The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-02-13
WHOLE NUMBER 1863.

sheet as aspiring and meddlesome
neighbors." lndeedl And from whence
came your title To- the earth?
The query is solved. Dave Horton
has excited considerable curiosity by
carrying "A step-ladder around with him
of late, but Deputy McCabe says it is
for the purpose of getting up in the vi
cinity of Sheriff McFarln's face so as to
extract his beard, all of which he will
do in good shape-if his razorhandle
don't break But our devil is anxious
to know what kind of a man the sheriff
can be, for he says Dave must be from
twenty To twenty-five hands high. IL
that is so, Mac ought to escape the poll
tax for the obvious reason that his head
would be out of the corporation.
If there is any one thing absolutely
certain TO happen, it is that Norman
Wygent Is going To get married to-
somebody. Last Wednesday he took
out license to marry Matilda Hoadley,
aged 45, of Covert. On Friday he was
on hand again at the county clerks Of
flee, and this time wanted to be licensed
To marry Mary Babbitt, aged "a, of Wa
verify. Norman explained to Mr.. An
dersOn, in confidential sort of way,
that Matilda, on learning that he was
on the shady side of 20, had soured on
him, and he proposed showing her that
he could marry an older woman than
she dare to be, at the drop of the hat.
On Wednesday of last week Fred f.
Colby, of Porter, came over here with
the fixed determination of doing up all
of our people whom he could induce to
believe his statements. He hit DR.
Dunning on the land and stock buying
dodge and wanted S100 The doctor
didn't nibble. He then visited Register
of Deeds Monroe. To him he had
carload of western horses at Lawton,
and lacked S6 of having enough money
to pay the freight Joel, in the kind
ness of his heart, let him have the desir-
ed amount Then he struck james T.
/ Preece for So and left 1t coming to Mr..
Monroe's knowledge that the freight
story was fiction, he swore out war
rant for Colby's arrest, and Sheriff Nc
Farlin went over to Porter and gathered
the gentleman in. On account of some
matters of domestic nature, the pros
ecutor allowed the case to be adjusted.
On the 4th inst. Judge Buck filed a
! final decree in the Hall case. 1t COM
mands the defendant, Mrs. Hall, to
disinter, in a decent and respectable
manner, the remains of her husband,
Amos Hail. from her lot in the cemetery
at Paw Paw within forty days after the
entry of this decree, and restore such
remains i'm the grave in the Anderson
burial ground, from which she caused
them to be taken, giving To complain
ants or their solicitors forty eight hours
notice of the time at which she will do
So Should she neglect or refuse to
obey this decree, complainants are au-
! thoriZed to make such removal, first
giving her or her solicitors forty eight
| hours notice of their intention to do
so. Such removal and reinforcement to
be at the expense of said defendant. 1t
is also decreed that complainants recov-
er as against said defendant their costs
in said cause to be taxed, and that they
have execution therefor
Hon Chas. L. Eaton arrived in town
last Thursday, and left for Lansing
again Monday. Since the adjournment
of the legislature Mr. Eaton had visited,
with the legislative committee of which
he was member, the Upper Peninsular
mines and school of mines. Leaving
Lansing with Wagner sleeper at their
command, the committees first stop
was at Marquette, where the Upper
Peninsular prison was visited. At this
place they were entertained by the
Marquette Snow Shoe Club i'm their elc-
CANT club house At Ishpeming sleighs
were provided, and the Solons were
driven to the iron, copper and gold
mines, ~ miles distant where they had
an opportunity of informing themselves
of many details never to be acquired by
books or talk. At Houghton the state
school of mines is situate, occupying
for site grounds adjoining the home
of Hon. Jay Hubbell and presented 10
the state by that gentleman. The Cal
umet and Hecla copper mines were
then visited, and the committee return
ed via G.. & n. w. R'y, stopping one
day in Chicago, having been just week
making the trip.
The Allegan Gazette is a queer reason
er, if it can be called reasoning to fly into
a furious passion over the statement of
a cotemporary, and then, in the same
breath, acknowledge that the statement
was correct. In our last issue we gave
some facts regarding the relative merits
of the harbors at South Haven and
Saugatuck The Gazette characterizes
the statement as "vicious thrust at
Allegan county interests" then, cooling
off little, he says: "There is little per-
tinence in what it has to say of the mer
its of the two harbors, although IL cor
rectly describes the present status" EX
actly; and 1.-THE present status" is what
we are discussing Again, in the same
article, in speaking of the bars which
form at the entrance to Saugatuck, the
Gazette says this: However, an exten
sion of the piers is all that is requisite
to entire freedom from this sort of OBJ
stace, and with line of railway such
as the one contemplated, extension will
soon be made-indeed, il is already rec
commended by the government engin.
GERS" But the facts do not verify this
statement. A Washington special To
the Detroit Free Press, dated Feb. O.
same date rs the Gdzette-makes it look
i'm this way; Representative Ford has
given up hope of getting an appropria-
tion for Saugatuck harbor at the pres
ent session The river and harbor bill
contains a provision that no improve
ments shall be made unless the engineer
i'm charge shall report that the improve
ment is necessary or important TO navi-
CATION. The engineer in charge at Sau-