The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-07-22


at the State fair this year.
The Office Of gas inspector at Detroit
yields a salary of but s. year.
The establishment of road-cart
mandatory is talked of at Quincy.
The Non ore shipments from Escanaba.
for the present season, aggregate 5ls,929
tons.
Bishop Patterson, who is now enjoying
a European tour, writes that he will return
home by August /.
"A Mason minister has got into hot
water by delivering sermon in which he
denounced the wearing of corsets.
A party of capitalists are to expend
$4,000 in improvements at Sebewaing,
Huron County, in order to make it attract
i've as a summer resort.
Government suits have been begun
against Mount Pleasant people for cutting
valuable timber on Indian lands, and there
is great excitement at Mount Pleasant.
The colored people of Yysilanti will
Emancipation Day. 1t is expected eight
thousand people will take part in the fes-
tivites.
Thomas J. w lker hanged himself in
a cell at Ann Arbor. He was awaiting
requisition from New Mexico, being charg-
ed with committing murder at Socorro. He
had confessed his crime.
"A. G.. Brown, Jr., militia lieutenant
of Jackson, has disappeared with $500
company funds. His friends claim that he
went to Chicago to witness the ball games
and lost the money in bets.
"A woman at Elkhart. Ind, has made
application at the Postoffice Department in
Washington to be appointed Postmistress
at White Pigeon, on the ground that she
once resided there years ago.
While William Poupard, of Monroe,
was recently SHINING large catfish one of
the horns on the head of the fish penetrated
his foot, where it broke off. Efforts were
made to withdraw the bone with pair of
forceps. but it was planted amongthe small
bones, and, as the spike is serated all at
tempts to withdraw it were futile. Ii S suf-
ferings are intense.
The l6-months-old daughter of Chas.
Barnes, who lives near the Chicago and
Grand Trunk track, five miles from Ian
sing, wandered on the track the other day,
and was struck by train and instantly
killed. Her body was torn to pieces and
scattered along the track, thirty-two cars of
Lansing bound freight passing over the
child, tearing it so that only one hand was
found intact. The mother, who was in bed,
got up and gathered up the fragments Of
the little ones body after the train had
passed.
1t is now pretty definitely settled, says
Washington letter, that the love-sick
Senator Jones, of Florida, will not return
to Washington during the present session
of Congress. His friends say that he is
now ashamed to return, but that he will be
there at the opening of the next session.
Michigan Representative, who has just
returned from Detroit, says that he is liv-
ing in great style at hotel there, occupy
ing the rooms that are usually given to
Vanderbilt when he is in the city. He is
seen very little, except when he makes al
occasional visit to the bar.
State Crops.
For the July crop report the Secretary of
State has received returns from $50 cores
pondents, representing 622 townships. Five
hundred and twenty seven of these returns
are from 379 townships of the southern
four tiers of counties. The area of the
1856 wheat crop, as returned by supervisors
in the southern four tiers of counties. is
/ ,357, SIS acres, and in the northern coun-
ties 2i3, 206 acres; total of 600, 7S4 acres.
Final corrections and spring wheat SOW
ings, which were not completed at the time
the assessment was taken, will probably
add $4,000 acres, making the total area OF
the 1856 wheat harvest l ,625, 7S4 acres. The
average per acre as estimated by supervisors
is thirteen and sixty eight hundredths BUSH
els, indicating probable yield IN the State
of % 239. 6S6 bushels. Wheat has evidently
been very badly injured by the Hessan fly.
The presence of the fly is reported by
ninety seven correspondents in the first, or
south tier of counties; by sixty-nine cor
respondents in the second tier; forty four
in the third, and twenty five in the fourth
tier. The county returns of Supervisors,
partially corrected, show the area of wheat
harvested in 1885 to have been 1,i97 40
acres, and the yield 29,927 ,543 bushels.
Final corrections will increase this area bv
at least 30, 900 acres, and yield by 700.OOO
bushels, making the totals about 1,532, 40
acres, and 30 1921, 543 bushels. The total
number of bushels of wheat reported mar
keted in June is 430,676; the number
of bushels in eleven months, from
August to June, 14,044,903, or about
forty-six per cent. of the crop of
1885. The number of bushels re-
ported marketed in the same months of
iSS4-5 was S,46S,5l3, or thiity-three per
cent. of the crop of 1884. For these months
in 1SS4-5, reports were received from about
thirty seven per cent. and in 1855 from
about forty eight per cent. of the elevators
and mills in the southern four tiers of
counties. About 1872, 900 bushels of the
1885 wheat crop is yet in farmers hands.
The condition of other crops compared
with the vitality and growth of an average
year is for the State as follows: Corn,
ninety-two per cent; oats, eighty five; bar
ley, eighty EIGHT; clover, meadows. and
pastures, seventy -four; clover sowed this