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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01
A Sad Temperance Lecture.

At an early hour yesterday morning the body OF
Hannah Miller, an habitual drunkard, twenty-six
years of age, found lying in the sub.ceilar Of
premises No. 80 Elm street Death is supposed to
have resulted from intemperance, and probably
deceased lay down in the cellar while intoxicated
and never awoke again. The husband Of deceased
Is DIT present confined on Blackwels Island on a
charge OF drunkenness. Coroner Croker was
notified OF Mrs, Mlller's death.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01
A Laborcr Accidentally Killed.

Coroner Eickhofr was yesterday notified to hold
an inquest at No. SO Sixth avenue on the body of
Thomas McKeon, a man forty-tve years OF age,
whose death resulted from q fracture of the leg
and other injuries received on Wednesday last by
accidentally falling on the pavement in front OF No.
IA West Washington square, where he was engaged
in sweeping the walk Dr. Love, ambulance sur
geon, who called and took McKeon to the hospital
wniie he was in a dying condition, seemed to think
he mad not been properly treated by the attending
physician, DR.. Allen, OF Thlrty-nlth street.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01
CORONERS' CASES.

Sudden Death OF the New Court House
Janitor.
Yesterday morning Coroner Croker was called
to the new Court House, City Hall PARK, to hold an
inquest on the body of Harrison Redfed, Jantor Of
that building, who died suddenly III Broad street
the evening previous.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01

Fire Marshal Sheldon reports twenty.three fires
for the past week. upon which the estimated loss
was SIC, $50, and the insurance $l64, lT5.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01
BUSINESS IN THE OTHER COURTS.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT.
Business in BankruptcY.

VOLUNTARY PETITIONS.
Lucus W. Maltby, william Goodenough, BenJa-
min C. Nichols.
ADJUDICAT1oNs IN INVOLUNTARY CASES.
John s. Bancroft, Philip II. Krauth, Isaac Cold
stem, Henry Goldstein Frank j. Bang.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01

Raymond Street JAN During the present week
he VIII be arratgned to plead to the new charges
uDOn which he Is TO be tried. Several prisoners
were arralgned and pleaded, and their trials were
set down for the 10th, nth and 18th inst.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01
GERMAN REPUBLICAN CENTRAL CON-
IITTEE.

At meeting OF this organization, held last even
ing In the Bowery. near Fifth street. ex-Judge A.
J. Dittenhoefer was unanimously elected ~ Chair.
man ~ the yesl ASIA.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01

Seven thousand two hundred and fifteen vag-
rants were lodged at the different station houses
during the past week, OF which number 1,5ss were
females.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01
BROOKLYN COURTS.
COURT or SESSIONS.
Presentment OF Indictments by the
Grand Jury.
Before Judge Moor

Before Judge Moore
The Grand Jury came into Court yesterday and
presented indictments against twenty-nine pris.
oners The offences included in the indictments
we're burglary. assault with intent to kin grand
larceny, robbery and embezzlement. Five add.
tiOnal counts were presented against Denutv
TAX Collector Captain A. w. II. gin for en-.
Dezzlement OF the city money. lie was not
present to plead. however, being az ingaats pl the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01

The Committee on Contested Seats in the matter
OF the Eighth Assembly district, between Martin
Nachtman and George Scherman, continued their
investigation at the Metropolitan Hotel yesterday.
The business was confined to the summing up for
the defence.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01

There were 4s7 deaths. 4o4 births, 1877 marriages
and "A stillbirtbs last week.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-01
NEW YORK CITY.

The police arrested 14So persons in the city last
week.
Marshal COnkiin granted le5 licenses and re.
ceived 1922 rs last week.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
A Beautiful AllegOry.

