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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30
Demnerance LekShur.

Don't look of dat lager when it bin
red, when it was given poorly much
COLOR in dat bier glass, und ven he vas
movin all rite; for of der last he sting
like one pumblbee, und bites like
Newfoundland bulldog. No drunken
Teller don't could got by dat kingdom
Won heafen in. Who got droubles :?
who got fights? who got blue eyes und
red noses? Guess once! Veil, ] told
you. Dem fellers vat hangs around of
dem Ticker. ginmills' und trinken mixed
thinks, like hot Thomas and jeremiah,
for instinct-Don't it?
Uf you don't dought more Won your
II wifes und one children dan to vas
getting drunk, it vas better you gone
dead, by gracious -.
Don't you bin ashamed NIT yourself
uf YOU vas comm home on gouble
o. o'clock in der morning time, und don't
could found der keyholes.
Den ven you vas drying pooth much
how much too pool dem poots off nit
Elm Toothbrush, und CLEAN dem pools
NIT a Jack boot-don't you bin drunk
den? Amt it2 | vas been little
hoarse, SO l don't could rite no more
lekshur. Who breads to lager next?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30
Curious Curatives.

4 long list of novel cures is given by
a writer in Chambers Journal Paracel.
sus made a compound of human fat
and blood, mummy, oil of roses, oil of
lnseed, and moss from the skull Of a
healthy man who had been killed. This
was warranted to cure all wounds, pro-
vided it was applied to the weapon that
caused them. Greenland parents who
suffered from severe sickness were wont
to bury their children alive, at one
time, so as TO get rid of disease and
daughters together. There was a time
when snails, lizards, spiders and ants
were prescribed. Edmund Burke's one
specific was hot water. when sick he
would drink four or FIVE quarts a day.
Sydney Smith also believed in similar
remedy, the only difference being that
he preferred it externally. He had
hollow tins, which could be filed with
boiling water and fitted on the neck,
shoulder, stomach, and foot.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30
Personal.

OLE BULL is in Norway.
AN Albany girl has sued her mother
for libel.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has arrived in
England.
GEN. SHERMAN will return home in
September.
Lolita is studying French and music
in convent school near Paris.
ENos HENDERSON has just died in
Madison county, KY, aged 100 years.
Miss WADE, of Cincinnati, has Just
made her sixty.frst failure at suicide.
A DELILAH Of 80 summers eloped with
a boy of 30 at Beaver Dam, Wis, re-
Gently.
MRS. HARPER, who was lately pardon.
ed out of the Connecticut State Prison,
refuses to leave it.
DR.. PETERS, of Hamilton College, n.
Y, reports the discovery, on the night
OF July 81, of two new planets.
The late Dean of Lincoln's will be.
queaths property valued at 100000, and
is written on half sheet of note.paper.
ANOTHER American girl goes to the
Court of Kaiser William as lone of
them" Miss Jay, daughter to our
Minister to Austria, is soon to be mar
ried to Gen. De Schweinitz, German
Envoy TO the same country.
ONE of the japanese Embassy dropped
81 900 bill on the floor OF the Revere
House, at Boston, the other day, and
when the obliging waiter handed it to
him he said, Its no matter, no mat.
ter" and seemed reluctant to take it.
GEORGE @. CANNON, elected Delegate
to Congress from Utah, is editor of the
Dessert Ne,oS, paper published at Salt
Lake City in the interest of the Nor.
mon church. of which, next to Brigham,
he is probably the ablest man among
the Latter Day Saints.
Mr.. BERGH's heart ought to be full OF
happiness over the receipt of nearly
nine thousand dollars in donations oil
late. The society of which he is the
originator and President is popular with
the New York merchants, and they re-
spond to any call he makes for mean,
to protect and care for dumb animals.
THE English are delighted with Mr.
Stanley, and even swallow without hes
itation his hair-raising statement tina,
he was stricken down % times with the
worst species of tropical fever, in q
swamp where he had neither bed MOI
physician, and with no knowledge oil
the therapeutics on his own part
II A.
would be enough, they say, to xii
an ordinary pulling European, but
Stanley, being a robust American p,u
sang, would have been able to survive
% more of them.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30
Rights Of Smokers. :

