The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-04-16

tioit III opotiuCllilS tilc SITeeIS.
A. BANGS, keeper i'll the State prison
mt Jackson for the past eight years has
resigned, and will retire upon far
DIR. A. b. SHINNEY, of Detroit, Presi-
dent of the Michigan State Society of
Spiritualists and Liberals, has become
violently insane.
THE largest tree in Montcalm county
has been felled, and scaled Z, 1888 feet 1t
made six logs fourteen feet long and two
of sixteen feet.
SPEcKLED trout weighing a pound and
half have been caught near Battle
Creek, the product of trout fry planted
by the Fish Commission.
II. Il. STMsoN, of Big Rapids, has
closed an $50, 900 bargain for pine land,
he being the purchaser, and s. n. Will
cox, of Chicago, the seller. The land is
located on the Upper Muskegon river.
THE earnings of the Michigan State
prison last year were $SS, 1855. %, and the
expenditures $S4, 095. 81, leaving n sur
plus on hand of 81, 259. 40. The average
number of inmates during 1879 was 1872.
The contract for printing the Michi-
gan Reports for the next eight years has
been awarded to Callahan x Co., Chica-
go, mt 81. % per volume for new reports,
and 50 cents for old reports printed from
plates owned by the State.
The Rev. Reid, of Greenville, was
suspended from the ministry because he
speculated in wheat options and lost
50, 800; and now the worldly folks Won
der what the brethren would have done
"spozen he had been on the other side
of that "bulge!
THE Alexander House, fine summer
hotel on Crosse isle, about fourteen
miles down the river from Detroit, is
burned down. 1t was owned by George
W. Alexander, and valued at over $780,
600, including contents, most of which
were lost. Insurance $4,000.
Mrs. JOHN VANDERGYP, of Detroit,
was fatally burned while attempting to
extinguish fire i'll her kitchen, sup
posed to have been caused by her two
little children lighting some straw in
one corner of the room. Her hair and
clothing were burned off before any one
came to her rescue.
A LITTLE girl, Z years of age, was
found on the streets of East Saginaw,
the other evening, in beastly state of
intoxication Her father is serving a
year in the Detroit House of Correction,
as a common drunkard, and her mother
was also convicted of the same offense,
but let off on suspended sentence.
Mrs. SARAH ANN PUTNAM, the first
native white person born within the linn
It's of Jackson county, died recently of
/ typhoid pneumonia. She was born Nov.
/ 3, 1880. She was daughter of Elizur
b. Chapman and granddaughter of Lem
uel Blackburn, both pioneers of that
section.
Hon. CHAUNCY HAwLEY, one of the
pioneers of Jackson county, died at his
residence in Napoleon, last week, i'll his
SD year. He came from Washington
county, n. T., in 1882, and settled in
Napoleon, where he has ever since made
his home. He was much respected, and
has frequently filled offices of trust and
honor in the township. He was elected
to the Legislature in 1841.
The following is statement of the
receipts and disbursements at the State
Treasurer's office for the month ending
March 81, 1880:
Balance hand Feb %, 1880. s1,27O, O22s6
Receipts COR the month. ............... 1S0,63746
Total. 81, 45O, 66032
Disbursements for the month .......... 1l0,90332
Balance on hand March 81, 1880. =. 81 ,339757O0i
A TRAMP was put off at Battle Creek
from the night express, recently, and
taken to the lookup. He was IA boy,
only ID years old, bright and ordinarily
intelligent He said that some ten
weeks ago he left New York without
cent, and travelled, by beating his way
/ on the railroad, to San Francisco, where
! he had been led to believe he could pick
/ gold up on the streets. Having salts
! fled himself of the fallacy of his infor-
nation, he had turned around andystart-
ed for home. , .:.-, s 80 - -
JACKSON Paty5ot:EM. p. Wade, of
/ Tompkins township, has piece of blue
granite weighing from $50 to 200 pounds,
upon which is the deep imprint of buff
falo's hoof. The track is as plain and
distinct as if made but yesterday and is
about six inches deep, with the cleft be-
tween the two portions of the hoof clear
ly marked. The stone is of such COM
pact grain and solidity that it emits
ringing sound to the strokes of ham,
mer. 1t was found one-half mile south
of Grand river, on section sixteen in
Tompkins township, and Mr.. Wade has
thought of sending it to Lansing for
preservation.
Experiments with Opium Smoking.
One Herr Maclay, in the course of
stay at Hong Kong, made an experiment
upon his own body which would appear
to be pretty conclusive as to the effect of
opium-smoking. After fasting eighteen
hours, he smoked twenty-seven pipes,
holding in all 107 grains of the opium
used by the Chinese. 1t is interesting
to know that after the third pipe he
ceased to feel hungry, and the fifth pipe
left him unable to walk about comforta-
bly,; the seventh brought his pulse
down from niphtY-siX To- seypntv. the