The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-09

made nsnlng excursion 10 fugSleys Lake
one day last week, returning with light hearts
and heavy string of 35 shining "blue-gills." /"
Jimmy still declares that was "good lemon
ade."
A telegram from indianapolis on Tues
day morning brought the sad news Of
the death of Mrs. +. A. Thompson. Her
devoted daughters, Ellen and Claribel, ina
mediately started for this place to lay her
remains beside those of their dear father,
on Prospect Hill.
Picnics to Pugsley's lake are becoming
quite popular. An omnibus-load of toney
young ladies and gentlemen, followed by a
number of private turn-outs, picnicked at
the lake on Tuesday afternoon and evening.
AS "those Bryar boys" were of the party, it
is safe to say that it was not quiet crowd.
The two young men who got behind
that hog pen on the Fourth, to take pull at
their bottle, showed that they had just a little
sense of shame left. Keep on, boys, as you
have begun and you will soon find yourselves
divested of all such sensitiveness, and will
roll in the gutter just like four legged swine.
The Erening Nens says that the late DR..
Woodman of this place was assistant sur.
geon of the Sd. Co. Z, and surgeon of the
1lth Co." Shades of Poinsett and Hardee,
but isn't the Neus sway up" in military
matters! Wonder in which army its proof
reader fought during the "late unpleasant
ness"
Eighteen years ago last month the REpUD-
LICAN was born. During that time ii has
had six fathers, and is now in the hands of
one who began the second edition of his dew
ilship ON the thirteenth issue. Pretty good
looking child, eh!-Decdtur Republican.
Yes, Andy, fine looking child, tough looking
devil though.
Louisa A. Bashford of Decatur, by her So
licitors, Messrs. Parkhurst d Moulton, has
filed bill asking the court to grant her a
divorce from her husband, Truman p. Bash
ford. Louisa alleges that Truman has
proved himself anything but true man, and
that he treated her with extreme cruelty,
stole from her her young son, and finally de-
serted her entirely.
Mrs. James Mead, "Biddy Mead, died very
suddenly, last week Wednesday night. She
was on the streets during the day in her ap-
parently usual good health, but during the
night was taken with collie and lived but a
short time. Biddy, and Jimmy her hus-
band, have been residents of our village for
many years, natives of the Emerald Isle, old
and infirm, poor in purse, but respected by
all.
There is great excitement in Allegan over
a recent murder committed there. The VIC
tim was Miss Eliza Sage, a weak-minded
woman of SO years. The body was discov-
cred by Judge Dan j. Arnold, in a nearly
nude condition, the throat cut from ear to
nd lrn,f ,,,k he. lafk 81 IL
Two men have been arrested on suspicion.
Every effort is being used to find and bring
to justice the perpetrators of the terrible
crime.
Considerable excitement was occasioned
by an accident that befell Alf. Ingraham,
while watching the fast horse race. He was
struck in the shoulder by the foot of one of
the riders, and hurled with great force upon
the ground, falling on his face. Though
very much bruised, he is not thought to be
seriously hurt; but the crowded street is no
place for exhibitions of this kind, and we
trust this narrow escape from fatal accident
may result in the omission of this part of
the programme at future celebrations.
Mart Westcott got paper through the
mail directed to Gobblecott, Mich. Gable
vile, Gabbleville, Gobbleville, Goblemilk
and now Gobblecott! This is getting beyond
endurance. o, the idiots the dolts If
we could only locate him, we would "Gobble :"
him. If anybody will only point him out,
we stand ready to call him an ignoramus
and an ass. II this don't fetch him, we will
get Lew Camfeld to call him some of his pet
names, and if the villain still pursues us, we
will prevail upon Doc. Mason to call him
phenomenal excresence and an exaggerated
caricature of an original of the Darwin the
ory, with canine possibilities. This lamenta-
BILE ignorance of our local history is inexcus-
able. "Gobblecott! "Bro. Gorden of the
Courier!" Oh, for the foolkiller and bis
little club !-GobleriAe Herald.
The Courier, for some time past, has been
boasting about the amount and quality of
its job work, telling its readers what an inn
mense run of patronage it was having, and
what elegant work it was doing, and, at the
same time, criticizing the work of other
offices. 1t seems to act upon the theory that
if man tooteth not his own horn, verify it
shall not be footed. Last week, it availed it
self of the opportunity presented by harm
less jest that appeared in the NoRrHERNER,
concerning the misspelling of the name of
the Courier man, in the Electric Liqht, to
brag of its patronage, and TO characterize the
work of this Office as "wretched daubs;" but
it didn't say anything about that S23 worth
of work it boasted of having secured from
Decatur, and which il didn't get, it having
been very properly given to the Republican.
The NoRTHERNEB is very willing to compare
job work with the Courier both in the past
and in the future. We have better Job ma
terial and more of it, than has the Courier,
and men that know how to use il. Even the
devil in our Office knows enough to spell
the imprint correctly, and knows better than
to mix italic and Roman letters together in
the same display line.
z. j. Streator of Waverly, with several
others of that town went to Allegan wednes-
day, with their wool. Streator realized 23c
per pound, straight, for his clip of 622
pounds. One buyer there said he had bought
5000 pounds in one day from the section
south of here, and as much more to hear
from. What is the matter with the Paw
Paw market?-GobleDiHe Herald. Not any
thing if you please. If the parties who
carted their wool to Allegan, and took %
cents for It, had good clean wool, they are
out just cent pound, for such wool has
easily commanded "a cents in this market,
and extra lots have sold for 20 cents. Nearly
10000 pounds have been narkefed bara