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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
The Boston Fire.

The commissioners appointedto inves-
tigate the cause and management of the
Boston fire have made report. They
find that the fire was not the work of an
incendiary, that it commenced in the
rear of the basement of the building first
destroyed, that for many minutes after
it was discovered no alarm was given,
though crowd of people were watching
It's progress that az soon as it was known
to the patrolman on the beat he gave an
alarm promptly, but the engines were
slow in reaching the scene; because the
engine horses were sick. There was
scarcity of water and of fuel. and it soon
became apparent that the engines were
not powerful enough to throw effective
streams of water upon the high build
ings in the neighborhood. The firemen
worked bravely, and the apparatus was
in coed condition, but there was want
of system, and though the chief of the
department is praised for his courage,
the report throws doubts upon his fitness
TO command in such an emergency.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21

Wednesday eve., Gramercy Square
My Dear Mr.. Despard l am so
glad you have come. Could it have been
you saw at the Academy? 1t was not
a bit like you, and yet 1 think it was.
Please call soon. Ever yours,
"NELLIE KEMDLR."
Charley yelled, "She signs herself
Ever yours, and wanted to shout for
the crowd but happier thought struck
him, and before | knew what he was up
to he leaped on to the box of carriage
and went up Broadway in the same style
he used to steer his team among the
stumps and boulders of the California
wilds. l followed him in another with
the coachman, and il due time found
Charley's trap in charge of an astonished
darkey at the abode Of his lady love.
came away then. Below you have
the latest news from the scene of action:
Despard- Kemble-At the residence
of the brides father, Jan. Is, by Rev.
George Newtown, ID. d., Charles Des-
pard, late of Green Flat, Cal. TO Miss
Nellie Kemble, only daughter of Thomas
Kemble, of Gramercy Park, New York.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
Personal Paragraphs.

Ev-Gov. ORR has sailed for Russia.
VICTOR HUGos son has written life
of Washington.
SHELLEY INDUCED in music, and Chris
topher North in opium.
PRINCE NAPOLEON was not favorite
with the late Emperor.
ONLY thirteen of the Erie Canal boats
are named Z" Ida Lewis.
THERE are thirty-one charges of libel
against Woodruff and Clafiin.
Mr. FRANCIS, our Minister to Greece,
says Byron's Maid of Athens is a myth.
GAIL HAMILTON denies that she has
the smallpox. She is now in Washing
ton.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has written a
column of poetry on the Credit Mo
bilier.
WHEN Mile. Aimee travels by rail she
takes over hundred trunks to make
her cargo.
IT is said that A. Z. Stewart will es-
tablish dry goods store at Saratoga for
the summer season.
An editor in New Jersey sounds his
bugle because he has taken i'll six dollars
in coin for his paper.
SINCE Bulwer's own circulation has
ceased the circulation of his works has
enormously increased.
SHUTE, the Exeter On. II. Cashier, had
81 200 salary. The bank loses $3.50, 900,
and the Cashier cannot be found.
ALvAH CRocKER, NJ. c., of Massachu-
sets, is II, and the Oldest man in the
House. Cakes Ames is 90.
JOHN ADAMS, when Vice President,
wore sword, and walked about the
streets with his hat under his arm.
GEORGE ID. PRENTICE once said that
Daniel Webster was the only ran who
could be lionized without growing vain
about it. ;"
LYDIA SHERMAN is said to be review
ing her recent confession in order TO
work in few more dead bodies that she
entirely forgot.
THE Minnesota Legislature comprises
4S farmers, II lawyers, II merchants,
doctors, editors, ! music teacher, l
blacksmith, and brickmaker
Mrs. SUMNER is now living at Nice,
and those who have recently seen her
say that she still remains one of the
most beautiful and attractive of women.
WASHINGTON IRvISG's great delight
was to read in the open air. "Come
and see me" was his invitation to a
friend, "and I'll give you book and a
tree"
AND now, John b. Cough himself is
to be classed among those unfortunate
public speakers who are apt to be " i'll, y
and thus fail to fulfill their lecture en-
gagements.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21

