF
trouble in this world, and that he had
then eaten nothing for number of days
Medical assistance was at once procured
but he would take neither medicine mol
food. After eight days of living with
out eating he became too weak to resist
longer, and is now recovering rapidly.
AMONG other curiosities preserved il
; the Office of Quartermaster-G Gen. Mat
thews ut Detroit is document addressed
by VIM. Gooch, Commander-in-C Chief ant
Lieutenant Governor of the colonies O
: Virginia, to certain parties whom II,
: therein proclaimed magistrates or Jus
, tees of the Peace for their respectiv,
: districts. The document bears the dat.
l 1740, and has attached to it the roya
seal of King George II. 1t was capture,
, and taken from the archives of Middle
! sex county, Va, during the memorable
raid made by Gen. Stoneman on the At
! OF Nay, 1868.
/. The State Census of 1874.
! The volume containing the results o
the census of the State. taken i'm TN,