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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
A One.eyed Jury.

There dwelt some years ago in Bour-
bon county, Kentucky, a drunken,
worthless, one eyed fellow named C,
whose chief occupations were getting
tipsy and fighting. There had ust
been elected a new prosecuting attor-
ney, who was entitled to part of the
fines which might be imposed on the
malefactors of Bourbon, and he deter
mined to squelch old C. He did
not wait long for an opportunity to have
him arrested. B, the constable,
said, as it was an important case, he
wanted about three days to get an APP
propriate jury to try 1t. On the third
day the new attorney was informed that
things were ready at the Court House.
There was the judge, and behind him
the constable. On one side sat old one
eyed C, on the other, the twelve
jurymen, 'jess like him." on benches
forming a triangle, each with a plug of
tobacco and a jackknife, the gift of the
constable, whiting, and, according to
order, splitting 10 the center. The aston
ished prosecutor looked at the jury, and
exclaimed:
"Where did the constable get this
jury?"
The constable quietly replied, 81
thought the prisoner was entitled to be
tried by jury of his peers, and I've
been out three days hunting 'em up.
I've got twelve here, but if you don't
like 'em, I've got twelve more outside
waiting"
The prosecutor looked out and saw,
seated on the fence, twelve more dittos,
similarly equipped and employed. lie
turned to the Court in undisguised
wrath, and said
"I'll dismiss this case ~
The constable wrote his return on the
warrant thus, Dismissed by the county
attorney on sight of the jury" and so it
stands recorded to this day. The pris-
oner was discharged, and left the Court
House rejoicing at having been deprived
of his constitutional right of being tried
by the previously mentioned citizens.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
A Story of Stories.

SoAe ingenious admirer of Dickens
produces the following, which seems TO
contain the names Of all the works of
the great novelist:
"Oliver Twist" had some very Hard
Times" in the "Battle of Lite" and
having been saved from the Wreck of
the Golden Mary by our Mutual
Friend" " Nicholas Nickleby," had just
finished reading "Tale of Two Cities"
to -" Martin Chuzzlewit," during which
time q The Cricket on the Hearth" had
been chirping right merrily, while ''The
Chimes" from the adjacent churches
were heard, when Seven Poor Travel
ers" commenced singing "Christmas
Carol" Barnaby Ridge" then ar
rived from the "Old Curiosity Shop
with some Pictures from Italy," and
"Sketches by Boz" to show "Little
Dorrit," who was busy with Pickwicx
Papers" when "David Copperfeld, +"
who had been taking American
Notes." entered and informed the com.
pany that the Great Expectations" of
.Dombey e. Son." regarding "Mrs Lir-
riper's Legacy" had not been realized,
and that he had seen Boots at the
Holly Street Inn" taking Somebody
Luggage" to /" Lirriper's Lodgings" in
a street that had "No Thoroughtare,"
opposite " Bleak House. where the
"Haunted Man," who had just given
one of 6" DR.. Marigolds Prescriptions"
to an Uncommercial Traveller" was
brooding over the mystery of Edwin
brood -
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
Farm and Garden.

