The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-17
MICHIGAN NEWS.


six churches and fifteen saloons are open
Sunday in that place.
The 81, 900 insurance on the burned
portion of Adrian College has been paid
promptly.
Rev. Mr.. MORTON, of Albion, has
mastered n bicycle, and now rides to and
from the points where he breaches.
STEAM was got up at the Peninsular
car works in Adrian, the other day, and
sounds of the sonorous steam whistle
were again heard for the first time in
eight years.
Four children of john Dyer, of Co
runna, having recently died of diphthe-
ria, the neighbors are now building a
new and healthier house for the remnant
of the family.
JOSEPH Skinner, of YOUNGSTOWN, Barry
county, was chastising his son, aged IA
years, for some trivial offense, when his
elder son interfered and shot the old
man, inhicting serious wounds.
MARTIN JARVIS, captured beaver at
Pratt's lake few days since, which for
size eclipses anything heard of in this
country. 1t is three and one-half feet
long and weighs eighty pounds. Glad
Win County Record.
A LITTLE daughter of Willard Stearns,
of Adrian, tried to lick the snow from an
iron pump-handle the other morning,
when the mercury was below zero, and
lost a good portion of her tongue in the
attempt.
A WOMAN at Sandstone, jackson coun-
ty, aged 36 years, is the mother of fifteen
children, all living and healthy, none
having ever been sick. There are eight
boys and seven girls, the eldest aged 81,
and the youngest one week.
The Nashville Meas says that 5-year-
old horse belonging to Robert Mayo, of
Maple Grove, fell nine and one-half feet
through an opening in the stable floor
and landed in the midst of the COWS in
the basement, without sustaining any
damage.
LEWIS BUCKINGHAM, one of the oldest
residents of Genesee county, died at his
home in Flint, recently, in the S5th
year of his age. Mr.. Buckingham was
nent men i'll the county. He held the
Office of Sheriff for number of terms, and
held many other Offices of trust.
The following is a statement of the
receipts and disbursements ut the State
Treasurer's Office for the month ending
Nov. 30, 1880:
Balance hand Nov. 81 ,545. $50. 30
Receipts for the month. 26l,923.5S
Total. 81 1907, SOB. %
DsDli for the mont :Ni6 V4S. 40
Balance ON hand Nov. 80, 1880 80. 81, AL, O55. 26
THE report of the Ionia House of Cor
rection shows that of 500 prisoners re-
ceived during the year, 422 were tramps.
They were sent from Justices courts at
a cost to the State for fees and expenses
of constables and other officers of S..
52S. 81 the cost of their keeping while
inmates was $40, 1872. 55 /; and their trans
portation from the House of Correction
cost 81 ,429. 81, making their total cost to
the State $40, 1OO.S7.
THE salt inspection for the year closed
Nov. 30, and the product of the year is
reckoned from that date. During the
month of November the amount in
spected, 271, 1858 barrels; total product
for the inspection year of 1880, 2,67S,-
368 barrels, the largest product in the
history of salt-making in Michigan.
The product for 1879 was 2,05S, 040 bar
rels. The price during the present year
has averaged about rs cents per barrel.
The product this year has been shipped
chiefly to Chicago, Milwaukee and To-
ledo. New blocks and improvements to
be made during the winter will largely
increase the manufacturing capacity for
next season.
The movement of forest products by
water from Saginaw river during the
season of 1880 is the largest in the
history of the lumber trade of Saginaw,
although the season closed three weeks
earlier than last year. The total ship
ments from the opening OF navigation to
the close were 769, 573, 900 feet of lumber,
16S, 145, 400 shingles, "a, $50, 900 lath.
The lumber shipments exceed those of
1879 by 100000 feet. The lumber
product of the mills this season will APP
proximate 775, 100000 feet, about So
900, 900 in excess of the season of 1879,
and there will be held over on the docks
about 25, 600, 900 feet of lumber, mostly
of the lower grades.
THE Port Sanilac Reporter says;
"About twenty years ago, when Robert
Campbell, who now resides at Paris,
Huron county, lived at this place one of
his children, girl about Is months of
age, was severely burned, from the re-
suits of which she died. The body was
buried near where Mr.. Campbell was
living, on the lake shore, in sandy soil.
Some days since the sexton received or
ders from Mr.. Campbell to take up the
body and renter it i'll the cemetery.
When the coffin was reached it was
found to be in complete state OF pres
ervation, with the exception of the
screws, which had rusted Off The body
was petrified, and those who saw the
body say she looked the same rs when
she was buried, nearly score of years
ago.
Michigan Statistics from the Report
OF the Register of the Treasury.
The annual report of the Register of
the Treasury shows that during the fis-
cal year of 1880 iron vessels were built
at only four places in the United States,