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Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-29

A Jackson, Miss, letter to the
New Orleans Picaya1ae says: "The
whole Legislature, that is a majoIl'
ty, could be bought, we are told,
for about S5,000-sometimes ST.
OOO-prices of individual MEM
bers ranging from twenty-five to
one hundred dollars. Senators
are worth from one hundred to
Two hundred and fifty"
The true northerner., 1873-11-28
WHOLE NO 914

Supervisor presented following resolution and moved
its adoption; which motion prevailed:
Rd the Board of Supervisors County
committee appointed to confer OF the
publication OF the OF
this Board, and report tomorrow morning.
Supervisors and Thompson appointed such
The Claims submitted following final repor
TO he Honorable Saperosoqs Of Van County
Claims make the following report We
following claims and recommend they
lowed report on motion, accepted adopted
The true northerner., 1873-11-28
The following amounts allowed by the Board by unan
ON motion the Board adjourned until morning

the Board adjourned until tomorrow morning at
eight o'clock.
TUESDAY, October %, 1873
Board met pursuant adjournment Roll called-quorun
rresont Proceedings of yesterday read and approved.
pperyso Barnum presented the following resolution and
cd its adoption
peeoJrd That this tender their thanks Mr. Yeey,
r Chairman for the add impartial manner in which no has
sorce te soyeaa duties devoved him during the
rsent session Also Clerk for the prompness and efacto
- manner in which he performed the duties Of bis Office Which
motion prevailed.
The Committee publication Of the proceedings Of this
Hoard submitted following report;
r. me- Honorable goa 81 Sferro Of V1u Btr,I' Goratgs
Your Committee whom referred the matter OF the pubh
ao of the proceedings this Board would report and
the award to Conway for thousand copies forty cents
Soio 10 be completed by January 1st 1874.
ON motion e. Banum said report accepted adope-
Whereupon Board adjourned until the Tuesday
Tanuary A. D. 1874, AZ eleven o'clock.
Attest SAMUEL BoLxES
The true northerner., 1873-11-28

III Of which respectfully submitted. ~
CHARLES AR & E. HEATH, Committee.
On motion the Board adjourned until evening"
EVENING SESSION.
board met pursuant to adjournment Roll quorum
present
supervisor Hart presented following resolution:
BE Resolved by the Board Supervisors the County OF
IAN Buren, annual session assembled this date
all horses sheep and shall be and the prohibit
ed from running at large highway county,
the provisions OF OF the Legislature of Michigan
entitled IAN act to prevent ANIMALS from running large
public highways approved March 27, A.. d, 1867"
Dated, Paw Paw, Oct. %, 1873
Which was adopted by the following
AYEs-Messrs French Fitch Williams Howard Nuttiue
Brown, Rockwell, Yecey Watson, f. Heath Hart and
Thompson.-l4.
s.-biessrs sreatore Barnum Heath and Barker
The Committee appointed to apprse and
lot belonging the county following report
10 hc Honorable Board 81 Spcrors If Vau BuTca County
The Committee to whom referred appraisng
and selling lot number four Block ftyone the Village OF Paw
Paw, submit the following report
We have personally visited said lot and
fifty dollars and have sold the Marcus that
provided he the the County tho
first day of June Dated Paw Paw Oct. %, 1873
Which report accepted and adopted.
The claim Of Timothy Sullivan for damages received
the falling OF plaster him the County Office
referred to the Board by the Committee Claims on
ton Of G. e. Heath laid on the table.
Supervisor Nutng moved that the claim Martin for
wind null the County Farm which referred back
the Committee Claims be alowed which not pre-
vail by the following vote:
AYEs-None
NAYs-Messrs Wise French Fitch Williams Howard seatore
Nung Brown ~ Heath, Rockwell Yekey Watson c. T.
Heath Hart Cox, Thompson and Barker-1s.
The true northerner., 1873-11-28
VFVNNV WIN Y IsI-Il4F WVOly,
William R. HAWKING. Attorney.

