The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24
Observers Observations.

HAS'ShiiS 10 otih SOOu.
Wood is getting cheap again.
Revival meetings still In progress.
Ice houses are all filed TO the brim.
The tax collector has begun to use his
prod.
good many people in town are getting
very good.
John Robb has bought the Haynes place
on south Niles street. Price S475.
The case of James Lowry VS.. John Mich
OILS, for false Imprisonment, has not showed
up yet.
A nice little boy complained the other day
that high school yiri called him little kid,
and threatened 10 repor. her to the school
board.
Wheat is worth 80 cents bran SO cents.
Farmers should SOW more bran and less
wheat as the former is on the rise and the
latter on the decline.
A short time since we reported that those
Duke colts that Matt. drives for fancy
team were three years old and weighed $500
pounds. We made a mistake. They are
but two years old. Will some one try and
beat them.
Michigan is getting to the front with some
very fast horses that were bred in her Dor
ders. Among the most noted are Jerome
Eddy 2:1612, Albemarle 2:19, Cozette 2:19,
Edward 2:19, George V. 2:20, John II. 2:20,
Henry 2:2015, Hannah ID. 2:22l4, Lucrece
2:23l1, Kitty Van 2:24, Belle II. 2:241S,
Brown Dick 2:2415. How quick Quick gets
to the front we are unable TO say, but we are
inclined to think they report quite quick.
A Decatur fat woman met Decatur lean
woman on the streets of that burg, not long
since, and very impertinently intimated that
the lean woman was slim female dog. The
lean woman has brought suit in our circuit
court for defamation of character, laying her
damages at $4,000. Eminent counsel have
been engaged on either side and it remains
to be seen how much it will cost fat wo-
man 10 apply such an opprobious epithet to
lean woman on the public streets.
Simeon Bryce, one of the leading farmers
of the western part of this township, and
the first white child born in the township
which event transpired A. years ago, has
been suffering of late from the effects of
fractured ankle that he got i'll bold charge
when he was n bold hero in the 4th Illinois
Cavalry, commanded by Col L. Lyle Dckey,
now supreme Judge of that state. Sim.
has begun suit against Uncle Sam to re-
cover damages, and will probably obtain a
Judgment in his favor within a short time.
Rev. 4. M. Corey had four or five visit.
ors the other day, each one of whom brought
him cord of four feet wood and corded it
up in his back yard. His visitors we're
from Arlington, and in the evening the
ladies and young people put in an appear
ance with well filled baskets, oysters, etc,
and all had jolly time. The next day
Charley Cole and Miss Laura Northrup, a
beautiful belle of Arlington, were married
! by the Elder. Whether or not they were
among the oyster eaters of the previous
evening, we are not informed.
A few days since farmer living in this
town came to one of our magistrates saying
that a young man had been paying atten-
tons to his fair daughter. The Justice began
to prick up his ears expecting TO get lucra-
tive job besides having little fun
thrown in. But when the farmer said
the young man was paying his addresses to
the girl against her fathers wishes, and that
he kept continually treading in forbidden
paths, and he wanted to stop him, the court
could not see his way clear to afford the de-
sired relief. So a civil warrant was issued
charging the young man with trespass. An
officer arrested him and he was arraigned at
the bar of the court and pleaded guilty to
the charge. He was fined six cents and
costs which he paid and went away rejoic-
ing.
He was on the shady side of 40 and told
the Justice that himself and wife were about
to separate, he to go one way and his wife the
other, and he wanted the magistrate to draw
up couple of bills of divorce, one for each
party, as they could thus save the cost of a
divorce suit. The court declined to accede
to his wishes on the ground of want of jur-
isdiction. "Dont want you TO do it for
nothing said the applicant, 81 will pay you
well for your trouble and il will be all right.
as we are both willing" The Justice, how