The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-18


The crop reports say 'small potatoes and
few in the hill - in Michigan this year.
A BATTLE CREEK colony has bought 10000 |
acres Of land in Scott county, Tenn, and pro-
poses to settle upon the same.
IT is rumored that the Flint and Pere Mar
quette repair shops are soon to be removed
from Holly to East Saginaw.
MAcKISAw is much frequented this summer,
especially by people from Ohio, Indiana, Ken
lucky, Illinois, and the interior of Michigan.
Mrs. r. W. JENNY and @. w. Jenny have sold
the Genesee Democrat a we!l-known newsps-
per, established at Flint nearly thirty years ago.
to H. W. Mather, late of Buffalo, N. Y.
ABOUT 800 Of the business men of Big Rapids
have signed pledge not to support any man
for Office who does not promptly pay his little
debts of $50 and under.
THE Houghton Gazette gays 800 Icelanders
will soon pass through that place, on their
way to settle in Manitoba They would st'p
only Houghton is too confoundedly fdgid 70,
them.
MERCHANT OF Lyons last week bought a
quantity OF wool Of last years clip for 20 cents.
He offered 43 for the same lot year ago, but
the farmer preferred keeping it over in hope
it might be higher
Mr.. W. L. b. JENNY, the we'll known Chicago
architect, has accepted the position of Profes.
sor Of Architecture and Design in the School
OF Architecture and Design attached to the
University of Michigan.
The Sheriff Of Canon City, COL, has notified
the authorities at Kalamazoo that William New
man, who is supposed to be former resident
OF Kalamazoo county, was murdered in Colo
RADIO by two Mexicans.
| PAIR of cheeky dead-b beats robbed an East
Saginaw girl last Friday night. She banged
one OF them in the face with her parasol, and
the other grabbed her pocketbook. The grab
Der has since been grabbed by the police.
GEORGE H. REIsLEy, boy about years af
age, resident Of South Saginaw, was drowned
in the river while swimming near the shore, on
Tuesday of last week. Only small boy was
present, and he was too young to be of assist
ance.
THE Bay City Tribune is elated over the
| AoSst no ~ ohoOSo, ehoS NiiiiS SlJy udb
shipped this season over 3, 900, 900 feet of lum-
Der more than it did in corresponding period
in 1876, Saginaw has shipped 1000, 600 feet
less.S
NERAL spring, whose waters are found
by analysis to resemble closely that of the
Congress Spring, Sar atoga, has been discovered
at point on the Marquette, Houghton and
Ontonagon railroad, half way between Mar
quette and Ishpeming.
AT an early hour one morning last week
George H. Promo shot Tim OLeary in a
drunken brawl at the latters house, at Detroit,
III the result Of the absorption Of three gallons
of beer by themselves and another friend.
O'Leary was dangerously wounded, and Promo
is in Jail.
AN 11-year old girl named Rebecca Buchanan
was drowned, aday or two ago. in Tittabawassee
river, at Midland. She was with an excursion
of the Methodist Church Society, and, while
| playing on some logs, fell in. An inquest was
held in Midland, and the body brought to East
Saginaw.
Mr.. ALLEN PRATT gentleman S3 years Of
age, who lives in Calhoun county, has just
completed a barn &c by AS feet, having done all
the work upon the same himself including cut
ting down the timber in the woods, laying out
and framing the same, and putting on the roof
and sides. Pretty good for man of his age.
the joys Of which so overcame a local chron-
icler that the only words he can find to do JUS
tice to it are the following 1.-The celsitude of
nuciferous and glendiferous trees, the bowers
under which the festive scene took place, ex-
cited in the out-poured populace oblectation. "
| Work has been commenced at Portland on
new jail, to take the place of the one destroyed
by fire last spring. 1t is to be of brick 35x25,
two stories high. Half OF the lower floor will
be used for Jail purposes, the other half to be
occupied as an engine-house. The upper room
will be used by the Village Board in which
to hold their meetings.
ACCORDING to the Vaudeville Republican, a
confirmed drunkard, living in Dorr, Alegan
county, has been effectually reformed and
brought to walk again in the path of decency
and sobriety through the efforts of his two lit
tie sons, aged and II years respectively.
They did it by getting beastly drunk them
selves 80 that it required medical aid to save
their lives.
Says the Hancock Journal: "On last Satur-
day afternoon as a party Of men were engaged
In hosting several pieces Of castings to the up
per floor of the Quincy stsmp-rnill, one of the
heaviest pieces, escaping in some manner from
the little gear, fell upon tho head Of Eugene
Steimle, who happened to be standing beneath,
| infiicting injuries from which he died on Sun
day morning.
The Rochester Era says: Wednesday
morning young man named Bostwick, while
engaged in working about threshing ma
chine, near Utica, got one Of his arms caught
in some way in the machinery and had it torn
from its socket in shocking and sickening
manner. AT last accounts it was thought the
young man could not survive"
VERY pleasant time, at Marshall, was the
reception, on Tuesday evening, at the Presby-
terrain Church, to Miss Ketchum, who leaves
that city in a few weeks, going out as a mis-
sionary to Ningpo, China. few Of her old
friends presented her with an elegant gold
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