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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-18
an Bufen County Michigan.
ARTHUR BRowN, Solicitor for Complainant.

Notice To Hear Claims.-In Pro-
bate Court. Van Buren, County: Estate of
Joseph ii. Gibson, deceased. Notice is hereby
given. that said Probate Court will receive. eI-
anime and adjust all claims and demands Of
creditors against the Estate of said deceased,
and Monday, August "a, and Monday, Sept.
IA, are hereby assigned for hearing said claims,
and ak months from the date hereof are al
lowed creditors in which to present their claims.
GEO. w. LAYTON. Judge Of Probate.
Dated Paw Paw, July ~, 1874. 1OO9t6
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Order for Appearance.-State of Mich
igan, Ninth Judicial Circuit. Jane s. b. Rogers
Complainant, vs.. Olive G. Dean and Solomon
z. Dean, Defendants. suit pending in the CIR
cult Court for the county Of Van Buren, in
Chancery, at Paw Paw, on the fifth day of Au-
gust. A: D. 1874: 1t satisfactorily appearing to
the Judge Of said Court that the process here
tofore issued in this cause for the appearance
or the defendant, Olive g. Dean, cannot be
served on said Olive G. Dean, by reason Of her
continued absence from her place Of residence,
and that her present whereabout is unknown.
On motion OF Richards and Barnum. solicitors
for said complainant, it is ordered that the
said defendant, Olive G. Dean, cause her APP
pearance in this cause to be entered within
three (3) months from the date Of this order,
and that in case Of her appearance she cause
herAnswer to COMPLIMENTS bill to be filed and
copy thereof to be served on compliments
solicitors within twenty (20) days after service
OF copy OF said bill and notice of this order,
and In default thereof that said bill he taken
as confessed by the said defendant, Olive
Dean, and it Is further ordered that within
twenty days the said complainant cause notice
OF this orc r to be published in some news
paper published and circulated in said County
of Van Duran, and that the said publication
be continued in said paper for at least once in
each week for SIX weeks in succession, or that
he cause copy OF this order 10 be personally
served on the said defendant. Olive c. Dean,
at least twenty days before the time above pre-
scribed for her appearance. 1010t6
DARIUS +. CoMsToCK, Circuit Judge.
RIcHARDs * BARNUM, Complts Solicitors.
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Mortgage aIe.-Whereas default hav.
ing been made in the conditions OF a certain
mortgage executed by Mara Taylor, to Theo-
dore Il. Hendrick, bearing date the 25th paw OF
April, 1870, and recorded in the Office Of the
Register of Deeds for Van Buren, County.
Michigan, on the 10th day Of June, 1870, in
Liber w OF mortgages, on page 612, upon
which said mortgage and the note accompany
ing the same, there is now due and unpaid the
sum OF two hundred and seventy-six and eighty
five one-bundredths dollars and that no suit at
law or in equity has been instituted for the re-
covery OF the same or any part thereof: There
fore, notice is hereby given, that by virtue of
the power OF sale in said mortgage contained
and pursuant to the statute in such case made
and provided, that on Monday, the 23d day of
November, 1874, at one o'clock in the after
