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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22
African Exploration.

The research into that dim region,
that world still lying obscure while all
other worlds roll into light, and even
japan breaks the seals of its mystic
seciusion, is passion, an enthusiasm, a
mania. The earliest and most fascinat-
ing reading of many boys who are gray.
boards now were the African books.
There is no passage in all the vast libra
ry of travel more familiar and more
touching than Mungo Parks descrip.
ton OF the negro woman singing by his
sick bed; and the actual source of the
Nile, hidden somewhere in midmost AZ
RIGA, is one of the oldest and most Sc.
curely guarded of geographical secrets
Yet the desire 10 master that secret is
magic Ike that of the iosus which grew
upon the Nile shores.
" Branches they bore Of that enchanted stem.
Lad! Laden WIN IN Hover and fruit, whereof they gave
Aud taste. TO him the gushing Of the wave
Far far away did seem to mourn aud rave
On alien shores and if his fellow spake
his voice was thin, as voices fcom the grave;
Aud deep asleep he seemed yet all awake.
And music In his ears his beating heart did make"
How truly Livingstone has tasted Of
that lotus of African desire is curiously
shown in his letter of gratitude to Mr..
Bennett. For years he has been away
from England. His wife has died. He
has suffered every hardship and disap-
pointment, and had reached. apparent.
ly, point beyond which nothing re-
manned but starvation, if not as
sassination, with all clew to his
later life and death absolutely and for.
ever lost, when he is suddenly greeted
in his own language, by a man of his
own race, who has come straight from
the outer world to find him. But even
in that moment, which was indeed a
resurrection, he still turns the lotus
upon his tongue, and its taste is sweeter
than the hope of home and family and
fame.
Now know about six hundred miles
OF the watershed" he says, and un.
fortunately the seventh hundred is the
most interesting of the whole; for in it,
II am not mistaken, four fountains
arise from an earthen mound, and the
last of the four becomes, at no great
distance of, large river.
Z" | have heard of them so often and
at great distances off that | cannot
doubt their existence, and in spite of
the sore longing for home that seizes
me every time think of my family, |
wish to finish up by their rediscovery."
How perfectly these words of Liv-
ingstone, written under the well.
known circumstances, reproduce the
legend of the Odyssey and repeat the
words of Tennyson
" Most weary seemed the sea- weary the car
,Meary the wandering fields Of barren foam;
And All at once they sang, our island home
Is far beyond the wave we will no longer roam. ~
-Harper'S Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22
Current Items.

WISCONSIN cranberry pickers get Bios
bushel, and board.
A SAVANNAH mule is silvered with the
frosts of sixty winters.
CONNECTICUT turtles live 100 years
without getting gray-haired.
A YOUNG woman in Plattsburg, Pa,
had her shoe-strings united by lightning.
The telegraphing in the business of
the Treaty Of Washington amounted TO
$4,000.
FRENCH opera, after a run of fifty
years, has been abandoned in New
Orleans.
Or the 800 mining claims in Califor-
| MIA, only two are at present paying
stockholders a cent.
THREE hundred bushels of onions
were raised in Penobscot, Me-, upon
halt an acre of land.
AN enterprising Yankee has opened
an institution in Boston for turning left
handed people into right.handers.
THERE are but three ways of living
possible in the world" says Froude,
by working, robbing and begging"
A Two.YEAR.oLD BABY in the Oneida
Community has written a letter TO its
me NINA. What precocious prodigy
FIFTEEN exhibitions of Barnum's show
in Indiana Melted that concern $44 900,
of which amount S25, 900 was clear profit.
"APoTHEcARELEssNEss" is a new word
which the present generation has found
it necessary to invent for the benefit of
posterity.
IT is estimated that 500 white men
have been scalped by the Arizona In
dians in the last ten year.-an average
of one week.
ST. JOSEPH and Benton Harbor, Mich,
are reported to have shipped 100000
baskets of peaches the past season,
bringing 100000.
GEN. WALKER, Commissioner of the
Census, will recommend in his forth
coming report that the census be taken
for the five years ending 1873, so that
the returns can be made ready by the
first centennial, July 4, 1876.
IT is reported that disease is pre-
vailing among the swine in some por-
tons of Canada. Of course, after our
experience with the Canada horse dis
temper, we shall watch with apprehen-
| sion any similar atiiiction of our neigh
bors over the St. Lawrence.
REPORTS from Oil City, Pa, state that
| pumping has been resumed at the sus-
pended wells, that crude petroleum is
again being shipped, and that the " big
strike" is for the time abandoned. The
leaders in oil production, however, are
announced as ready to shut down again
il case OF decline in prices.
In one of the London University an
nouncements it is said "The result of
examinations held in tn S country and
in America 60 far to prove the intel
lectual equality of the sexes, in science
as well as language and literature, where
equal advantages of training are en-
joyed and equal incentives to study are
supplied
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22
Political Notes.
GooD.BY, Trumbull !

