The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-11-13

Urapnic COmpaDy, iTom running pa
loon show to issuing fac SMILES of stole
love letters, and putting politicalibrigand
like Ben Butler.
A firm of market reporters in Chicag
offers to send Us commercial lette
from that city every week, which woul'
eli about half column in the Repubh
can, for only - cents a letter. The.
profess to have had the entire control o
one daily paper in Chicago, and to have
been connected with the commercial
press of that city Tor several years
They ought to be satisfied, without try
ing to rope in all shc country papers.
An Eastern Bureau of Correspon
dence" sends out batch of puffs of va
rious amusements, libraries, books, etc.
and kindly offers the privilege to the
country press of copying the same at 5C
cents to 81 per week. 1t seems very
kind in entire strangers to offer to edit
the Republican, but as the matter they
send to US is worth nothing, we will not
go through the mockery of even thank.
ing them.
An Associated Press Department
in Philadelphia wishes to supply weekly
letters for the Republican at so cents
payable in advertising at % per cent
discount. This looks like very lib.
eral offer, but the letters would not
be worth five cents year for our col
umns, and the blank contract which
is nicely filled up for us to sign is un-
happily wasted.
The highest priced letter from New
York ever oflererd comes from re.
spectacle firm which publishes pop
ular magazine. They ask 50 letter,
but will take it i'll advertising at oar
prices. We couldn't charge them enough
to make an advantageous bargain for
the Republican. The letters were frothy.
\ literary aspirant at Tallahassee,
Florida, wishes to furnish from time to
time interesting letters " for the Re.
publican. He will send them weekly,
semi-monthly, or monthly, as desired,
and asks only 81 each. He requests us
to state the politics of our paper, for he
will probably fix things to order
Republican, Democratic, or Prohibition.
ist. He would be handy man to have
on an Opposition journal, for their style
of politics changes with every campaign.
A large circular in red and blue ink
has been sent us by the manager of a
% Tav,o Grand Dr;,a Nonoo.t n;,t, h.,
ton of about S146,00O worth of choice
Texas lands and Houston city real es-
tate. He gives away 1871 pieces of
valuable property. But as Texas is a
rampant rebel State, where about three
persons are murdered every day by
Lynch law, aud the murderers go un.
punished and are even elected to Office
by Democratic votes, we would not take
the gift of the whole 1871 pieces of
valuable real estate if we had to live
down there. OF course we could not
advertise any such scheme The agent
offers to act as correspondent and give
the current news of that ungodly
country, if we will make modest
reference to the Texas Prize Concert.
Is he suited with the above puff?
A stationer in Philadelphia wants to
advertise packets containing Chinese
puzzle, perfumed sachet, brass jewelry,
envelopes, note paper, pens, pencils,
etc, and pay in this kind of truck He
sends US proposal on postal card :;
and the only good it will do is to help
the Government to the amount of the
profit on the card The offer is too
shabby for serious consideration.
A medicine advertiser in Western
New York asks us to publish nearly a
column of matter, defending his business
from the attack of rivals, but he does
not say anything of payment This
matter would be worth at least S25
and as he is now good deal richer
than we are, there is no apparent reason
why he should be built up still higher
in his prosperity at our cost.
The - Advertising Agency asks
us to publish circular of the american
Fever Eradicator," for which they will
pay in the stuff. 1t has almost given
us fever to receive such sickening
proposal. But being afraid we should
get nothing at all, not even corks from
the empty bottles to smell of, the ad-
vertisement is respectfully declined.
We are offered New Combination
Sewing, Quilting, and Embroidering
Machine, by New York gentleman, if
we will publish about one column of
quack medicine advertisements. 1t is
queer trade that runs machinery by
means of pills, balsams, and ointment.
As the gentleman is unknown to us, we
I" let him rum
A similar offer is that of copy of
Newton's Principia for an advertise
mcnt of preacher of the gospel who
cured his son of consumption, and will
send the recipe free of charge to all who
desire it. He is brother of the "poor
cuss whose " sands of life were almost
run out some years ago, and who has
probably expired by this time, having
left his business to this fellow. What a
degradation, that Newton's Principia