The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-03-11

persed feeling confident that among the
many surprises this was one of the best.
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Observers OBSERVATIONS.
Here We are again.
Piles of parsneps in the market.
The maple sugar season has struck Us.
Chicken fruit is selling for only 10 cents
dozen.
Bleating calves and yellow butter are all
the rage now.
Waverly roads are just getting to be per-
fectly enormous
Miss Effie Galligan has Just returned from
a weeks visit at Kalamazoo.
These thawing days and freezing nights
are using up the clover fields.
Horse buyers are in town again taking
away many good steeds, and still there are
more to follow.
The reason you did not hear from us last
week was because we were incarcerated IN
the kalamazoo Jail.
Burroughs d Co.'s land plaster for seven
dollars per ton. Jim Hutchins is clerk, and
he understands his business.
Walter Durkee, the good looking bachelor,
is about to get pension. Walter was never
in the army, but will get pension all the
same. Galligan is his attorney.
Our agricultural chaps are fixing up the
track preparatory to the spring races. BY
80 doing, they will bring good many fast
horses here from distance to be etrained and
handled.
Ed. Hayes was forty seven years old last
Saturday and was forty-seyen inches high
with forty-seyen inches of bulge in him. He
was having quite little celebration over it
and was happy.
Samuel Post, our ex-U. s. pension agent
at Detroit, has gone into the Queen Anne
soap business. If Sans soap takes as well
as his checks did. millions will soon stare
hum in his face.
| We read III our Detroit Tribune the other
day that Capt. Bin Charles of Bangor, was
dead. To our certain knowledge he is not
dead but liveth, and is sellingmore baled hay
than any man in the country.
Capt. X. NJ. Buck, the chief Quill driver in
Galligan's war claim agency, only filed forty
seven claims against Uncle Sam last week,
and Gov. Woodman looks as tough as buck
since his return from California.
Ike Conner has show at the rink that is
worth fifteen cents TO look at, yet it is free to
everybody. We are thankful that that old
placard, "Nusic at the Rink tonight" has
gone to that bourne whence it will never
return.
We have no doubt but Evangelist Potter
was great and good man and could do
great deal of good wherever he went, but we
wonld rather hear old Uncle Fish sing one
little song or talk little short five minutes,
than TO hear the great evangelist two hours
and half.
Kalamazoo had bull few days ago that
was an inmate of the asylum grounds. He
got notion of tossing his nurses around
upon his horns whenever they went to feed
him, which was sign of insanity, so the
authorities of the asylum saw fit to send him
into eternity weighing 2,200 pounds.
Joseph l.. Salisbury, our old teamster, was
sent to one of our dealers by his employer
after load of land plaster. "Got an order"
queried the good looking clerk. ..Yes," said
Joseph, "a verbal one" LET me see it."
said the clerk. Joseph said il didn't take
him q minute to find out that the fool killer
hadn't been around.
We were reading in the Christian Herald,
q few days since, OF an old colored lady near
Savannah Ga. who was the mother OF forty
That is nothing. We heard of an old color
ed man, before the great American rebellion,
who was the father of over two hundred
children and was then able to cut and split
and lay up two hundred rails day. and take
his meals regularly.
Jacob Showers of Marshall, enlisted in
1862 in Co. &C." 4th Mich. Cav. The com
pany being full, he was discharged and sent
home Shortly after that he was arrested a.
deserter, torn from his home and family,
placed in prison under bayonets, taken, at
the point of the bayonet, from one prison to
another, kept under guard in dark and dusky
cells among lice and rats for about six
months, when he was confronted by his
command down in Tennessee where he was
ordered to be court-martialed, and was found
10 have been discharged as above stated. He
was then turned loose to find his way home.
as best he could, without a dollar in his
pocket and wearing the same clothes he had
on when torn from his home six months
before. He has employed Chas. T.. Galligan
of this place, to prosecute a claim against
Uncle Sam for false imprisonment, claiming
damages in the sum of $1,000. A bill has
been prepared for his relief which Congress
man Burrows will soon present. 1t remains
to be seen whether there is a man in Con
tRFesS tilil WOulu tnuuIt Whit tOInrtut
Showers endured for the small sum of
$1,000. After he returned he enlisted-ir
another regiment and served his time out
like a man, which shows he was no hummer.
Quarterly Meeting mt the Christian
| Church.
The district quarterly meeting recently
held at the Christian Church in this village,
was very successful, interesting and profta-
BILE. This district embraces that part of our
state south of the base line and west of the
meridian line, in which territory the active
membership numbers little less than ff-
teen hundred people. Reports from the diff
ferent church organizations showed an
increase, during the lastsix months, of nearly
fifty per cent. The first part of the session
was devoted to Sunday-school work. Several
very interesting papers were read and much
interest manifested. Addresses were de-
livered, during the course of the meeting, by