The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-06
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


THE asylum for the insane at Kalamazoo has
GIG inmates, of whom SIG are females.
DAVID Bush, one OF the pioneers Of Essex,
Clinton county, was killed at raising last
week.
ALBERT O'NEII, Of Portland died suddenly
ON Tuesday morning frcm over exertion In
striving to catch peacock.
THE Ionia County Agricultural Society Ia out
of debt and has o., 900 ahead. Tue fair this
year was "huge success"
THE contract for building the Court House
at Manistee has been Let to Washer, Potter g.
Co., OF Grand Rapids, for e29,OOO
REv. FATHER PRAEoAn an East Saginaw
priest has relipquished his charge, and will
return to Germany, via the Centennial show.
Ed TAYLOR, employed at the salt block of
Gus F. Rush & Co., at East Saginaw, fell into
ono of the grainers the other day, and one Of
his legs was scalded 30 that the flesh dropped
OF.
The Michigan Conference of the Free
Methodist Church has been divided, and that
| PohtAoh Vi eAo scAAAeoiy Ayibb hoAsh Va VIC
base-lino Of the State will compose new con-
ference.
A NEW single mill belonging to M. J. Dana
her, of Ludington, was burned the other night
Two hundred thousand shingles were burned.
Loss between $4,000 and $4,000 insured for
$4,000.
| The Kalamazoo Gazette has a witty editor
Here is srecimen OF his humor Why is
Kalamazoo a heather village? Because the
Maidens in their Blindness bow down to Wood
| and Stone.
The Common Council of Negaunee has
adopted an ordinance entitled IAN ordinance
for the more effectual prevention Of dsordorly
and tumultuous behavior, breach Of the peace,
and other misdemeanors."
| JOHN j. HEELY, a we'll known attorney, died
at his home in East Saginaw on Saturday OF
last week. He had just returned from the
Rocky mountains, where he had searched in
vain for the fountain of health.
| SAYS the lazy editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal: "Mrs. Sally Beers, of Clinton coun-
ty, works farm of 100 acres and has min
children. II there were few Thousand sue
persons in the world as Sally, many more Of
us might escape work."
DETROIT Evening Ne,os: "A Bay City man
named Turf married tough case known as
Stella Mosher, and few hours afterward tried
| to kill himself, and now he has been arrested
for trying to kill his notorious bride-who has
been bride but two weeks"
ruvs .It ,.roa,,ct ~ M;ch;oap Tor m month
of September was 175. 49S barrels, and for the
year to Sept. 80 was 1, 118, 59l barrels an in
crease over the product of the corresponding
period of 1875 Of 249, 900 barrels. The product
this year will reach 1900, 900 barrels.
SHIPMENTS from the ports OF Bay City and
Saginaw for the month OF September were as
follows: Lumber, feet, Bay City, 44,025, 079;
Saginaw, ~ 037, sS4. Lath, pieces, Bay City,
| 1887, 900; Saginaw, 3,2s7,0O0. Shingles,
pieces, Bay City, 1,O74, 900 Saginaw, 1885, 900.
Salt barrels, Bay City, 1860; Saginaw, 1850.
Staves pieces, Bay City, 1890; Saginaw,
1853 $50. Hoops, pieces, Bay City, 1000, 900.
The saw-mill owned by the Frankfort Com
pany, at Frankfort thirty miles north Of Man
istee was destroyed by fire early last Monday
morning. Loss, 100000. Insurance, 800
in the following companies German Amer
lean, $1,000 1T. Paul, $1,000 North British
and Mercantile, $1,000; Phoenix, 1000
Atlas, $1,000; Continental, $4,000; Under
writer's, $4,000. The origin OF the fra is not
stated.
The streets of Saginaw are filled with men
looking for employment in the woods. This
will be difficult TO find, says the Republican,
as the most of the lumbermen running camps, or
going to do 30, have the men they want en-
gagged. We would strongly advise those hay
ing friends who contemplate coming to Sagi-
nav for work to tell them to stay away, as the
market is already overstockei and we have
hard, trying winter before us.
Work is being prosecuted in lively manner
at the Cleveland mine, at Marquette, about
$50 men being employed. The mine leads all
others in point OF shipments 30 far this season.
On Friday of last week some 25 600 tons of
rock fell in the main opening, or pit, of the
Lake superior mine. The men were absent at
dinner at the time, else there would have been
a dreadful disaster. 1t is not often that these
accidents confine themselves to sucL con-
venient occasions.
ANOTHER instance of the result of pointing
guns supposed to be unloaded' is reported
from Manistee, where two lads named Louis
Long and Leonard Gardner were shot by the
son Of the Captain Of the tug Williams snap
ping gun at them. Jennie Gardner escaped
with few shot in the back, but Louis Long
received most of the charge and now lies in a
critical condition. A severe penalty is laid by
the State law Of Michigan upon the act Of
pointing at a person gun, either loaded or
unloaded. The law ought to be well known.
THEsixty. third anniversary of the reoccupa-
ton of Detroit by Americans after Hull's sur
render was publicly observed there on the
2Sth Of September. Aplatform was erected in
front of Whitney's Opera House, which stands
on the cite Of the surrendered fort, and upon
IL was placed bust OF Gen. Cass, the butt of
the fsgstaff Of the old fort, and some other
relics there. Literary exercises took place,
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