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PROB TIE ORDER.

mud II ON ~ bn
STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Val
Buren, SIS.
1t session of the Probate Court for tn
County OF Van Buren,, holden at the Probate
Office, in Village of Paw Paw, in said County
on Monday. the ninth day OF January, in tn,
year one thousand eight hundred and seventy
one.
Present, George W. Lawton, Judge of Probate
La the matter of the estate of William o.
Hendricks deceased. ~
On reading and filling the petition, duly YER
flied, of Jane Hendricks together with an in
strument purporting 70 be the last will and
testament of said deceased, and praying that
said instrument may be admitted TO Probate,
aud administration Of the estate of said
deceased may be granted to said petitioner.
Thereupon il is ordered, thai Monday, the
sixth day of February A. d.. 1871, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon be assigned for the
hearing Of said petition, and that the heirs at
law of said deceased, and all ether persons in
terested in said estate be r. CURED to appear at
a session said Court then to be holden at
the Probate Office, in the Village of Paw Paw,
in said County, aud show cause, if any there
be, by the prayer of the petitioner should not
be granted:
And it is purther ordere l. that said petitioner
give notice TO the persons interested in said
estate of the tendency Of said petition, and
he hearing th ereof, by causing a copy of this
order to be put lished in the TRUE NoRTHERNER
newspaper printed aud circulated in said
Jounty of Van Buren,, for three successive
weeks, at least, p. 'evous to said day of hearing.
GEORGE W. LAYTON,
IA true copy,) Judge of Probate.
@ GORGE w. LAwToN,
S24t3. Judge of Probate.
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The amount OF Claims sor Losses and other
debts existing against said company is the sum
of 5000, as followy, VIZ:
Money loaned to pay balance Of q small loss
Chat occurred last July, $780, aud sum not to
exceed $50 on the last ioss that occurred Dec
1st. 1870. The assessment that is now being
collected wiz pay all the above indebtedness.
JASON A. SHELDON, President.
elias p. HAgHAwAY, Secretary (824)
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MORTGAGE SALE.


Default having been made in the payment of
the money secured to be paid by certain Ii
denture of Mortgage made aud executed by
Ben amin Z. Ewing and Lucinda A. Ewing. his
wife, of Arlington, Van Buren, County Mich
isan, TO 0rville L. Burnum of Bangor, County
and State aforesaid, bearing date the twentieth
day OF August, 4. ID. 1865, and recorded in the
office of the Register Of Deeds for said County
Of Van Buren,, on the twenty-ifth day OF
August A. ID. 1865 in Liber T. of Mortgages
on page $40 which said mortgage has been
duly assigned by said 0rviln 4. Barnum to
Elias y. Furgeson and James 4. Fsrgeson
which assignment has been duly recorded in
the office of the Register Of Deeds for said
County Van Buren, On which Mortgage and
the note accompanying the same there is
claimed to DO due and unpaid at the date here
Of the sum OF Pour Hundred and Seventy-six
dalars and Sixty seven cents (besides an At
torney fec OF twenty-five dollars stipulated in
SAID Mortgage to be paid in case OF foreclosure
and no proceedings either at law or in equity
having oeeu had or Instituted for the recovery
or sail sum or any part thereo:.
Notice is therefore hereby given that by vir-
tue Of power Of sale in said Mortgage con
tanned and the statute in such case made and
provided the lands and premises in said Mort
gage described as follows to-wit: All that
certain piece or parcel of land known and de-
scribed as follows to-wit; The north half of
the south forty acres of tho south west frac
tional quarter Of section seven town two south
Of range fifteen west in the township Of Airing
ton County of Van Buren, and State of Mch-
gan containing twenty Gcres of land in order
to realize the money now as aforesaid due on
said note and Mortgage toge her with the in
terest and costs of foreclosure, will he sold at
public vendue to the highest bidder at the
front door of the Coart House in the Village OF
Paw Paw, that beng the place for holding the
Circuit Court in saidC ounty Of Van Buren,, on
the tw, niy-eght daY Of January a. d. 1871, at
ORC o'cocl, in the afternoon of that day.
Dated October 2Sth 1870.
ELIAS b. FURGESON,
JAMES L. FURGESON.
Stephenson ( Barnum. ASsigueSs.
Attorneys. Sl3tl3.
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PROBATE NOTICE.

