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The New York herald., 1873-10-19

DEDUCEDi REDUcED REDUcEDi
UNION ADAMS A CO. NO. ss7 BROADWAY.
are offering at very low prices
Hosiery and Gloves.
Underwear
Shirts and Collars,
Handkerchieis,
suspcnders
Robes Jackets &c
The New York herald., 1873-10-19
POPULAR FAVOR.
WE SHALL OPEN ON MONDAY

elegant designs in Silk Serge Satine, Empress Crcone
Roubaix Poplns Suits In all the new fall coors trim
med with velvet silk turquoise, satin, silk gimps yak
possible prices
The New York herald., 1873-10-19

have added this week and attractive novelties
in Paris and Berlin made Suits the excellence OF finish
and originality and excuveness OF the designs OF which
recent opening the appreciation OF our Gus
toners the press OF the citv and hope through
proptness and the satisfaction given In the execution Of
all orders tO m a of
The New York herald., 1873-10-19

In Cashmere Tamsc, Italian and Cretonnc Cloths,
Empress, Biarritz, Bombaznes Alpacas and serges,
with fun line Oh Courtand's English Crepes
Best brands OF Black Alpacas, &c. dc, &c, 5Uc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
Onions.

AS an article of diet, onions are in
valuable; they regulate the system in
every way-add tone to the nerves, and
L know not what yet few people have
the moral courage TO confess how much
they owe to this vegetable. Affection
for it is concealed. Good New England
ers are as shy of owning it as they are
of talking about religion. Some people
have days on which they eat onion
what you might call retreats, or their
Thursdays" The act is IN the nature
of religious ceremony, an Eleusinian
mystery; not breath OF it must get
abroad. On that day they see no COM
pany they deny the kiss of greeting to
the dearest friend; they retire within
themselves and hold communion with
one of the most pungent and penetrating
manifestations of the moral vegetable
world. Happy is said to be the family
which can eat onions together. They
are, for the time being, separate from
the world, and have harmony of as
piration. There is hint here for the
reformers. Let them become apostles
of the onion ; let them eat and preach it
to their fellows, and circulate tracts OF
it i'll the form of seeds.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
Big Guns-The Heaviest Ordnance
the World.

Competitive trials of heavy ORDNANCE
recently took place upon the obscure q r-
ritory of Nut Island, in Boston Harbdr
The experiments were such as TO dem0l-
strate that all the smooth-bofe guns Va
hand and belonging to the Government
can be increased in precision and power
TO an extent which will enable them b
hit and destroy, with single shot, am
iron-clad or other war vessel that eve
fioated. The experiments took placs
under the observation of Capt. Truxton
Captain of Ordnance of the Navy DE
partment, and un.er the supervision
Norman Wizard, agent of the Depart
ment aud inventor of the rlfilng I'M
provement, which adds such remarkable
force and efficiency TO the heavy arma-
ment of our forts and ships-of-war.
For the purposes of the experimental
test there were provided two guns OF
twenty-three tons each and of l5-inch
caliber. One of them was the common
smooth-bore, and the other was rihed in
accordance with Mr.. WARDS invention,
but in other respects there was no differ
ence whatever. One hundred and forty
pounds of powder-the largest quantity
of ammunition ever used i'll gun-was
fired from each, and the projectiles were
respectively of 460pounds weight. The
targets consisted OF wrought iron plates
of fifteen inches i'll thickness, and they
were erected side by side, $50 feet dis
tant. The rified projectile fired from
the Wizard gun was of conical shape,
and the one fired from the common
smooth bore piece was necessarily round.
The one first named went clear through
the 15-inch plates, and out of sight into
a sand bank in the rear. The demoli-
ton of the almost invulnerable target
was complete, and so great was the
force with which it was struck that
fragment of 800 or 400 pounds was.
thrown clear across the island, dis
lance of not less than quarter of a
mile. The proiectile from the smooth
bore gun penetrated the target only
about 81 inches, and, as the advantages
were precisely equal the superiority of
the rihed arm was at once established
by the experiment, and admitted by the
Government authorities of observation.
Compared with other comparative tests,
this style of gun is the most destructive
ever yet produced. A 35-ton gun of
lA-lucu cdllDer, WIS OilcS AAcu III LII
gland through an iron plate of II inches
in thickness, showing the comparative
penetrating power of that arm to be
about IA against 225 of the gun at Nut
Island. This improvement, as the Gov
eminent understands it, does not involve
the manufacture OF new guns to secure
it. Take the present armament Of our
forts, just as they are, and they can be
rihed at one-tenth the cost that new
guns can be manufactured, and at the
same time their efficiency as smooth
bore ordnance is not in the least i'm
paired and, including the cost OF
rifing, the arms will be cheaper by one
tenth than the best English guns, and
for destructive powers their efficiency
can hardly ever be equaled.
Cor. NetO York Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
The Atlantic Monthly.