GooD.BY, Trumbull
~ WANT to 90 home ~ Greeley.
CON, who is there who loves me now ?"
-,Schu=.
OSE Of the morals Of the late election
is that ten disappointed office-seek-
ers may call a party from the vastly
deep, but it cannot oe relied upon to
come. Parties, like poets, are born,
not made.
PENNsYLvAN1A's $4,000 Republican
majority in October, according to the
e" Liberal" organs, was obtained 'by
fraud" But how about the 100000 ma
iority Of November? The old Keystone
glory, and the silly charge of "iraud'
cannot rob her of one iota of the credit
that belongs to her
THE Republican victory in New York
city is one of the most gratifying Incl.
dents of the recent contest. Mr.. Have.
meyer, the nominee Of the Republican
party and the COMMITTEE of Seventy
for Mayor, is elected by about 1000
plurality over his two Democratic com.
PN'i'oiS' MS II ElOly lOl Olti IllthuS vi
the metropolis, and q signal triumph of
the true reiormers.
TRuMBULI, Sumner and Schurz, the
three conspirators who supposed that
OF course they held the Republican
party OF the country in their fists, and
that they could by mere word make
or destroy political parties, must to-day
be the most astonishsd and cheapest
feeling men on the face of the earth.
The result of the election has taught
many excellent lessons, and not the
least OF these is the fact that the
American people will not blindly follow
purblnd leadership, nor accept the
counsels of even their recognized oracles
in politics when these oracles play de.
ceptively.
Poor Charles Sumner! He supposed
that he was the dictator of the Republi.
can party, the owner of ali the colored
votes of the Union, the idol of Massa.
chusetts, and Jupiter Tonans of Ameri
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22
COnsOlatOry.

Ofall diseases peculiar to man or beast
hydrophobia is perhaps most to be
dreaded. 1t is therefore a great conso-
lation to know that person may be
bitten by really mad dog without con.
tracing the disease. n bite through
clothing has rarely serious consequences
the saliva-the only vehicle of infection
being thus wiped from the animal
teeth. Out of twenty individuals bitten,
it is uncertain how many will so mad ;
perhaps none. But il is quite certain
that they will not all 90 mad. The cause
of the escape IL unknown; but such es-
capes make the fortune of charlatans,
cunning men, and practicers OF super
stitions. Bitten persons, who have Ia
ken such and such drugs, or have gone
through such and such devotional forms,
and remain unframed, never tail, they
and theirs, to attribute the result to the
means employed. But it is a reassuring
thought, likely to have favorable in
huence, without hindering the employ
ment of rational precautions, to know
that, although bitten, it is quite possible
not to be touched by the poison. In
fnitely better is it TO persuade the pa
tent Of this, than to hazard remedies
which will make as many victims as
there are persons foolish enough to try
them.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22
The Answer of the States.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Al along the Susquehanna
waves the Grant and Wilson banner.
Ana we hear the loud hosanna
Echoing through the land once more.
Tor the treemen stand alert in
fennsylyania. called uncertain"
Anu they step before the CurtiH
Al the nations long encorel
From Ohio comes more thuader.
anu the Liberals" dumb with wonder.
see old parties rent asunder.
Ana the honest men combined.
though the Liberal" egg was Matched there
Ihey were bravely overmatched there,
When the voters freed their mind"
North Carolina told a story
lhat revived the old time glory.
when her people fought the Tory
Ana the toemen from affair.
There the loysl hearts ne'er slumberei.
I'LL the ku-klux days were numbered.
While the sdge's heels were numbered
By the North Carolina tar.
In Vermont the mighty chorus
81 her sons yet fingers o er us.
While their watch fires shine before US.
And our path can ne'er be dark.
They have fought against all knavery.
They have battled human slavery
Ethan Allen taught them bravery,
AS did John and Molly Stark.
As the sun appeared one morning,
All the way from Maine adjoining,
Came TO Horace words of warning
From ArOostook to the sea,
Tales of chopping and OF farming.
Somehow, there. were not SO charming.
Nor were "chasms" so alarming
AS twas fondly hoped they'd be.
With such victories to remember.
Ii was easy in November
70 put out each dying ember
OF the Liberal FIRE" that day.
Old-time friends cannot be trusted
When with copper" they're incrusted-
And their tidal wave" is busted"
From Care Cod to Frisco Bay.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22
DrearY Homes.

