The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

BARRY COUNTY has a new Postofiice
called Delton.
The Clinton County Pioneer Society
will have picnic at Dewitt, Aug. %.
A BEAR in Gratiot county recently car
ried off pig weighing about $50
pounds.
IMPROVEMENTS are being made in the
Michigan Central railroad depot at
Jackson.
dent of st. Johns, died recently, aged
n years.
DEER are said to be more plentiful
around Houghton lake now than for
years previous.
E. F. EDDY, formerly Colonel of the
Twenty-ninth Infantry, aud Mr.. An
thony De Mars, lately died in Detroit.
The Flint Globe estimates the value
OF the wheat crop in Genessee county, at
present market prices, at 81, 000,0 900.
A YOUNG man of Detroit, named Will
lam Garfield, was drowned while ON an
excursion on Lake st. Clair recently.
The First Regiment Michigan State
troops held their annual encampment at
Jackson, occupying grounds near those
used last year.
A GYPSY named Frank Wheeler is in
jail at Flint for horse stealing. He has
confessed his guilt to the Prosecuting
Attorney.
EDWARD NJ. CAMPBELL, eldest son of
Judge S. S. Campbell, and the first white
male child born i'll Bay county, died last
week at Bay City.
A 81, 900 BARN belonging to Roswell
Sherman, near Traverse City, was struck
by lightning, few days ago, and en-
tirely consumed.
A 7-YEAR-oLD daughter of William
Vaughan, of East Saginaw, was drowned
in cistern the other day, having fallen
in accidentally.
A FULL-BLoODED Indian, dressed il
his war costume, passed through Detroit
last week on his way to Paris, where he
intends to exhibit himself at the Great
Exposition.
The large clearinghouse of JOIN
Dellow, and the cigar store of Buchanan
next to it, were destroyed by fire at Man
istee a few days since. Loss, "a, 900
insured for 81, 800.
STANTON is building reservoirs along
her principal streets and filling then
with water, in order that their new
steamer may not be useless property il
case of fire.
AT Wayne the dwelling house of E. p
Earl was burned to the ground. Loss
about $1,000; no insurance. Cause
explosion of kerosene lamp. Mr.. Ear
was seriously burned.
Mrs. j. DUNCLEE, wife of prominent
citizen of Kalamazoo, dropped deaC
while operating sewing machine few
days since. The cause is supposed tC
be heart disease.
THE city of East Saginaw at a specia
election has voted to issue bonds in the
sum of $4,000 to purchase or build {
free bridge across Saginaw river. The
vote was carried by 600 majority.
AT Flint, recently, lightning STRUCK
the house of Mr.. Leander Ogden, ra,
down the chimney into the kitchen, and
instantly killed a daughter, Eliza, Is
years of age, who was engaged in iron.
ing. Mrs. Ogden and young boy were
in the room at the same time, and were
temporarily paralyzed by the stroke, but
soon recovered. The house escaped I'M
injured.
The Northwestern Mining Journal
says: Gottlieb Henry, a farmer on the
south side of the lake, in Hancock town
ship, while engaged in digging well,
was buried alive by the caving in of the
surrounding soil. When the earth was
removed the unfortunate man was found
standing erect, shovel in hand, and with
his hat on his head, just as he stood
when the treacherous sand closed around
| him"
THE following is report of the condi
| ton of the State banks of Michigan at
the close of business July 2, A. d. 1877
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