The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-10
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4
% PuerperaI fever. .............
- humps. ...... .............
"a Spasnodic Group. ......... 2
25 Inflammation OF brain. .....t
20 Cerebro-spinal meningitis.
~ SMALLPOX. 80. ..... .....l
Beside those tabulated above, the fol-
lowing-named diseases were reported
each by one regular observer Chol-
era infantum, Bright's disease, catarrhal
fever, chicken pox, rotheln, asthma and
vaccinia.
For the week ending Feb. 25, 1882,
the reports indicate that neuralgia,
intermittent fever, bronchitis, consump-
ton and rheumatism considerably in
creased, and that pneumonia consider
ably decreased in area of prevalence.
Including reports by regular OBJ
servers and by others, diphtheria was
reported present during the week end
ing Feb. %, and since, at 81 places,
scarlet fever at 10 places, measles ut
8 places and small pox at 8 plnces-in
all as follows: AT Spalding. Menomi-
nee county 60 cases), Feb. 81 ; among
the Indians near Spalding g cases.,
Feb. 81. and % deaths to that date, ut
Detroit and Grand Rapids (convales-
ent), Feb. 25; at Parkvile, st. Joseph
county, Feb. IS; i'll Kimball and Port
Huron townships, ST. Clair county, Feb.
%; at Stanton, Montcalm county, Feb.
%, 1882. HENRY b. BAKER.
Secretary.
LANSING, March g. 1882.
Legislative Proceedings.
The following, introduced by ]. r. White,
was adopted unanimously by the House on the
9th ult.: "WHEREAs. There has grown up
in some OF the Territories OF the Union so
called system Of religion subversive or tho
fundamental principles of our republican form
OF Government destructive to the morals OF
the people, and repugnant TO the enlightened
moral sense OF the age; therefore,
Reso{red The Senate concurring, That it ia
the sense OF this Legislature that this system,
which is but cloak under which the grossest
crimes are committed, the most wholesome
laws openly violated, and polygamy un5lush-
ingly practiced, while the perpetrators go un-
whipped of justice, should be summarily
dealt with, and this reproach to the
civil zation OF the age, which no other
civil zed nation on the face OF tho globe
would tolerate, be completely wiped out.
Resolced, That our Senator'S and Represents
tives in Congress be, and they are hereby, re-
quested to use Their influence toward passing
the n ost vigorous aws looking toward the ac-
complislm of this end. The House fin
isbed the reading OF the Tax bill. section 10y
section, TO which number Of minor amend
ments were made
The Senate, at its session on the 2Sth nit
passed tho bill appropriating s. 800 for the
Asylum for the Blind. A concurrent resolution
passed the House relative TO polygamy. very
spirited debate took place in The House Oh the
motion to strike out the clause in the Tax bill
exemp'ing church property. Messrs. Bloom,
q. w. Hopkins ana Earle supported the mo-
ton to sir Ike out. The motion failed by y
large majority.
The Senate, at its session on the 1st inst,
passed the bill appropriating S265, 900 for re-
lief of the fire-sufferers, $4,000 Of which is to
rebuild school houses burned in the great fres.
The House finished the Tax bill in committee of
the whole and referred it back to the Commits.
sion, with instructions amend section IL 30 az
to require Taxpayers to make a statement I'M
der oath to assessors Of personal property for
taxation.
Tho Senate Committee on Apportionment on
the I'd inst. reported a bin dividing the State
into Congressional districts, as follows: FIRST
Dstrict-Wayne county. Second -Wsshtenaw,
Monroe, Lenawee, Hillsdale. Third-Jackson,
Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Barry. Four h-Kal-
amazoo, st. Joseph, Van Buren,. Cass Berrien.
Fitth-Allegan, Ottawa, Kent Ionia. Sixth
Oakland, Livingston, Ingham, Shiawassee,
Clinton. Seventh-Huron, Sanilac, Lapeer,
St. Clair, Macomb. Eighth = Saginaw,
SGenesee, Gratiot. Montcalrn. Ninth
Tuscola. Bay, Midland, Isabella, Clare,
Gladwin. Iosco, Ogemaw, Roscommor, Mlssau-
kee, Kalkaska, Crawford, Oscoda. Altoona, AL
pena, Montmorency, Okego, Pressure Isle;
Cheboygan, Emmett. Muskegon. New
aygo Mecosta, Osceola, Lake, Oceana, Mason,
Alanistee, Wexford Grand Traverse, Leelanaw,
Antrim, CbarlevoiS, Manitou. Eeventh-The
Upper Peninsula. The bill was at once referred
to the committee Of the whole. In the
House the Tax Commission having concurred
in all the principal amendments to the Tax
bill except the one requiring statements TO
De made under oath TO assessors reported the
bill back to the House. when it was placed on
the order Of third reading, and, under the pre-
vious question, was passed by vote of 80 TO Is.
The bill as passed is, in all important points,
substantially ~ reported first by the commits
sion. Memorial services were held inthe after
noon in II, representatives. Hall in honor of the
late Frank Kendrick, member OF the House
from Lapeer county, who died during the re-
cess. Speeches were made by Representatives
Ball, Copely, Cartridge. Cutcheon, Austin and
others. The gallery and floor were crowded
with spectators.
The entire days session in the Senate, on the
3D. inst, was consumed in debate on the Appor-
tionment bill. The great fight was on the
Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Congressional dis
tricts. The bill, as reported by the Apportion-
ment Committee, was amended by taking Gin
ton from the Sixth district and placing
it in the Eighth, and taking Genese.
from the Eighth and putting it in the
Sixth. Tuscola was transferred from
the Ninth to the Seventh, Osceola and Mccosta
transferred from the Tenth to the Niuth, ana