The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-03-27
MICHIGAN ooNsuLs.

-Mlchigan has had many Important
positions in the consular service Of the
United States during her ffty-five years
of statehood, says a Washington CORE
spondent of the Detroit Free Press. The
brilliant early Governor, James Wright
Gordon, was appointed Consul at Pernam-
buco, Brazil. by President Taylor in
ls49, and died there in 1853. Asher B.
Bates was appointed by the General Gov
eminent to prosecute certain business in
the Sandwich Islands in 1855. He did not
return after he had completed his work,
but entered the Cabinet OF the King as
Attorney General and continued to
be for many years one of the
most prominent public men of
Hawaii. Abner Pratt, OF Marshall,
was on the Supreme bench of Michigan in
1857, when the present court was formed.
He was nominated by the Democratic par
ty for reelection, but declined in order to
accept an appointment from President
Buchanan as Consul at Honolulu. He
was recalled from the Sandwich Islands in
1862 That same fall he was elected
Democratic member of the State House of
Representatives and died while member
of that body. Nathaniel p Jacob, of De-
troit. was appointed Colsul General at
Calcutta in 1861, and continued to occupy
that position for ten years. Henry w.
Lord, of Pontiac, was Consul ut Manches-
ter from 1861 to 1867; Edward S. Egg
gleston, of Grand Rapids, was for several
years Consul Mt Cadiz; Representative
Mark ). Brewer was Consul General ut
Berlin from 1881 to 1885; Herman Keifer,
of Detroit, is ex- Consul at Stettin; w. b.
Wells, of Ionia, at Dundee; Major Ed
ward Fechet, of Port HUI! on at Ell Paso
del Noite; McGeorge Bundy, of Grand
Rapids, at Havre; Captain Charles Fris-
bic, OF Hillsdale at Rheims; Colonel G..
p. Lincoln, of Coldwater, at Hong Kong;
T.. II. Thomson, of Flint, was long I'M
migration Commissioners at Stuttgart, and
W. w. Murphy, Of Hillsdale, was for
many years Consul at Frankfort on
the Main. Colonel James w. Romeyn and
Henry Gilman, Of Detroit, are at present
Consuls respectively at Valparaiso and Je-
rusalem. Warner p. Sutton, of Paw Paw,
has for many years been Consul General
at Matamoras. Michigan has laid claim
for many years to number of Consulates
in Canada, and many Michigan men have
been commercial representatives of this
country in the Dominion. Among them
may be mentioned j. Wilkie Moore,
George W. Swift, Charles Ewers and
John Devlin, at Windsor; Digby V. Bell
at Goderich, John l.. Near aud several
others at Port Sarnia. The following
Michigan men hold appointments in the
Consular service in Canada: Jerome
Eddy, Chatham; Isaac g. Worden, Wal
laceburg; Josiah Turner, Amherstburg;
W. T. Mitchell st. Hyacinthes, and Jul
son S. Farrar, at Port Sarnia.
Members of Gordon Granger Post, No
80, G.. A. r., of East Saginaw, contem-
plate fitting up quarters in one of the new
buildings to be erected this summer, to
be known and dedicated as a Grand Army
hall. Members of the post, ladies of the
Woman's Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans
and friends of the order will present
maps and pictures of battles, forts and
prisons, pieces of rebel flags, shot, shell,
guns, canteens and other relics of the late
war, of which there are many in East
Saginaw, and this, it is thought, will be
better than sending them to Lansing.
The post will endeavor to make it attrac-
tive 10 their friends at home and visitors
from abroad.
Martin Jarvis. of Gladwin County.
who acted as foreman of the crew charged
with the duty of supplying j. II. Bakers
mills with timber for the summers cut.
has finished his work. The single mill
is stocked for a cut of 5000, 900 shingles.
About 400, 900 feet of hardwood has been
placed in the mill yard for the lumber
mill to cut up, besides which large
quantity of pine lumber will be cut. 1t is
expected to put in about 200, 900 feet adj
-ditional OF hardwood. Capt. Baker has
1000, 900 shingles on the railroad track
ready for shipment
While II. Burdick and w. L. Peet
were at work with their we'll machine about
four miles south of Lyons, Mr.. Burdick,
who was at the windlass, allowed it to get
away from him, unwindng with great
rapidity. The crank-pin, coming in con-
tact with the thumb of his right hand
severed it instantly, leaving it hanging
only by small bit of flesh. With the
next revolution he was struck in the fore
head, breaking in the skull and rendering
him unconscious. At last accounts he
was in a critic Il condition.
There has not been single day this
winter when carpenters and joiners in
Marquette County could not work out
doors, and the result is large number of
new houses in the northern part of that
city. The progress made in this direction
is something wonderful.
Gov. Luce has signed the bill empow-
ering the Detroit Building Inspectors to
enforce in that city the child-labor law.
The following is a sample of monu-
mental cheek, Mt Lansing. One of the