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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09

Seven members OF an alleged Ku.Klux band
have been arrested at Owenton, Ky. and
taken to Louisville for trial before the U. s.
District Court.
New Orleans dispatch states that on the
arrival of company Of United States troops
at st. Martinsville, a body OF the White
League, who had been under arms at that
miles distant, where they were at last accounts
with four pieces of artillery.
There are now in Louisiana twenty-eight
companies of regular troops.
Political.
The adjourned Liberal Convention at Albany,
N. Y, on the 10Th ust., refused to make any
nominations, being evidently inclined to sup
port Tilden, the Democratic candidate.
The Democracy Of Nevada have nominated
l.. II. Bradley for Governor, and A. G. Ellis for
Congress. Resolutions were adopted oppos
ing msssed capital, subsidies, and the third
term condemning the back salary-grab; OPP
posing Chinese immigration; favoring laws for
the regulating OF fares and freights indoors
ing the eight-hour law; srraigning the admin
istration for abuse Of power; demanding the
repeal of the bullion tax and condemning
the acts OF violence recently perpetrated in
the South.
Parson Brownlow is announced ~ candi-
date for Congress from the Second Tennessee
district.
Willard Phillips, OF Salem. has been nomin-
ated for Congress from the Essex (Mass.) dis
trct in opposition to Gen. b. F. Butler.
Advices from New Orleans indicate will
ngness on the part of both Republicans and
Democrats to abide by the conference COM
promise.
Judge John r. Green has been nominated
by the Independent Republicans for Governor
Of South Carolina.
Andy Johnson is advocating frsm the
stump, in Tennessee, the reputation of both
the State and national debts.
The Peoples party Of Chicago held its
nominating conventions on the 9Th inst b.
G.. Caul6eld Carter II. Harrison and John v
lie Moyne were nominated for Congress in
the First, Second and Third Districts.
Washington.
Miss Minnie Sherman, eldest daughter of
the General, WAS married at Washington on
the 1st inst. to Lieut.. Fitch, OF the navy.
About half million Of national bank notes
now reach the Comptroller of. Currency daily
for destruction.
Reports received at the Agricultural De-
partment show that the wheat crop will nearly
average that Of last year. None OF the large
corn-producing States reach an average.
There will bs a fair crop Of oats, potatoes
and hay, but less than half a crop Of tobacco.
Gen. Sherman and his staff have taken
leave of Washington, and the army head
quarters have been removed to st. Louis.
The following is the public debt statement
for October:
Six per cent bonds 8, 2O7, 2O4 900
Five per cent bonds. 5l7,025,2 200
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
WaShOe Butter.

1t was our good fortune day or two
since to hear the following rather inter-
esting dialogue in one OF our principal
"hash houses" The interlocutors were
dandifed-lookipg, -whiskered,
lisping, middle-aged man from Cali
fornia, and q burly, round headed,
merry-eyed Comstocker, who were seat
ed at opposite sides of the same table.
The men were evidently strangers to
each other. The conversation opened
as follows
Dundreary-Deeah me, this is dis
gusting (holding up his knife and gazing
fixedly at its point! This is eithaw the
second or the third hair-I think it's the
third-that I've found in this buttah
Comstocker-You've not been here
long, 1 Judge?
D.-No, sir; I arrived here yesterday
morning.
CT thought so, otherwise you
would not have complained of hair in
the butter.
D.-Not complain of hairs in the but
tab You surprise me, sir. How could
do otherwise?
C.-Those hairs, sir, are just as
natural to Washoe butter as butter is
natural product of milk. They are just
as good and clean as the butter.
D.-Impossible.
C.-Not at all, sir. All our butter
comes from the great valleys of our
State, where fourishes that most nutri-
tious and truly wonderful plant, the
white sage. On this our cattle feed and
fatten. This white sage has many vir-
tues. Strange as it may appear to you,
sir, from the white sage is manufactured
most wonderful and very popular
HAIR restorative.
D.-Ah, yes L have heard of tin
fact may say that, on one occasion,
when 1 thought / observed my hair
growing alittle thin, used some Of this
preparation.
C.-Well, then, sir, in a country
where all the COWS are fed on the white
sage, do you think it likely that butter
will be baldheaded ?
Dundreary turned red, pushed back
his chair and left, without deigning to
answer the conundrum. - Virginia city
Enterprise.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
What's i'm a Name {!

