The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-12-05


viii Thayer met with painful acci-
dent few days since by running
rusty nail into his hand. 1t became SO
painful that he had to call in Il physi-
clan
The ladies of the NJ T. society will
hold general social at the home of
Rev. Hathaway next Tuesday afternoon
and evening. Come and enjoy good,
social time
A line from Comrade III. w. Harvey
of Allegan, informs us that he and his
wife have organized IA camp of "sOns
of veterans" Their first recruit was
mustered in on the 18th ult. He is an
infantry man.
The Bach society will give a public
rehearsal from Bach, Handel and Hay
den at the residence of the Misses
koons, on Friday evening next. All
who are interested in the compositions
of these masters are cordially invited
to be present.
The Snow Brothers are placing one
of their furnaces in Atwell's new house
in Porter. They have also received
orders from South Haven for two more
of them, making in all eleven that they
have put up. 1t is well To patronize
home industry
Married on the 2Sth ult., Miss Ada
Simpson of Hartford, to Mr.. Sherwood
of Three Oaks Miss Simpson is well
and favorably known to many of our
citizens, being graduate of our high
school. The NORTHERNER extends its
hearty congratulations.
Burglars entered the room of our
friend, +. b. Longwell, at jackson IA
few nights since and gently removed
his purse containing siXty-five dollars
in cold cash from beneath his head and
never disturbed his peaceful slumbers.
1t is safer, Ed, to deposit in bank than
in bed.
The First Baptist church was packed
last Sunday evening at the union tenn
perance meeting. Rev. w. j. Hatha-
way, who was the speaker, delivered
an excellent gospel temperance sermon,
concluding with the statement that
temperance workers should "sympa-
thize with all wise and well directed eff
forts for the promotion of temperance,
to which sentiment all good citizens
ought to be able to render hearty
assent.
The Detroit journal published let
ter from St. Nicholas last Saturday, in
which that paper was commanded to
purchase 500 pairs of children's stock
ings for distribution on Christmas morn
ing, at which time Santa Claus prom
ised TO call for them and give them To
the good" children on his list. In
compliance with the command and in
accordance with its usual spirit of en-
terprise and liberality, the Journal has
ordered the stockings.
The penitentiary system of treating
crime cannot exist without prison en-
ployment more or less productive. The
very purpose of il, namely, to protect
society against crime by rescuing Grim
inals from their crimes, so that they
may be restored To society sooner or
later as seryiceable citizens, supporting
themselves by their own labor, must
utterly fail unless they are trained to
industry for the sake of industry
SUpt. Il. Il. BrOckUdy in the Dec. Forum.
Officer Albert Thayer of the Detroit
police force, was shot and killed on the
night of Nov 26th while in the dis
charge of his duty. The Detroit Sun
ddy NelCS offers a reward of $500 for the
apprehension of the murderer. This
offer remains open until the midnight
preceding, Sunday, December 9th. The
Detroit police department also offers
81 900 reward for the same purpose. 1t
is thought that the murderer has fled
to the interior of the state or TO Canada.
A fine audience listened TO an instruct
i've and interesting Thanksgiving adj
dress delivered by Mrs. Anna Barton,
s a. l. IL,
the Church of Christ In the evening
a pleasant praise service was held at
the same place, conducted by Rev. w.
j. Hathaway, pastor of the NJ. +.
church. Such services as the above, in
which members of the different
churches participate, regardless of de-
nominational affiliatiOn, can but be
beneficial.
W. s. Charles of Bangor, who claimed
the right to fish in a small lake sur
rounded by land which he owned, took
his case To the circuit court and came
out ahead, the court deciding the lake
to be his and therefore not coming un-
der the state law.-Decatur Republican.
No, the court didn't decide any such
thing; it simply decided that the gen
eral statute regulating fishing in the IN
lanu waters OF the state nau repealeu
the local statute of 1859, under which
the action was brought and that, there
fore, the complaint was without author
ity of law.
Congress meets next Monday and, in
view of the very nearly equal division
of the house on political lines, more
than usual interest attaches to its or
ganization. The republican managers
claim a majority of five or six while the
democrats claim that the roll call will
show tie or democrat majority of
from one to three There are several
contested election cases to come up and
the democrats rely on the democratic
governors of the states where these
contests occur to give the certificates of
election in each case to the democratic
contestant. Should they do so, the roll
call TO be by the democratic clerk of the
house will show the above slender ma
jority for the democracy and give to
them the important advantage of elect
lug a speaker, who will appoint the
committees. For these reasons, the
daily papers of next week will be in
more than usual demand and we watch
with considerable interest, the result of