The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-01-27
PAW VAN BURN COUNTY MICHIGAN JANUARY 27 1892

Pheasant SITUATION ana likes 1.-The city al
the end of the bridge" very much.
A. o. Miller, Paw Paws old-time
favorite, with his Musical Comedy Com
pany, will appear at Longwell's opera
house on Friday evening of this week
in the laughable farce Comedy "The
Widows; or, Leap Year"
Mr. and Mrs. William Ferris, aged
"a and ~ years respectively, and who
had lived together for over half a cen
tury, died nearly at the same hour at
their home in DOwagiac last week and
were buried in the same grave on the
10Th.
Abel Chase, an old resident of Waverly
township, died Monday night of heart
failure, superinduced by the grip. De-
ceased was rs years of age Funeral
to. day "wednesday at p m. from the
Glendale church.
Irving Adams of Decatur will be ex-
amined in Justice MasOn's court to-day
charged with violation of the local
option law. AS Adams has been con-
victed once of this offense, it behooves
him to "look leedie oudt"
Elsewhere in this issue will be found
the prospectus of The Press, one of the
ablest if not the ablest Republican
paper in New York. Although but
young in years, The Press has attained
the largest circulation Of any paper
on this continent.
DR.. Kelley says asafoetida in doses
of 16 grains, administered four times II
day, is a specific for grip. A disease
that would not quit man who had Ga
grains of that drug in his system might
be classed as tough customer. As q
punishment to a family, the treatment
would be a bowling success.
Mrs. Geo. A. Buell., wife of "a former
Methodist minister here, who was so
fearfully injured in the Olin excursion
disaster, writes friend in Cass county
that she has had her broken limb reset
and that many think it will yet have to
be amputated. She is also great suf-
ferer from her other njuries.-Refector.
Miss Irma Heald possesses the re-
markable faculty of spelling words
backwards as rapidly as forwards. She
has not acquired it by practice but ac-
cidentally discovered that she could do
it, and explains it by saying that she
sees the word as though it was on pa
per before her eyes, and simply reads
it.-Dav Spring.
"Uncle John" Stuyvesant, an old and
esteemed resident of Southeast Deca-
tur, died at his home on the Valley
road last Saturday of acute pneumonia
after an illness of but few hours, aged
81 years. Funeral from the late home
on Monday Deceased was an uncle of
Mrs. j. L. Tirrell of this place and Mrs.
5. G.. McEntee of Antwerp.
The next number of Hdrper's Weekly,
published to-day, will contain two or
three timely and valuable articles relat-
ing to Chill and the difficulties existing
between that country and the United
States. 1t will be profuesly illustrated
with portraits and views of scenes in
Valparaiso and Santiago, and of the
! Chilian ships of war. One of these
articles, by Lieut.. j. ID. Jerrold Kelley,
U. s. N, will be highly interesting com
parisOn between the navies of Chill and
the United States.
Some forty or fifty of the intimate
| friends of Miss Edna OcobOck assembled
at the home of her mother last Thursday
morning To witness her marriage to Mr..
Chas. A. Yant. The nuptials were sol
emnized by Rev j. Clizbe, after which
the guests partook Of an elegant we'd
ding breakfast The happy pair left on
the noon train for Chicago, where they
will spend a couple of weeks, and then
go on to Denver, where they will make
their present home. The presents were
numerous and elegant.
And still death follows in the train of
the grip in this place. Marcus Merri-
man, aged S8 years, died last Friday,
while his daughter, Mrs. j. Hurd, lay
dead in the house, having died but a
few hours previously. Her husband,
Elder j Hurd, minister of the Disciple
church, was at the same time lying
dangerously i'll with the same disease.
The father and daughter were both
buried Sunday in the Hamilton ceme-
terry. Mr.. Merriman was one of the
earliest pioneers of this county and
highly respected
The people of this county are to be
congratulated on the selection by Judge
Buck of Lincoln IL. Titus as public
prosecutor. Mr.. Titus, in the manage
ment of the cases thus far disposed of
under his administration, has evidenced
| his eminent fitness for the position by
the skill in which he has prepared his
cases and his mastery manner of bring
ing out the evidence and analyzing and
reviewing it for the jury. While the
temperance people are elated over his
success, the liquor element is cores
pondingly depressed and gloomy.
Albert Crippen of Lawrence, on con-
viction of violation of the local option
law, was sentenced last Friday by Judge
Buck to five months in jail with no
alternative of fine. 1t is said that on
the trial of this case perjury of the rank
est kind was flying around loose, and
the public prosecutor would add another
feather to his plume if he could manage
a conviction or two for this crime. Men,
ordinarily fair-minded and candid, will
go upon the stand in whisky case aud
unhesitatingly swear that blue is saffron
color, and one or two convictions would
have beneficial effect.
On Monday evening the streets of our
village emerged from the darkness
which has enveloped them for three
months past, and were made bright and