Sowi.y Tomato Seed-It is probably too
early to sow seed for a general crop !;
but those who have warm looms or a
greenhouse may safely try few plants.
have some two or three inches high,
and expect to have them well loaded
with fruit by the time it will do to plant
out. A half dozen good strong plants,
started early, will yield many a good
dish of fruit long before it can be pro-
cured from plants taken from a hot-bed
in spring. In starting the plants thus
early some care is required in pinching
off the ends of leading shoots as we'll as
side branches in order to make them
grow stocky and bloom early. The
plants should also be allowed plenty of
room and only one grown in a pot,
commencing with the smallest and
shifting into larger ones as the plants
require it. 1t is a very easy matter to
obtain tomatoes early if one starts in
time.-Moores Rural Ne,o Yorker.
To Prevent Trnips Favoring MIX and
Meat.-When turnips and rutabagas are
fed to mich COWS and fattening sheep
and beeves, the milk and butter and
Heat will have decided flavor of the
roots. This may be prevented by feed
ing the COWS only Immediately after
milking; and by changing the feed of
fat animals from roots 20 hay and meal
for three or four days previous to slaugh-
tering there will be no unpleasant flavor
in the meat.
Salt and Charcoal for Stock.-Farmers
who raise stock should give them plenty
of charcoal to eat, and furnish them
freely of salt. Both improve cattle and
keep them in good condition. Salt acts
healthily on the blood charcoal
\strengthens and heals tn mucous mem
brane throughout the alimentary canal,
and increases the power of the digestive
organs, healing any unhealthy condi-
ton existing there. 1t prevents worms
generating in the stomach, etc.. it alb
serbs the putrescent gases by which
worms are generated, and they conse.
quently die. The free use of salt and
charcoal will contribute to protect cat
tie from epidemics, and will counterfeit
the effects of putrescent or septic water.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
A Funny Typographical Blunder.

A funny typographical blunder oc.
Cured In the columns of the Paris Con-
stitltiowel in connection with NJ. Theirs,
who was writing for the paper at the
time the mistake occurred. 1t was in
the days when Theirs was Prime Minis
ter of France, under Louis PHILIPPE, 40
wears ago. Then, as now, NJ. Theirs was
very sensitive upon the subject of adj
verse votes of the Chambers. and was
always ready to resign his Office at the
slightest provocation. One of these
emergencies occurred, and NJ. Theirs
sent in his resignation, but at an inter.
view Wi the King, he was induced to
withdraw it. On the same day a noted
burglar had been captured and brought
before the juge d obstruction, whom he
grossly insulted. The Constitutional
Contained the following two items about
it: after his Majesty had informed
M. Theirs of his desire TO keep him at
the head of the Government, the Prime
Minister. deeply moved, replied to the
King, You rascally old fellow, | feel
like wrenching your head Oft "The
burglar, Jenneuse, was captured yester.
day by the gendarmes. lie was taken
in irons before the juge d instruction, to
whom he mad the impudence to say
your Majesty, the confidence you re
nose i'm me touches my heart extremely
I shall try my best not TO disappoint
YOUR expectations The closing para
graphs of the two items had of course
been transposed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09

the salt, yeast, &C., cost next to moth
ing. | vary this meal with occasionally
apple dumplings, being able to buy
about dozen apples (windfalls) for Id /;
and, as luxury, which i allow myself
on Sundays, | buy pennyworth OF lard
now and then. This amounts to six
pence "a week. do not include my
drink, as, being pure water, have it
for other purposes as we'll. | have lived
on this diet for nearly twenty years, and
am in excellent health, and esteem my
self most fortunate that | am as badly
off AS | am, for | am beyond the reach
of temptation. "-Brighton Guardian.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
The New Chicago.

The work of rebuilding the "Garden
City" is going forward with great ener.
gy. The new Sherman House will be of
stone, in the renaissance style of archi.
lecture, more solid in external appear.
ance, and more elaborate than before.
1t will be six stories in height, with
attic roof and basement. The base
ment will be occupied for business pur-
poses, the first story for the office OF the
hotel. The contract for the stone
work of the new Chamber of Commerce
has been let for little over eighty
thousand dollars, the work to be done
in June. The Common Council of the
city are considering plan for COMPEL
ing all railroads to enter the city limits
by the three main routes, one IN each
Division, giving to the companies room
for two tracks and facilities for ere citing
commodious depots.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
After.Dinner Speeches.

