The true northerner., 1877-08-17
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

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town hall.
| A YOUNG man named Willard Hall wal
drowned at Saranac few days ago.
THE Register says that there are
thirty-one widows in Ovid village who
pay taxes.
THE cornerstone of new Methodis
Church was laid at Petoskey one day
last week.
The State Salt Inspector reports hav,
ing inspected 1913, 1854 barrels of salt dur.
ing the month of July.
JACKSON has an old colored man 1O4
years old. He retains his faculties, but
never saw Gen. Washington.
JAMES CoNELY, a child years of age,
died suddenly in Detroit from being
vaccinated with impure matter.
THE stave factory of p. p. Bergen, at
Portland, destroyed by fire about two
years ago, will soon be in operation
again.
A PARTY of forty or fifty Indians,
hired by some white men, are at Hig-
gins lake engaged in picking whortle-
| berries.
The saw-mill, lumber yard and board
ing-house of j. p. Shoemaker, at Ans
den, six miles east of Greenville, burned
recently. Loss about $4,000.
TILE Twenty-fourth Michigan infantry
held their annual reunion at Detroit last
week. w. r. Dodsley was elected Pres
ident of the association. About 200, in
cluding wives, were present.
Gov. CRoswELL has pardoned Susan
Schultz, who was sentenced to State
prison for life by the Judge of the Wayne
Circuit Court on Dec. %, 1866, for the
murder of her husband, August Schultz.
AN abstract of the report of Comm is
sioner Row, on life insurance in Michi-
gan, which recently appeared in this
column, should have been credited to
the Lansing Republican.
THE Kalamazoo Telegraph says the
water in Gull lake suddenly subsided
four inches on Monday last and remained
in that stage for hours, when the waters
returned to their usual mark.
The Business Committee of the State
Agricultural Society met with represen-
tatives of the Jackson County Society,
recently, and healed all differences. The
fair is now a certainty, and prospectively
great success.
SENATOR CARPENTER has written to
the liquor dealers of Detroit his
belief that he can break the Liquor-Tax
law of that State, and offering to make
the attempt if retained. His services
will undoubtedly be secured.
THERE were in the Wayne county
alms-h house July 81, 204 persons. Dur
ing that month six died in the institution.
In the county insane asylum there were
157 patients July 81, and the record
shows three deaths during the month.
IT is estimated by the Michigan Farmer
that the wheat crop that has just been
harvested in this State yields, at least,
one third more grain than that threshed
last year, and all reports show that
the berry is plumper than was antici-
pated.
Col. WELLINGTON has instructed the
Captains of companies in the First
Regiment to add to the pay of each man
who was in camp the sum of 80 cents
per day as the difference between the
actual cost of subsistence and that al
lowed by law.
The Orchard Committee of the State
Pathological Society are on tour
through the State which will occupy
over three weeks. Entries are more nu.
merous than on any previous year. Ap
Piles are THU, every other kind of fruit
generally bearing full.
JAMES II. OWEN, switchman at Jack
son Junction, while making up train
one day last week, had his foot caught
in frog. One car ran over him, cutting
him partly in twain lengthwise, causing
instant death. He leaves wife and two
children. He had worked for the com
pany sixteen years.
HENRY HALL, of Jackson, engineer OF
the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw rail
road, is thought to be the oldest rail
road engineer in Michigan, although ht
is not regarded as very old man. HI
has, it is stated, been running an en-
CINE on the roads OF this State for abou
thirty-five years.
ALONG the line of the Flint and Per-
Marquette railway, northwest of Las
Saginaw, fires still rage in the forests q
Averill Station. At one time they CAM
in so close proximity to the town tina
|, the whole population turned out, AM
only by hard work succeeded in prevent
ing wholesale destruction of property
) ARTHUR Won PANNwITz shot himsel
in the right temple, at Jackson, recently
. dying in an hour after. 1t was coo
, and determined suicide, as he left lette
with a friend just before, stating his in
tention. In the letter he alludes to hi
troubles with young woman as tin
cause of the act. Won Pannwitz was al
, officer in the Prussian service and wol
: distinction there. He had been in thi
country about ten years.
: EARLY in the morning of Aug. 3, fir
3 broke out at w. II. Burt's great saw
: mill and salt blocks at Melbourne, eigh
4 miles below East Saginaw, and the en-
/. tire establishment was burned to th
, ground. Two hundred and fifty men
: many of them with families to support
t are thus thrown out of employment
The Courier gives the following particu
! lars 1.-The main building was 110x6
!, feet in size, with wing 60x20, and