The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-04-19
MICHIGAN ITHMS.

duced 1881 tons of copper in March.
WALTER GUILE, of Saranac, has paid
$3l for selling liquor to minor.
DETROIT ranks eleventh in the cities
OF the United States in the postoffice
revenue.
THERE were 3O5, 4O4 barrels of salt
made in the State this year up to April
/, against l07. 049 last year.
MICHIGAN tramps are now heading
toward Canada. They hope to get q
seasons soldering without fighting.
JOSIAH SURRNGER, of Hersey, was
found dead in his bed, from enlargement
of the heart, cansed by excessive use of
liquor.
EZRA b. WALwoRTH has been held
for trial at jackson, after lengthy ex-
animation, charged with the murder of
Mrs. Green, at Liberty, last January.
AT Roscommon, on election day, the
monotony was pleasantly varied by q
little fight, in which one man had his
ear bitten off, and another was nearly
killed.
AT West Branch man tried to shoot
dog, and, instead of doing az he in
tended, he shot Patrick Riley through
the abdomen. The wound may prove
fatal.
Gov. CRoswELL has pardoned Benja-
min d. Moylan from the State prison.
He was sent from Detroit in August,
1876, for entering the Police Court Office
in the night time with intent to commit
larceny.
Mr.. ADDISON SPAULDING, of Prairie
vile, Barry county, has on his farm an
oak tree that measures trife over IA
| feet around it, stump high, and retains
it's bigness for over 30 feet high, where
it branches of.
BAY CRY was visited by confagra-
ton last week, which licked up two
lumber mills, with 5000, 900 feet of
lumber; the Universalist Church, and
thirty other buildings. The loss is placed
at $500, 900, with $50, 900 insurance.
GRArIoT county has spent So, 1000 in
building Jail, but it is not finished, and
she has to board most of her prisoners In
Saginaw. Nevertheless, her people vot-
ed down proposal to loan money where
with to complete the structure.
| Mrs. PATIENCE BANKS (colored) died
at Jackson, the other day, aged los
years. She was married over eighty
years ago, and now has great-great-
grandchildren living there and about
Crosse Isle. She was in good health
until year ago.
AT Nashville, the other day, an Indian
mound, on the banks of the Thornapple,
was opened in the presence of a
party of ladies and gentlemen in the
hope of recovering some relics; but
nothing was found except some crumb-
ling human bones, somewhat above the
average size.
A FIRE at Cadillac, the other day,
destroyed fifteen buildings, all frame,
on the north side OF Mason street, be-
tween the lake and the Grand Rapids
and Indiana railroad track. Loss about
$4,000. Mrs. n. r. Blount was sur
prised so suddenly by the fire that she
could not escape, and was burned to
death.
RECENTLY an operation was performed
upon the arm of a son of Mr.. Dewey, of
Bedding. The boy fell into the fire and
burned his entire arm and shoulder
when 3 years of age. and the
arm IN healing united to the body two
thirds of the way down to the elbow.
The operation consisted in cutting them
apart. The boy is now IA.
In the village of Rockford, last week,
a fire destroyed about twenty-fiv build
| ings in the business center of the town
on the north side of CORTLAND street,
the principal street in the village. The
fire began in an .outbuilding adjoining
the Red Ribbon Clubs hall, and the vii.
layers believe it was set by an enemy of
the club to destroy their hall only.
Something of q wind was blowing
though it was raining, and, in less than
two hours, it had burned all the build
ings from there to the track of the Grand
Rapids and Indiana railroad. The loss
is estimated at $75, 900, with about ST.
600 insurance.
In the new State Capitol there are 216
rooms, exclusive of corridors, stairways,
alcoves, and dome, distributed as fol-
lows: Basement, IS; main floor, So;
second floor, AZ; third floor, So; fourth
floor, 7. There are 81 corridors, stair
ways and alcoves, and two boiler rooms,
40 by 70 feet, making the total number
of rooms in the building 26S, exclusive
of the four stairways and dome. The
Lansing Republican publishes alengthy
description of the interior of the build
ing.
HENRY SAcKErT, prominent farmer
of Assyria, Barry county, had an en-
counter with bull on his farm recently
The animal gored him in terrible man
ner. Mr.. Sackett was found in an in
sensible condition short distance from
the animal, which was tied in its accus-
toned place. 1t was evident that he
finally overcame the Infatuated beast,
and not until he had secured him did he
realize how frightfully he had been torn.
His body was gored in many places, and
his bowels pulled out and lay upon his
breast. He survived his injuries only
an hour after he was discovered.
Specific Taxes for 1877.