The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-02-09


Chicken thieves broke into Levi Chur-
chill's hen.roost the other night, and stole
some thoroughbred Plymouth Rock chickens.
The thief is hereby requested TO return them
and get the reward.
We went fishing for pickerel the other
day, upon Pugsley's Lake, We didn't ex-
pect to catch any, but we fished all day, just
the same, until dark, and. by gracious we
didn't catch single fish,
Jimmy Norris is bound to get there, sure.
The other night he got full of Zoa-Phora, as
usual, and the next morning was brought
before Justice Galligan, and on a plea of
guilty, was sent up for 20 days, for drunken
ness.
Gobleville is blest with q man about 40
years old, who has been married &c years.
and can boast of being the happy father of
IA children. If any little town in the country
can beat this, they can make it manifest by
rising and Gobleville will try again.
That ground hog came out last Friday,
and saw no shadow, but did see one of the
biggest snow storms he has witnessed for
many a day. Now will somebody tell us
what the weather is going to be? The g. h..
neglectIng TO return to his hole is frozen up.
John Hodges, the photographer, is not a
bad looking man, reports to the contrary,
Notwithstanding. One evening his wife
met us on the street, looked up and said,
Hello Hodges" and passed along, and only
few evenings since the wife of one of our
ex-ofliciais met us and said, Good evening,
Mr. Hodges" John is certainly the man
who resembles US.
Th6s. Underwood came down town the
other day and imbibed an over dose of sea-
weed tonic. lie told the officers that this
was free country, the home of liberty, and
a man had the right to choose his own
beverages, and drink them when and where
he pleased, and the man that undertook to
would get badly paralyzed. The wild
Irishman,' armed with warrant from
Gallgan's court, captured the bold Thomas,
and not having 1913 he was sent to the
cooler for 20 days. No blood spilled, no
bones broken.
That pig case we spoke of short time
since, came off before Esq. Mason few days
ago, and was decided in favor of the defend
ants The case was entitled, VIM. Long VS..
Robert Orr and Samuel Orr, in an action of
replevin. l.. A. Tabor, Esq, appeared for
plaintiff. and Z. A. Crane, Esq., for defend
ants. Mr.. b. F. Heckert was applied to on
the part of defendants, but said he was re-
tanned on the other side, but his smiling face
did not show up during the trial and we
think an explanation from Ben. would be in
order. The plaintiff swore the pigs would
weigh about 80 lbs. each and at cents per
pound would be worth 5000. Each party
swore positively that they raised the little
rooters from the day they first saw the
glorious sunlight, to the day of the suit
that they had watched over them, and had
been their guardian angels all their little
lives. 1t cost the plaintiff S35 to try and
hold the little squealers, and the defendants
$40 to establish their rights. Behold what
a fire a little matter kindleth. How thank
full the lawyers and magistrates are that the
ant it is, for attorneys and justices, for mer
: and brethren, always TO be raising the d
with each other. Shakespeare.)