been gathered in Bexar county, and as
much more between that and the coast.
A MAN of Iowa Falls, who has lime
kiln, asserts that, with wood and corn in
about equal parts, the fire il better, and
scarcely more expensive, and that the
lime is somehow vastly better.
THE three reasons given by those not
in favor of live fence posts are 1t is
difficult to grow row of trees near
enough in line: the wind swaying the
trees will break the nails and lastly, the
growth of the trees would surely push
off the boards that the old Boreas
spared.
Mr.. MEcHI, the great scientific farmer,
sums up the results of The English har-
vest in the London Times. He says he
is no alarmist, but he believes that En-
gland will have to pay for foreign corn,
in quantity and price, Els, 900, 600 to
EGO, 600, 900 sterling more than in good
wheat season.
AN English scientific journal states
that oxalic acid promotes the sprouting
of seeds, SO that seeds forty years old
will terminate by it's application. The
method is to soak the seeds for one or
two days in solution of oxalic acid till
they commence to sprout, when they are
taken out and planted.
THREE HUNDRED barrels of American
apples were recently sold by auction in
London, Eng. Each barrel contained
from two and IL quarter to two and one
half bushels. They had arrived in the
best condition, having been carefully
packed, with nothing to keep Slem sep
arate. Neither sand, dust nor other
material was used, as they tend to make
the fruit moldy.
a CORRESPONDENT SAYS that in bots or
collie in horses from one to three tabls-
spoonfuls of chloroform, with from one
half to one pint of castor oil, and the
combination will act like magic. The
chloroform not only destroys or kills the
bot, but relaxes the system, rendering
the castor oil more powerful in their ex-
! pulsion. have never known horse or
mule to die with collie or bots, with
this remedy, even if collie exist indie
pendent of their presence, which / much
doubt.
DURING recent discussion in En-
gland, it was stated that the most sue
cessful lines Of short-horns were those
in which one animal was the sire of the
dam also, thus making the parents half
brother and sister by the same sire, out
of different dams. This system of
breeding had produced some of the
finest cattle in the country. 1t was also
said that where cattle were closely in
bred and preserved their constitutions,
they had IA tendency to lose color, save
perhaps in the ears, and to become
white.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
EMPTY.
BY EDGAR FAwcErr.

Your coy crib is in the corner yet
ait and watch it, just day IL dead.
You cannot press again, my vanished pei,
Its pillow with your drowsy golden head.
You cannot reach plump arms to get my kiss,
Or dart about with rosy, naked feet,
Rahbling soft syllables Of that and this,
A tiny, night-gowned fairy, blithe and sweet.
Once and for all you have lain down TO rest,
Not Co rise up because of birds or beams,-
Once aud for all, with white flowers your breast,
To sumber codly and TO dream no dreams.
Empty the home where, frolcsome and fair,
Your precious presence made 40 bright part
Empty your little crib, your clothes, your chair;
Hut emptiest Of ALL your mothers heart!
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
FARM AND GARDEN.
Fodder Corn.

The subject of fodder corn is being
extensively argued Just now. A CORE
spondent of the Country Gentleman
gives the following experience We
have been in the habit of growing corn
fodder for fall feeding, and found it a
paying crop, having grown fodder enough
on one acre of ground to feed ten cows
for II month, with scarcely any other
feed, and our COWS did not decrease in
the amount of butter made, nor did the
butter lose its color We have come TO
the conclusion that it is as good crop
as the farmer can raise. At the opening
of spring last year we found that our
meadows would be short, on account of
failure in seeding the year before We
concluded to plant nine acres of corn for
fodder, eight acres of il for winter feed
ing, and one acre for feeding in the fall
The piece of ground on which it was
planted had failed TO take in seeding the
year before with oats it had no manure.
1t was the 18th and 14th of May. 1t
was cultivated twice and plowed once (;
planted one bushel per acre of Red
Blaze corn, an early kind, 50 that it
would be sure to ripen before frost.
This was cut in the early part of Sep
TENDER, put into shocks the same as
other corn, and allowed to cure in the
shocks. The result was ] 200 shocks on
the eight acres, which would feed twelve
cows for one hundred days, one being as
much as cow can eat in one day We
are feeding it now to our stock, horses
and ALL They seem to like it, and will
hunt after the nubbins of corn, for we
feed it without husking; and unlike
your correspondent, we shall, in seasons
when the hay crop will be short, plant
corn for fodder, as we can handle a great
deal of it without unbinding, and there
fore save time in housing it and also we
can feed our cows grain, without husk-
ing or grinding it,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
Manure Heap.