The New Y ork Times comes out bold
ly for such rights as smokers have in
this censorious world. Ever since King
James counterblast against tobacco,
certain classes in every society have
been AS vindictive against the weed as
II 1T were the concentrated essence of
everything vulgar and beastly.
Notwithstanding all this, tobacco
flourishes as an article of commerce,
and is consumed among all peoples,
whether savage or civilized.
No one defends the smokers lack OF
gallantry when he puffs the smoke of
his cigar, however fragrant, in the faces
OF the fair sex, or into those of such
delicate gentlemen as one would think
ought To have been women but smok-
ing is now SO general that it can no
longer be considered sinful or ungep.
tlemanly habit without rejecting upon
masses OF the male population of the
country. Says the Times:
The smokers, who form a majority
OF the whole population, have some
rights OF their own. Yet they are
treated by all railway and steamboat
companies as though they deserved to
ihSuI penalty lOT every cigar CoH'
sumed. On the railway, the smoking.
car is usually the oldest, dirtiest, and
worst in the possession of the company,
and it is uniformly placed next to the
engine or baggage.car, so that in the
event OF a collision the presumably
worthless smoker shall have the first
opportunity to be smashed. On most
steamboats,, instead of permitting men
TO smoke OH the after-deck, they are
banished to the extreme bow, whence
their smoke is evenly distributed over
the boat, while they run the chances Of
being trampled upon by horses and
crushed by falling boxes"
There is good sense in the question
put by the Times, that, "As every other
man is a smoker, why should he not be
decently accommodated p
No reason in the world, except the
exploded one that smokers have no
rights because they are smokers! To
bacco, like every other created thing,
has its use, and that seems to be its
singular properties both as an excitant
and a sedative.
At all events the world has used it
for ages, will continue to use, and there
are tights appertaining to its consump-
ton which cannot be disregarded. The
abuse of any article, created or invent
ed, for food or for pleasure, is intern
perance; and the abuse alone is the tit
subject of animadverslon and reforma-
ton-,H Louis Globe
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30
Lex Notwithstanding of Spanish
Officers i'm Cuba.

A correspondent writes from Havana
under date of Aug. Il:
The murder of the Mexican Gen. In.
clan and OF his a'd.de camp by the
Spaniards has been partially balanced
by Gen. Agramonte. He had captured
seven Spanish officers, among them
very distinguished Colonel, and held
them prisoners in his camp. As soon
as the authorities in Puerto Principe
heard Of this capture, the Government
Secretary and another officer repaired,
under a flag of truce, to Agramonte's
camp. He received them Hospitality,
listened to their petition, informed them
that he then held seven Spanish officers
prisoners, that it was not his custom to
shoot prisoners, and that he was willing
to parole them on one condition. that
Gen. Inclan and his aid-de-camp be
liberated. Agramonte's establishment
when the Spanish commissioners re
GREETED that it was out of their power
TO comply with that one condition, be-
cause the patriot prisoners ha already
been shot, can be imagined. Agra
monte then invited the commissioners
to break fast, and gave orders to his
chief of staff to have all the prisoners
shot at once. When the firing was
heard, Agramonte turned to his guests,
and regretted that he could not comply
with their wishes, because the Spanish
officers had already been shot.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30
The Man with the Lung.Tester.

The man with his lung tester who &C.
companies Barnum, and makes an
honest penny by testing the wind of the
multitude, came to grief at Terre Haute
on Tuesday. A healthy farmers boy,
with chest on him like an emigrant's
valise, drew in mouthful of the atmos.
phere, wrapped a quarter-section of his
lips over the nozzle and breathed. An
explosion followed, first of the machine
and then the by-standers, and the
professor was heard TO say, as he
gathered up the fragments Of tinkling
brass and springs: " He had been eating
onions that's what made his breath so
strong. u.s.. Louis Globe.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30
Location Of the Diamond Fields.

