The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-04

MRS. DENNIS, residing three miles
north of Owosso, has been arrested upon
the charge of brutally whipping a child
with a strap in which carpet-tacks were
inserted for the purpose.
The Trustees of the State Institution
for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind
have offered the position of Principal
to Prof. Thomas acIntyre, gentle
man who has had twenty-five years ex-
perience in similar institution in In
diana. He accepts.
A RURAL raising bee I" is seldom in
dulged in without whisky to furnish the
motive power. Twas thus at Riverdale
the builder set out the whisky for his as
sembled neighbors. Among those pres
ent was an Indian, wLo, of course, got
drunk and helpless. He was put out of
the way by being carried to a stable,
where he wallowed about until he smoth-
cred himself.
EVIDENCE accumulates that j. L.
Jones, who recently started the Adrian
Paper Mill, has absconded. Outside
accounts aggregating $1,000 have come
in for collection, and, in addition to
about $4,000 borrowed of banks on the
eve of his departure, he owes $1,000
more in local bills. He bought the
mill, which originally cost $4,000, for
$4,000, paying $1,000 down.
The Port Huron and Flint division
of the Chicago and Lake Huron road
was sold one day last week by Addison
Mandell, master in chancery. The only
offer made was that of the purchasing
committee of the Grand Trunk, and to
100000 cash down, the purchasers to
assume the receivers Indebtedness,
which will foot up between 100000
and 100000.
A CAFE of inhuman atrocity has been
unearthed at Cross Village, Emmett
county. About week ago an Indian
passing shed heard cries, and investi-
gated, when he found therein the widow
of Shobwama, late chief of the Snow
Indians, who, it is alleged, had been
terribly abused all winter by her heirs,
and turned out to die in the spring.
She is so years of age. Deputy Sheriff
Shurtleff was notified at once, and had
the aged woman removed to better
quarters. When found she was nearly
dead from starvation and exposure, un-
able to stand, and her back covered with
frightful sores, caused by lying on bare
boards during the winter. She il still
living, and will probably survive.
CRoP reports from the entire State
are published in the Detroit Post and
Tribune, of late date. Several re-
ports indicate that the harvest will not
quite equal that of one year since, but
it must be remembered that the latter
was an extraordinary one. Hence such
statements are equivalent to an esti-
mate of full average crop. With these
few exceptions, classification of re-
ports, according to the best that can be
made, furnishes the following estimates:
Wheat-About thirty of the reports
indicate full average yield or better,
while between fifty and sixty report
that the crop is excellent, never better,
etc. Not few are confident that the
yield will be fully equal to that of the
unprecedented harvest of 1878, while
in some instances it is placed at even
higher estimate. Only in a very few
localities are the insects doing
any injury, and the latter does
not seem to be serious or extended.
The most unfavorable returns are from
Oakland county and few adjacent To-
calities in the eastern part OF the State.
The reports very generally made of
large and well-tilled heads should be
considered. Rarely, If ever before, has
this condition of the wheat crop been
so marked and general throughout the
State. In not single instance is there
IN exception to that feature of the
! growing crop, while In several instances
; special mention is made of q better
; quality of wheat over that of one year
since. This latter prospect we have
had confirmed through other sources.
For that reason, we look for an i'm
!, proved grade of wheat from the present
crop over that harvested in 1878, pro-
; viding the weather continues favorable
until the crop is secured. The month
J of June thus far seems to have brought
every influence favorable for the
maturing of the wheat crop. In no
particular could any improvement be
; desired. A continuance of the same
will set the reapers at work In this
State by the second week in July, and
insure crop better in quality and near
ly if not quite as large as that of 1878.
; Corn-The outlook for corn is GER
tainly unfavorable. A cold, backward
} spring, aided by the cut-worm, has ma
terially injured the prospect for this
cereal. An average yield cannot now
be anticipated. A warm July and Au
gust. however, would do much.
Oats and Barley Oats promise
J good harvest, and the returns relative
to barley are generally favorable.
} Potatoes-The crop now bids fair to be
: one of the largest ever raised in Mich
igan.
FyeIits-Apples will be light yield,
: but this is the of year in this State for
that product. Peaches and small fruit
of all kinds look well.
An Amended PrOnOSifiOn.