A New Yorker was introduced to a
Cleveland gentleman to-day, and not
hearing his name distinctly, remarked {:
81 beg your pardon, sir, but I didn't
catch your NAME"
"But my name is very hard one to
CATCH" replied the gentleman, "per-
haps it is the hardest name you ever
heard"
Hardest name 1 ever heard I'll
bet bottle of wine that my name is
Harder" replied the New Yorker.
"Ail right" said the Cleveland man,
"my name is stone-Amasa j. Stone.
Stone is hard enough, isn't it, to take
this bottle of wine ?"
Pretty hard name," exclaimed the
New Yorker. "but my name is Harder
Norman b. Harder-and L bet my
name was Harder"
The joke cost Mr.. Stone just $27.S7.
The Rev. Mr.. Scattergood is regis
tered at DIR. Strongs. Hes a first-class
man to scatter the seeds of TRUTH
SdratOQd Letter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
Hoist with His Own Petard.

The London Spectator tells an anus
ing story which has very perceptible
point to it. A materialistic lecturer and
a city missionary met before very in
telligent audience to discuss the ques-
ton Of personal responsibility, point
which modern theorists of the advanced
school incline negatively. Toillustrate
his theory the materialist pointed out
to his hearers the fact, now generally
admitted, that in seven years the atoms
of the body have undergone a complete
change, and punishment to one body for
deeds done by the other was a manifest
injustice. The city missionary, in re-
ply, expressed his sorrow that he
should be engaged in discussion with
man who was living with a woman to
whom he was not married. The mate
rialist rose angrily to his feet to repudi-
ate the assault upon his wife. The
missionary retorted that according to
his own showing the materialist was by
no means the same man who vowed
eternal constancy to a woman at the al
tar twenty years ago, nor was his So
called wife the same woman. AS the
two existing persons had never been
married, they were living in state
which he could not countenance. The
retort was ingenious as illustrated in
the absurd conclusion to which the ar
guments of the sheer materiaists must
bring them.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
The CHAMPION interviewer.

He lives in Brooklyn. There are a
good many of him, and he is remarka-
bly alive and healthy. He stopped a
funeral procession the other day. "See
here" said he to the manager OF the
hearse, "give us Just moment, You
know" "Wbat the deuce do you
want ?" said the hearse man. "Your
opinion regarding the Bescher scandal.
And the champion reporter produced
his book. eco to the-go to Moul-
ton, said the hearse man, and he drove
on. The reporter was indignant, but
was not 10 be intimidated. He followed
the procession to the grave. He inter-
rupted the bearers in their melancholy
work. He asked the mourners, Come
now, what do you think OF the Beecher
scandal ?" They replied between sobs
that he must really let them alone, and
why in the name of propriety didn't he
go TO the-go n Mr.. Moulton, for In
stance? CT think / never saw such
impudence before in my life" said the
reporter but he was confident and de-
ternined. 81 am the resurrec-" be-
gan the minister. "See here, business
of Importance, old fellow" whispered
the champion reporter, tapping HIM on
the shoulder. 81 beg your pardon,
but it admits of no delay" For
heavens sake, what is it p asked the
minister. cit is the Beecher scandal,
said the champion reporter. 81 want to
know, you know" "Sir," interrupted
the minister, for the first time filling
out sentence so often begun and rare
ly concluded, ego to the devil And
il you interrupts me again in these ex-
ercises I'll thrash you within an inch
of your life !" And what does the
champion reporter say? Simply that
these ministers live too high, anyhow,
and they're getting so that they can't
answer so little thing as a civil ques-
| fiop
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
Mutton Fattened on Mummies.

correspondent of the London
Times, writing from Alexandria, re-
marks: "Fancy mutton fattened on
ancient Egyptians The other day, at
Sakhara, l saw nine camels pacing
down from the MUMMY pits to the bank
of the river, laden with nets, in which
were femora, tibia, aud other bony bits
of the human form, some two hundred
weight in each net on each side of the
camel. Among the pits there were
people busily engaged in searching
out, sitting, and sorting the bones
which almost crust the ground. On
inquiry L learned that the cargoes with
which the camels were laden would be
sent down to Alexandria, and thence be
shipped to English manure manu-
facturers. They make excellent ma
nure, 1 am told, particularly for Swede
and other turnips. The trade is brisk,
and has been going on for years, and
may go on for many more. 1t is a
strange fate-to preserve ones skele-
ton for thousands of years in order that
there may be fine Southdowns and
Cheviots in distant land But Egypt
is always place of wonders.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
How Daniel Webster Prepared Ills
Speeches.

