The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-24

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class hotel, to be built next spring and
summer.
A NEW summer hotel is being built at
Mackinac. 1t will be ready for the sea-
son of 1881.
SIX new switch engines have just been
turned out from the Michigan Central
shops at Jackson.
A DAILY stage line has commenced
running between Little Traverse and
Mackinac City.
THE schools of Alpena have closed on
account of the prevalence OF a kind OF
humps and other diseases.
LONG LowEE, Chinaman, who runs
laundry Mt Adrian, has formally de-
clared his intention to become an Amer
lean citizen.
The Michigan State Grange was in
secret session last week ut Lansing.
The State Sheep Breeders Association
met there mt the same time.
Mrs. MARY F. SHAW entertained at
her home one day last week eight of her
old neighbors, whose combined ages
were over 600 years.-ROmeO Observer.
The firm of Hebard Il Thurber, of
Marquette, is building single mill at
Pequaming, which will have q capacity
of cutting 40, 900, 900 feet per year.
The Presque Isle county returning
board have all been arrested. The war
rants were issued under the State laws,
on complaint of one of the candidates
counted out.
THERE have been Ill cases of diph-
liberia reported to the Health Officer of
East Saginaw since the first day of May
last, of which there have been twenty
three deaths.
WILLIAM ARNOLD, of Macomb county,
while at work in the paper-mill at Roch-
ester, fell into the bleach-tub of boiling
water and lime, and was so terribly
burned that he cannot live.
A NORTHERN peninsula exchange tells
that few days ago, at the Cleveland
mine, Albert Rindell fell 1000 feet,
struck on his head, and was not killed,
or even hurt dangerously.
S. FRosr's shingle-mill, at McBride's,
Montcalm county, a new station on the
Stanton branch of the Detroit, Lansing
and Northern railroad, was destroyed by
fire few days ago. Cause unknown.
Loss, $1,000 to So, ZOO insurance small.
GALEsBURG has an improved patent
dried-beef establishment The beef is
stripped from the bones, minced, fla
vored, and dried in perforated metal
nlolds, to keep it in shape while drying.
1t is said to be very fine.
The Ontonagon Miner learns that
wealthy merchant, of London, England,
who owns several thousand acres of land
on the south shore of Lake Superior,
near the Brule river, intends cOlonizing
it with families direct from England
He will have the land laid out i'll forty
acre lots, and will build snug log cabin
on each lot.
The police of Jackson have locked up
five members of family named Logan,
who had accumulated by theft two loads
of plumber, ranging in size from II
cotton tidy to a church organ. About
500 sufferers called Mt the police station
to inspect the booty. The organ was
taken from the Baptist Church last fall.
LAST week the daughter of Charles s.
Hilburn, of the Gratiot County Demo
crat had painful swelling in one of
her hands, which was opened by ply
stefan and the cause found to be a splinter
one and one-fourth inches long, being
fragment of one she ran into her baud
year ago last April, and which was
thought to have been extracted entire.
AT the annual meeting of the State
Horticultural Society at Ann Arbor, held
last week, the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year
President-T. T.. Lyon, South Haven.
Secretary-Chas w. Garfield, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer-S. NJ. Pearsall, Grand Rapids.
Members OF the Executive Committee-W.
X. Gibson, Jackson; +. f. Guild, East Saginaw.
Vice Presidents were selected, one from
each county.
GEN. JOSEPH w. Brown, of Tecum-
sch, died last week, aged 80. He was
one of the firm of three men who located
that town in 1924. He built the first
grist and saw mill in Lawrence county,
and established the first stage mail route
between Detroit and Chicago. During
his busy life he has been Regent of
the State University, Major General
of the State militia, examiner Of cadets
at West Point, and was General in the
Toledo and Black Hawk wars.
IHE elgntn annual convention Oh the
Association of Agricultural Societies of
Michigan will be held Mt the pioneer
rooms in the new Capitol, commencing
ON the evening of Jan. 26, 1881, and
remaining in session two or more days.
Each agricultural, horticultural, and
kindred society in the State is entitled
20 three delegates, and officers and menu
bers other than delegates are invited.
The programme is intensely practical,
and the meeting will be an important
one. l.. b. Potter, of Lansing, is Pres
ident, and Frank Little, of Kalamazoo.
is Secretary. The following are the gen.
eral topics for discussion
/. Agricultural societies their aims and bene-
fits duty of people to sustain them.
2. General management methods compared;
business aspects tickets, tags, labels. etc.
3. Exhibitors their relation, privileges, etc;
can the number be increased? Names on tags.
4. Judges at fairs how chosen general
work appeals from decisions etc.
8. Should competition be restricted to county,
district, or State?
6. Should fancy, household. and domestic
articles exhibited have been made within the
year2