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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
RELIGIOUS PROGRESS.
Church Statistics in the United states.


From the New York Tinesl
The late session of the Evangelical
Alliance in this city, the recent sessions
of separate denominations of protesting
Christians, and very recently the letter
of the Roman Catholic Bishops concern
ing education, have naturally awakened
much interest in regard to the numerical
and property standing of the various re-
ligious denominations in the country.
To take this information from the sim
pie statements of the various sects would
be to accept in each case the testimony
of an interested and often partial wit
ness. The Superintendent of the Cen
sus, therefore, put aside all reports, al
MANAGES, year-books and statements of
sectarian journals, and went to work as
if no enumeration was in existence. 1t
was not to be expected that the account
thus taken would agree with the statis-
tics put forth by the denominations
yet the agreement is SO near as to amount
to conclusive proof of the accuracy OF
the census.
The religious statistics of the last
census are much more complete than
any before taken, embracing churches
and organizations, sittings, or Gas we
understand it, about the number of
members, and valuation of church prop
erty. These returns we have elaborated
in the tables which follow, with the view
of giving an exhaustive analysis of the
condition of various churches for three
decades-1S50, 1860 and 1870 And first
as TO membership
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useless from three to five months in
each year, from the operations of frost.
Engineers of eminence concur with and
indorse Mr.. Wilder's theory of freight
roads. The prevailing opinion seems
to be that canals are out of date, unless
to connect important water-courses, like
a canal around the Falls of Niagara, or
the Falls of the Ohio, etc. We think
the experience of the last quarter of a
century has shown railroads to be supe-
rior to canals for the transportation of
freight, mismanaged even as the roads
have been. -InduStria Age.
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affirmed as true of nearly all sects,
church building having been very lively
of late years. The coming census will
probably show still more rapid in
crease, especially in costly church build
ings.
We now come to the important mat
ter of property, where we shall find some
curiously different figures and notable
changes from census to census. The
aggregate of nearly $3.50, 600, 900 in 1870
does not probably represent more than
one-half the real value of the property
belonging to the various religious de-
nominations. We give the figures,
however, as they stand in the census
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
Our Old Friend.

And so our old friend Pub. Doc. is
coming back The House Committee
)n Postoffices and Post Roads has de-
yised plan for the indirect revival of
the ranking privilege, the chief feature
Of which is the unlimited free circula-
ton of public documents through the
mails. Any member of Congress is to
be at liberty to frank anything that by
stretch of conscience he can call a
public document, and when the clerk
has pnt his else upon the wrapper, as q
certificate that the signature is genuine,
the book, or speech, or letter, or report,
or parcel of dirty linen, or whatever it
may be, is thereupon entitled to free
transmission. OF course the result is
easily foreseen. Anything upon which
the honorable member does not want to
pay postage becomes for the nonce a
public document. The speech which he
never made, but asked leave to print
the newspaper which contains hatter-
ing sketch of his life and public SER
vices the volume of "Our Leading
Statesmen" adorned with his portrait
on steel (for which he bound himself to
take five copies of the book at one hun
dred dollars apiece the business circu-
lars of the most influential men of the
party in his district the appeals of the
Central Committee for voluntary contri-
buttons from clerks toward campaign
expenses the Agricultural Report, with
the picture of his namesake, the prize
ram-all these things and many more
will be heaped into the capacious mail
bags, and again, as of old, the post
offices will be choked and the railways
burdened with tons of rubbish for
which there is no use upon earth except
to kindle fires and wipe razors.-Ne,0
YoyE Tiibl/op
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

You've Man, PAY ATTENTIoN.-Don't
be loafer don't keep a loafer's COM
pany; don't hang around loafing places.
Better work than sit around day after
day, or stand around corners with your
hands in your pockets-better for your
own health and projects. Bustle about
if you have anything to hustle about
for. Many a poor physician has OBJ
tanned a real patient by riding after an
imaginary one. A quire of blank paper.
tied with red tape, carried under
lawyers arm, may procure him his first
case and make his fortune. Such is the
word: "To him that hath shall be
given" Quit dreaming and complain
ing keep busy and mind your chances.
Take this advice and then all will go
well. Idleness is the mother of mis-
chief.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