In accordance with the usual custom
in Kentucky Senator elect McCreery
gave dinner to the members of the
Legislature of that State and others on
the evening of the 18th ult. In re.
spending to toast in his honor he said
that he considered an after-dinner
speech the greatest humbug of modern
times. The fashion was an innovation
upon the good, old.time customs of the
hers. There haG been, he said, a
great deal of good, old, hard sense in
the thousands OF years behind us, but
none of it had ever sanctioned after.
dinner speeches. They were about as
useless and empty rs the empty de.
canter from which they drew their
inspiration. He said that inspiration
was all bosh hard work does it all and
If there is any young man here tonight
who has set himself down TO wait, or
any old man who has been waiting for
the last forty years, for this thing of in
splration 10 come skipping along and
make him great, | say to him now, get
up and 90 TO work. and work hard and
long and steady, and, by the time you
are ready TO step into your grave, peo-
pie will begin to say that you are a
genius, and commence to think that
you are one of those lucky fellows who
have been blessed by that blessed thing
called Inspiration. There's where your
inspiration comes in. That's the near
est approach to inspiration that | know
OF, and, If you want it, you can 60 home
tonight, get sober, and commence a,
daylight in the morning upon sixty
years work for it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
Living on Sixpence a Week.

Isaac Smalls, of hurewick, near
Wakefield, can live on sixpence week.
In letter to "a contemporary he ex-
plains how he manages to live on SO
small a sum. Living in the country
as do" he says, am unable to OBJ
tain what are known as luxuries, even
if my means could afford them but
have the advantage of living near a
mill, and from the miller / buy the re.
fuse of his flour, for which ] pay I'D
once week. This is the staple of my
food. / make of this my own bread
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
Death of u Murderer i'm Prison,
From the jackson (NIich.) Citizen, Jan. "a.


Ebin o Leach, sent from Coldwater
in the year 1867, under a sentence of
solitary confinement for life, for the
crime of double murder, died at the
State Prison last night, aged SO years.
The crime Of Leach will be well re-
membered. He killed his wife and her
lawyer in cold blood, at Coldwater in
February, 1867. He and his wife had
not lived together for years, and she had
made application for II divorce. That
evening, while leaving the lawyers
office, under escort of n Mr.. Brown, a
young attorney, who was a member of
the firm who had taken Mrs. Leach's
case, they were met on the sidewalk by
Leach, who Immediately drew his re.
yolver, fired, and his wife fell dead at
his feet. The Infatuated man then
wheeled, fired at Brown with unerring
aim, and the young lawyer dropped to
the earth corpse. The awful crime
was but the work of moment, and the
double murder was committed in less
time than it takes TO write these words.
The murderer then gave himself up.
His trial soon followed, and he was
speedily convicted. the evidence being
overwhelming. In May he was SEN
fenced to solitary confinement for life,
and since then has been in prison here.
Leach was man of fine attainments,
and finished scholar, but for years had
led "a reckless life. His wife was a
woman OF great beauty and accomplish
ments, and was sister of the Rev. NJ.
A. Daugherty: formerly oi this city.
The awful crime created great excite.
ment in the State at the time.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
The Patent Office.

The annual report of the Commits
sioner of Patents shows that the num-
Der of applications for patents last year
was 1912 patents issued, 1893 i;
caveats filed, 1856; patents expired,
1904. Or patents issued, all but 522
went to citizens of the United States.
Connecticut still keeps the leao in re-
spect to the ingenuity of her people,
there beng larger number of patents
issued to them, iA proportion to popu-
lation, than is the case with any other
State. The District of Columbia comes
next in this respect, the atmosphere OF
the Patent Office, perhaps, stimulating
invention. Massachusetts, is the next
in this order OF merit.
The statement OF accounts shows that
the Patent Office has received and paid
into the United States Treasury during
the year a surplus over all expenditures
OF Sll6,624 80 ; and that in The expen
ditures, SAT ,SS5.37 is included not prop
erly belonging to this years expenses
and is OF permanent character that
will not require repetition.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09

THE Chicago Times OF Jan. Odd says !:
:. A gratuitous distributor of handbills
was prominent ct the street corners on
Yesterday, incased in huge canvas
BELL his head forming the handle, an
his feet projecting from beneath the p
of the tongue. 1t is needless to adj
that the bills which he was freely ped.
ding were shrewd advertisements Of
relics manu- iactured from the Court
House hell.n
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09

