The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-26
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

THERE is to be special term of the
Marquette Circuit Aug, 6.
The Detroit Opera House is to be
thoroughly overhauled and refitted.
JOHN l.. TRUAR, Jersey j. p, has
been sent to Jail sixty days for retaining
fines collected by him.
N. r. BARTLETT, of Saginaw City, has
just made sale of lumber to be sawed
and shipped in 1879.
THE Republicans of the Eighth District
have placed Roswell G.. Horr in nomi.
nation for Congress.
The recent Gratiot Circuit granted
ten divorces, and twelve Lew applica-
tons are already filed.
IT is estimated that there are at least
100 600 bushels of old wheat in the
granaries OF Clinton county.
THE late ID. E. Shaw, of Bay City.
whose dead body was found last week,
had an insurance of 81, 700 on his life.
l.. PALMER & Son, of Dexter, have
made 1000 yards of cloth for the Jack
son prison, and have an order for / 1000
more.
PETER SWANSON, of Trufant, was acct
dentally killed, few days ago. He was
MORALLY injured by being crowded
against the side of stable by horses
Aged So.
A FIRE at Lexington, recently,
destroyed the planing-mill and furniture
factory of Fry Brown. Loss, So, 900 /;
no insurance. The fire originated in the
enginero m.
THERE are now two wheat elevators III
Caro-, Tuscola county, and the ground
has been purchased for third, which
will he completed in time for the crop
now ripening.
MEN MINEE Herald: A man was put
III ] Ill at Sturgeon Bay the other even
ing for being drunk and disorderly, and
short time afterward the Jail was de-
stroyed by fire, and the man burnt up
with it.
SAGINAW NeWs:: OF the liquor tax
S13, 0t0 has been paid into the county
treasury, and warrants for the remaining
81 900 placed in the hands of the
Sheriff, who will collect the greater por
ton thereof.
Mrs. BULLARD, of Vicksburg, Kala-
mazoo county, who was severely burned
by her clothing taking fire while sne was
assisting her husband to burn brush on
their clearing, some weeks ago, has
since died.
GEN b. F. PARTRIDGE, Commissioner
OF the State Land Office, is also Super
visor of his town, and has just been
unanimously chosen President of the
Bay County Board.
A MAN named James Kinnefeck, driver
of Saginaw City team, was run away
with the other day. He was thrown
from the wagon and almost instantly
killed. He was aged 80, and leaves a
wife aud one child.
THE physician of the State prison in
his annual report gives only four deaths
for 1877, and says that "only two years
in the history of the prison has lower
death rate prevailed-in 184S-when
there were no deaths, and in 1867, when
there were only two."
AT West Branch, Ogemaw county, on
The Fourth, man by the name OF
Malone was engaged in firing an anvil,
which failed to go eff when the match
was applied. He then commenced
pricking powder in the vent, when the
charge was exploded, probably by the
friction, the anvil blown to pieces, and
the mans face horribly mutilated. 1t
is not known whether he can recover.
A LITTER written at Cheboygan, June
81, 1876, and mailed for the Sault, was
delivered June % last, a few days over
two years from the date of mailing.
The postmalk shows that it was in the
postoffice June %, and the letter was as
clean and perfect in condition as though
it had only been the few days necessari-
ly required for its transmission. 1t had
no marks upon it indicating that it had
been missent. The question is, where
has it been all this time?
The celebration of the Fourth at Stan
ton had an amusing finale. The fire
works were concentrated on the lat roof
of the county building. Soon after the
show began the collection took fire and
began to go off. The men in charge got
scared, and one took a leap to the
ground the rest, climbing over the
roof, hung down ON the outside of the
building until the rockets and candles
and other pyrotechnics completed their
display on their own hook.