noon OF said day, at the front door of the
Court House, in Paw Paw, Michigan, Chat be-
ing the place for holding the Circuit Court for
SAID county there will be exposed for sale at
public vendue, to the highest bidder, the preu-
ises in said mortgage described Cor so much
thereof as shall be necessary to satisfy the
amount due on said mortgage, with interest at
ten per cent. and the legal costs of this fore
closure. together with an attorney fee of twen-
ty dollars covenanted for in said mortgage, viz
Commencing at the northwest corner of the
northeast quarter Of the southwest quarter of
section sixteen IN township one south. or
range fourteen west, Van Buren, County, Mich
igan, and running thence east five rods. thence
south eight rods, thence west five rods. and
thence north eight rods to the place of begin
ming reservlng however the right Of egress
and ingress across said premises along the west
line thereof to and from the Van Bront Mills
Dated Paw Paw, Aug. Goth. 1874.
ELVlRA c. HENDRICK,
Executrix OF the last Will and Testament OF
Theodore F.. Hendrick. deceased. 1013tI3
JACKSON d GLIDDEN, Attorneys.
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Mort SaIe.-Default having been
made in the payment OF certain mortgage.
made and executed by Lafayett Casad and
Maria Casad, his wife, of the township of Ant
werp, County Of Van Buren, and State Of Mich
igan, to Ira Rix, Of Kalamazoo county and
State Of Michigan, dated the 18th day of March,
A. D. 1870, and recorded the 14th day Of March,
A. d. 1870. in the Office Of the Register Of
Deeds OF Van Buren, county and State OF Mich.
igan. in Liber three" Of mortgages on page
"twenty-six," and on which mortgage and
note accompanying the same, is due and unpaid
at this date the sum of one hundred and twenty
Blk dollars and nine cents, and also the further
sum Of twenty-five dollars, as an attorney fee
specified in said mortgage, to be paid by said
mort8sgors in case proceedings to foreclose
should be taken, and no suit or proceedings at
law or in equity having been instituted to col
lect the amount due and unpaid on said mort
gage, or any part thereof, notice Is hereby Civ
en- that by virtue of the power Of sale contained
IN said mortgage, and in pursuance OF the stat
ute In such case made and provided the prem
1898 described in said mortgage, to-wlt all that
certain piece or parcel OF land being situated in
the township OF Antwerp, County Of Van Buren,
and State OF Michigan, and described as follows.
to-wit: lot number two (2) In block number
twelve Q2) in the village Of Mattawan, will be
sold at public auction or vendue, on the 10th
day Of November A. d. 1874, at three O'Clock
in the afternoon Of said day, to pay and satisfy
the amount due and unpaid on SAID mortgage
and the costs, charges and expenses allowed by
law. including said attorney fee OF twenty-five
dollars, provided for in said mortgage, and the
said sale and vendue will take place at the front
door Of the Court House, in the village Of Paw
Paw, in the County OF Van Buren, and State of
Michigan. said Cour. House being the place for
holding the Circuit Court for said County of
Van Buren,. 1O1Otl3
Dated August let. 1874.
IRA RIX Mortpapee
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:, IHA MY, MUTtBHR6e.
EDWARDS ~ SHERWOOD, Att'ys for MORTGAGE