Once on time little leaf was heard
to cry and sigh as leaves often do when
a gentle wind is about. And the twig
said
"What is the matter, little leaf ?"
"The wind" said the leaf, "just told
me that one day it would pull me off,
and throw me on the ground to die.
The twig told it to the branch and the
branch told it to the tree.
And when the tree heard it, it rustled
all over, and sent word back to the
leaf:
"Do not be afraid, hold on tightly,
and you shall not go off until you want
to-"
And the leaf stopped signing, and
went singing and rustling. And so it
grew all summer long till October.
And when the bright days of autumn
came, the leaf saw all the leaves around
becoming very beautiful. Some were
yellow and some were scarlet, and some
striped with colors. Then it asked the
tree what it meant. And the tree said !:
CAL those leaves are getting ready
to fly away, and they have put on these
colors because of their joy"
Then the leaf began TO want 10 go,
and grew very beautiful in thinking
about it. And when it was very gay
in colors, it saw that the branches of
the tree had no color in them, and SO
the leaf said
"Oh, branch, why are you so lead
colored and we so golden?"
eve must keep ON our work
! clothes" said the tree, for our work
is not yet ended, but your clothes are
for a holiday because your task is
over.
Just then little puff of wind came,
and the leaf let go without thinking OF
it, and the wind took it up and turned
it over, and then let it fall gently down
under the edge of fence among hun.
bred other leaves, and it never walked
up to tell what it dreamed about. Tile
| Nation
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
Squire HObbs' Cat.

Young Henry Landor's visits and at
tentions to Squire Hobbs daughter
Emma, had not been looked upon with
much favor by the Oman, and, finally,
thew had been tabooed. But Hal was
not the lad to be chokel off SO easily,
nor did the dear one wish it. Accord
ingly, clandestine meetings were ar
ranged between the two, and all went
on finely for while. The Squire's
grounds were quite extensive and well
laid ont. with an arbor here, a flower
bed there, and the whole beautifully d.
versifed and attractive. Emma was ac-
customed to meet her strephon In that
portion of the lot most remote from the
house and there they would often par
take of the forbidden fruit OF each
others lips, repeat sweet little verses,
make some allusion, now and then, to
an angel, sigh for some lonely isle in
distant chimes, and descant upon other
kindred commodities. Now, they knew
that this was all wrong, and ought to
have apprehended some terrible issue
to these stolen trysts.
One evening, when dams pale
crescent" had retired behind the skur-
rying clouds, and cast only furtive
chances earthward, Hal sprang into the
interdicted inclosure and was making
his way toward the lovers seat, when
he thought he espied the house grim
akin. He was feeling badly on account
of the enmity of pa, and nothing was
more rational than to wish TO be on good
terms with every inmate of the man
sion SO, he began to make overtures
to Tabby, in order to gain her good
will, when 10 ! his Lubin" was out
done, and as fine an array of "tegs" as
any young man often surrounds HIM
self with was instantaneously rendered
fit only for cremation. OF course the
tryst was broken, and as he had never
the heart to relate why he had been
false to his word, Miss Hobbs coolly
ret him drop, as she had caught a severe
cold, besides drabbling herwell.starched
skirts in the long grass, while waiting
for him. Truly, the way of transgress-
ors is hard" JVaItham" IN Chicago
LedqCr.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
Santa Anna.

Gen. Santa Anna has returned to the
City of Mexico after an exile of eight
cen years. He is living in the plainest
style, and receives guests without cere-
mony. He is now 76 years of age, hav-
ing been born in 1898. His face is full
of wrinkles, and his raven hair has
grown scanty yet his carriage is still
erect and martial, and his whole APP
pearance that of man not beyond 60.
A correspondent of the Alta Cdt1or-
MIA has recently paid visit to the old
soldier and ex-President, and narrates
the conversation held during the inter-
view. II have returned to Mexico, !"
said the General, because my native
country has too much attraction for
me. When L was asked abroad, why
do you long for your ungrateful coun-
trymen?' L answered that l wanted to
be buried where my lost foot was rest
ing. / now feel as if / had come to a
foreign land. Already, at Vera Cruz,
when asking for an old friend, / was in
varably answered, Dead 7 A whole
generation has passed over me, and,
like the sands of the desert, the years
are heaped on my head. / met on the
road an old man with a white beard
who was my god-child in 1922. l have
become stranger to all parties.
have no ambition. / am astonished at
everything L now see in this country
but / hope yet to find last resting
ploca
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
SchOOl.Teaching i'm California.