In the ma. ter OF The estate OF WILLIAM S.
CAMP, deceased.
All persons having claims against said estate
must present them at the Probate Office in
Paw Paw, ON Monday, January Odd, or Monday
February 9th, 1871, and that elk montbs FROM
che date or tins notice Will be allowed fer the
presentation OF claims.
Dated Jan. 2, 1871.
S23t6 f. p HARVEY, Administrator
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MANHOOD; How LOST, How nEsroRED

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/ Wells Celebrated Essay on the raIical cure
without medicide) os Spermatorrbca, or sem
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Ion, Epilepsy, and Fits Induced by self-indul-
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The celebrated author, in this admirable
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without the dangerous use Of internal medicine
or the use of the knife; pointing out u mode or
cure at once simple, certain and efectual, Ivy
means Of which every suGerer, no matter what
his condition may cure himself cheaply, pr.
vately and radically
Eft- This lecture should be in the hands of
every youth and every man in the land
Sent under seal, in plain envelope, to any
address, postpaid, on receipt of six cents or two
post stamps. Also, Or. Culverwells Marriage
Guide" price % cents. S20ly
Address the publishers, CHAS. j. C KLINE
& CO., l27 Bowery, n. l., y. o. Box dose.
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FoS1uR & EIEY,D.
CNANCkRY S NE.

By virtue Of a decree made AID entered in
the Circuit Court for the County OF Van Buren,
In Chancery, III a certain cause therein pending
whern Uri Colgrave is Com piainant and Law
renee Brewer is Defendant and bearing date
the twenty-siXth day o. October, one thousand
eight hundred snd sixty | shall sell at
public vendue to the highest bidder, on Mon
day, the twenty-tbird day of January, eighteen
hundred and seventy -one, at eleven o.cock IN
the forenoon, at the front door of the Court
House, in the village of Paw Paw, in the Coun-
y OF Van Buren, and State OF Michigan, the
following described pieces OF land situated ia
the County OF Van Buren, and State of MIchi-
gan, VIZ; That certain tract or parcel OF land
situated IN the County OF Van Buren, and State
OF Michigan, described and bounded as follows,
te-wlt: Commencing at the north east corner
OF the south east quarter OF the south east
quarter OF section twenty mine (29) III township
number two ca 6onth OF range number thir-
teen (l3) west thence west on the north liue
Of said lot twenty three chains aud ninety
three links to stake thence south forty-two
degrecs east, thi-teen 13) chains and fif-
ty-tW0 links to a stake in the road, near the
north end Of the bridge, thence north fifty
sevendeSrees, east tT7o CHAINS and thrty-one
links 20 astake, being the west corner OF land
heretofore decided BY Allen A. Copeland to
along the center Of the road and on the north
line OF the land sold To y. Brewer twelve chains
and eighty eight links to a stake on the east
line Of Sci section twenty thence north
on Section line about seven chains and Efty
links to the place OF beginning. containing sf-
teen and ninety-ive-one hundredths acres of
land more or less. 1877
WILLIAM II. TUCKER Circuit CT Com'r
SrEPHESsor II Huston, Complts Solicitors.
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Dissolution Notice.

The Copsr nership heretofore existing be-
tween che subscribers under the firm name or
Jones Il Co, liz hereby dissolved. =. Ii. Jones
having purchased the interest OF Fitch 4 Free
man in the business viii continue the same on
ais own account.
Dated Waverly Nov. 1G, 1870,
II. FITCH.
J. II. FREEMAN.
:. II. JONES.
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PROBATE NOTICE.

Estate of HENRY LILLE, deceased.
Notice ID hereby given that SIX months from
Che date hereof is allowed creditors to present
and prove their claims against said estate, be-
fore the Probate Court, and that December 5th
end 2eth $780, are hereby set forreceiving,
hearing and determining such claims.
Dated Nov. 18th, 1870 SIG
GEORGE w. LAYTON. Judge Of Probate.
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PROBATE NOTICE.

PROBATE NOTICE.
In the matter Of tho Estate OF Eber X. Murch,
deceased.
All persons having claims against said estate
must present them at the Probate Office, in
Paw Paw, on Monday. January 23d, 1871, or on
the first Monday, OF May, 1871, and that six
months from the date of this notice will be
allowed for the presentation OF claims.
Dated Paw Paw, Dec. 9th. 1870. 1916
GEORGE W. LAWTON, Judge Of Probate.
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CHANCERY SALE

