The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-09-13

popuiatlon.
MRS. HEIBERa, the mother of the tel
egraph operator at Grenada, Miss, lives
at Kalamazoo.
DEAN f. GRIswoLD, of Worthwhile, has
100 swarms of bees, and expects to have
1900 pounds OF honey.
Mr.. Fl. M. RooP, of Carson City,
Montcalm county, has just gathered his
seasons crop of honey-6,00 pounds.
JOHN s. NEwRERRY is the nominee of
the Republicans for Congress in the
First district.
A NEW and fatal disease is carrying off
hogs in large numbers in different parts
of the State.
Hon. AMBROSE CAMPBELL has resigned
the position of Register of the United
States Land Office at Marquette.
THE Sisters of Mercy have purchased
land near st. Mary's Catholic Church,
Big Rapids, for site for convent.
GEORGE MOORE, prominent citizen
of Richfield, Genesee county, was killed,
recently, by kick from horse.
THE public schools throughout the
State, with but few exceptions, COM
menced their autumn session on Mon
day, Sept. 2.
THE wife of William Penney, of Ron
aid, Ionia county, was sun-struck while
blackberrying few days ago, and died
the next day.
Mr.. AND Mrs. THOMAS PARTRIDGE. of
Flint, celebrated their golden wedding
lately, all their children and grandchil-
dren being with them.
IT is said that the farmers picnic at
Devils lake week before last was the
I largest gathering of the kind ever as
sembled in Southern Michigan.
A LITTLE daughter of Mr. McCluskey'
of Ogemaw, drank a large quantity of
medicine when unobserved, q few DAYS
since, from which she died in three
| hours.
The Silver Islet Mining Company sent
last week to New York As barrels of sill
yer ore and IL of concentration, all
valued at $50, 900, and the result of
single weeks work.
AMONG the list of awards made at the
Paris Exposition is diploma equal to
a gold medaD under the head of educa-
tional exhibits, to the State University
of Michigan.
FREDERICK GALLoFF, farmer in the
suburban village of Springwells, near
Detroit, hung himself in his own grove
the other night. His domestic relations
were unhappy.
A LITTLE son of Edward Moyle, aged
| II months, living near Negaunee, was
killed by playmate, only few years
old, who found a cooked revolver, and
fred it at the child in play.
Mr.. G. WALKER, of Armada. Macomb
county, has lost 125 sheep within the
past few weeks by dogs. After much
research, Mr.. Walker finally discovered
that he and his brother owned the dogs.
THE Detroit and Milwaukee Railway
Company has been sold to the Great
Western railway of Canada for So, $780,
600. The road will at once be placed
in condition second to none in the
country.
FRANK FARRAN, a prisoner in the
Ionia House of Correction, escaped q
few days ago. He was sent from Flint,
and had but one year to serve. He was
occupied in attendance upon the officers,
and was trusted all over the grounds.
WRIT DEXTER of Chicago, who is Wis
iting in Edinburgh, Scotland, writes
that, while attending one of the weekly
fairs there, he saw some hay-forks
offered for sale which were made in
Jackson.
WHILE George Moore, a prominent
farmer of Richfeld, was endeavoring to
persuade his team to cross a small ditch
he struck one of the horses slight blow
behind, when it kicked fiercely, striking
him in the stomach and killing him in
stantly. Moore leaves wife and chill
dren.
The Workingwomen's Home in De-
troit accommodates twenty-five boarders
and furnishes board at 50. 80 per week.
1t also, as far as possible, supplies ap-
plicants for work with situations gratu-
itously, and it has from forty to sixty
applications per month. People who
obtain help through the agency are
charged trihing sum.
In Maple Grove, Barry county, is a
large tract of waste land, known as "the
big huckleberry marsh," which, when
improved, will rank among the finest
lands in the town. A. p. Cook, of Jack
son county, owns large portion of it,
and is having huge ditch feet wide,
feet deep, and 54Sf rods long, dug to
drain it.
TWENTY years ago propeller loaded
with copper, on its way from Ontona-
gon, was wrecked a few miles west of
the present Portage Lake ship canal.
Time and again efforts have been made
to recover her valuable cargo. A small
portion of the copper has been recov-
cred and this season finds party of adj
venturers up that way trying to locate
the balance of the sunken treasure.
THE following is statement of the re-
ceipts and disbursements at the State
Treasurer's Office for the month ending
Aug. 81:
Balance on hand July 81, 1878 $3.50, 1878
Receipts for the month. 116,S7179
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Disbursements for the month. ........... 32,314T
Balance on hand Aug. 81, 1873. ..... .ss45, $3.50
The section hands on the railroad re-
Gently found in piece of woods adjoin-
ing the track, a short distance east of
the junction near Jackson, what might
| be called counterfeit rail 1t was care