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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16
Hints to the Marines.

It must not be thought that marines
know nothing of wine because they are
willing to accept "any port in storm.
There is no hair to be found on the
mast head. The mast is one of the bare
polls which the ship scuds under in a
storm.
The blight of rope you may find, to
your sorrow, has smart taste, II you
take it that it means mouthful.
Don't ask the first mate why he has
the sails "set" and the rigging "stand-
ing"
II would also be impudent to inquire
the time of day by the larboard watch.
The boatswain's pipe will not be
loaned to you to smoke.
1t is not necessary that you learn the
art of self defense in order to "box the
compass. -.
1t may be right to infer, when the
wind has changed "two pints to the
east ard" that it is in new quarter.
Don't imagine that you can steer
a boat because You have been tilier OF
the soil.
You need not be afraid of getting shot
because it is ''blowing great guns. 80,
The cook does not kindle his ire Win
chips from the ships log. -.
The best way to learn what sea lie is,
is to go to sea yourself be son Oh tne
sea for ea-son.-Boston ConlReTctaS
Bulletin.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16
An Old Church.

A famous old church of London is in
danger of being destroyed. The Eccle.
siastical Commission desires to remove
All Hollows, Bread street, to which on
Dec. %, 1908, John Milton was carried
from the tavern of the Spread Eagle to
be baptized. A tablet records the fact.
This building around which many his
torical associations are gathered, was
erected in 1865, destroyed by the fire
of 1866, aud rebuilt by Sir Christopher
Wren. Fortunately the church register
was saved from the great fire, and the
original record of Millions baptism is
still to be seen. Among the old monu-
ments the church contains is one to the
memory of former rector, the Rev.
Lawrence Saunders, who in 1866 was
burned to death for persisting in the
reformed faith. The resident parish
oners now number only fifty, the aver
age congregation is nine persons and a
sermon once preached every Thursday,
for the support of which a legacy was
left the church in 1929, was given up
some time ago because no one came to
listen. This last is even worse than
Dean Swift's dearly beloved Roger. "
When the removal is effected the
records, monuments, etc, will be sent
to the Church of st. Mary-le Bow.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16

WICKED INGENUITY.-Oneo of the SUBJ
tie methods of catching fish, employed
for years by poachers in England, is to
fill large stone bottle with quicklime,
then to pour in water enough to nearly
fill the jar, and cork it up, securing the
cork to the neck of the bottle by copper
wire. The bottle is thrown into the
water, and the pressure, caused by the
working of the lime, explodes the bottle
and stuns the fish, which then float
helplessly on the surface of the water.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16
CHARGE OF THE GRAsSHOPPEH
BRIGADE.

Half a league, half league,
Half q league onward,
Right from the west they came,
More than six hundred
Out from forest and glade:
"Chsrge for the corn!" they said.
Then for the fields they made
More than six hundred.
Fields TO the right Of them,
Fields to the left Of them,
Fields in front OF them
Pillaged and plundered
Eaught could their numbers tel
Down on the crops they fell,
Nor left stock or shell
More than six hundred.
Flashed all their red legs bare,
Flashed as they turned in air,
Robbing the farmers there,
Charging an orchard, while
All the world wondered
Plunged in the smudge and smoke,
Right through the corn they broke
Hopper and locust
Peeled they the stalks all bare,
Shattered and sundered;
Then they went onward-but
More than six hundred.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16

THE Chicago Ledger is growing to
be one of the most popular family news
papers in the country. It's cheapness
places it within the reach of all, and its
circulation is said to be increasing at
an enormous rate. BY the way, the
company that publishes the Ledger
must be engaged in the manufacture of
sewing machines, as they are offering
thousands of these useful articles as
premiums to getters-up of clubs. The
Ledger is beyond question cheap
paper. 1t contains forty-eight columns
OF choice reading matter, including
stories, anecdotes, sketches of travel,
poetry, etc. ETC., and is furnished at
the extremely low rate of $3.50 per an.
mum. The publishers ara offering the
most liberal club rates. -Detrot Jour.
nal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16

A SAN Francisco Judge has put into
practice an old English ruling that
INSTRUMENTATION before marriage is
good ground for divorce. One Mandler
Yretski complained that his wife Eddel
had practiced fraud upon him by false
ly representing before marriage that
She was sound and healthy woman,
when in fact she was subject to insanity
whereupon the Judge granted his petit
tion of divorce.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16
To coRREspONDENTs.

