The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12
Observers Observations.
Corn 40 cts.

Corn 40 cts.
Dressed pork 81.
Beef per quarter to cts. per Id.
Sam. Orr has got him bran new bulldog.
Mrs. Glidden did not sell her property af-
ter all.
How did you like that fag end of Uncle
Toms Cabin?
Tom. Nichoalds is training his trotter for
the June races.
Geo. w. Tyler, that good looking bachelor,
has bran new $17 seal skin cap.
That chronic weather grumbler who was
to give us such hard winter has not got
along with it yet.
We have written it 1872 only once, but we
have jabbed our muciage brush in our ink
stand half dozen times.
1t makes the tillers of the soil angry to
pay 10 cts. per lb. for crackers and sell their
wheat for S5 cts. per bushel.
They say that ton safe of Harry Richards
after they had got it to the top of the stairs
and the chain broke, did not go down like
river of grease.
A couple of White Oak girls 1--WE mean
from the city of White Oak travelled four
miles all alone, the other night, to a shin dig
at Gene Salsbury's. They both wore nose
glasses in the bargain.
The dance held at Town Hall by our
colored friends, the other night, was not
what would be termed a grand success as
only II numbers were sold. However, it
was well conducted and passed off pleasantly
Quite number of spectators were present.
One of Uncle SANS pension agents was in
town the other day looking after special claims.
His business was merely to get at the real
facts from claimants and witnesses and re-
port them to the Commissioner, and not to
decide on the merits or demerits of the claims
as some suppose.
A couple of rural roosters from waverly,
have been, for some time past, squirting
around one of our city pullets. Last Satur-
day they CHANGED to meet near Mason's
planning mill, where they did considerable
growing, which ended with a fight. K.
Parker, Esq, who viewed the battle from
afar, says it was a drawn game, that very
little blood was spilled and very few feathers
rufied. When last seen the rival birds were
going in opposite directions, each Growing
Justify.
The President of our Agricultural Society
has been elected and sworn in. The farmers
are happy and have their eyes on the show.
The old women will be there with their
quilts that contain seven thousand pieces,
and the young lads have commenced carding
the old mares, preparatory to exhibiting
some fine spring colts. Tom. Nichoalds and
other fast horse men are fitting up their
flyers, and the show in that line promises to
from competing for any of the prizes in the
horse department, on~account of political or
religious views, but it will be open for every
body, from the little owners of the mustang
up to the proud possessors of Hesing Jr.,
Young Wilkes and the Duke of Perche. We
hope to see everybody there, with their
wives and children, and we want to see an
exhibition of everything from the logy,
sleepy squash, to the fiery, untamed, snap
ping, cracking bean; from the Berkshire
hen to the Southdown goose; from the Po-
land-China duck to the Durham gobbler;
from the Dorking heifer to the Shanghai OK
We want to see everything there that is of
use or benefit to mortal man or beast We
hope to meet there the peanut-soap-
and popcorn vender, also the man with
twenty wooden headed Dutch babies, which
he will let a fellow knock down for nothing
and give him nickel cigar to-boot And
when the last day has come and the last race
has been run, the last blatting sheep has
been loaded up, the last squealing pig has
been Gagged, the last prancing steed has
passed the gate and the last believing bull
has been led home by the nose, we hope to
hear our President say, at has been a grand
suc-suc-success, hasn't it,"