Sheriff. Sale.-By virtue of a writ of
Execution issued out of and under the seal Of
the Circuit Court for the County OF Kalama-
zoo, and to me directed and delivered, against
the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of
William Wilson, and in favor OF Bernhard l..
Desenberg and Bernhard NJ. Desenberg, CO.
partners. dong business under the firm name
of B. Desenberg and Company, as plaintiffs, |
did, on the ninth day Of October, A. D., 1878,
levy upon and take all the right, title and u-
terest OF the said William Wilson, in and to the
following piece or parcel OF land, situated in
the County OF Van Buren and State of Mich-
gan. and described as the west half Of the
southeast quarter OF section numbered one, in
township numbered four south of range num-
bered thirteen west. which l shall expose for
sale at public auction or vendue, to the highest
bidder. at the front door of the Van Buren,
County Court House. IN the village of Paw
Paw, at two o'clock in the afternoon of Tues
day, the thirteenth day of January A. d. one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, or
so much thereof as shall be necessary TO satisfy
said execution together with the costs allowed
bv law 974t7
Dated Paw Paw this 25th day of Nov. 1878
JOHN e. SEowERMAN. Sheriff.
The true northerner., 1873-11-28
HENRY g. STOREY,
g74t7 4 administrator of said estate.

MOrt.age Sale.-Default having been
made in the payment Of q certain indenture of
mortgage, bearing date the thirtieth day OF
October. A. D., 1871, executed by Maery III.
Myers and his wife, Lucinda NJ. Myers OF the
township of Waverly, Van Buren, county, State
of Michigan, to VIM. R. Hawkins. OF Paw Paw,
Michigan, and recorded IN the office OF the
Register of Deeds of Van Buren, county. state
of Michigan, in Llber No. s. on page 547, on
the thirty-frst day OF October. A. D., 1871. and
the amount claimed to be due thereon, at the
date of this notice, being five hundred and
twentv-seyen dollars and forty-four cents, in-
cludlnr an attorney Zee Of twenty-five dollars,
provided for in said mortgage, and no suit or
proceedings at law or in equity having been in
siituted 70 recover the amount now due and
unpaid. and secured by said mortgage, or any
mart theroof now, therefore, notice is hereby
gwen that. by virtue OF o power OF sale con
tanned IN said mortgage, there viii be sold at
public auction, 10 Che highest bidder on SaCur-
dav the twenty-fourth day ot February, A. D.,
1874. 90 the front door Of the Coult house' Ia
tho village OF Paw Paw. in said County OF Van
Buren,. state Of Michigan, at ten o'clock IN the
forenoon OF said day, the premises described
in said mortgage, or 80 much Thereon as may
be necessary to satisfy the amount Que upon
and secured to be paid by said mortgage, WITH
interest and cost, said premises being descrlDea
as follows. to-wlt the south-east quarter OF
the southeast quarter OF section twenty-eight'
in township one south Of range No. fourteen
west.
Dated Nov. 21st. 1873. 973tl3
WM r. HAWKINS Mortgages.
The true northerner., 1873-11-28
JUIN ID llIAVWI-I'IIAI7' ''LOIII4.
by y. ID. RICHARDSON, | nder Sheriff.

AsiHnimiafratOE''s sSsSie. = Notice is
hereby given that in pursuance and by virtue
OF an order and license to sell, made by the
Probate Court for the county Of Van Buren,,
Michigan, and bearing date the 29th day of
September, A. D.. 1878, 1 shall sell at public
vendue. on the premises herein described In
the township Of Pine Grove in said Van Buren,
county and State OF Michigan, on Monday, the
twelfth day OF January, A. d., 1874, at the hour
OF ten o'clock III the forenoon, the following
described real estate belonging to the estate of
Robert NJ. Richards, deceased, to wit s: The
southeast quarter of the northeast quarter
and the northeast quarter OF the southeast
quarter Of section number sixteen, in township
number one south Of range number thirteen
west. and containing eighty acres Of land ac-
cordng to the United States survey. One
fourth of the purchase money will be required
to be paid at the time OF sale and the remain
der IN one. two and three years with interest.
Dated November 26, 1873
HENRY g. STOREY,
The true northerner., 1873-11-28

Claimant. Claimed. Allowed-
Monroe Atwater for desk, bookcase. SleG s143
n Pugsley services Commissioner
n. NJ Commissioner 1873
Connor ~ fort by order Of
NJ. Morrill, for
3. Town for constable fees boarding prisoners 40
William Daniels constable
". W, Hodge Sup't of Poor Ul
j. II. Burton for constable fees ~ so IA so
post examination 90
Or. l. j. w Webster for nOren examination
Overton witness 10
Dallas 70
Howard q Moutpn, box Tor coffin ZJo 80
Peter Eckes for digging grave and hurying body
X. Laterty for digging and burying body
William Travis digging blryin2 body
Charles Allen watching
The true northerner., 1873-11-28
D. 3 Y r N 8,
Manufacturer and Dealer In
BOOTS AND SHOES

Manufacturer and Dealer IN
BOOTS AND SHOES
Nam Street, Paw Paw.
Having opened Manufacturing Establish
ment for the above purpose, l beg leave 10 IN
form the dealers and citizens OF Van buren
County that am able 10 furnish them with the
BEST OF SHOP MADE WORK,
at the very lowest prices. ] manufacture all
my Boots and Shoes, and am able to warrant
them to the consumer Manufactory, under
sos D. BYRNs.
shancery %aEe.-State Of Michigan,
the Circuit Court forthe County OF Van Buren,,
in chancery, Sarah g.. Stone, complainant, vs.,
Albert a. abbott, Elsie Abbott. Orvllle S. Alb
bott, James Haynes Mary M. Haynes, Newton
Foster, defendants in pursuance and by virtue
OF decree OF SAID Court made in the above
entitled cause, bearing date the 18th day of
September, A. D., 1878, 1 shall sell at public
vendue, TO the highest bidder, at the front
door OF the Court House, IN the village of Paw
Paw, III said County OF Van Buren,, on Tues
day, the 23d day OF December, A. D.. 1878, at
one O'Clock P. NJ, of said day, the following
described land and premises. VIZ: sixty (60)
feet of the south end Of lot SIX Co in block
20" IN the village OF Decatur, Van Buren,
County, Michigan according to plat OF said
village on record with the Register OF Deeds
OF said County, at Paw Paw, IN said County.
JOHN j. SIBERIAN, Circuit Court Comm'r.
y. p. LoVERIDGE Solicitor.
Mortgage &ale.-Default having been
made in the payment Of a certain lndenture Of
mortgage bearing date the sixth day OF May A.
D. 1869, executed by Lewis d. Camtield and his
wife Mary Camfield, Of the township Of Pine
Grove, Van Buren county, state Of Michigan, to
John Greenwood. OF the town Of Paw Paw.
Michigan, and recorded in the Office OF the
Register Of Deeds of Van Buren, county, state
OF Michigan, in liber V, on page 229 on the
tenth day of May, "A. D. 1859, and the amount
claimed to be due thereon at the date of this
notice being four hundred and seventy-one dol
lars (S471) including an attorney fee OF twenty
five edoars provided form said mortgage, and no
suit OF proceeding at law or IN equity having
been instituted to recover the amount now due
and unpaid and secured by said mortgage or
any part thereof. Now therefor notice is here
by given that by virtue OF power Of sale
contained IN said mortgage there will be
sold at public auction to the highest bidder,
on Saturday the twenty-fourth day Of January.
A. d. 1874, at the front door of the court
house IN the village of Paw Paw, Van Buren
county, state of Michigan, at ten o'clock in the
forenoon OF said day, the premises described
in said mortgage or so much thereof a. may be
necessary to satisfy the amount due or unpaid
on said mortgage with intereat and cost Said
premises being described as follows, to wit:
The southeast quarter of the southeast quar-
ter OF section number nineteen In town one
south of range number thirteen west contain
ing forty acres, be the same moro or less.
Dated October 18th, 1878.
970tl3 JOHN GREENWOOD, VI ortgagee.
William II. Hawkins. Attorney
The true northerner., 1873-11-28

The following claims refer La3k u the committee O tne
whole, 70 wit:
Timothy Sullivan For damages received by falling pas-er an
Court House. which his broken, Clam $40
Eastman Justice Allowed to be withdrawn TO-
frmatlon bills Of E. V. Allen for same purpose
All Of which is respectfully submitted
f.. Chaumau
The COMMITTEE appoonmen submitted toe follown- re-
port, which, motion, accepted and adopted
IL the IIonoraGie Eood of Serctsors Of Van Bu County:
Apporonment of Taxes would submit the
The true northerner., 1873-11-28
Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of
Van Buren, County-October
Session, 1878.

To th Honorable Boarl o Supervisors ~ Van B"re" County:
Committee the Equalization OF Fractional School Dis
ricts beg leave to submit the following report
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-15
The Coming CIiDDer.

