The true northerner., 1885-05-14


The Objectionable features of the law and the
illeg manner OF its enactment have been gem
orally and pretty fully discussed and pointed
out With these eliminated. and such other
needful changes will readily suggest them
selves TO the legislator. apprehend difficulty
will occur in the enactment OF a general tax law
which Will meet the requirements Of the consti-
tuition and the necessities of our people with
out depriving any citizen OF his just and legal
rights
concur in the opinion of my brother Camp
bell given in this case. and agree with him
that the decree entered therein in the Wayne
Circuit by Judge Chambers should be affirmed
State Items.
The calendar Of Kalamazoo College,
Just issued, shows 16l students in attend
ance.
Homer A. Barnes, bartender. COM
mitted suicide at Bay City. Dependency
was the cause.
-Woodchucls and crows cost Matteson
Township, Branch County, $50 last year In
bounties paid for scalps.
Empty dwelling houses are so scarce
in Bronson that three or four families in
some cases are living in one house.
Children Of 2 years can now be sent to
the State Public School at Coldwater. the
receiving age being now from 2 to IL years.
Now has produced 25, 900 bushels of
potatoes and IL 900 bushels of apples for
shipment to Southern points the past four
months.
An Ingersoll, Ont. firm has removed
to Bad Axe. whore they have opened a fac
tory for the making of Venetian blinds and
bed-springs.
-Sault Ste Marie at present has to rely
on dog teams for its mails, the roads being
impassable for teams between that place
and ST. Ignace.
The State Home Mission Board has
been obliged to borrow 81. 100 to meet
quarterly payments due the thirty home
missionary pastors it supports.
--Tmmps robbed Robert Spechley's
house at Ann Arbor. getting 500 They
then escaped by freight train, but the
train was wrecked and the men were
captured.
John Huston, of Tawas City, in boring
we'll near that place, struck silver r-bearing
rock at depth of sixty feet, aud about
twenty feet in thickness. The assay shows
nearly $500 to the ton.
folks blood. From six pals of water re-
Gently pumped from well in that place
teaspoonfui of pure gold dust was gath
cred. So says reporter, at least.
The boys and girls composing the
Christian Association at Ann Arbor re-
fuse TO separate into two associations,
one for each sex, as they have been ad-
monished to do, and are threatened with
expulsion by the National Young Mems
Christian Association therefor.
From the secret chambers Of the
how q muscular young man, whose sir
name is Timothy, introduced feature not
provided for in the ritual while being ini-
tiated recently. When told to defend him.
self to the best of his ability. he mistook
the meaning of the advice and proceeded to
cover the floor with his fraternal brethren.
Explanations and sticking plaster were in
order, and tho initiation ceremonies were
concluded without further interruption.
YpsiIantian.
An unknown tramp tried TO climb upon
an outgoing Detroit, Grand Haven and
Milwaukee freight train, while passing Con-
gress street, Detroit, but lost his hold and
fell outside of the track, with his neck
across the mil. The wheels of the train
| literally severed his head from his body.
A policeman would not let the remains DO
touched until the Coroner arrived, and
stopped all the Lake Shore, Grand Trunk
and Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee
trains for some time until the jury was i'm
paneled. causing much confusion on those
roads and one narrow escape from col
lision. Nearly 1000 women and children
gathered to view the horrid spectacle.
Reforming to Gen. Grants illness, SEN
ator Palmer said 10 friend: i knew of O
remarkable case of holding on to life in
Michigan year or two ogo. There was q
clergyman at Detroit named Barnes. was
over Mt Grand Rapids on the cars, when he
came rushing in just as the train was start
ing. l noticed that he was flushed and ex-
cited. He said TO me that he had just re-
ceived telegraphic message that his vito
was suddenly i'll and dying. He had an
swered, L am coming, Mary; hold on till 1
get home All the way over 10 Detroit the
clergyman sat in silence by himself. 1
think he was pr ying. His wife got tho
dispatch, and her attendants said il revived
her. She held out till her husband arrived,
and died shortly a<terward in his srns.'