The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-01-11
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

Ii Is expected to make it self-supporting
in the spring.
The teachers and pupils of the Green
vile High school have arranged for q
course OF instructive popular lectures
this winter.
THOMAS BURoHARD, OF Leoni. was
found dead in his bed He had been
insane for some years, and was about 70
years old.
A MASS temperance meeting under the
auspices cf the Kalamazoo County Tenn
perance Association will be held at Kala-
mazoo Jan. Is.
Tower h MILLS, one of the heaviest
ond most prominent firms in the city of
Ionia, have been adjudicated bankrupts
in the United States Court.
JOSEPH BAsHoN, young man. was
killed at Ryerson, Hill & Co. s camp,
four miles west of Morley, by falling
tree. He leaves wife and family.
THE insurance companies which lost
so heavily by the incendary fire in Nor
ris' clothing store at Flint have decided
to pay up, there being no reason to sus-
pect that Mr.. Morris was instrumental
in causing the fire.
The other night the frame dwelling
house of Mrs. M. j. Little, at Flint,
took fire from a defective chimney, and
was entirely consumed. Loss, 1900;
insured for $500 on the building and
$40 on the furniture.
Two GERMANS, employed on Cedar
river, at Roth's lumber camp, got into
an alteration, when one struck the other
with n grub-hoe, and, in return, re-
ceived blow that split open his skull,
indicting fatal injuries.
THEY must have precocious boys in
Kalamazoo, as they now have two young
boys in the Jail there awaiting trial on q
charge of highway robbery, they having
! knocked down another small boy and
relieved his pocket of 70 or 80 cents.
ANTHONY VAsEY, clert in the hard
ware store of @. Montague & Co., at
Caro-, shot himself through the heart
recently. He had been addicted to
strong drink, and this, with domestic in
/ felicity, is attributed as the cause.
THE school-house of District No. 9,
/ Richland, Kalamazoo county, was burned
/ last week. The fire was the work of an
incendiary, and the books and other
property of the pupils were removed and
piled ut safe distance from the build
ing before the fire was started.
In the case of Edward Sullivan at
Flint, charged with the murder of VIM.
Ross the jury failed to agree and were
discharged by Judge Turner, after be-
ing out eighteen hours. They stood
nine for manslaughter and three for ac-
quittal. The case will be retired next
term.
A LARGE barn, owned by McGraw IL
Co., at South Bay City, was totally de-
stroyed the other night, with 2 600 bush
els of grain, a large quantity OF hay,
800 bushels of carrots, harness, wagons,
sleighs, etc. Ten horses were burned to
death. The total loss is $1,000; insur-
ance, $1,000.
IL the report of Geo. W. Wilcox,
County Treasurer of Barry county, the
amount of liquor tax collected in the
county during the year is shown to be
81, S5S. Sc OF this sum Hastings dealers
have paid 81, 10l 50; Vaudeville, 1884,
10; Nashville, $500; Prairieville, $50;
Hickory Corners, I'll. 81.
The following is a statement of the
receipts and disbursements at the State
Treasurer's office for the month ending
Dec. 81, 1877:
Balance on hand Now 80, 1877 .s476 l0l "a
Receipts for the month ................ n4,4oi.4
Total 20, S eoo 20 20
Disbursements for the month. ......... l27 62S.7o
Balance on hand Dec. 81. 1877 .s462 927 81
THE annual session of the State Teach
ers' Association was held at East Sagi-
oil akas,
for the ensuing year as follows: Presi-
dent, Prof. f. Olney. of Ann Arbor ;
Vice Presidents, A. j. Daniels, Grand
Rapids; Mrs. Osband, Albion; Prot.
Richards, Chelsea; Secretary, ID. Fail.
Flint Assistant Secretary, Miss e.
Pruden, Coldwater; Treasurer, Prof. G.
b. Bomar, Niles Executive Committee,
President Butterfeld, Olivet Prof.
McLouth. j. @. Jones; those holding
over are Profs Strong, w. l.. Smith and
Austin George The Association of City
Superintendents of Michigan Schools
elected officers for next year as follows
President, G A. Cover, Saginaw; Vice
President. Geo. A. Baker, Paw Paw
!, Secretary and Treasurer, T. w. Crissey,
! Flint.
The Michigan Almanac for 1867,
, published by the Detroit Tribune ana
, Post Company, in it's tables on "Tht
I State Press" furnishes the following in
5 teresting statistics: The press of the
State consists of two papers which pub
lish daily, tri-weekly and weekly edi
tons; seventeen which appear both daily
G and weekly; three which are published
0 daily only; two which publish both semi
o weekly and weekly editions; five semi
;. weeklies; two hundred and forty week
g lies proper; two which pablish two dis
). tinct weekly editions; four which
e appear monthly or bi-weekly; four
e teen monthlies; one quarterly ant
g one annual. The grand total of tn,
: periodicals. of Michigan is thus 800
l. This last includes Ill distinctively Re
d publican papers, Sc which are distinct
n lively Democratic, and Z which fly tn
n Greenback colors. OF the remaining
II periodicals of Michigan, SO classif
h themselves as independent, neutral
: non-partisan, or local; all others or
?, devoted to the advocacy OF such specis
D ;ntoraeta % mining lumher byoipne