The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-12
EoraI Department.


foraI Department
Instead OF waiting for chance. make one
Remember the Vermonters meeting at the
Dyckman House, on the 18th.
The committee to locate the next state fair
recommends East Saginaw.
The AIuskegonltes think they wspt A. T.
McReynods for circuit Judge.
A little girls definition OF ice-water that
staid out in the cold and went to sleep.
W. r. Alger says 1.-The line OF he is rag
ged diagnoal between duty and desire,
There will be services at the Presbyterian
Church next Sabbath morning and evening.
Two million fish were Matched last year by
the government at the Michigan state fishery
The lumber cut i'll Michigan in 1874 was
2400, 000 900 feet, against 1886, 35l 900 in 1873,
not incl uding shingles.
Mrs. Ex-Governor Grape is lying dangerously
i'll at Flint, from an attack Of Inflammation OF
the lungs and pleurisy.
The second annual exhibition OF the Barry
county poultry society will be held in Hastings,
Feb. 18th, Goth and 9th.
G.. j. Hudson has been re-appointed District
Deputy Grand Master +. x A. NJ, foT this, the
Fourth District OF Michigan.
The Brooklynites are anxious to get up an
other scandal to occupy their attention as soon
as the Beecher-Tilton affair finds its end.
Fine remains of mastedon have been found
near st. Catharines. The tusk weighing over
200 pounds, and the short NIB ID five feet long.
4. H. Daniels. VI. D., of Breedsville, is
Deputy Grand Chancellor of the knights OF
Pythlas for the Counties of Van Buren, and
Berren.
Miss Ada Sweet, of Chicago, who is the only
female pension agent in the country, receives
the highest salary paid to a woman by the gov
eminent.
Bill King, the new Minnesota Congressman,
will neither appear before the Congressional
Committee, nor resign. II he should resign he
might not get elected again.
We have received an invitation to attend a
Grand Masquerade bail, to he held at Breeds
vile, on the evening of Feb. % for the benift
Of the Breedsville Cornet Band.
Jake Olmsted, an old pioneer OF kalamazoo,
died at his residence in that village Monday
evening, aged seventy-four years. Mr.. Olmsted
settled in kalamazoo in 1885.
Sunday school scholars will just now be
specially interested in learning that Jericho is
situated in Van Buren, county, six miles south
east Of South Haven.-Detroit News.
An old lady from one OF the rural districts
astonished clerk in one OF the stores few
days ago, by inquiring If he had any yaller
developments, SIGH as they dd up letters in
A Tilted swain spitefully says Eve did not
know as much as her daughters of the present
day. Had they been in her place. instead OF
being deceived, they would have deceived the
devil"
CoLDwArER, Feb. 3.-Five members OF the
Senate and House committees upon the State
p ubhc School arrived here this afternoon from
Ian sing for the purpose OF visiting the school
here tomorrow.
Rev. Mr.. Roe OF Paw Paw, who was to
preach al the BAPTIST church last Tuesday eve
ming was delayed on account OF sickness. Mr.
Barnum. of Paw Paw, preached in bis stead
Dowaglac Republican.
\ little girl four years old created ripple by
remarking 20 the teacher OF her Sunday School
class Our dogs dead. l bet the angels
were scar ed when they see him coming up the
walk. He's cross to strangers.
Greatness of station always brings absence OF
mind as a penalty. Congressman who now Tor
get all about $50, 900 checks would have hunted
over a mile and a half OF door-yard to find a
lost penny.-Detroit Free Press.
We are informed that Burr Robbins Will
start with his show about the 1st OF May next,
from GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, where ne Is spend
ing the winter. 1t Is said that ne Is MAKING
arrangements to enlarge his show for the
coming season,
Notwithstanding tue eoNeio S0iu "O-'SA "
Wednesday, we noticed several horses hitched
TO the ratings with no blankets over them
We could feel but little pity for their owners
=, the horses had dropped down dead, and left
them 20 walk home through the deep snow.
Widow Phila Lambert OF West Georgia, w.
80 years DID, has for fifteen years supported
eight children by laying stone WALL harvesting,
and other heavy farm work, and has not only
made herself owner Of house and Few acres
of land, but has given her children good
education.
BY late arrangement the duties performed
by three persons for the Michigan central
Rail Road Company at Kalamazoo, Will here
after be performed by one person. by winch
a saving TO the company will be made equal
to the salaries paid the two men heretofore
employed.