The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-06-04
MICHIGAN NEWS.

Jackson are nearly all III position.
THERE is steam gong in mill at
Ionia which can be heard fifteen miles.
In some parts of Shiawassee county
the slaughter of sheep by dogs has been
enormous.
The Jackson citizen complains that
the cut-worm is doing serious damage in
newly-planted corn-felds.
The reports from Northern and Central
Michigan indicate that the rains have
stopped the fierce forest fires.
THE First regiment Michigan State
troops hopes To have the date for this
years encampment fixed for Aug ID.
DURING the month of April over 5000
acres of State land were taken up in
Alpena county, the most of it by actual
settlers.
THE Edmore gazette of May 20 con-
tains notices of the burning of six diff
ferent mills i'll Montcalm county within
one week.
Ir is asserted that over 400 separate
openings will be made on supposed iron
deposits, the coming season, in the Me-
nominee region.
The present pride of Leslie, Ingham
county, is pig with two bodies, six legs
for use and two more for ornament, one
head and three ears.
HE Charlevoix county Jail is no more.
1t was burned by tramp who was held
there on criminal charge. He failed
to escape, however.
THE annual convention of Red Rib
bon Clubs of Michigan will be held mt
Jackson, June % and "a, commencing mt
/ 30 p. IN. of the Odd.
THE family of Reuben E. Morris, in
poisoned by eating compressed beef.
None died, but all who ate of the beef
were very sick.
O. NJ. STEVENS, of Mattawan, Kala-
mazoo county. lost fifty sheep out of a
flock of tifty-four by one stroke of light
ming. They were huddled together UNI
der tree.
Mrs. BoLANGER, of Point st. Ignace,
while going to see n neighbor, was over
taken by storm, and in her anxiety to
protect her babe she covered it so closely
that it smothered.
GEORGE CARLETON, of Tawas, has
quality on his farm. He is preparing
to put it up in packages as polishing
powder, and will sell the refuse as a
fertilizer, in which it is said to excel
plaster.
THREE new posts of the Grand Army
of the Republic have been organized
since Jan. l; and there are a number of
applications for others. The three men
toned are at Bancroft, Deerfield and
Little Traverse
AFTER hard struggle the military
authorities have concluded to have Il
brigade encampment of State troops
some time III August The date and
place is not settled, but the Military
Board favor Lansing.
WILD rice is being planted in favor
able places on the lakes and rivers form
ing the inland route from Petoskey to
Cheboygan, and it is expected that it
will grow and spread through that re-
gion, thus raising food to attract wild
ducks to those waters.
G. G. DARLING, an aged pioneer and
prominent citizen, died at Lansing, last
week. Mr. Darling settled i'll that city
in 1S47. He was very ..ctive and prom
inent in the development of the city. In
about six weeks from his death he would
have been 80 years of age.
SOME members of a Detroit family
brought in from the woods what they
thought was pretty vine," and set it
out III the front yard. When the SER
vant-girl saw it, at distance, she ex-
claimed that 1t was poison ivy, and that
she was already poisoned by merely
looking on it. Sure enough, the signs of
ivy poison appeared on her in few
days, though the vine had been already
uprooted and destroyed.
SINCE February Grand Master Holden
has had plenty of business as the head
of the order of Odd Fellows in the State
He has instituted Sherman Lodge, No.
336, at Sherman, Wexford county Dia-
mond Lake, No. 337, at Brownsville,
Cass county Fennville, No. 33S, at
Fennville, Allegan county; North
Branch, No. 339, at North Branch, La
peer county Weesaw, No. $40, at Hills
Corners, Berrien county. He also has
petitions and will grant dispensations
for the following lodges Iosco, No.
34l, Tawas, Iosco county; Ronald, No.
342, Palo, Ionia county.