The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-02-26
Extracts From Exchnnges.

Extracts From Exchanges.
A. ID. Healy made an examination of his
peach buds Monday morning, cutting the
limbs from tho trees the night before and
leaving them in his green house over night
to thaw out gradually. On eleven branches,
cut from trees of different varieties and on
all sides of the trees, he had eighty five twigs.
On these were 913 buds, 7S1 dead and 1872
alive. The 1872 would not guarantee an i'm
mense crop and yet some of the twigs had
all that they would be allowed to mature.
On fifty twigs examined Sunday morning A..
s. Dyckman found sixty-ive live buds. X.
A. Wakefield cut some twigs about foot in
length from his trees and examined them
Saturday, finding peaches on all of them, ard
also reports his Kittatinny blackberries alive
clear TO the end OF the wood. The indica-
tons are yet good for fruit in this section
of the country.-Sentfnel.
A certain Gratiot County man was out
hunting recently, and, a storm coming up,
he crept into hollow log for shelter. After
the storm abated he endeavored TO crawl out,
but found that the log had swelled so that
it was impossible TO make his exit. he en-
deavored to compress himself as much as
possible, but with Indifferent success. He
thought of all the mean things he had ever
done, until finally his mind reverted TO the
fact that he owed on subscription to the
Herald for anywhere from one TO four years,
thus defrauding the printer out of what Ii
needed to help him along through the awful
hard times, and compelling him to dun and
ding and damn from week to week. When
he thought of all this Ineanness no felt SO
small that he slipped out of the log without
effort. But he hasn't paid mp yet.-St. Lo,tiS
Herald.
One of the large frame barns belonging to
p. A. Wood, on his farm four miles west of
town, was burned last Friday forenoon. Mr..
Wood informs MS that he was engaged in
thawing out one of the water pipes, connect
ing the reservoir. The pipe had been packed
in sawdust, which had settled away leaving it
exposed to the cold. He had left it but q
few moments before TO see if the water had
started in the tub, when he discovered that
fire had ignited and was burning brisi1iy. In
less than twenty minutes the whole roof was
on fire and in very short time the struct-
ure, with most of its contents, was a smould-
ering mass. Mr.. Woods barns and contents
are insured in the Agricultural of Watertown,
N Y, to the amount of $1,000, about $500
of which would be on the property destroyed
by the fire. Should the insurance be adj
justed satisfactorily his actual loss will not
aggregate over S400.-hdcdRce.
When the greenback state central CON-
mittee and other leading lights of the party
assembled in this city OF February 4th and
left the power for fixing the date of the COM
ing state convention in the hands of chair
man w. d. Fuller, it meant that majority of
those present were still in favor of further
trade and dicker with the democracy, and
that the time for holding the convention
might be safely guessed ut about the hour
when the bourbons do love most to congre-
gate. The democracy fixed their convention
on Feb. 25th, and by strange coincidence
chairman Fuller, who has made some very
solid pledges against any moro fusion"
chose the same day, and the "ambassadors'
from each party are already fixing slate as
base for trading operations. The repre-
sentation in the greenback convention will
be two delegates at large for each organized
county, and one additional delegate for each
200 votes and fraction thereof over even
hundreds cast for BENZ +. Rutler IN 1884,
Lansing Republican,.
The people Of this village last Sunday eve
ming were startled to learn that Wilbur Ware
barn Of his father ON Phoenix street east.
His immediate friends have been watching
him closely for SOME time as he had recently
given indications of wandering mind and
they feared from his actions that he might
iniGre himself His father had asked him
TO empty pail OF ashes and he complied
with the request, but Immediately placed the
pail by the side of the barn, went up stairs
and with n niece of small tarred fone had
caused his death 10y strangulation, tho rope
being fastened around a beam. The loft was
so low that when the father afterwards found
him he was standing and it was supposedihe
was in fit, the father at once summoning
the neighbors and they finding him dead.
DR.. Carnes did all possible TO restore him
but could not. The deceased was thirty five
years of age, unmarried, Of naturally very
quiet disposition. but had been at times more
or less melancholy for the past seven years,
he then suffering from an attack of brain
fever following the care OF ard death of an
uncle with that disease. He had often said
the seventh year after the death OF his uncle
he too would die. Mrs. Ware, the mother,
has been away for medical treatment and
was expecting again 10 go Monday morning.
This had undoubtedly its effect upon the
mind of her son and FASTENED his deed. The
funeral was held at the home of the family
Wednesday, Rev Geo. b. Kulp officiating,
the body being drawn to the cemetery in a
cutter by six men, others going TO aid in the
brrial. Tho deceased was not a member of
any church but was an honest, conscientious
citizen and one always spoken well of by his
acquaintances.-
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