The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-07-08
Heavy rain Thursday morning.


In the case of The People vs. Whelpley,
Nash and Spencer, charged with indecent ex-
posure of the person, an examination was had
on Wednesday before Esq. Galligan and the
respondents discharged
White Phillips was arrested in Cass county
on Wednesday last and arraigned before JUS
tice Galligan, charged with cattle stealing
He pleaded not guilty, and his examination
was set down for Monday next at 10 a. m.
AS w. II. Dansby and wife were returning
from the lake on Monday evening, their car
riage was partially overturned by running
over a stump, throwing them out upon the
ground and upon their infant child, injuring
it quite seriously.
The suit of clothes that Joe Hanson bought
for the little street waif, Morean, a few days
since were set as fsh-traps in Nash's mill
pond on Wednesday, baited with the boy. At
the risk of his own life Ira Cross safely landed
trap and bait on dry land.
We have received the initial number of the
Western Michigan Advance, a 9-column folio
started at Bangor in t g county. 1t is a
large, neat, tasty, we"-arranged sheet. Bros
Burkett and Hall, we welcome you to your
new field of labor and wish you all manner of
success.
1t is well for Jimmy Norris that there were
no one present in the barber shop but boys
who knew him well, when he expressed his
satisfaction in regard to the assassination,
else he would have been severely dealt with.
1t is to be hoped he may know more as he
grows older.
We sincerely hope that all the talk about
the extension of the narrow gauge railroad to
the lake has some foundation to rest on. 1t
would be an excellent thing for the road and
for the communities through which it would
pass. If the citizens of our village know
what is for their best interests they will put
a shoulder to the wheel when the road is ex-
tended southwark. No enterprise that we
know of would so much tend to the develop
ment of the resources of our county as the
extension of the road west to the lake shore
and south to a competing line with the Mich
igan Central.
A subscriber from Sherman, Wexford Co.,
Mich, writes us as follows: "Our wheat
and rye was almost ruined by the deep snow
of last winter Within two years and half
we have had our team broken up by the death
of cattle and horses, and we are farming
with one horse at present being unable to
buy another, but we are plucky and DO not
{ mean to give up. We have taken your
paper for the last fourteen years, and it seems
, like an old friend to us as il brings news
from our former home. As soon as We can
raise the money we will send you pay for the
paper. and if you feel as though you could
not send it any longer please stop it and we
will send the money due, just the same.
Old friend your Northerner shall not stop,
but shall continue to gladden. your heart with
news from home.
. Mr.. Richard Grant White is said to be en-
gagged on a critical and historical sketch of
music i'll America, for which he has accumu-
lated a large mass of material, illustrating our
musical annals for more than fifty years past.
student of music and practical musician
from his boyhood, he made his entrance into
D literature as an amateur critic of music, and
is said to have been the first to introduce
, aesthetic and scientific criticism of music into
our journalism. Among American men of
letters he is, perhaps, the only one who is
both writer of reputation and an accom-
plished musician. The knowledge of Mr..
Whites project among musicians has already
distinguished professors An important part
of his work-the history of opera in New
York-will soon appear in a series of articles
i'll Scribner's Monthly, in which it will be il
lustrated 10y portraits of the principal artists
who have appeared in America.
Friday morning last, one Simon Van Sickle,
of Bangor, paid n visit to the store of Sher-
man 81 Avery, for the purpose, as he said,
of buying bill of S75 worth of goods
The prospect of selling good bill made the
eyes of the gentlemanly clerks sparkle with
of goods as present to his dear little wife,
whom he reported as eating breakfast at the
Dyckman House, and asked the privilege TO
take the goods to her and see if they suited
which was graciously granted. He forgot to
return but skipped for Bangor. Investiga-
tion showed he had no wife i'm town and that