The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-19
MICHIGAN ITEMS.


THE village of st. Louis is going to
have Holly water works.
SUMNER visitors have commenced
arriving in Mackinaw in limited mum
bers.
You can commence shooting woodcock
now, but the general Game law remains
in force until Sept 1.
THE son of the Captain of the barge
Spademan fell into the river at Bay City,
the other day, and was drowned.
The salaries of the officers of the
Quincy copper mine, and the wages of
the laborers, have been cut down 10 per
cent.
IT is said that a great deal of pine
has been cut from the Government land
in Chippewa county during the past
winter.
THERE were twenty-six convicts re-
ceived at Jackson in June. Sixteen were
discharged and three escaped. Present
number, 81.
The Fourth was more generally cele-
brated throughout the State than for
many years, except the centennial, and
but few accidents occurred.
The regular quarterly meeting of the
State Board of Health was held at Lam
sing last week. A resolution was adopt
ed favoring the holding of sanitary con-
ventions.
Hon. J. Fl. MCGOWAN was nominated
for reelection to Congress by the Re-
publican Convention of the Third Dis
trict of Michigan. Col. B. w. Thomp-
son was also nominated by the Demo-
Gratis of the Eighth District.
LIGHTNING struck the large barn of a
farmer named John Purchase, IN Free
land township, Saginaw county, the 9TH
er night, and it was totally destroyed,
together with grain and farm imple-
ments. Loss, 50, 800; insurance, 81, 900.
DAVID SIDLEY and wife, of Augusta,
Kalamazoo county, had Jolly and orig
inal celebration of the Fourth. They
quarreled; he kicked her in the jaw;
she sailed in with ball club and broke
his leg.
SIDNEY SANDERsON, young man aged
"a years, was accidentally drowned
while bathing in Sanderson's lake, near
Greenville, few days ago. He was the
son of E b. Sanderson, an old resident
of Greenville.
j. d. BoTHwELL's house at Columbia
vile burned the other night. One son,
aged 8, persisted in the flames. An
other was dangerously burned. Other
members of the family barely escaped
with their lives. All were asleep when
the fire broke out.
A BOY named Peter Olson was drowned
opposite Calkins & Co.'S mill, at Manis-
tee. He was bathing, and attempted
to swim across the river; when near the
center he was taken with cramps, and
drowned before assistance could reach
him. The body was recovered.
A YOUNG and gentlemanly-appearing
man, calling himself Harry Montague,
and claiming to be one of the victims of
the Ashtabula disaster, about two weeks
ago applied to Col. Wattles. of Kali
amazoo, for board. He was sick, and
his appearance bore out his story. He
was taken in. and kindly cared for, be-
ing sick most of the time. On the 9Th
he turned up missing, and with him
about 5000 worth of the handsomest
valuables that could be appropriated
from the household.
THE State Fish Commissioner OF
Michigan has been doing great deal of
work at the hatchery at Pokagon. He
has been employing about fifteen men,
and has built three new ponds-one for
cells, one for goldfish, with fountain
in the center of it, and one for variety
pond. One hundred mammoth goldfish
from the Hudson have just been put in
the pond. These fish are bright gold
color, and many of them weigh over a
pound. There are at the hatchery now
brook trout, California salmon, Atlantic
and land-locked salmon, bass, pickerel,
grayling, and cells. Commissioner
Jerome has just finished distributing
500, 900 cells in the waters of the State.
The cells are brought from the East in
mud and river grass. Some of the cells
put out last year have grown to weigh
of nearly two pounds. The board have
been experimenting with Shaw's patent
fish-way, and. If adopted by them, it
will be put in all the rivers of the State
that have dams.