OF all the dreary places, deliver US
from the dreary farmhouse which so
many people call home. Bars for a
front gate; pig pens elbowing the house
in the rear; scraggy trees never cared
for, or no trees at all no Towering
shrubs; no neatness, no trimness. And
yet a lawn, and trees, and a neat wall,
and a pleasant porch, and plain fence
around, all do not cost great deal.
They can be secured, little by little, at
odd times, and the expense hardly felt.
And if ever the time comes when it is
best to sell the farm, fifty dollars so in
vested will often bring back five hun
dred. For man is brute who will
not insensibly yield to higher price
for such farm when he thinks Of the
pleasant surroundings it offers his wife
and children.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22

THE SUCCESSFUL PHYsIcIAN.-Dr. j.
Walker is achieving an eminent dis
tinction as a benefactor of his species.
Some stigmatize all patent medicines
with the odious epithet of quackery.
But DR.. WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR
BIrTERs have the Endorsement of the
medical profession. The editor can
conscientiously and cordially recon-
mend the medicine, because he knows
he has found great benefit from its use.
For nearly twenty years he has suffered
from arrangement of the stomach. And
though the disease has become chronic,
he has already obtained great relief
from this remedy.
A physician left at death large volume,
carefully sealed, and supposed to contain a
fund of medical knowledge. On being opened,
il was found TO contain only this simple adj
vice Keep your head cool, your feet warm
and your bowels OPEN" But there is whole
volume i'm this maxim. VINEGAR iBITrERs ACT
as mild cathartic, leaving the system III
healthy condition. So.
IL. n. Mcdonald, an experienced druggist:
| associated with DIR. Walker, Is man OF
| thorough integrity aud practical knoMledge OF
| the art Of compromising medicine. lhey nave
a valuable medicine. and they know how to
! bring il to the knowledge OF the public by
! iudicious advertising. We are happy TO give
/ Them orr hearty indorsement, and bid them
! God.speed i'm relieving the ills TO which
flesh is heir Lockwood URioniSt, Dec. 20. 1872.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22

rican politics but the result shows that
his deserton of the Republican party
carried out of it only himself; that the
colored men of the country, by unani'
nous vote, disown his leadership; that
Massachusetts, worships no little polii-
cal gods and that the thunders of this
deluded Jupiter inspire neither terror
nor respect anywhere. So much for the
spiteiulness Of baked human self.con.
ceit
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22

FROM recent experiments it appears
that canalsteamers will be able TO make
the round trip from Buffalo to New
York in twenty days or less, instead OF
thirty, as is the case at present. This
will add at least one-third to the capac-
ity of the Erie canal, and will make
that great commercial route more valu.
able than ever.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22
Three Per Cent. Certificates.

A few days ago the Greeley press
made great hue.and-cry about an al.
legged initiation of the currency by an
illegal reissuance by the Treasury De.
partment Of few millions of green.
backs which had been retired under
Mr.. McCu!loch's management of the
Treasury affairs. We did not care TO
notice the matter until after the cam.
paign had closed, lest the facts given
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22
Bee Feed.

Bees cannot be fed without going to
some expense; but every one is DESTROYS
of obtaining something cheap and re.
liable, if possible. have been expert.
menting on artificial bee feed on large
scale, and am now convinced that an
artificial feed can be made that will an
swer as we'll as the honey gathered from
the flowers, and at about one-fourth of
its value.
To test the merits Of this bee feed, |
selected five colonies on the 18th of
October last and gave them nothing but
empty combs, and fed them with my
artificial feed ever since, and all FIVE are
in thriving condition at the present
writing, Jan. 5. The FIVE colonies have
consumed about thirty pounds since
began feeding.
The feed ! prepare as follows To ten
pounds of sugar add three pounds of
water, and bring to boil remove the
scum and add one ounce of gam arabic
finely pulverized, one pound infusion OF
slippery elm, six and a half pounds OF
corn starch of the consistency of thick
molasses, and two tablespoonsful Of salt.
The whole is we'll mixed and when cold
it is ready for use.-Cor. journal of the
Farm
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22
Silver i'm the Sea.