The Boston correspondent of the
Hartford CoUr0nt writes The
latest statement with regard to the
future of the AHa}ttic Monthly is to
the effect that its character is to be rad
ically changed, if not Immediately, ere
long in the future. There are those
who say that it viii pass into the hands
of the Methodist denomination and be-
come their literary organ. Mr.. Hough-
ton, who, has purchased it, IS a Methodist;
but the impression of those who talk III
this way is that he has not bought it
for himself, but for the Methodist de-
nomination. That denomination is
spending more money in organized lit
erary effort than ever before. Some
say it is aiming TO found a university
here that shall eclipse Harvard College.
1t is believed to have been contemplat.
ing the publication OF literary period
ical for some time. 1t may be those
acting for it found it better policy to
buy the atlantic and convert it to
their objects than to start out anew.
They save the slow work of building up,
and they extinguish an organ of heresy.
if this be so, the children OF light have
stolen a march, indeed, upon the chill
dten of the world.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
Life Saved by Subscribing for a News.
paper.

Near the Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco, lives one Hughes, a bachelor,
who raises hogs for the market. On
Monday afternoon Mr. Hughes fell into
his well, and, being unable to get out,
was obliged to wait patiently for help,
meanwhile standing up to his waist in
water. AS no one passed near the place
he shouted until hoarse in hopes of
making some one in the park hear him.
On Tuesday morning the carrier of the
can left paper at the house, and the
man in the well, hearing footsteps,
called loudly, but the carrier was in a
hurry, and, though he heard some one,
he did not know where the sound came
from, and had no time TO investigate.
On Wednesday morning, the carrier no.
ticed the paper of the preceding day on
the steps, and, hearing at the same time
a voice, he thought something must be
wrong, so he got off from his horse and
finally found Hughes in the well. He
Immediately procured assistance, and
the man was taken out alive, although,
Of course, in an exhausted condition.
As he is man of good constitution, he
will probably recover. He continues to
take the CAL.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
Tie Victims Of Yellow Fever.

The ages of $50 persons who died in
Shreveport, La, of yellow fever during
the recent epidemic have been ascer-
tanned. The Shreveport Telegram
makes the following reference to them :
"Of these 100 died under 10 years of
age, 81 were between 10 and 20, 1876
were between 20 and 30, 1874 were be-
tween 30 and 40, 50 were between 10 and
80, 20 were between 80 and CO. - were
above CO. 1t will be observed that the
greatest mortality occurs between the
ages of 20 and 30 years, ana the next
greatest from 30 to 40, the period of life
when the human system ordinarily has
most capacity TO resist disease. We
must presume that there are more chill
dren in the city under 10 years of age
than adults between 20 and 30, and GER
tainly more than between 30 and 40,
and yet we see that the victims are more
than half as many again between 20 and
30 years of age as there are under 10, or
from 10 to 20, and nearly the same ratio
holds as to those who died be-
tween 30 and 40 as to those who died
under 10 years, and from 10 TO 20. How
is this comparative exemption of the
children and youths under 20 years TO
be explained? Why has the greatest
mortality fallen upon those who were
in the prime and vigor of life %
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
SubsOiling.