We have information from an indie.
pendent source, so particular and ex
plicit as hardly 10 leave doubt of the
true location of the diamond fields
which have created so much excitement
n this city for the last few days. The
diamond mines are situated in the
southeast corner Of Arizona Territory,
south of latitude 30 degrees, at point
near TO the boundaries or New Mexico
and Sonora. Any one, by taking map
of recent date, can readily find the
point where the boundary lines of Ari.
IONA and New Mexico intersect Mexico
on the south. The country has several
silver mines laid down, and Apaches
are designated as occupying the same
district. The country is not surveyed.
1t is situated at no great distance from
TIE old southern trail crossing the
country from Fort Yuma to FL Paso.
1t is pretty certain that one or more
parties are in this city who have bought
up specimens of rubies from that re.
gion, and whose operations are indie
pendent of the diamond adventures
who first brought in diamonds. We
give this information az we have re-
ceived it. We have not much reason to
doubt but the true locality has been sub.
stantially given in this paragraph. If that
is the diamond territory, we do not
think half dozen men will be able to
gobble it up or to keep everybody else
out of it. But we advise nobody to 60
there. The diamond hunters OF South
Africa had hard luck. Hardly more
than a dozen gained anything at all sde-
quate as compensation for the risks
and sufferings encountered. If any ex-
tensive diamond fields are discovered,
it will be very difficult to prevent as
free competition as was established in
South Africa. There is not sufficient
evidence within reach to warrant any
enc running off blindly to this distant
and inhosptable territory. Diamonds
are used for cutting diamonds and just
now very sharp men are disposed to try
the cutting powers of diamondf on the
public.-,San Francisco Bulletin.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30

BosroN's debt is $2S, 1928, $50.


CONNECTICUT has SSl miles of railroad.
IT costs 500 a day at Saratoga to live
in style.
No less than 100000 Americans will
visit Europe this year. a. ~
The great Red river raft grows at the
rate of two miles year.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, is making a dozen
lawn.mowers for the Sultan of Turkey.
THERE were 1874 persons punished
in London last year for cruelty to ami
mails.
OVER $4,000 miles Of submarine tele-
graph cables have been laid within two
years.
THR Jubilee Coliseum, which cost
5000, 900 has been sold to Gilmore for
$4,000.
WALTER SCoTT's monument in Central
Park, New York, will be dedicated No.
vember 80.
The value of the gold at present in
4 existence in the world is estimated at
upward of S5,000,000 900.
A BOY at Underhill, VT, has just
coughed up beechnut which he got
into his lungs twoyears and half ago.
The United States have 5000 tele.
graph stations, $4,000 miles of line, over
1000 operators, and transmit over H..
100000 messages annually.
The complete census returns of the
lo tot 81 To- -,
to be 3S,55S,3 81, of which l9,493, 500 are
males and l9,064,SO6 females.
1T is generally believed to be dan.
gerous to II avel on railroads, but Stats
tics show il is the safest method of loco
motion on land ever yet devised.
Roman Catholics in the United States
have church accommodations for $780,
5l4, and Evangelical Protestants for
1862, lS3-a difference of eight to one.
CAREFULLY-PREPARED statistics show
that during the last six years upward
of thirteen thousand collisions at sea
have taken place between vessels in all
parts of the world.
The usual quarterly sensation has
been created by Mr.. Beecher, who de.
clares against total abstinence, which
he thinks may | e all very well for some,
but not so good for others, one Of whom
he is which.
A PORTION of the Daniel Webster
homestead, at Marshtield, was sold re.
Gently at $9j an acre. The estate COM
prises one hundred and sixteen acres OF
land fronting the ocean, sloping down
TO the breakers.
A REPORTER of the New York Herald
struggled himself on board the special
sleeping car assis ned President Grant
and family last week over the Delaware
and Lackawanna railroad and was
booted Oft by the superintendent next
morning.
The largest ten cities of the United
States eat beef annually to the amount
OF 100000 head of cattle, exclusive OF
pork, mutton, etc. Taking the other
cities and towns of the country, the
probabilities are that this number would
be swelled 10 at least 100000.
The springs at Saratoga are said TO be
drying up. The flow is less strong, and
the residents and hotel.keepers are pro
hibited from obtaining pailfuls of the
water in the morning, as has been the
custom for years past. The water is
also less pungent than it used to be.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30
A Blind Ship.Builder.

John Herreshoff, the Bristol Or. ~
ship-builder, is thirty years of age, and
has been stone blind for fifteen years.
At nine years of age he began life as q
boat railor. Since his arrival at the age
of manhood he has been a boat builder,
and, though blind, he now buys and Sc.
lects his own lumber, makes his own
models, builds the finest yachts in the
country, and can sail any craft equal to
most experienced sailors.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30
Texas and Pacific Railway.