Tn one of the debates in Congress
which suddenly called Daniel Webster
to his feet, he made brief but quite
eloquent speech, apparently without
any opportunity for previous prepare
ton. In the course of his remarks he
drew out the following sentence, which
has ever since been admired as one OF
the most harmonious and expressive In
the language. He was speaking OF our
militia conflict with Great Britain: "Our
fathers raised their flag against power
to which, for the purpose OF foreign
conquest and subjugation, Rome, IN the
height of her glory, is not to be COM
pared; power which has dotted over
the surface of the whole globe with her
possessions and military posts, whose
morning drumbeat, following the sun
in it's course, and keeping pace with
the hours, circles the earth with one
continuous and unbroken strain OF the
martial air of England" AS he sat
down one Of the Senators congratulated
him upon his speech, and abiding to
the above passage, said that to HIM II
was inconceivable, how Mr.. webster,
in a speech SO manifestly unpremedita-
led, could have formed so perfect and
so beautiful sentence, which with
hours of study he could not improve.
Mr.. Webster replied that the passage
was not extemporaneoIs that in his
summer vacation he had visited, Que
bee, and while standing upon the mass
i've and almost impregnable citadel
there looking out upon the wondrous
scene of national grandeur and of ma
lures loneliness spread before him, the
idea occurred to his mind. He imme-
diately took his seat upon gun, and
with pencil and paper, sketched the
thought in the most appropriate Ian
guage he could at the moment command.
Upon arriving at his hotel he sat down
at his leisure and wrote it and re-wrote
it, with many interlineations and eras-
ures, until he had nodded it into the
form of words which satisfied him. He
then laid it aside in his retentive men,
DRY to be used when the occasion should
offer. The opportunity arose upon that
| day
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
A Dream and its Fulnllment.

The late Bishop Lees son, Henry
W.. who resides in Kansas City, had a
peculiar dream on the night that the
Bishop slipped down stairs and injured
his hand. He dreamed that his father
fell down flight of steps and that he
caught him in his arms at the bottom
and broke his fall. On Weakening in the
morning the presentiment of evil hav-
ing happened to his father was so strong
in his mind that he at once telegraphed
the substance of his dream, inquiring II
his father was hurt. He received
reply telling him of the accident at the
episcopal residence, which, however,
the Bishop treated lightly at the time,
little thinking that it would prove the
means of his ath.-Rock Island (IU.)
Union.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
Gen. Jackson Protecting a Court.

Gen. Jackson was the Attorney Gen
eral for all Middle Tennessee. The two
Kirkendalls were the great DULLES of
that creek. They were spirited and
powerful men. They held that the sit
ting of the court taking such jurisdic-
ton invaded their dominions, and they
went in bullying manner and dispers-
ed the court and ordered it never to
meet again. Gen. Jackson heard of it,
and attended the next term, carrying
upon his arm his saddle-bags, contain
ing his long black bulldogs. He placed
his saddle bags in a corner of the house.
The justices took the bench, and the
sheriff proclaimed the court open. The
Kirkendalls appeared and ordered the
court to dispense. In the confusion
and terror of the hour, the sheriff fail
ed to arrest the parties and restore or
der. AT this juncture Gen. Jackson
appeared before the court and denounc-
ed the DULLES and their conduct, and
told the court if they would appoint
him their officer he would arrest them
and have order. His proposition was
readily accepted. Jackson seized one
of the Kirkendalls, who was terror to
the country. They clinched and got
outside, and being on the edge of the
bluff, the bully threw Jackson, and they
rolled over and over down the bluff into
the creek. When the bully thought he
had conquered Jackson he left him.
But the old game.cock came rushing up
the hill, as wet as an otter, in search of
his bulldogs. He grasped them, and
pointing one at each of the bullies. ar
rested them and brought them before
the court. They were heavily fined, and
order was restored, and the thanks of
the court were extended to Gen. Jack
son.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09