The advantage of subsoil cultivation
is shown in some statistics of corn rails
ing furnished in the Illinois State
Register On 100 acres of SUBSIDIZED
ground Mr.. Z. j. Nuckolls, of Auburn
township, in this State, raised this year
5000 bushels corn-seventy-fve bushels
to the acre. On another tract of fifty
acres, which has been planted in corn
for the last .titty gears, he raised 5000
bushels of corn-sixty bushels to the
acre. At 80 cents per bushel the crop
OF 10 acres would yield the gross sum
of So, $50, or so. "a per acre. Estimat-
ing the total cost of cultivation, harvest
ing, and marketing at 50 per acre, we
have net profit per acre of $19.24, or
eight per cent. interest on S215 per
acre as the value of the lands. In other
words, the 40 acres, estimated by the
value of its product, is worth thirty odd
thousand dollars.
The average corn crop of prairie lands
is about forty bushels per acre. The in
creased yield obtained by Mr.. Nuckolls
may be placed TO the account of subsoil-
ing and careful cultivation. The fact OF
the fifty acre tract having been planted
in corn tifty-years is suggestive of the
fertility and strength of the Illinois soil.
Chicago Inter- ocean.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

RECENTLY, two young men living in
Detroit, anxious to exhibit their nerve.
laid a wager with a third person, which
resulted in some rifle shooting of an
extraordinary character. A dozen APP
pies were procured, and one Of the gen
tlemen stood 40 feet distant from the
other, who shot with rifle each of the
dozen apples in succession from his
friends head, after the manner of the
late William Tell. Not satisfied with
that, the apple holder procured COM
mon paste-board matchbox cover, and
held it close to his head, between his
finger and thumb, and in that position
permitted his friend to fire three times
at it, each going "plumb" center.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

OK the 3lst of August last there were
in circulation S344, 900, coo of legal
tender notes and S45, coo, 900 of frac.
tional currency, making 1888, 000,000 of
paper promises to pay. after deducting
the sums held in the L. S. Treasures.
The corresponding amounts now are
S372, 600, 600 of legal tender notes and
SIS, 100000 of fractional currency, or
1920, 900, 600 in all, deducting as before
the the sums in the Treasury. This is
an initiation of S31 600, coo in a little
more than three months.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
General.

The Benders, the famous Kansas butchers,
have been traced to Northern Mexico.
1t is stated that the Virginius is to be taken
to Washington, where her status will be exam
med into.
The signs of peace are increased by an order
cutting of all extra work at the Charlestown
Navy Yard. 1t amounts to an official decara-
ton that there is no longer any danger of a
naval war with Spain.
The lines of the Atlantic and Pacific Tele-
graph Company have been bought by the
Western Union Company.
The st. Louis Globe, paper that has been
persistenty refused admission to a selfish mo-
nopoly known as the 'Westen Associated
Press, has been detected in surreptitiously
obtaining possession of the telegraphc dis
patches belonging to the Association, through
the aid of telegraph operator, and there is
howl of virtuous Indignation among the
members of the aforesaid selfish monopoly.
The lemains Of the late Judge Dent were
buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, st. Louis,
on the Goth inst. President Grant, son-in-law
of the deceased, accompanied the remains
from Washington
The opinion of Attorney General Williams
in the case of the steamer Virginus has been
published. The opinion is based mainly ON
the law of 1892. He decides, after a full in
vestgation, that the papers of the Virginius
were procured by false swearing, and that the
vessel was really the property Of certain Gu
bans, who had purchased her for an illicit
traffic. lie decides therefore, that the Nir-
ginius had no right as against the United
States to carry the American flag. He holds
nevertheless, that while carrying this flag she
was as exempt from interference on the high
seas by foreign powers as if she had been
properly registered, on the ground that neither
Spain nor any other Government could as
sumo jurisdiction belonging exclusively to
the United States This decision relieves
Spain from the obligation of saluting the
American flag, under the terms of the proto-
col, and it makes il incumbent on the United
States to prosecute the Virginius under the
laws of this country.
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