INPoland, and elsewhere, it is believed
that on Christmas night the heavens are
opened, and the scene of Jacobs ladder
is re-enacted, but it is onlypermitted to
the saints to see it. Throughout North
ern Germany the tables are spread and
lights left burning during the entire
night, that the Virgin Mary, and the
angel who passes when every body
sleeps, may find something to eat. In
certain parts of Austria they put candles
in the windows, that the Christ-child
may not stumble in passing through the
village. There is also widespread
opinion that a pack of wolves, which
were no other than wicked men trans
formed into wolves, committed great
havoc upon Christman night. Taking
advantage of this superstition, 1T was
not unusual for rogues disguised in
wolfskins to attack honest people. rifle
their houses, sack their cellars, and
drink or steal all their beer. As a
specific charm, no doubt, against these
wolfsh depredations, it was customary
in Austria, up to a recent date, after
high mass on Christmas night, to sing
in particular tone, to the sound of the
large bell, the chapter of the generation
of Jesus Christ.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

IT is the opinion of many of the best
engineers of the times that the days of
canals have gone by. Mr.. Wilder, n
very able engineer, of Pennsylvania,
claims to have demonstrated that freight
can be carried cheaper on double
track railroad, on cars larger than canal
boats, and much quicker than they can
be carried by canal. Besides, they
have the advantage of being ready for
business the year round, while canals,
in all the States north of Virginia, are
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Only baby, 'thout any hair,
'Cept just a little fuZz here aud there.
Only baby, name You have none:
Barefooted aud dimpled, sweet little one.
Only baby, teeth none at all
What are You good for, only TO squall?
Only baby, just a week old;
What ale you here for, only TO scold?
BABY's REPLY.
Only baby What should be?
Lots o. big folks have been little like me.
Amt dot any hair; 'es have too;
Spose'n haven't, dess II TODD grow.
Not any teoth-wouldnt have one:
Don't Diet my dinner by gnawing bone.
What am here for? at pretty mean;
Who's dot better right, t ever you seen?
What am l dood for, did you say?
bber 80 many good things, every day.
'Tourse l squat sometimes, sometimes l bawl
They dissent spank me, cause Use so small.
Only baby es sir, ats so
n If you only could, you'd be one too.
Ats all l have TO say, you're most too old,
Dess Diet into bed, toes dettiug cold.
-ChrtsidH EHjO1.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

THE first patent issued by the United
States was granted to Samuel Hopkins
on July 30, 1890, for the manufacture
of pot and pearl ashes. The third was
to Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia, so
famous for his inventions in high pres
sure engines, of whose invention Presi-
dent Jefferson remarked that sit was
too valuable to be covered by patent,
and there should be no patent for a
thing no one could afford to do without
after it was known" This was in De-
cember of the same year in which Hop
kins obtained the patent. For many
years after this date the Patent Office
was but a clerkship in the State De-
partment.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

In recent letter from Russia, Minis
ter Jewell writes: Banks have been
regularly chartered here now for about
ten years, and pay, all of them, 8, and
10 per cent. dividends. These stocks
are all worth from 100 to 100. l have
not learned how many there are in oper-
alton, but there has not as yet been
failure among them. The Government
exercises strict watch over them, and
a defalcation would be simply the army
for life, or the Siberian mines, as GRIM
inals do not escape here"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
How Alpaca Is Made.

