The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-11-09
MICHIGAN ITEMS.
DETROIT has sixty. eight churches.

Il lie hdldunLOO OOiltRo paper Will
make its appearance Nov. Is.
! THE st. Louis Fire Insurance Com
pany, of ST. Louis, Mo. has withdrawn
its business from this State.
THE warehouse and most of the wharf
at Rogers City were washed away during
the recent heavy weather.
WILD turkeys are said to be more
plenty in the interior of the State than
they have been for many years.
The second biennial Conference of the
Evangelical Alliance of the United
States met in Detroit, last week.
The machinery for one iron mine in
Marquette county required train OF
thirty-two cars to transport it.
OF 473 families visited in Gratiot
county by the agent of the Bible Society,
only fifty-six were entirely "out of
Bibles"
SEvENTY-FIvE men are at work on the
new grain elevator at Ludington, which
is expected to be ready for use in thirty
days. ra'-.
The Kalamazoo Gazette mentions an
ear of corn raised near that town which
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kernels.
THE Ionia District Conference of the
M. e. Church will be held at Greenville,
commencing Nov. 26.
The citizens of Etna are taking steps
toward building new bridge across
White river at that point.
THE Kalamazoo doctors have banded
together to make out "black list of
those who don't pay up their doctors
bills.
The Gratiot County Journal says the
actual cash valuation of all the taxable
property in that county is not less than
SO, 0OO,0 600.
CEDAR, the county seat of Gladwin
county, contains six buildings, all told
a Court House, three dwelling houses, Q
store and barn.
The hog cholera has broken out in
Richland, Kalamazoo county. One
twenty-five affected with the disease.
MISS FRANKIE WILLARD, a young
schoolma'a am, of Fulton, Gratiot county,
has fallen heir to fortune of $50, 900
bequeathed by some one in England.
Two townships in Osceola county
have sold $500 worth of ginseng for
shipment to China, where the root is
highly priced as medicine.
The Supervisors of Gratiot county
have appropriated $4,000 for the COM
pletion of the county Jail, subject to
the vote of the people at the next cleo
ton.
The Governor of Michigan is to'be re-
quested to appoint Commissioner to in
vestigate and inaugurate measures to
suppress the cattle plague known as
Texas ticks.
CHARLES BoBo, well-knowp grocer,
doing business in Bay City, has made
an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors. His unsecured liabilities are
81, 900.
THE Methodist church of Sheridan has
been dedicated with fine success.
Enough money was paid in or sub
scribed to leave the society free from
debt, which is good beginning.
The Rev. Job Pierson, of Ionia, is the
possessor of a theological work printed
at Vienna in 1476, only twenty-one
years after the first book was printed
with movable types.
The residence of Byron Burch, at
Midland, was totally destroyed by fire
last week. The contents were mostly
saved. Loss $1,000, with about $500
insurance.
THE yacht Annie, of Muskegon, with
five passengers, is on her way for
Florida via Chicago, Illinois and Michi-
gan canal, Illinois and Mississippi rivers,
and the Gulf of Mexico.
THE Caro- railroad has stuck because
the $50, 900 in notes raised by the citizens
have not been Endorsed, and MIR. Joy
insists on satisfactory names on their
backs. These names the Caro- people
are now looking after.
DIR. d. w. LAMAN, of New York, says
he will take the land granted for build
ing railroad from Marquette to Mack
inaw, and build the road. The grant
amounts to !, 10000 acres of pine and
hard wood-timber land.
AFTER a sharp fight in the Board of
Supervisors, the report of the Commit
tee on Roads and Bridges, giving East
Saginaw permission to erect and main
tain free bridge across the Saginaw
river, was carried by a vote of ~ to IA.
Steps to erect bridge will be taken
at once.
A STRANGE young man, entirely naked,
has been wandering in the woods near
Chesaning for several days, but has
eluded all attempt at capture. A large
number of men have been in pursuit for
the past two days. He is supposed to
be an escaped lunatic.
Two YEARS ago w. Fuller, of the
township of Lake, Huron county, sud-
denly and mysteriously disappeared,
Suspicion pointed at one w. j. Baker.
but there were no valid grounds for ar.
resting him, as it was not known that
Fuller was really dead, but the recent
finding of skeleton. and Fuller's cap
and part of his coat, with deadly-look-
ing ,bludgeon near it, has led to Bakers
arrest, charged with the murder.
PosrMAsTERs confirmed by the Senate
last week: Robert J. Kelley, Alpena;
Daniel M. Gardner, Stanton Charles
ID. Fisher, Portsmouth; l.. p. Alexan-