The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-16

Gus In this State.
The crop of buckwhest In Michigan 10
an enormous one this year.
The Coldwater Light Guard cleared
$50 by their Decent dances.
I'm three days last week Kalamazoo
street cars carried go, 900 people.
"A 4.O00-pound bell has arrived for st.
Mary's Catholic Church at Manistee.
"A medicine factory employing fifteen
hands has been established at Albion.
"A pear is on exhibition in st. Louis
that weighs pound and three ounces.
Kalamazoo has paid its last municipa
bond and glories in being out Of debt
Flint fire headquarters have been fixed
up finely, and the boys are proud of them.
The Fish Commission will ask for an
appropriation for hatchery at the Sault
Ste. Marie.
-Coldwater merchants have signed an
agreement to close their stores at 8 o'clock,
except Saturdays
The apple crop of Mason County this
year is the largest ever known and Of unex-
ceptionable quality.
"A wolf was seen in full chase Of
deer last week within half mile Of the
court house at Rogers City.
-Ensilage is proving q big success as
feed for stock, and farmers are giving it at
tention in many parts of the State.
The Ludington iron works are about to
commence the manufacture of horse powers
for grinding corn and saving wood.
H. III. Clayton. Of Vanderbilt Univer-
sity, has been appointed an assistant in the
observatory at the University of Michigan.
The Ludington public school library
will be increased by over 200 volumes soon.
This will swell the number Of volumes to
1,40O.
w. Fl. Edwards has disposed of his in
terest in the Saginaw Courier, and retires
from the management. George N. Stacy is
his successor.
-Woman-gasoline stove-burning lamp
explosion. Such are the outlines Of an
Owosso story The woman lives and is
wiser than before.
1t is alleged in Chippewa County that
in proportion to its population that county
supports n ore paupers than any other two
counties in the State.
The water in the river is so muddy that
gentlemen fish must be obliged to carry
lanterns to find their way home from the
club.-lSd0indw Neics.
A Ludngton furniture dealer says that
he can never sell an Indian secondhand
article. They want the best and will put
up with nothing not strictly first-class.
They are more particular in this respect
than the palefaces.
N. Marcus Norton, the alleged railroad
millionaire, who was arrested in Boston for
non payment of board bill, claims that he
lost $50. 0O0 by the operations Of ex-senator
Ferry, of Michigan, for whom he procured
discounts at the East.
The Ontonagon River has risen to
point higher than known for twenty years.
The whole country in the vicinity of On
tonagon is flooded, and nearly all the
bridges are washed away or badly damaged,
causing thousands of dollars of loss.
There are crowds of young men at the
Ann Arbor depot. as usual, when the Uni
versity is at work. Not very agreeable to
the ladies who are compelled to pass
through this crowd of boys and cigars as
they go to or come from the cars.-Derter
Leader.
The law of the land, as found on page
461 of the Howells annotated statutes of
Michigan, prescribes limits for the rate of
toll" to be exacted for grinding grain. 1t
reads as follows: THE toll for grinding
and boiling any wheat, rye, or other grain
shall not exceed one tenth part thereof. For
| grinding and not boiling any wheat, rye. or
other grain except Indian corn, the toll
shall not exceed one twelfth part thereof;
and for grinding and not boiling Indian
corn the toll shall not exceed one-tenth
part thereof"