The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-26

Jim Lane met his Bunker Hill at Jackson
last Friday.
Mrs. Hank Eye has purchased brand new
parior organ and her girls are happy.
The corn crop is caring very heavily; so
much so that the ears are sticking out of the
husks and grinning for more room.
We never knew but one ball player who
got 90 be president of these United States,
and that was Garfield, who was killed by a
foul ball.
The melon season is upon US in great
plenty. Some very fine ones are brought to
market. They sell from five cents to a
quarter of dollar each.
Mrs Calista Hogmire and Mrs. c. L. Gal
ligan have packed their satches and gone to
Kalamazoo on few days visit among friends
and to eat little celery.
Will Traver, a Jackson machinist, is on
visit to his uncle's Jim Galligan. He will
return this week. He had lay OFF on
account of hurt thumb.
I,eck Hamilton (colored) went up north
the other day and got one of Tim Loehr's
girls (white) and married her. Beau Hackley
says some of these colored people will stoop
TO almost anything.
Hi Flanders, our ex- marshal, has a brand
new horse and is showing considerable speed
with him. full as much as he did with the
one with which he brought us from Kalama-
ZOO, once upon time.
Walter Durkee, the good looking bachelor,
is raising fine lot of fancy ducks and chick
ems this season, and is putting them up for
our county fair which comes of next month.
They will be hard to beat.
John Payne has tired of city life and will
move back to his farm. Johns head is level
in that particular. He makes good farmer
but as a dry goods box lounger he is no
good. He wasn't built that way.
Stephen Mattocks, a Bangor veteran, was
in town the other day with his third hand
some loving wife. Stephens wives never
die, they only get what money he has and
run of with what they think are handsome
men.
Prince Wilkes got into the twenty class
last week. He is the twelfth one that has
got into that class this season from all the
trotting families of the United States, and
four of them are from the Wilkes family.
Among them is Oliver X, who has trotted
the fastest seven heats in a race, known to
the world.
He had 500 fall to him, and while at
Kalamazoo short time ago, gave out word
that he wanted wife to cook his potatoes
and take care of his money. A soiled dove
answered his call, bargain was made, mar
rage completed and money passed over.
The next day he was out wife and 500.
He married again, has no 500 but has got
wife.
They say Ed. Fuller has the finest fishing
tackle and rig in town and that he is success
full in its use. We can voucb for consider
able of this as we saw him go up the street
the other day with as handsome Pike" as
we have seen in long time: something over
five feet long. Now don't call this fish
story as il is not as we can prove by 400
living, kicking. jumping witnesses.
The political pot has commenced to boil
all over the country, and Office seekers are
thick and plenty and have all the business
they can attend TO. Our post Office war is
being carried on secretly, with some half a
dozen or so candidates III the field. Grover
is q little cautious about his appointments,
and seems to think, from his past experience,
that the democrats are not competent to fill
tho offices, and so appoints republicans in
stead. Then, according to democratic reports,
there are so many dishonest democrats who are
recommended to Office, of whom he does not
approve. that he drops them like hot pota-
toes. He couldn't get a democrat who was
competent to fill the Office of postmaster in
New York, and had to appoint a republican.
IL is the same with the U. S. pension exam
lining boards all over the country, and the
probabilities are that Robert will continue to
be postmaster at Paw Paw during Growers
administration.