BY virtue of decree made in the Circuit
Court for the County of Van Buren, in Chan
Gerry in certain cause therein pending, where
in Sarah w. Phillips is complain mt, and
Comfort Sparks is defendant bearing date April
2lst, A. D., 1870 L shall sci at public vendue
to the highest bidder, on Monday the 9th day
of March A. ID. 1871 at one o'clock in tho
aftern0 on of that day at the front door Of the
Court House in the village of Paw Paw Van
Buren, County and State Mich igan, the follow
ing described pieces of land, viz The west
half of tne Southwest quarter aud the south
east quarter Of the southwest J of section num-
Der twen;y-six (26) in township number three
81, south Of range number thirteen 13l west,
ell being IN Van Buren, Oornty Michigan ex-
cepting therefrom twenty l2O) acres of the
north end of the west-half of the south. west
quarter, also that portion decided to McKeys &
&c. containing about one 81 acre adjoining the
above, also The right of way decided to the saiu
McKeys & DC, across the north part Of the
south east quarter of the southwest quarter.
Dated JAN 18th, 1871. S25t7
JoHs KsowLs, Circuit Court Commissioner.
STEPHENSON 4 BARNUN, SOl'r. for Compile.
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CHANCERY NOTICE.

BY virtue OF a decruc made in the Cireui
Court for the County o { Van Buren,. In Chan
Gerry, in a certain cause therein pending where
in Henry L. Robinson is Complainant, and
Zerah Shepard, Elizabeth Shepard, Horace Sc
bring, Daniel Spicer, Franklin L. Campbell
and John Ihling are Cefe1dants, bearing date
of the April Term, A. ID. $50, / shall sell ut
public vendue to the highest bidder on Monday
the 23d day of oanuary, A. ID. 1871, at one
o'clock ia the afternoon of that day. at the
front door of the Court House, in the village of
Paw Paw, in the county Of Van Ruren, and
State Of M.chigas, the following described
piece or parcel of lad situated in the County
Of Van Buren, and State Of Michigan to-wit
Lot number four, in mock number one Il in
taw tons survey Of the village of Jawton, in
sal I'd County and State.
dated Dec. Z, 1870
WILLIAM II. TUCKER,
Circuit Court Com'r for Van Bn rem Co., Mich
Stephenson a Barnum, Complts SOPfs. 1871
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corr or .7.N.vUsL xEPORT.-

TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
20 the Hon. Secretary OF State, or Michigan :.
The undersigned, PRESIDENT and Secretary OF
Che Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company
OF Van Buren, County. Mich. in compliance
with an act entitled: 9 An act for tho incorpo-
cation OF Insurance Companies and defining
their powers and duties approved February
18th, 1870, and the acts amepdatory thereof
make the following Annual Report, exhibiting
Che condition OF said Company December 3lst,
1870;
The whole number Of members belonging to
Naid Company is 9S5. Increase OF membership
during the year, is 50. The whole amount OF
property, at iisk by said company ID 81, 540, 600.
Increase Of amount insured daring the year 10
100000 The amount OF assessments that
dave been levied upon the members of said
company during the year ID S2,027. The rate
s,er cent Of such assessments on the property
ensured, 10 q little less than 11s mills. The
,amount collected aid paid IN, on assessments
-,nadc during the year, is about 81, 700. The
Balance Ii now being collected. The amount
chat has been collected by sand company on as
easements, prior to the past year, is STOPS so.
The amount Of losses paid by SAID company
during the year, is the sum of S1,375, OF will
he in few days. The amount Of salary and
fees paid to each officer and director during the
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The NeW FUmiIy Machine

Is capable ola a. ge and variety Of work,
such AS was once th6agh Impossible to perform
by machinery. We claim and can show that 10
is the cheapest, most beautiful, delcately ar
ranged, nicely adjusted, easily operated, and
smoothly running Of all the Family Machines
1t is remarkable not only for its range and
variety of Sewing, but also for the different
kinds OF texture which it will sew with eqEai
facility and perfection, using
SILK. Twist, Linen or Cotton Thread,
Fine or Coarse.
Making the Interlock Elastic Stitch alike %
both sides Of the fabric, thus Beaver Cloth or
Leather may lie seaed with great strength and
uniformity OF stitch, and in a mOmeut this will
ing and never varying instrument may be ai
Justed for fine work on Gauze or GOssamer lis
sue, or the Tucking of Tarletan or Ruling, OF
almost any other work which delicate fngers
have been known to perform.
Its Attachments tor
Homming, Telling, Braiding
Gathering. Cording, Trimming,
Binding, Tucking, Embroid, ring
Are unequslled. There machines may be has
in variety of Cases. The Folding Case, as its
name suggests can be folded into Cabinet
case OF pleasing outline, and protects the Ma
chine when Eot in use from dust and meddls-
some fingers, aud when open it presents u snb-
stantial and spacious table for the work to rest
upon when the Machine is in operation. The
cases are of varied designs and prices to CORES
pond. We desire parties to call and examine
for themselves.
Machines Sold OF Liberal Terms 10 Responsi5S
P0rtis..
=. Gx- Manufacturing Machines furnished
on short notice for Carriage Trimming,
Cloth and Leather work, suitable for Tailors,
Shoemakers etc.
Ts- Repairing Of all kinds Of Sewing Ma.
chimes done on short notice.
=. GODFREY.
sicily Agent for Van Buren, Co., Paw Paw
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Hear We! Hear YET

