The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-06-15
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There are now 260 children i'll the State
public school at Coldwater.
Quite number OF cement walks are beng
laid down in Kalamazoo.
Governor Croswell, Will deliver the 4th Of
July Grafton at Jackson, this year.
Friday, Tom Manion. butcher boy, at work
for Miller IL Parker, Kalamazoo, pilfered SO so
from the money drawer and decamped.
Perhaps the first telephone ever operated for
real business purposes is the one now run by
officers Of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railroad at Lansing.
Prof. Beal. of the Agricultural College, has
found two-story birds nest. The upper nest
ID built by bird smaller than the lower one.
The apple crop Of Allegan county this year
will be very small compared with last year.
The trees are as a general thing, showing very
few blossoms.
The State salt inspector reports that 1853, 1872
barrels OF salt were manufactured ia the State
last month. In May, 1876, $3.50 barrels was
made,
Miss Hattie Mason, graduate of the law
class OF II OF the University, Will socn begin
the practice OF the law at Muskegon.
The new postal treaty with Italy goes into
effect July 2. The following Michigan money
order offices will be authorized to transact
Italian business Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kala-
mazoo, Lansing, Marquette.
Capt. Jonathan Walker, now of Lake Harbor,
Mich, is the Massachusetts man who was inn
mortalized by Whittier in verse as the man
with the branded hand. In 1914 he attempted
to liberate some slaves at Pensacola, was
caught, and branded on the hand by the United
States marshal.
There is lady living in Charlotte, now
eighty years OF age, who has been addicted to
the use OF snuff since her fourteenth year,
who has given up the use OF that weed, so as
to show ''the boys who have put on the red
ribbon an quit drinkin' that 1 am wilIin' to
make an equal sacrifice with EN-"
The Kalamazoo saloonists arc excited, and
are lavishing money on brass. stringed aud
Itnerant Italian bands in the most reckless
iDclWtbu tuS rcu TlDDOub anu HOl
business rivalry among themselves the lager
beer dealers OF the " big village" are having all
they can attend to.
DIR. Van DusoD, Superintendent OF the Kala-
mazoo Insane Asylum, has been sued by a
Chicago woman, Mrs. DIR. Newcomer, for false
imprisonment and malpractice, claiming that
she was decoyed into the asylum, and there
detained for ten months without just cause
Tho case is to be tried at the next term.
Elizabeth g. Chaplain is the name OF the
young woman, daughter OF Scottish advo-
cate, who wrote Mr.. Sankey's favorite hymn,
"The Ninety and Nine" IL was written on
tho spur of the moment for the Chldren's
Hour, paper published by her cousin in
Edinburgh.
Boys, don't kill the birds or rob. their nests
The law is very stringent on this subject, aud
then such crimes breed cruelty in tho DISPOSE
ton. The killing does not apply to young men
who have just purchased SO revolvers. Birds
are not entitled to as much sympathy when
the hunter takes tho largest risk.-Lansing
Republican.
Some Of the Western States are holding press
conventions, and the interesting part is to sec
the members pressing for tho dinner-table.