The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23

CEDAR. Gladwin county, will have a
new hotel in the fall.
The son of Z. s. Holland, of Choco-
lay, Marquette county, aged IL, was
drowned last week.
JUDGE COOLIDGE, of the Second Ju-
dicial Circuit Court, has sent his resig-
nation to the Governor.
PECK, WOODS 4 Co. are intending to
erect a mammoth steam salt block at Au
Sable, and four wells are to be sunk to
supply it.
A MAN named Jonathan Meyer, visit
ing at Schoolcraft, has been arrested
charged with the murder of a Mr..
Kintzler, of Snyder county, Pa.
THE new insane asylum already has
223 patients, OF whom ITO males and
lob females were transferred from Kala-
mazoO.
JOHN SHAY, a crippled boy of IL
years OF age, was struck by loco
motive on the Flint and Pere Marquette
railway at East Saginaw and killed.
Ex-SHERIFF PARKER, of Owosso
jumped off from train while in motion
having grandson of years in his
arms, and fell upon the child, breaking
his thigh.
A GIa-PULLEY in the saw-mill of Hor-
ace Taber, Manistee, burst into a hun
dred pieces few days since, and, though
there were thirty men in the mill, no
one was hurt.
THE naples around Kalamazoo are at
tackled by worm which enters the
limbs and gnaws them off completely
inside the bark, when the limbs wither
and the branch breaks.
THE wife of John Fox, of Bay City, is
commencing suits in the Circuit Court,
laying the damages at 81, 900, against
some liquor dealers who have persisted
in selling her husband liquor.
Mrs. CATHERINE WHIPPLE, of Henri
eta, widow aged 50, and weighing 200
pounds, worked all day the hot Wednes-
day of last month loading and unloading
wheat.
A. J. WEIGH, for several years a
prominent grocer of Ionia, but who late
ly retired from business on account of
failing health, has been stricken dumb
by paralysis.
j. G. FISHER, foreman of the Barnum
iron mine at Negaunee, Marquette coun-
ty, fell down shaft the distance of two
levels and was so badly injured that his
life is despaired of.
THE Petoskey city Record says that
the township of Bear Greek, in Emmett
county, has n larger acreage and pro-
duces more wheat this year than the en-
tire county did last year.
AT Jackson, one morning last week, an
unknown woman in dying condition
was found on the railroad bridge. She
died soon after. She is supposed to
have been run over in the night by the
cars.
The Democrats of the Third district
have nominated Rev. A. J. Eldred for
Congress. Charles G. Comstock was
named by the National party for Con-
gresham at the convention at Grand
Rapids.
Two MEN, named Burk and O'Connell,
were drowned in Hungerford lake, Me-
costa county, lately. They, in company
with two or three others, went out fish
ing in boat and got to scuffiing, when
the boat upset.
DETROIT saloon-keepers and brewers
held a secret meeting at Lafayette Hall
the other night A proposition to fight
the Michigan liquor law and to raise
"a, 600 for that purpose was made and
favorably received.
SOME kite flying extraordinary was in
dulged in by Hubbardston boys last
week, mammoth kite of about forty
square feet of surface being sent up
with about 600 feet of clothes-line and
wire. It would lift an ordinary boy
off his feet quite easily when the wind
blew hard.
The Board of State Building Com
missioners held a meeting in Detroit.
Plans and specifications were adopted
for fitting up the military apartments
in the new Capitol. The board has adj
vertised for proposals for the above
work to be submitted on or before
Sept. II.
Hon. GEo. A. MITCHELL, one of the
pioneers of Cadillac, died last week from
conclusion of the brain, caused by being
thrown from buggy on the 9Th inst.
He served as Paymaster during the war,
was the first Mayor of that city, and was
at the time of his death member of the
Republican State Central Committee. He
was largely identified with all the bust
ness interests of Northern Michigan,
and his loss will be severely felt
throughout the entire region. His
grandfather was one of the heroes of
the Revolution, and his mother was a
lineal descendant of New Jerseys first
Colonial Governor.
AN attempt is being made to reclaim
the marshes that sweep back from the
Saginaw river for many miles, and which
are nearly on level with that stream.
By the aid of dredging machine, 800
acres have been surrounded with deep
ditch, and the dirt thrown up as an en-
bankment after the manner of the Hol-
land dykes. Four wind-mills are to be
set up on the track, operating four
pumps each, which it is believed will
: clear it of water, after which it is to be
left to dry off, and then plowed and
seeded down. If the experiment sue
ceeds, it will result in the speedy
reclamation of thousands of acres of land
now utterly worthless. The cost of the
reclaimed land is S15, of which$11 covers
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