The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-04-12

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A SAGINAW CrTY man has travelled
about $50, 900 miles on street Car. He
has been conductor on one for eight
years.
The number of saloons in Michigan
in 1876 was 4, 1867, but in 1877 the num-
Der had decreased to 1000.
A LARGE number of horses are being
shipped north to work in the Michigan
mines and in the lumber regions.
O. w. GAUTHIER's fish-freezer, at West
Bay City, was destroyed by fire the 9TH
er night. Loss, $4,000 to $40, 900; par
TALLY insured.
THE Michigan State Agricultural So
ciety makes its formal announcement
that the State Fair will be held at De-
troit, Sept. 16, II, Is, 10, and 20.
THE valuation, on cash basis, of the
city of Detroit is less this year, by $13,-
$50, 900, than last, when it was $4,000
900 lower than the preceding year.
New postoffices have been established
at Vogel Center, Missaukee county, and
Spring Grove, Allegan county. Clifford
postoffice, Lapeer, has been re-estab-
lished.
THE Village Board of Pewamo has re-
solved that all sal0onists of that village
must pay corporation license of from
800 to $500 yearly.
AT the special election in Manistee,
the city voted to levy a special tax of
81, 900 and issue bonds of $4,000 thus
taking up the entire debtedness of the
city.
HARRY ALDRIoH, aged 9 years, while
at play, fell from lumber pile into the
river at Bay City and was drowned.
Life was extinct when the body was re-
covered.
AN Indian, named Fisher, was turned
out drunk from an Elk Rapids saloon
one night lately, lay all night in the
street, exposed to cold storm, and was
found dead the next morning.
ELISHA MILLS, of Lexington, while
out hunting the other day with valua-
BILE stallion, accidentally discharged his
gun and wounded the animal 80 serious-
ly that it was necessary to kill him.
Mrs. MARY McCoLLUM, native of
Glasgow, Scotland, died in Buena Vista
township the other day, at the advanced
age of 100 years. Deceased has resided
many years in Saginaw county.
DIR. HENRY M. HURD, assistant ply
stefan at the Insane Asylum at Kalama-
zoo, has been appointed by the new
Board of Commissioners Superintendent
of the Eastern Asylum, at Pontiac.
IT is announced that Gov. Crosweu
will appoint Frank A. Hooker, of Char
lotte, to be Judge of the Fifth Judicial
Circuit, vice Judge Van lille, resigned.
Tha term will last until Jan. /, 1882.
HENRY FISHER escaped from prison at
Jackson recently. He had been trusted
too much as an outside man. He was
incarcerated two years ago for three
years, for grand larceny, and had always
behaved well.
Mrs. GEORGE H. LAWRENCE, of South
Boardman township, Kalkaska county,
committed suicide, few days since, by
drowning herself in u cistern. She was
detected trying to poison herself with
strychnine the night before and pre-
vented. She was supposed to be tenn
porarily insane.
TOLEDO parties have stocked Aldrich
lake, near White Pigeon, with 1000, 900
young white fish, and Klinger lake with
10000. They have secured certain rights
of the adjoining land owners, and pro-
pose to find out whether fish-farming can
be made success in inland lakes.
MATTHEW F. GUNIoN, of Dexter, a
young lawyer, has been admitted to bail
in the sum of $1,000 to await examina-
ton upon the charge of arson. The
property burned was the barn of Sam
uel Fay, a Scio farmer, who claims that
Gunion burned the barn to pay off q
grudge he bore against him.
THE following is statement of the re-
ceipts and disbursements at the Michi-
gan State Treasurer's Office for the month
ending March 80, 1878: Balance on
hand, Feb. %, 1896, 1882 Receipts
for the month, $3.50, GA II; total, $2O5,
483. So; balance on hand, March ~
$40, $780, 5.
THE Land Office, which had been es
tablished at Ionia for forty-two years, Ii
now thing of the past. BY order o
the Government it wSs removed to ReeC
, City on the Goth ult. 1t required ont
car to contain the books, papers and fur
niture of the Office. The officers VIII,
, hold over and go to Reed City are jaime
jennings, Receiver, E. Stephenson, Reg
{ lister, and G.. w. Wilson, clerk.
, Rev. E. NUDGE, of Maple Rapids
moving away, left vacancy in tn
postoffice at that place. Accordingly
public meeting was held and
vote taken for successor. Mrs. Korr
widow of Prof. s. G. Korr, forme
) principal of the public school, was tn
fortunate candidate, receiving lao vote
out of $50, the whole number cast.
THE Commissioner of Insurance TO
the State of Michigan reports that Their
: are twenty. six life companies doing bust
; ness in Michigan, of which ten are pure
ly mutual. The number of policies i
force on the lives of citizens of Mich
! igan is 20,760, insuring the sum @
S41, $40, ITO. During the year the com
panies received an aggregate income
1912, S25.77, and disbursed the sum c
. 1896, 679.77.
4 WILLIAM BRoPHY, William McNebt
e and another man, whose name is ur
: known, entered the saloon at the raj
4 road station in Wyandotte, kept