The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-09-27

FOURTEEN divorce suits are ON the
docket in Gratiot county.
BIC RAPIDS has thirty-six men who
average 215 pounds weight.
THERE is q proposal to hold North
ern Michigan Fair ut Bay City next
year.
A "BUsTED Michigan editor is now
peripatetic peddler of cabbage-worm
poison.
GEORGE PARMALEE has been nomi-
mated for Congress by the Nationals of
the Ninth district.
CHARLES JOHNSON, carpenter mt
Midland, fell from staging distance
of twenty feet and was instantly killed,
lately.
Two SOLDIERS who recently broke
into the Jail at the Sault, to release a
comrade, have now been sent there for
ten months each, by the Circuit Court.
THE Detroit diocese urges the speedy
call of a special convention for the cleo
ton of Bishop to fill the vacancy in
the Diocese of Michigan caused by the
deposition of McCoskry.
A Miss DoRAN, of Traverse City,
firing of the comforts of home, pro-
cured suit of clothes and started out
to seek her fortune. She was last heard
from on her way to Manistee.
AN addition to the east wing of the
State prison building, 5Ox60 feet, is in
process of construction. 1t will contain
thirty-six cells, in tiers of six, three
stories high.
EDWARD TIERNEY and Dermont Shop
ardson, two hifih-school boys at Kalama-
zoo, recently had a swimming match in
one of the lakes near that town, going
four miles, the first in one hour and
twenty-seven minutes, the other i'll one
hour and fifty-fve minutes.
THE following are the United States
Circuit Court Commissioners appointed
in the Upper Peninsula: Gershom
Jones, of Negaunee; Michael Finn, of
Hancock; Joseph Steere, of Sault Ste
Marie; John n. Hitler, of Escanaba !;
Cad N. Smith, of Marquette.
WARREN SHOCK, of Big Rapids, ac-
cepts the challenge of Robert Wright to
wrestle any man in Michigan, barring
Martin and Mclaughlin. He will
wrestle for $50 side at Big Rap
ids in November. He has deposited a
forfeit of $50 and wants Wright to cover
it within fifteen days.
WHILE a young man named Bacon,
who lives at Frankfort, was out on the
lake in sail-boat off Pierpont with
a comrade, the boat upset and turned
both into the water. Bacon tried to
swim to the shore and was drowned
His comrade chung to the boat and was
saved.
The Chaplain of the Ionia House of
Correction has received letter from a
woman in Montcalm county, whose hus-
band is in confinement there, in which
she says that her lawyer advises her that
she is entitled to divorce on account
of the conviction of her husband, and
that the officers of the House of Correc-
ton could issue the same. She wants
it "sent right away
Four men in Clam Lake township,
Wexford county, have been served with
a summons by the Sheriff to show cause
why they do not comply with the school
law and send their children to school.
The complaint was made by the director
of the school district, and it is the first
instance we have known of any attempt
to enforce the law which requires COM
pulsory attendance upon school, al
though the law has been on our statute
books for several years.
A MANIsTEE dispatch says: about
two weeks ago n young man named
Hank Slingerland, living at Bear Lake,
married girl, ID years of age, named
Glover. Slingerland represented to the
Justice that she was older. When the
fact was made known it created n good
deal of feeling between the two families,
and this morning the brides brother
met Slingerland on the street, in this
city, and shot him with a revolver, the
ball entering the left side from the rear.
The doctor has been unable to find the
ball so far, and it is feared the wound
may prove fatal. Glover was promptly
arrested and is in Jail"
The twenty-third annual Detroit Con-
ference of the M. f. Church took place
at Ann Arbor recently, when the follow
ing appointments for the ensuing year
were made:
DETROIT DISTRICT.
James M. Fuller p. F. /; Detroit Central, W.
X. Ninde; Tabernacle, c. L. Allen; Simpson, j.
III. Caster; jefferson Avenue, II. S. Pardington |;
Sixteenth, L. C. Higgins; Fort w. O. Burnett;
Wyandotte, Geo. W. Owen; Trenton, II. N.
Brown; Flat Rock, Geo. Wilson; Denton, l.. c.
York; Wayne, - Parker; Dearborn, ID. J.
Odell Plymouth, J. q. Morgan Worthwhile, J.
+. Jacklin; Walled Lake, f. L. Caster Com
merce, A. s. Fair; Pennington, w. Hagadon;
Smithfield, c. w. Austin; Birmingham, J. ID.
Atkinson; New Boston, A. f. Hoyt Belleville
f. Barry; Leeville, J. M. Truscott; Ypsilanti,
w. w. Washburn; Salem, Samuel Clements;
South Lyon, +. Bradley; Brighton, J. ii. Kill
patrick; Howell, J. NJ Gordon; Fowlerville, s.
W. Warren; Iosco, to be supplied; Leroy, Har
vey Hodsliss; Stockbridge, j. M. Morton;
WILLIAMSON, N. w. Pierce; Dansvle, Il. +.
Pritchard; Unadilla and North Lake, N. N.
Clark; Pinckney, l.. l.. Houghton; Whitmore
Lake, ID. A. Perrine; Springwells, to be sup
piled; Royal Oak, s. E. Warren.
Special Appointments. -Arthur Edwards, ed
itor Northeastern Christian AdUocdte, member
Central Church Quarterly Conference; J. M.
Arnold, agent Superannuated Preachers Aid
Society, member Simpson Quarterly Conference;
Leander w. Pitcher and Geo r. Davis, mis-
siOnaries To North China: L. r. Fiske President