The undersigned. being about to close up
their COpartnership business IN Paw Paw
would say to all indebted to them-either by
note or account-that If not settled during the
present month, they Will find them IN the hands
OF the proper officer for collection, as our bus
mess must be closed up, at the earliest possi be
moment.
Paw Paw, December IL, 1870
$40 FITCH a FREEMAN
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MONEY TO LOAN.

On improved unincumberod Tar us, for one {
more years Enquire Of
c. A. HARRISON,
Paw Paw, Mich
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MORTG AGE SALE.

Default having been made in the payment of
t1e money secured to be pad by certain in-
oenture OF NOR gage made and executed by
James w. Warner and Amanda Warner, his
wife, or the village and township OF South
HaEen. In the county of Van Buren, and State
or Michigan, and bearing date the sixth day
OF November A. ID. eighteen hundred and sixty
eight. aud recorded IN the Office of the Regis
ter OF Deeds FOR the county Of Van Buren, on
the fifteenth day OF March, eighteen hundred
and sixty nine, at ten o'clock IN the forenoon
in Liber V. of mortgages, on page one hundred
and fifty, and on which said mortgage and the
note accompanying the same there is now
to be due and unpald thereon the
sum of Two Hundred and Eghsy-ope dol
lars and forty-eight cents (S281, 48), besides an
Attorney Zee OF twenty-five dollars stipulated
therein to be paid ia case of foreclosure, and
no proceedings having been had or instituted,
either at law or equity TO recover the sum
due as aforesaid or any part thereof.
Notice Is therefore hereby given that by
virtue OF power of sale IN said moctgage
contained, and the statute in such case made !
ADD provided, the lands aud premises IN eaid
mortgage descrlb ed as follows, to wit All !
that certain piece or parcel of andsituated and
laying In the Township OF South Haven, Van
Buren, County and State Of Michigan, known |
and decrlbed as follows to wit the northwest
quarter OF the southeast quarter OF the south
east quarter section sixteen (1G) township one
ID south OF rangenumber seventeen (17) west,
ten acres OF land, more or less ac-
cordiDg to the government survey, in order TO
realize the sum due as aforesaid. together with
the interest thereon and The costs OF foreclo-
sure, will be sold at public vendue. to the
highest bidder at the front door of the Court
House, in village of Paw Paw, that being the
piece Of holding the Circmt Court IN aud for
he county OF Van Buren,, on Monday.
April 10th, A. ID. one thousand eIght him.
Ired AMI seventy-one, at tho hour ofsone
o'clock in the afternoon o. that day.
Dated Paw Paw, January ~, 1871.
JOSEPH GILMAN,
82iti3. Mortgage.
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U. y. District Court.

MONDAY john G. Coob, assigoee of John B.
Nash, VS. aigernon o. Smith. This was process is
sued ,inst respond .ut to require him to produce
thu books ana pagers belonging to the estate of John
B. Nash OF YarmLu h, bankruo at, OF which 1t IS al
leg'd he is ssessed. Ii appears that in November
1870, Nash failed and his property las trader) was
Alta by his creditors. Afterwards he was pr
ilo banH rupcy, a,,d made pa rtia statement of hi
affairs, alleging that he unable to make full
statement, because his books aud papers were In The
ha1ds OF smith, who had been his book keeper, and
ret2ine .son OF them and refused to give Them
up Smith was accordingly brought into court this
morn NJ. The testimony developed the facts that
VI ish's couselt rhs books were PLACED In the
Gust ds of Smith. Afterwards n ash desired to OBJ
ia them, but Smith refused to deliver them up un-
til demand viii n he held against Nash was settled.
1t appears that the books we've in Smiths posses ion
n Til January. 1871, when, as he alleges, in the alb
sence ot himsel and wife, some person enter.d his
hous, and carried th, m away. This and other evil
deuce, which crsa ed the impre sion in the mind of
the demapdant's c,uls-l that smith had a real
knowledge rhe whereabouts OF the books, prompt
Ell a mo ion that the Court pass au order, fixing
date tor be delivery OF The books in court suffer
the penalty. b presiding Judge took the papers
and holds be case tor consideration.
M. NJ Butler. Howard g. Cleaves.
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Brief .EOftiugs.

