The true northerner., 1880-03-19

1915 barrels.
VAssAR is going to have a new rail-
road depot OF brick.
EvARr supplies the Ohio pump fact
DRY in Toledo with timber.
THE paper-rag trade of Detroit is
about 81 ,O00,O 900 annually.
The State sold 4,623 acres of land
last month, for $78,069 48.
THE public steam-supply project at
Jackson has petered out.
ABOUT $4,000 in prizes will be
offered at the spring horse trots in
Michigan.
THERE is very light crop of maple
sugar in Michigan this year--almost
none, in fact.
The Bay City people are taking ac-
tive measures to improve the roads lead
ing to that city.
IT is said that the Vanderbilts are
selling ont their Lake Shore and Mich
igan Southern stock and buying Mich.
gan Central.
The State Fish Commission had no
money with which to make young eels
this year; hence no eels can be fur
i,ished to the public.
The long-lost brother of John Hob
den, of Oshtemo, Kalamazoo county,
W. mt out in the Union army in 1861,
and showed up last week from Texas.
IT is estimated that over ZOO Cana
dams have settled in TuscOIa county
during the past year.
AT Battle Creek, few days ago, a
12-year- old girl took dose of chloride
of lime because her mother had pun
ished her. A doctor relieved her Of
the poison.
PETER DEsNoYERs, an educated and
elderly resident of Detroit, has died.
His age was 80 years, and he was edu-
Gated at Hamilton College, New York.
He left large estate.
FIFTY pounds OF powder parsed
through the late Saginaw City fire
safely, and will now be used to burst
up the insurance policy of the man who
kept it in his store.
THE Executive Committee for the
Saugerfest to be held at Detroit report
thst $6S,500 have been subscribed to
the required fund of $4,000 for the
erection of music hall.
The patent hay-fork is the last
swindle perpetrated on farmers by
trampe, who go about asking them to
sign commissions for agencies. The
commission turns out to be note
which has to be paid.
WIN. A. WooD, late President of the
Michigan National Bank, of Kalama-
zoo, has just died there of pneumonia.
He had been resident of the place for
about thirty-five years, and left an
estate valued at $500,000.
SAMUEL M. PUTNEY, sent to Jackson
for ten years in March. 1877, from the
Recorders Court, Detroit, for forgery,
has been pardoned, on the representa-
ton of the prison authorities that he
was on his death-bed.
Gov. CRoswELL has appointed De
Witt @. Gage, of Saginaw, Judge of the
Tenth Judicial Circuit, to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of Hon.
William r. Tenant; also James Byron
Judkins, Judge of the Nineteenth Ju-
dicial Circuit, in place of Hon. Samuel
d. Haight, deceased.
The many friends of Soiou1ner
Truth, now 1O4 years old, gave her a
surprise party at her cottage in Battle
Greek, few evenings since. The old
woman was in q state of bewildered de-
light, saying to a particular friend who
came late: "They kept foodin' and
foodin' in till I Just says, why, bless
my heart, children, war on arth did we
all come from, and when in the name OF
common sense are ye goin' to stop
comin'?'"
The northeastern Mining Journal
gives the following statement of the re-
fined copper and mineral sent out since
the close of navigation: