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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-04

Dear little feet. how you wander and wander,
Little twin truants. so fleet.
Over the things that you meet.
Dear little tongue how you chatter ana chatter
Over your innocent joys.
Oh but the house is alive with your chatter.
shaking indeed with your nose.
Can't you be quiet moment. sweet rover?
L. there no end 10 your funf
Soon the "old sand man viii sprinkle you over.
Then the days work Ia done.
Come 10 my arms for the daylight rs dying.
Closer the dark shadows creep:
Come like a bird that is weary of flying;
Come let me rock you TO sleep.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-04
Germany,s War Losses.

According to a statistical work to De
laid before the Statistical Congress at
st. Petersburg, the German armies lost
during the war 40,SSl men by death;
Of these, 1887 fell in battle, lO,IlO
succumbed to their wounds, 3l6 per-
ished by accidents, and 80 by suicide.
Dysentery carried off 1000, typhus
$500, gastric fever l59, smallpox 2o4,
inflammation of the lungs 500, other
acute diseases 52l, consumption DIV,
other chronic diseases 2i9, and sudden
death "a. The nature of the disease IS
not indicated in the case Of $50, and
the cause Of death is not stated in the
case of 4l9. The missing number
1000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-04

emigrant camp, offering said emigrants
that "if they would lay down their
arms he would protect them" They
accordingly laid down their arms, came
out from that camp, and delivered
themselves up TO said Lee. The women
and children were then, by the order of
said Lee, separated from the men, and
were marched ahead of the men. After
said emigrants had marched about a
half mile toward Cedar City, the order
was given to shoot them down. At that
time said Lee was at the head of the
column. ! WAS in the rear. / did not
hear Lee give the order to fire, but
heard IT from the under officers as it
was passed down the column. The en-
igrants were then and there shot down,
except seventeen little children, whom
immediately took into my charge. |
do not know the total number of said
company, as | did not stop to count the
dead. | Immediately put the little chill
dren in baggage wagons belonging to
the regiment and took them to Ham.
Inns Ranch, and from there TO Cedar
City, and procured them homes among
the people. John Willis and Samuel
Murdy assisted me in taking charge Of
said children. On the evening of the
massacre, Col. w. II. Dame and Lieut.
Col. |. {. Haight came TO Hamlin's,
where | had the said children, and fell
into dispute, in the course of which
said Haight told Col Dame that if he
was going to report of the killing of
said emigrants, "he should not have
ordered it DONE" | do not know when
or where said troops were disbanded.
About two weeks after said massacre
occurred said Maj. Lee (who was also
Indian Agent went to Salt Lake City,
and, as l believe, reported said fight
and its results to the Commander.in-
Chief. | was not present at either of
the before mentioned councils, nor at
any council connected with the afore-
said military operations, or with said
company. | gave no orders except
those connected with the saving of the
children, and those after the massacre
had occurred, and said orders were
given as bishop, and not in military
sense. At the time of the firing of the
first volley discharged my piece |
did not fire afterward, though several
subsequent volleys were fired. After
the first fire was delivered at once set
about saving the children. | COM
menced to gather up the children be.
fore the firing had ceased. / have
made the foregoing statement before
the above entitled Court for the reason
that believe that | would be assassin
ated should / attempt to make the
same before any Court in the Territory
of Utah. After said Lee returned from
Salt Lake City, as aforesaid, said Lee
told me that he had reported fully to
the President (meaping the Comman-
der-in. Chief the fight at Mountain
Meadows, and the killing of said emf
grants. Brigham Young was at that
time the Commanderin in. Chief of the
mi litia of the Territory of Utah. And
further deponent saith not.
PHILIP KLINGoN SMITH.
Subscribed and swown to before me
this 10th day of April, A. d., 1871.
P. B. MILLER, County Clerk.
The authenticity of this affidavit is
fully certified to by Chief.Justice
Mexican and Associate Justice Strick-
land, of the Supreme Court of Utah
Territory.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-04
Varieties.
A CENTER ornament-Your nose.

A CENTER ornament-Your nose.
A MAN of standing-The streetcar
conductor.
THE best get up for ladies-eight
o'clock a. m.
OF what nation are all stocking.
members? Darnation.
If seven days make one week, how
many will make one strong?
The yachtmans motto-Large sails
and small profits.
The richer man makes his food the
poorer he makes his appetite.
Why is a newspaper like an army?
Because it has leaders, columns and re-
views.
No INDULGENCE Of passion destroys
the spiritual nature so much as respect
able selfishness.
He who caresses thee more than he
was wont to do, has either deceived
thee, or is about to do it.
Why should man with a termagant
wife be considered smart fellow? Be-
cause he's shrewd individual.
SOMEBODY says ga wife should be like
a roasted lamb, tender, and nicely
dressed" A scamp adds, land with.
out any sauce"
To MAKE girl love you, coax her to
love somebody else. If there be any
thing that woman relishes, it is to be
con trary.
L, hoc
CHANGED to turn, and noticed two doc
tors walking behind him. He stopped
till they passed, and then followed on
behind them. "And why this 2" said
they. 81 know my place in this pro-
cession," said he.
Two YEARS ago Connecticut man re-
ceived a gross insult from neighbor
who lives quarter of a mile or more
from him. After long meditation he
has purchased a peacock and jackass,
and anchored them in field adjoining
his neighbours back yard.
The Rev. Samuel j. Browne, who, in
1904, published the first number of the
Cincinnati Gazette, and who, last July,
shot boy for robbing his garden, died
lately at his residence near Cincinnati,
aged S5. He died possessed of real estate
worth not less than 100000, which he
had owned since the early days of Gin
cinnati.
ONE of the best political notes of the
day occurred at Fairhaven, VT, the
other Sunday. On returning home
from church, little Freddie, who is about
five years old, said to his father: "Our
minister is Republican, amt he, pa?"
II hope so, my son, but why do you
think he is p Because, when he was
praying this morning, he said, Grant,
our Heavenly Father If he had been
Democrat, he would have said, Gree
ley, our Heavenly Father"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-04

glanced carelessly at the corner where
the young woman stood. Then, with a
cry, sprang with outstretchei arms TO
meet the little igure that sprang into
them.
The Deacon and Mrs. Clements stood
in SPECIFICS amazement. Then Ma
rien, all bushes and fearful smiles,
went over to the old pair and took their
hands.
81 am Georges wife. ! was so afraid
you would never love me, so | came de-
termined to win you if | could. Mother,
father, may be your daughter p
And happier family when they had
exhausted their powers of surprise,
amazement and pride in the beautiful
Marion, never gave thanks over sup
per table.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-04

IT is being fully proven that George
Washington was born in England; which
need not surprise any one, for in an.
other fifty years the blazing eye OF
science will demonstrate that no such
man ever lived. Nothing like science
for brushing away cobwebs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-12-21
Aennfbrt Journal.
Published on Water Strset Foot Of Court,
AUGUSTA, MAINE
81 SPRAGUE, OWEN L. NASH.
Qallg 3lennebee sournal.

Is issued every morning, except Sundays.
contains the latest news by telegraph and mail
gives reports the Markets, and has carefully pre-
pared political and local articles, and a generous
amount of farming, home and miscellaneous read.
'ng with full compilation of State news.
Terms, q per aa.uHs fS advance' g. IL payment
10 not made within the year. Single copies 5cents
70 be had at the bookstores and i; this Office.
Advertisements one inch in lcagth, throc in
serions or less, $780, 25 cts for every subsequent
Insertion. Longer advertisements, or those inserted
;or any considerable length oftlme, will be nseTted
at favorable terms to the advertiser.
Special Notices 81 per cent. additional.
Amusement Notices, % per square per week.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-03-29

The following amusing description, by
John Phoenix, Of new idea in artillery,
was evidently suggested by the mounted
howitzers used in the Abyssinian war:
"Out in q certain western fort, some time
ago, the major conceived the idea that ar
tillery might be used effectively in fighting
with the Indians by dispensing with gun
carriages and fastening the cannon upon
backs of mules. So he explained his views
to the commandant, and it was determin-
ed to try the experiment. A howitzer as
selected and strapped upon an ambulance
mule, with the muzzle pointed toward the
tail. When they had secured the gun, and
loaded it with ball-cartridge, they led that
calm and steadfast mule out on the bluff
and set up target in the middle of the
river to practice ut. The rear of the mule
was turned toward the target and he was
backed gently up to the edge of the bluff.
The officers stood around in q semi-circle,
while the major went up and inserted q
time fuse in the touch hole Of the howit-
ger. When the fuse was ready, the major
lit it and retired. In minute or two the
hitherto unruffied mule heard the fixing
back there on his neck, and it made him
uneasy. He reached his head around to
ascertain what was going on, and, as he did
so, his body turned and the howitzer be-
gan to sweep around the horizon. The
mule at last became excited and his curios-
ity grew more and more intense, and in q
second or two he was standing with his
four legs in q bunch, making six revolu-
tions minute, and the howitzer, under
stand, threatening sudden death to every
man within half mile. The commandant
was observed to climb suddenly up tree !;
the lieutenants were seen sliding over the
bluff into the river, as if they didn't care at
all about the high price of uniforms; the
adjutant made good time toward the fort;
the sergeant began to throw up breastworks
with his bayonet, and the major rolled over
the ground and groaned. In two or three
minutes there was puff of smoke, dull
thud, and the mule-oh where was he
A solitary jackass might have been seen
turning successive back -somersaults over
the bluff, only to rest at anchor, finally, with
his howitZer at the bottom of the river,
while the ball went off toward the fort, hit
the chimney in the majors quarters, and
ratified the adobe bricks down into the par
lor, and frightened the majors wife into
commissions. They do not allude to it now,
and no report of the results of the expert
ment was ever sent to the War Department.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-03-29
4 Little Story of the Duke Alexis.

The emperor's third son Alexis, is in the
naval service. Somewhat more than year
ago, when holding the rank of midship-
man, the flag ship in which he was serving
was wrecked on the coast of Denmark. The
admiral ordered the life boats to be lower
ed, aud directed Alexis to take charge of
the first boat. The royal midshipman de-
clined to obey the order. 1t was peremp-
torily repeated:
81, your commanding officer, order you
into the boat"
"Admiral, cannot obey you," said the
young prince. at would not become the
son of the emperor to be the first to leave
the ship. shall remain with you to the
last"
"But shall put you under arrest for
disobedience of orders as soon as circum-
stances will allow me to do so''
81 mean no disobedience, but cannot
Obey" replied the youthful hero
In due time almost the entire crew reach
ed the shore in safety, only some four or
five having persisted in the transit from
the ship Among the last to land were the
admiral and the Grand Duke Alexis.
Tents were hastily erected from the sails
and spars saved from the wreck, and the
rigid discipline of ship life was promptly
resumed. The young prince was placed
under arrest for his previous disobedience
of orders. AS soon as possible, the Russian
minister at Copenhagen was informed of
the facts, and telegraphed them to the en-
peror, from whom he received the following
reply:
II approve the act of the admiral for
placing the midshipman under arrest for
dsobedience of orders, and bless and kiss
my son for disobeying them."-AppineoH's
Magazine.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-03-29

a Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune gives his idea of the Demo.
cratic policy during the present slight
unpleasantness " among the Republicans,
az follows:
The Democratic party is as noiseless az
II cat in pursuit of her prey, while the agi-
tations of their adversaries are in progress.
Ifthey were all shod in sheep skin shoes,
with the wool turned outward, they could
not move more quietly. But they are pre-
pairing for the final spring with as deter
mined an intent as ever. They will en-
courage the growth of third party, torn
from the Republican organizations to the
last moment, and then they will meet and
nominate candidate of their own, and,
showing q moderate platform and conser.
vative candidate, will invite the disaffect-
ed from every cave of Adullum in the land.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-03-29
ways leading a virtuous life ~

ways leading virtuous life ~
ITO begin every morning with prayer
and conclude every evening with q goo6
action"
"WhO is truly wise 2"
| ale who does not believe himself so.
Which are the requisites of good
wife ?"
| She should be as beautiful as pea. hen
gentle as q lamb, prudent az mouse, just
as faithful mirror, pure as the scale of
| a fish. She must mourn for her deceased
husband like q she camel, and live in her
widowhood like a bird who has lost its
wings"
The Chan was astonished at the wisdom
of the fair Kookju, yet enraged at her hay
| ing reproached him with injustice, he still
wished to destroy her.
After q few days he thought he had found
means for attaining his object He sent
for her and asked her to determine the true
worth of all his treasures; after which he
promised to absolve her from malice in
questioning his justice, and to admit that
she intended, as wise woman, merely to
! warn him.
The maiden consented, yet under the con-
dition that the Chan would promise her
implicit obedience to her commands for
four days. She requested that he would
not eat food during that time. On the last
day she placed dish of meat before him
and said: Confess, oh Chan that all thy
treasures are not worth M much M this
joint of meat"
The Chan was SO struck with the truth
of her remark that he confessed the truth
of it, acknowledged her as wise married
her to his son and permitted her constant.
ly to remind him to use his Left Fye.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-03-29
VARIETIES.
Happiness is internal, not external.
Water reddens the rose, whiskey the

