The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-04-25

The fine residence of Mrs g. w
LawtOn of LawtOn, was destroyed by
fire last Monday afternoon. A large
portion of its contents was saved. In
sured, we understand, for g., 900. Fire
probably occasioned by defective flue.
Last Friday evening at little after
nine o'clock, the brick cornice of War
ner's meat market fell To the walk with
a great crash. 1t was extremely fortu-
nate that no one was passing the build
ing at the time, rs they would have
been instantly killed or badly injured.
The accident is supposed To have been
caused by water having found its way
into crevices i'm the masonry and freez-
ing, thus cracking the wall and lOOsening
the brick, until at last they fell by their
own weight.
BY singular oversight, the local
option law is made to become operative,
in counties that vote against the liquor
traffic, on the first Monday in May,
while the general law is superseded on
the first day of May. As May comes
in on Tuesday this year, there will be
six days during which the sale of liquor
in this and other prohibition counties
will be absolutely free and untram-
meled, so far rs any state law is con
cerned. Dealers, however, who propose
To utilize those six days will have to
pay the u. :. tax of twenty-five dollars
or take the chances of being arrested
and taken to Grand Rapids for Il viola
tion of the internal revenue law.
Two days i'm the circuit court were
occupied last week in the trial of the
case of Augusta Thomas VS.. VIM. ii.
Dansby ct al. Our readers will remem-
ber that this was case where wife
sued the saloon keeper for damages
alleged to have been sustained by rea-
son of her husband having had his leg
broken in a scutile at or near the defend
ants saloon. The jury returned YER
diet of 5000 damages, which carries the
costs, not only of the last trial, but of IA
former one, in which the verdict was
for seventy-iive dollars and which YER
diet Judge Mills among his last official
acts, set aside and ordered a new trial
We are informed that the defendant
intends to remove the cause to the
supreme court. Public opinion is some
what divided rs to the merits of the
case.
Inquiry has been made relative to the
statute forbidding the running of stores,
playing of games, etc, on Sunday. The
law may be found on page 543, Howell's
Statutes, section 2,0l5. 1t reads as
follows: mo person shall keep open
his shop, warehouse or workhOuse, or
shall do any manner of labor, business
or work, OF be present at any dancing,
or at any public diversion, show or en-
tertainment, or take part in any sport,
game or play on the first day of the
week. The foregoing provisions shall
not apply to works of necessity and
charity, nor to the making of mutual
promises to marry, nor to the solemn
zation of marriages. And every person
so offending shall be punished by fine
not exceeding ten dollars for every such
such otfense." Section 2,021 exempts
from the operations of this statute, so
far as labor is concerned, those who
believe in and keep the seventh day
instead of the first. Section 2,022 pro-
vides that the first day shall be under
stood as embracing the time between
the midnight preceding and the mid
night following said first day.