The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-11-28

MICHIGAN NEWS.
A LITTLE son of Henry Brown, of
Saginaw City, aged IL months, fell into
tub of water and was drowned.
The Pewabic Mining Company has
purchased long stretch of the Pewabic
lode adjoining that mine for $275, 900.
DAVID WARD, of Pontiac, has pur-
chased mill site, with quarter OF a
mile of lake frontage, near Tawas City.
CINCINNATI parties are in Saginaw ar
ranging to ship large quantities of lum-
Der to that point by rail, the coming
winter.
The Menominee Herald is in favor
of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
going into business on its own account
as the State of Superior.
AT the recent examination in Big
Rapids for the appointment of the West
Point cadetship from the Ninth district,
Benjamin @. Morse, of Marquette, aged
20 years, was the lucky young man.
FREMONT indicator: "They say
there is fish in First lake that is
about fifteen feet long. 1t has been
seen several times by some of our oldest
citizens, DR.. McNabb among the num-
Der.
JOSHUA w. WATERMAN, of Detroit,
gave $4,000 cash to Grace Episcopal
Church Society-an out-and-out gift to
take up the mortgage. He is q wealthy
man who is up to such generous
"tricks."
1T is the intention of the Marquette,
Houghton and Ontonagon Railroad
Company, which owns valuable grant
of land that contains many tracts carry
ing iron ore, to take measures to devel-
OPP the latter.
REPRESENTATIVE SAMUEL JOHNSON, of
Dowagiac, has been appointed by the
State Board of Agriculture Professor
of Agriculture at the State Agricultural
College, to succeed Prof. Ingersoll, who
has gone to Kansas.
The Marquette Mining Journals
figures show that this season up to Nov.
5, there had been 1,188,026 tons of ore
shipped from Escanaba, Marquette, and
L'Anse-an increase of 212,203 tons
over the corresponding season of 1878.
The Board of State Auditors has al
lowed the claim of Manning X. North,
as by resolution of the Legislature at it's
last session, at $1,000. The claim was
for services rendered in raising COM
pany for the Fourteenth Michigan in
fantry during the rebellion.
ONE day last week an IAdian who was
hunting near Cass City discovered a
large bear in the top OF tree, and shot
him with his rifle. The bear fell to the
ground wounded, but not yet dead, and,
as the Indian approached to cut his
throat, he was grabbed by the bear, and
a combat ensued which proved fatal to
both. When found, the Indian was
still in the embrace of the bear, having
been literally Rugged to death, while
the beast was covered with some twenty
or thirty wounds from the Indians knife,
showing that the struggle must have
been terrific.
SUPERVISORS districts under the Cen
sus law are set up by Commissioner
Walker as follows:
First DISQUALIFICATION, Branch, Calhoun,
Glass; Hillsdale, Jackson, Kalamazoo, ,Lenawee,
Monroe St Joseph, Van Buren,, Washtenaw,
and Wayne counties.
Second District-Allegan, Antrim, Barry,
Benze, Charlevoix, Crawford, Eaton, Grand
Traverse, Ionia, Kalkaska, Kent, Lake, Lee
lanaw, Manlstee, Mason, sMecosta, Missaukee,
Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana, Osceola, Otsego,
Ottawa. and Wexford counties.
Third Dstrict-Alcona, Alpena, BAY, Cheboy-
gan, Clare, Clinton, Emmett, Genesee, Gladwin,
Gratiot, Huron, Ingham, Iosco, Isabella, La
peer, Livingston, Macomb, Midland, Montcalm
Montmorency, Oakland, Ogemaw, Oscoda
Presque Isle, Roscommon, ST. Clair, Saginaw
Sanlac, Shiawassee. and Tuscola counties.
Fourth D Is, SS oppewa; De,.a'
Manitou, Marquette, Menominee, Ontonagon
aud Schoocraft counties.