The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-06-25
MICHIGAN NEWS.

"DoT" is the name of new post
Office recently established in CharlevoiX
county.
THE yieldof copper of the Calumet and
Hecla mine in May amounted to l,643
tons, 1850 pounds.
IcHABoD Cole, n resident of Jackson
since 1897, died lately. He was first
City Marshal of Jackson.
SCHooLCRAFT has fire-engine, but it
was found on trying 1t that it is of no
use, on account of defective suction.
The Literary Association of the Ameri-
can Rabbis meets III Detroit the 18th OF
July, and will be in session one week.
In Wayne county, including Detroit,
the births last year were 4 ,419, and the
deaths 1,941, as now officially reported.
HORSE equipments complete have
been issued to Gen. Wilmington and
staff of the First Brigade of Michigan
State troops.
The foliage of some of the orchards
near Ionia is being stripped from the
trees by multitudes of black worms
about an inch long.
The township of Bridgehampton,
Sanilac county, has n blind girl 20
years old, who has learned to read by
feeling of raised letters on bottles.
A PROMINENT business man of Wyan-
dotte promptly signed n petition to re-
move nuisance from his own yard. He
was not aware that the petition referred
to himself.
The mills Mt Tawas City and East
Tawas are running full time, and one of
them is engaged largely III the manu-
factrue of water-pipe from pine logs for
an Eastern firm.
The Sixth ward of Saginaw City has
a French lady who gives her age as 10
years. She is still very active, and only
last season planted, cultivated and dug
two acres OF potatoes.
THE big saw-mill of Hannah, Lay &
Co., mt Traverse City, is now run on the
ten-hou system. This is something of
IN innovation, most saw-mills of the
State being run from twelve to fourteen
hours per day.
THE editor of the Albion Recorder has
said to be II new species of insect. They
are covered with II transparent, isinglass-
like shell, and bear upon their backs a
notified shell like that of turtle.
q. G. SYMoNDs, of Bushnell township,
Montcalm county, was playing with his
3-year-old son, when the child stumbled
and fell into II boiler full of hot water
which was standing on the floor. The
child was SO badly scalded that he only
lived short time.
A WOMAN who had just been released
from the Detroit House of Correction,
after term OF four years, at once acted
so badly on the street that the police
were obliged TO run Der in. She then
asked the officers to send her up for ten
years next time, as she believed she was
born i'll the House of Correction, and
she might as well die there.
The twentieth annual Convention of
the Michigan State Sunday School AS
ISOLATION assembled in the First Presby-
terrain Church mt Lansing last week,
Rev. r. $. Pardington, of Detroit, pre-
siding The officers for next year are /:
President, Rev. A. l.. Badger; Vice
President, ID. b. Allen; Corresponding
and Statistical Secretary, Rev. VIM.
Dave Treasurer, Allen Bowen.
CROP and stock reports received at
Lansing from S15 townships show that
there were 1850, 926 sheep sheared in
1879, yielding S,213,5 pounds of wool.
This is an average of 1-5 pounds per
head. The report also shows that the
number of sheep in the same townships
in 1880 was ], 632, 625, which is 3.27 per
cent. more than the number sheared in
1879. If there has been correspond
ing increase i'll the remaining 232 town
ships, there will be 1,S30,26 sheep
sheared in the State the present year,
and the total clip at the above average
per head will be 9,517, 1888 pounds.