The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-20

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THE total valuation of Bay City, per
tax-roll for this year, is 81, $50, 900.
The Saginaw County Court has had
seventeen divorce cases since Jan. /.
DETROIT Justices collected $40 from
twenty-eight Fourth-of-July drunks.
THOMAS BARRETT, of Jackson, lost
three children by diphtheria, last week.
A NEW Methodist Church, costing
81 100 has just been dedicated ut Pierson,
Montcalm county.
A LITTLE girl, years old, fell into the
Kalamazoo river near Cooper station, and
was drowned.
III. Z. HELsTED, of Hubbardston, lost
his house by fire ON the 4th inst. Loss,
81 900; insured.
JOHN ANDERSON house at Rives was
set on fire by small boy with matches
Loss, $500.
IT is believed by the State fair officials
that the show of horses this year will be
very large.
LANGDON HUBBARD, of Huron county,
owns four farms, and has in all 1,S45
acres under cultivation.
THE Kalamazoo Light Guards are
getting up an excursion to Milwaukee,
to take place some time in August.
THERE are 654 patients at the Kalama-
zoo Insane Asylum, being nearly equally
divided between male and female.
G. OSCAR THOMPSON, of Ionia, has
been appointed Treasurer of the new
House of Correction by Gov. Croswell.
A 7-YEAR-oLD son of ID. w. Lewis, at
Manistee, the other day, was accidentally
drowned while bathing in a pond Of
water.
Mrs. VIM. HALCoMB, of Ionia town.
ship, has given birth to an eleven-pound
son that has five fingers and thumb on
each hand and six toes on each foot.
AT Jackson, Capt. Bogardus shot 40
out of 80 glass balls on wager to shoot
45 out of so. In the match 100 were to
be shot in ten minutes, and 101 were shot
in 6:511.
MAJ. STEPHEN p. PURDY, who has
been prominent in Detroit politics many
years, holding the position of County
Clerk several terms, died recently.
A WOMAN ut Gaines had her niece ar
rested and lodged in Jail on a charge of
assault and battery in consequence of a
quarrel over the young lady's lover.
Or the $24, 900 liquor tax in Saginaw
county, $14, 600 has been paid, and war
rants for the remainder have been placed
in the hands of the Sheriff for collection.
A GERMAN named Joseph Akin COM
mitted suicide in the township of Car.
rolton recently, by hanging. He is sup
posed to have been temporarily insane.
AT Ishpeming two scandinavian
miners, named Olsen and Erickson, were
instantly killed in the Lake Superior
mine by small fall of rock from hang
ing wall.
Two prisoners attempted to escape
from the penitentiary at Jackson
last week, by letting themselves down
over one of the wings. They were
caught.
The new steam saw-mill of Campbell
& Co., Mt Piconing, Bay county, was de-
stroyed by fire a few days since. II
was built on the site of one burned
two years ago. Loss, $4,000; insured
for $50, 900.
The lake survey party is at work in the
Put-in-Bay archipelago. They report
the uninhabited islands literally alive
with black and rattlesnakes, West Sister
island being the most favored.
THE Henderson single mill, foul
miles west of Tawas City, was burned
recently. Loss, including $4,000
shingles, 81, 600; no insurance. The Gre
originated from pile of burning refuse
The Flint Commandery Of knights
Templar ut their last meeting voted to nc
cept the invitation to attend the twentieth
triennial conclave of the, grand encamp
ment of the United States at Cleveland
the coming month.
FRANK STEWART, employed at the
Humboldt mine, Marquette, had little
finger mashed by falling rock last
week. His arm swelled up badly anC
modification set in, and the unfortunate
man died three days later.
THE barn of Allen belong, whose
farm is situated on the town line between
Lebanon and Essex, was struck by light
ming. and, together with its contents
consisting of hay and agricultural i'm
plements, was totally consumed.
BARNARD O'DoNNEL, of Manitou
county, was recently sentenced to one
year in State prison for assault with in
tent to kill. This is said to be the first
term of court held in Manitou county in
fifteen years.
IT seems that the law providing for the
protection of woodcock from the LIST OF
January to the 4th of July is so changed
by errors in the printing of the bill as to
protect them only during the wrong hall
of the year. Sportsmen are shooting
them just the same.
AT school meeting in Jackson it was
resolved to raise $34, 900 on bonds, pay
able Feb. /, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883 and
1884, for the purpose of building three
new school buildings.
THE house of NJ. Hillman was burned