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

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Grand Rapids to Rotterdam, Holland.
Mas. HARRIET GRAY, of Marquette,
has received patent upon an improved
tea kettle.
THREE wild deer were seen browsing
about in the corporation OF Battle Creek
last week.
EAST SAGINAW folks are justly proud
of their consolidated library. 1t contains
about 5000 books.
RUBERr's HOTEL, at Kawkawlin, was
totally destroyed by fire one evening last
week. Loss, $4,000.
The Detroit Postoffice now issues
money orders on France, Belgium,
Italy and the Netherlands.
ANNA OWENS, the supposed child muir
deress, is kept in custody at the house
OF Battle Creek officer"
The Common Council of Kalamazoo
are taking steps toward the organization
of paid Fire Department.
REV. G. s. Rowland, of Kalamazoo,
has concluded to give his hearers a Sc
ries of interesting Sunday evening lee
lures.
The Bay City Tribune has adopted
the plan of giving free advertisements to
all those desiring to hire help, or those
desiring work.
The Saginaw Courier says that of thir-
ty-two mercantile firms in that city eight
report larger sales than last year, seven
about the same, and the rest are non
committal.
JOHN CAMPBELL, alias "Plug" Camp
bell, alias William Burke, has been ar
rested at Buffalo, charged with the
murder of Peter Wehlehan, in Detroit,
on the 3D. inst.
The Romeo Observer says that con-
ductor on the Michigan Midland got
tired of riding alone, and so he dead
headed a passenger for company, and
has been discharged for it.
The Bay City Tribune, in double
loaded editorial article, calls on Repre-
sentative Bradley to secure the passage
of the necessary laws for the establish
ment of United States Courts in Bay
City.
A DRY-GooDs firm, Harrington e.
Younglove, running what is known as
the Sabin store, at jackson, failed few
days ago. Liabilities, $4,000; assets,
$33, ZOO. A quick settlement is ex-
pected.
The Tempest Hand Engine Company
of Battle Greek has rs men, elegant SEES
sion rooms, over $500 worth of furni-
ture, about 800 in the treasury, and are
the happy possessors of the State cham
pionship banner.
In Kalamazoo, a few days since,
George Ingerson, alias William Lodi
worth, was arraigned for polygamy and
pleaded guilty. He had married Alice
NJ. Whitmore Sept. 10, 1875, and Nellie
Brown Sept. IL, 1875.
A BOY near Fruitport last week, while
breaking yoke of steers, became so en-
tangled with them that he broke his
right arm in three places, dislocated his
collar bone, and broke his left leg. He
thought the breaking was not all on one
side.
The Manistee Times says that some
Indians have discovered the body of q
man about % miles from that city, near
bridge, nearly naked, with blood
around it. Large limbs of trees lay near
by. There was no means of identifying
it. Is it Donaldson
THIRTY convicts were received at the
State Prison during the month of No
vember. There were 800 at the COM
mencement of the month, and SOB at the
close. Albert Johnson, from Mecosta,
and Henry Jacobs, from Saginaw, were
pardoned by the Governor.
WHILE VIM. Gardner, OF Saginaw, was
helping neighbor lance swelling on a
horse, he was accidentally wounded with
the knife in the leg. Some of the pois-
onous matter on the knife adhered to
the wound, and was soon all through
the system. His recovery is considered
doubtful.
The sink-hole on the line of the De-
troit and Lansing Road at Leroy is still
giving trouble. 1t is demonstrated now
that the road-bed has been supported
only by the turf and the roots of trees.
Some suppose it to be a subterranean
lake. One thing is certain, the sod
rested on body of water of considerable
depth.
On the Goth Of November James Bige-
low, a prominent citizen of Grand Blanc,
StucScc OOuuty, ltlb lilS uOLlc W ~ W
Flint on business. Mr.. Bigelow came
to Flint to meet his partner in business,
and during his stay drew quantity of
money from one of the banks, and, after
transacting his business, left for his
home, which place he has failed to reach.
A FEW evenings ago F. M. Foster, for
several years State Grand Secretary of
the Odd Fellows, and for number Of
years a practicing dentist at Jackson,
took five grains of morphine, presumably
with suicidal intent. His condition was
discovered and antidotes given him.
Next day Mr.. Foster published card
stating that he had no recollection of
buying or taking the morphine.
By the removal of DIR. Samuel Per-
key to Chicago, Charlotte loses one of
. her most successful physicians and skill
full surgeons. DIR. Perkey has practiced
medicine in Charlotte and vicinity for
many years, during which time he has
met with extraordinary success and es-
tablished n reputation which will recon-
mend him to the confidence of all with
whom he comes in contact.
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