The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-30

rIOm INC DetrOlt papers we iehlu THAT
"Charlie" Sherman OF the Dyckmsn House
arrived at the Exchange Hotel in Detroit on
Saturday night last, and on Sunday night
started out to see the sights, and at late hour
be had been looked up by George Arson, for
merly a resident OF this village but now loco
motive driver on the Michigan Central railroad,
for the purpose OF getting him back to his ho-
tel he, "Charlie" having taken too much rev.
enue whiskey or something else. While Arson
was coaxing him along in the direction of the
Michigan Exchange and had arrived at the cor
ner OF Bates street and Jefferson Avenue,
several men approached and took hold
Of "Charhe" and put him into a buggy. An
son resisted the act and according to the Even
ing News, was stabbed in the left shoulder by
one of the men. Sherman was then driven Oft,
but Arson followed on shouting for the police,
his wound bleeding quite freely. At the cor
ner of Woodward Avenue the vehicle was
stopped, and Sherman taken out by police Of
icer and conveyed TO his hotel On examina-
ton it was found that he had on his person
one thousand three hundred and one dollars,
The suppositlon is that the men designed to
rob Sherman. II was very fortunate circum-
stance that 80 resolute man as Arson had
HIM In charge at the time the ruflians kidnapped
him. One would suppose that man who had
sold as much "rotgut' whiskey as " Charlie"
has and who knows its effects so well, would
not allow himself to drink the vile stuff when
away from home and especially when he has
money about his person.
Sensation appears to he having an extraordi-
nary run and to be general favorite just now.
The Chicago Times has made fortune ont OF
sensationalism and pandering to- the vicious
side of human nature. The whole country has
had surfeit of sensation IN the Beecher-Til-
ton business, but the end is not yet. Our
pleasant and quiet village has just passed an
abortive attempt to create great sensation.
manufacturer and dealer in pianos and or
gans, named Horace Waters, accompanied by
coarse and uneducated man named Graves
who boasts that he is an Evangelist" sent out
! by the Lord to preach the Gospel to all the
world and bring sinners INTO the kingdom OF
God, has been holding lies Of meetings in
this place. Graves opeLed the BALI on
Thursday evening by harangue in the street.
His discourse was anything but refined and
consisted, for the most part. Of sensation sto-
RES badly told, and much Boosting about him.
self. On Sunday he barangued large audi
ence for more than two hours in which the Rev.
Graves was the prominent parsonage. His
style and manners we're very coarse, the mat
ter commonplace, and exhibited a woful lack
OF information on matters pertaining to theol-
ogy and christianity. To compensate for bis
want OF general and special information, he
resorted to badgeripg and appealed to the pas
sional and emotional side Of human nature.
Perhaps his strongest argument was his vigor-
Gus appeal for money. After be had concluded
his forenoon harangue several OF the local cer-
gy spoke few words. Their style and manner
and pleasant delivery showed such superior
culture that brother Graves talk sank to 30 low
. degree, by comparison, % to lose upon the
greater portion Of his audience the little effect
it had produced.
We believe in christianity and in the efficacy
of prayer and the power OF good preaching,
but when man so illiterate and self-boastful
as this Graves thrusts himself upon commu-
nifty, we cannot help classing HIM with such
. evangeisls' as Booze and Byers who are
well known to this community as first-class re-
lgous monomaniacs.
The last Lakeside Library contains Jules
Verne's famous " Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Seas = making a solendid double
number, with eight characteristic illustrations
1t is an intensely interesting account Of voy.
age OF $4,000 miles Under the surface OF the
ocean, in submarine vessel OF peculiar con
struction. This. Vernes masterpiece, Is
really wonderful book. intensely dramatic, ylg
orous quaint, and Astounding in startlinf
scenes, yet always so charmlngiy natural on,
can not persuade himself that it is not verits
BILE transcript from a ships log. book. It lay
bare, the mysteries OF the mighty deep. tellin;
OF hidden caverns submarine forests, and tn
strange monsters who roam there, sunkel
treasure ships, and all the wonders hiddcl
from sight below the sunlit waves. There i
only one other edition published, which sells a
"a, 90, while the pnce OF The Lakeside Librar
edition is only 25 cents. by mail postpaid. Ad
dress. DONNELLEY, LLOYD g. CO., Publish
ers, Chicago.
PHILADELPHIA. ouiN zi.-- 4 US Oeuteuuit
Board of Finance announce that in addition t
the collections and subscriptions already made
81 ,OOO 900 will be required for building purpos
es alone IN the last four months of this yeai
and make a further appeal for aid to the cit
zens OF Philadelphia and the country at large
, The following from the Catholic Telegraph
PLAIN enough:
There could, therefore, hardly be a NOR
D impudent falsehood than the assertion that
, publc-secular system OF education does not II
, terfere with the religion OF Catholics.
The present system OF public schools brand