This road having lately passed into
the hands of Eastern and European cap.
italists, is now being pushed ahead with
energy. Thomas A. Scott, of the Penn.
sylvania Central, is President, and Gen.
O.. NJ. Dodge, of the Union Pacific, is
Chief Engineer. The Texas and Pacific,
formerly known as the Southern Pacific,
extends from Shreveport, on Red river,
in Louisiana, to San Diego, California, a
distance Of l,400 miles. Its route is
near the thirty.second parallel. 1t ira
verses fine agricultural country, much
Of which is already under cultivation,
and producing large crop of cereals
and vegetables.
AS far west as Fort Worth, the west
ern terminus of that portion of khe road
to be finished in 1873, the country is
well settled, and the counties along the
line to Fort Worth contain population
of from 10000 to 10000 each. 1t passes
through rich undeveloped mineral re-
gions, skirts the northern boundary of
Mexico, and as soon as it reaches the
Rio Grande it will control all the bust.
ness of the northern portion of that
Republic, thus bringing to the United
States the trade of a vast, rich and pro.
ductive empire that has heretofore
gone elsewhere.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30

FATHER RYAN, of Mobile, the favorite
poet.priest" of the South, is unique
character. In his priestly garments he
looks almost like woman, and New
Orleans critic says of him: "The sun.
shine of all the good and noble quail.
ties that are so often uneaually divided
out between men, seem all to have met
in perfect concord in his heart, throw
ing out their radiating lights through
his kindly features. His silken, auburn
hair falls in tresses a young girl might
envy, low down on either cheek, while
he wore the usual garb of the priest
hood" He has been giving readings
in New Orleans from long poem of his
own entitled Love-"
FIVE persons have been carried over
Niagara falls this season.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30

THIRrY-sEvEN years ago the Fejee
Islands were an entire blank not a
book, chapel, church, or Christian
man in it. Up to this time they have
had 100000 converts to Christianity,
and now number 22,709 in full church
communion. They have $50 houses of
religious worship, and 1920 pupils in
the Sunday schools.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30

The New York Herald of the 18th
inst says; ave have received the sad
intelligence that Lexington, the great.
est rsce.horse that America ever pro-
duced, died at Mr.. Alexander's stud
farm, at Spring Station, KY, few days
ago. This grand old horse ran the fast
est four miles that were ever run where
accurate watches and timekeepers were
in vogue He was the sire of more race
horses than probably any horse that
ever lived. The best of his get were
Norfolk, Asteroid, Kentucky, Harry
Bsssett, Kngfsher, ldlewild, and Tom
Bowling. Asteroid and Kentucky have
already presented to the turf some noble
grandsons of the old horse. Kingfisher
and Harry Bassett will, if they live, be
equally successful, if high form, pure
blood and splendid racing powers JUS
tify such prediction" Lexington was
% years old the 18th of last March. He
had been blind during the last fifteen
years of his life.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-07
GENERAL GORDON.

We publish in another column a call
upon General G. w. Gordon, Of this
city, 10 become a candidate for Congress
from the State at large. This call is
signed by gentlemen who occupy dis
tinguished social positions in our city,
and are esteemed among the oldest and
best Of our merchants, bankers and in
suraRee officers. Emanating from such a
source, it IS a high compliment even to
a gentleman Of General GOrdOn's stand
ing. A man Of excellent good sense,
intelligent and distinguished for abil-
tiles such as are most needed in an
efficient Congressman, be is prompt to
recognize the fact but with q courtesy
and Difference only equaled by his
gallantry and high bearing he re-
fuses the proffeIed honor in favor
Of the gallant Cheatham, whom none
know but TO love aud honor. General
Gordon Is one Of the rising young men
Of our city and State, and we believe the
future will claim him for even higher
honor than that rendered him in 50 COM
phmentary strain by those who know
him best.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