Sea water contains an appreciable
amount of silver, and a recent calcula-
ton shows that, if equally distributed,
there must be in the oceans of the world
some two million tons of the precious
metal. or more than ever has been dug
out of the earth. Silver in the sea is
only one of the thousand illustrations
of the fact that solid substances may be
made invisible by chemical processes,
just as a silver half dollar may be dis.
solved in a very small amount of nitric
acid, the coin disappearing, while the
fluid is as clear and transparent as
before.
Rosa BoSHEUR is coming to the United
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22

The medicine.chest of one of the
abandoned Arctic whalers was broken
open by some of the natives, who,
thinking they had found prize,
proceeded to swallow the contents of all
the bottles. The survivors describe the
result as startling, for the doses were too
large for the constitution of even an
Esquimaux. Several of the partakers
died, and others wanted to, but couldn' t.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22

A SMALL boy gave his reason for en-
wing the Prophet Daniel. that Daniel
had been in the lions den, and had
seen the show for nothing,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-22

Rosa BoSHEUR is coming to the United
States within year.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-06-15
The News.

President Grant has taken to Long
Branch and the sea side watering places.
Rev. DR.. l.. d. Huston Of Baltimore, has
been acquitted by the Ecclesiastical Court
of the NJ. +. Church South, hut the Grand
Jury of Baltimore has found ~ bill against
him for seduction.
The strike of the mechanics and laborcrs
of New York for higher wages and the
eight hour SYSTEM is assuming gigantic
proportions.
Congress has adjourned and the people
of Washington City breathe more freely.
The Rev. +. W. Conrad, Pastor Of the
Messiah Lutheran Church, Philadelphia
has been granted leave Of absence, and
sum appropriated by the congregation tt
nav his travelling expenses to Europe and
back. O.,
Father Gayazzi is brimful Of cloqucnce,
and lecturing in various parts Of the Uni
ted States.
Reports from Zanzibar puts the safety Of
Or. Livingston, the great African traveller,
beyond dispute.
~ The Republicans Of Oregon have a
majority of about 1000 in the State. They
have also majority on joint ballot in the
Legislature.
The funeral Of the late James Gordon
Bennett took place in New York on the
l3th inst. He leaves widow, ~ son and
adopted daughter. and aproperty value al
seven millions of dollars. The flags through
out the city were hung at half mast
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-06-15

DEAD MARE.-Mr. A. s. Gents, re.
siding at Cherry Valley, in this Dis
trict, now absent in the West, lost a
fine mare last Tuesday. She died it
is supposed from the labors Of foaling
She left fine colt, six or seven days
DID,.
More butter is being offered in this
place than can be sold. The price is
going down.
aaJ- Strawberries are pouring in
by the million. Attend the Sabbath
School Festival at Rocky Ridge this
afternoon, and you will get some OF
the sweetest Monocacy bottom cream
to match.
Watcrmelons are small as yet, but
they will soon be along. The boys
are keeping their mouths clean to
munich them.
Oranges and other tropical fruit
were never before in such abundance
Pine apples have sold as low as five
cents a piece in the Baltimore mar
ket, and some for less
Weather during the week has been
charming. Beautiful moonlight nj Hht:
when turtle doves make love, and tn,
tire. frogs join in salutary music.
DEATH OF Mrs. NJ. \. GIsT.-Thi,
venerable. lady, who met with a 50.
we're accident several weeks ago ha;
since deceased. She WIS the wife o
Col. Joshua {. Gist, residing adjoining
the village of Winfield and was in he1
18th year. Sh" was much esteemed
by large circle Of friends and ac
unaintanceS, who deeply Sympathiz'
with the bcrcavrl husband
Westminster Sentinel.
DEATH or AN AGED LADY.-Mrs
Mary Matthias, widow Of the late Maj
Jacob Matthias, died at her residence
in this city, on Saturday morning last
in the SD year Of her age. Her re
mains we're Inferred in the cemetery
adjonny st. Johns Catholic church
on Monday morning. Rev. Mr. Meade
conducted the funeral services at thu
church. III.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-06-15
Overheard.

