The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-09-14
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


The Detroit regatta Melted $3.50 be-
yond all expenses.
PAUL ScHRoFF, the ex-lion tanner. now
keeps hotel in Greenfield.
A CLERK in a Detroit gun store owns
thirty-two dogs and tame raven.
The wheat crop of Midland county is
the best ever harvested there.
THERE is talk of establishing district
telegraph in East Saginaw.
CRAPo & TATE's saw-mill at Flint
burned last week. Loss, $1,000, insur-
ance, $4,000.
THE Rev. E. p. Hammond, the evan
gelst, is to labor at East Saginaw this
fall.
The Detroit Board of Trade has re-
scinded its action Withdrawing from the
National Board of Trade.
The Mormons have missionary elder
preaching in this State. His name is
w. NJ. Palmer.
DIR. REYNOLDS, the Red Ribbon ora
tor, will remain in Michigan during the
remainder of the year.
THE Flint River Valley Agricultural
Society will hold its ninth annual fair on
its grounds in Montrose, Sept. IL and IL.
SEVERAL of the Barry county millers
are advising farmers to SOW Clawson
wheat. as it makes a superior quality
of flour.
The annual meeting of the Tri-State
Association of Ohio, Michigan, and In
diana, is to be held at Toledo from Sep
tember "a to 30 inclusive.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER is announced
to speak at Jackson on the evenings of
the 10Th and Goth inst, which will be
during the week of the State Fair.
VIM G. WRIGHT, grocer living and
doing business on the corner of Park and
Henry streets, Detroit, was drowned
while bathing at Putin bay. Aug. 30.
A CORRESPONDENT of st. Johns paper
tells of a potato-bug which had been
bottled up three months without rations,
and came out alive and well preserved.
A LEDGE of marble has been discov-
cred at Lake Hamburg, about forty
miles west of Escanaba, near by the
Breitung mine, on the Menominee
range.
JAMES w. SHERWOOD, of Geenville,
was the successful competitor at the ex-
animation of candidates for appointment
as cadet at West Point, held at East
Saginaw.
CATHERINE SToDDARD took her infant
child to Hamtramck creek, near Detroit,
few days since, drowned it, and started
home. She was arrested. She was
drunk when the crime was committed.
The night express on the Detroit and
Milwaukee railroad ran into flock Of
sheep belonging to Lieut.. Gov. Sessions,
who lives on his farm four miles west OF
Ionia, the other night, killing sixty OF
them.
SIR KNIGHT S. G.. RANDALL, of Flint,
has Just been presented with Maltese
cross of red gold from the Grand Con-
clave of the Grand Commandery of
Knights Templar of Michigan, which
met in Detroit in May last.
The next apnual exhibition of the
Saginaw Valley Poultry Association will
be held in East Saginaw, from January
8 to II inclusive. The birds will be
Judged by Woodward H. TODD, of YER
million, Ohio, one of the best breeders
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The following are the details of the
core made by the competing command
cries of Knights Templar at the Cleve-
land prize drill. One hundred was the
highest attainable point: l.r.
Detroit No. l. of Detroit ...................9S3 81
Raper of indianapolis .93 OF
Monroe, of Rochester, n. Y..................933 81
Damascus, of st. Paul ........................g 3
Hugh DePayens, of Buffalo. ................2 Al
Hanselmann, of Cincinnati. ................S6 ~
st. Bernard, OF Chicago ..........'.''..'-"S0 o..
Ascaon, of st. Louis. d.
Cincinnati No. 3d.. .........................A
DIED at East Plains, Ionia county,
August 81, 1877, Samuel Vance, a SOL
der of 1912, being in his Goth year. He
leaves numerous descendants, among
whom are ten sons and daughters, some
of them having lived in East Plains for
ty years.
Mrs. JOHN DONALDSON was murdered
the other day, and her body was buried
in door-yard, where it was found in
hole about two feet deep. Her husband
was arrested and put in Jail on suspicion
of being her murderer. Her face and
neck show signs of violence. Jealousy
is supposed to be the melting cause of
the crime.
| HE Detroit FTee fDTeSS correspondent
has received reports from fifteen coun-
ties in Northern Michigan relative to
crops. All the reports, with one excep-
ton, say corn and potatoes are full av-
erage. Of the latter, only one reports
the potato disease as having appeared.
The oat crop averages about forty BUSH
els to the acre, and wheat about twenty
five bushels to the acre.
NEWTON TRUAx, son of John Truax,
farmer residing seven miles east of
Millington, was milking some COWS I'M
der the side of straw stack recently.
The structure fell, precipitating the
huge mass of straw upon him. Before
it could be removed life was extinct.
The deceased was "a years of age, and
formerly from Canada. Three COWS
were also killed by the disaster.
The celebrated trotting stallion Man,
bino Gift died last week He xvos II