The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-01-29

have by such hermitage like doings quail
fled her for museum freak.
st. Ignacs NAV We an electric fire
a'arm system. The Water Board is fig
uriug on the expense of utting one in,
and has already received number OF
propositions.
Elk Rapids will put up cash at any
time for iai'rold.
The entire receipts of the Alpena
postofice for the year 1889 amounted TO
Ss,12i.5l. Tho expenses of the Office
amounted to 1851. which leaves the
Government profit OF 50, l43, out of
which has TO be deducted Alpena's share
of the expense of bringing the mail by
railroad and mail clerks wages.
Roswell Bromley, residing near
Rochester, Oakland County, died OF the
grip, after two days illness. The de-
ceased was So years of age, and came to
Oakland County from the State of New
York in 1884 and resided on the farm on
which he died for a period of fifty years.
The oil portrait of ex-Chief Justice
Thomas r. Sherwood, painted by Ives,
was presented to the Supreme Court, at
Lansing, last week. eulogium was
pronounced by William p Wells, of De-
troit, who had been selected by the bar
to deliver the formal address of presen-
tation. He reviewed the professional
career of Justice Sherwood, alluded to
his success az attorney and judge, and
set forth his worth and purity of charac-
ter. In closing he made graceful and
complimentary reference to the high rep
utation for learning and ability which the
Supreme Court of the State has enjoyed.
Justice Campbell followed, and stat
ed that it afforded him great pleas
ure to testify to the loving esteem
in which he held his late associate.
Chief Justice Champlin accepted the
portrait on behalf of the court. Judge
Sherwood, he said, was all that he had
been described by his learned eulogists.
He was a man who had dedicated him.
self 10 truth and justice. He was in
clined, sometimes, TO brush aside the
technicalit es and precedents of the law
in order to secure the vindication of what
he conceived to be the right. But while
his sympaties we're warm, his legal judg-
ment was generally unerr.ng He was a
model associate. His portrait was indeed
worthy to adorn the walls OF the State 5
chief temple of Justice.
Bulletin No. 50 of the agricultural
experimental station, horticultural depart
ment, State Agricultural College, is ready
for distribution. 1t gives the result Of
fruit testing at the South Haven sub sta
ton, and is from the able pen of T. r..
Lyon. 1t is furnished free to farmers.
Address or apply to Secretary, Agricul-
tural College. Michigan.
Detroit Free Press: II would be in
teresting. if not edifying, to know how
many thousands of dollars are sent out of
the State each month to pay for lottery
tickets. 1t is an evil which has secured
a firm foothold in every village in Michi-
gan-if our exchanges are TO be believed
Wexford County cen boast OF the
most civilized crow in Michigan. He is
such domesticated bird that he has
apostatized the faith of his childhood
aud joined barnyard bevy of hens He
drinks from the same canteen" with the
domestic flock, goes TO roost with
the earliest, and tries hard to crow the
brood awake every morning.
Port Huron has thirty-two city Off
Gals elected by the people whose salaries
aggregate $685. a year. The total
length of the streets in the city is eighty
five miles, fifty of which are graded and
nine are paved with wood pavements.
The city has over sixty miles of side
walks, mostly of wood. There are POI
miles of sewers, the total cost of which
has been Sl25,C0O. The water works
have daily capacity of I 900, 900 gallons,
and there are twenty nine miles of mains.
The cost OF the water works has been
nearly S2i0,0 900, and the average yearly
income for the past ten years has been
close to $4,000.
The ninth annual report of the Sagi-
nav Board of Trade. giving detailed
statements of the production of lumber,
shingles, and lath for the season of 1889,
stocks on hand at the close of the year
and logs RATED out of the streams, with
comparisons, has just been issued. The
manufacturing area on the Saginaw
River is less than half a mile in width
and sixteen miles in length, and for many
years has produced more lumber than
any like area in the world. The detailed
statement shows that there were operated
on the Saginaw River last season 76 saw
and single mills, pro lucing s5l, 623, 1873
feet of lumber and 220, TS5. $50 shingles.
At the close of the season there were on
the docks S37, O73,S97 feet of lumber and
AZ, s)3,75 shingles. The quantit, of lath
manufactured was l35, $40, 24O pieces,
against 10, 965,94j pieces for the previ-
Gus year.
From all over the State come reports
of the closing of schools because of the
prevalence of la criDpe In many in