Happiness is internal, not external.
Water reddens the rose whiskey the
nose.
An Editor answered II challenge,
"when want to die, can shoot myself"
Woman first tempted man to eat He
took to drinking on his own account.
The last sensation novel is, we hear,
to be entitled "The Poisoned Gum Drop
or, the Candy Woman's Revenge
Suppose Teller that has nothin' mar
ries gal what has nothin', is her things
his'n, or his'n her'n, or his'n and her'n both
his'n2
"A young lady wants to know whether
girl may be sure man loves her unut-
terably when he sits in her presence for an
hour without speaking.
"A young gentleman who had just mar
ried little beauty says: "She would
have been taller but she is made of such
precious materials that nature couldn't af-
ford it."
An old farmer in New Hampshire rc
Gently killed pig, and being asked how
much it weighed, replied that it did not
weigh as much as he expected, and he did
not expect it would.
Many n man learned during the war,
how sweet and glorious it was to die for
ones country-by means of substitute,
And reioiced after the war that they had
only died by proxy.
"A Tennessee woman's paper has terms
thus singularly graduated "Three dol
lars a year, to men; $3.50 to unmarried
workingmen seventy-fve cents to women
with lazy husbands to support"
A little boys grief upon being refused
permission to attend the Danbnry Opera
House, was in part assuaged by the ASST.
rance from his mother that if he would iry
his tears he might go mp street in the after
noon and see his father have n tooth pulled
An editor and his wife were walk ing
out in the bright moonlight one evening
Like all editors wives, she was Of an ex-
ceedingly poetic nature, and said to her
mate: "Notice that moon, how bright,
and calm and beautiful" Couldn't think
of noticing it." returned the editor, for
anything less than the usual rates---a dol
lar and fifty cents for twelve lines"
- 4 gentleman with a suspicous-look =
ing red spot ON his face entered Phila.
delphia street car the other day. He was
asked if he had the smallpox, and answer
ed " Yes whereupon one passenger retired
and the rest moved up to the other end OF
the car. "How long since you recovered 2"
asked one of the more curious "Wcll, ~
nearly as | can recollect, about thirty live
years ago" replied the victim of the di--
ease.
An exchange warns people in regard
to the danger of borrowing newspapers and
not subscribing for them. 1t assures its
readers that borrowing their neighbors'
newspapers is not safe, and it adds That
it once knew poor, but honest man. who
borrowed paper, innocently and inadvert-
emily, from wholesale neighbor. Fatal
act That terrible contagion, the small
pox, was conveyed insidiously into the
J fibres of the sheet. OF the extensive and
interesting family, a doting father, a fond
wife, several intelligent and heroic SONS,
thirteen lovely daughters, two popular
mothers-in-law, and three beautiful aunts
not one remains to tell the tale
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-03-29
Sumner on Grant.

The SIN has the following as Mr. SUN
ners opinion of Mr.. Grants honesty and
capability:
Il am satisfied that Grant is a dishonest
man. That is sufficient 10 justify me in
saying most positively that I cannot and
shall not support him. For other reasons
he is unfit to be President of the United
States He is ignorant of the details Of
civil government, and does not manifest u
disposition to learn them. He is venial
ambitious. vulgar in his habits, and pos
sesses a cunning which is low and logged.
He has strong will, but it is never con
trolled by reason, hence he becomes per
verse, and the man he should be, yielding
and gentlemanly, is most obstinate and un
manly. Such a man is unfit to be Pres-
dent of the United States and most unfit to
be the candidate of the Republican party.
He ought not to be the candidate of the
Republican party, and shall not be if can
help it. ] cannot honorably support -
party that will sustain such o man"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-03-29
PO G &c al.
I" MOTHERS FOOL"

