The true northerner., 1881-12-09

Simon Van Sickle, the chap that Justice
Gallgan sent to Jail for 80 days, last July,
for stealing goods of Sherman Il Avery, now
languishes in the Berrien county Jail. await
ing his trial for being too much married.
George Tyler, the boss gardener of the
Lee district, has rented his farm to Charley
Earl, the gentleman who recently married
Mrs. Betsy Orr. George, they say, will 60
shortly TO an eastern cline and look him up
wife.
Mrs. Mary Z. Jones, the walkist, of the
Lee district, raised three acres of beans this
season, and the other day she threshed them
out and measured up 261s bushels. Let it
be recorded. There il considerable snap
about Mary f.
We received letter last week from l.. G.
Ward, formerly of this place, now near Fort
Scott, Kansas, who wrote that potatoes are
worth $1.60 per bu. beans $500 per bu.,
hay S11 per ton, and other things in proper
ton, excepting rabbits, which sell for cts.
a piece.
Will Lee, of Lee district, has gone to Ne
braska on visit and to see the country.
Alexis Hamilton, of the same place, has gone
where tie woodbine twineth. Alexis, they
say, loved, not wisely but too well, fail
young colored lady of Decatur, which is why
he has departed.
Several of the lady witnesses in the case
of the People VS.. Whelpley could not be
found on the day set for the trial, and the
case was adjourned till yesterday OH account
of them. 1t looks as though they felt a little
delicate about appearing against the winning
ways of the starred policeman.
Hon. Emory o. Briggs has bought of Har-
mon Johnson, ESQ., that magnificent resi-
dence on the corner of st. Joseph and West
Sts., now occupied by John Kelly, Esq.-not
gentleman. The price paid for this property
we have not been able to learn
John w. Bail, our undertaken, has been
limping around for the past few days with a
corn on the ball of his foot This town
would do well to import from the old coun-
try first class chiropodist, who would do
well here. This would then make the town
complete III the professional line.
The Hamilton correspondent of the Press
d. CouricT, got upon his ear last week and
gave US a terrible breeze. and said that ~ H..
bull was uncommonly large for Jersey, and
its sire and dam had no superior in the west.
Just so, Cap, if | were you would start
banty rooster establishment and get T. +.
Shoudy to oversee the caravan.
Frank Pierce had two bosom friends last
Saturday night that stuck to him like a
brother. They were Bill Johnson's alliga-
tors, and he was carrying them around in
his bosom showing them to the boys. They
were lovely pets for Frank. One of them
finally bit Franks nose, and Bill has fears
that it will cause his death-not Franks. but
the alligator's.
Henry Edward kimrod quite recently from
Marcellus, presented himself before Justice
Galligan the other night with fair young
damsel on his arm, who gave her name as
Louisa Null, and asked to be married Henry
said he did not know how old he was, but
thought he was either "a or 30. and was
born either in Pottawatomie county, Kansas,
or Pennsylvania, he did not know which, at
any rate he wanted to get married as he had
everything to keep house with. The Justice
asked him what his outfit consisted of He
said bedstead that cost him l.5O and two
lengths of stove-pipe he bought of George
Dixon, that the girl was willing to marry
him. and the old folks didn't care. But the
Justice thought he was a little teo straight
up and down behind the ears for matrimonial
services and declined to perform the cere-
mony. As he passed out he remarked that
he would 60 back to Marcellus and marry
Lib. Dudley, and it wouldn't cost him but