Committee, have gone to New Orleans to take
testimony upon which articles of impeachment
against Judge Durell may be presented.
Washington dispatch of the 21st Decem-
Der says " 1t seems now to be understood in
official circles that the Acknowledgement has
given his opinion that the yirginius had for
feited the right to boar the flag of the United
| States and at the time of her capture was
carrying it without right and improperly. In
view of this opinion, our Government will. In
accordance with the terms of the protocol, in
stitute inquiry, and begin proceedings against
the Yirginius, and against any person who may
appear to have been guilty of illegal acts in
connection Herewith. AS Spain has proven
to the satisfaction of the United States, ac-
cording to the Attorney-Generars opinion,
that the Virginius was at the time of her cap
ture, carrying the United States flag without
right and improperly, the salute to the flag on
the 25th day of December will be dispensed
with as not necessary, but the United States
will expect disclaimer of intent TO offer in
dignity to its flag in the act which was COM
mtted.
A Washington dispatch says the majority of
| the senate are not III 1aNOr Oh the JOlh Tepehl
of the Bankruptcy act, but of amending it in
such particular as will guard debtor from tho
exactions Of a small minority of his creditors
leaving the question of involuntary bank
ruptcy to be determined by those more largely
| interested.
The increase in recepts,,of internal revenue
warrants the belief that the ante-panic average
will soon be regained, and the Secretary of
the Treasury expects his reserve will hold out
till next May.
The Government Directors of the Union
Pacific railroad have made their report to the
Secretary of the Interior. They say that the
condition of the road is vastly improved since
the last annual examination, and speak very
encouragingly of its future prospects They
assert that the road can be made to pay
$40, 600. 900 per annum with no exertlon beyond
reasonably good management. Calculating
operating expenses at 55 per cent, they esti-
mate that this will pay interest on the first
mortgage income and Government subsidy
bonds, besides per cent. of net earnings to
the Government, and leave $1,000 600 for divi-
dends on stock. The earnings last year were
little over $10,OOO,0OO They take the
ground that the road is completed in the
meaning of the act that applies 5 per cent. of
the net earnings to form a sinking fund
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
The Grange.

The Executive Committee OF the Iowa State
Grange have completed a contract at Des
Moines for the manufacture Of 100 Werner
Harvesters.
Over 200 delegates were present at the re-
cent session of the Nebraska State Grange,
and the utmost harmony and good feeling pre-
vailed.
James Brainerd, Secretary of the Wisconsin
State Grange has issued instruction to the
various Oranges throughout the State for the
annual meeting at Janesyille, Jan. 10. All
Masters of Oranges and their wives are adj
mitted as members, and Past-Masters and
their wives as honorary members. The State
Grange will pay all hotel bills of members en-
titled to vote. All the hotels will board
Changers at reduced rates.
The State Grange of Minnesota, recently in
session at Minneapolis was very largely at
tended. 800 of the 400 subordinate oranges in
the State being represented, and the delibera-
tions manifested stern determination on
the part of the delegates to do their utmost
to defeat the monopolists. j. II. Denman was
elected State Agent for the ensuing year. and
his salary fixed at 81, 500.
A meeting of Changers was recently held at
Circlevlle, Ohio, at which it was resolved to
hereafter buy groceries at Cincinnati at whole
sale prices, through an agent.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

Az English rural sportsman being
asked 10y an old lady with rather con-
fused ideas as TO horses and dogs, If his
dog was a hunter, said at was half
hunter and half setter; he hunted
around till lac found food, and then set
down to eat il.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
Political.