Dan. Voorhees,, the great Indiana
Hessian, has been thrown overheard
at indianapolis. On the heel of the
adjournment of Congress-, the Demo
cratic State Convention OF Indiana
met at Indianapolis, on the 18th In
slant, and passed Resolutions indoors
iny Greeley and Brown. A motion
WAS made to substitute Voorhees, as
.onc of the Delegates for the Stat" at
barge in place Of bowling. Lost by a
vote of Il to 90. The people and not
Tonsr.ssmen will rule this free land
of the West. In 1894, Congressman
attempted Ia dictate the nomination
uf WIN. II. Crawford 10y Caucus Ma
.hincry, but the free, independent
and untrammrlel voters \Frederlck
county conspicuous among the mum
lerl rose up and pronounced for An
drew lack ren, free, sovereign and IN
dependent.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-06-15
1ncl -M:ars.

sF |, ia rlmorcd that the small pox il
prevailing in Baltimore pretty extensive.
". This warm weather will soon drive it
out.
eE 4 correspondent wishes to know
whether We are partial to straw lwrrirs and
cream. send them along and We will tell
You.
- A newspaper or party that csn't Sc.
or hear or read the ylst OF arguments on
thin skinned What i. the verdict OF n
jury worth. except both sides of case in
Court is fairly arsned' .AnrHparte judg.
mcnt ia not worth Il fig. Hear both sides,
said the Grrcian Philosopher a man Ms
Wise A. Socrates, and then decide for your
self
CoSTRACT COMPLETED. We are graft.
fed to learn that Mr.. j. ". L-isinger, OF
near Wayncshoro', Franklin county, Pa.
completed his contract for executing the
masonry, bridges, culyerts, etc, on the En-
mitsburg Branch Railway. The grading
and masonry is now all ready for the ties,
rails and rolling stock. Mr.. Leisinger il a
first class workman, and executed his con.
tract in n faithful and satisfactory manner.
lie deserves great credit for his diligence
and fidelity.
WARM Last Thursday and Friday
were very warm days. The sultry Sirius
ragged holly.
1t is calculated that the wheat harvest
will commence about the lat of July.
1t is said that the Leap Year Party will
take place some time in August.
Cherries are ripe, and huckleberries will
soon be ditto.
Ifyour neck is pretty, show it; but don't
imagine you are neck clean down to the
waist, my pretty fair maid.
All around we hear favorable account.
Of the fruit crop.
RESULTED FATALLY servant girl
employ of Mr.. Rufus II. WilCoxon by the
explosion of coal oil can, died from the
effects Of the burn on Friday, the 18th inst.
Persons cannot be too careful with this dan
gcrnus fluid. F'redtr"k Examiner.
THANKS are indebted to Mr.. John
Hahn. residing near Eicholtz's mill. for n
quart oft the largest and most finely flavor.
I'd Strawberries, We have tasted this year ;
they are Of the Magnlm Bonum variety 7;
sweet, juicy and luscious; to Miss Maria
Eyler for some of the finest May Duke (ri-
Icued in june cherries and to Mr.. Thorn
az O'Toole for some elegant lettuce and "a
basket Of the finest cherries grown in
Cherry Valley.
Queen Victoria is So wears Old,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1872-06-15
| )IBLIC SALE.

The subscriber intending to go West,
will sell ut Public Sale, one mile Moth Of
Mrchanir.town. near the Emmittburg
Turnpike and Franklin Mills. on Saturday,
the 22d Of J"m "'rt. at | o'clock. p. M, the
following articles OF personal property, to-
wit:
TWO HEAD OF HORSES,
one five wear old. works well, is good
leader: , carts. , s-t- gears, ? collars, hr:'
dies, | halter. | set single harness, horse
sprradcr. | rough lock. rifle. I musket, a
hun,in. case watch and set cooper
tools. and other Il ticlcs not necessary t"
mention.
7crms of .c,ls-A credit of six months
will bc given on all sums above 3, by tn"
purchasers giving their notes ithaDpror.
I'd security. bearing interest from date" oil
sums Of r. and under, the cash will hc re-
ulir-d. WM. |. FOX.
.IouH Ed MARTIN, Auct.
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