OF all the little girls who will read
this weeks Hearth and Home, L ven
ture to say a pretty large proportion
will DO so in alpaca dresses. L wonder
how many of these know what alpaca is
made of, and how it ever came to be
made at all?
Thirty or forty years ago no such fab
ric was known to us. But about that
time some sacks of queer, fibrous ma
terial, which looked like "superannu-
ated horse hair" were landed on Liver
pool docks. There they lay long time
unsold, till one day young man of an
inquiring turn of mind, i'll peering
about noticed some of their contents
sticking out of hole in one of them.
He looked curiously at it, rubbed it in
his fingers, and finally pocketed it and
walked off, The result was-alpaca.
He had discovered the "horse hair" to
be the wool of the alpaca goat, and was
ingenious enough to conceive the idea
of weaving ii into dress goods, and en-
terprising enough to carry his idea out.
The alpaca goat is species of the
llama, whose home is in the mountain
regions of Peru. 1t lives on the coarsest
fare, the scanty heritage that springs up
in the Businesses of the rocks I; but it has
a beautiful, wavy coat of light, chestnut
brown wool, which is nearly foot in
length, very soft and elastic, and nearly
as fine as that of the Cashmere goat.
This is sheared off every year or two,
ard sent in little bales or ballots TO En-
gland or France, or wherever it is to be
manufactured. The manufacturer sorts
these fieeces into six or ten different
grades. Then the comber and washer
take them. They are washed, dried,
plucked, combed, the "top, or good, is
separated from the "moil, or waste
the former is put through the "slivery
box" and after preparing and Growing, y
the black, gray and white are spun and
woven into cloth. For the shaded goods
the different colors are mixed together,
and so thoroughly is this performed
that, what with slivering, drawing and
slubbing, the "top" is intermixed nc
less than 100000 times before the
finished yarn is produced Then the
yarn is woven, and after dyeing lin such
cases as dyeing is desired), pressing
and finishing-which means steaming
smuggling, grabbing, etc.-the lpaca
now cloth, is measured off, folded, laiC
in papers, and goes to the merchant.
All this-some thirteen or fourteen
different processes, to say nothing o
the various parts of each, as well as the
care and shearing of the goats them
selves, the peregrinations of the WOO
on mule-back over the mountains and il
sitting ship-holds over the ocean-must
be accomplished to give us those home
ly, useful dresses which we all enjoy 81
much and abuse 50 remorselessly.-
hearth and Home.
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The following are comprised in call


Here we find the Methodists at the
head, with u, 1897 churches scattered
through every State in the Union. Then
the Baptists, with nearly 1000. These
two denominations have half the men,
bership and considerably more than
half the organizations and edifices
recorded in the census. Their increase
was considerably greater in churches
than in membership, and that may be
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The largest proportionate increase in
the twenty years is in the Roman Cath
olics. This is readily accounted for by
reference TO the records of immigration.
Setting off the Roman Catholics from
all other countries as equal in number
to the Protestants from North Ireland,
we assume that the entire Irish immi-
grafton are Catholics. The number of
Irish immigrants in twenty years was
1,713.54S. That accounts for the rapid
growth of the Roman Catholic Church.
The next table presents a general view
of the number of organizations, and
pretty nearly of church buildings, in
the United States at the last three Gen.
susperiods:
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TO CORRESPONDENTS.

~ communications for this paper should be accom-
pnied by the Of the author not necessarily for
PUBLICATION, but as an evidence of good faith ON the
PCT OF the writer Write only side of the paper
u particu arly careful i'm giving names and dates 10
hive the letters and figures plain and distinct.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26

In Poughkeepsie foundry, recently,
n mistake which cost $1,000 was made
in casting an enormous gun.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-26
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
A Baby interviewed.

TO LITTLE ONE JUST WEEK OLD.
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A SMALL piece of loaf sugar will al
most instantly cure the most trouble
some hiccough.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1873-09-24
Il { III b II q.

