The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-08-15

Wofchman Is full of left-handed compli-
ments for the Fairy Isle."
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick McCullen have
celebrated their golden wedding at
Thomastown. Saginaw County.
old hunters say that prospects aro
good for plenty of sport next month. the
marshes being full of ducks. and they are
counting the days until September /, when
the slaughter will commence.
During the past twenty years over
1000, 100000 feet of logs have passed
through the Menominee River Boom Com
pany's work, at Menominee-enough it is
figured, to make o two-inch plank road,
sixteen feet wide, around the world.
The Ontonagon Miner says that the
season in that section is about one month
late.
Two commissions have been issued
from the Adjutant Generals Office at Lans-
ing. One to Maj Charles Il. Hawley, of
Bay City, to be Lieutenant Colonel of the
Third Regiment, vice Lieut.. Col. Don
nelly, resigned. and the second to Lieut..
F. b. Lyon, of Company H. Third ReSi-
ment, Calumet, to be Major.
There are now more than 900 patients
at the Kalamazoo Insane Asylum.
The postoffice in Saginaw City was
| entered by burglars, rear door being left
open, and packages of postage stamps
just received from Washington, amount
ing to 81 ,55l, were carried away.
Nearly fifty new houses are being
erected in the fire district of the Third
Ward at Alpena. Many of them are in
every respect better than those which were
destroyed by the late fire.
While freight train was pulling
through Petoskey, Mrs. Martha Hause
attempted to cross the track in front of it
and was instantly killed. She leaves
three children and O husband.
| The camp meeting at Riverside Park
has closed
Vice President Brice has just given
orders to Chief Engineer La.cha of the
| DtAuth, oOubA CAOIc uuu htldutiC hOtu
to 90 ahead and build line from Iron
River to Duluth. 1t has been the inten-
ton of the old management OF the South
Shore to use the Northern Pacific track
from Iron River to Duluth, but the North
ern Pacific does not feel like extending
accommodation to the new management,
the Canadian Pacific. The new line will
be built as fast as men and money can
build it.
| The monthly crop report for August
has been issued from the Office of the
Secretary of State. 1t is made up from
reports from SCI correspondents. The
yield of wheat will greatly exceed the
earlier estimates, and may be in excess of
$4,000, 900 bushels. The quality is first
class. The whole number of bushels re-
ported marketed for the year ending July
81 was 1881 1888, and the amount esti-
mated in farmers hands of the 81 crop is
100000 bushels. Oats are estimated to
yield thirty-six bushels per acre in the
southern counties, twenty-nine in the
central, and twenty lone in the northern.
The condition of corn is % per cent, po-
tatoes 92, meadows AID pastures 70, and
clover sown this year SO. Since Aug.
all crops have materially improved, and
corn and potatoes promise nearly full
average crop. The area planted to pota-
toes in the southern counties is 6 per cent.
| above the average. The hay Weld is but
75per cent. of an average crop, but is of
fine quality. Apples promise about so
per cent. of an average crop, and are re-
ported falling from the trees.
Monroe people feel very confident that
their gas we'll will be success.
Serious forest fires are reported in the
vicinity of Bad Axe, Huron County.
During the late electrical storm Mt
Lansing q ball of fire appeared in the
fireplace at o. +. Barnes residence, and
after playing around for about a minute
and half went up the chimney and dis
appeared The ladies were nearly fright
ened out of their wits.
Jacob Ganssly, of Lansing, reposed
confidence and $40 in bills in his money
drawer while he went to attend meeting
of the Arbeiter Society Later when he
returned the bills were missing, and a
hole in the rear of the drawer caused him
to smell a rat" He moved the counter
forward and three very healthy rodents
appeared and disappeared nearly at the
same instant They left their nest be-
hind, however, and in that was discovered
the missing money. Luckily the bills
were but slightly damaged.
j. Stears, of Kalamazoo, reports that
his fruit crop is very fine. He has l,Os(
peach trees in a young orchard and l 400
in an old one that are loaded and his pear
trees are also loaded with fine fruit. The
work of thinning out is now in progress.
The new Methodist parsonage at Mt
Pleasant is to cost 81, 600, and will bt
built at once, the contract having been let
George Rummele, of Frankenmuth
Saginaw County. has fractions cow, thai
in one of her freaks kicked over the large
heavy door of his barn so it fell on Rum
mele's ll-year-old son, breaking boil
= - n