Donald Mckay believes that the old
era OF clipper ships, fast ~sailers, and
constructed OF woOo, is about to return.
The age of iron has lasted these twenty
years. Steam has displaced sails, and
now the circle is rounded and we are
coming back to wind and wood. But
whether the ship comes from the mine
or the forest, the ship is needed. There
are cargoes waiting everywhere, and in
long ocean voyages the sail vessel has
advantages in economy, at least, over
steam propulsion, while for service and
length of life wood remains unques-
toned. The old rating of A l twenty
years is already reduced to ten years fer
iron ships. Last year three hundred
sailing vessels cleared at San Francisco
with grain, for England direct, around
Cape Horn. That was business no
steam fleet could possibly do, and there
are long routes to Australia, to Japan,
Africa and over the wide expanse of the
Pacific ocean,, where the coming clipper
must do the work of transportation.
They are building iron ships. at Phila-
delphia, yet the North american there,
with ready recognition of the past
glories of our shipping, asks: Can we
not again send forth our proud fleets of
fast-sailing clipper ships to pillow the
ocean waves around Cape Horn to Peru,
California, China and the Indies? Those
were mighty days for American com
merce when the Great Republic, and the
Sovereign of the Seas, and a host of
other grandly-named clipper ships ran
races fifteen thousand miles long, in
sight of each other all the way! If
Uncle Sam can do it again, the tonnage
problem is solved, and the ftful and I'M
natural ascendency of English tonnage
Is doomed.-NeW York Commercial
ADVERTISER
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-15
What a 100-POund IngOt Did for Cali.
fOrnia.

Col. S. T. Hauser, of the First Ma
tional Bank of Helena, proposes to place
upon exhibition at the Vienna Worlds
Far a solid ingot of Montana gold
weighing four hundred pounds. This
immense brick would be worth in coin
nearly 800, 000-morem money than many
a maj who will be at the Vienna Expo
sltlon has ever seen at one time-and the
talk of shipping it calls to mind a SINH
lar incident which occurred in 1851,
when some e~nterprising Californian
shipped to Paris, for exhibition, a Cali
fornia gold ingot, the weight of which
was one hundred pounds. Its exhibit
ton In France caused no little excite
ment about the newly discovered land of
gold, and put a happy thought into the
head of the French Government, and
one which subsequently proved of great
advantage to California. Purchasing
the huge specimen, the Government adj
vertised it to be disposed of by lottery
at one franc per ticket, the proceeds Of
the lottery to be used in giving free pas
sage to as many of the poor men of
Paris and other cities of France as de-
sired, but were unable from lack of
means, to emigrate to the Golden State
beyond the seas. An immense number
OF tickets were printed and distributed
throughout France, Belgium, and other
parts OF Europe, met with a ready sale,
and a very large emigration fund" was
thus accumulated. At the day of draw
ing, it was found that a poor brick-ma-
son of Paris held the lucky number,
and was placed in possession of the
handsome prize, nearly or quite 800, 900.
Provision for the passage was made, and
from all parts of France came the indi-
gent to embark.
Many in the great cities, especially
in Paris, who, though poor, did not wish
to accept a free passage from the coun-
try, received a gentle hint from the au-
thorities that the scheme was gotten ur
for their benefit, and they had best ac-
cept its condition. Among these latter
whom the city government wished
to get rid OF were a class Of dissipated,
good-for-nothing noblemen, wla5e title
was their only possession, 5u.. whose
room was considered bette nan then
company. We do not now remember
the exact number who accepted the free
passage, but it was in the thousands,
and thus, while France ridded herself
of a large pauper population, California
was gamer by several thousand hardy
laborers. In France, as also by the
French in this country, these emigrants
are known as "L'Ingots," so called from
the III in which the emigration
fund was raised. Several of these
L'Ingots are now scattered through
Montana, and quite a number are at thu
present writing thrifty citizens of oul
own county. Should Mr.. Hauser'i
4O0-pound brick be productive Of al
much good for Montana as was the 100
FOUNDER for California, it will be an en-
terprise well undertaken. - Virginit
City M0ntanian.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-15
Suicide,

DR.. Holland has a "Topic" in Serb
ner's for May, on the recent discussion
of suicide, from which we quote the
closing paragraph:
If a man is nothing but an animal, if
this life is all there is of his existence.
and the question simply concerns the
amount of comfort to be got out of it in
this transient world, why, let him do as
he likes with himself and his friends !;
but he who regards the present scene as
only the foreground of an infinite spir-
itual feature, through which, if one
tread faithfully the prescribed paths of
pain as well as pleasure, he shall find
himself In higher pathways as a conse-
quence, at the last-we say ne will take
life whether it be convenient or incon-
v%enient, and hold it as the gift of God,
~inalienable by reason of infirmity, Or
suffering, or hopeless disease, or cost 10
other life through necessary ministry.
The doctrines of Prof. Newman and
Mr.. Tollemache are unchristian doc
trines. They carry us back into barbar-
ism-back into the darkness in which
children killed parents that became a
burden to them, and mothers strangled
infants that could only inherit their own
suferings. It is an Infamous criticism
of the divine wisdom, an insult to Prov
idence, an assault upon the safe
guards of society, and a reflection upon
human nature and human destiny, from
which all Christian manhood recoils as
from the touch of a serpent.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-15
The New Billiard Star.

