The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-02-25
WHOLE NUMBER 1875

view call is made elsewhere in this
paper for caucus on Thursday evening
of this week, ut o'clock, to nominate
a young Mems Progressive Ticket"
To he composed of representative men
having the best interests of the town at
heart, being themselves taxpayers.
We believe this To be move in the
right direction and that it will meet
with hearty response.
Robert Mcintyre has been called
1.-The silver-tOngued orator" and is said
To possess "A vocabulary of seeming un-
| limited resources, while such is the
versatility of his genius that he has at
his tongues end no less than twenty
popular lectures on widely varying
themes. A fine voice and physique,
native humor, talent and originality,
combined with n wide experience of
people and countries, give him the en-
viable power to sway vast audiences as
with the wand of an enchanter.
Last Wednesday DIR. j. ID. Hamilton
went to Arlington TO attend coroner's
inquest which was To be held over the
body of colored babe found on the
premises of l.. Scott. DIR. Hamilton
testified that the child was born alive,
but il had probably been thrown into
the vault soon after its birth. The
mother is step-daughter of Scott,
named Fuller, and it is said this is the
third illegitimate child she has given
birth to. In consequence of the weak
ness of the mother the inquest was adj
iourned and the cause of death is as
yet undetermined. Foul play is very
apparent, and it is thought the crime
will be traced to its source.
Mrs. John Markillie met with serious
accident last Saturday. Accompanied
by her son she was driving TO Gobleville,
when in passing a team of oxen her
horse took fright and ran away. In at
tempting to pass between a tree and
barbed wire fence, the carriage was
dashed against the tree and wrecked,
and Mrs. Markillie thrown into the
fence, her shoulder dislocated by strik-
ing against a post and her face and
neck terribly lascerated by the barbed
wire. She was carried into A. Herron's
house and a physician from Gobleville
summoned, who dressed the cuts and
pronounced the patient all right. Short
ly afterwards Mr.. Markillie arrived and
being dissatisfied with the appearance
of the shoulder, dispatched messenger
to this village for DR.. Whalen, who
found the shoulder badly dislocated,
which he proceeded to adjust though
it required heroic treatment. III IS
fortunate that this injury was attended
To as soon as it was, for had it been
left until the following day the results
might have been of a serious nature.
Our readers will recolect mention
being made in this paper some time
last summer of n case of cruelty to ami
mails, in which James Jacobs, of Law
renee township, had kept a pair of
horses confined in their stalls for six or
seven years, having become angered
at them when colts and swore they
should never leave the barn alive. III.
w. McCabe called at Jacobs farm at
that time, and Jacobs promised that he
would turn the horses out in pasture il
there should be no prosecution This
was agreed To, and the horses were
turned out. And they have been turn
ed out, in small, closely-enclosed pad
dock ever since, with no shelter from
sun or storm. These facts coming to
the knowledge of Sheriff Thomas, that
officer made complaint one day last
week before Esquire Mason, who is
sued a warrant for Jat obs arrest. He
pleaded guilty and was fined S25 and
~ L.
make up his mind To give those ami
mails humane treatment, or he will
make trip to Paw Paw ut least once a
week so long as he and they shall live.
At the banquet given by the Pomona
Grange, at Grange Hall i'm this place
last week, among the delicacies and sub
stantials served up were several i'm
mense chicken pies, and those who
are acquainted with the skill of Van
Buren, county housewives in the pro-
duction of this dish need not be told
that they were tOothsOme TO "A degree,
and were partaken of with zest ex-
celled in no other part of the program.
But it appears that there was something
wrong with this particular dish on this
particular OCCASION, for those who par
took of it most freely had several re-
minders of their voracity during the
ensuing night, and comparison of
notes by the sufferers next day disclosed
the fact that the effects of the pie were
very much the same i'm each instance.
In some families the festivities were
kept up all night, and even at this late
day they cannot hear chicken pie"
mentioned without undergoing con
vusion. Wint. Reynolds had an espec-
ally narrow escape, and his wife is firm
i'm the belief that If she had not awak-
ened him at the critical moment she
did he neUer aC0utd haze found that bottle
Of hot drops.
Again has death chosen a shining
mark, and on Feb. 9Th ut her home in
Pasadena, Cal, Claribel Thompson
closed her eyes to reopen them in
that better land where there is no more
pain. A paper recently received says:
Though the passing away was at last
sudden, it had been feared for some
time She was the sunshine Of her
home to her last earthly hour, and the
gradual decline of health was borne
with a sanity patience and sweet un-
seltishness." These words attest the
lovely character which she ever pos
sessed, and which everywhere drew
about her circle of loving friends.
She was lavishly endowed by nature,
and having been for several years
highly successful teacher in the schools
of this, her native town, the circle of
her influence was large, and the an
- Il. A.