The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-26
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


LuMBERMEN are making tracks for the
pineries, where they will spend the win
ter earning greenbacks.
THERE is teamster in East Sagi-
nav named Lorenzo Byerline, who says
that he is 102 years old. He works every
day.
A MANIsTEE man is going to Arkansas
in boat He will go by way of Lake
Michigan, Illinois and Michigan Canal
to the Mississippi, and thence to the
Arkansas River.
HARVEY Folsom, of Attica, Lapeer
County, has become insane from attend
ing Free Methodist revival meetings,
and is to be taken to the asylum. He
has a wife and five children.
A GANG of roughs attacked Strader' S
saloon at Grand Rapids few days since,
and demolished doors and windows, and
beat one of the inmates to such an ex-
tent that his life is despaired of, because
the proprietor desired to observe the
Sunday law.
JAMES GILLETT, resident of Eaton
Rapids, while walking on the track of
the Toledo, Wabash and Western Rail-
road, Mt Fort Wayne, Ind, last Saturday
afternoon, was run over by cars attached
TO switching engine, cutting one leg and
arm off. He died a few hours after
ward.
THE mason work on the new Michigan
Capitol, at Lansing, is stopped for this
season, leaving the cornice nearly COM
pleted. Only 2,421 feet of plain ashlar
remain to be laid. 1t is expected that
the entire building will be furred and
lathed this winter, and will be plastered
next summer.
On Monday night of last week, while
the barge Mariner was lying at her an
chorage at the mouth of the Saginaw
River, the mate, Mr.. Bell, attempted to
draw water, and, losing his pail, went
down into the yawl to secure it. A furi-
ous Northwestern drove the yawl out to
sea, and he has not been heard of since.
He is supposed to have been swamped
or persisted with cold.
SOME two months since young man
between 20 and 25 years of age was
missed from his home in Baltimore,
Barry County, and has not been heard
from since, though efforts have been
made to find him. He is naturally with
out understanding, and unable to speak
so as to be understood. IL is believed
that he is dead or has wandered away,
got lost, and is unable to tell who he is
or where his home is.
In an affray at Sand Beach, Huron
County, one day last week, the wife OF
Thomas Duffy, blacksmith for Dale,
Stead & Co., shot Charles Vanway with
a revolver at the Franklin House, killing
him almost instantly. Vanway and
Duffy having drank profusely during
the day quarreled, and Mrs. Duffy stick
ing up for her husband, as well as to
avenge private insult, boldly shot Van
way dead, shooting the second time
after he had crawled behind the bar.
Vanway is a laborer from Detroit, and
Mrs. Duffy is from Chicago.
A STRAY rifle ball, says the Eaton
Rapids Journal, entered the residence
of Mr.. n. G. Northrup through an open
door a few days ago, and knocked hole
through the glass globe of lamp stand
ing on table in the center of the room.
Mrs. Northrup was at the time sitting
by the side of the table, and barely
saved the lamp from falling to the floor,
but the shade and chimney were shat
tered to pieces by the jar. The ball
struck the globe about the center, and
made hole as perfect as could be
drawn with a compass. No one knows
who fired the shot.
In letter addressed to i. III. Smith,
Secretary of the Board of Indian Com
missioners, at Washington, by George l..
Belts, Indian Agent for this State, Mr..
Belts says, respecting the present Indian
policy, that the universal testimony of
the Indians of his Agency, and all who
have occasion to observe, is, that our
Indians have never before been so salts
fed and prosperous as they have been
during the last four or five years. One
of the most discouraging sentiments that
he found among the Indians, when he
first became Indian Agent, and indeed
long before, while he was laboring
among them as Superintendent of Chris
tian Missions, was their want of conf
dence in the integrity and generosity of
the United States Government. This
faithlessness had vicious and paralyz-
ing influence upon the Indian mind
and character. But Mr.. Belts is happy
to say that he observes great i'm
provement in this regard among the
Indians. He cannot say as much educa-
tionally. The exhaustion of treaty funds
has closed all but one of the Government
schools among the Ottawas; but the
schools with the Chippewas of Lake SUI
perlor, and of Saginaw, Swan Creek,
and Black River are doing better than
ever before. Since the lands have beer
allotted to them in severalty there has
been great Improvement The expert
ment of offering So for each acre they
would prepare for seed, and the seed tC
plant it, was successful. Last fall they
harvested 80 per cent. more than theJ
ever did before. Hunting and fshln(
he discourages, in order to develop tn,
pursuits of agriculture. The Indians
have adopted the costumes of civilized
life. The tribal relations of the Ottawa.
and Chippewas are dissolved. The,
number 5000, and their Council deter
mined to seek such Legislation of Con
gress as will make them citizens. Man,
now hold municipal Offices. He full,
indorses the present Indian policy.
A KANSAS boy was bitten by a rattle