The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-31
H.sRTFORD LOCALS.
From Our Own Correspondent.

from Our OWu COfIo8pOnuout.
The weather is hot and for a rarity, any
amount of rain. Quite Q large number are
making their obesance to Mr.. Ague Just now.
Mrs. s. N. Warren is very sick with typhoid
fever.
This Tuesday morning, at about eight o'clock,
Mrs. Morris Traver's barn, situated in the east
ern part OF town, was struck by lightning, and
il with its contents entirely destroyed. About
seven hundred bushels OF wheat, two o: oats
and greaC many farming tools passed away In
smoke. There we're two men and two span OF
horses in the barn at the time. One horse was
struck down. and one Of the mer, who was
lying down, was unable to rise at first. How
ever, all have recovered at this writing. This
is the second barn that has been burned IN the
same way and in the same neighborhood this
summer. We understand the barn was insured.
A. III. Chambers wife has gone, and he is
soon going. to the far west.
Mrs. @. #. Young is on visit to her friends
in Illinois.
The Odds House has again changed hands.
The first shooting affair that ever occurred in
Hartford took place this afternoon in Rhein-
hards store. No murder was committed,
whether that was the intent or not,-only the
skin was scratched near the jugular vein. A few
weeks ago John Garrison, . Young man whose
life had not been the purest from boyhood up,
married Helen Beckwith, young girl about
whom there had been some talk. Their honey
moon was as short as their courtship was brief,
and in about two weeks they parted, he throw
ing the blame all upon her. This somewhat
aggravated her friends and especially her
brother, and to-day, becoming somewhat the
worse for liquor, followed Garrison around and
threatened to give him thrashing. Garrison
unable to use physical force, but threatened to
use his revolver il he did not desist. or course
that could not be in the nature OF drunken
man, and so Garrison shot at him twice, but
neither ball did much damage. Several par
ties were standing around in the store and it is
a marvel that some innocent person did not
suffer the penalty o; such recklessness. No
quick-tempered or cowardly person should ever
allow himself to carry shooting irons, and no
private citizen will wish to unless he belongs
to one class or the other. Upon the whole it
is a simple and disgraceful affair and will prob
ably bring on long and costly trial. Both
parties ought to be imprisoned until they can
behave better Beckwith's wife will doubtless
so for the men who sold him the liquor and re-
cover damages.
Several interested parties here are wishing to
know upon what merits the premiums for the
baby show are to be given. Whether because
they are fat or lean, iwhite or black, good-na-
tured or cross. Will some OF those inside the
ring and understanding the ropes please inform
them through your columns ?
In the Day Spring OF August 18th our editor
got up sensational, or in other words, ri
dlculous article about the ladies OF Hartford.
Whether the language he used, or the insnua-
tons he cast were the natural out-growth Of
an impure spirit, whether he was jealous be-
cause they did not honor him with a call, or
whether he is one Of those men who think the
tons and tending babies, and he wished to
brighten them INTO doing 30, cannot tell not
being much acquainted with his lordship. But
judge Hartford ladies are not easily frghten-
ed at owls, and hereafter L presume will walk
out just as they please, while they hold HIM in
grateful remembrance for his gallant language
and kind impressions conveyed. Had it been
we gentlemen who had gone out and serenaded
our friends, even though we awoke them from
their sleep In the late hours of the night, in
stead of between shutdown and nine. nothing
would have been said about it," but If and If
said the lawyer" In the first place, our city
clerk failed to appreciate the results when he
swore out the warrant "for fun" and the Mar
shal stepped down from the dignity OF an Off
Ger and laid himself liable to \ fine when he
served bogus papers, Just to scare the ladies'"
and the husbands who entered into the fun
see their folly when it is too ate and are very
indignant at the editor for carrying the joke
farther than they dared to. think that in
their sharp-shooting they all tried to use the
boomerang and that its pointed arrows return
ed to themselves again. ANDRE W.