The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-30

Business at the furnace begins TO look like
times Of wore. During the week e.. IL. Rem
ington returned from Southern Indiana
bringing with him eight valuable teams,
three of them being mule teams.--Adsaice.
An Alleean county man named Slocum,
served in the army during the war, ana re-
ceiyed as part of his pay the first legal tender
greenback issued by the United States, dated
Aug l, 1862. and marked :" Series A. No. l.
lie has kept ii ever since.-Def. Bee. Ne'rs'
Mr.. Humphrey has gang OF about thirty
tive men at work grading the new railroad,
about a mile south of town, and Nh. Hurlbut
has another gang at work constructing
brealxw water under the bluff about halt a mile
south of the mouth of the river IL is TO be-
Gin the down grade little farther out and
make the river grade about at Mr.. Hannah
-Hs>SeAger.
MIR. Parkhurst has bill before the House
authorizing the return of all taxes paid III
lSs.s 20 assist ia the drainage and improve
ment OF powagiac creek. Mr.. p, like many
other public-spirited men, is strongly In
favor OF that improvement, but as many of
the heaviest tax payers have succeeded IN
getting their money refunded because they
paid the same under protest, he very sensi-
bly maintains that every cent should be paid
back whether protested or not.-DecotUr
Reppjfc0A.
Here is something good TO cut out and
commit to memory for use when the cholera
comes by and by. At a recent meeting OF
"A New York medical society, the coming
plague was discussed and several noted med
ical lights spoke highly of camphor as a
remedy in the early stages of the disease.
Oue doctor said that when an epidemic OF
cholera was raging in Europe on one occa-
sion. two thousand people, each of whom
carried camphor in bag suspended over the
chest, escaped the disease, although exposed
rs much as others who died by the score
Grand Iruserse Hernia.
Messrs. Van Dyke d Flint will close their
saloon business the 30th day of the present
month, and do 50 efectually. They own
together the building in which they have
been doing business and we are informed
very nearly officially that there will be no
nOre saloon business done therein. Hon.
esty and candidly, this Is as pleasant an
item as we will have this week, and all will
lac pleased TO know that this intention is
voluntary on their part. So far as getting
bonds is concerned this firm would have no
trouble. or at least would be financially able
e. secure bondsmen. What either of the
partners intend to do we are not at present
adv,sed.-.Se6tihe.
The average male citizen is looking with
fear and trembling upon the warm weather
OF the present week, and well he may, for be
knows that it is the sure harbinger of that
insidious mania which periodically attacks
the female portion of the community, and
which is pathologically termed house clean
ing. He knows that before him looms an
epoch of hurried meals, cold yictuals, hot
sIds. and general discomfort. But viewing
the matter seriously from sanitary point OF
view. remembering that Asiatic cholera
threatens 10 visit our land this summer. il
behooves every housekeeper to see that the
houee and all its surroundings are made
sweet and clean, that no loop-hole is left fol
the dread scourges which spring from dirt
and decay.-AHegaH Journal md I,fbme