An communications for this paper should be no
.om nsnied by the name Of the authsr; not nsces
sarify for publication, bat as an svdence OF goot
ssi,h on The part OF tho writer Write only on one
side Of the paper BE particularly careful IN CIV.
ing names and 10 have the letters and ngures
plain and distinct.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16
The Mouse and the BumbIe-Bee.

There was once q bumble-bee who
used to go every day to gather honey,
and rs he was most of the time away
from home, he could not keep his house
neat and tidy So he got motherly-
looking old mouse to keep house for
him. The next day, after the mouse
had finished her morning s work, and was
out of doors to get breath of fresh air,
a muddauber came along. He said,
Good morning, Mrs. Mouse What
are you doing here p
She answered, 81 am keeping house
for Mr.. Bumble-bee."
Can L come and live with you ?"
said the muddauber.
sob, no !" she replied, eve cannot
have any one who daubs mud around
the house. So he went away.
Then came rat. Chow are you,
Mrs. Mouse ?" said he, 81 would like
to live with you"
No, Mr.. Rat, you cannot" said the
mouse, for you will eat our cheese
and gnaw our table-cloths. So the rat
went away.
He had just gone, when large grey
hen came along She also asked the
mouse if she might live with her.
Then the mouse said, "What can you
do, old hen %
The hen said she could lay a fresh
egg every day. So the mouse told her
she might stay. The hen soon found
some straw and laid an egg. The mouse
went to neighbours house and got some
cheese. Just then the bumble-bee came
home with some honey. SO they had a
fresh egg, some cheese and honey for
dinner and they were all well pleased
st. Nicholas
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16
THE YOUNG FOLKS.

The Schoolmaster's sleep.
The schoolmaster was weary,
Was weary, old and gray;
And heaviness came DER him
Upon that summer day
A heaviness Of spirit,
And nameless sense of pain,
He struggled hard to Danish,
But struggled all in vain.
The drowsy school-room murmur
He heard, and, In his trance,
He knew his school were watching
his face with stealthy glance.
He knew, and, for q moment,
He reused himself again,
To battle of the stupor
That crushed his weary brain.
In vain: for, with the effort,
His head dropped on his breast,
His breath came faint aud fainter,
Aud soon be sank to rest.
And then arose an uproar
And boundless was the glee
Among those little scholars,
The sehoolmaster TO see.
The Ounce tries all his antics,
HIS vacant stare and grin,
To gain one shout of laughter,
Aud multiply the din.
See, how he points his finger
At the masters face so white,
And rolls his eyes aud chatters,
With !udicrous alright!
And al the little urchins
And maidens shout with Joy:
And, with the tears of laughter,
Cry, "What funny boy"
An hour now was passing,
Aud s;i!l the master slept
And greater grew the tumult
These little scholars kept
Until little maiden,
VINO watched the haggard face,
Win grave concern aud wonder,
stole softly from her place
Stole softly 10 the master,
And gently touched his head,
AID started back in terror
Ihe Sch0O!maSter tcGS dead
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-16
"How would love to have him for q