barous.
Political.
The second days session was consumed
mainly in the reception of resolutions and
propositions, which were referred indlscrimi-
nately without action. Among these were the
following Law reform, including, besides the
elimination of confusing verbiage, plan for
a court of Cancellation, to which cases may be
submitted for arbitration without appeal; an
approval of the present Railroad law, and a
demand that the Legislature shall not appeal
or amend it for the present; resolution that
no more railroads are needed now, but that
the railroads we have must be regulated reso-
tons on the salary grab cooperation, inter-
State commerce, and Western manufactures.
There was one proposition that the Govern
ment should lend money on land securities.
Two resolutions looking to the formation OF a
new party were introduced and received with
applause One of them declaIes the past
record of the old political parties to be such AZ
to forfeit the respect Of the people and to
absolve the farmers from further allegiance.
At the third and last day of their meeting,
the Illinois State Farmers Association adopt
Oh IL pldJlOIll VI pliiOiPiOS' III "hiNH 'hSJ
declare (1) that it is the duty of citizens to
attend primary meetings and take active part
in political campaigns (2) that the recent
record of both the old political parties is such
as to forfeit the respect and confidence of the
people, who are, therefore, absolved from all
allegiance to them, and should act no longer
with them CD that the Salary bill must be
al hoo oil in, fov ~ radncipO
the salaries of public officers; (5) for
reform Of the abuses in the civil service; CD
that the navigation of the lakes and rivers be
improved as early AZ practicable; CD plain
and incorporating opposition to the whole
system of protective tariff (S) against
further grants of land, and against the loaning
of Government credit to corporations; (9) i'll
favor of repeating the National Currency act,
and the issue of all currency direct from the
United States Treasury, to be interconvertible
with low Understanding bonds Q0) for the
revision and restriction of the patent laws
I'D against such a construction of the State
Constitution az will authorize annual sessions
of the Legislature (l2) approval Of the ex-
listing railway legislation in Illinois, and the
demand that the National Government shall
not interfere on the ground of regulating
commerce between the States; Q3) the right
of the Legislature to control railroads; QD
the prohibition of free passes for public Off
GERS O5) reduction in public expenditures
and Q6) against the combination of the plow
makers. Some of the resolutions were dis
cussed at length, especially that concerning
t,a forTna ton Of q now Marty
Washington correspondents intimate that
the Hon. Roscoe Conkling is actively but
quietly engaged in laying the ropes for his
nomination to the Presidency.
The California Legislature, after a series of
ballots, has elected Gov Newton Booth TO the
United States Senate.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
Fluctuations OF Gold.

The appended table shows the ex-
tremes between which gold has fluc-
tuated in each wear since 1860:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

in their tattered and filthy rags, and every
heart was touched by the spectacle. They
report that their treatment was most bar
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

LONDON has So, 900 homeless people.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
Tho South.

The New Orleans Picdy,ue was recently
sold by the Sheriff for $50, 900, Judge Alexan-
der Walker of the Herdld, being the pur-
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-04-25
Spring in the CIearings.

In newly cleared regions of country, spring is
always an unhealthy season. The virgin soil, en-
riched by decomposed vegetable matter, sends up,
when first barred to the sunshine, volumes of
masmaic vapor that generates every variety of in
termittent and remittent fever. All low laying,
swampy districts the deltas of rivers the prairies
the salt-marshes on the coast, the bayous of the
Gulf States, and the shores of the northern lakes
are also visited at this by malarious cpl
denies that PROSTATE no inconsiderable number of
their inhabitants. This ought not to be- for it can
easily be prevented. No fact in medical history is
better established than the fact that Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters will avert every species of malari
Gus disorder A course of this standard tonic and
Alternative commenced in advance of the unhealthy
and continued regularly until its close, will
prove an absolute protection against chills and
fever, bilious remttent fever and other complaints
of periodical type well against the dis
turbances in the digestive organs and bowels, so
common at this period of the year. AS a remedy
for dyspepsia, biliOusness, liver disease, nervous
disorders, physical weakness, rheumatism, melan-
chOly hysteria, and ailments to which the weaker
sex are exclusively subject, Hostetter's Bitters
has no competitor at home or abroad.