The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-10-10

"CSnihou ooptn VI Sixty 1901.
JACKSON convicts are to make 10000
dozen hay-forks for England.
w. j. MONTAGUE, of Green township,
Mecosta county, has killed 387 deer.
A TusooLA county man has his great
grandfather's "hum" spun coat, 100
years old.
The Mount Clemens baths purged the
rheumatism out of Congressman Frank
Hurd, of Ohio.
The Michigan Baptist Association
held its fifty-frst annual meeting at
Romeo last week.
The number of children in Ionia en-
titled to school privileges is 100 more
than it was last year.
THIRTY-oNE men and twenty-eight
hounds have gone from Battle Greek to
Roscommon to hunt deer.
EDWIN LEVANwAY, q convict from
Antrim county, sent for one year for
assault, has died in the State prison.
The Methodists will formally ask the
State to stop making Sunday encamp-
ments of State troops occasions for big
picnics.
THERE have been about 1000 con-
versions in the Methodist churches of
the Michigan Conference during the
past year.
j. p. BEERS, one of the first settlers
of Stanton, and at one time Register of
Deeds of Montcaim county, died not
long since.
Gov. CRoswELL has appointed ex-
Gov. Bagley, L. S. Apologize and Town
send North Commissioners to locate the
new Asylum for the Blind.
ANDREW JUAN, a teamster in a lum-
Der camp near Cadillac, was fatally in
iured recently. He was crushed be-
tween tree and his wagon.
Hon. GEORGE H. JEROME, who has
been Superintendent of the State Fish
cries since its organization, has ended
his official duties in that capacity.
Mr.. ALEX. MURRAY, of West Leroy,
couldn't get one of his boots on, the
other day. After emptying rattle
snake out of it, it went on easy enough.
The estate of the late John Rayuer,
of Mason, is the largest ever admitted
to probate in Ingham county. 1t foots
up on moderate appraisal at 1856, 954.
The second annual reunion of the
old soldiers and sailors of Mecosta
county was held in Big Rapids last
week. Upward of 200 veterans were
in the line of march.
A MOVEMENT is now on foot for the
building of narrow-gauge railroad
from Lexington, Sanilac county, to con-
meet with the Port Huron and North
western narrow-gauge road at Croswell
The lumber shipments from the Sag
inaw river. from the opening of naviga-
ton to Oct. l, were 488, 1888. 943 feet, an
excess over the shipments for the same
time last year of SS,000,000 feet. The
single shipments exceed those of the
same time last year 43,OC0,OOO.
GEORGE H. TRYoR, of Littlefield
township, Emmett county, while trying
to extract ball from rifle accidentally
discharged the gun and shot himself
through the heart, producing instant
death. He leaves wife and family.
THE Saxonia colony, which was es-
tablished in the woods back of Forest
vile, Sanilac county, six years ago, held
it's annual celebration short time
since. These people have made a gar
den of the wilderness, and are a hap
py, prosperous community.
THERE will be held at Big Rapids, on
Wednesday, Nov. 5, competitive ex-
animation of applicants residing in the
Ninth Congressional District who may
desire the appointment as cadet to the
United States Military Academy at
West Point.
A 3-YEAR-oLD son of William Drake,
near Laingsburg, was caught by the
tumbling-rod of a thrashing-machine
last week and instantly killed. The
BODY was dismembered and SO mangled
that it had to be carried home in hand
basket.
MEN for the lumber woods are not
quite as plenty in Saginaw as usual in
the fall, which is evidence of an i'm
proved condition of the labor market.
Wages offered range from ST. to $25
per month.
ALEXANDER ODoNNELL, unmarried,
aged %, deck hand on the steamer
City of Grand Rapids, was instantly
killed, few days ago, while the steamer
was backing from her dock at Petoskey.
He put his head out of port-hole, and
it was struck by a pile, crushing it into
a shapeless mass.
FOLLOWING is statement of receipts
and disbursements at the State Treas.
urer's office for the fiscal year ending
Sept. 30, 1879: Balance on hand Sept
30, 1878, $40O, 34035; receipts for the
fiscal year, 1920, Sl2.77; total, $685..
1912 Disbursements for the fiscal
year, $2,019, 1859. Balance on hand
Sept. 30, 1879, $606,297.53. The sink
ing fund is more than sufficient to meet
the bonded indebtedness of the State
which is $913,l50.
AT the meeting of the Unitarian
Conference of this State the following
were elected officers for the ensuing
year President, Prof. Charles E
Green; Vice Presidents, John j. Bag
ley, Chas. Fluher, Dwight Cutter, G. j
Chaddock, Silas Hubbard, l.. d. Bar
tholomew, Prof. G. F. r. Bellows, 10
seph Berkley, f. l.. Brindle, Charles b