SLOW / would love to have him for a
pet II she said to herself.
After smiling short time, the rabbit
seemed to come to the conclusion that
he was mistaken after all, and that he
didn't really smell anything so very
good. He seemed disappointed, how
ever, for he lifted up one OF his little
fore-paws and rubbed it across his eyes.
But perhaps he wasn't so very sorry,
but only ielt like taking a nap, for he
stretched himself out as far as he could,
and then drew himself up in bunch,
as if he were going to sleep.
81 wish he wouldn'tdo that, thought
Kate, anxiously. 81 don't want to
shoot him in his Sleep"
But Bunny wasn't asleep. He was
thinking. He was trying to make up
his mind about something. There was
no way of finding out what it was that
he was trying to make up his mind
about. He might have been wondering
why some plants didn't grow with their
roots uppermost, SO that he could get
at them without rubbing his little nose
III the dirt or why trees were not good
to eat right through trunk and all. Or
he might have been trying to determine
whether it would be better for him to
go over to 'Lijah Ford's garden and try
to get bite at some cabbage leaves, or
to run down to the field inst outside of
the woods, where he would very likely
meet certain little girl rabbit that he
knew very well.
But whatever it was, he had no
sooner made up his mind about it than
he gave one big hop and was out of
sight in a minute.
"There T. cried Kate, "be's gone !"
81 reckon he thought he'd guy
you bout chance enough, Miss Kate"
said voice behind her, and, turning
hurriedly, she saw Uncle Braddock.
Why, how did you come here ?" she
exclaimed. ct didn't hear you"
Reckon not, Miss Kate" said the
old man. You don't s'pose l was
agoin' to brighten away yer game. 1
seed you a-stoopin' down amin at
somethin', and L jist creeped along,
little time, to see what it was. Why,
what did come over you Miss Kate, to
let that old har' go? 1t was the puttiest
shot L ever did see"
sob, couldn't fire at the dear little
SAiiS Nhiic ~ Woo CdViuS oo PiCbtliy,
said Kate, letting down the hammer of
the gun as easily as she could "and
then he cut up such funny little capers
that 1 came near laughing right out.
couldn't shoot him while he was so
happy, and I'm glad 1 didn't do it at
all.
"All right, Miss Kate" said Uncle
Braddock, as he started off on his
way through the woods I" that may be
Very pious way to go a-hunting, but
it won't bring you in much meat. "
When Harry came back from hunting
for the bee-tree, which he didn't find,
he saw Kate walking slowly down the
path toward the village, the gun under
her arm, with the muzzle carefully
pointed toward the ground.
=" What Night Have Been Erpected,"
by Frank IL. Stockton, in st. Nicholas.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-01-16
Funding tl.e state Debt.

As will be seen from the following,
taken from the New Orleans Republic
can of the 18th inst, the Senate, on the
10th, passed unanimously q bill funding
tho State debt, in accordance with the
recommendations in the Governors
message. There is but little doubt that
the bill will pass the House and be-
come q law.
The time oil the Senate was chiefly
occupied in considering the substitute,
reported by the Finance Committee,
for the bill to provide for the funding
of the public debt of the State, includ-
lug MI legal and valid bonds Of the
State and all legal and valid warrants
and certificates of Indebtedness drawn
by the Auditor Of Public Accounts upon
the treasury, and now unpaid to pro-
vide for the issuance of consolidated
bonds Of the State of Louisiana in ex-
change for the payment of principal
and interest of the same prescribing
the rate OF interest and providing for d
sinking fund; defining the duties and
powers Of State officers under this act,
aud the name and terms en- which
said exchange shall be effected: for
bidding the payment of interest other
wise than Us provided herein defining
and limiting the State debt under the
operation OF this act; limiting the rate
OF taxation for all State purposes, and
repeating all acts inconsistent with this
act.
On motion the bill was considered
section by section.
During the reading of the bill Cover
nor Kellogg was upon the floor of the
Senate, and assisted in putting il
through.
Upon it's third readingit was amended
80 us to repeal MI laws or parts of laws
authorizing the Governor to subscribe
fer stock OF railroads or other eorpo-
Jatsons.
The bill finally passed the Senate
unanimously, and was ordered to hC
sent to the House for concurrence.
This cannot be considered other than
d most important Bill, as u eifectually
Ea.h
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-01-16
succession de HypOrite G. Guidry.
jan,1G-5t,

TN VERTU DUN ORDRE DE L'HONORA-
II bic la Cour des PFeuves, de la Paroisse st.
Landry, il sera yendu u Pencan public, au plus
otfrant ench6risseur, par lie SorlsSlgne admins
trateur, on parun enCanteur public, a Ia derniere
residence du d6funt, sur 10 bayou Plaquemine,
Ell cette paroisse, lie MARDI, IT F6vrier, 1874,
les proprietes ei-apres dGcrites, appartenant J. In
vOir: r.....
/. Cent yingt acres de terre bOisee tide prairie,
2. Deux cents acres de terre. .
4. UnR maisOn de residence, I'm magasin a
mafs. une petite maison de residence, une petite
mais0n, seize cents pages de barriere en- cypre,
un lot dc pieux de iardin, huit chevaux Creole,
deux muIets Creole, I'M cbeyal de buggy, un
paires de bRufs de tire, deux bouts de quatre
ans, I'm taurO de trois ans, einq vaches ct veaux,
cinq yaches, tr0is ieune yaches de trois ans, une
jeune vache de deux ans, Tin Veau dun an,
deux passe-par-tOUS, une meHle, I'm lot de cuilers
ct fourchetteS en- argent, une marque en- fer,
cinq cochons, IN fusil double, un meter. une
a%rFnnire, deuX Its ct garnitures de Its, un bois
de Its, inpliments d'habitation ct d'aratoires,
Ineubles de maison ct de cuisine, ct 'beaucoup
d'autres objects.
TermleS ct ConditiOns-LeS moDilieres. I'm
Motto du prix pour du compliant, ct La balance
en- douze moiS dn Jour de la vente; les immO-
bili6res sur un credit de un, deux ct trOis ans,
payables dams DIES installations egauS anlnieI.
les acquereursf ournissant ieurs billets, payables
a lordre de administrator an bureaux de Ioi
de E. A. Martel & Hudspeth, aux Opclousas, por-
amt HUT pour cent par an dint&rat apres ma
turtle jusQu'au Placement, hypotheque special ct
lie privilege du vendeur avec la clause de non
aliend0 reserve sur les prophecies Vendues jus
qtliau Placement final.
JOSEPH G. GUIDRY,
16jan Administrator.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-01-16
Legislature Changes.

