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


Asylum, in Kalamazoo, ON Friday afternoon of
last weef. She is handsome girl, Is wears OF
age and has until quite recently borne a good
reputation in that city. 1t is reported that
smith, who has been lodged in the County Jail
at Marshall, Is now pretending TO be insane in
order TO escape the inevitable fate which awaits
him.
iHE atmospheric condition don't seem 10 be
favorable to the msterializing" business OF late.
FIRST :" Katy King" suffered a fatal eclipse
next, the effulgent Eddy operators went down
under cloud and now Mrs. Parry. who bss
been electrifying the credulous in Ws.tar,,
Michigan. mas suddenly gone up in a fash of
Light she was engaged in giving a
seance at Rockford, Kent County,
few evenings ago, and everything passed
of as per programme until the imp-u-
dent spirit put forth its hand from the
cabinet and boldly slapped Mr.. M. Lockwood on
the ear. That was exactly where it missed il.
for he instantly seized the hand and called for
a light. A light was brought and, strange to
relate, the spirit was found TO have vanished,
while there stood Mrs. Parry hitched to the
other end OF the arm, tugging and pulling at it
as il it was her own. She got it, but gives no
more seances, and the cabinet, having proved
utterly ENTHUSIASTICALLY for spiritual purposes,
now does duty AZ wood-box.
THE seventh annual report of the State Salt
Inspector, showing the operations OF the salt
manufacture of Michigan for the year ending
Nov. 80, 1875, has been published. The salt
producing territory Of the State Is divided into
eleven districts, in which are ninety-eight
blocks and 4,371 solar covers, with producing
capacity Of 1900, 900 barrels, or 200, 900 bush
els. Total amount of salt inspected in the
State this year: Fine salt 1927 886 barrels
packers, 1928 barrels; solar, 1886 barrels;
second quality, 1910; total, 1851, 1865. This
would represent 5, 400, 1875 bushels Of salt, be-
ing an increase of 81, $50 barrels, or pa, AGO
bushels over last years product. The revenue
due the State Salt Inspector for the year end
ing Nov. 80, 1875, is as follows Duties on
S12, 096 bushels, at three mills per bushel, So
1868; duties on 4, 597 100 bushels at two mills
per bushel, 50, 104.26. Total, SILL 63O.54. Ex-
penditures Salary of State Salt Inspector, 49,
1877. A; Office and travelling expenses, printing,
etc., $6l2.42; salaries of Deputy Inspectors,
S8,6Ss.19. Total, $11, 46S.05. Surplus,
s162.59. The product Of 1869, when the law
went into effect was 500, 1913 barrels, from
which it will be seen that the product of the
State has more than doubled.
A BATTLE CREEK gentleman writes to the
Chicago Tribune in regard to the slip cana
through Michigan project for many years
standing. He says:
81 propose to make preliminary survey
possible TO ascertain the rise and fall of the Kala
mazoo also the entire route to the Detroit River.
This done, and a canal across Canada to the welland
Canal would also be made, and shorten the route.
A narrow-g gauge railroad for towing vessels would
be of immense benefit. AS foods rise to
do any damage on the Kalamazoo River, it is of
the safest and cheapest routes that be found for
a canal. Build this great work, and every town
its. route would hum with shipbuilding; Chicago
would become the great commercial mart of the
boundless West; and every acre Of our rich lands
would loom mp in value. think $4,000 will make
preliminary survey. viii Chicago respond at once?
VIII the Board IT Trade take action in this import
ant matter? Yours truly, II. WILLIS.
P. 81 have competent engineer engaged to
make the survey; so that petitions can be got up
and presented TO Congress for appropriation to-
ward the work. to have the Government do it.
This done, millions OF dollars now annually lost
would be saved well thousands of
lives. There is no lack of water, there hun
dreds Of lakes the route, or near to it, that can
be feeders, and now empty into the Kalamazoo
River. / have had extensive knowledge of canal
and slackwa,er navigation in Pennsylvania, and am
convinced that less than s. 900 900 will make this
work for vessels of 500 tons burden. II. W.
The ong-contested case wherein Martin G.
Osborn brought suit to recover the Office Of
Sheriff, to which he claimed to have been legal
ly elected at the last general election in 1874,
was closed in the Circuit Court at East Sagi-
nav last week. 1t will be remembered that the
Board of County Commissioners threw out 4S0
votes cast for Osborn because of clerical errors
in msspelng the name in making up the re-
turns and declared Reuben Andrus, the Re-
publican candidate, elected by lis majority.
Indignation meetings we're held and finally
, Andrus resigned. The Judge appointed Coro-
ner White Sheriff, who in turn appointed An
trus Deputy. Osborn brought suit and the
defense, recognizing that so far as clerical er-
rors were concerned they had no case, sought
to show that fraud had been committed by bal
lot stuffing in the townships of st. Charles and
Brady. After being out five hours the Jury
brought in a verdict throwing out the entire
vote Of the townships Of Brady and st. Charles,
and declaring Andrus to have received the
greatest number of votes cast outside of said
townships, and that he was, therefore, legally
elected. The case will probably go to the Su-
preme Court. If the verdict holds good, new
complications are liable to rise, as the throw
ing out of the vote of the two townships
elects Thomas r. Mosher, the Democratic
candidate for County Treasurer, who was
beaten on the official count Of the canzassers
by thirty-four votes.
Public Instruction.
The thirty eighth annual report Of the SUI
perintendent of Public Instruction, with ac-
, companying documents, for the year 1874. is