On Saturday seven boys attempted to
cross the river at New Bedford, Mass,
on the ice. The ice broke, and two sons
of William Wilkinson, aged 9 and ii, ,
and two sons Of William Smith, aged
10 and Is, were drowned. The other
boys were rescued.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09

The subscriptions tor the proposed
statue of Horace Greeley, to be erected
in Printing House Squire, New York,
now amounts to nearly $4,000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09

BILL BENNETT, a noted desperate and
gambler, who stole mule team from
Col. Nichols, Paymaster i'll the United
States army, at Napoleon Ranch, Da.
kota, a few days since, was followed by
a squad of soldiers, overtaken few
miles from the ranch, and shot dead by
the soldiers, who claimed that he re.
sisted the arrest; but, death being the
penalty attached to mule stealing in
that part OF the country, it is probable
that he would have been shot under
any circumstances. Bennett has long
been terror to travellers through that
section of Dakota.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09

REYNOLDS, the dramatist, observing to
Martin the thinness of the house at one
of MS own plays, added, +" He supposed
1t was owing to the war" No." re-
piled the latter, it is owing to the
piece
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-22

LEAD vs.. OoHRE.-The buildings of the
Catholic glebe are undergoing change of
color very much, we think, for the better,
After all the stralning after effect in the use of
sober, odd and sometimes vilanous coors
for village houses, nothing has been found 80
neat and beautiful as plain white. No house,
in the country. certainly, unless II be that of
some boor, should be without shade trees, n
few shrubsand q nicely shorn lawn, all of q
living green, for which nothing but white
forms fitting contrast and accompaniment
The care and taste shown about the grounds
in question, and the growth and size of the
well selected and located trees, call for the
change now making, and urge the adoption
of the improvement and the tasteful minglug
Of white and green.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-22

tEAlady in Clinton, iowa, gave burglar
very severe Hogging with dust brush the
other night. She said she wouldn't have done
Is II abe hadn't been under tho impression
That II was her husband justgethng home.
tEof seventeen Vice Presidents but four
have been re-elected--John Adams, George
Clinton, ID. ID. Tompkins and John C. Calhoun.
OF our Presidents, Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, jackson and Lincoln have
been rechosen.
W"I do not say that the Democratic
party Is composed of horse thieves, but you
will find that all the horse thieves are Demo
crats" Such was the language of Horace Gree
Teyr mot long sineer and to day he Is asking
The Democrats 10 vote for him for the Presi-
dency, and the party seems to he over half
inclined 10 do So.
tW-Tennie Clafin failed to step into Jim
Fisk's stirrups, but has finally been elected
Colonel of the S5th Regiment (colored) N. Y.
0, National Guard. She promised the boys
new suit Of clothes, II Is said, il they would
elect her colonel, and also promises to wear
beta spurs when mounted for inspection or
parade.
m-Oregon, which two years ago was car.
ried by the Democrats, on Monday last week
returned to the Republican fold For over
year past the Republican party has been win
ming succession Of brilliant victories, losing
not 9 single State, but regainng" California,
North Carolina, New Hampshire and Oregon.
This shows that the popular confidence is un.
shaken in General Grants administration.
t3- "A dispatch from Louisville, Ky, of the
18Th inst, says mad dog ragged through the
east end Of that city, biting some twenty per-
sons, some of them little children Only q
Few days since most terrible death by hy-
drophobia occurred in louisville, and recently
another in Detroit, and hardly a day passes
hut brings the iidiugs of One or more deaths
somewhere from the bite OF mad dogs.
tB-The recent Democratic Conventions
held In Indiana, Illinois. Wisconsin, Vermont,
New Hampshire, New York and Pennsylvania,
70 appoint delegates to Baltimore, all gave
unmistakable evidence, ia the character of
their proceedings, that the Greeley element
was too powerful for the Bourbons of the par.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-22

