The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-12-21

THERE are now 500 oranges and 90
801 Changers in Michigan.
THE Grand Lodge of Ancient York
Masons met at jackson last week.
p. HERRIoK's shingle-min was burned
at Midland the other night. No insur-
ance loss, 5000.
AN old Indian in Newaygo county
made eighty pounds of maple sugar dur
ing the month of November.
The foundlings home in Detroit has
received and cared for % foundlings dur
ing the past eleven months.
MISS BELL CAMERON, of Kalamazoo,
has finished her law studies, and will
soon apply for admission to the bar.
A NEW secret society, called the Sigma
Chi, has been started in the law depart
ment of the university, with a numer-
Gus membership.
ADELAIDE CUsHAwAY, who went to
Saginaw City with her husband in 1882,
one of the first white women that settled
in that place, died last week.
RICE & MCCONNELL, one of the oldest
hardware firms in jackson, made an as
signment recently. Liabilities, $780,
900; assets, $4,000
THE sewer in Shelby street, Mount
Clemens, is believed to be the cause of
an alarming number of cases of typhoid
fever now prevailing there.
Mr.. r. b. CARNEs, of Essex, Clinton
county, has been appointed statistical
correspondent of the Department of
Agriculture at Washington.
A a., <.Io ,,,o,. rox.oJ NT:oloI
field, living in Bridgeport, was struck on
the head by falling tree, recently,
fracturing his skull and causing death
in few hours.
WEXFORD COUNTY is rapidly settling.
More newcomers have located in that
county on farms during the last six
months than during any other equal
length of time.
The Secretary of the State Agricult-
ural Society has issued call for meet
ing of the Executive Committee, to be
held in the parlors of the Russell House,
in Detroit, Jan. 7.
The Rev. Edward Jacker, of st. Ig-
mace, MackInaw, has started for Rome
with collection of Indian presents for
the Pope, from the Ottawa Indians,
A MAN was found on the street near
Fox's saloon, at Whitehall, recently,
dead. A Coroner's jury decided that
death resulted from exposure. The man
is a Swede. He had two bottles of
whisky with him.
ITHACA has the shell of very nice
Jail, but the interior is not finished, and,
as the Jail loan was voted down by
small majority, there has been a COM
plete stoppage of work on it.
EDWARD NEwooMB, of Texas, fell from
the rear platform of the mail train few
miles west of Jackson, the other day, the
train going thirty miles an hour; but he
was not killed, and was able to walk to
the next station.
A Box-oAR, loaded with hay, grain,
camp supplies, and valuable span of
horses belonging to T. Jerome, of Sagi-
nav City, going north on the Michigan
Central, caught fire and was destroyed.
Loss, 81 900; no insurance.
MICHIGAN is beginnings too-long neg
lected work-that of preparing history
of her participation in the war. The
statistics gathered 80 far show that there
were $500 Michigan soldiers killed in
battle, 1882 more died of wounds, and
10, 1876 died of disease total of IA, 800
deaths. The greatest loss in battle was
suffered by the Fifth Infantry.
HENRY WILLIS has received letter
from Gov. Croswell in reply to a COM
munication relative to the Michigan ship
canal, in which the Governor strongly
favors the project, but thinks that the
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and that whatever may be done will
have to be done by the National Govern
ment.
The Detroit and Bay City District
Council of the Patrons of Husbandry
held its annual meeting at Orion recent
ly, and elected the following officers for
the ensuing year: Master, w. A.
Wales, Disco T; Overseer, M. Delano,
Oxford; Treasurer, G. X. Carpenter,
Orion; Chaplain, Mrs. j. S. Caulkins,
Thornville; Lecturer, Mrs. A. Pearsoll,
Disco; Secretary, Hiram Andrews, Orion.
The next quarterly meeting will be held
on the first Tuesday of March next.
A WONDERFUL feat in engine building
was recently accomplished at the Michi-
gan Central railroad shops at Jackson.
Two gangs, of fourteen men each, began
at o'clock upon two separate locomo-
tives, the parts of which had been pre-
viously laid to hand, and "set up" the
two machines, each employing thou
sands of pieces, and started them out of
the yard under steam in exactly two
hours and ffty-fve minutes.
OTsEao, Allegan county, had big
fire few days ago, destroying nearly
the entire business portion of the vii
lage. II broke out in a building adj
joining Mansfield 4 Hoag's grist mill,
and extending west swept nearly every
thing clean before it. The following
are some of the losses H. l.. Isham
loses four buildings, valued at g., 900, ON
which there is no insurance Botsford 4
Son occupied one of them with a gro
Gerry, loss $500; the occupants of the
others, John Luttren and john
son 4 Cloud, grocers, got their
goods out and suffer little loss.
A. Engle, building, loss, 81, 900; no in
surance. G. d. Hopkins, grocer, loss
on building, 81 900; on stock, $500; no