The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-07-11

The Baptist Church at Leslie has
hsw $l25 chandelier.
1t is said the huckleberry crop will
supplement the seasons large yield of
strawberries with an abundant harvest.
Three thousand dollars have been
raised in Stockbridge for q new Catholic
| Church
The Wyandotte gas well is down
something over 600. feet and cased to that
depth, the drill working on dry bottom.
The farmers in the vicinity of Bad
Axe have commenced harvesting their
clover.
The body found in the river at Che
boygan has been identified as that of DIR.
Payne, who disappeared some days ago
from the East Side.
The waterworks pumping station sent
35,070,943 gallons of water to the doors of
thirsty Lansingites during June.
"A massasauge snake having seven
rattles bit the six-year- daughter of
Albert Burson, of Schoolcraft, on the foot.
A twelve-year-old sister of the wounded
girl carried her home on her back,
distance of nearly half mile, and large
poultices of onions and salt, Immediately
applied, with copious doses of whisky,
given promptly, saved the child's life,
the doctors say.
"A 3-year-old colt belonging to w. NJ.
Rolfe, of Vevay. committed suicide by
walking into creek where the water was
two feet deep and lying down.
| AT q session of the First Presbyterian
Church of Mt. Pleasant it was decided to
formally call the Rev. Melvin Fraser, of
Elgin, ILL.,, to become their pastor. Mr..
Fraser has delivered four sermons before
the congregation, and all unite in saying
he gives promise of faithful and efficient
work. and that his sermons have the right
ring in them. The official call has been
signed by the trustees. Mr.. Fraser has
returned to Elgin, and has the call under
advisement. Mt. Pleasant and community
will rejoice when that field is again occu-
pied by an active pastor.
"A number of pretty little birds have
appeared in the vicinity Of West Branch
that have never been seen in that latitude
before. They are called Scarlet Tanegers
and are said to be very fine singers.
| S. Keifer, of Detroit, recently i'm
| ported an English bulldog that was
warranted never to open its jaws when
once they had closed on an enemy. He
would swing at ropes end by his teeth
for hours if irritated enough to take it in
his jaws. Mr.. Keifer was very proud of
| his purchase, and exhibited it frequently
to select circle of friends. Recently
the dog was given corner in the stable
where Mr.. Keifer also kept fast pacing
horse. The other morning Mr.. Keifer
| locked the two animals in the barn, and
went away on an excursion. In the af-
| ternoon, when he returned and opened
| the barn door, his eyes almost
| started from his head. There lay the
horse on the floor nearly dead, while
hanging to it's under jaw, from which the
flesh had been torn, leaving the bone al
| most bare, was the bulldog, alive but
badly bruised. Mr.. Keifer called in
| his friends, and at once set to
work relieving the horse of his terri
BILE antagonist. The dog was choked,
kicked, pounded, burned with hot irons
and a wedge driven between his jaws, but
| all to no purpose. He would not release
his hold. Finally an ak was procured
and the dogs head chopped off. Then it
was difficult to loosen the awful grip.
The horse was got to his feet and an
examination made. His skin was torn
from his body in many places where the
bulldog had evidently tried to fasten his
teeth, and he was SCARED from head TO
foot. The dog had evidently had one
hold on the horses breast, for there
large piece of flesh was torn out 1t had
been a battle royal. Probably the dog
| after breaking his rope, had wandered
into the PAGERS stall, and, coming too
near his heels, had been kicked He re-
taliated with his teeth and the fight be-
gan. There was hardly whole bone left
in the dogs body, and the horse will not
be good for anything even if he lives.
Madam Morel de la Durantaye, a ma
tive Acadian, has been one of Jackson's
Observation-Disclosures.
The big hotel at Omer, called the
Arenac House. has been sold to j. II.
Belknap, merchant of that town, who
has torn down and remodeled it for a new
store. Weaver & Miller, the old proprie-
tors, go into business at Bay City.
Mrs. Emma L. Harrington, widow of
Detroit Wholesale grocer, has announced
her engagement to Frank Mann, her coach
man, % years old and of alleged unsavory
reputation. Her friends believe that the
violent death of her husband in an elevator
accident less than year ago has unbal-
anced her mind.
The Ann Arbor Sporting Club are
fitting up their camp on Rush Lake in
grand style. S. Gregory, one of the club,
is building an $500 house for them. Trees
are being planted From the camp house
four lakes can be seen in the summer