The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-26
Observers Observations.

We have sobered off and are happy.
The weather has been hotten-tot.
The mosquitoes have put in an appear
ance.
Mrs. Ellen Lamont is on visit down in
York State.
Wheat and grass is very heavy and lodged
III many places.
The handsome bachelor has had little help
in street-sprinkling.
Orman Landon claims TO be the first to
have new potatoes of his own raising.
We have an addition to our family,-nine
of the finest Poland China pigs in the county.
That dry weather we have been looking
for has been postponed till along in Sep
TENDER.
II. G. Nash has offered for sale his famous
brood-mare, and is going out of the horse
business.
We are now in the midst of strawberry
shortcake and sunshine, and the fruit is
cheap and plenty.
The wool harvest is ended, and the poor
granger has been obliged TO put up with
from 20 to 30 cents per pound for it,
One of our grocers, in recommending his
cheese, claims it is pure, unauthorized, and
made strictly from thoroughbred cows.
Jim Wood, who used to peg shoes here in
this place, is now ull-fedged landlord, and
is keeping the National hotel in kalamazoo.
Clarence Rowland has sold out his crops
and personal property to Mrs. Nancy Bruner,
and has gone to the wiids OF Washington
Territory.
The Paw Paw pup poisoner is now going
for all the tame foxes i'll town. He is bound
to make a success of the business and clean
ont the canine family.
Hud Harris of Gliddenburg had some
dogs get in among his sheep few days ago,
killing five, and Justice Galligan assessed
| the damages at @11.5O.
Thirty-eight handsome young ladies OF the
city are getting their white dresses and
barber pole stockings ready to represent the
states on independence day.
The poor corn crop last year caused a.
large acreage of rye and oats to be sown this
season, and the crops promise an abundant
yield, If nothing should happen to them.
George Dixon, the handsome harness.
maker, has had a large fortune fall to him
in England, and John Slater, his brother-in-
law, has taken some wool-sacks and gone
over after it.
Lawyer Tabor has been down in Berrien
county for the past two weeks, defending
Ellington, charged with HARE, with murder.
His at0duS OperdRdj was to pitch in with
the prosecutor and convict Hare, which he
did, and get his own client out on bail and
his case put over to the September term.
Harlow f. Coy, the kalamazoo horse-thief,
was convicted last Friday, the Jury being
out only eight minutes. His defense was
insanity, and he was ably defended by +. A.
Crane, ESQ.,, a former Paw Paw lawyer who
was appointed by the court for the purpose.
We were present when the jury claimed that
Harlow stole the donkey, and we heard an
official say that Ed was no SLOUGH of law
yer. Judge Mills told Harlow the sancti-
Misunderstanding cuss) that he thought ten
years would do him.
Some time last winter the Cass county
sheriff had some horses stolen from him that
he was holding by virtue of an attachment
and among them was "Thornless," Daunt
less colt. Where those horses went to but
few knew. While looking over Sioux Falls
paper the other day, we saw by it that Thorn
less had been there taking first money in the
2-40 lclass, June races, making the heats in
2-394, 2-35, 2-3715, 2.36 and 2-3715, five in
all, aud he was owned by VIM. N. johnson,
Esq, of Aberdeen, Dakota.
We were out on trip through this, Kala-
mazoo and Barry counties last week on
matter of business for one of Paw Paws
handsome widows, and the lookout for wheat.
grass, and spring crops was never better.
Corn is small, but il has been growing very
rapidly of late and making great strides for
the front Potatoes are mostly in blow, and
from appearances Michigan can furnish the
world with that kind of fruit. Clover hay
has been cut in many places, but the recent
rains have caused great deal of it to look
shady.
A Waverly constable, armed with war
rant, went TO a Gobleville livery-barn the
other day, told the proprietor that he was
minion of the law and had authority TO press
into the service rig TO capture the prisoner
he was after. The livery-man, not being a