The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-22

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Paw Paw, MICHIGAN, JAN %, 1875
zeal department,
Battle Creek has gum factory.
John Knowles. Esq, has returned from his
Southern trip.
An enjoyable tune is anticipated at the Fire
mems Ball this evening.
Mrs NJ Adele Hazlett lectures in Dowagiac
this evening, on q Politics and Politicians"
The Masquerade Social at Good Templars'
Hall last Tuesday evening was very socable
affair.
Mrs. Frank Pugsley, formerly teacher In
the public schools of this village, is IN Kendall
vile, Ind.
The Faculty OF the University have granted
Miss Josephine a. Day, OF Ann Arbor, the de-
gree of Phi. b.
Miss Elsie L. Cottrell, of Hillsdale, has been
appointed to clerkship in the Office Of the
Secretary of State, at Lansing.
Water is so scarce in Midland City that a
certain manufacturer draws ice three miles and
melts it to run his sbingle-mill.
The news items in the Detroit Eceninq Ne,os
are boiled down so hard there's not much news
in them when they reach the public
The University students are circulating a
petition asking the Faculty to do away with the
usual exercises OF commencement day.
\ Nevada man who had seven homely daugh-
ters got paper to hint that he had seven kegs
filed with gold in his cellar and every girl was
married in five months.
The Michigan Pathological Society has been
invited to send a collection OF fruit to the
American Pathological Society, which viii meet
at Chicago next September.
On account Of the i'll health of ). b. Nc
Cracker there wont be any little daily paper
u CtdthCh us Nuip tue icRISlhIuIt tDls
winter.-Mlddlevill Republican.
John Il. Evarts, of Grand Junction, was con-
ucted in the Circuit Court on Tuesday last, for
an assault with intent to ravish, and senten-
ced to one year in the State Prison.
They have got it a Kalamazoo, too. They
have it in Its most aggravated form. They are
making a network OF wire all over the town,
and connecting little Pony instruments to it.
A circuit preacher in Missouri prayed for
rain one night at farmers house, and the
farmer who had a horse race arranged for
next day, was so mad that he turned the good
man out doors.
This is the coolest winter Chicago has had
for eleven years, and her citizens are no longer
alarmed over the talk that Chicago is located
exactly over the hottest place in the internal
regions.-Detroit Free Press.
The Hon. Hezekiah G. Wells, of Kalamazoo,
Presiding Judge of the Court of Commissioners
Of Alabama Claims, was seriously injured in a
railroad accident near Wheeling, W. Va, re-
Gently, while en- route to Washington.
The deaf-mutes at the Flint Asylum are pub
fishing very neat and readable little paper
called the Deat-Nute Mirror. The work Is
performed by the students Of the Institution,
and Is published weekly, at $3.50 year.
Messrs. j. & /. Oppenheim have moved into
their new store in the Bennett and Longwell
Block, where they will be pleased to see ali their
customers, Their new quarters are very roomy
and convenient, and their stock shows to good
advantage.
The Lapeer Clarion closes little sermon to
certain youthful dlsturbers OF prayer meetings
in that city in this vigorous style: BE men,
and assist rather than retard a good work.
You'll make handsome angels, you brutes, at
this rate"
WhiteIaw Reid, OF the New Yorh Tribune.
has been ar rested for lible at the instance OF
ex. governor Sheppard, Of Washington, having
charged that gentleman with bringing bank
ruptcy on the d. G. to further his private and
personal interests.
We find this under the heading, G. Grand Rap
ids" in one of the daily papers:
alumni Association bitten by a mad dog"
We hope they will keep us informed as to
"how" that association behaves under the in
fiuence of hydrophobia.
In December, 1853. Sterling P. Rounds, an
excellent printer, writer and critic, spoke OF
Alexander Geese as one of the best " electro
typists" IN the country. THIS Is a companion
word with "walkist," and shows disposition
to use slang phrases by the best Of men.
bank burglar, Ltchfed by name, who has
served out his time in the Main State Prison,
voluntarily renamed month longer in order
to make enough money to give him some sort
OF start in life. There is a suggestion in this
worthy OF the attention of prison reformers.
DR.. McCosh, President of Princeton College,
THINKS that it does not necessarily follow that