The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-12-18

vigorously. secretary Cobb reported two
new oranges had been instituted during
the year and eight had been recognized.
Two had surrendered their charters and
several had become dormant. The
Treasurer's report showed the years re-
ceipts amounted 10 Sl2,57 leaving
balance on hand of $3.50. A large por-
ton of the session was taken up with
discussion of the question of taxing farm
mortgages. The opinion among the del
egates favored the California law Mrs.
Amanda Gunnison, the Flora OF the
grange, was directed last year to obtain
the opinion of the subordinate oranges
on the question of national flower. She
reported that l2s oranges had decided in
favor of the red clover.
Fire in the Finney House at Detroit
destroyed the building. B. r. Johnson,
a clerk, narrowly escaped with his life.
A man by the name of Fred Seton,
hunter, was found shot through the head
in the woods near Cheboygan. His dog
had also been shot dead and was found
near the dead man. Whether he shot his
dog and then committed suicide or was
murdered is not known.
1t is believed that the rail shipments
of lumber from Saginaw the present
year will approximate 375, 100000 feet,
against p, 600, 900 feet in 1880. This is a
wonderful increase, and indicates the
change in the method of handling lum-
Der. Nearly one-half of the product of
the river is now handled by rail. The
yard trade is active, although there is
much complaint on account of the lack
of oars.
A suit has been instituted in the
| Wayne Circuit Court for $1,000, 600
damages. The plaintiffs are Cofrode Il
Saylor, proprietors of the Philadelphia
Bridge and Iron Works, and the defend
ants are Brown, Howard q Co., of New
York City, railway contractors. The de-
PENDANTS entered into a contract for the
construction of the Duluth, South Shore
and Pacific Railroad, in the Northern
Peninsula. The plaintiffs, Cofrode Il
Saylor, were sub-contractors for building
the road, and the suit is brought to re-
cover balance which they claim to be
due them from the New York contractors.
The Michigan monthly crop report
for December shows the improvement in
! the condition of wheat to be general,
amounting to per cent. in the southern,
6 in the central, and in the northern coun-
! ties. The present condition, as compared
with average years, is: In the southern
counties 81, central II, and northern 50
per cent The number of bushels of
wheat marketed in November was 49, $50,
an excess of 224, 600 bushels over the
same month of 1888. Total amount from
August TO Dec. /, 5,29s, 92O bushels. The
average yield of clover seed in the State
for 1889 was 10 bushels per acre. The
condition of stock is: Horses, 90; cattle,
81; sheep, %; swine, SO per cent. Hog
Berrien, Cass, st. Joseph, Van Buren,,
Kent, Ottawa and Calhoun counties.
The masons employed on the new
$40, 600 Methodist Episcopal Church on
Capitol Square, Lansing, have struck for
back wages due them and all work is at a
standstill, says Lansing paper. The
trouble is between the masons and plas-
terers and the sub contractors, who
agreed to do the mas nry and plasterng
They took the job Mt too low figure and
consequently owe the men several hun
dred doll Irs.
st. Clair County has lis saloons, OF
which sixty-six are in Port Huron.
Gov. Luce has appointed +. O. Gros-
venor, of J onesville, ex-State Treasurer
as a member of the Managing Boad OF
the Flint School for the Deaf and Dumb,
in place of Congressman Charles Z. Bel
KNAPP, of Grand Rapids, resigned.
Gov. Luce has accepted the resigna-
ton of James Murtagh, of Detroit, mem.
Der of the lower branch of the Legisla-
ture of lSs9-90.
Judge T. NJ. Cooley, Chairman of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, has
gone to Washington to resume his work
on tie commission. He has recovered
his health partially, but is not as strong
as he was before the recent attack.
1t has taken the Government seven.
teen years to decide whether it would
give VIM. Doty, ofKawkawlin, a pension
or not. The men who handle the pen.
sion business down at Washington
finally decided that he ought to hav,
one, and ought 10 have had it years ago
The Times says that chewing gun
agent undertook TO distribute samples oil
his WIRES to the children of the Thirc
Ward School in Port Huron. As the kids
became exceedingly clamorous the agent
got angry. That settled it. The young
sters won't for him like a mob. He was
pelted with snow balls, tripped to the
ground ,assailed on every side, and finally
beat n mastery retreat into the school.
house. The teacher turned him out o.
that place, and. throwing the rest of hi,
stock among the children, to attrac
their attention for a moment, he fed