The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-12-28
MlCHlGAN ITEMS.

KALAMAZOO wants the next ship-canal
convention.
MIcMoAN's crop of apples for this
season is estimated at 100000.
A STATE Convention of bill-posters is
announced to meet in Lansing, Jan. 9.
A LARGE wildcat was shot at Buell. the
other day, after having killed several
sheep.
Owosso HAS trouble with it's new iron
bridge, and refuses to accept or pay
for it.
W. N. PETTEE & Co., of Greenville.
have established banking house at BEL
ding, Ionia county.
Hon. JOHN p. HoYT, Governor of Ari-
iona, is at his home in Tuscola county,
and will return to Arizona in January.
THE new Temperance Hall at Muske-
| gon, very fine structure, is rapidly
nearing completion, and will be an or
nament to the city.
The agent at Scott's station, located
on the G. & l.. III. railroad, is woman,
and is credited with keeping the neatest
station on the line.
A coNvooATIoN of Episcopal clergy
men from Lenawee, Jackson, Hillsdale,
Monroe, and Washtenaw counties was
held at Hudson recently.
BRANDENBURa, BAcKUs & Co., extern
sive lumber manufacturers and dealers
at Manton, in Wexford county, have
failed for considerable amount.
CoRUNNA expects to have two new coal
mines opened in the spring, which will
give work to at least 500 miners, who
with their families will increase the pop
ulation of the place about 1900.
INDIAN AGENT LEE has been up in
Charlevoix and adjoining counties in
vestigating the charges that the Indians
are being defrauded out of their home
steads by INSCRIPTIONS SPECTATORS.
IT is understood that wages on the
road are to be put back to something
like the figures paid before the heavy
reductions.
THE Flint Globe says that Lewis Peck
and Darius Thompson, of Dawson, have
returned from tramp around the head
of Thunder bay, and brought with them
thirty-seven deer, which they shipped
to Detroit.
THE Portland Observer tells of an 49,
year-old boy named James Long, whose
father resides at Sebewa, who within
twenty-four hours broke Jail once, was
recaptured, and was detected in a second
attempt to escape. Lively boy.
The Michigan Sovereign Consistory
and coordinate bodies were in session
in Detroit, last week, comforting the
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the A. and A. S. rite. A large number
of prominent members of the Masonic
order were present, and business of i'm
portance was transacted.
A FAMILY named Van Tile, living in
Climax, Kalamazoo county, has been
poisoned by bad water, containing or
ganisms resembling, under the micro
scope, a katydid. The animalcule il
one-twentlenth of an inch long, full
grown. Their eggs fill the water. The
family have been taken with fever.
Mrs. MARGARET BELHEUMER, of this
city, born near Quebec in the year ITO,
celebrated her 10th birthday few days
ago. The old lady retains her vigor in
a remarkable degree, being still able to
do her own room work and to sew with
out the use of glasses. Iron
| Herald.
THE attendance at the State Grange
was very large. Besides the members
of the State Grange, many distinguished
grangers from different parts of the
State are in attendance as visitors. A
resolution was adopted memorializing
our Representa- ives and Senators in
Congress to oppose the reduction of the
existing tariff on wool; also a resolution
asking the Legislature of Michigan to SO
regulate the freight rates on the various
railroads in the State as to secure the
farmers against ruinous determinations.