The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07


manager of the Bay City Daily and Weekly
Tribune. Mr. Warren is one of the most
competent persons who has ever been en-
gagged in the newspaper business in this
county. We are pleased TO known that he
has secured that position.
The drug sore of Charles johnson, at
Vandalia, was entered by burglars last Fri
day night, the safe covered with wet horse
blankets, stolen from neighboring stables,
blown open, and, il is reported, seven cents
obtained and carried away. They could have
made more saving wood.-CaSsopo3is VIZ
liant.
A fierce cyclone passed over Stanton, Neb.,
ON the I'd inst, piing up the buildings pro-
miscuously, overturning chimneys, blowing
away furniture, carrying some of it for more
than half mile One of the unacountable
freaks of the storm was to lift the meat
market of Frank Severin, III which his fam
lily lived, and carried il some 300 yards over
fences and across streets, and set down with
out injuring the inmates, though the build
ing was torn nearly to pieces.
On Wednesday evening about O'Clock,
Harry Clifford and Joseph Frank, who were
in Jail for burglary, and boy from South
Haven in for larceny, broke jail and fed.
Under Sheriff McCabe had the boy out doing
chores and it is supposed he unlocked the
door from the outside with false key made
out of a piece of pail hoop, and the others
walked boldly out. The door was found
Open the paddock on the floor and the keys
hung up where they belonged. The officers
have been in search of them mp 10 this time
but have not found them.
The first case in the county under the
new liquor law, was tried before Justice
Warner of this village, on Saturday last
The complaint was against Albert 4. Free
bartender of the Clifton House, and the
charge was that he sold spirituous liquor to
George Hennesey, person in the habit of
getting intoxicated. The proof Of the selling
nesses, Sherifs Van Aukea, McCabe, and
Constable Glidden testified that Hennesey
had been III the habit of getting drunk for
more than ten years last past. In fact every
body in town knows it, unless it be the
bartender at the Clifton. As he has only
known Hennesey some twenty or twenty-five
years, he may not have found it out yet.
The only testimony introduced by the de-
Tense was Frees stdtement that he did nat
know that Hennesey was in the habit of
getting drunk. good deal of time was
spent by the lawyers splitting hairs over the
meaning of the word "habit." The jury re-
tired at p. M, and after being out about
four hours returned verdict of nat gutlty.
Illustrious jury We agree with the remark
made by one of our citizens that if he had
been one Of the number he should think.
whenever he saw two persons talking to-
gether, that they were pointing him ont as
one of the Immortal six One of them
took a common sense view of the matter.
and insisted that the law was made TO be
obeyed, but at last consented with much
reluctance to the verdict.
There is a holy indignation rising up in
the hearts of many of our citizens on account
of the course pursued by those in power at
the county seat. The people in this part of
the county pay their taxes to help support
the county institutions and want to be pro-
tected; and when one of their citizens is
sent to the only place of safety they do not
want him turned out on some frivolous plea.
If they have so much sympathy for such they
should keep them in their own town and not
send them back here where they are not
wanted.-Hartford Day Spring.
The above has reference to the release of
Seth Center by Judge Hawes, at the last
term of court. We presume the holy in-
dignation' is mostly in the narrow mind of
the editor of that paper, for in tho first place
the people of Hartford were not only squan-
dering their own money they pay in "taxes
to support the county institutions but also
the money of every other township in the
county, when they sentenced this fellow to
lie in Jail one year ct the expense of the
county. If he had committed some offense
which warranted imprisoning him for a year
he should have been sent to the house OF
correction or some other place, where he
would have been compelled to labor and
been self-supporting. After person hes
been sent to nil, no one has anything to dc