The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-01
ALL SORTS.

PRESIDENT ARTHUR pays taxes in New
York on S2s5, 900 worth OF property.
A 1OO-YEAR-oLD gentleman recently de-
posted his first vote at Kensington, CT
A JERSEY calf ten inches high, and fourteen
inches long, is the attraction of Brooksville,
Ky.
THE cotton and sugar crop OF the South
| this year is estimated at about half that of
1882.
DURING the past four weeks :, 500 negroes
have left South Carolina for Arkansas and
| Texas.
ITALIANS at work near Roanoke, Genesee
county, n. Y, having caught large snake,
cooked and ate IL.
A CHINAMAN with Spanish wife and four
bright little Celcstials left san Francisco, Cal,
recently, bound for China.
SNAKE seven feet and five inches long
with thirteen rattles was recently killed on an
island in Lake Winnepiseogee.
DURING last year 1890 vessels of all
nationalities entered and cleared at Chinese
ports of which 1887 were British.
THE North Nebraska Methodist conference
has resolved that any member who has fallen
into the use OF tobacco ought TO desist.
THE pastor of Salem Reformed church,
Allentown, Pa, has preached twenty-six
funeral sermons in the last two months.
FOREIGN capitalists have just bought
large tract of land in Southeastern Arkansas,
said TO contain 460, 600 600 feet of timber.
IN Dewitt county, Tex, a local paper says
u live snake, twelve inches long, without
eyes, was found imbedded in solid rock.
ALEXANDER WILLIS. who claimed 20 be ll3
years old, has died at Savannah, Ga. He
voted for Washington at his second election.
A MEXICAN planter employed 200 men to
kill locnSts for him. Their wages amounted
TO S296.3S, and they killed $4,000 of the in
sects.
A MINSEAPoLIs man has paid $4,000 for
medical treatment on account of II bite 10y his
dog, and yet has not sought satisfaction by
killing the beast.
THEY say that Carlylc's ghost, arrayed in
white, haunts Chelsea ut the twilight hour,
and recently asked Il little girl for " a penn
'orth o tobacco"
A PARTY of Minnesota young women have
gone TO the Argentine Republic to teach
school, and they write back that their first
impressions are pleasant.
ELEVEN days after n girl babe had been
born TO painters wife in Hazleton, Pa, she
resumed her household duties for n day. and
then added boy to the family.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY is excited over
the appearance OF Il wild woman who appears
i'm the forests near small settlements occa-
sionay. She has long streaming hair, and is
clothed In rags.
"CERRo GoRDo" Williams is model ''bule-
grass farmer. His tobacco crops always
commands the highest price i'm the Louisville
market, turning him net profit of $4,000 to
$4,000 year.
A ST.. LOUIS jury required only five minutes
to find that shaving is work of necessity,
and that the BARRIERS who had been arrested
on the charge of violating Mssouris Sunday
law were not guilty.
WHILE removing the old Catholic parson-
age TO Liberty street. Batavia, N. Y, recent
ly, the workmen found rats nest made of
about 5000 worth of "shinplastcrs in a
pretty good state of preservation.
A YOUNG gentleman, fresh from the other
side and wearing his knees and elbows i'm the
letter A style, remarked, in the Museum
grounds in Central Park: mo, l don't care
to look at the beasts. They are so beastly,
you know"
A WILD pig, found in the woods near Lytle
Station. KY. was, after considerable diff
Guilty, so trained by his finder that he would
follow his master rs the historic lamb fol-
lowed Mary. Whenever his master sits down
to eat, the pig will lie down by his side, and
eat and drink whatever his trainer hands
him.
JAMES WILSON. who dwells near Thames
vile, Mich, drilled several holes for water,
and his 2-ycar-old son fell through one of the
holes into n cave twenty-five feet deep
rope with n loop was let down, and after re-
peated efforts the loop was carried over the
child's head and under his nose. He was
drawn out.
In the neiRhborhood of the old copper mine
at Phenixvile, Ga, George Penncl stunned
snake with blow from n stone, and then ran
and jumped on him. The snake revived, and,
coiling itself about his leg, snapped IL like a
pipe-stem. A friend came TO the rescue and
beat the snake of, when IL reiterated down an
old shaft-hole. IL was fifteen feet long.