Chancery Sale.-In pursuance and by
virtue OF decree Of the Circuit Court for the
County OF Van Buren,, in Chancery, made on
the fourteenth day of May, A. D., 1874, in a
certain cause therein pending, wherein Z. NJ.
Phelps, G. f. p. Dodge and n. B. Palmer, CO.
pa .ners composing the firm of Phelps Dodge
Palmer, are compliments, and Stephen Ford
and Ada Ford, are defendants. Notice is here
by gwen, that shall sell at public auction. to
the highest bidder, at the front door OF the
Court House, in the Village OF Paw Paw. IN the
County OF Van Buren,, and State of Michigan,
on the thirteenth day OF July. A. D., 1874, at
eleven o'clock IN the forenoon, all that certain
piece or parcel OF land situated in the Village
OF Lawton, Van Buren, County, Michigan, and
described az follows, to-wit The undivided
one-half OF the north eighteen feet in width on
Main Street. Of Lot number seven y in Block
number one, in said village.
Dated May %, 1874. 10OOt7
JOHN j. SHERMAN, Circuit Court Com'r
Van Buren, County Michigan
ARTHUR Brown, Solicitor for Complainant
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
TYndalI's Departure.

In his much criticised address before
the British association for the advance
ment of science, its president, Prof.
Tyndall, said
Trace the line of life backward, and
see it approaching more and more to
what we call the purely physical condi-
ton. We reach at length those organ
isms which have compared to drops of
oil suspended in a mixture of alcohol
and water. We reach the 71rotogenes
OF Haeckel, in which we have Ga type
distinguishable from a fragment of al
bumen only by its finely granular char
magnet and find two pores A.. ~ , : "a 81
its fragments. We continue the pro-
cess of breaking, but however small the
parts, each carries with it, though en-
feebled, the polarity of the whole.
And when we can break no longer, we
prolong the intellectual Wis on to the
polar molecules. Are we not urged to
do something similar in tie case of
life? Is there not temptation to close
to some extent with Lucretius, when he
affirmS that mature is seen to do all
things spontaneously of herse without
the meddling of the gods ?" or with
Bruno, when he declares that matter is
not g that mere empty capacity which
philosophers have pictured her to be,
but the universal mother who brings
forth all things as the fruit of her own
womb" The questions here raised ara
inevitable. They are approaching ii
with accelerated speed, and it is not
matter of Indifference whether they are
introduced with reverence or with ir-
reverence. Abandoning all disguises,
the confession that I feel bound to
make before you is, that prolong the
vision backward, across the boundary of
the experimental evidence, and discern
in that matter, which we in our igno-
rance, and notwithstanding our rever-
ence for its Creator, have hitherto COW
cred with opprobrium, the promise and
potency of every form and quality of
life
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
Iron Clad Navles of the World.

The most reliable information relative
to European armies has been for long
time found in the military papers OF
Germany, especially in the Milltar1she
Wochenblatt. The same thing happens
now with regard to navy affairs for, as
soon as Germany concluded to possess
a fleet, she began by sending all over
the world special officers entrusted with
the duty of studying, and carefully re-
porting upon the real status of foreign
naval affairs. Even London papers are
compelled to pick up their information
on the subject from German papers.
The Borsenzeitung, of Berlin, says that
according to the last official reports the
total number of iron clads possessed by
the various naval powers of Europe, in
Guiding those employed on coast service,
is 244. The total number of screw
ships, exclusive of coast steamers and
gunboats, is 49,. Belgium, Switzer-
land and Servia do not possess any navy
at all, and Roumania has only few
gunboats on the Danube. Holland,
Sweden, Norway, and Portugal, though
they have fleets, have no iron clads31or
war service. Greece has two such IRON
clais; Germany, 3; Denmark, 3; SPAN,
z; Austria. II +; Russia, 10 Turkey,
Is; France, 2S; and England, 90.
There is no coast fleet of iron clads in
Austria. Italy, Greece, or Portugal.
Holland. on the other hand, though she
las no iron clads for war service, has is
iron clad vessels for coast service En-
gland has %, and France 80. AS re-
CARDS turret ships, Germany has 2
Spain, Norway and Denmark, each
Turkey, 5 Sweden 9 Gncluding, how
ever, small gun boats); and Russia,
| IS OF screw ships England has 1872
France, So Russia, As; Turkey, "A
| Spain, 81; Holland, 25; Italy, d
| Germany and Denmark each 10 /; Aus
! tria, IA Portugal. s !; Sweden and Nor;
nov !, ssais1 NrrtrOv. STSsssaS'rrpps
therefore, occupies the last place but
! one as regards iron clads for war ser
vice, the last place as to coast iron
clads, and the eighth place as regards
! screw ships F.; but in 1875 her strength
| in iron clads for war service Will be in
creased to 8, so that she will occupy the
/ seventh place, between Spain and Aus
| tria. The Borsenzeitung adds that the
naval power of a state is determined
not so much by the number of its ships,
as by the thickness of their iron plating,
| the power of their engines, and the
/ number and quality of their guns, and
! that by next year six of the new Ger.
man iron clads VIII be among the most
powerful ships in the world, in these
respects far surprising those of Austria,
| Italy and France. The number of sail
ors, engineers, stokers, etc, employed
/ in the various navies of Europe is
follows: England, 6S, 264 Gncluding
| D, 600 of the naval reserve); Russia,
! SO, 600 France, 80, $40; Turkey, 81, 600;
| Spain. Il 009; Germany, u, $50 Aus
tria, II $50; Italy, IL 200; Holland. g.
260; Denmark. $500; Norway, $500
and Portugal, 3 300.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
No Gold in the Black Hills.