The New Orleans Times of the 9Th
inst, says:
An anxious Inquirer" begs us to tell
him what changes have taken place since
the last meeting of the two bodies claim
State. From the best information we
can get, seven Fusion Representatives
have retired from the Fusion Legislature
and taken their seats in the body which
meets in the State House. Their names
are: II. w. Norris, of Franklin; L. j.
Humble, OF Caldwell; w. r.. Moreland,
of Claiborne; Il. Price, of Claiborne; DIR.
V. o. King, of Orleans ; j. r. Smart, of
Vernon aud j. t.. Snlth, OF Sabine.
These Representatives, IL ID under
stood, were returned by both boards, SO
that now, of the persons actually in at
tendance upon the Kellogg House Of
Representatives, fOrty-one have been
returned elected by both election boards,
and OF those in actual attendance upon
the McEnery House OF representatives,
eleven have been SO returned.
In the other branch-the Senate-no
actual changes are reported as having
taken place since the present sitting
commenced. Mr.. j. w. Mcdonald, a
Fusion Senator, returned by the Isabelle
kMcEnery) board, has presented his petit
ton in the Kellogg Senate, c~ontesting
the seat OF M. j. Blackburn, vino was
returned by the Lynch Board. This, of
course, carries with it the admission OF
Mr.. Mcdonald that the Kellogg Legis-
lature is the legal one. RunOr was rite
yesterday that Senator Daigle attending
the McEnery body, and Senator Thomas,
who for the present holds aloOf from
both Legislatures gb0th old Senators
holding over, were on the eve of giving
up the contest Oh q hopeless one, and
would soon be seen in their seats at the
State House.
dNhe Kelloggites will probably fur
Their strengthen their forces by reopen
ing the question OF the expulsion of
Senator jenks, who, it will be Temem-
bered, left that party and went over to
the McEnery parry. Nh. jerks has not
been, since his expulsion by the kellogg
Senate, in attendance upon the Nc
Emery Senate-certainly not during the
present session. 1t is understood he
has applied to be re-instated by the
kelloggites, and his request will most
probably be granted, 1nasmuch as no
election wa held to fill the vacancy
caused by his expulsion.
OF the old Senators holding over, who
originally met with the kellogg body,
bat left It to act with the McEneryites,
Messrs. III. j. Campbell, O. Il. Hunsaker,
H. u. Swords, s. NJ. Todd and ). Nj.
Thomas have thus tar, during the pres
ent session, stood aloof and neglected
TO enter up an appearance anywhere.
The New Orleans Times, of the 18th
inst, says!
.ta[E- t. sE
Yesterday morning four more Fusion
lists abandoned their seats in the Me-
Emery Legislature and answered to
their names at the call of the roll in the
| Kellogg Legislature. Their names are +:
j. r.. Smart, of Vernon, j. L. Smith,
of Sabine, and /. Il. Littell and l.. ID.
Prescott, of st. Landry. Another
damaging admission comes from the
appearance Of another Fusion Senator
in the kellogg Senate, Mr.. j. T. Kelly,
who petitions to be allowed to do the
voting in that body instead Of Mr..
Alexander.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-01-16
COMMUNISM IN NEW YORK AND
OTHER LARGE CITIES IN THE
UNITED STATES.

