The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-23

Gertie Mills has the chicken-pox. The
: Xonly case in town.
Our bcal correspondence had to be omit
ted this week on account of space.
The railroads and express companies
throughout the State, are carrying all arti-
ces free that are sent to the sufferers in the
burnt district.
Mr.. Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, one of
the directors of the Detroit Lansing and
Northern railroad, has given $4,000 to aid
the people in the burnt district in this State.
letter from Mayor Thompson of Detroit.
acknowledges the receipt of the $445.25I
sent by the relief committee of this village,
and assures us that it will be expended as
advantageously as possible.
w. H. LaSuer's family removed to Mar
cellus. on Wednesday last. Mrs. LaSuer
took an active part in society matters while
they lived here, and will he missed by many
warm friends We dislike also to lose those
bright little girls from our school.
Ed. s. Darling has been spending few
days with friends here. He leaves for
Chicago to-day, but does not know yet,
whether his employers will detain him in
Illinois for two or three months, or send him
to New England. If he goes to the latter
place he will be absent one year.
The people of Niles, after raising the re-
quired amount to receive the location of the
car works at that place, were cheated out of
them by the officers of the concern in a most
contemptible manner. They were evidently
used as stool pigeons with which to induce
the people of Elkhart, where the works are
located, to give greater amount.
Decatur is 'tore up over n scandal. d
certain lawyer has been paying his devoirs
to widow who is well connected. much to
the expense of the happiness of the lawyers
family, who are also respectable people, and
the devil is to pay generally. The lawyer
claims to be doing some business for the
frail widow, but he is apparently working
himself into legal scrape.-Dowagiac Times
AT the town meeting two years ago last
Spring, resolution was passed making it q
fine of $500 for any one to ride or drive
inside the shade trees on any of the highways
of this township. 1t has been the practice
of certain persons to ride and drive between
the shade trees and fence OH the road lead
ing north past the place of G. F. Allen, Esq
If they wish to save themselves costs. it viii
be well for them to cease doing so at once.
Last week Jesse Thomas put drive wei
down on his farm, about two miles south
west of this village, driving a two-inch pipe
and when it reached between thirty and fort,
feet it struck vein of water that rose five o.
six feet above the surface. He put an elbow
land short piece of horizontal pipe about 81,
feet. from the ground, and it runs a stream
Nof the purest of water that will fill an incl
pipe. 1t was a rich strike, as he need
neither pump or windmill to water his who'll
|farm.-Hartford Day Spring
In 1871 there was raised and expended fo
those who suffered from the ravages of tn
fires that year in this State, the sum of S462,
l0630, of cash donations and of clothin
: and other articles furnished. estimated a
1 the enormous sum of S25O,OOO making th
value of the relief afforded to the people o
: this State $712,1O63O. To-day there is
n greater number of persons who are friend
), less, homeless and destitute in fonr countie
than there was in the whole State in 1871
and large proportion of the loss falls upol
rural population, whose houses, barns
crops, cattle, harnesses, plows and every
thing they use about their homes and farm
have disappeared in the fiery furnace int
which those counties were plunged, leavin,
them destitute and helpless, while thei
wives and children are shivering in tn
storm and hungering for bread. 1t is tn
e duty of every humane person in the countr.
to give all he is able to give, to relieve thes
\ sufferers.
The following is list of those who hav
added to the relief fund, since our last issue
C. +. Allen, 100 j.. b. Sheldon, $40
r.. ii. McCuum, 100 q. Worthy, s.
T. Welch, 100 j. Monroe, 10
d - Gay, 100 q. w. Young, 20
C. p. Rawson, 100 y. w. Green, 10
"A. Palmer, so NJ. u. Richardson, 10
Jos. Gilman, 100 II. southwell, 10
ohm Emery 25 Mrs woodmsn so
E. @. Butler, 800 Phillips 4 Mcneil, 30
Hev. J.'H. Darling, so NJ. Wells, 10
u F. Lord, LOO B.F. Heckert, 20
, II. o. Briggs, 800 II. Morrison, 10
p. B. Emery, 80 J. Leech, 10
@. Sage, 100 A. j. Mills, 30
H. X. Halstead, 100 VIM. Markillie, 30