The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-15
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erel lake, 65 miles north of Shawano,
Wis, recently. The remainder of the
body had been eaten by dogs.
RYAN, the local editor of the Evans
will (Ind.) Journal, was pounded by a
policeman on Monday for rejecting on
that officials conduct as peeler.
The last years pecan crop in Texas
is estimated at over one million OF
bushels for export, which will realize
to that State several millions OF dollars.
ONE horse drew thirty.seven members
of the Salem Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals to a meeting of
the society one muddy evening last
week.
AN Aurora, Ind, saloon. keeper says
he does not think it quite the fair thing
to be taxed $500 unless the City Coun-
Gil insert proviso that the City Mar
shall be compelled to pay for his drinks.
A VERMONT woman, aged only SO,
laughs the Indiana sisterhood to scorn,
having already accomplished her fourth
husband and fourteenth baby, with two
marital funerals and n couple Of di
vorces.
A HORSE thief named Willard, con.
fined in the Morgan county, H., Jail,
was sent out to feed the .jailor's pigs, on
Tuesday, and took the opportunity TO
save his own bacon. He has not since
been seen.
QUITE an episode occurred in the
Moore family, at Fort Scott, last week
three episodes, in fac. Mrs. Moore
gave birth to triplets successfully. All
the parties are colored, happy, and do
ing well.
A MAN in Robertson county, Texas,
has forty-one living children. Sixteen
of them served in the same company in
a Confederate regiment during the war.
He is now living with his eighth wife,
and is Go years old.
CHARLES BEARD, OF Harrisburg, Pa,
was colored man until recently. He
was taken with smallpox and that dis
ease so effectually peeled the coloring
matter from his facial cuticle that he
is now perfectly white.
THE st. Paul Pioneer says it is stated
on good authority that the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company has perfected
a lease of the Lake Superior and Missis-
sippi railway, including the Minneapo
lis and Duluth, and Minneapolis and
St. Louis roads, for a period of nine
hundred and ninety-rine years.
A MISTAKE was made at Portsmouth,
n. H., church on last Sunday that
would have done credit to the New
York police Mrs. Elizabeth Lowd,
lady IS years of age, was stricken with
paralysis, and was promptly sent to the
station.house under the supposition that
she was drunk.
AT Washington masquerade, last
week, Miss Austine Sneed ('Miss Grun-
dy," Of the New York World appeared
as the Genius of Red Tape Her dress
consisted of q scarf oyerdress, and skirt
of red, white and blue, festooned with
official red tape, knotted at intervals
with huge department seals of red wax.
AT a warehouse in Macon, Ca, re-
Gently, when bale of cotton was being
sampled, the gimlet was drawn out,
and, instead of cotton, an old wool hat
was attached to it, The sampler stood
and bored for some time, hoping to
reach the African who had it on, but at
last accounts had not "struck ile.'
IT would not answer to introduce the
Koran in this country it gives the wo.
men such an easy way Of divorce. I'm
der the Mohammedan law, an aggrieved
woman has only to place her slipper
upside down before the Cadi, and di-
vorce is granted without further inqui-
ry as it is taken for granted that she
would not seek such redress without
the most pressing cause.