1 Advices from Mexico state that the
country is becoming tranquil
Philadelphia Republicans fired one
hundred guns in honor Of the nomina-
ton.
Young grasshOppers are reported in
large numbers in the vicinity of Salt
4 Lake.
The Mexican Geographical Society,
/ has elected General ROsecrans and Pal
mer, honorary members of their body.
Hon. Thomas Williams, ex-Congress-
man from the Twenty-third PennsyI-
vania district, died yesterday.
A bit of a fight took place on the
Island of Cuba yesterday, which re-
suited in the defeat of the Insurgents.
/ Eleven thousand dollars in United
States bonds were burned in the house
of Frederick Douglass Sunday night.
The depot of the underground railroad
| i'm New York will be 50 fixed that the
cars can be switched into the basement
of the postOffice.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, the Republicans
are enthusiastic over the nomination of
Grant. One hundred guns were fired
in the public square.
The United States Indian Commits
siO1ers give a public reception tonight
at Cooper Institute to Red Cloud, Red
Dog, and other Indians. Peter Cooper
presides.
Canton county, Maryland, yesterday
accepted an amendment to the charter
authorizing the issue of six hundred
thousand gold sterling bonds. A board
of directors was chosen.
Mr.. Straw was yesterday inaugurated
Governor at Concord, New Hampshire.
His message was confined principally
to local affairs, and concludes by asking
the support of the people to the present
administration.
The Eclectic medical men met in
Columbus, Ohio, yesterday. II. Thomas,
of West Newton, was made President
for the ensuing year. They viii meet
in Columbus again next year.
The following dispatch was sent to
Senator Wilson to-day, after his nOmi-
nation for the Vice-Presideney:
PHILADELPHIA, June c.
To Hon. Henry Wilson, Washington, d. c.:
The colored workingmen of the cOun-
try send you their congratulations and
second your nomination, and will march
in solid columns to the polls in NOvem-
Der and cast their votes for the repre-
sentatives of the labOring men of the
American nation.
[SignedI ISAAC. MYERS,
President Colored National Labor Union.
In New York yesterday the first race,
Ladies' stake, one and five-eighth G2iles,
was wen by Victoria; time, 3:I1. Sec
Ond-Jockey Club handicap sweepstakes
two-miie dash; won by Airov fn 8:4S.
Third-Selling race, mile and quarter;
won by Alarm; time, 2:I74. Fourth
Mile and three-quarter dash; won by
MILDLY in 1924. Fifth-Steeple chase,
post stake for members of the Jockey
Club and riders; won by Macintosh.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-07
HENRY WILSON. OF MASSACHUSETTS,


The well-known Senator from Massa-
chusetts, Wilson, has been selected by the
organized mob which adjourned in Phil
adelphia yesterday, to run on the ticket
with General Grant as candidate for the
Vice-Presidency. It might just as well
be him a. {" any other man, He adds
nothing to the ticket in the eyes Of any
hut those who are filed with the hope
Of Office, the greed Of gain, or expectan-
cy Of fresh plunder at the South. His
course in Congress has been remarkable
for consistent hostility toward the
South, and an equally consistent
devotion to the interests Of the East as
paramount 20 those Of the other sections
Of the country. He has neither love for
nor sympathy for the great West, which
the ofiice-holders at Philadelphia have
snubbed in nominating him. To him
Massachusetts is not only the hub Of
the universe il is the pattern in morals
and ethics, whose code he would force,
willingly or not, upon every other peo-
pie. He is a dOgmatic fanatic. What
ever he believes, is right; whatever
Others believe, in opposition, is wrong.
Intolerant and impatient Of liberation
in Others, he is a fit associate on this
Radical ticket for the suIlen, gloomy,
morose gift-taker, whose longest and
warmest speeches are made when
acknowledging the reception Of horse,
a house or a bull pup. They are well
matched. The head Of the ticket repre-
sents the loose, jockeying gamblers Of
the race-course, with coarse tastes and
lower instincts; and the tail is type of
the fanatical breed which, since CrOm-
well set it loose, has, like the
devil, been wandering abroad through
the earth, with a rowing COM
mission TO stir up strife and
keep alive contention where har-
mony should prevail Like Grant, Viii
son is in favor Of the kukiux and other
repressive laws for the South, and thor
oughly sympathises with Morton, of
Hot Springs For this reason, leaving
out his very Objectionable personality, |
We think he VIII make it easier for the |
Liberals and Democrats to defeat the /
ticket, Of which he is decidedly the |
81 weakest member"