The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-17
MICHIGAN NEWS.
WEEPING WILLOW,
OTTAWA, Ill,

The farmers through the State are
complaining of the potatoes rotting.
CHARLES ID. RANDALL, of Flint, has
been appointed cadet to West Point by
Congressman Brewster.
ONE HUNDRED ladies took part in
school meeting at Manistee a few even
ings since.
THE Chicago and Grand Trunk rail-
way is expanding $4,000 in buildings,
including an eating-house, at Battle
Creek.
THREE camels belonging to Robin
sons circus got on the railroad track at
Evart, Oscela county, and were all
killed by a train.
The new railroad from the Straits of
Mackinac is progressing rapidly; several
miles of rails are laid, and they have two
locomotives and about twenty cars at
Point st. Ignace.
A GENUINE, large. spotted salamander
was plowed up near Battle Creek, one
day last week, and was presented to the
High School Museum. This is rare
and curious specimen.
An immense water-lily found neal the
"cut in Torch lake is now puzzling the
botanical faculty of Yale College, to
which institute of learning it was sent
by the person who found it.
THE product of the Michigan wells
for the month Of August was 301, 301
barrels. This is the largest amount ever
produced III any one month III the his
tory of the salt trade i'll Michigan.
A KALAMAZOO paper asserts that two
boys killed a rattlesnake with ten rat
ties in front of residence on Union
street, under street lamp, the other
evening. Nice place for an evening
promenade.
WE are going to put the prediction or
record that Ontonagon county, III point
of population and business extent, will
stand third in the list on the Upper Pen
insula before the end of the year 1885.
-Houghton Mining Gazette.
JOHN MICHAEL, an Irishman, aged 26,
who had been only three weeks in this
country, and who measured twenty-four
inches across the shoulders, and stood
six feet, six inches, died from sunstroke
on farm ten miles from Bay City.
The expectation concerning the Mich
igan pineries is that, if it is good win
ter, more pine will be cut than in any
one winter during the last five years.
The jobbers are taking jobs averaging
from 100000 to 10000, 900 feet.
AMONG the special prizes offered by
various persons TO the woman who will
be married publicly in front of the
grand stand at the Central Michigan fair
of Lansing, is one of forty acres of land
i'll Northern Michigan. Title perfect.
PROF. MAoVIcAR, Principal of the
State Normal and Training School at
Potsdam, N. Y, has been appointed by
the State Board of Education Principal
of the Michigan State Normal School,
and has accepted, and will enter upon
his duties Nov. /.
Ed BRIGHAM, geologist of Battle
Creek, leaves about the 1st of October
for South America and West Indies.
He will make extensive collections for
the museum of the Advent College in
Battle Creek, and for the Olivet and AL
bion colleges. He made a similar trip
about year ago.
The Michigan Soldiers and Sailors
meeting reelected the officers. The
Treasurer reported that money to fur
nish four heroic bronze statues, to COM
plete the designs of the sculptor, Ran
dolph Rogers, was in hand, and that the
monument would accordingly be COM
pleted this winter.
A MAN of the name of Harmer was in
Saginaw, the other day, looking after
lost wife. He had not seen her for the
past twelve months, having been in the
woods scaling logs. He finally found
her living with another man, whom she
claimed was her husband. She said she
obtained divorce from Harmer, was liv-
ing very comfortable with her present
husband, and had no desire to have any
thing to do with her first love. Harmer
did not seem to take the matter to heart
much, but left her to her new happiness.
A FEW days ago George Howard, of
Portage, left ut Wortley's jewelry store
what appears to be one of the most in
teresting relics of the olden time we have
seen. Mr.. Howard says he plowed it
up while turning burrows on one of the
highest points of his farm, and the
article shows the scratch of the pillow
point. 1t is very handsomely finished
instrument of petrifed wood, sharp
pointed at each end and having finely
wrought hole in the center, evidently
for handle. 1t is five and one-half
inches long, four and three-quarters
inches in circumference at its largest
swell, and in color closely resembles
black walnut, while it is as smooth rs if
polished. The hole through the center
is one and three eighths inches at its
largest, and as finely cut as if done by
the best modern lapidaries. If this is a
relic of the prehistoric age it is marvel
ously well done and well preserved