If your compost heaps are under
sheds and refuse to heat, either turn
them in mild weather to encourage fer
mentation, or make holes in the top with
q crowbar, and pour in large quantities
of boiling water or boiling spent lye
The covering up of few heated bricks
in manure heap will often engender
fermentation or burying a lump of un-
Stacked lime in composted heap will
cause fermentation, from the amount of
latent heat rendered present during the
Stacking of the lime. If compost is
dry, add water, and the mass will soon
be in a fair heat indeed, the pile should
never be too dry, or the contents will
tirefang, and thus much of it's value will
be dissipated.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
Rural Bre vities.

THE number of pounds OF butter made
i'll the United States in 1870 was 49,
536, 46S.
HAY chopped ready for feeding is now
pressed into bales in Maine and shipped
to the Boston market.
SOUTHERN peanut cultivators report
that the vines used for hay for stock
fully repay the care of tilling the crop.
A bushel of peanuts yields three quarts
of OF.
Isaac NJ. HOBBS, North Berwick, Me-.
who has the reputation ut home of being
considerable on pork raising, recently
slaughtered hog, twenty months old,
which weighed SO pounds.
THE mesquit gum of Western Texas is
almost identical with gum arabic, and
during the last year has become an arti-
Gle of export, some ~, 900 pounds having
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
Sterling Coffee.

The following is recommended as being
a good way not only to settle coffee, but
to prevent the escape of it's aroma. For
one pound of coffee, take one egg and
beat it well. When the coffee is nicely
Drowned and cool enough not to cook
the egg, pour the egg over it, stirring
until every kernel is coated with a var
nish, and let it stand few minutes in n
warm place until it dries. This will
prevent the escape of all the aroma. 1t
is not affected by moisture, and the egg
helps the coffee when it is ground and
staapal
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
Chinese Slave Trade.

The days of slavery have not yet pass
ed away. An attempt is now being
made TO import Cinnamon into Central
America, the object being to make slaves
of them. A vessel recently touched at
Honolulu with nearly 700 coolies on
board, bound for Punta Arenas, Central
America. They were entered in the
ships manifest as personal effects, and
the government of the vessel was that of
the slavers of the olden time.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
TO SEE OURSELVES As OTHERS
SEE U.s."
BY FRANK Give.

Bill Baker owned fighting dog.
brindle, coarse-hAired brute,
Whose chief delight was 10 engage
In u canine dispute;
An ill-conducted, vicious, cross,
Stub-tailed, hair-lipped, crop-eared,
And red-eyed, canine nuisance,
BY the neighborhood CANNES feared.
Bills dog came down the street on a
Diagonal dog trot,
looking for some other dog,
For whom 10 make II hot;
When, on a scrubby looking brute,
His vision CHANGED TO fall,
Staring from out a looking glass
That leaned against the wall.
Bits dog surveyed that strange canine,
With sinister regard,
And doubted if he'd ever seen
dog look quite so hard.
The more he gazed, the less respect
He felt within him stir,
For that demoralized, cross-grained
And hang-dog looking cur.
That stranger dog returned Bills dogs
Insulting stare, in kind,
Which tended TO still more disturb
Bills CANNES peace Of mind.
With every bristling hair along
His back, he hercely frownod,
And curled his tail until it raised
His hind feet from the ground.
And showed his teeth and cooked bis ears.
And otherwise behaved
Impertinently, Us dogs do
Whose instincts are depraved;
But all his hostile signs were met
BY signs az hostile, quite,
And Bills dog felt himself compelled
To stink away or fight.
He flew INTO that looking glass
With all his might and main
Filled with chagrin and broken glass,
He soon flew out again.
Reflection showed Bills dog that he
Had got into a scrimmnge,
Through indignation at the sight
or his own hideous image.
The knowledge of his aspect quite
Destroyed his self-esteem;
For the hideous reality
Surpassed his widest dream.
Life lost, at once, all charm for him;
SO, mournfuly he steered
Into a neghboring sausage shop
And never reappeared.
The moral Of this doggerei
Is obvious, ] trust;
For there j. moral lesson in
(Bill Bakers dogs disgust;
If some men knew how they appear
To others, they would hide
Themselves within a sausage shop
That is, they'd suicide.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21

UNCLE SAM ABRoAD.-They are MAX
ing terrible uproar in Paris over the
production of a play there called
"L'Oncle Sam" 1t is said to contain
slanderous and disgraceful illusions to
this country and our people, and it was
suppressed by the authorities. Having
been shorn of its most Objectionable feG-
lures it is now permitted to go on agair ,
though not without numerous protests,
mostly from the Parisians themselves.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21

IN Kansas City, Mo-, it is estimated
that $4,000 capital has been sunk in
trying to establish unsuccessful news
papers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
A Big Hog.