At a meeting of the Minnesota Acad-
envy of Natural Sciences, in Minneapo-
lis, Prof. Newton FL. WincEell, state ge-
oligist and professor of natural history
in the state university, who accompa-
MED the Black Hills expedition, some
what dampened the enthusiasm created
by the late glowing reports of gold dis
coveries in that region. He says he did
not see any gold, and no one brought
home any for examination. Some
brought home what they thought to be
gold-bearing quartz, but on examination
it was found. TO be mica stained with
iron. He e,ould not go so far as to say
that there is no gold there, but he saw
none, and it is his opinion that there is
none. He was led to disbelieve the re-
ports for another reason, VIZ. The
character of the men who talked up the
expedition and who induced the gov
eminent to explore the Black Hills,
would lead any one to distrust their state
ments. No one but these men preten-
ded to have taken out any gold, or to
have seen any at all worth speaking of
in or near the Black Hills. He said the
country was beautiful, the atmosphere
salubrious, and that THERE'S plenty of ar
able land to support large population.
There was heavy growth of Norway
pine and abundant water power. OF
minerals be found gypsum and valuable
quarries of marble.
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:. Tho uol,,ing Misc Mowh.ay.

"The walking, Miss Mowh-ay, Il
I found very pleasant" She was almost
4 ready to die with vexation-
81 don't see how you can say SO, sir,
I when the dust is perceptloly ankie-deep
in the road.
at is very easily explained, Miss
ATowbray. / used the sidewalk.
"Oh and so you are going to Cali
! fernia?"
Her eyes were obstinately fixed upon
the carpet as she spoke.
" 1t was my intention to do SO, and L
| called to announce my departure:
She assumed indifference, but the eff
| fort was very transparent.
Chow long do you expect to be
gone p
"That depends entirely upon circum-
| cumstances. If / can make little
| arrangement which have in view 1 will
/ not be gone for long"
The vlush again came to her cheek,
and her heart began to throb strangely.
Mr.. Willis took up the album and be-
gan to turn the leaves carelessl y
"May l inquire whose picture this
50"
"ThaN Why, that is one of mine
| an excellent likeness they tell me.
Hardly like the original. In my
opinion, though" and, coolly taking it
out, he put il in his pocket.
"Have the kindness to ask my per-
mission before you make the sppropria-
| lion, Mr.. Willis % haughtily calculated
the astonished young lady.
''Had l asked in dne form, Miss
Mowbray, my request would doubtless
have been refused. TO avoid all risk }
take the thing for granted. (ThI S
with a good-natured smile, and the bla Ok
eyes looking straight into hers.)
There was silence for few min ties,
and then Miss Mowbray, looking at hi:
coat-lapel, said:
q This is a peculiar-looking flower
What do You call it %
cit is called the Venus hy-trap.
Allow me to present it. Y Yen, GO seR la
7 And before she could reply he haC
placed it in her hand.
| 80 Will You attend Mrs. Au stin's las
rece ptiOn before you go? L think they
are We Y enjoyable. F"
II do not think will. I detest these
receptions. One feels still ted, being
pent up in crowded parlors."
She gave an impatient little stamp o.
her foot.
"Why do you always oppose and con
tradict me Does nothing that I say
i please you p Tears of modification
stood in her eyes.
A strong arm WAS thrown around
her.
Blanche ~ said its owner, ''what is
the matter ?"
Matter I" exclaimed the fair one
'You 90 not acquiesce in a single as
sertion noke. 1t Is notifying %
She made an attempt to remove the
arm, but without succ 5ss.
g 1t was part of my plan, Blanche.
What plan ?"
VIII you ever like me, Blanche ?"
You, you"
g love-you."
D."
Yes, you do. May have the pic
ture?"
The arm was trembling now, and the
deep voice had a quaver in it.
"No."
"Oh, pshaw That was said in the
spirit of contradiction. Let's have
done with it. Is my love returned ?"
"N-n-yes. But why have you
acted so ?"
IT was the only way to win you.
Forgive me-"
And having effected "that little ar
engagement, he went to California.
- OF course they married.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
Idle Steamships.

