The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-10
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

MICHIGAN ITEMS.
GRATIor county has only thirteen
liquor dealers.
KALAMAZOO county has still 81 400 OF
liquor taxes to collect.
ENGLISH sparrows have been intro
duced into Genesee county.
LAKE SUpERIoR's products will be
more this year than they were last
WILLIAM SAUNDERS, aged IL, was
drowned recently in the Saginaw river.
AN old man named Kimball and lit
tie girl aged years were run over by
the cars at Norvell, and instantly killed.
The Park House at the trottinp
course, at Hamtramck, burned las,
week. The loss is $4,000; partly il;
sured.
CONGRESSMAN A. S. WILLIAMS has az.
pointed John Biddle, of Crosse Isle, to
the West Point cadetship, after Compel
tive examination.
THOMAS SHANAHAN, boy 10 years old,
Lad quarrel with his father, and hung
himself in the barn at his fathers place
near Saginaw City.
A COMPANY of regulars arrived at De-
troit the other night, from Fort Mack
mac, on board the Marine City, and at
once proceeded to Fort Wayne, near the
city.
LUTHER b. WILLARD, who had been
for twenty-five years Director of the Poor
of Detroit, died of heart disease last
week. His demise was sudden and I'M
expected.
DURING the recent session of the Board
of State Auditors, accounts were allowed
to the amount of $35, 1875, of which
1924, $685. was allowed to the State
Building Commissioners.
The body of Frederick Northnagle
was found in the river at Detroit the
other day. Northnagle was merchant,
about so years old, and committed sui
eide while temporarily deranged.
DIGBY V. BELL, Jr., of Detroit, who
has been studying for the last two and
half years in the Naples Conservatory of
Music, has received the offer of fatter-
ing engagement at the Royal Opera House
of Malta.
AT recent banquet given in Ishpem-
ing there was a huge punch-bowl on one
of the tables four feet in diameter and
three feet high, carved out of ice. Al
though the weather was very warm,
lasted the evening through. l e...
Mr.. LAIsUN. of Shanghai, China, a
graduate of the scientific class of Yale
College, is visiting at Ishpeming, with q
view of perfecting himself as mining en-
gineer, by taking notes of how they do
things in the iron districts.
The Insurance Commissioner has re-
voked the authority for the Royal Ca
madam Insurance Company to do bust
ness in this State, though the Commits
sioner thinks it will be able to meet it's
claims in this State at the present time.
THE steamer Ivanhoe, plying between
Houghton and L'Anse, was burned one
night last week, while lying at her dock
at Houghton. The Captain and some of
the crew were badly burned and escaped
by jumping into the water. The steam
er was insured for $50, 900.
Four section men on the d. & M.
railroad, who had got their pay, went to
st. Johns on hand-car the other day to
get provisions. On their way home they
were run over by the steamboat express
train. Two were killed, and third so
badly hurt that it was expected he would
die.
The Little Traverse Republican
learns that w. r. Bower, short time
since, discovered on the beach, near the
head of the bay, millions of potato bugs,
apparently having been floated in on
the water. All the pieces of boards,
chips and bark seemed to be covered
with them.
DEPUTY UNITED STATES MARSHAL
WELLS and Collector Clark seized an il
licit distillery recently, near saw-mill,
six miles south of Riverdale, Gratiot
county, and arrested Charles and Hyman
Barton. The still had a capacity for
turning out twenty-five gallons per day
and had been operated but short time.
THE following is statement of the
receipts and disbursements at the State
Treasurers Office for the month ending
July 81. puiais
Balance on hand June 30, 1877. s663. 1914
Receipts for the month .............. 146,771.26
sos, 9Os. 40
Disbursements for the month. 163, 10
Balance on hand July 81, 1877. ..... s646, 80
A YOUNG lady, aged about Is, daugh-
ter Oh VIZ. LUCE, VIII uNcS dDOuJ lille
miles west of Paris, was one of party
out picking whortleberries on the plains
in the town of Barton. During the day
she became lost, and when found her
body was about half devoured, which is
supposed to have been the work of a
bear or some other savage animal.
The lumber shipments from Saginaw
river during July amount to "a, 161, $50
feet. of which 80, S06, 964 went from Bay
City, and the remainder from Saginaw.
Other shipments from the river were as
follows:
Iath.. Zo3.6O
shingles, m..s...sss'. lo,bS4
Hoops o4O, 2OO
Lumber, cuoic ieet ............... 1914
salt, Drs.....s.- ...s...s.s............ o1,bI1
A LETTER was received at East Sagi-
nav a few days since from Paris, Ont. i,
written by W. f. Goldie, teller of the
First National Bank, who absconded in
May last, taking $1,000 of the bank
| funds, Offering to make all right in his