The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-06-18
WHOLE NO. 1877.
GRAND RAPIDS LOCALS.

From Our own Correspondent.
As the weather for the pas few week. has
been so extremely wet aud warm there has been
but little done IN the city brt grumbe about
the weather.
During the Republican National Convention
there was an unusual amount OF interest The
walk in front of the union telegraph Office was
tbronged every night during the ballo..ug until
after adiournments, and the repor: oi the fnal
result was received with the widest enthusiasm
and the utmost confidence is felt IN strength of
the candidates
On Sunday evening last I had The pleasure OF
hearing one of the most !ns.ructIng and inter
estng lectures it has ever been my privilege to
listen TO, delivered by Miss Phoebe CoGai1s, or
St. Louis, Mo. Her subject was temperance
aud prohibition, with light touch ppon the
suffrage question, fully attesyirg at leas; her
own qualifications to use her voice n govern
ment affairs, unless it may be in the minds OF
such concelted persons as a certain correspond
ent OF the Evart Review. who felt so badly be-
cause lady of his township had been elecsed
TO the Office OF superintendent O, schools that
he had TO expose his ignorance through that
/ paper, while he admitted her superior ability
and qualifications over her male opponeut 1T
looked so to see woman taxing he place Of
man" We presume 10 say that 7 this man las
wife that she would not look ont OF place to
him II she were out cutting her own wood to
get him his dinner with. Miss Cousins ability
as public speaker was cully attested to by the
uninterrupted attention which she received from
! the vast audience which had gathered 20 hear
her and which, in spite OF the excessive heat,
che held for nearly two hours entirely uuinter-
rupteG.
The weather still continues fea.fuy hot-the
mercury standing at 92o IN the shade nearly
all the time. Still, business seems to be boom
ing, new manufacturing companies continually
being organized and buildings being erected
The wool market in this place at present seems
to he little dull, prices ranging from 81 to 38
cents, with small receipts from farmers, they
holding for better prices.
Accidents are few for place of this size.--
The temperance interest is strong and gaini,
! All other matters about at par.
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