The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-12-12

"A HISTORICAL 6OCIETY IS about to be
organized in Charlevoix county.
The Menominee range is to have a
new town called Iron Mountain.
Coal has been found thirty-five feet
below the surface in Grout township,
Gladwin county.
A KAwKAwLIN man has patented
single machine that is expected to
make at least 100000 shingles per day.
The Presbyterians of Vassar hung
their church chandelier by rope until
the rope broke and set the church on
fire.
WEST BAY CITY fishermen are having
ill-luck this season. Theice has frozen
them all in, and many of them will lose
their nets.
In the Episcopal Diocese of Western
Michigan there are thirty-two clergy
men, thirty.six churches and 1901 COM
municants.
Mr.. j. A. Il. WENDELL, q prominent
citizen of Mackinaw, Supervisor of
Holmes township, has suddenly died of
heart disease.
A PARTY of Indiana hunters who went
deer-slaying up the Au Sable river had
thirteen hounds shot by the settlers,
and got only eight deer.
Gov. CRoswELL has appointed the
Hon. Norman Geddes Trustee of the
Eastern Asylum for the Insane, vice DR..
j. p. Wilson, resigned.
WILLIAM MORTON, of Victory, Mason
county, will receive $1,000 back pen
sion. He served forty years in the
United States navy, and is II years
old.
The Sunday School Association will
hold congress of ten days session
next season on Island Park, Orion,
commencing the first Tuesday of Au-
gust.
MRS. HARDING, of Maple Grove,
Barry county, gave birth to three girl
babies few days ago, weighing st, 81
and 81 pounds respectively. All were
alive at latest accounts.
Mrs. CAMERON, late Mrs. Catherine
Ward, has bought 100,000,000 feet of
standing pine of the Flint and Pere
Marquette Railroad Company, to be cut
at her mills in Ludington.
The Superintendent of Public In
struction has appointed Gen. Spaulding,
Gen. Wilmington and Prof. Wellington
a board of visitors to the Michigan
Military Academy for the academic
year 1S79-S0.
The salary of Prof Samuel Johnson,
recently appointed in the State Agri-
cultural College, is $1,000. The salary
of r. G. Carpenter, Professor of Mathe
MATES and Engineering, has been raised
from 81 800 to $1,000.
A sAw-MILL and planning owned
by William McBain, of East Saginaw,
located near Chase, Lake county, was
totally destroyed recently by fire with
the stock of lumber. The loss is
$4,000; insured for $500.
The people who were wounded at
the Jackson railroad disaster on the
night of Oct. 10 have got we'll enough
to hold meeting and appropriately
thank everybody who has had hand
in helping take care of them since the
accident.
The Marquette and Mackinaw rail-
road proposes to recognize the actual
settler on railroad lands, and to allow
the land settled upon to be bought at
81 per acre by those in occupation.
The following is statement of The
receipts and disbursements at the State
Treasurer's Office for the month ending
Nov. 30, 1879:
Balance on hand Oct 4sS .004T
Receipts for the month. Observation-Disclosures. 23i,y733
Total. .s672, s77 n
Disbursements for the month. .......... a99,2551s
Balance on hand Nov. 20. $313, 722. 53
THE movement of forest produce by
water has closed for the season. Ship
ments for the month of November from
Saginaw river were 70,S10,000 feet.
The shipments since the opening of
navigation are the largest on record, as
follows: Lumber, 668, 363,866 feet;
shingles, 900, 552, 500; slaves, 4,348,731.
Shipments of lumber last year, $685.
282,O9S feet.
The twenty. eighth annual meeting of
the Michigan Teachers Association
will be held in the new Capitol at Lam
sing, Dec. 20, 30 and 81. A meeting of
the State Board of Education to exam
inc candidates for State certificates will
be held on the last day of the session
and the two following days.
The State Board of Agriculture has
appointed farmers institutes for the
coming winter, as follows: Rockford,
Kent county, Jan. Ii and IA; Big
Rapids, Mecosta county, Jan. Is and 16;
Manchester, Washtenaw county, Jan. 19
and 20; Romeo, Macomb county, Jan.
% and %; Buchanan, Berrien county,
Jan. &c and 81; Mason, Ingham county,
Jan. % and 30.
A LITTLE more than forty-fve days
ago Bob Hackett came out of Jail, at
Bay City. In three hours he was ar
rested, convicted, and sent back for an
other term of forty-five days. One day
last week his term expired, and Bob
walked the streets free man once
more. In about three hours, however,
he dined off another mans ear, was ar
rested, convicted, and sentenced to
the Ionia House of Correction for nine
ty days.
The WOrsted Church.
The Worsted Church of Canterbury,