The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-18

goodly number OF our Decatur neighbors
spent most Of last Tuesday in this town.
The Kalamazoo Agricultural Society intend
having baby show at their forthcoming fair.
new Tobacco Store has been opened in the
rooms lately occupied by Mrs. Searls. Patron
ize 1t, for it Is run by clever typo.
1t Is said there are only $50 organ grinders
IN America, while we thought there we're 5000
in Michigan alone-Detroit Free Press.
A" / tell you what" said a Hartford widower.
as he spit out of the window, 1T seems awful
when think sarys down in the ground instead
of being around fixing to dry apples"
Miss Lizzie Dawson, our popular telegraph
operator, is spending short time at her home
in Allegan. During her absence Miss Bbbins
OF Decatur, performs the duties of that office.
The stave mill of j. II. Freeman at Scott's
Lake was burned Tuesday morning last the
18th inst. Loss about four thousand dollars !;
no insurance. The origin OF the fire is not
known.
" Yes, Job suffered some,' said an Illinois
deacon, but he never knew what il was to
have his team run away and kill his wife right
IN the busy season when hired girls want three
dollars per week."
At recent session Of the Albion District
NJ. L. Conference, held at Jackson, Mrs. Mary
c. Lathrop was granted license to preach, also
the license to Mrs. Mary L. McAlster, granted
year ago. was again renewed.
A girl at an examination In grammar the
lor' was singular, blushingly answered -
" Because it is very singular they don't get
married" She went up to the head.
In the midst OF dense forest near Fort
Madison, Ia, is large number Of apple trees,
which recent Developments have shown were
planted between 1795 and 1898 by one OF the
Young braves of Black Hawks tribe.
George b. Hall, the extensive brick manu-
facturer, has already made about 6,000,0 900 Of
brick for the new Capitol. He now employs
force Of about 80 men in the manufacture and
delivery Of brick.-Lansing Republican.
Nichols IL Shepard of Battle Creek are max
ing arrangements to manufacture l ZOO thresh-
ing-machines the coming year. They are put
ting into their establishment gang OF circular
saws which will greatly facilitate the cutting up
Of lumber.
The notorious NJ. d. WILDER, OF Allegsn. is
looming up as Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Fifth Grand Rapids) District.
We can wish nothing better for the Republi-
cans, nothing worse for the Democrats.
troit Tribune.
Prof. Moses Cot Tyler has resigned his po-
sition as literary editor of the Christian Union,
and has accepted an invitation to return to his
former professorship in the Universityot Mich
igan. He will enter upon his duties with the
approaching term.
When young MIR. Spltzer left home for COL
lege he took leave of his mother in this man
ner g Mother, will write often and think Of
you constantly" When he returned two years
later, he remarked to the anxious parent -
"Deah mother, l gweet you once noah
You ought to have seen how thoroughly the
sympathies OF our friend Mat, Of the Dyck-
man, were aroused the other morning, as he
came out. soon after rising, and discovered q
half starved dog sitting OIL he ragged edge Of
anxiety waiting for bone. The animal was
cared for, for it's Mats ambition to feed the
hungry.
Allen Potter, Of Kalamazoo, was nominated
for Congress by the Democratic Convention at
Niles on the 18th inst. 1t will be recollected
that Mr. Potter is the man the Democrats ran
against Burrows two years ago and was badly
beaten. 1t appears that they propose to have
him beaten a second time, as a reward for bis
political somer-sault.
Mrs. Harriet \. Tenney, OF Lansing, state