The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-20

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duction of Pewamo.
The name of Chapins Crossing, Ing.
ham county, wilt changed to Eden.
; The Michigan Spiritualists will hold
a camp-meeting at Lansing, beginning
July 26.
, A TELEGRAPH line has been extended
, from Petoskey around the bay to Little
Traverse.
PLANS and specifications are being
prepared for two brick ward school
, buildings to be erected at Fenton this
summer.
GEORGE L. CoLwELL's planning mill
at Harrisville, Altoona county, was
burned few days ago. Everything
lost.
CATERPILLARs are eating up the Kala-
mazoo shade trees. The pests are
black, with red spots, and are described
as very rapacious.
BUTTERMILK made from the milk of a
COW that had touch of the milk-f YER
nearly exterminated the family of Mr..
White, of Ingham township.
The Flint Riding Park Association
have been making arrangements for
holding two days races at their park
July 4 and 5.
LIGHTNING struck the hotel and sa-
loon kept by William Susela, of Paris
vile, Huron county, recently, partly de-
molished the building and killing the
proprietor.
The Wash-wah-sums of Saginaw, and
the ho-wae-cae-mettes of Monroe, will
represent the Wolverine State at the
Mississippi valley regetta, at Keokuk,
Iowa, July Is, 16 and II.
PROF. j. w. PARKER, principal of the
Deaf and Dumb and Blind Asylum at
Flint, has resigned to go to Kansas,
where he takes charge of another asy-
lum.
PROF. A. HENNEQUIN's new work on
the Relation of English to French"
has just been issued. Hennequin is a
professor at the University of Michi-
gan.
REV. NATHANIEL WEST, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, class of 1916, has accepted an in
vitation to deliver the address before
the alumni of Michigan University this
year.
ALLEN ANsCoMB, of Big Beaver, Oak
i"AASA SOuhOy, was hlChcO W QeuUu Nv u
horse recently. He was a respected
farmer and carpenter, and leaves de-
pendent family.
BELDING and Smyrna are about two
miles apart, bat until recently the mails
between those two villages were deliv-
cred by roundabout route of about
fifty miles.
JOHNNY HARDING, boy IA years old,
living in Kalamazoo county, has died
from the effects of an accident. While
swinging he struck the back of his
head against tree, fracturing his skull.
DETROIT Ne,cs: Henry Ward Beech
er is billed to visit Higgins lake, Ros-
common county, this summer, to catch
fish and loaf around in the balsamic air
OF that health-restoring neighborhood.
BESIDES good fishing Grand Haven
can boast Of a pair of twins who soon
intend to celebrate their sd birthday
Mr.. r. Koornian and Mrs. Hester Van
Der Meiden, two hale old Hollanders,
twin brother and sister.
BIRMINGHAM Eccentric: Two worth
less dogs played havoc with Ed Boards
lees sheep on Sunday morning last,
and out of twenty.one fine sheep eight
were killed, seven wounded, and one
missing.
Gov. CRoswELL has appointed the
following Michigan delegates to attend
the convention in New York, to aid in
organizing the Worlds Fair projected
for 1880 in that city: J. d. Hayes, w.
0. Hughart, A. @. Potter, r. E. Trow-
bridge
MENoMNEE Herald: The Menomi-
nee and Marinette mills usually have
hag-staffs, and whenever marriage
takes place among any of the hands, or
child is born unto the family of one
of the employees, the old starry banner is
flung to the breeze in honor of the
event.
SMITH RADCLIFFE, of the town of
Woodstock, Lenawee county, was found
lying on the railway track with eleven
holes In his skin-principally about the
head, and presumably made with the
hoe which was found near him. His
brother in-law, James Cooley, is charged
with doing the hoeing.
ONE day last week, at Mt. Clemens,
Carlos Belts, 13-year old boy, while
playing with revolver, put it to his
head to show how a man once killed
himself. The pistol was accidentally
discharged and killed the boy.
ROBERT II. MORRISON, late Treasurer
of the Michigan Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows, who has long been under
charges of embezzling the funds of the
order, has been tried in the Ingham
Circuit Court, and found not guilty.
SAYS the Kalamazoo Gazette: "A
dead law-that for providing fish sluices
in dams. The landowners on the Kali
amazoo river pay no attention to the
law, and what should be one of the
best fish streams in the world is, in con-
sequence of this, of one the poorest"
A FIRE at Jackson, one day last
week, completely destroyed Bennett,
& Co.'S Touring mills,
Allen BENEFITS planning mills and lum-
Der Office, James l.. Needen's cigar-box
factory, the Smith Purifier Company's
factory, Daigs & Sons carpenter shop,
and five cars of wheat and flour on
the property of Bennett