The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-10-11
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

the Normal School from outside the
State.
THOMAS HILL, of Jackson, has been
appointed engineer of the new State
Capitol.
THE cider-press man and the phono-
graph man do the Michigan fairs to-
gether.
The village of Climax hasn't saloon
within its limits, but then it has three
drug-stores.
+. w. CHAMBERS, of Alamo, has taken
$50 pounds of honey from one swarm of
bees this summer
JOHN WLLIsIE, of Forestville, fell off
his wagon and was instantly killed. He
was intoxicated.
WILL CARLETON having spent the sea-
son in England, Ireland and Scotland,
has returned to Michigan.
Mr.. GoADBY, of Hudson, is certain
that he has in his possession lock of
the hair of Napoleon Bonaparte.
PATRICK MILES was caught stealing
beer at Bay City and put in Jail. The
next day he died of delirium tremens.
RALPH CRABBE, a prominent insurance
man of Bay City, was knocked down
on street in Detroit and robbed of
$4,000.
MARBLE of the finest quality and of
all colors, shades and combinations, is
found in ineXhaustible quantities near
Marquette.
T.. j. ENGLE's residence in Berlin,
Ionia county, was destroyed by light
ming the other day. The inmates es-
capped unframed.
The new grist mill at Frankfort is
nearly completed. 1t will have three
runs of stones of capacity of 300 BUSH
els in ten hours.
A WOMAN in Jackson has tried to kill
herself three times, but has been pre-
vented by her friends. Such persever-
ence is worthy of success.
r. E. DAVIS, one of the pioneers of
Sanilac county, and founder of the vii
lage of Davisville, died at his home at
Davisville Sept. 30.
JAMES MICHAEL, the first man ever
sentenced to State prison from Er>met
county, knocked down Deputy Sheriff
Smith and escaped. He was afterward
rearrested.
The State School is crowded to its
utmost capacity, there being at present
30S children there, and out of that
number only one is sick, and that one not
dangerously.
A BRUTE named Ashley Putney, living
in Ferry, while under the influence of
whisky, knocked his horse down with
an AK and pounded it to death. He was
fined $25 and costs.
CHARLES GooDRIcH, young man II.
the township of Atlas, fell twenty feet
from a swing few days since, striking
on his head, receiving internal injuries
which resulted fatally.
THE Synod of Michigan proposes the
erection of monument over the grave
of the Rev. Calvin Clark, for so long a
period their faithful and beloved mis-
sionary.
c. II. SHUTTLEwoRTH, a Corunna jew
eler, was fooling with dynamite car
fridge, and it exploded. Both hands
were lacerated and his head cut some
what.
A BLACK bear weighing 400 pounds
was shot recently in the city of Flint
1t came from the north woods
Considerable excitement was caused by
the affair.
THE Standing Committee of the Do
cese of Michigan (EpiscopaD have de-
cided that it would be inexpedient to
call special convention for the election
of Bishop.
THOMPSON H. MURCH, the Maine
Greenbacker who was elected to Con
gress in Eugene Hales district, was en-.
gagged in numbering in the Saginaw val
ley years ago.
A TOWN called Edmore has sprung up
at the place where the Stanton branch
of the Detroit, Lansing and Northern
and the Chicago, Saginaw and Canada
railroads meet.
MYRoN PoTTs, of Lexington, was fa
tally stabbed in a drunken affray by De
Graves the other day. Graves used q
large dirk-knife, cutting deep in Potts
side. He was arrested.
JEREMIAH DONOVAN committed suicide
in Jackson prison lately in a novel man
ner. He was working in the trip-ham
mer shop, and threw himself into the
fast-running fy-wheel, which crushed
and mangled him almost out of human
shape.
The Marshal of Memphis has issued
card to the iquor-dealers forbiddine
them to sell liquors to fifteen certain
persons named in his card, the same be
ing people who are in the habit of get
ting intoxicated.
CLARE county to-day contains more
pine timber, perhaps, than any othel
county in the Lower Peninsula, roughly
estimated at 1,500,000,000 feet. 1t il
owing, principally, to the nature of the
location that such large body of pine
timber standing so close to our great
lumber markets has remained thus long
comparatively untouched, being situated
at the extreme headwaters of Chippewa
Tittabawassee and Muskegon rivers
streams too small, shallow and rapid I,
make log-running a paying, if practica
BILE, undertaking
Michigan Finances.