The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24

"cSt Day Nitts
Mrs. Nancy Connors died at Stanwood,
in her 1881 year
--Herdic coaches now run between East
Saginaw and Saginaw City.
The Clinton cider mill has manufac.
tured 1000 barrels of cider this season.
The Michigan Grange reports 552
lodges in the State, with membership Of
$1,000.
White Pigeon, ST. Joseph County, is a
town of l,400 inhabitants, and has no
lawyer.
A vein of brine containing GO per cent
of salt was struck at st. Ignace, at depth
of $50 feet.
Two new manufactures win start In
Owosso-a window-curtain roller factory
and barrel factory
Although one hundred years DID, Mrs.
Deantha Jones, of Batavia, Branch County,
has never known the need of spectacles.
Professor Cheever, of the University
of Michigan, has gone to Honduras for
month, as mining expert for Chicago
firm.
Two citizens Of st. Ignace, named
Mascow and Ance, were out hunting. Mas
COW shot and killed Ance, mistaking him
for deer.
The Wabash mail train, at Adrian,
struck Charles d. Babcock and his two
sons, killing the father and badly injuring
both the sons.
There were 10,Oi5, 1888 feet of logs raft
ed out of the Kawkawlin River the past
season. The stream is entirely clear and
no logs were left back.
st. Ignace parties have purchased the
Union Hotel at that place and fitted it up as
hospital. 1t will be known as the st.
Ignace Union Hospital.
The drunken murderer of the Ander-
son brothers, at Tecumseh, Aaron Palmer,
has not been captured, nor is there clue
as to the direction he has taken.
The Mt. Pleasant hoop factory, when
working to its full capacity. gives employ
ment to 1875 men-25 inside and 100 cutting
and hauling poles and preparing the Hat
hoops.
The reunion of the Twenty sixth Mich
igan Infantry, which was to have been held
at Lansing, Dec. l6, has been postponed to
April 9-the twenty first anniversary Of
Lees surrender.
AT Wilbuston the little son of James
Bertcham picked something from crack
in the floor. The object Immediately ex-
ploded. tearing two fingers from one hand
and three from the other.
A. w. l.. Gould who is with the Me-
nominee Mining Company, wants it under
stood that he is not the person rendered
somewhat unpleasantly conspicuous by the
exposure of the Gould swindle" at Vul-
can. The latter individual had no connec-
ton with the Menominee Mining Company,
but was formerly in the employ of the Penn
Mining Company.
"A resident of Leslie, last year principal
of Leslie schools, is constructing an eight
foot Newtonian telescope, with eleven-inch
refractor, grinding the lenses with APP
paratus of his own invention, said t. be
the only machine yet made for grinding all
kinds of lenses successfully. The process
has heretofore been accomplished by hand
by opticians. The Professor has applied
for patent.
AT Monroe justice is so prevalent that
the authorities dared stand up and punish
rowdies for disturbing Salvation Army
meetings. At Charlotte the goddess is
chained to her citadels, and men and women
for peculiar exhibition of their spiritual
belief are subjected to insults and attacks
from the hoodlum element, and there seems
to be nobody to call halt.-Kalamazoo
Telegraph.
The proposition is renewed to dam the
Straits of Belle Isle so as to defect the
sending it to the eastward, and compelling
it to flow under the Gulf Stream southeast
of Newfoundland. This would give, it is
alleged. mild and genial climate to New
England and Nova Scotia. 1t is capital
time to make such proposition when the
mercury is industriously seeking the bulb
of the thermometer. II is better to dam
the Belle Isle Straits than to objurgate the
extreme cold.-Free Press.
"A Washington correspondent sends this
paragraph: Senator Conger, of Michigan,
still persists in his habit of appearing upon
the floor of the Senate in full dress. He
has seldom been known to make his ap-
pearance in his seat in any other costume.
He is an interesting reminder of the GUS
tom that prevailed in that body half CEN
tury ago, and even later. Down to the
time mediately preceding the war, it was
quite the custom of the Senate to wear
swallow tail coats during the sessions OF
the Senate. For many years it was con-
sidered quite an important thing that q
Senator should make his appearance in the
Senate chamber in other than full dress,
and it is related that on one occasion
when Senator CHANGED TO make his ap-
pearance in a neatly fitting dark gray bust