The English Grensdier Band passed
through NOrwalk-says the Gdzeite--on their
way to take part in the Boston Jubilee, on
Sunday evening last. The train that evening
was composed Of twenty-five cars with two
locomotives, and was followed by an extra
about half as long. Crowds are going to the
Jubilee. The appearance and performance OF
tbss band, created a wild excitement on the
seS0ud day Of the jubilee. and the national
aSs OF the two countries were alternated by
The respective representatives Of the two Gov
errmaents
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-22

"The strongest propensity in a wo-
mans nature" says careful stadent OF
the sex, sis TO want to know what is go
ing Oh and the next is to boss the job"
A Chinese doctor. named Ah-Tshew,
is attracting considerable attention in
San Francisco. His practice, in spite ol
his name, is net To be sneezed at.
There are sixteen post-rnistresses in
Pennsylvania, with salaries ranging
from u, 200 Ia $500. Pretty good
wages for that labor Of love--hapdlipg
the mails.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-22

The Hook and Ladder company OF this vii
iage, which, amer 80 brilliant a career, broke
up and disbanded In mill at the Cy. Fuller
nre. has been reoEganized. with II members,
sleoiing A. G. Towhe, Foreman. y. II. Sinclair,
Assistant, w. l. Carpenter, Secretary and JGs.
Thorpe, Treasurer. We hope this useful and
important adjunct Of the fre department, will
hsys the philosophy 70 meet the little yexa'
lions Of lie with something Of the tact and
SaFfItuds with which they dispose OF the heay'
Ssr mlsforsupss--ths raging and destructive ell
smeats with which generous response OF
duty leads ti.sm 20 contend and master. Fore
ssn Towne has cool head on him. which
win not b vithoutits influence In holdiAg
things lsssl
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-22

THE FOURTH AT JEFFERSON is to be an af-
fair worthy of attention. The scale of ar
rangemenls is worthy of the capital corpora.
ton and people. Our Fire Department have,
we understand, accepted invitations to be on
hand, and the authorities arc revolving the
proprlety of permitting tho machines to
leave, In the face Of M ordinance, In case OF
fire. the absence of both men aud machines
nigh. be calamitous.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-22

The Springfield Republican, which has of
late been 80 much quoted hy the Democracy
as authority for Grants unpopusTity, and as
q means OF dividing the Republican party,
has at length felt the folly OF It's own acls-
home to roost. Those constituting the firm
with Mr.. Bowles have had u grand hare.up on
account al the erratic and Inconsistent course
OF the paper, the resuh OF which is a division
o. the establishment and the founding of u
new Springfield Republican, which is to be
pure and nnconianlinated, consistent adve.
cate of true Republican measures. and not an
envenomed maligner OF reliable Republican
men. The Republicans Of Springfield have
long felt scandalized and outraged with the
course Of Mr.. Bowles, and aIe now rejoicing
at the relief they are promised from his mis-
representation. II would be well for other
independent Republican papers 70 study this
result a. q lesson showing the disaster 10
whieh such follies Inevitably lead.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-22

The Cleveland Herald's Ashabula cores
pondcnt wrote that paper there were 100 cases
on the Docket for second trial at this term of
Court on The 11th he sends correction, aud
says he should have said 90G he will refer
TO y copy OF the Sentinel for June 9th, he will
find the number plainly printed and ii is just
ten !-Sentinel.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-06-22

PAoLIFIc.-We have ia nomination for the
Presidency, the following gentlemen. on the
plstfsrms named:
Labor Reform-David Davis, OF Illinois.
Tenperance-Jas. Black, of Pennsylvania.
Woman Sufrsge-Victoria c. Woodruff, of
New York.
Liberal Rcpubllcsns-Horace Greeley, of
New York.
AntitSecret Societies-Charles Francis Ad-
ANS, OF Massachusetts,.
. Working. .men-U s. Grant, of Illinois.
Rcpublcan-For President, U. s. Grant /;
for Vice-President, Henry Wilson. Of Massa.
chusetts.