A pedaEogue in Indiana, who was
chad up for numerically welting the
back of a little girl, justified his action
by explaining that ''she persisted i'll
hinging paper wads at him when his
back was turned" That is no excuse.
The town crier once taught school up
in the mountains, and about every
half hour had to remove. his coat and
scrape off the the dried paper wads adj
herring to the nap. He never perm t.
ted trihe to unsettle his patience /; he
just kept on wearing that gaberdine I'M
til it had no nap, and the wads
wouldn't stick. But when they took to
dipping them in mucilage he made a
complaint to the Board of Directors.
"Young man," said the chairman, /" eff
you don't like our ways you had better
sling your blankets and git. Prentice
Nulford tort skule yer for more'n six
months, and he never said word agin
the wads." The T. G. briefly explained
that Mr.. Milford might have been
brought up to paper wads, and didn't
mind them. 1t amt no use," said an
other director, "the children hev got
ter be amused" The L. G. protested
that there were other amusements quite
as diverting but the third director here
arose, and remarked, 81 perfekly agree
with the Cheer this youngster better
travel. L consider as paper wads lies al
the root of popular edyercation ther a
necessara adjunck NV the skule system
Mr.. Cheerman, i move and second the
this yer skulemaster be shot" The T.
G.. did Lot remain to observe the result
of the voting. Francisco Tom
| (Iripr
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
How a Whin-Snake Fights.

Reader, did you ever see q whip
snake? We did not, but we heard of
one. a short time since, while Mr..
James Christian was returning to his
mines, he encountered whip-snake
five-feet long. In trying to kill it the
snake turned upon him and made des-
perate fight. 1t struck at him repeat
eddy with it's tail, cracking it like a
whip. After killing it Mr.. Christian
made an examination of the "serpent. .
It's length was fully five feet, two OF
which were plated like carriers whip.
The plat seemed to consist of four
strands, and tapered down to what
might be termed cracker. This spe-
cies of serpent is exceedingly rare (but
we should think lively, and many
naturalists doubt its existence any
where, but as Mr.. Christian is a gentle
man OF undoubted veracity, it is certain
that, in addition to its many other rare
attractions, Morgan county has, OF
had, the whip-snake. - Versailles NO.
Gazette.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
A LITTLE ELBOW-ROOm.

Good friend, don't crowd so very tight,
There's room enough for two;
Keep In your mind that have right
TO live AS we'll as you.
You rich aud strong, fpoor and weak,
But think you presume.
When only this poor boon ask
A little elbow-room?
IT'S such as you, the rich and strong,
IL you but have the will,
Could give the weak n lift along,
And help him up the hill.
But no--you jostle, crowd and drive,
You storm, and fret and fume;
Are you the only man alive
In want Of elbow-room?
But thus IL Ia on life's round path,
Self seems the God of all
The strong will crush the weak to death,
The big devour the small.
Far better be a rich mans hound
valet, serf or groom
That struggles mid the mass around,
When we've no elbow-room.
Up heart, my boy don't mind the shock;
Up heart and push along.
Your skin will soon grow tough with knocks,
Your limbs with labor strong;
And there's a hand unseen TO aid,
A star to light the gloom;
Up heart, my boy, nor be afraid,
Strike out for elbow-room.
And when you see amid the throng
fellOw-toiler slip,
just give him as you pass along,
brave and kindly grip;
Let noble deeds, though poor you be,
Your path in life Hume,
And with true Christian charity,
Give others elbow-room.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
A Simple Disinfectant.

Roasted coffee, says the Homeopath-
&c World, is one of the most powerful
means not only of rendering animal and
vegetable eflluvia innocuous, but of
actually destroying them: In proof of
this. the statement is made that a room
in which meat in an advanced degree of
decomposition had been kept for some
time was instantly deprived of all smell
on an open coffee-roaster being carried
through it containing one pound of
newly roasted coffee and in another
room, the eflluvium occasioned by the
clearing-out of a cesspool, so that sui
phureted hydrogen and ammonia could
be clearly detected, was entirely re-
moved within half minute on the en-
ployment of three ounces of fresh cof-
fee. The best mode is to dry the raw
bean, pound it in a mortar, and then
roast the powder on moderately-heat-
ed iron plate until it assumes a dark
brown hue; it is, in this state, ready
for use.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
The Limits OF Great Cities.

