The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-02-10
MICHIGAN NEWS.

Snow fifteen inches deep in the up
per part of the Au Sable valley.
TIE Detroit public library has AZ, 413
hooks and $15, 9Ol cash balance.
THREE saw-mills are being built mt
Muskegon TINS winter costing IN the ag
gregate upward of 100000.
DUEING the past year the police de.
partment have recovered Ga per cent
of the property stolen IN Detroit.
Huron county patriots are reported to
he going III for an appropriation from
Congress to clear out the Pinnepog
river.
ADELAIDE GRIswoLD, aged Is, at
Stanton, went into the pantry in the
dark and took what she supposed to be
pinch of sulphur. 1t was arsenic, and
she died.
j. A. TABER, formerly proprietor of
the Biddle House, Detroit, has turned
his fruit farm, on the Grateit road, into
a flower farm, and now has 5000 rose
bushes in bloom.
The State Salt Inspector proposes to
enforce the rule prohibiting packing of
salt during the winter season, and some
Bay City manufacturers are making
decided kick.
A CITIZEN of West Bay City has
signed an agreement to be one of twenty
stockholders to grade and prepare the
proposed Alpena and Freeland railway
for the rolling stock.
THE Methodists of Michigan contem-
plate the erection of an observatory for
the use of their college at Albion. 1t
will require 100000, which is to be
raised in 500 subscriptions. Abou
half is already pledged.
JOHN MELoY, who keeps grocery
and bar at Pontiac, and is also CT y
Alderman, was arraigned before Justice
Fitzpatrick charged with selling spirit
GUS liquor on Sunday. The jury pro
nounced him guilty. Fined $50 and ten
days in jail. Decision appealed.
SAGINAW Herald: G.. Foster, on the
Flint river, is authority for saying that
the new town line road to Flint river is
opening up large trade from that Sec
ton of country. Fully 800 teams per
day cross the iron bridge over the Flint,
all bound with farm proouce to this city.
LOUIE S. BURLINGANIE, aged 8, ut
Kalamazoo, fell and struck the back of
his head while skating. At first it did
not seem injured much, but in a few
days he began to droop. Then he lost
his hearing, in few days more his
speech, and then he suffered dreadfuny
till he died.
AN Au Sable paper says: 1.-The deer
are not near rs plentiful III our woods
as they were two years ago. There is
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ia violation Of law Many of our lumber
men openly abet this violation by hiring
men TO kill deer for their camps, giving
them 3 cents per pound.
MUSHROOM Ne,Us and Reporter: Be.
side the enormous increase in build
ing and public improvements in
this city the past year, we are pleased to
have the assurance of the merchants
that there has been n corresponding in
crease in trade. There is not firm but
says their business has largely in
creased.
ONE of the Burr Oak grain buyers
sued prominent farmer in that vicinity
upon contract to deliver certain
amount of wheat. 1t seems the markets
advanced and Us a strange coincidence
the roads grew bad about the same time,
consequently the inability of the farmer
to deliver the wheat.-N. Joseph COun-
| ty Republican.
MIDLAND Republican: John Curtis,
in charge of the banking ground at
Mpnison's camp, up the Chippewa, was
attacked by a wildcat. The cat hoped
on his shoulder. John yelled. The cat
jumped away in surprise, when John
made slash ut him with an ax. The
cat renewed the attack, and tore Johns
arm and legs quite badly. but was at
last overcome aud killed, John splitting
his head with the AK.
w. B. KEYsER and r. J. w. Bowen
are farmers, and live in the same neigh
borhood in the town Of Tecumseh, Len.
awee county. Their residences are con-
nected by n line of telegraph about one
half mile long. II. i. w. Bowen takes
the Detroit Free Press. When he got
the news of the result of the assassin
Guiteaus trial. he telegraphed it to w.
u. Keyser Thus the news was tele-
graphed from Washington to the Free
Press that paper brought it by mail
to II. }. w. Bowen, and he sent it by
telegraph to w. b. Keyser. Is there
another line in the world operated by
farmers? Who says farmers are not
progressive ?-DetrOH Free Press.
A CORRESPONDENT at Marquette gives
the following particulars of the defalca-
ton of the Treasurer of Marquette coun-
ty: A profound sensation was created
here by the report that Col. John T..
Ward, Treasurer of Marquette county,
was short in his cash $4,000. He
turned the Office over TO the County
Board, admitting himself indebted to
the county in the amount named, which
he was unable TO make good, and as
signed all his property to w. II. Rood,
of Ishpeming, one OF his bondsmen. i'll
trust for the benefit of that gentleman
and others associated with him on the
bond. 1t appears that the County Board
became suspicious at the fall meeting,
as the cash balance shown by the books
was not represented in the county treas
urv nv n correspon1inO number of dol