The Secretary of the Treasury has appointed
Elmer Washburn, of Chicago, Chief Of the
Secret Service, vice Whitley, resigned.
The Attorney General has instructed tho
United States Marshals in the South to APP
point sufficient number of deputies to arrest
persons violating the laws.
The force OF the secret service of the Treas
ury Department is to be reduced from sixty
to ten men-the latter to be selected from the
best members OF the old force and outside de-
tective talent.
Secretary Brstow is represented TO be in
favor of an additional departments National
Board Of Public Works, composed of the
Bureau of the Supervising Architect, the
Lighthouse Board and the Coast Survey, and
will urge upon Congress the creation of such
a department.
The annual report of the Commissioner Of
Pensions will show 49, GAO pension certificates
Issued in the past fiscal year.
DR.. Linderman, Director OF the Mint has
submitted 10 the Secretary Of the Treasury
his report of the operations of the minis and
aesay Offices, for the fiscal year ending June
80 Of the present year, from which it appears
that the gold deposits were s6s, SCI, 593 ;
silver deposits and purchases, 515, 122, l51.
The amount of specie in this country is stated
to have been, on the 30th Of June last, $751;
100000. The estimate shows gain in specie
and bullion in the two last last fiscal years of
SIS, 500, GOO. The amount of gold and silver
coin sud bullion in the world is estimated at
from ten to twelve thousand millions. The
present rate of production OF silver is $780,
100000, and of gold 800, 900, 600, the two to-
ge,her being an annual addition of about one
| and a half per cent. to the existing stock of
specie.
A reduction in the Engraving and Printing
Bureau Of the Treasury Department is to take
place on the 31st, and will involve the dis
misssl OF about 400 employees, of whom 800
are females The present number of employees
in the bureau is slightly over l 400.
lumber of special agents have been re-
Gently sent South by the Department Of JUS
tice and Postoffics Department. charged with
the particular duty of observing and reporting
upon the actual condition of affairs in that
section, with view to afrording the President
full and reliable information upon which to
base the policy to be pursued regarding the
alleged outrages.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09

THE number of journals at present
published i'll Sweden amounts to 256,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
General.

The liability of banks for securities stolen
from their vaults has received new confirma-
Of Baltimore, from which burglars carried of
valuable colatersls, and the owners obtained
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
Tho West

A new local insurance company, to be called
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-02-10

tW- @. s. Walt, of Wcst6eld, Mass, had
been bald for years and years. Two months
ago he was burned almost TO death, his head
being shockingly crisped. new scalp has
grown, and from 1t hair grows luxurlantly.-
Bald men who read this will know what TO do
now.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-08
pa:r.,w1in,s Devotion to Truth.

Darwin shirks no difficulty and, sat-
,urated ,as the subject is with hiE own.
thought, he must have known, better
than his critics, the weakness as we'll as
the strength OF hia theory. This. of
course, would be of little avail were
his object D temporary disleotio VIC
tory, instead of the, establishment of a
truth which he means to be everlasting.
But he takes no pains to disguise the
weakness he has discerned; nav. he
takes every pains to bring It into the
strongest light. His vast resources en-
ableihim to cope with objections started
by himself and others, so as to leave the
final impression upon the readers mind
that if they be not completely answered
they certainly, are not fatal. Theirne
atiye force, being Tins DESTROYED, yon
are free to be influenced BY the Vast
positive mass of evidence he is able to
bring before you. litfhis largeness of
knowledge and readiness of resource
render, Mr.. Darwin the most terrible of
antagonists, accomplished naturalists
have leyeled heavy and sustained criti-
cism against him--not always with q
view Of fairly weighing his theory, but
with the express intention of exposing
it's weak points only. This does not ir-
ritatei him.. He treats every objection
with o sobernessp and thoroughness
which +, even Bishop, Butler might be
proud to initiate, surrounding each fact
with its proper relations, and usually
giving tia Significance which, as long
as 1t was kept isolated, failed to appear.
This is done without trace Of ILL
temper. u j9W ii4 ysI
He moves over subject with the
passionless strength of glacier; and
the grinding Of the rocks is not always
without q counterpart in tho logical
pulverization Of The obiecior But,
though, in handling this mighty theme,
all passion has been stilled, thore is an
emotion ofathe intellect incident to the
disscernment Of new truth, which often
eolora and warns the pages of Mr..
Darwin. His success has been great !;
and this Implies: not only the eolidity of
his work, but the preparedness OF the
public mind for such a revelation
Popular Science Monthly.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-08
Opportunity to Try an Organ before
y gt2 Purchasing. !2

Many person is half persuaded that
Cabinet Organ would be 3 capital
thing for his family; worth much more
than it's cost. Yet theya are not sure that
it would be permanently valued, but
fear that after few months' use the
family would tire of it, and 80 it would
prove poor investment. The Mason
& Hamlin Organ Co. now offer their
famous Cabines Organs on terms which
will satisfy oil such. They; will rent an
organ with privilege of purchase. The
party hiring may try it as long as he
pleases, paying only the rent for it
while SO doing. III he concludes to pur-
chase within q year, all the, rent he has
paid is allowei ana deducted from the
price Of the organ. NJ sts4 s'ss.t
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-08
Ij5iPrpatable Politeness; :.

