The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-09-19

DIPHrHERIA prevails at East Saginaw

BATTLE CREEK has a school-fund in
debtedness of $4,000.
The grape crop in the vicinity OF
Monroe will be about three-fourths OF
an average crop this year.
A FEW DAYS since, little daughter
of Herman Blair, of Nashville, was run
over by her fathers dray and killed.
WITHIN the past five weeks there
have been twenty-six deaths from diph-
liberia in and around Caro-.
The Flint and Pere Marquette Rail-
road Company have found it necessary
to enlarge their Ludington warehouse,
built only last fall.
THERE is q house at Saginaw City
that no ordinary family can live in. A
gang of noisy, mysterious and uncivil
ghosts keeps every one else out.
A NEW hotel is being built at the
head of Mullet lake, Cheboygan coun-
ty, for the tourists and hay-fever VIC
Tins who may go north next season.
THREE miles of heavy sand road be-
tween Elk Rapids and Indiantown, at
the foot of Elk lake, has been covered
with clay and gravel, making a splen-
did road.
The experiment of sinking salt wells
at Midland has resulted so favorably
that three new salt blocks will probably
be erected before long. Salt-makingsat
Midland is an assured success.
JAcKsoNIANs are holding indignation
meetings about the Cattle law enacted
by the last Legislature, which prohibits
cattle running at large in cities and vii
lagos of over 1000 inhabitants.
GEORGE FAIRcHILD has Just been
elected President of the Kansas State
Agricultural College. Mr.. Fairchildfs
Professor of Higher English in the
Michigan Agricultural College at Lam
sing, and an able man.
THE survivors of Company B, Second
regiment of United States sharpshoot-
ers, propose to hold a company reunion
on the fair grounds in Lansing, on the
second day of the Central Michigan
Society's annual fair, which will be
Sept 80.
RozIN, the convict who recently made
a murderous attack on Col. Hinckley,
Deputy Warden of the State prison,
will probably be tried for assault with
intent to kill. The trial, however. will
be deferred ten or twelve years, or un-
til he gets out of prison.
GEORGE l.. ACKER died at Kalama-
zoo last week, after long illness. The
deceased was one of the most brilliant
cavalry officers of Michigan troops in
the late unpleasantness. He retired
from the war at its close with a commits
sion as Brigadier General.
KALAMAZOO duck-hunters were at
Crooked lake ready for slaughtering
ducks one day before the legal season
began. So was the Sheriff of Barry
county, and it is alleged that each party
watched the other so closely that no
illegal shooting was possible.
WHILE Charles E. Royce, of Ingham,
was engaged in thrashing with steam
thrasher, sparks were communicated to
his barn, burning the same, and also
burning about 900 bushels of wheat,
team of horses, wagon, and harness.
Loss, 81 800; insured for $500.
The Jackson Citizen publishes half
column article specifying places in the
city over the coal mines where, the
"entries" having been worked out and
abandoned, and the props removed, the
ground is sinking, owing to the caving
of the "entries," racking houses, chang
ing the grade of streets, etc.
The Secretary of the Interior has di
rected that certain lands, heretofore
withdrawn in Michigan for railroad
purposes, be now restored to homestead
and presumption settlement and entry.
The lands are within the territory set
apart for the Chicago and Northwestern
formerly the State Line Company.
of reservation since 1856.
The Universalist State Convention
was held at Concord last week. Officers
were elected for next year, as follows:
President, Rev. G. w. Knickerbocker;
Vice President, Rev. A. w. Mason;
Delegates to the United States Con-
vention, Rev. j. B. Gilman, William
Powell, and II. A. Wetmore; Preacher
of Occasional Sermon, 1879, Rev. T. b.
Gregory; Alternate, Rev. w. l.. Gibbs |;
Committee on F., 0. and d., Rev. w.
L. Gibbs, Rev. l.. j. Dinsmore, and s.
g. Stacy; Trustee for three years, G.
w. Garfield.
Gov. CRoswELL and other members
of the State Board of Control of Swamp
Lands have executed a contract with
the Mackinac Railroad Company to
build road from the Straits of
Mackinac to the harbor of Marquette.
The road is to be fully completed and
equipped by Dec. 81, 1881. A new and
powerful railroad steamer will be built
to traverse the Straits of Mackinac, and
will be provided with all the necessary
appliances for breaking ice and keeping
open communication during the winter
months.
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