The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-04-28
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


THE editor of the Stanton Herald has been
elected township drain commissioner.
BATTLE CREEK church is advertised to give
a Mother Goose reception" in which forty
veritable geese will take part"
JOHN LARKIN, late Treasurer Of Midland
county, and for some time past under arrest
for embezzlement of the county funds, was
arraigned Saturday and pleaded "not guilty."
His trial was fixed for the next term Of the Cir
cult court.
THE New York S,.n has highly sensational
story about the Hon. s. b. Axtell scheming to
make New Mexico Mormon State from which
all Gentiles shall be excluded. Mr.. Axtell
was for many years resident of Mt. Clemens,
Michigan, and his old neighbors give no Gre
dence to the Suns story.
A HORSE meeting was held in Kalamazoo,
Saturday night, and an association organized
with r. +. Judson as President and r. d. Rus-
sell as Secretary. Over $4,000 of the $4,000
of the proposed stock Of the organization was
subscribed. The Telegraph says the fair will
be held early in june but the time is not yet
fixed.
SAUGATUCK closed her last fiscal year with
81, 223. % cash in her Treasury, and has since
purchased hand fire. engine and three hun
dred feet of hose as protection against fire,
discarding a Babcock chemical engine. The
Saugatuck fleet for this season consists of
fourteen vessels-ten schooners, one propel-
Ter, and three tugs.
Mr.. SAMUEL A. ROBINSON, OF Emmett town.
Ship has on exhibition at the High School
Museum Battle Creek, a large and rare collec-
ton Of Indian relics. Among the collection is
an iron Ratchet found upon the Prophets
Battle Ground" in Ohio which is an interest
ing relic to those who have read Judge Little
johns graphic narrative of the battle, in his
Legends OF Michigan"
o. A. BRowNsoN, the venerable author and
theologian, died at the residence Of his son.
in Detroit one day last week, aged nearly
seventy-three years. He was best known as
the publisher Of Bro,onson's Quarterly Recieso,
which was suspended last fall. At different
periods Of his life he was successfully Pres
byterian, Universalist, a Unitarian, an inf
del, and finally convert to the Roman Catho-
lie faith.
WARD II. JENNINGS, of Lapeer, has let the
contract for the rebuilding of the Union flour
ing mills, which were destroyed by fire in Feb
ruary, 1874. The main part of the building
viii be 36x5o feet, three stories high with a
Mansard roof. Hemingway d Hough have the
contract for the framework and Michael
Mcnamara for the foundation. 1t is to be
completed by the lat Of August next, and will
cost from ais, 900 to s1s, 900.
SHORTLY after the celebrated Detroi. school
master, Washington A. Bacon, removed to Flint,
J. Logan Chapman happened to be visiting that
city, and pointing out Mr. Bacon to Congress-
man Durand, remarked: 'Do you see that old
man over there? Well, he once gave me the
worst licking l ever lad in my life." "How
80? inquired Durand. "Why, he is school
master, said Johnny "and has logged every
man in Detroit under forty"
ONE Of the coolest and most refreshing treo
humbugs, says the Michigan Farmer is the
fellow who is generally helping the benighted
community to this harmonious crop of the
plum and the apple. 1t is a fine, healthy,
bright-looking tree, which he will sell for
$3.50 cost him, that is private by the hun
dred, fifteen cents each. Everyone who buys
it and plants it discovers to his great pleasure,
that he has on hand hardy crab-spple tree
But it never bears plums, or plum apples or
apple plums but only crabs
TIE iSdgina,oian says Considering the
extent Of financial embarrassment in ali parts
of the land, and the length of time it has con-
tinued it is remarkable fact that during that
period not single citizen of the city Of Ssgi-
nav engaged in any of the leading industries
of this pars Of the State has failed or compro-
missed with his creditors, and the lumbermen
and manufacturers Of this place are financially
stronger and sounder to-day than they we're
when the failure of Jay Cooke & Co. first
threw this country into panic, nearly three
wears ago-while all the complications of
minor industries here have resulted in loss
to creditors, in the entire aggregate, of less
sum than would suffice to construct one of
our sawmills or establish respectable salt
block"