Mr.. Charles w. Gushing, of South
bingham, Mass, writes the PlOughnal
as follows, about hog he recently mar
keted: His age was two years and six
months. His breed three-quarters York
shire, one-eighth Columbia county, one
eighth Suffolk; his color, pure white; the
length of his body from end of the nose
to stern, seven and one-half feet; breadth
across his back, two feet; depth, three
and one-half feet; girth, seven and one
half feet. His head very small, well set
on to breast and shoulders two feet
square, his ears small and very thin, legs
very short and small for hog of his
size, hair short and thin, skin as soft
and thin as Suffolk pig ten months old
His live weight, 1,135 pounds; dressed
weight, 1,010 pounds. His feed was
three-fourths Indian meal, one-fourth
shorts mixed with warm water and a
little salt, mixing his breakfast the night
previous, and his supper in the morning,
mixed SO thick that it would stay in a
pile when emptied into trough he had
no drink after Sept. /. He had for his
dinner from August l to the middle of
November about a peck of windfall and
refuse apples of all kinds, but mostly
gn1r
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21

UNCLE JOHN HARPER has four ami
mails in training for the coming racing
season.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-21
Average Life OF Farmers.

According to Dr. Nathan Allen, in n
late address before farmers club at
Princeton, Mass, the farmers of that
State reach an age considerably greater
than those who follow any other occupa-
ton. The registration of deaths, care
fully made in Massachusetts, for about
thirty years, forms the basis of the doc
tors assertion. On an average the farm-
ers there live to be sixty-fve years of
age, merchants about forty-nine years,
mechanics about forty-eight years. We
hardly think that the average life of
Western farmers would be found to be
so long by several years as, those of the
State III question, yet we presume the
relative difference of the length of life,
as compared with those of our mechanics
and business men, would be about the
same. The deaths from some particular
diseases are greater in number among
farmers than among some of the other
classes, such, for instance, as arise from
exposure to vicissitudes of the climate,
etc. and the cases of insanity are,
doubtless, more frequent among farmers
and farmers wives than among the peo-
pie of cities and towns of whatever occu-
patiOn.-Prdirie Farmer.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-03-26
By ORDER OF 6 ENERAL LoNGsrREEr.

BYORDER OF GENERAL LoNGsTREET.
1t is hard job the tyrant at WASH
ington has sadiled upon General Long
street. What an appalling moral tall
Is Longstreet'< Once the honored,
loved and trusted leader Of Southern
men, now the supple tool of II master
to prosecute them. Truly do times
change ami men with them. But the
change some men undergo is enough to
make a very devil weep with shame.
The government of the people Of Lou
isiana, seized by base set of usurp-
crs, Lnngsrreet is ordered to play the
role of arresting and imprisonins the
chosen rulers Of the State.
BY order OF General Longstreet
How does that sound 2 If he had
known the depths of degradation, the
ldumnng qualification, the awful atMse-
ment, his masters would have required
his hands to do, could he, could he have
sold himself tor u miserable mess OF
portage? Can the hig0tten gains
which his treasons to honor aud good
faith has enabled him to ill his pocl1-
cts with, can these compensate for the
heritage of intamy which he bequeaths
to his children?
By order of General Longstreet!
Amid the distressing and paralyzlng
oufrages of the South, not the least OF
her hnmilations is the knowledge that
she has nurtured aud trusted men who
are now willing to stab her III the back
for pay like d cowarlly assassin and
goad her in her prostrasion.
BY order of General Longstreet.
Il Meridian (Miss.) Gazette.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-03-26

ton in this city. would General Grant
have ordered Federal troops to the
scene of disturbance from Governors
Island, withonteven waiting for an ap-
pea! from Gov. Dix9 Nobody needs to
Ne told that if that occurrence had TAX
an place in New York, instead of New
Orleans, and Governor Dix had been
al ed on he would simply have or
Tered ont one OF two regiments of the
State militia. wi, ch night have been
kept on duty for day or two while
he excitement subsidized. Why was
not similar course pursued in Louis
lanai 1t was because the Kellogg af-
fair is not Il government in any proper
sense of the term. 1t does not control
the physical force of the State. 1t lacks
the power to enforce obedience and
maintain order, whicl. belongs to every
valid State government. Never hav-
ing been elected by the people, it is
not supported by the people, and d
mere breath would blow it away IN the
absence of Federal protection.-[N. Y.
World.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-03-26