The London BuiLder thinks the time
will soon come when the question of
the extreme limit will be solved. Lon
don has now an estimated population of
B, 400, 700, and the question suggested
by the B0iider rises from the estimate
that 600, 900, 900 cubic feet of carbonic
acid gas are daily consumed, great
portion of which is cast into the atmos-
phere in the partially volatilized form OF
smoke. But, fortunately for the dwell
ers i'll London, and unfortunately for
the theories of croakers, there are miles
of fresh air above the city constantly
replacing the vitiated atmosphere of the
streets. London may be extended in
definitely with, i'll all probability, no
perceptible change i'll the life-support-
ing power of her atmosphere. The reg
istration of births and deaths in England
is so thoroughly made that the estimates
of population based thereon very nearly
agree with the actual count from the
census returns, and such registration
has as yet given no sign of any increas.
ed ratio of deaths following the growth
OF London. In this connection the fac
may be noted that London contains as
much population as the seventeen mex
principal cities of Great Britain an(
Ireland, and that, according to the lat
est estimates, the population of Lon
don is increasing in larger ratio thar
that of the other cities.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
hen spinner's Vacation.

II there is thing which at first l
thought / would be glad of it, and am
now now dreadfully sorry for tits because
school is ont for keeps till the next
term. 1t is most usually the way that
when school don't keep there is plenty
OF work studied up for me to have TO
do. That's the way it fits me every
time. It's my kind of bad luck to be
raised to have Industrious ways. My
father is eyerlastingly telling me that
| idleness is the parents of vice, or some
of that sort of disagreeable English lam
guage that l don't want TO hear and
that must keep busy at work at some
thing, and not CAD abost with other
indoient boys, and race the streets from
morning till night perpetually. Last
vacation they put me into the garden,
where, they said, could obtain some
habits which would do me some good
when | became grown up into useful
citizen. Well, to have to be useful
citizen is all very fine silk but, If L
could only have my own way just once,
L would rather be a peanuts on the rail
road. But they have got me in the
same hardships which 1 was into last
summer, only it is rOugher because
there is more of it. II they think it's
proper for me to have to bug the po-
toes, and weed the onions, and thin out
the roODarb, and raise up II lot OF garden
trash for to go TO seed and waste, why,
then, | suppose it's all right if l could
only see it but when a boy has studied
diligently all winter, don't think it's
exactly the fair thing To keep him TOO
at N1rnry N N
how, that's my opinion, which 1 throw
III. There ant very great deal Of
real pleasure III bugging potatoes where
the bugs is about Il barrelfull TO the
acre and when boy has to bend his
back down to try to pull up weeds which
grow clean through and clinch on the
other side, it's kind of miserable oc-
cupation which | would like to get
half good chance for to slip ont of.
TO have to wade into the garden early
III the morning, when the dew Is III on
your bare feet, and get smart.weed up
your trousers legs, is u worse thing than
the Erie Spills OF the fever and ague
but when you have to do it, there is no
use trying to shirk out. [ went back
on the Job once, but | never went back
on it twice, because once was enough.
1 was roped in and coaxed by some boys
10 go of, on the commons to play base
ball for whole day. Late III the even
ing, when L came IN home the back way
and desperate hungry, the governor
gave me abundance of stars and stripes
which l have got them yet, and could
show 'em if was only in a-swimming.
L found out that its bad habit Tor
boy to get into, to shake his work with
out permission, and IT'S the best way
always for to obey orders if it almost
breaks your back. But L have got
awful sick of this vacation business,
and, if / can find school next year
which will keep in the year round, it's
the one that l want to go to. That's
what kind of hair-pin L am.-Ben
| Spinner.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
Horticulture.

