The true northerner., 1873-06-20
Grue NortI)erncf.

ShuS NUlu)tlUIk.
Paw Paw, MICHIGAN, juno 20, 1873
IoraI department.
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RinmMHE' tho entertainment a. Town Hall
this evening.
III you want good glass OF SOD, water 60
10 Miss Rhoda Muneer's
The gradastiog exercises take place at the
School-house this evening.
Miss JrNslE RDLoH, of Iawranc', has been
here Tor the past few days yis.tlug friends
she was formerly resident OF this village.
MR. @. HALL will please accept thanks for
those delicious Strawberries he left on our table
ono day last week. They were the first of the
season.
SoIL OF tie ladies' shJTod consi lorable cour.
age IN Jumping out of the church windows las
Monday evening Fortunately mono of then
we're hurt.
IHE beautiful boquet on our sanctum table
that every body admired last Tuesday was pre-
ssnted by Mrs. Henry Ismon, for winch she
has our thanls.
DURING the past winter, when the wl-d blew
hard, the girls OF Green Bay would SIT down on
the ice. spread AL umbrella, aud vail for TWO or
three miles.
AN ASSESSOR asked . woman how many chick
ems she had and, doubling her word proceed
ed to count them She took him to the bee-
hive. tipped it over and invited h,m to count
the bees. He'll take woran's word next
time.
Cwo Saginaw men are gong TO engage in
loS-rolling match. The amount put up is $780, !
aud the game consists Of each party getting |
upon log in the river, which IS set rolling |
and he who falls into the water first loses the |
money
SOME Questions very naturally suggest them |
selves to an inquiring mind. An amateur,
farmer wonders "why, on all this fair earth |
the ground IS spread bottomside up, so that it |
must be turned over with a plough before crops |
can be raised"
>INoe the discovery of the Bender murders
there is not Chicago drummer thar travels
who has not been IN the habit Of dining at the
Bender mansion frequently. The reason they
escaped is. that when the fatal hammer tap de-
scended on their heads it was Ike Draining
sponge or India rubber ball.
y MERRY party Of pleasure seekers from al
mena passed through our quiet little village,
Saturday last, on their way to the four-mile
lake. The smiling faces OF many valued friends
were recognized among the happy party, and
Wa earnestly longed to leave the heated town
and pressing business to join them.
On Wednesday afternoon large number OF
people from the country had come to town to
witness Grady's Balloon Ascension, but after
standing around in the hot sun nearly long
enough to broil them, they were gratfed by
scene not stated IN the blll, viz seeing the
thing get on fire and nearly burn mp. or
course.hero was no ascension.
TuE New POSTAGE SrAMps.-After July 1st
new postage stamps come IN, bearing profles
and colors thus: cent, Franklin, blue; cent
C cent, Lincoln, red 7 cent, stanton, vermil-
ion; 10 Ceat, Jefferson chocolates ~ cent.
Clay, purple Is cent, Webster, orange "a
cent. Scott; 80 cent, Hamilton, black 30 cent,
Perry. cGrInlne.
The reception gwen by the graduating class
last Tuesday evening was quite largely attended
ard very enjoyable affair. The members OF
the class did ell in their power to make it q
social time FOX their guests, and they succeeded
admirably. The music, which consisted OF both
vocal and instrumental was excellent, and all
expressed their pleasure by repeated applause
livery one who attended pronounce il an eve
mag pleasantly spent
Eugene w. Hilgard, formerly Professor OF
Natural Sciences in the State University of
Mississippi, has been appointed to the Chair ot
Geology, Zoology, and Botany in the Michigan
University, vacated by the resignation of DR..
wlnchell. The Ann Arbor Register says that
he is a writer OF high reputation upon scientific
subjects. and has for several years been a
member OF the National Academy OF Science.
He is brother of Prof. Hlgard chief OF the
1 nited States Coast Surv ey.
TITLE DULcI.--To do good, be good, aud set
good, is motto which is especially commended
u all the citizens Of Paw Paw, who are cor
daily invited to give it practical illustration
t,v convening at the Golden Rule Lodge rooms,
on Tuesday evening, June oath, where warm
Greetings cool drink. sober heads, merry
hoa-ts. luscious fruit, and the sweetest cream
(of soc,ety) will feast body and soul, and pre-
rare each attendant to contribute to the iinar-
cisl prosperity of the Lodge Admlttance Free
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THE New York Times has been punished for
criricising vanderbilt's management Of the
Hudson River d Central Railroad and Oliver
Charlick's management of the Long Island
Ilailroad, by losing the advertisements for those
roads. This may make hundred dollars or
more difference to the Times in purae. but 1t
viii be thousands OF dollars gain both to the
rsper and to the public in freedom of criticism
ppon the tyranny Of railroad kings.-Lapsing
Republican. ---------
On Wednesday forenoon fire broke out in
small barn owned by NJ. Y. Allen, and which
soon enyeloped the entire building III fiames,