The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-24
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

| cost band OF GraDdyille youths the sum OF
s25 each.
DR. NASH, OF Lapeer, has been appointed
Surgeon for the Lapeer Division OF the Detroit
and Bay City Railroad.
THE Saginapian congratulates the people OF
Saginaw that their city taxes are IS per cent.
lower this year than last.
Mr.. HENRY LAMBERT, of Bear Lake, q young
man of twenty-five has captured in the space
Of two years seventeen bears.
THOMAS HACKNEY ana Julius Schlegelmich,
two Port Crescent boys. recently captured a
lynx measuring 515 feet from tip to tip.
SEVEN business houses at Clam Lake were
destroyed by fire one night last week. The
loss is about $50, 900 insured for one-half.
The switch engine which has screeched ana
snorted around the Michigan Central Railway
yard at Marshall for so long is to be removed.
MAYOR PIERCE, of Grand Rapids has ordered
Chief OF Police Moran to continue his efforts
for the suppression of faro banks in that city.
THERE il said to be Postmaster in Sanilac
County who still collects postage from sub
oSiibcio W NoOhis PoPcioi ~ viz iabc VI ~
cents year.
KALAMAzooLoGIsTs solemnly place their right
foot on their new business directory and posi-
lively swear that their population has increased
2, 392 souls since 1870.
BATTLE CREEK had an els, 900 fire on Sunday
of last week. The Peninsular Planning Mill, a
large wooden building took fire from stove,
and was entirely destroyed.
REPRESENTATIVE HUBBELL has introduced a
bill i'll Congress to divide the State of Michi-
gan into three judicial districts, and to estab-
lish the Northern District of Michigan.
THERE is distress in Rchland, Kalamazoo
County, for water. Mr.. C. Morse, with much
pluck, determined to find water, and sank a
well 100 feet, lost three augers, and then gave
it up.
Mr.. HARRIS, of Clam Lake, proposes to fur
nish gratis for the Centennial, two spars, one
OF white and the other of Norway pine each
175 feet in length, and only 20 inches in
diameter.
AS SOON AZ the ice becomes firm enough for
travel on the Saginaw River, the Bay City
Bridge Company will demolish their old bridge
and commence the erection OF a new iron one
TO cost $1,000.
The decision of the Supreme Court in the
Kalamazoo High School case il given at length
1t is definite assertion that the State has au.
thority to sustain free high schools by taxes
levied on the people at large.
Mr.. JAMES O'DoNNEII, editor Of the Jackson
| Citizen, has been appointed agent of the Board
Of State Commissioners for the general super
vision Of charitable, penal, pauper and reforma-
tory institutions for Jackson County.
DOG while in pursuit of rat was caught
! in the machinery of Schneck q COTS Touring
mill at Ovid one day last eek, and ground &c
powder. But he was a tough dog and the oper,
alton damaged the machinery 300 worth
Owing to the increased rates for freight OF
! ing 100 per cent. above former rates, Crane
Ledge will order all freight by the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern, by Lansing, in future.
YoUNd Petoskey, son OF the old Indian chic
by that name has been in Grand Rapids get
ting drunk and making himself so conspicuous
lookup. He was examined by the Justice, bu
in consideration of his noble ancestry, was al
owed to go UNPUBLISHED.
Four convicts, Henry r. Rogers, Charles
Scott, Edward Webb and VIM Boone, ESCAPED
from the Penitentiary at Jackson early ont
morning last week. They we're employed il
the kitchen, and were awakened at o'clock t.
prepare breakfast. They went to the cellar fo
meat, but scaled the walls instead.
THE total enrolment of students at the Stat,
University for 1874 was 1,119. OF this numbe
Michigan furnished 46 per cent, and Illinois
ranked second. The faculty roll numbered AZ
Total receipts for the year, S145, 209. 10; tota
disbursements, $40, 1884; balance July l
1874, $4410.65. The affairs Of the Universit
are generally prosperous.
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE has 175 students en-
rolled, 81 in college classes, and the remainde
in the preparatory department. Seventy
seven ladies' are enrolled. The college own
real estate valued at $50, 900, and other prop
erty valued at 81, ZOO available for colleg
purposes. The library contains nearly $50
volumes, and there il 5000 worth of scientific
apparatus. Rev. Kendall Brooks President
OK Saturday of last week Mr.. John Benin, o
Bingh am, Leelanaw County met with an acci
dent while chopping in the woods, which re
suited in his death thirty-six hours afterward
He felled large tree which struck small
leaning tree, bringing it to the ground will
great force nearly at right angles with the on
he had been chopping. Running from tn
large tree he was struck on the head Will
the smaller one with the fatal result statet
above.
A man giving the name of John Martil
lodged at the Bristol House, in Battle Greek
one night last week, and on the following
morning hired horse and buggy, stating tina
he wished to drive about the city. As h
failed to return when due, suspicious wer
aroused that he had stolen the rig and lei
town, and the proprietor OF the livery stabl
drove to Marshall where he learned that tn
outfit had been pawned for s.. The thief wa
arrested as he WAS about to leave for Detroit
and lodged in jail
: Mrs. +. ID. RIVERS, who was lying in tn