StraBen, %. 8us. Gin srpBes llnalid bat
unisr OVrf sstreHsn. Cine 6susrstrunt bat am
| ~srltrisen NaGmiHaee ,wei unp ersibia unIerer
Sduisr einssalGsrt. Oas @lsnp III sreb. Iur
mrnigen selans es, etpaS ,u rettsn ; nit ralsn-
her S1neaistsit. tbeilte ii3 paS 6eusr ZEN ausss.
tretneten Strcbeitern nit, 70 eaB in 3sit ppn
10 Winatsn all eieie S6uirr III 8lammtn fan.
ben. Wanhss Stid Sauspieb fane in BEN
6lamnsu leinen Sob. OaS Geuer brad aus in
eilsm Sausten unterbalb ees pfarrbauieS ss
sslang jseeH, eieie5 gu retten, ptitpn msbrerr
nit Streb seeedts SluIer I'm easislte san,lib
atsttrannt llne. Nur elf Der 8streHensn limb
a%lIsfurirt. Wan@e baten nur has uddts 2sben
serettst. Sisr tbut Silfe Tptb. Die Stabensr
6suerpuunps, ipwie bic aus 2ursmtura bertsias.
ttltsn BADEN ibre Sbuleisieit sstban, Ipnf ma
rem nar isbr penise Siuier ssrlSpnt setlisten.
Muh anisrn Na1baru aus Sartrinssn batsn
mir eitl ~ pereanfen, ineem biels in Der srlen
srlfsn Nptb sur Sanb tparsn une bis ,um Gnee
ausbielttn. 8tin Wtnl4enlebrn in ~ ~btflasen.
3pet tranfe 6rauen aber muBten aus ben Bet.
ten senommsn ans tpeittr ssbra8t weresn.
auerborn, (aantpn @ils) %. slua. Ssute
Wcrssn, sssen ubr, fam elm fur6tbares Sc.
tpitter nit SaSel unp Sturm iiber unlere @tsene.
Stud, eaB Is nur einise Winuten eautrte. Das
8ern, tpeltes NOD auf Saufen i'm Jelpe nans,
Ionic aIss uap s%emabttr Safsr, purssn melt fort
lbtr cas- 5tle s%striebsn /; Der nod nitt semabte
pafsr uns Slice il pom Sturms fat sanS sesrU.
lttn.
Sdams iue ssbrc@sn, Da6er pom ben Sau.
fern pareen pom Winps absenemmsn, Elm nit
8urn bslaesusr Wassn i'm Scis zines bielasn
yatters paree etsnfaas umsspprfen, nobel iIb
bsinabs Gin unsllf ereisnst bate.
Der S6aben III btpsutsns.
Cberferi4en. 20. dug. Der neuniSbrias
anate hes Srisfrassrs W. BON aabier sina am
sslfrissn Na1mittass nit mebrsren Isinsr Same.
rassn aaf's Gsle, um ,u ipisltn. 0spaAtsr ais
itine aameraeen e~rflfttertt eerIslbs cine aui al.
mem rirra 20 Mstsr bpbsn Grlsabbans selssens
Ssfe, um aaea S6ltbsn Su paiden. hinge
adtst msbrfatsr Warnuns lieb Der flsins 9Das.
balls aa nitt loren, bis CT i1litbli6 ausrutl&ts
nne in bic itredlits 5isfe Ttl, aIpo or l1 ben
9irni6Seel am 6uBs pss 5slltn sinl&lus. Der.
ls!bs ltarb ba!b nap benz Stur,.
s8eispampa&, 81. ausua. @sasru absnb
ssssn - ubr %sntlanp bier auf BEN atusl tin
5tuer, weeurt bic Wobuunsen tss Ssinsn Ger
patius, StsHsn Watbias unp S8ans @i4sl
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1873-09-24
Giralide asui9ktitsn.

Die 3at6ofiRen Der etaot uno Grs-
biocele ct. Gouis Sieben aus Der 9erfol=
sunSswutb Oes oeutl6en 3ei6stan,lers
einen Nuben, Der ni6t bod 9enua anoes
idlasen weroen fam peroanten mir bod
Der Sprannei Yismards Den ener9il6en II.
uneri9rodenen Seluitenoater Mi6ael Y0r.
fer aus Selisenitaot in Seiien=S armitaot,
welder i6on ieit einisen @Oden an Der
bielisen ct. Solepbs- Stride nit seipobn=
ten Offer pirtt ebenlo Die 40 S6weferm
pom Rof6aren 2srate, lpel6e am lebten
SOnntaS in unierer Mitte einsetroiien
iinb. Sn Den nddlten Sasen miro ser
bo4w. Seiuitenuater &obert SGofi aus
NeiHe in S6lelien, weldsr bereits in Nelp
Dort anselanst 1T, bort aber wesen I'm
pdBll6feit SuriidSebalten Wiro, in st.
yonis antommen, no ibm ieine Oroens=
ebern einen @irfunsstreis ansewielen ba=
ben. Vivant sequentes! %. D. @l.)
2Sie oer noerolb bes @laubens" aus
st. 9ouis beri4tet, baben bic Mitslisosr
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1873-09-24
Go ueroen ODER tuuroen iolscnbe 6Gnier,
0irten, Wieien. &c. i'm 6roBbtr3oss
thum berfauit ODER berfeiaert.

