The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-21
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

| GREENvILLE has now one OF the finest
opera houses to be found west OF Detroit.
THE amount OF salt produced in the
Saginaw valley in May was ITO, Ola bar
rels
IT is reported that 6-year old girl
Ithaca, named Brown, has hair twenty
five inches long.
A SON of d. II. Franklin, of Davis
vile, was drowned while bathing the
other night. His age was II years.
THERE have been some 5000 tons of
hay shipped from Genesee county the
past year, averaging $3.50 per ton.
JOHN CRANE, in a fit of drunkenness,
fell into the canal at the Sault and was
drowned.
WOMEN will be admitted as delegates
to the annual sessions of the Michigan
Congregational associations hereafter.
THE number of failures in Greenville
during the last year is 38 per cent. of
the number who were in business year
ago.
THE Postmaster General has notified
the mail-carrier on the route from Peck
to Omrad, Sanilac county, that service
on that route is discontinued.
DANIEL WILSON, of Washington, has
an apple tree 55 years old, very vigor-
GUS, and which bears large crops of
fruit.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for
holding union picnic of the schools of
Eagle, Riley and WATERFOWL, near Wa
tertown, July A.
THE Montcalm Herald announces the
birth of the first child in the village of
Edmore since its organization. The
boys name is Edmore Elliott.
A FEW weeks ago Mr.. J. A. Hall, of
Homestead, was severely bitten in the
arm by horse. It is now feared he
will have to suffer amputatlon.
THE eighteenth annual convention of
the Michigan State Sabbath AS
ISOLATION will be held at Flint, June %,
26 and 81.
A FIRE near East Saginaw, the other
day, destroyed two frame buildings and
$4,000 slaves ; total loss, 5000; insur-
ance, $1,000.
A FIRE recently destroyed two double
dwellings and one single one on Backus
point, in Oscoda, the property of j. E.
Potts. Loss on the building and house.
hold goods, So, 500; insured for $500.
WILLIAM CLARK, farmer living near
North Burns postoffice, Huron county,
committed suicide by hanging himself
recently. He leaves wife and large
family.
A JUSTICE in the township of Wilson,
Charlevoix county, who is also a notary
public, recently swore himself in as JUS
tice, and forwarded the oath 80 certified
to the County Clerk.
AT Richfeld, Jacob Schwitzer, while
logging, was struck on the head by
pole, receiving injuries from which he
died in few hours. He leaves wife
and one child.
IT is reported that silver-ore deposit
has been discovered in the vicinity of
the Sault Ste. Marie river, and that par
ties in the neighborhood are Choking
up" this alleged find"
@. B. STEBBINs has resigned the posi-
ton of Deputy Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, to take effect July next.
He will then have served the people ex-
actly twenty years in that capacity.
THE Detroit and Milwaukee Railro ad
Company is about to dispense with the
use of Pullman sleepers on its road, and
introduce sleeping coaches of its own.
A GERMAN agent of the name of
Wimph has been examining the lands in
the vicinity of the Menominee iron
range with view of selecting a tract
suitable for the location of colony of
about 100 families.
Two BARNS and their contents, with
one valuable horse, belonging to John
Willis, residing half a mile from Port
Crescent, were burned the other night
at midnight by an incendiary. Insured
for $500.
KALAMAZOO Telegraph: The greatest
honor that young painter can achieve
is to have his pictures received in the
Salon at Paris. This great mark of dis
townsman, Mr.. M. E. Torrey.
A RIVER driver named Charles Wyline,
who had been drinking great deal, had
delirium tremens and wandered out
south of Manistee about five miles. He
was found dead in the woods with his
throat cut. The verdict of the Coroner's
jury was suicide.
Mr.. CHELAL CLARK, of South Boston,
Ionia county, a man 85 years old, and
blind, while walking around his chair
for exercise, became dizzy, fell upon
the floor and fractured his hip. The
shock was 30 great that he died the next
day.
A MAN named Norton, a blacksmith,
81 years old, single, went into a meat
market at Cairo recently, and asked for
a piece of raw beef. A slice was cut of,
which he spriukled with salt and at
tempted to swallow. It lodged in his
windpipe, and he choked to death in
three minutes.
THE tenth annual Convention of the
German Workingmen's Benevolent As
ISOLATION of Michigan was held at Kala-
! mazoo, last week. Delegates were pres
ent representing thirty five towns of the
State. Many of the most prominent
Germans of the State were present.
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