The great feature of the forthcoming
national billiard tournament at New
York will be the appearance of NJ. Fran
co.'s Ubassy, the champion of the world
at the three-ball carom game. M.
Ubassy has lately been engaged in New
Orleans in a great billiard contest with
Miller, the champion of the Southern
States (the latter receiving the odds of
diseount), in which the Frenchman
proved the victor. NJ. Ubassy is a ma
tive of Marseilles, France, and a towns
mar and schoolfellow of Leon Gambetta,
the great Republican statesman. In
1866 M. Ubassy offered to play any man
IN France at the three-ban carom game
for a stake of 1000 francs, but could
find no one willing to accept the gage.
He became the Partisan billiard lion,
and III 1867 he had won such renown
that he was urged to meet Charles Ber-
ger. The two great billiardists played
a game of French caroms, 1000 points
up. Ubassy won by 629, making an
average of u, his largest run being IS.
He then came to this country, and efforts
were made to arrange a match between
him and Joseph Dion, but the latter de-
cllned to compete. Ubassy, in his con-
ceptlon OF shots, is instantaneous, and
he delivers his stroke directly his hand
touches the table. He never plays for
effect, and while leaning over the table
resembles a Heidelberg professor.-New
York Herald.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-15
The Lava Bed.

Prof. Hayden, the United States Ge-
ologist who explored the lava bed. has
laid before the President maps and pho
tographs of that region. It extends IT,
regularly all the way from about the
Three Killers west to the Pacific ocean,
about 600 miles. They are covered with
sage brush and small vegetation, and
abound in small game, being peculiar
for the multitude of rabbits and large
lizards that take refuge in holes and
crevices of the rocks. The rock is of q
basaltic formation that appears to have
been cast upon the bed of some lake,
and is cracked in all directions, until it
forms a network of assures, varying in
depth from ten to sixty feet. Large
numbers of tributaries of the Columbus
river flow through this region, and the
water washes out the soft formation be-
meath the rock, and great caverns are
found extending for many miles around
the opening at various places, into the
assures in the rock. In one instance a.
river has been traced some sixty miles
beneath these lava beds, without ever
appearing within sight of the surface.
The sides of the assures in the rock are
generally rough and irregular, so as to
afford a good foothold in ascending and
descending from the cracks and cav
ems.
Water is abundant, and it appears to
be folly to talk of starving out the Mo-
docs. When the snow melts in the
mountains they have more fear from be-
ing drowned out by the streams than
any other cause.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-05-15
Is There a GOd2

How el%oquently does Chateaubriand
reply to this inquiry: There is a God i!
The herbs of the valley, the cedars of the
mountains bless Him the insect sports
IN His beams the elephant salutes Him
with the rising orb of the day the bird
sings to Him in the foliage the thunder
proclaims Him in the heavens !; the ocean
declares His immensely man alone has
said, "There is no Godp' Unite in
thought at the same instant the most
beautiful objects in nature; suppose
that you see at once all the hours of the
day and all the seasons of the year ; a
morning of spring and a morning of au-
tumn a night ~bespangled with stars
and a night covered with clouds /; mead
ows covered with flowers, and forests
heavy with snow; fields gilded by tints
OF autumn then alone you will have a
just conception of the universe. While
you are gazing on the SUI which is plung-
ing under the vault of the west, another
observer admits him emerging from the
giided gates of the east. By what neon
celvable magic does that aged star,
which Is sinking fatigued and burning in
she shade of the evening, reappear at the
same time, fresh and humid with the
rosy dews of morning? At every instant
OF the day the glorious orb is at nee
rising, respondent at MONDAY, and set
ting IN the west or rather our senses
deceive us, and there is, properly speak
ing, no east, west, north or south in the
world. Everything reduces itself to a
single point, from whence the king of
day sends forth at once a triple light in
one substance. The bright splendor is
perhaps that which nature can present
that is most beautiful ; for while it gives
us an idea of the perpetual magnifcence
and resistless power of God, it exhibits
at the same time a shining image of the
glorious trinity.