Faii = The be- aRasto llar!g in commenting
on the prevalence OF rudeness, tells the
following incident that hsEpe She'd soIiie
years agoI:alia gidi Ia la5i,f0 eGT
elderly lady Who VIZ aalf Vas q fredusnt Gus.
toner atI the then leading dry goods
store lin Bpstop. ta No one ID, the store
knew even her pame. ALI the clerks
but one avoided Her and gave tlisssiir att.
tention TO thosswho were better DRESSED
and more pretentious. The exception
was young man who had. q oonacien-
tious regard for ddty and system. BE
never lsssss he=, to wait ION
the lady, but when at liberty. he waited
on her with as much attentioh hhst though
she had been fa1 pSincess.I sThiss CON
tiiln,11ed il M q atiyear two until the, young
man became of age. One morning the
lady approached the young man, when
the following conversation took place
LADY, Young man, do you wish to
go into business for yourself ?n
|,bta Yes, ima'end, ~ he respond led q tGbut
I have. neither money credit nor friends,
nor will any one trust me" 81
Wei" continueds the hIady, ! Ia You
go and select q goodisituaGonyI as1sWhat
the, rent ,is, and report,to me-, handing
the young man, her address,. The young
man went, found aEcapitaI Iocation,Fa D
good ,storeI but the Landlord required
security, which he. could not, give.
Mindful OF the lady y's request : be, forth
with went to- her and .reportedsuad sdi
!, IS Well Il she replied, .fssyon, go and
telIMr. ~: that 1 viii b, ls lresspo9sibi i"
= He went, and the aandlofd Or aRsnt
was surprised butt the d bargain iiwas
closed. The next day the lady called
to ascertain the result. The young mian
told her, but added M What am q to- do
for goods p No one will trust me-; 4
You may go and see Mr.. -, and
MIR. - and Mi. 70 q -,,tand :, tell them
to call on me.p 9aK hsrao5lss ysfIt fit#l
i He did, and his store was soon stocked
with the best goods III the market.
There are many in this city ywho remem-
Der the cirenmst and the man, He
died msny years. since and left O fortune
Of three hunt fred thot otisand d ollars. SO
much for poGteness, ,Iso much for civil
ity, and 80 much for treating one'sr eld-
ers with the, Difference due Il, age in
whatever garb they are clothedaa 9b %
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-08
Letters.

enLord Cockburn writes in his memoirs:
81 have all my life had bad habit OF
preserving letters and keeping them all
ARRANGED and docketed, buU seeing the
future use thatis often made of papers,
especially by friendly biographers, who
rarely hesitate to sacrifice confidence
and delieacyto the promotion of Gale
and excitement, I have, long resolved
to send them up the chimney in the
form OF smoke, and yesterday the sem
tence was executed. I,have kept Rich
ardson's and jeffrey and some, cores
pondence Iihad during important r,assa-
ges Of our Scotch progress; but the
rest, amounting to several Thousand, can
now, thank God, enable no ,venality to
publish sacred secrets, or to stain fair
regulations by plausible mistakes. Yet
old friends cannot be parted with with
ont a pang. The sight OF even the out
sides OF letters of fifty years recalls q
part of the interest with which, each
was received in itg day. and then ami.
hilation makes one start as II one had
suddenly reached the age of final obliv
ion: Neyertheless, as packet atte,
packet smothered the fire with it's ashe4
and gradually disappeared in dim Iva
por. reflected that my correspondents
were safe, and / was pleased. !" &
| "A gentleman who landed from al
Erie express train attracted universal
attention by the nagniflcence of hi
diamond breastpin. He was supposed
to be q hackman from Niagara Falls. I
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-10-08

-" Is the candidate for sheriff herep''
asked a stranger as he looked into an
Illinois bar-room. Yes; why r., ans
wered eighteen men .es they rose up.