The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-15
MICHIGAN NEWS.

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MICHIGAN has 81 $780, 47. $50 invested
in school property.
TECUMsEH has subscribed $1,6O4. 40
to soldiers monument.
A 2-YEAR-oLD son of d. j. Weeks. of
Athens, was drowned in horse trough
lately.
Two TRAMPs in charge of Lansing
officer got away from him and stole his
handouts.
ANNA BARNARD, of Jackson, chal-
lenges any woman in Michigan to walk
a match of 100 miles.
ADDIE Ten EYcK is the name of a
Medina girl, aged 16, who drove a reaper
to cut twenty acres of wheat this season.
GREAT religious excitement prevails
in certain parts of Sanilac county,w
the Mormon elders are drumming up
recruits.
The Marshall Methodists, having had
their church sold on a mortgage, will
worship in the Congregational Church
hereafter.
Mr.. HORACE RANDALL, of Birming-
ham, has two beautiful fawns, which
were recently sent to him by friend
up in the woods.
The salt product of Michigan for July
was 232,608 barrels-the largest pro-
duct of any month in the history of salt
manufacture in the State.
THE second annual convention of the
red-ribbon clubs of Michigan was held
at Lansing last week. One hundred
and fifty delegates presented creden-
tials.
ANNA TERESA BERGER, of Jackson,
ringer, was married few days ago to a
gentleman named Lynch. She will
still stick to the stage.
Two BATTLE CREEK ladies lay awake
and listened to burglars until the
scamps came into their room, when
they both tainted. One of them was
frightened into fit of sickness.
THE barns, shed, and entire wheat
crop of Amos Freedman, Tuscola county,
were destroyed by fire few days ago.
The fire came from a steam threshing-
machine. Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
The Adrian Common Council re-
solved to give recess of four hours on
Sundays to such of the Fire Depart
ment as wish to attend church. There
is no visible increase in church congre-
cations, however.
LIE METAYER- MAssnoN, Baron de
Guichanville, French capitalist and
geologist, is looking over the Lake Su-
perior mining country, and if his report
,o 60 ah 81
find its way there.
The sixth annual reunion of Ingham
county soldiers and sailors will be held
at Mason, Aug. FL and %, on the fair
grounds, and Senator Logan, of Illinois,
will deliver an Grafton on the second
day of the encampment.
The shipments from the Saginaw
river during the month of July were as
follows: Lumber, feet, 297 ,281, 619;
lath, II, 292, $50; shingles, III ,093, 500;
slaves, 1,756,500; hoops, 8,153,00O. This
month.
MARTIN D. STRONG, for thirty years
resident of Calhoun county, and former
ly Judge of the Probate Court, died
few days ago, after lingering ill
ness, aged 70 years. Mr.. Strong
was formerly resident of Battle
Greek, but for many years past has
been resident of Marshall.
HEAVY fires are burning in the vicin-
ity of Lake station and other points on
the western division of the Flint and
Pere Marquette railway, and a great
deal of damage is being done to camps
and standing timber. There has been
no rain for month of any conse-
quence. So says Saginaw CORE
spondent.
Mr.. GEORGE D. MARTIN, of Tecum-
sch, has been amusing himself for the
past six or eight years in the construc-
ton of "full-rigged 100-gun man-of-
war" The boat is seven and a half feet
in length, well proportional, and per-
feet in construction. The guns are of
brass, about three and half inches in
length, mounted on carriages. This
elaborate toy will soon be completed.
IT has finally been decided that the
conservation of the Rev. DIR. Samuel s.
Harris, of Chicago, as Bishop of the
Diocese of Michigan, to which office he
was elected by the recent Episcopal
Convention held in Detroit, will take
place in st. Pauls Church, on Wednes-
day, Sept. II. The consecrator for the
occasion will be Bishop Wilmer, of Ala
bama, and the prosecutors will be Bishop
Gillespie, of the Western Michigan
diocese, and Bishop McLaren, of Ill
nois.
Michigan's Money.
The following is statement Of the
receipts and disbursements at the State
Treasurer's Office for the month ending
July 81, 1879:
Balance on hand June go secs, 4S4.S7
Receipts for the month. ............... 24SO2O.7S
Total. SS76, 05.65
Disbursements for the month........... 176,y@.@
Balance on hand July 8........... $685., 5c6.36
Hsrbor improvements.
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