The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-03
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Il. Il. Mills has been appointed Dep
uty Postmaster of Kalamazoo in place Of
Col. Sumner, resigned.
The State Insurance Company recent
ly presented Lansing with pair of
horses to yank their fire engine around
with.
ELIAS FOWLER, an old resident of
Nashville, was killed recently by run
away team while returning from Eaton
Rapids.
MICHAEL MARI and wife, of Lansing,
were seriously, perhaps fatally, injured
% their team running away on Wednes>
day last.
!" No MEN wanted for the woods this
wp1:er," is the wording of placards that
are posted near the entrances of prom
inent lumber Offices at East Saginaw.
PETER BELL, the mate that drifted out
into the lake from the barge Mariner in
a yawl boat at Bay City, was found dead
in the yawl two miles north of Big
Creek, five days afterward.
Gov. BAGLEY has appointed Parm s.
De Graf, of Charlotte, Eaton County,
Circuit Court Commissioner, in place of
Isaac ID. McCutcheon, resigned, having
been appointed Judge of Probate.
The Chicago, Saginaw and Canada
Railroad is dong a good freight and
passenger business, and is opening to
the trade of the Saginaws region rich
in forest and agricultural products.
ACCORDING to figures collected by the
Standard, there have been 60, 100 bar
rels of apples and 872 barrels of cider
shipped from stations in Hillsdale Coun-
ty this season, with four stations to hear
from.
In Hersey, the constabulary have
found it necessary to take temporary
charge (on account of chickens) of II gen
tleman who gives out that he is the Mes
siah and the champion Thaumaturgist OF
the world.
The Armory building of the Eastern
Saginaw Rifle Company took fire early
last Monday morning. and was about de-
stroyed, together with uniforms and fix
lures. Loss, $4,000 insured for So, 600.
JOHN PoULTING, a German, residing
at Salzburg, cut his throat with a razor
one day last week, from the effects of
WlliCil ut NiICNt Wlblllh low llOtio.
Temporary insanity is supposed to have
caused the act. His age was AZ. He leaves
wife and seven children.
On Friday of last week, during a
heavy blow and high sea the schooner
Maggie Dali endeavOred to make the
port of Ludington, and just as she was
entering the piers the boom struck the
Captain, who was standing on the cabin,
and knocked him overheard and he was
drowned before he could be rescued.
ZEB TOWNSEND, of Marengo, while
returning from Marshall after dark the
other night, was set upon by footpad
who demanded his money. Townsend
whipped up his horse and escaped. Two
shots were fred after Townsend, who
had $500 with him. There is no trace
of the robber.
THERE is plucky mail carrier at Man
istee. His name is Booth. The other
morning he found his horses all on the
sick ist-epizootlc-Dut, nothing daunt-
ed, he shouldered the mailbag, contain
ing forty pounds of mail matter, and per-
formed the trip to Benzonia, thirty-five
miles, on foot.
The Nashville barry County, Ne,os
says; Zone day last week Theodore
Brokaw, of Odessa, killed a chicken by
chopping off its head. The affair was
witnessed by his two boys. A few
minutes after entering the house Mr..
Brokaw heard one of the boys screaming,
and rushing out of doors, discovered to
his horror that the eldest boy was hold
ing the other boys head on the block,
and had already struck him blow, cut
ting quite CASH.
AN amusing divorce case has just ter
minated at Flint. Mr.. and Mrs. New
come had filed bill and cross-bill for
divorce. The parties being wealthy, the
lawyers expected to strike big bonanza.
The husband and wife effected recon
citation, thus cutting them off, and were
slumbering together, when, near mid
night, the lawyers had the husband
arrested for conspiracy and brought to
the lookup, when he compromised by
paying 5000 attorney fees for himself
and wife.
A DISPATCH from Marquette gives the
following particulars as to the condition
of the bark Chenango. which recently
went ashore near that place: "All the
crewwere found in the cabin safe and well.
The stern of the vessel was stove in, and
they had to strengthen the bulkhead of
the cabin with planks and braces to keep
the seas out. They managed to keep
themselves and the stove above the water,
which was foot or two deep over the
floor. In this way they kept from freez-
ing and weathered the gale for thirty-six
hours, expecting every wave would
sweep the cabin overheard. Everything
is covered with ice about the vessel, inch
ropes being as large as mans waist.
There is little or no chance of saving
the vessel. She is insured for 81, 1000. !"
w. b. McCREERY, State Treasurer,
has submitted his annual report to Gov.
Bagley, for the fiscal year ending Sept.
30. Herewith we present some of the
more important items:
The balance of cash in the Treasury Sept.
The cash receipts for the year were 2,2Os, 929 IS
$3,279 203 81
The cash payments were. ............2 ,05OO 81
Balance Sept. 80, 1875. .......... 81, 229 LOG so
The appropriations for the year from
the State Treasury were as follows:
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