The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-17

AN interesting breach If promise case.
which has occupied the Circuit Court az
Bay City for several days, has been termin-
ated. 1t was entitled, Julia Olmstead VS..
Henry Benson. Damages claimed, 3D.
600. She declares Benson promised to
marry her, and the wedding day was set
for April 1, 1874. Benson soon after
married another woman. He swears he
never promised to marry her, although
at one time he thought of doing 80. The
plaintiff occupied house owned by de-
PENDANT, who often frequented the house.
though always on business, such as fixing
the windows, stovepipe, etc. The jury
rendered verdict of $4,000
EMERY NYE, on trial at Battle Creek
for the murder of Robert Molineux, a
farmer, has been found guilty of murder
in the first degree, and sentenced to i'm
prisonment at hard labor for life. EN-
cry Nye is young man, only about "a
years of age, and was proprietor of no.
torious house of ill-fame. On Oct. /,
while engaged in playing cards in Sam
Hodges saloon, fight ensued, followed
by general row, during which a farmer
named Robert Molineux, who came in
rs a peacemaker, was stabbed and III
stantly killed by Nye. At the time of
the occurrence there was much excite
ment and threats of lynching. The re-
marks Of Judge Woodruff in passing
sentence were impressive and touching,
but were received by the prisoner with
apparent Indifference and unconcerD.
The prisoner was taken to Jackson only
a few hours after receiving his sentence.
GEORGE f. LEWIS, the well-known Sag
NAV editor, has lately made an extended
tour through the South and West, and
sums up the result of his observations in
these words: eve have met hundreds of
Michigan men in Missouri, Kansas, Ne
braska, Iowa and Texas, and not one in
ten but was honest enough to say he
would be glad to get back to Michigan.
Corn ten cents bushel in Southwestern
Missouri, and other things in proportions;
an abundant crop means no Market a
failure of crops means utter restitution
in many of the localities that are repre-
sented rich, fertile and convenient to
market, etc. Year with year, there is no
State so thoroughly reliable in regard to
crops and markets as Michigan, and ten
Michigan men who stay at home get
rich to where one who seeks his fortune
farther west succeeds in worrying out
any sort of a competence"
ADVANCE sheets of the annual report
of Judge Evans, of Bay City, State
Trespass Agent, are published, and re-
veal large amount of trespassing and
crooked land sales. Operations were
mostly carried on in the lumber districts
and by a class of operators cunning
enough to cover their tracks and make
detection difficult. A large quantity of
the best pine lands in the State have
been purchased by these pirates on the
part pay system, and, after being
stripped of their real value, forfeited to
the State by non-payment of interest.
The agent says examinations will show
that thousands of acres of primary
school and agricultural college lands
have been acquired in this manner by
fraudulent representation as to their
character and value. Proceedings will
be instituted to compel these parties to
repurchase the lands at the price they
should have been sold for in the first
place, which is So an acre. The examin-
atoms are not half completed, but 80 far
they show that 70, 600, 900 feet of timber
have been shipped from lands fraudu-
lently obtained. The agent collected
about 81, 900 on account of trespass the
past year, and will wage active warfare
against trespassers and crooked buyers
the coming year.