The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-04-14
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

SMALLPOX has broken out in Jackson.
BAY CRY owes $3.50, 900 and feels very like
a city.
MICHIGAN has sent /, 100 varieties OF wood
and 1000 varieties OF shrubs to the Centennial
On Wednesday last passenger train on the
Michigan Central railroad ran over Joseph
Sweeney, of Detroit, near the Junction, and
killed him instantly.
Mr.. @. M. TYRREII, of Jackson has we'll
preserved two-dollar- bill of the old Continental
currency, which will be 100 years old nex'
July, and which has been i'm his family eve.
since il was issued.
THE Grdtiot County Journal says that Col
o. F. wisner, of Ithaca, has in his possession
piece Of the scaffold upon which John Brown
was hung; also piece Of Washington's coffin.
The latter relic he intends to deposit in the
State library at Lansing.
Miss CLARA SHELLY a former resident of
Gratiot county, commenced quilt in 1872 and
finished it in November last, which contains
II, 900 pieces. The pieces are wedgeshapcd
and are about one inch long and three-fourths
Oh an lucn Wlue NJ tue Wiuost plhCo.
JUDGE GREEN, of Bay City, has appointed as
commissioners to settle the difference between
the counties OF Midland and Roscommon,
Charles II. Turner and Joseph Bugbee Of
Fenton, VIM. Newton OF Flint, and Luther
westover and James Shearer Of Bay City.
THE contractors To build the Mackinaw and
Marquette railroad will begin work at both ends
of the route, and probably at Grand Island
which is about midway. According to the pre-
lminary surveys about one-fifth Of the whole
distance is nearly level grade, and another
| fifth is under ten feet grade to the mile.
DETROIT Erening Netcs: Kalamazoo post
Office clerk, upon whose hands time hung
heavily, has been experimenting upon the mail
facilities of the world. He sent letter around
the world, and it got back to the city Of luna
tics in just eighty-six days and three hours. 1t
had travelled %, 726 miles.
SOME of the Big Rapids urchins amused them
selves April by cutting pennies into quarters,
and then going into stores they would call for
quarters worth of candy, nuts, etc. After
the packages were done up and delivered to the
boys, they would toss their quarter of cent
the counter and get out of sight soon a
possible.
Portage Lake Mining Gazette says one
o most magnificent and neutrality-suspicious.
of the products of the country is now ready to
| go forward to the Centennial. 1t is a mass of
almost pure copper, weighing over five tons,
cut smooth on three sides, and has been pre-
pared by Mr.. Petrie, Superintendent Of the
Central MS that mines contribution to the
Centennial.
THE Lansing Republican says W. B. Thorn,
Of that city, purchased in Okemos last week.
among other trees, white oak. which was cut
into three logs fourteen feet each in length
and each log containing 1000 feet 1t required
six oxen to haul each log to the railroad station,
where they were shipped to Europe. Three
black walnut logs, bought by Mr.. Thorn, aver
aged $50 feet each.
Mrs. DRAKE, wife Of Albert Drake, living
four miles north of st. Johns came to the
Office of DR.. A. J. Virgins, of that place, the
other day, for the purpose Of having some
teeth extracted. Against the doctors wish,
chloroform was administered, and, after two
inhalations, she seemed to sink away. All
efforts to revive her proved useless, and she
was taken home dead.
YOUNG man named John McDougall, was
badly injured i'm an alteration at Thomas Too
hey's, at Wenopa, Friday night of last week.
McDougall states that Toohey hit him with a
pevy as he was leaving the house, but Toohey
states that McDougall first struck at him with
1 lr,.;fo oL, ;ofb t,l sa fror
tured. He was unconscious for half an hour
after being hit. McDougall is in.a dangerous
condition, and it is thought he cannot re-
cover.
TUESDAY evening Of last week the citizens of
Midland gave their Fire department a benefit
in the shape Of party and supper. During
the evening, to help the enjoyment of the oc-
casion, the firemen got up couple Of, bur-
lesque presentations. One was an extensive,
'long drawn out" tin trumpet to the Chief
Engineer George P. Bartlett, and the other a
"section Of hose" (made for a nursing bottle)
to the foreman of the hose company Samuel
T. McTeavy. The presentations were made by
James v. Lounsberry.
DouBLY tried ON the charge Of adultery and
perjury, and many times decided guilty" by
the verdict of people and associates, Rev. L.
w. May, OF Chesaning, has at last been sus-
pended from the Methodist ministry. He was
q smart man, and eloquent, and 1t was hard to
give him up but falling, as the proofs before
the presiding elders committee would seem to
show, fully "seven times seven times" the
brethren" have at length let go their grip,
smothered their charity, and given him over to
his own Ubiquitous practices.
SAGINAW Courier man living on the
town line between Chensaning and St. Charles,
by the name Of Austin Richardson, while out
with party hunting foxes, stopped aud rested
his hand on the muzzle of his gun his dog
came mp to be caressed, putting his fore paws
against bis master; when he went down one of
his paws caught the hammer TO the gun-lock,
carrying it back far enough to cause the recoil
to explode the cap and discharged the gun, the
ball passing through Richardson's left hand,
next striking him in the interior border of the
left breast passing up through the breast
muscle and lodging against the collar-bone.
DIR. Clark Of Chensanjng, was called cut out