The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-17
MICHIGAN NEWS.

JOHN FLINT was recently sentenced at
Charlotte to ten years in the peniten-
tiary for perjury.
j. RIPLEY, of Lansing, has been SEN
fenced to thirty years in the penitentiary
for incest with his two daughters.
A HURON county woman; weighing
eighty-fve pounds, recently gave birth
to twins, one weighing eight and the
other nine pounds.
The Agricultural Society of Port Aus
tin offers two prizes of $25 and S15 to the
best and second best baseball clubs that
play ut the fair on the Odd and oath of
September. Any club in the State
allowed to compete.
The Detroit conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, in session at
Flint, last week, elected Arthur Ed
wards, j. Il. Smart, l.. r. Fisk and DIR.
Linde delegates to the Methodist Gen
eral Conference that meets at st. Louis
May l, 1876.
The side brick wall of Benefits new
store, being erected at Jackson, fell in,
on Thursday last, and eight of the work
men were buried in the ruins, one being
taken out fatally injured, the others not
being seriously hurt. The damage to
the mill will reach $4,000.
AT Detroit, last Monday night, VIM.
Ralston, a mariner, out OF commission,
clambered to the roof of new build
ing opposite The Detroit and Milwaukee
depot, and about o'clock in the morn
ing he rolled off, falling forty feet, and
killing him mt once.
A DwELLING-HoUsE owned by M.
Bellman, and occupied by Henry Fan
ner, located opposite East Saginaw, was
recently struck by lightning and burned,
with most of its contents, including
800 in greenbacks. Loss, $1,000; in
sured for 81 $50.
The medal that was voted by Congress
June 20, 1874, to John Horn, Jr., of
Detroit, and which is now on the way
there, has, one side, bas relief profile
of Mr.. Horn, and upon the other an in
scription setting forth that Mr.. Horn
has saved 121 men. women, and children
from drowning i'll the Detroit river.
A YOUNG man named Austin, in Ovid,
was dismounting from an OK which he
had been riding, few days ago, when
the OK threw up its head, thrusting the
point of the horn into Austin's eye, and
the turning of the horn broke through
the cartilage of the side of the nose
Medical men think the eye can be
saved
The Jackson Patriot says : One of
the coolest of the many impositions
which we have had occasion to remem-
Der was perpetrated by local missiona-
ry society. We had published its no.
tees for over five years gratuitously,
and it finally grew so flourishing that it
arrived at the dignity of issuing a circu-
lar. There was good deal of this cir
cular, and we gave figures which would
! have netted us III round numbers fifty
cents profit. We didn't get the work.
1t went, we suppose, somewhere else
probably to some job Office, which, as il
had not been drawn upon for several
columns of gratuitous notices, and didn't
care picayrme for all the missionary as
sociations in existence, was satisfied with
a net profit of thirty and hall
cents"
A New YORK letter to the Lansing
Repu6Lican contains the following per
sonal gossip: "John Clark, basso
singer in Grace Church on Broadway
New York, resides in Brooklyn, where
on secular days he is q journalist. He
was once q resident of Detroit, and hi
friends in Michigan will be gratified t.
learn that he has been pledged such ma
terial aid by some gentlemen of wealth
in Brooklyn that he will go abroad thi
month, to take such studies in music a
have long been a cherished scheme o
his. 1t is in him to take high rank as
singer, and those who know the genial
whole-souled man will wish him all sue
cess. His wife and child will accompan,
him. I met him the other day, an,
asked him what name he had selecte,
for the bill-posters to spread him out Of
, the fences with when he should com
back to sing to us i'll opera, and he sai
"Signor Giovanni Brookalena."
The Southern MethOdists.