The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-07-02
MICHIGAN NEWS.

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house ut East Saginaw.
A QUAKER colony is to be established
Mt Mancelona, Antrim county.
The Military Board has fixed the date
OF the encampment from Aug. to 7.
The pews of the Congregational
Church at Greenville sold at auction for
$4,000.
The Gale Manufacturing Company of
Albion recently shipped thirty-six plows
to South America.
THE transactions at Alpena in cedar
posts, telegraph poles and cedar railroad
ties are very large.
WHEN the railroad reaches Manistee,
a line of steamers will run between that
place and Manitowoc, Wis.
The Jackson County Pioneer Society
held its annual reunion and basket pic
mic at the fair grounds, June %.
IT is expected that the new track on
the Calhoun County Fair Grounds will
be finished by the middle of July.
THE salt well of James Herrick q Co.,
at Midland, has reached depth of 200
feet, and they expect soon to tap the big
salt vein.
EsoANABA confidently claimed 5000
inhabitants, but the Iron Port says that
the "pitiless count of the enumerator
puts the exact number at 3,012.
The whole number of students in at
tendance at the Adventist College, at
Battle Creek, during the last college
year, was 4S9.
THE destruction of Excelsior furnace,
at Ishpeming, reduces the number of
stacks in the Upper peninsula to six
teen, OF which but six are now in opera
ton.
CAPT. MARsAc, the old French trader,
died at Bay City last week. He did not
know his age, but was between 80 and
100. He was formerly on the staff of
Gen. Cass.
DETROIT is not happy over the census.
Where 175, 900 was required, the enumer-
ators have found 119, 7O6 and Detroit
wonders what has become of ten years
growth.
JAMES p. CAwLEY has brought suit at
Detroit against the Michigan Central
Railroad Company for so, 900 damages,
for being forcibly elected from a train, a
few days since, without cause.
JAMIN Cole, of Sherman, has a profit
able little flock of sheep. They number
eleven, and he sheared 116 pounds of
wool from them. One sheep Welded
fourteen pounds and eleven ounces.
A FIRE at Chase, Lake county, on the
line of the Flint and Pere Marquette
railroad, burned about 10000 600 feet of
lumber and the Harmon saw-mill there
Loss, from 81, 900 to SIS, 900, on which
there was $1,000 of insurance on the
lumber, and none on the mill.
THE meeting of the State Pathological
Society, at Battle Greek, was sparsely
attended Officers were not elected at
this meeting. President Lyon was in
the chair. The discussion of small
fruits, strawberries, ETC., occupied the
attention of the delegates. The society
adjourned till December, to meet at Ann
Arbor.
Gov. CRoswELL has sent to President
Hayes, for confirmation by him, the fol-
lowing nominations to the offices of Com
missioners and alternates, representing
Michigan at the worlds fair to be held
in New York in 1883 Commissioners
w. o. Hughart, of Grand Rapids; Chas.
X Backus, of Detroit Alternates-H.
G. Potter, of East Saginaw j. ID. Hayes,
of Detroit.
In 1868 woman living in Grayson
county, Tex, recent arrival from
Michigan, who was then very i'll, with
seven children to care for, permitted
neighbor to take her little girl, aged 6
years, for a few days. On recovering,
the mother went after the child, and
learned, for the first time, that the ia I'll
ly had moved away, no one knew with
er. After twelve-y years search an elder
brother of the lost girl discovered her In
Minnesota, and the two passed through
st. Paul bound for the South. She had
been kept in ignorance of her relatives
whereabouts, and shamefully abused.
OUR readers will remember the sad
disaster, some time since, of the loss of
fish boat from Point st. Ignace and
the drowning of seven men from that
place, an account of which we gave at
the time. The lake has been giving up
its dead, and four of the bodies of that
ill-fated party have been recovered. Last
Sunday the body of Gary La Butte was
discovered floating in the lake and re-
covered, and was buried at the Point,
Monday. Tuesday three more were found
and recovered, being the remains of
William Schabinan, Francis Martin and
Moses Paquin. The three latter were
buried at the Point on Wednesday. 1t
is hoped that the bodies of the remain
ing three may yet be found.-Cheboy-
gan Tribune.
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