Gin III Bed : 8leinmabsr, s~slsssnss serau-
miaeS @cbnbaus nit @artsn uns IL Gftr
Wsintsrs surt Bernard 6 finger.
Curd Srn. 9altbaIar Wsbsrna6 srn 9urem-
burg isine auf benz Sanbweilsr ganne selsssusH
Sitter.
Our6 bic Grbsn bes 9sDrsis y. WsYsr aus
benz u8runb"2 in Der 5riersrtrass, s~slsssneu
ibnen sebprsnpe SGpIer.
Our& Ssrrn 5slir S6oltus bas 3u yOitfra"
~sslegene Sctel De la Poste.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1873-09-24
~SnTembnrger Gazette.

gar, einseaitsrt purpen. Die llria6s Der Gnt.
itebuns bes 5euers in unbsfdnnt. gQes gieb II.
Der srbBte She'll ees @Sbcls purce esrstst.-
Der Sbacen belduft lid unsefabr auf 1900
5ranfen. Oanf Der i6nsaen Silfe Der Ginppb.
ner unp Der bsrribsneeu Winpltias blisbsn bic
nGtlfselssensn Wcbnunssn BON Getinaer unb
Wanssn pom 5euer psrIdrnt.
C. ~
Was bic 6lai&e &bein., Weisl' unb Saar.
tpsin in euremburs sslte,, ieben mir aus s-
mem Girculare bee Serrn DslabaYe auf css, pa
raecrlaR in Vuremburd:
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-07-30
Coffee and Oranges.

A correspondent in Kona writes Us that there
has been decided improvement in the quantity
and quality of coffee and oranges grown in that
sectfpn the present year. The blight. which has
prevailed there for ten years past in the farming
region, has almost destroyed the trees, as it at
tackled both coffee and orange alike. Now the
natives plant their trees higher up the mountain
and in the shade of the forest. Thus far the
blight has not troubled them TO any great extent,
and it is thought that the new locality. from its
greater elevation. will protect them from the dis
ease The cofee crup in Kona has this year
amounted to over forty-Ihousand dollars. with no
systematic cultivation Of it, What lIttle has
been done. has been in the way of experiment
but oil are satisfied that it be grown hereafter
10 the elevated regions aud without rsk Of blight
On this island l0Ahulit is found that orange
trees planted among and in the shade of forest
trees, thrive aud produce fine fruit. This Is seen
10 the mountain rsvIaes back of Waialua. At
Kaawa Valley, last week, We saw four thrifty
orange trees 10 the forest covered with thousands
of young fruit with not the least trace of blight
on them. II these facts shall prove not to be
exceptional the time will snon come when Kona
oranges and coffee will be as abundant as IN tor
mer wears
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-07-30
TichbOrne

Is still the absorbing topic in England. But
the odds seem to be heavily against him now.
with very small hope for success. dis fluids, for
which he relies on public contributions, appear to
be exhausted. and among the latest kilograms
was notice Of another appeal to the public to
sustain his cause. The charge against him now is
perjury, and sume idea of the case may be gath
cred from the evidence of one witness, who had
come from Adelaide to give her testimony. She
knew the defendant as Arthur orion. ana remem-
bered his bringing her letter Of introduction
when he came to Hobart Town with two Shet
land ponies in April, 1858. She saw him Of
ten at Hobart Town, and lent him some money
to take butchers stall He often conversed
with her about his family. and frequently spoke
of his relatives at Wapping." Singularly enough
this trial has assumed the phase of political
contest espoused by the lower or lahoung classes
as against the aristocracy. Should he be convict
ed as he undoubtedly will be- the prejudices of
those who have sympathized with him will be
very much intensified against the aristocracy.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-07-30
The New American Dollar.

The last congress authorized the United States
miuts to issue neS silver dollar, to be called
the trade dollar" and designed to take the place
Of the Mexican dollar in the commerce with
China. In order to make it more acceptable to
the Asiaties it will be two and seven-tenths
mills more valuable than the Mexican issue,
which has been for thirty years almost the only
foreign coin received by them. and which has cir
calated freely among them. 1t is questionable
whether they will be willing to make the change.
SO strong are their pr judices against all new
coins. The new dollar will be marked weight
400 grains 900 fneness." and the minis were to
commence coming it about July l. 1t may be
asked. why make any coin solely for circulation
in Asial 1t Is not simply TO furnish circulat-
ing medium for that country, but to supply
profitable medium Of exchange on which no tax
shall be paid to foreign miuts as is now done on
Mexican silver. II the American dollar can be
introduced to take the place OF the Mexican in
exchange, it Will serve to bring the Nevada silver
bullion into use, and not allow it to be exported
in hars as is now done, for other nations TO OBJ
tain their profit on IT,