The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-11-26

MICHIGAN NRWA.
THE Calhoun county Jail bonds
$l7, 0OO-have been fioated at Al per
cent.
MENoMINEE wants first-class hotel
building. One costing $4,000 will
answer.
Finn, cooper of Orion, has made
70, 600 apple barrels and contracted for
their delivery to farmers.
The total number OF books, pamphlets
and maps on the shelves of the State
Library at Lansing is "a, 022.
A TELEPHoNIc connection is to be es-
tablished between Jackson and Michigan
Center, distance of four miles.
A MARQUETTE bee farmer sold eight
tons of choicest white honey in the comb
III the Detroit market this season.
w. A. JACOBS, former Battle Creek
boy, has been elected to the State Sen
ate OF Missouri from the Fifth district.
The fisheries on Bots Blanc island are
yielding handsomely this season, the
catch averaging over 500 night lately.
HE population of Lenawee county is
AS, 1863. The vote polled was IL, 276, or
little more than one In four of the
population.
HARDWOOD" SMITH, of Flint, expects
to make 10000 cords of wood into char
coal and get out $100,000 worth of oak
timber this winter.
CALHOUN county has been compelled
to pay the full salary of its Judge OF Pro-
bate, which the Board of Supervisors at
tempted to reduce.
1T is calculated that the seasons OPP
eratlons of the Tittabawassee Boom
Company will reach, if not exceed, Co.,
600, 900 feet.
The apple crop in Lenawee county.
which was so large that no home market
could be found, bids fair to be almost
complete loss, as the fruit is rotting.
Mrs. LUCY DAY, resident of Hudson
Tor forty-six years, died last week mt the
advanced age OF years. For thirty-five
years she has been a member of the Con-
gregational Church.
A coRN-oRIB belonging to William
Conley, OF Marshall, and containing over
500 bushels of corn, gave way and
crushed six hogs to death which were
under it.
KALAMAZOO, with population of
900, fiourishes under village charter.
and is not ambitious to become city.
1t Is one OF the least-governed and best
governed communities in America.
Gov. CRoswELL has been called upon
within the last year to appoint four Cir
cult Judges to fill vacancies caused by
resignation, and each appointment was
confirmed by the people at the recent
election.
A SAGINAW mill owner got too near q
rapidly revolving shaft, which caught his
overcoat and stripped it off, taking a
part of his undercoat with it. By great
effort he kept himself off the shaft till it
was stopped.
THERE is remarkable and mysterious
work, evidently an old fort, in the town
OF Sylvan, Osceola county. The finder
believes from the indications that it
must be at least $50 years since the fort
was abandoned.
THE Peninsular Car Company has as
sumed the obligations of the Car Manu-
featuring Company, of Adrian, sus-
pended since 1873. taken possession of
the premises. and expect to have 200
hands at work inside of twenty days.
The Sims Hotel, at Orion, recently
burned, was the property that figured in
the Orion-lottery scheme, for which many
tickets were sold last summer, but on
which no drawing has yet taken place.
The National Bank of Michigan, To-
Gated at Marshall, having surrendered
it's charter, will do no more business
under the above title. The heirs of III.
j. Perrin found it necessary to close up
! the affairs of the bank for a speedjer
settlement of the estate. While living
II. j. Perrin was the heavy man OF the
institution.
The constitutional amendment voted
on this fall was to empower the Legis-
lature to pass an act authorizing Detroit
to tax itself for bridge or tunnel across
the Detroit river. 1t was opposed by
the best citizens of that city, and received
little support where its purpose was
known through the State. The vote of
Detroit was: For, 2,056; against, 8,491.
Our attention has been called to doe
that was killed below here on the Au
Sable and brought here for shipment,
that had upon the left side of her head
a completely developed horn about six
inches long with one prong about two or
three inches long. The right side of
her head was perfectly smooth and in no
way different from that of an ordinary
doe. This is the first time that we have
ever seen or heard of doe that sported
horns. -ROscOna1a Pioneer.