The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-19
MICHIGAN NEWS.

EVERY uOtei III Ot. LOUIS, 0ratiOt
county, is full of guests.
THE potatoes raised in No. thern Mich
igan cannot be excelled.
The rebuilding of Ludington on the
territory despoiled by the fire will be
mostly OF brick.
A FOREST fire at Freelands, Saginaw
county, swept away George White
more's mill and lumber yard.
THK reunion of the soldiers and sail
ors OF Crawford and Otsego counties
will be held at Grayling Sept. 9 and Z.
EAST SAGINAW il in trouble about it's
paving. The Courier says that the cedar
blocks are not up to the standard, being
badly decayed.
ORRIs Irons, of Pentwater, offers
500 reward for evidence that Will lead
to the discovery of his son, who disap-
peared June 3.
The Anchor spoke works ofeSt. Johns,
Clinton county, give employment to
between thirty and forty men, aud turn
ont over 5000 spokes every twenty-four
hours.
II. PALMER, q Kalamazoo county far
mer. fell on the cylinder of thrashing
machine, cutting off his right hand at
the wrist and mangling the back of his
head and neck terribly.
AN attempt was made to burn the
National hvtel, at Re, d City, Osceola
county. 10y the judicious use of kero-
sene oil and a match, but it was foiled
by the night Waterman.
The wild-rice crop growing on tn
islands and shadows of the river is
immense and unprecedented. In some
places it is cut and harvested nova
days.-RaianadzOo Telegraph.
A TRACT of 2,40O acres of timbered
land III Bay county was recently sold
by Ami w. Wright, of Saginaw, to
Messrs. Pitts & Cranage, of Bay City,
the consideration being $4,000.
FRANK GREENwALL, a brakeman on
the Marquette, Houghton and Ontona-
gon railway, while walking on the track
ahead OF his engine, at Ishpeming, was
knocked down and instantly killed.
The Mayor of Ionia and the Sheriff
of the county have offered $500 reward
for the detection of the incendiaries, or
any one of them, who are responsible
for either of the late fires in that town.
DIssENTERs from all denominations
to the number of 800, residing in the
vicinity of Charlotte, have organized
1.-The Living Church of God" Twelve
OF the number are at work upon Bible
The st. Ignace Republican says that
the net earnings of the Lake Superior
copper mines for the first half of the
year 1881 exceed those of any precious
metal-mining State or Territory in the
Union.
ZACH HAsKINs, q carriage and sign
painter of Charlotte, during fit Of
drunken vomiting, threw up live sun
fish measuring five and three-quarters
inches i'll length. The fish lived several
hours, and is now preserved in alcohol.
Miss NJ. EsTELLE NORTON, who gradu-
ated from the State University ut the
recent commencement, receiving an NJ.
A. degree, has accepted position in the
State Normal School at Terre Haute,
Ind, at salary OF 81 900 per year. 4.
NEAR ithaca, Charles Todd was haul
ing wheat to be stacked, when the fore
part of the load slipped, letting him
down head first on the whitfietrees. His
neck was caught between the evener and
hounds and dislocated, killing him in
stantly.
WHILE two men were working in an
oat field in Oakland county, black bear
crossed the field a few rods dis aut from
them. The Oxford Journal says this is
the first animal of the sort observed in
that locality since about the time of the
Chicago ire.
Miss IDA MANNING, of Charlotte,
while dressing i'll the morning, stepped
upon needle, breaking the head off in
her heel. The doctor attempted to get
the piece out, but after cutting her foot
severely and searching for over an hour
failed TO find the piece, which is still in
the young lady's loot. She suffered in
tensely.
WHILE DR.. Fraser, of West Branch,
Ogemaw county, was returning ON horse
back from visit to a patient, large
black bear crossed In front Of his horse
and raised itself on its hind feet at the
side Of the road, snuffiug in threaten
ing manner. A ball from small revolt
yer frightened bruin and the doctors
horse both away from the locality.
CHARLES DAVIS, of Bay City, recently
discovered an old Indian relic in the
form OF peculiar chain, apparently
compC sed of composition of minerals
ingeniously constructed after the fashion
of the bali and socket. The article was
found in digging new well, about
twenty feet under the surface of the
earth, and is probably hundreds OF
years old.
MISS DELL SMITH, of Eaton county,
fell from a swing and was seriously in
iured. She was Immediately put to bed
and complained of pain in tue right leg,
asserting that the limb was broken. But
little attention was paid to her COM
plant, however, until two days after the
accident, when physician was called,
and it was found that the bone had
been broken above the knee. 1t is
feared she will lose the member.
FARMER Sly, one of his hired men
and a Marty of ladiea went fshinU tO