All lovers of flowers must remember,
that one blossom allowed to mature or
:" go to seed Injuries the plant more
than q dozen new buds. Cut your
flowers then, all of them, before they be-
gin to fade. Adorn your rooms with
them put them on your tables send
bouquets to your friends who have no
flowers or exchange favors with those
who have. You will surely find that
the more you cut off the more you will
have. All roses after they have ceased
to bloom should be cut back, that the
strength of the root may go to forming
new roots for next year. On bushes
not Il seed should be allowed to migrate
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
Wild Turkeys and Pecan Nuts.

It's the greatest wonder to me that
the wild turkeys down i'll Texas don't
choke to death every day of their lives.
No, L don't mean exactly that but my
children will understand me when L tell
them what the creatures live on. A
knowing bird from that part of the
world told me all about it.
All through the grazing lands of
Texas, it appears, the wild turkeys
congregate III great numbers. They go
to their roost III single file, hundreds of
them on foot, or, if flying, on sort of
hop, skip and jump, touching the
ground and running a step or two every
minute. They live altogether on pecan
nuts, and swallow them whole at that.
You d think this would kill them, but,
no, it makes them fat and fiourishing.
These pecan-trees, low and spreading.
are something like our Northern oaks,
but they are not half SO large.
Unfortunately for the poor turkeys,
the pecan nuts make their flesh very
sweet and tender, and so the sportsmen
are soon after them, tracking them &c
roosting grounds, where they shoot
them without mercy.
l don't like sportsmen. Give me the
Bird-defenders. from Jack-in-the
Pulpit" 81. Nicholas for July.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03

Cinnamon, and the following inscrip-
ton in Chinese:
"The original store is now at the
Square of Kau Chin, and we set before
the public beautiful articles, including
fire crackers, made by ourselves. We
hope our customers will write down the
advertisement and remember.
On the same pack the address of the
firm-pronounced, Man Puku Do-is
given; translated, it means: Ten
thousand Prosperity Chambers. On
the third pack there is the outline of a
dragon, and in English, on the label,
Crescent Chop.-Superior Fire crack
ers. ST. Nicholas tOr J,tty.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03

THE TYLER FAMuLY.-John Tyler, Jr.,
in letter to the Louisville Courier
Journal, denies the statement which
has been travelling through the press,
that the children of the first wife OF
President Tyler contested the will by
which he bequeathed all his property,
both real and personal, to his widow.
On the contrary, the children cheer
fully acquiesced in their fathers wish
es, and accepted the poverty which it
entailed upon them without a murmur.
Mr.. Tyler manfully adds, at the close
of his letter: "As we revere our
father, we sincerely respect Mrs. Tyler,
and regard her with filIaI feeling, hav-
ing for her children the affection of
brothers and sisters"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
Trees Under the Sea.

| hardly know what to make of this.
Lately / heard some travellers talking
about having sailed in a boat over a
forest of tail trees-some standing.
some fallen, and all bare and dead.
Yes, there they are, trunks and branches
complete, away down under the waves,
and so they are called submarine for
ests, marine standing for sea, and SUB
Tor under.
Where are these wonderful forests?
Why, pretty lar away, l must admit !;
Just oil the coasts of France and En-
gland, the travellers said, though L re-
member they did speak of one in the
Bay of Fundy, ii you know where that is.
At certain points, when the tides are
very low of the English coast, and the
water is very clear, the people some
times go out In boats to look down I'M
der the water ut the poor dead trees.
And sometimes they see among the
fallen branches the antlers OF dead
deer, and sometimes the fishermen
hook up elephants teeth.
How did the trees get under the wa.
ter, or the water over the trees-do YOU
ask, my dears All knowledge Is
wonderful thing. The travellers didn
explain the matter at all. Make hast,
to learn and tell me all about it,
{" Jdck-in-the- PuLpit."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03
To CORRESPONDENCE.

All communications for this paper should be ac-
companied by the name of the author; not neces.
sariy for publication, but as an evidence OF good
faith on the part of tho writer. Write only ON one
side OF the paper Be particularly CAREFUL in Civ.
ing names and dates to have the letters and hgures
plain and distinct.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-03

CREMATION has at length assumed a
practical form in London. Under the
title OF the Cremation and Urn Socie-
ty Nimited)," a company has been reg
istered, with proposed capital of
10000, for the purpose of carrying out
the necessary arrangements in connec-
ton with the process.