The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-02-08
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

MANIsrEE's new 1900 Court House
is ready for occupancy. '.,. ..,''- ~ =
THERE is a Mormon society consisting
of twelve members in Westville, Mont
calm county. oIq so div rod roi9d -aa
THE law for closing saloons on Sunday
was never enforced in Houghton county
till last week. tso.h il'
THE Ionia Sentinel says several focks
OF wild turkeys have recently been seen
feeding within the city limits. en.,d
A PETITION has been sent to the Post
master General to change the name of
the Fentonville postoffice to Fenton.
A NEW secret society, recently organ
lied in Ohio, called the Knights of
Labor" is reaching over into Michigan.
THE Governor aud Railroad Commits
sioner are on tour of inspection of the
Menominee railroad, in the Upper Pen
insula, which is to receive Immigrant.
LAFAYETTE McMURRAY died at Hast
ings a few days ago from lockjaw, re-
sulting from the loss of finger mu-
tilated in the machinery of j. l.. Wilk-
ms croquet works He left a family.
A LARGE greenhouse at Brady Hill
Cemetery, East Saginaw, owned by VIM.
Il. Arnold, the sexton, and filed with
valuable plants, was totally destroyed by
fire recently. Loss, $3.50; no insurance.
ONE of the farmers Institutes, con-
Quoted under the auspices of the State
Agricultural College, held a four days
session at Saginaw City last week, large
number of people being in attendance.
DIR. VAN DEUsEN has resigned from
the medical SUPPLEMENTARY of the In
sane Asylum at Kalamazoo, and will
leave it March L. DIR. Geo. G. Palmer
will succeed him.
The fourth of the Farmers Institutes
for this season was held at st. Johns last
week, the Court House being well filed
with farmers from the surrounding
country.
The dead body of Mrs. Deborah
Green was recently found in her house,
seven miles south of jackson, with her
head split open. She had evidently been
murdered for her money. The old lady
lived alone.
A SON of Mrs. Terney, of Carrollton,
q young lad about II years of age, while
skating on the river recently, broke
through the ice and was drowned. This
is the second son Mrs. Terney has lost
within year in the same manner.
A LARGE dwelling house, at East Sagi-
nav, owned by H. p. Smith and occu-
:. l. L. l.
and Mrs. Paul Brown, was nearly de-
stroyed by fire the other morning. Loss
on building. So 900; on furniture, 81 200.
Insurance, 81 400. sol tu..
THE wife OF d. M. Howard, of Dover,
ended her life recently by jumping into
a well. She had been subject to spells
of insanity, and, few days before, was
returned convalescent from the Wayne
County Asylum, where she was sent
for treatment last September. ~
CONGRESSMAN HUBBELL writes the
school authorities of Houghton that the
high-school cadets of that place will
probably be permitted to retain their
muskets, and that another army officer
will possibly be detailed to take the
place of Lieut.. Ingalls,.
THE Secretary of State has issued a
circular calling upon the non. commits
stoned officers and musicians of the
Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Michigan In
fantry, having claims for pay during the
month of August, to apply to that de-
partment for blanks with which to file
their claims.
MICHIGAN financial reports show that
the State bonded debt has decreased
$217, 900 since Jan. 1. A series of bonds
amounting to S243, 900 fell due at that
date; also $29,610 interest has been
paid-leaving the Understanding debt
now at 81, 159, 900. The reports of the
State banks to the Treasurer show total
liabilities, $2,s43, 254.3 So; resources the
same.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
for the construction of a railroad be-
tween Saginaw and Vassar, to be COM
pleted within year. The road will be
twenty miles long, will connect at Vassar
with the Detroit and Bay City road, and
at Saginaw with the Saginaw Valley and
st. Louis, and Jackson and Lansing Di-
vision of the Michigan Central. Work
is to commence at once.
THE Circuit Court Commissioner has
filed his report in the university chancery
case under the decretal order of Oct. 26,
1877, referring it to him for accounting.
The summary is as follows:
AGAINST ROSE.
Delinquent red-lined accounts missing
Sub payments on forfeited accounts. ..... $40 5,
lgaa 1
Iotai. ........-...... ~, 466. 81
| AGAINST DOUGLAS.
Stub accounts, initiated and not reported
to Regents. IFS. on
The Commissioner refers the vexed
and disputed items SOAPS, $66.19 ant
500 10 respectively reported in 1868
1869 and 1s69-70 to the court for de
cision, and gives all the facts relative
thereto. He also takes up some special
accounts which he has examined and re-
ports as to them. BY these the amount
against Douglas will be decreased 5000. IL
and the amount against Rose $3.50.
KrTT1E MALoNEY, of Flint, aged q
years, was awakened the other night b,
n sharp pain i'm her left tenopla IN n -,