The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-03

FROM Our OWn correspondent
k. Holmes baving disposed OF his farm
talking Texas.
Mrs. RAYMOND, Of Pier Cove, Mich, is visit
ing her daughter, Mrs. J. l.. Patterson.
Mrs. John Allen, Bear Lake Mills, was burie'
last Thursday. Cucumbers.
The wheat market opens here at Sl.15. Ay
erage crop. John Killefer is buying.
j. E. Mathews our hardware merchant, ha
been ruralizing at Petoskey. He reports tn,
woods up there alive with Methodist friends
| and all as happy as larks. Jim" has been t.
Congress.
MI. and Mrs. Brown, OF Bangor, are engaged
to teach our school the ensuing year. They
are experienced and highly recommended teach
ears, and socially will be an agreeable addition
to our society.
| Mr., j. II. Payne, Saugatuck, step-father OF
Nelson stowe, living north OF this village, wai
buried last Wednesday. Two weeks ago Mr.
p. fell from fence and received injuries that
resulted IN his death.
Thieves still continue to nfest our village
Las week Wednesday night the freight Office
was entered through window. and box OF
cigars ana pistol appropriated.
John Sherwood and wife, Of Chicago. spent
last Sabbath with E. D. Conger's family. Mr..
Sherwood is "known to fame" as the head OF
a large school furniture mandatory.
A. II. See & Co. have contracted to finish the
Baptist church. except windows and pulpit, FOR
$780, 1t will be ready for occupancy October
first.
Mrs. Shoemaker, mother OF Mrs. G. Near
thur, has been very sick lately, but is getting
better and hopes are entertained of her speedy
recovery. Her son, from Illinois. has been
here for the past ten days.
The Undertaker's war goes bravely on, with
location in favor OF plucky Soy" Remington.
He announces that he was fianked but not
defeated" and beng driven from his bread
and butter" by strategy, has opened new
stock OF goods in the Ferguson block. Mr..
r. is good workman, and promises to make it
lively for all competitors.
Mr.. Harris, prominent Midland City mer-
chant. has heard of the advantages that Bloom.
ingdale offers to men Of means and enterprise,
and is talking trade to John Killefer. Mr. X.
has property-the most central in the village
known as tumble-down" corner that soon
err or later will buzz with the hum OF some for.
tunate busy bee.'
George Landphere. one Of the valient narrow
gauge strikers who were going to wade in seas
Of aristocratic "goah'' on the plains OF Paw
Paw. and didn't, is surrounding Bloomingdale
"hash" and fiourishing his tooth-pick with
great intrepidity. George has the courage OF
hippopotamus when wars alarums are afar
off, but at the sight OF foe. bares his manly
back and reveals a pair of heels as agile as the
pup Of Digger Indian.
The Reform Club continues to meet at the
school house every Friday night. and holds
union temperance meetings every alternate
Sabbath evening at the Disciple church. Last
Sunday evening Rev. George Donaldson. OF
Bear Lake Mills, preached to crowded house
will not permit a synopsis of this earnest and
eloquent discourse. Suffice 1t to say that it
was attentively listened to, and developed an
other able and fearless Temperance worker in
these parts.
Mrs. Ed. Il. left for parts unknown to her
have not been as forbeariug as two turtle
doves" and ere the roses have ceased bloom
ing for the first time on their welded life. Ed,
is charged with intllctlng sundry black eyes and
kicks at divers times and places. Last Sabbath,
when the afternoon slept on the hallowed
slopes of Bloomngdae, thigh old racket"
came off down at the B. castle. b. charged
Mrs. b. with verbal inaccuracies and paroxysmal
irregularities. Mrs. p. retorted that 3. was
another, and ss hum an nature couldn't stand
what would startle a dead Comanche, there
was Laying on of hands" that ended in Mrs.
BE- being kicked out OF door. And now the
chivalrous Ed, sad-eyed and lamb-like, wan
ders about our classic shades, calling for the
rocks and mountains to hide him or give hun
up his ''own true love-" You are "bad medl-
cine. Ed, and she won't come back Never
more will she toy with your auburn locks, and
with eyes love-lit as of yore, call you her Town
dear hubby" Barring her bruised arms-you
bruised them, Ed.-she said she wouldn't for
all the Ed. b. g in Bloomingdae and the Can
nbal isles, and woman generally has her own
sweet way about these things. II you mend
your ways and become real good, you may see
her sometime. but Ed, you will also see, and
they will sadden your cup OF JOY, the scars your
hands made when you we're mean enough 70
kick and strike woman, and that woman vour
wife