The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-31

$500.
HE currant-worm has more netoriety
man the potato-bug in Michigan this
season.
ANOTHER vein of coal has been discov-
cred on the farm of M. o Halloran, north
of Jackson.
ADELBERT COREY, young man of II,
was drowned near Alma recently, while
riding logs in the river.
THE official programme of the State
Fair, to be held at Detroit next Septem-
Der, is published.
A BARBER named Watson, mt Bay City,
swallowed an ounce and half of lauda-
mum, and died the next morning.
JUDGE WHEELER, of the Nineteenth
Judicial Circuit, has sent in his resigna-
ton, to take effect the LIST of June.
MAMBRINo TURK" 6-year-old STALL
ion. has been sold by the Messrs. Nye,
of Flint, to H. Merrill, of Bay City, for
Sc, 900.
THE eighteenth annual convention of
the Michigan State Sabbath School AS
ISOLATION will be held at Flint, June 20,
26 and 81.
CAPT. HIcKoK, of the State prison,
says that 81 per cent. of those who come
to the prison get there by the use of
strong drink.
SAMUEL KENDALL died at Fort Graft
OF, few days since, aged "a. He has
lived ON the lake shore twenty years,
and served in the war of 1872.
THE General Association of the Con-
gregational Church of Michigan held its
thirty annual session at East
Saginaw last week.
BATH, Clinton county. has an old man,
Dennis McGunigal, who claims to be
107 years old. He is nearly blind. The
next oldest is Isaac Tompkins, who
is 80.
A MAN named Sullivan, brakeman on
the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad,
fell under a moving train at Howard
City the other day, and was instantly
killed.
SAMUEL HoFFNER, stone cutter by
occupation, was found hanging from a
tree in Crosse Point, near Detroit, few
days since.
A 2-YEAR- OLD son of James Dunn, of
Traverse City, was fatally scalded by
sitting down in a pail of hot water. He
lived but twenty-four hours.
THE Muir man who is living with his
ninth wife is outdone by one discovered
between Cadillac and Reed City, who
is living with his fourteenth wife.
The Ohio Legislative Committee re-
ports that the Michigan Mutual Insur-
ance Company is guiltless of usury in
Ohio loans, the loans being made under
Michigan laws.
TIMOTHY CURRAN, miner, working in
the Jackson mine at IshpemiDg, was in
stantly killed few days since, and
man named John Arnott dangerously in
jured, by rock falling upon them.
PROMINENT citizens of Stanton, Mont
calm county, have put on file, in the
County Treasurer's office, bond agree
ing to pay $4,000 toward new county
buildings if the county will appropriate
like sum.
ONE of Lake Superior's old pioneer
residents, Judge A. N. Barney, died at
Huron, Ohio, few days since, at the
ripe old age of II years, twenty-five of
which were industrio usly spent in Mar
quette.
THE copper mines of Lake Superior
from 1845 to 1878 have yielded 227, OPT
tons of copper, valued at $117 1897, $50
The average annual yield for the last ten
years has been q, 100000. Calumet and
Hecla mines alone have paid over $12,-
000.0 in dividends.
The State Homeopathic Medical So
ciety held its regular annual session in
Lansing last week, with large number
of delegates in attendance. The fol-
lowing officers were elected President,
William M. Bailey, of Detroit; First
Vice President, Deforest Hunt, of Grand
Rapids; Second Vice President, l.. M.
Jones, of Brooklyn; General Secretary,
r. B. House, of Tecumseh; Correspond
ing Secretary, o. r. Long, of Ionia;
Treasurer. F. X. Springer, of Detroit.
MANIsTEE Times and Standard:
equal to the Muskegon curiosity has
been caught in Manistee lake. It is
about ten inches long, has four legs and
toes to each foot, tail fiat, skin smooth
and without scales, and the gills or ears,
whichever they may be called-and they
seem to partake of the nature of both
appear velvety. 1t evidently cannot
live out of water, and appears like
cross between the lizard and dog-fsh.
It's like has never been seen in these
parts.
Rev. j. MADISON LIeHTFooT, the
ackn owledged leader of the colored peo-
pie of Detroit, was found dead in bed,
the other morning, of apoplexy. He was
72 years of ege and formerly slave in
Virginia, escaping in 1880. He was
leader of the Blackburn riot in 1884,
growing out of the recapture of Black
burn and wife, escaped slaves, and was
an active agent for many years of the
underground railroad, by which fugi-
tives from the South were helped into
Canada. OF late years he had been a
preacher. He was man of fair educa-
ton. BY lucky real-estate ventures he
amassed a snug fortune.
THE summaries of the results of the
recent frosts in this State, published in
the Detroit Post and Tribune, are as
follows: Frosts have prevailed more or
less in nearly every county. The main
crOpg wheat corn and orasa ara COM