The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-22

MENoMINEE has fine town library,
containing 1877 volumes.
TWELVE new engines are on the stocks
at the locomotive works at Jackson.
EVERY house in Battle Greek is occu-
pied, and $4,000 worth of building is
now going on.
The Kalamazoo Library museum now
boasts of salamander, chan: ,,eon, o
centipede, and horned toad.
The new Central School building, at
Jackson, is just completed at a total
cost Of $30,70O for building, furniture,
etc.
DIR. s. S. GARRIGNEs, State Salt
Inspector, has been very i'll for some
weeks, but is now able to attend to his
business again.
FARMERS in various parts of Alpena
county complain that deer are so nu-
merous that they are doing great dam
age to the crops.
The receipts of the st. Mary's Falls
ship canal during the month of July
were over $S,400, and 544 vessels passed
through the locks.
| AT Huntsville, the county seat of
Altoona county, fourteen new buildings
are under construction, including a
Presbyterian church.
E. B. DYcKMAN, of Schoolcraft, Kali
amazoo county, has just lost horse,
aged 20. The mate of the horse is 30
years old, and doing good service.
NELSON BLoss, of Charleston town
ship, Kalamazoo county, lost his barn,
hay, wheat stacks, ETC., by fire lately.
Loss, 81 900 or more, with some insur-
ance.
The division of an estate in England
drops the snug sum of $4,000 into
the palms of Mrs. G.. w. Higgins, Mr..
George Glass and Miss Eva Glass, all
of Cadellac.
KNEES planing-mill, with manufac-
tured material and lumber; Langdon's
shingle-mill, dwelling, two stables and
other outbuildings burned at Cheboy-
gan, the other night. Loss, $4,000 no
insurance.
Coal in paying quantity and accessi-
BILE location has been discovered at
Newberg, four miles from Durand, the
point where the Chicago and Lake
Huron and Detroit and Milwaukee
railroads intersect.
CERTAIN wrathy and influential Jack
sonians will protest against digging up
the bodies now peacefully lying in what
is known as the East Cemetery. The
city would fain make town lots and
streets of the ancient graveyard.
SETH LEWIS, who died at Marshall
not long since, was one of the patriarchs
of the Michigan press. He came to
this State from New York in 1888 or '39,
and established The Western States
man at Marshall on the ruins of pre-
vious newspaper, but soon after called
it the Marshall Statesman, and ran it
until 1866.
The Secretary of the Altoona county
Agricultural Society says, in the IOscO
County Gazette, that movement is on
foot to secure the cooperation of the
agricultural societies and interests of
the several shore counties toward max
ing "a shore exhibit at the next State
fair, which will be held at Detroit, Sept.
Is, Is, II, IL and -.
A MICHIGAN railroad man has lately
built cars for prairie road with an ar
rangement for disconnecting the gear
ing and running by wind when it is ia
vorable. After trial of several weeks
the cars have been pronounced perfect
ly satisfactory. In an ordinary almost
everyday breeze they can run fifteen
miles an hour under sail.
KIRK BYERLY, of near Owasso, was
shot and killed by his brother Sam re-
Gently. The young men and their
father were out hunting, when Kirk
seated himself on stump. Sam, see
ing the top of his head from distance,
thought he was a woodchuck and put
ball through his brain. Kirk was "a
years of age, and his sad death causes
great deal of sorrow in the neighbor-
hood where he lived.
The steamer Cora Lock took fire at her
dock, in East Saginaw, a few days age, and
burned to the waters edge. The flames
spread rapidly, and the crew, five in
number, had a narrow escape, saving
nothing. The cooks berth was next to
the dock, and she got out in her night
clothes. The rest of the crew jumped
into the river. Capt. burlington had q
hand burned, and Engineer Ryan was
was burned badly on the side. The
origin of the fire is not known. The
Lock was built at Perrysburg, Ohio, in
1867, and was owned by Root & Mid
Ter. She was valued at $4,000, and in
sured for $4,250.
The Marquette Monument Associa-
ton held its second annual meeting at
Mackinaw on Sunday of last week, rep
resentatives being present from most of
the Northwestern States and from New
York. On Saturday addresses were
made, the principal ones being by Rev.
DR.. Goodwin, of Chicago, Prof. Kemp
and Father Jacker, and poem read by
Father Cronin, and large number of
letters we're read from prominent gen.
tlemen throughout the country who
sympathize with the movement. On
Sunday the association paid visit to
Father Marquette's grave, at st. lgnace.
Congress is to be petitioned to set
apart q site for monument.
PRINCE JEROME NAPor con, who is
now regarded as the head of the Bona