The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-09-06
HARTFORD LOCALS.

From Our Own Correspondent.
The leader of the Bangor Band, JOSEPH
Thompson. is in town this week giving musical
instructlen to the McGibsny children. His
broken limb gives him but little Inconvenience
Ripe strawberries are being picked off OF j.
W. Travis patch Quite novelty for this sea
son Of the year.
Mr. Lew Earl lost babe, three months old,
last Monday. 1t was taken to Coloma for
burial on Tuesday.
On Thursday evening last Mr.. Sherwood the
Greenback candidate for Congress, made a
speech here. Having selected an old. grey
headed gentleman who happened to sit near
him, to represent the "bloated bondholder,' >
about whom he had so much to say it was
really amusing to the audience TO know that
the only reason the intelligent man didn't an
swer some OF his foolish questions in not so
foolish manner, was because he could not
hear one-third OF Mr. Sherwood's remarks.
being quite deaf. The speaker. however, closed
up, seeming to feel well satisfied with himself
and audience. OF course his party swallowed
his misrepresentation falsehoods and
all, while the honest money men. OF whom
large number were present, and had refinement
enough not TO interrupt the speaker. felt that
they would lose nothing from such speech as
that. There were about seventy voters pres
ent and quit company of ladies.
Tuesday afternoon the crowd that gathered
to hear Mr.. Burrows speak proved that a large
majority OF the people believed in honest mon
ey and wished to hear sound doctrine adyocat-
ed. large crowd gathered in DR.. Palmers
orchard and listened earnestly FOR over three
hours, and then went away feeling that they
had been fed upon meat and not milk. The
first position that he took and securely main
tanned, that is, by the help of Mr.. Reynolds
questions and statements. was that the Ma
t'onal party is trying to delude credulous peo-
pie by sailing under false colors. claiming to be
greenbackers when by the frat plank In their
platform they call for an irredeemable paper
Dothing-real fat money! money which can
not fail, not only to dishonor our nation. de-
preeiate in value. and finally descend with
crash upon the interests OF the laboring class
whose friends they claim to be. But have no
time to follow HIM through all his arguments.
which were only made the more forcible and
convincing by the pleasant, plain and truthful
answers which he gave to the excited and
angry questions and remarks OF A. E. r. and
R. r. B., both of whom would have saved not
only Their own but their party's credit by doing
little less wind work. And then at the close
the way in which he disposed of a personal
article clipped from the Paw Paw Independ-
ent was too laughabe FOR anything. After his
little pleasantly he simply wound up DR.. May
nard, OF the Independent, bin In the
dlsagreeable and ugly garments of misrepre-
sentation and falsehood and left him standing
upon the pedestal of his own shame and dis
honor for some ak or eight hundred people to
gaze upon with scorn and contempt. Word
pictures are sometimes more perfect than oil
paintings. Lesson: Don't call ]. c. Burrows a
salary -Srabber again.
In the evening Mr.. Burrows and nice dele |
CATION from here together with the band. went
to Keller, where he spoke to large and en-
tbusiastrc audience.