CIpHERED IT OUT. awkward
man was upon jury IN Maine recent
lv. The case in court involved claim
for money for binding a cellar, and
he number of perc!,es Of stone used
were specified. Bnt this awkward
man, as it CHANGED, knew something
Ivy experience ahont building stone
walls, ard this little item was net
quite clear to him. So when the jury
went ont, he took his pencil and quiet
ly ciplsered a little while at the table.
and then. in the most matter-offact
way. told the jurors that, as lie made
It, there was enough stone pnt into
hose cellar walls to ill the cellar COM
plrtely up, and have some three or
t"ar prrclses of stone lett, and he was
puzzled to know where they put their
potatoes and garden sass.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-03-26

CoNsrsTENCY.-The world talks much
of consistency, without appearing to
care about it, to understand what kind
of consistency is desirable. That a
man should always retain the same
opinion--tl,at he sioald shut bis eyes
aud ears, learn nothing, hnt Obstinate
ly adhere to his first conceptions. No
one who loves and properly appreri
ates the value of truth aud knowledge
could possibly desire it. One of the
most powerful distractions to the adj
vaucement Of knowledge. is the too
great readiness with which mankind
make up their minds, shut up the
book of experience, and rest contented
with what they have seen. They who
seek the truth with fervor are ever open
TO new exiaence-ever ready to ron-
slider, and to re-investigate the opinions
they hold. They deem none irrevoca-
ihly fixed. They are tolerant of new
views, and explore with candor the
grounds on which they are Supported.
TO lie consistent we are not required
to adhere to one opinion. 1t is not the
mere sustainment of ali opinion that
constitutes consistency. II our reason
shall lead us to comprehend Il matter
in q new aud more consistent light, we
should be ready to change orr opin-
lions. In no other way can we act with
consistency. Men often boast that
they never change their opinions. Il
they do not, they are either incapable
of reasoning justly or they are very
stubborn and concieted. AL opinirus
should be founded upon ajnst prinei-
pie. and if We have mistaken a rrein-
dice for an opinion, we shoald rctraei
us soon as the error is perceived. We
say, therefore, that the naintainanet
of error once thought to be IL truth, is
not consistency, but blindness or stub,
lbornueSs. To he consistent is to be
reasonable, ever ready to receive in.
structinn and to change our opinions
as enlightened reason may dictate.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-03-26

~ There arr. hnsiTess men and wo-
men who Ma e fortunes simply by ci
witty. Their wares or their services
are no better probably than tie stock
in trade of their crnsty ntighhors.--
Bat, having undertaken a business ~
adopted profession, they are wise
enough to know that whatever is to tn
done with q good grace and a good
will. They do not show 10y their he
havior that they consider everyh"hy
III intruder, but act in the persuasion
that everybody may be made friendly.
They do not treat people as though
they were in a hurry TO be done with
them at once and forever; but as
though even casnal caller may b.
cultivated into an acquaintance aud
made a constant customer. To neg
lect the small conItcsies of life is to in
sure neglect for yourself. And the
reason that some persons are success
tul and others pot is often found in the
fact that the successful invite stran-
gers to become friends by civility, Will.
the others lepel even friends by the
want of courtesy.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-03-26
NEW THIS DAY.
Tax Sale.

U. s, Internal Revenue-United States VS..
J. +. Neal.
Ny VIRTUE OF THE AUTHORITY
ID vested in me by Section y, Act of
Congress, dated July 18th. 1866, | have
seized aud will sell in front of my Office i'll
the Town of Alexandria on
TUESDAY, the list day of APRIL, A. D.,
1873.
at u o'clock NJ, the following described
property, towlt:
Six Mules
Seized aud sold for Succession Tax due
by the Heirs Of Mrs G. Dark.
TERMs-CASh in United States Treas
ury Notes. A. }. WHliIIER,
March 10, Is72-2t. Dep. Collector
Printers Fees ~ 80.