The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-09-05
MICHIGAN NEWS.

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JAMES BowENs, one of Jackson's
oldest residents, died of hemorrhage
of the kidneys, aged SO. He settled
there in 1S40.
KALAMAZOO COUNTY will vote next
spring on the question of taxing it
self $4,000 for the benefit of its Agri-
cultural Society.
ID. B. WILLIAMS, of the South Haven
Fellows Commission, reports that, of 58,-
719 peach-trees examined by him, he
only found 1876 diseased.
THE more the people of Jackson think
about it the more they think the Govern
ment should establish a corps of letter
carriers at that city.
A LARGE number of Germans and
Poles are coming into Presque Isle
county and taking up the fine beech
and maple homestead lands.
The expenditures of the public
schools of Marshall during the past
year were ST., 051.20, and receipts 3d.
O12.31. Balance in treasury, $l,961.11.
The fifth annual picnic of the Pat
rons of Husbandry and Sovereigns of
Industry of Western Calhoun was held
at Goguac lake lately. There were
about 1000 present.
MANY Tuscola county farmers have
raised large crops of peas for hog fodder
this year. They claim they are worth
twice as much as corn and are raised
with less trouble.
The Kalamazulus have been fussing
and figuring for several years to get
public fountain, and now that they have
it they are afraid some one will fall in
the basin and drown.
The large stave factory, owned by G.
K. Brandon, at the Grand Trunk juno
ton just outside Detroit, was destroyed
by fire one night last week. The loss
is $4,000; insured one-half.
LANSING Republican: The large
telescope ordered by the Agricultural
College, from Clark & Sons, Cambridge,
Mass, reached this city on Thursday,
and will be put in running order next
week.
The main drive on the Muskegon
has passed Big Rapids. The Superin-
tendent, Mr.. Fields, estimates that
350,000,000 feet of new logs have gone
through this year, and about 50,000,000
of last years cut, making 400,000,c00
in all.
The Adrian canning factory is in full
blast, and immense quantities of green
corn, beans and tomatoes are canned
daily. Forty acres of tomatoes are con-
tracted at 20 cents per bushel, and the
yield is reported large.
The Marquette Mining Journal
says that the Calumet and Hecla stands
third in the list of dividend-paying
mines in the United States, having
paid its stockholders since 1867 S15,-
; 100000, while its assessments have only
been 100000.
Rev. FATHER WESTERN will be conse-
Grated Bishop of the Lake Superior do
cese, Sept. IA, at Negaunee. Services
will be conducted by Bishop Hess, of
La Crosse, Wis, assisted by visiting
Bishops. All the priests in the diocese
are expected to be present.
ROCHESTER, Spectator: L. d. Morse
has got flowing well on his premises,
in this village. The depth of the well
is 1914 feet. 1t flows half-inch stream
through tubing to height of six feet
from the surface. The temperature of
the water is 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
TIE sixth annual reunion of the Ing
ham county soldiers and sailors was
held at Mason last week. The meeting
was held two days, and the closing ex-
ercises were unusually interesting. The
attendance was estimated at 1000, and
the meeting was pronounced decided
success.
The Western division of the Chicago
and Lake Huron railroad, extending
from Lansing to Valparaiso, Ind, was
sold in Detroit to Joseph Hickson
and others, representing the Grand
Trunk railway. 1t will be used as a
part of the Chicago connection of the
latter road.
The managers of the Michigan Sem
mary at Kalamazoo have engaged Mrs.
Thompson, of Amherst, Mass, to take
the place lately occupied by Miss Jam
nette Fisher. This lady has been one
of the faculty of the Mt. Holyoke
(Mass.) Seminary, and of Wellesley Fe-
male College.
The Adrian paper mill has been sold,
and will be dismantled at once and the
machinery moved to Ohio. The pur-
chase was made by the Cleveland Pa
per Company. The price paid is not
far from $4,000. This is terrible
sacrifice, as the machinery cost four or
five times that sum.
The board of State auditors have
plated block 116, known as the ''old
Capitol" block, and receive sealed pro-
posals, at the Office of the Secretary of
State, for the purchase of all or any por-
ton of the block, according to the plat
on file in the State land office. Should
any portion remain unsold at that time,
it will be offered at public auction.
AT East Tawas there is an almost
imitless supply of brine at the salt
wells, while at Au Sable the salt-rock
vein is thinner, and the supply, though
fair, is little less. 1t is now proposed
to run pipe line from the former to
the latter place, and thus deliver Tawas
brine at the Au Sable works. The line
will be fourteen miles long.
JACKSON Patriot A young man
named Frank Randolph, residing in the