The demands of the working men in
New York and other cities in the United
States have assumed features Of grave
Importance, and bodies no good to them
selves or any one else. Every one knows
the most salient points of Communism,
and the evil it has wrought in France
from the Jacquerie of the Middle Ages
to the Commune of to-day which has
done an evil centuries will hardly erase.
It was a terrible transportation of bad
seed to bring the Reds owe the water
and act them in our midst. The United
States is q hot bed for any extraVagant
idea to flourish, and Communism will
grow like a young bay tree, Then de-
mands are not very reasonable, for they
require that no individual shall be al
lowed to hold more than three hundred
thousand dollars, or any sum which the
people may agree upon. That in case
thew accumulate over that amount they
br taxed one hundred per cent. on their
surplus. They declare that in these
times of need they will supply them
selves and families with proper shelter
and all the necessaries of life, and send
bills for the same to the city treasurer
To be Inundated. In Chicago they are
irving to compel the authorities to give
them food or work. This ia not done IN
the form of apetition but threatening
demand Illuminating terrible consequent
ces if it is not obeyed.
InNew Orleans this organization mum
hers many thousands; but so far 1t has
riven no trouble. In fact, bound by
oath, this secret society is spreading all
over the country, and in localities ripe
Tor d~isaffection is giving much trouble.
Of course wherever communism If IN
troduced, it is engineered by q set or
reckless demagOgues, too lazy them
selves to work for an honest living; but
with an ardent hunger forthe flesh pots
O. Egypt. They make a eatspaw OF the
masses to fish out the choice morsels for
them, unheeding and ~uncaring If they
are burned to death in getting them.
This Utopian idea of equality OF
means, has always had a charm for the
laboring population; but it is utoplan,
and can be no reality. Distinctions OF
fortune must exist as certainly as diff
ferences in people. Start the world all
equal, and ut the end of u few years
some will he rich and others poor as
they are now, and no equal beginning
will make and equal ending. The war
of labor against capital has always been
waged, and with but one termination.
Individual, and perhaps extensive trag-
edies grow out Of it, but the close of
them leaves labor where it was before,
dependent upon capital.
In this country the warfare should not
exist. Judicious labor can always raise
a man into n situation Of independence,
and there are few capitalists among us
whose beginnings have not been of the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. description.
Communism is sad evil among us.
It ignores law, justice, or any thing but
the qualification Of aniconoclastic spirit.
We can only hope that it will be put
down in the cities where it has reared
its serpent crest.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-01-16

Two Foes Of Healeh.-Cold and damp are
ilimieable to health, and we generally have an
unWhoIes0me combination of the two at this
They penetrate the skin and integu-
ments and affect the muscular, ~glandular and
nervous organizations, producing rheumatism,
neuralgia, chills and fever, and where there is a
tendency to dyspepsia or liver complaint, pro-
voking an attack of indigestion or biliousness.
The best advice that can be given under such
circumstances is to keep the external surface of
the body warmly clothed, and to keep the in
ternal organs in vigorous working order with
the most wholesome and genial Of ali tonics
Hostetter's Stomach Ritters. Gradually but
constantly this famous inyigorant is suppressed
ing the adulterated liquors Of commerce, as a
medicinal stimulant and corrective, in all parts
of the country. It will be a happy day for hui
mainly, and it will surely come, when this pure
restorative shall have taken the place of raw
spirits as o stimulant in all our public and pri-
vate hospitals. It is not, however, merely a
harmless substitute for the fiery stimulants re
ferred to. Its stimulating properties are not its
chief merits, although in this regard it surpasses
all tho unmedicated products Of the still, do
nestle or imported. The powerful influence it
exercises over the torpid and toneless stomach,
the disOrdered liver, theeonstipated bow els, and
the relaxed nerves., render it a positive specific
in dyspepsia, liver complaint, intestinal con
striction, nervous weakness, hy~poehondria,
rheumatism aud sleeplessness. All chronic
complaints are aggravated by a cold, moist at
mosphere, and it is therefore particularly ne
eessary for those who are afiiicted with ailments
OF this nature, whatever their type may be, TO
meet this predisposing cause of sickness with a
wholesome antidote. Hostetter's Bitters should
be taken daily at tins season by all persons la
boring under chronic ailments that tend to
weaken the systeEn.