The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-10-16
"A Lansing dispatch says of the de-
fectiye liquor law:

1ectlVe nquor law:
The error found in the new high license law
yesterday was nothing TO the blunders that
have been discovered to-day. All the newly
found errors in Section !, the most vital
section of the bill, because it prescribes the
amount the saloon-keepers aud wholesalers
shall pay in liquor taxes The high license bill
banded back and forth between the House
and Senate several times and was referred tO
two conference committees. The report OF the
last committee was adopted and the remodeled
bill became n statute. Yet Section of the act
in the form in which IL was signed by the Cover
nor and is now law differs radically from the
bill as assed by the Legislature. The act as
signed and printed fixes the wholesale tax on
spirituous liquors at $780, instead of 500, as
recommended by the conference COMMITTEES
and agreed TO. The license for selling both
spirituous and malt liquors at Wholesale and
retail appears at 81 0UC, instead of 81, 100 "a
passed. The Senate adopted provision allow
ing wholesalers OF spurious liquors also TO
wholesale malt liquors without additional
license. The Conference Committee struck this
out, yet IL is retained in the law. Owing 10 this
blunder dealers can wholesale spfrituous and
malt liquors on payment OF only $500 license,
while the act as passed by the legislature re-
quired 5000 for spirituous and $500 for malt
liquors, or Il 100 in ALL The clause increasing
the retail tax from 800 to $500 was in the mutt
lated section and it is believed that the saloons
force the State TO go back TO the old $500
tax law or else knock out the tax feature en-
tirely.
The Rev. William Dave, pastor of
Tabernacle Methodist Church, says De-
troit dispatch, and one of the most prom
inent temperance workers in the State,
has Just returned from q six months So
journ in Germany, and brings back with
him some advanced views on the temper
ance question-views that may make him
trouble in his church. To local news
paper Mr.. Dave sad:
When 1 went abroad had preconceived no.
lions that the Germans were "A bloated, drunken
people whose strength was rapidly being wasted
IN riotous living. thought that beer drinking
was the greatest sin of the age. leading to
stronger liquors and bringing ruin TO ALL /
have changed my mind While in Germany
saw no drunkenness except among English
speaking people. The beer gardens as far as
/ saw them, were respectable and entertaining,
and as well behaved as n large church supper
or prohibition picnic. Families sit down
together and spend their evening amid foun-
tains, lovely flowers and enhancing music and
return to their homes orderly rs any people
from social gathering In this country the
use of liquors is curse, but in Germany IL Ia
different.
Mrs. Henry Rice, living near Lansing.
hanged herself from a rafter in the wood
shed. The rafter was four feet from the
foor-she used a clothesline. and drew
her knees up from the ground. She
leaves six children. The cause is sup
posed TO have been jealousy.
The Grand Jury at Detroit has re-,
turned an indictment against Alderman
James Tierney, who is accused of accept
ing bride of so for the award of a con-
tract for sewer-building in 1888. Tierney
has long posed as the honest Alderman"