The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-11-19

Flint had ice nearly an inch thick Fri
day night.
The work on Holly's new depot is pro-
crossing very slowly.
Parties wishing to rent say there il not
an empty house in Alma.
Wages in the lumber woods are re-
ported better than last year.
"A postoffice has been established at
Devils Lake, Lenawee County.
james Ostrander, a switchman, was
killed by the ears at East Saginaw.
Little Mack, the fastest PAGER in Mich
igan, is ut Mount Clemens, and will winter
there.
Deer hunters are very plenty in the
Traverse region, but the deer seem to be
scarce SO far.
w. A. Shank retires from the Barn.
County Republican. Horace Watkins is
his successor.
Seven pairs of twins were the attrac-
ton at a Sunday school exhibition at
Ypsilanti recently.
"A special committee appointed by the
Supervisors of Gratiot County will investi-
gate the Justices of that county.
The widow of the brave General Gus
ter is to be appointed Pension Agent at De-
troit at a salary of $4,000 year.
George Haupt, of Negaunee, recently
shot white owl which measured five feet
two inches from tip to tip of wings.
There have been about $50 deer shipped
from Alpena this fall so far, and they are
coming in by wagon-loads every day.
William N. Carpenter, a capitalist of
Detroit, was thrown from his carriage by
runaway horse, dying shortly afterward.
-Alonzo Plumstead, one of the early
settlers and business men of st. Johns,
died at his home in that village, aged seven
ty-seven.
Andrew Burnett and John Bent, of
Three Rivers, have been victimized for a
large amount by lightning rod swindlers.
Burnett is SO years old.
The Lansing Wheelbarrow Works have
received an ordef>for thirty dozen barrows
to be shipped half way around the world,
going by way of Cape Horn.
--Manistique has had erected in it three
Jail buildings within the past four years,
and yet the citizens claim that there is
really little necessity for any.
Consumption swept away Rev. Theoph-
ilus Anciaux, pastor of st. Annes Church,
Detroit He was native of France, and
had been priest in Belgium.
John NJ. Thalen's two children went
into the woods near their home in West
phalia, Clinton County, and ate poisonous
berries. One died; the other will recover.
The Dickerson Gymnasium, given to
Hillsdale College by +. b. Dickerson, of
Detroit, and the first and only college gym
nasium in the State, was dedicated re-
Gently.
If deer hunters continue to mistake
women and men for game, there should be
change in the game laws. Scarcely aweek
now passes without an instance of wild
shooting.-Inter Ocean.
DIR. C. S. Graves has been the rounds
of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad,
from Richmond TO Mackinac City, and has
vaccinated over 200 agents, operators, bag
gagemen, and other employees.
Lord Tennyson's new poem is called
"The Close of Another Eve" This, of
course, does not, for obvious reasons, re-
fer to the clothes of Mother Eve, but
Smother eve."-Free Press.
Eva jenkins, a 14-year old Flint girl,
has been chewing shoemakers' wax for some
time. Friday night she was taken violent
ly i'll, and vomited piece of wax two
inches long and three quaSers of an inch
thick.
The Ludington Appeal thinks that
county fairs were unsuccessful this year be-
cause so many reunions had been held this
fall that the money usually spent for the
fairs had been used before the season and
could not give the usual aid.
The Supreme Court declared the oleo-
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body of the law does not correspond to the
title" That is the difficulty with oleomar-
garine itself; the body of the article doesn't
correspond to the title under which it is
sold. 1t consists of one thing and is
called another, and the Legislators seem to
have concluded that an oleomargarine law
must be constructed in the same way Both
are, therefore, unconstitutional. = Free
| Press.
The New Haven parties who desire to
locate a clock factory in the West, and who
have been corresponding with parties in
this city, have S25O,OOO capital, nearly all
paid in and nearly all to be expended in
preparing for business. They require
from six to ten acres of land and two large
buildings, plans for which are already
made. They propose to turn out on the
start l 200 clocks day, employing from
! 100 to $50 hands, the number to increase