The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-12-13

THERE are fifty life convicts in the
Michigan penitentiary.
The Ward mills at Ludington have
shipped 3S,G00,0O0 feet of lumber dur
ing this season.
The Tittabawassee Boom Company
have declared rebate to log owners of
80 cents thousand.
The Michigan Central Railroad Com
pany's water-works at Kalamazoo are
now finished and in use.
GRAND RAPIDS capitalists have asked
permission to build and operate street
railway in kalamazoo.
CHARLES STORMS, aged %, his wife
and child, of Jackson, have all died
within a month of diphtheria.
OVER 1,60O acres of railroad lands
were sold in Osceola county, last month,
mostly in small parcels to settlers.
THE Kalamazoo spring and axle fac
tory is now in operation. 1t is the larg-
est concern of the kind in America.
CHIEF CLERK of the State Land Of
| flee is the important position that has
been rendered to Henry S. Sleeper, of
Kalamazoo.
A NEW Methodist Episcopal church,
costing $4,000, and capable of seating
200, was dedicated at Odessa, Ionia
county, few days ago.
Miss NELLIE ARzENo, aged 90, for
merly of Flat Rock, died at Memphis,
Nov %, of yellow fever. Recently the
| death of her father and mother was an
nounced.
DIR. G. B. BURR, graduate of the II
class of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, of New York city, has been
appointed assistant surgeon of the In
sane Asylum.
WHILE engaged in chopping near
Otisville, Genesee county, recently, Ste
phen Griffin was so badly injured by a
falling tree that he died in two hours
after the accident.
AN effort is being made to remove the
county seat of Ionia county to Portland.
The citizens of Portland offer to build
$4,000 worth of county buildings if
the change is made.
The people of Ionia county voted on
proposition to build new Jail few
days ago. The proposition was defeated,
the vote being, yeas 1,015, nays ,76S.
The rural townships beat the city of
Ionia.
The recently-organized Presbyterian
church at Boyne Falls, Charlevoix
county, is now talking of erecting a
house of worship: so are the Catholics
of Petoskey, the Presbyterians of Little
Traverse, and the Presbyterians of
Ithaca, Gratiot county.
H. III. MosELY, of Marion, Perry
county, Ala, writes to the people of
Michigan as follows: "The relatives or
friends of Adjt. Noble, of the Second
Michigan Infantry regiment, can get his
sword by addressing me. Twas cap
tured during the siege at Knoxville,
Tenn"
WIN. BOYD and Cyrus r. Jennings, of
Ithaca, Gratiot county, quarreled, a few
days ago, over the division of a lot of
potatoes they raised during the season
upon shares, during which the latter
stabbed the former three times, the
blade penetrating the heart and causing
instant death.
SEVERAL men tried to force entrance
to disreputable house at Howard City
one day last week. The inmates fired
on them, and John Weller was shot
through the wrist; r. Collins shot in
the leg, and Cal. Peasley shot in the
forehead. His wound is fatal.
DURING the month of November there
have been 20 convicts received at the
State prison; 81 discharged; 3 par
doned, by the President and 2 by the
Governor; / escaped-Savage, of De-
troit-and 10 transferred to the Ionia
House of Correction, making a decrease
of 20, and leaving 1888 confined Dec. l.