The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-30


club.
The City Physician of Lansing receives
$50 year for his services.
Nine pupils in the Allegan public
schools are married women.
Lightning struck the house Of Earl
Ross, at Monterey, and burned a babys
feet.
-Four of the prettiest girls of Caledonia
were caught stealing watermelons by moon
light.
A Sanilac County farmer raised forty
six bushels of pease from one acre of
ground this year.
e. X. Webster was given two years
imprisonment at Grand Rapids for forging
n name 10 a check for $50.
-Ishpeming claims to have more secret
societies In proportion to its population
than any other city in the country.
- Miss Lizzie Feather cut off the ends
of her thumbs while cutting bread with a
patent bread at the Fair grounds at
Jackson.
-Swindlers representing themselves to
be travelling agents of city grocers have VIC
timized farmers in the vicinity of Maple
Rapids to the extent of $4,000.
A number of Mount Pleasant people
who adopted orphan children from Boston
last spring are tired of their undertaking,
and intend sending their charges back.
Kalamazoo has no city ordinance
against drunkenness, and now there rs no
State law against it; consequently Kalama-
zoo policemen refuse to arrest drunken
men.
A Kalamazoo medical student boiled a
human body in the rear of a house in the
thickly populated part of that city. The
act created a good deal of excitement
among the neighbors.
The manager of the Soldiers Home at
Grand Rapids, who is caring for over
three hundred veterans in temporary
quarters, refuses to accept further guests
until the buildings are finished.
&C. F. Jackson, of Onondaga, who was
tarred and feathered by his neighbors, has
brought suit for 81 900 damages against
twelve of the men engaged in the job, and
the woman who ripped open her bed to
furnish the feathers.
Buffalo IN. " telegram: To-day oc-
CURED the fifth incineration at the Buffalo
crematory, and, like all its predecessors, it
was successful in every respect The body
cremated was that of Col. Richard Bayhs,
of st. Johns, Mich. Col. Bayls was
prominent in the politics of his State, and
the cremation was result of a clause in his
will. He was a veteran of the Mexican
war; and also served through the rebellion,
! being severely wounded at the battle of the
| Wilderness. He was one of Clusters ablest
assistants, and was commonly known as
Fighting Dick" His will also provided
that the ashes of his body should be
placed in an urn and deposited in the Mich
igan State Military Academy. In accord
ance with this direction William Collins, an
executor, and the Rev. d. r. Stems arrived
here Thursday, the cremation taking place
this morning. The Episcopal burial SER
vice was read and the body committed to
the flames. The incineration was private.
"A Detroiter who was working across
one of the northern counties with horse
and buggy, this summer, met farmer ON
foot and asked him how far it was to
Greenville. (Which one?" was the query
after half a minute spent in reflection.
"Why, didn't know that there was but one
Greenville." Didn't you? There's one in
South Carolina, second in Kansas. n third
in Ohio, and fourth in Iowa. Which one
do you want to go to-" The nearest one."
"Well, that's about seven miles Of Next
time you inquire for Greenyille you had
belt TT name the State. Got any tobacco?"
(which tobacco do you want?" why, 1
didn't know as there was more IL one tobac-
co" 80, yes, there is. There's plug to-
bacco, fne-cut, shorts, and smoking.
| Which did you want?" Wall, I'll take
plug" Il haven't got any. Next time you
inquire for tobacco you'd better mention
the kind" The two looked each other over
for minute and then separated for life
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