" fIs plain tu ne, said farmers wife,
" Those boys will make their marks in lie
They never were made TO handle hoe,
And ut once 10 college ought TO go.
There's Fred, he's little better n fool
But John and Henry must go to school
well, really, wifi" quoth farmer Brown.
As he set his mng of cider down,
" Fred does more work In Il day for NE
Than both his brothers do in three
book larnin' will never plant ones cogu
Nor hoe potatoes, sure's you're born,
Nor mend f. rod of broken fence
For my part, give me common sonse'
Nat his wife was bound the raost TO rnu,
And John and Henry were sent 10 school
While Fred, Of course, was lett behind.
For his mother said he had no mind.
Five Years at school tho students spent:
Thea into business each one went.
John harned to play the flute and fddlr,
And parted his hair, Ofcourse, in the middle
While his brother looked rather higher than lie
And hang ant sign, II. Brown, VI, n
Meanwhile NJ home their brother Fred
Had taken a notion Into hi head
Hut he quietly trimmed his apple trees
And weeded onions and planted peas;
While somehow, either by hook or crook
lie managed to read tnll many book
Until at last his father said
He was getting shook lnruin' into his head
" But for all that added farmer Brown.
" Hes the amartest boy there il in town
the war broke ont, and Captain Fred
A hundred men to the battle led,
And when the enomy's flag came down,
Went marching home as General Brown.
But when he went to work on the farm again
And PLANTED corn and sowed his grain,
Re shingled the barn and mended the fence,
Til people declared che had common sense"
Now common sense was very rare,
And the State House needed n portion there;
40 the " family Ounce " moved into town,
And people called him Governor Brown,
And his brothers who went to the city school
Came home to live with "mother'S fool"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-03-29
How to Conduct Yourself In Hotel.

When you enter hotel if there are not
more than three empty chairs, occupy them
all ifpossible; if the weather is cold, set di.
rectly in front of the stove, and then growl
about poor fires; if the landlord wants to
replenish the fires, do not discommode
yourself by moving to one side to give him
room, but sit still what right has hotel
proprietor that loafer should respect. If
paying guest arrives, don't make room
for him near the stove or offer him chair,
because he is foolish enough to pay his bill
and help keep the hotel up for the accom-
mediation of you, loafers; pick up the daily
paper, but do not read more than three
hours, as some of the guests may want to
look at it; if there are more besides your
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-03-29

self reading, you read aloud, it will not an
noy the rest. Ifyou should want to buy
two cent segar, wait until the landlord
goes to his dinner, let him get almost half
through, then step to the door and call him
out and ask him if he can't give you three
for five cents; if he cannot, tell him you
can get them across the way. After you
have kept him talking till his dinner is
cold, go ont and leave the doors o,rr it,
a public house you know, and you can do
as you please. he should complain tell
your friend that he is not fit to keep ho-
tel, then tell him what you would DO ifyon
were proprietor.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-03-29
The Right sort of Beggars.

DIR. Prime, in his "Travels in Japan,
says: Passing through q street and see
ing some forty or fifty coppers hanging on
as many nails at the front of shop
(the copper coin has hole in the centre)
| inquired what they were for, and was
told they were placed there by the shop
keeper to save time and trouble in answer
ing the calls of the mendicants. When
one came along he simply took copper
and passed on, never abusing the charity
of the shopkeeper by taking two.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-03-29
Monday, April Sth, U,
At III o'clock, A. NJ, all that
TRACT OR PARCEL OF
LAND.

situate in Hartford county, about two miles
above tho Hickory, and on the road from
Bel Air to Dublin, adjoining the lands of
Edward Bowman, Hugh Corrigan and 9TH
ers, being part of the land conveyed by Jos.
NJ. Street, to Fannie G; Morgan, by deed
date'l on or about the 21st day of May, A.
d., 1868, and recorded in Liber w. G., No.
IA, folio 1913, one of the Land Records of
Hartford county--afterwards conveyed to
Wakeman F. Morgan and Fannie G. Nor
gan his wife, and from them to Maria
Cunningham, by deed bearing date March
Goth, 1868, and recorded in Liber A. l.. j.,
No. 90, folio 1T2-containing