The Red STOCKINGS of Boston beat the MI.
ruals Of New York on Saturday by score Of
pto7 This was the third of series of their
games Tor the championship, two of which
were won by The Nutuals. The Red Stock
ings will play with the Resolutes at Forest
City Park tomorrow.
Miss Ehz 4beih E Seaman, one of the as
sistant teachers at the High School has vaca
ted her position TO enter upon 81 nilar duties
81 Kentucky. The pupils of the second Class
yesterday presented her with an elegant ring
as q token of their esteem and affection.
We hear it said that the Pine street Metho-
dist Society il this city are contemplating q
new clutch edifice, having outgrown the di
meusons OF the present one
Th9 Allan Mail Steamship Prussian from
Liverpool arrived at Quebec at II p. M, Sun
day, with 90 cabin and 5l1 steerage passen
gers.
Mr.. VIM NJ. Lewis, landlord of the Prebl
House, IL now lying very i'll with fever.
Reue mber the Lingards tonight at Must
Hall and get your seats at Halves & Cragin'
il good season.
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CALIFO RNIA.
The PyOcha fNeyl Exnl0ni0u.


SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18.-rhere is no in
surance on the property burned in consequence
of explosion at Piocha, New, Saturday The
less exceeds quarter of a million dollars.
Three hundred kegs of gunpowder in the Gel
lar of FelsenJh & Co. exploded, leveling all
he hui ngs in the vicinity
EThe following persons were killed: Jeremiah
Kirby, James Agnew, John Sands, William
Dodds, Mike Sheenan, and one other was
burned beyond recognition.
A large number of persons wOu aided, inc'nd-
ing H. D Beam, john Cullen, Harvey Rice,
mes Wol,ey, Bartholomew Noonan, Johp
Farley, Robert Watts, Archy Millekan, Jonn
DABen, Charles Williams, Miller Julian.
VIM. Ryan, David Maggie, Miss Garry French,
Charlie Roslest in, Phiiip Richards, William
David Ncouau. Jobn Dpugnerts, Miss Hais
chan, Miss Foy, A. Rooney, Fred Haskins.
VIM. Stevens lbos. Kendall Cieves Schiize
S Cotton, aud Dennis Sullivan all OF WHOM
were either injured by falling rocks Jared by
by the conclusion, or burned. Many of the
wounded may die.
State Prison Outbreak.
An outbreak has occurred in The Nevada
State Prison and of the guard and 1t. Gov.
Denver were wounded Matt Ridley, the pro-
prietor of the Warm Springs, was shot and
killed. Twen'y-nine prisoners escaped.
Indian Matters.
Tucson (Arizoua) advices of 9th inst, report
that Gen. CrUOke has made a treaty with
Cayote Apaches, hy which they agree to join
the while forces against the hostile Apaches
There is a rumor OF the death of the hostile
chief, Cochis, from wounds received in fight
With Mexican troops. In Sonora the Apacbes
have driven all the miners from Turkey Greek
into Prescott, aud killed hordsmen in Vale dc
Chino. General Crooke is satisfied that he
can conquer the Apaches if the Peace Com
missioners will let him alone.
Rich Gold Mines
A party of old frontersmen have arrived il
this city IRON the San Fraucisco mountains II
Arizona, where they found rich p!acers. bu
were riven off by tue Apaehes. They bring
considerable gold and desire to return with
large party.
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES



have bought the entire stock, fixtures, in
surance policy, firewoJd, and everything else
belonging to the store of ". f. Sapyer No.
3O7 Congress street, for so cents on the dollar of
its original cost, and piles of goods throUn in
for nothing. This stock is COMPOSED largely of
Fail and Winter Hosiery and Gio0es. Ladies',
Gents, and Children's UnderUear and Hand
kerchiefs. Also large assortment of the
Thousand and one notions too numerous to
mention, but acanted in every family. There l
have moyed to nay store. 129 Middle street, added
to my own stock, gives me probably by far the
largest and best assortment oil Hosiery, Gfoues'
and Small Wares to be fonnd in any retail
store in the State As own these goods Tor
one half their original cost, am enabled, aosth'
out loss, to sell them for about one half what the
same goods can usually be bought for.
l have marked in plain figures my retail price
ON every article Come and look them oUer.
CoGIA HAssAN,
129 Middle and Temple street.
+. s.-My Fall Stock OF Millinery will ar
rive In a few days-N. B.--Any other dealer
u'sgosted with business, and wishing to sell his
stock, please call on me.