The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-28


The Gratiot circuit has six divorce
cases on its calendar, and the Tuscola
five.
EELs are being planted by the thou
sands in the inland lakes all over the
State.
THERE was only one illegitimate child
reported out of 927 births in Bay county
in 1877.
THE assessed valuation of the city of
Detroit aggregates 1877, 754, $40, 1884,
465 less than last year.
AT Jackson, William Fl. Stambridge
fell from balcony, striking on his head
and receiving fatal injuries.
TUscoLA COUNTY has just sold 1900
| OF per cent. bonds, due in 1888, at one
half per cent. premium.
OVER 200 delegates and ministers were
In attendance at the county Baptist Con-
vention at Owosso recently.
THOMAS STRUDLEY, aged AZ, was killed
the other day at Detroit by being thrown
from wagon by runaway horse.
MIssAUKEE county is rapidly adding
to the area of its farming land, large
acreage having been cleared this season.
JOSEPH SHORES, an old citizen of Nor
wood, Charlevoix county, was drowned
lately. He was fishing and taken with
At.
EAST SAGINAW boys loaded gun with
peas, and lad named Asa Willis got the
charge in the face. His injuries may
prove fatal.
PURsEL, EARL & Co. s large Touring
mills at Schoolcraft were totally con-
sumed by fire the other night. Loss,
so, 900; fully insured.
WOMEN will be admitted as delegates
to the annual sessions of the Michigan
Congregational associations hereafter.
PROF. W. l.. SMITH, for the past two
! years teacher of music in the public
! schools of Saginaw, has been appointed
| by Superintendent Tarbell Deputy Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction in
place of g. B. Stebbins.
THE annual meeting of the Mexican
war veterans was held at Detroit last
week. Delegates were present repre-
senting eight Western States. Col.
Isaac ID. Toll was the orator of the day,
and Capt E. A. Wilcox the poet. A
grand banquet closed the exercises.
THOSE two amiable Gratiot county
female lunatics are still stitching away
at the job of making two bed-quilts with
1900 pieces in each. When the re-
cording angel asks them how they spent
their lives on earth, it will be amusing
to hear them say, "We each made a
bed-quilt. "-Evening Ne,0s.
THE Northern Tribune says that two
sons of a man named Grigg, at Sault
Ste. Marie, got possession of loaded
gun, few days ago, and while playing
with it discharged it, blowing off the en-
tire lower portion of the younger boys
face. The little fellow, who was only
years old, lived but few minutes
after the accident.
Mr.. WILLIAM E. ROGERS, after whom
the village and township of Rogers,
Pressure Isle county, are named, and
who still owns large amount of prop
erty there, is a son-in-law of ex-Secre-
tary Fish, graduate of West Point, and
some years since was in charge of a
party of the United States Lake Survey,
in the survey of Lake Superior.
LIEUT.. Gov. ALoNzo SESSIONS, of
Ionia county, recently met with seri-
Gus accident at Ionia. In getting off a
Car at that place he accidentally fell and
struck the ground in such a manner as
to cut and bruise his head quite serious
ly. He was promptly aided to hotel
and his injuries dressed. No fears of
fatal results are entertained.
The State Eclectic Medical and Sur
gical Society met in Detroit last week,
the occasion being the second annual
convention of the society since its re-
organization and incorporation. The
, society was organized at Kalamazoo
April 26, 1877 The first annual meet
ing was held at Jackson last May. The
society has now about sixty members.