For several months the foreign steam
ship companies having agencies III New
York city have manifested anxiety at the
serious diminution in their business. In
regard to Storage traffic, one of the
chief sources of profit 10 the steamship
companies, the present year has been
one of the worst ever known. There
have been, to be sure, moro outward
bound steerage passengers than before,
but they have carried discouraging IT,
dings of the condition of affairs in
this country, and have thus prevented
large numbers of their countrynen
from leaving their own shores. Steam
ships, which a year ago were bringing
from ], 600 to l. 500 in the Storage, this
season seldom land more than 500 on
the Castle Garden wharf. The dimi-
mutton in number of passengers is not
all. On account OF the strong compe-
teton between the rival lines, rates
which n year ago were $50 and mp
wards have this season been only SI5
and sometimes even less. The German
lines, which held aloof nearly all sum-
mer from the controversy, and declined
to reduce the prices of their tickets,
were at length obliged to succumb
almost at the very moment tie EGG
lish companies were once more on ad-
vancing rates. The present season has
not been notable for its record of cabin
passengers. Pleasure seekers and bust
ness men have been few, and only the
cabins of the best and most popular
steamers have been crowded.
Meanwhile freights have also been
diminishing in quantity, and shippers
everywhere manifested strong desire
to economize. Rates have consequently
fallen and shipments are smaller than
they were year ago. This condition
of affairs has naturally caused alarm
among the companies having immense
interests ct stake. Some which have
formerly sent out two steamships weekly
throughout the summer have this year
dispatched only one, and the frequent
extra steamers of other years have this
eason been almost unknown.
The effects of this stagnation in bust
ness have been felt to greater or less
degree by all the companies, but some
of the German lines are the greatest
sufferers. Both the Hamburg and
Brennan lines have withdrawn several of
their steamers. The most serious dis
aster, however, is that which visited
the Baltic Lloyd steamship company,
whose vessels ply between this port
and Stettin, touching at Copenhagen.
With this company business is now
wholly ct a standstill, and their steam
ers are lying idle at Stettin. 1t is
doubtful If any other business will be
done by the company before spring, as.
on account of ice In the Baltic sea, tbeil
vessels are always obliged to lie unem-
ployed in the winter.-N. Y. IT i6tt1le.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
A Curious Bird's Nest.

There is bird in New Guinea called
the Megapodius, which in the size of its
eggs and its manner of Matching them,
must be considered extraordinary. 1t
is not larger than one of our ordinary
fowls. but y eggs are three inches long
by two and half in diameter. It does
not attempt to sit on them. A colony
of birds lay their eggs together in a
large mound, in the hottest part of the
year, from September to March, and
leave them to be Matched by the sun.
The mound is made of sand, loose earth
and sticks and leaves, which latter by
their decay increase the heat. The
mounds are wonderfully large, being
ten feet high and about sixty feet in
circumference at the base. The young
birds come out at a hole in the top.
The mother birds wait on the trees
around till their chicks are Matched,
and then each leads off her own brood.
How each knows its own is a mystery.
The eggs are much relished by the ma
tives, but not at all by Europeans. A
native of Cape York ventured one day
Exploring INC hidden riches OF the
large mound the upper part fell in and
he VAS smothcred. He was afterward
found in the very act of digging buried
alive in birds nest.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
Feverand Arue, ain Fever, etc.

few months after lying commenced the
manufacture of Dr. Piee's Gold RSledical
Discovery, the proprier began to receive
numerous letters from parts of the western
and southern states be9w'ng the most I'M
bounded praise upon it or having promptly
cured the writer's or the friends OF fever and
ague or other forms ofmiasmatic. or mala-
rious diseases. He Unexpectedly urged to
make known the wondenl virtues of the Dis
cOvery in the cure of aie and kindred dis
eases. He always replt that it was not in
tended for - cure al, md should ne recon
mend it to people a emedy for so many
different forms and csses of disease. he
feared those who had neer tested its virtues
would at once class it n0ng tho numerous
lIumbugs of the day. lis answer was salts
factory 10 no one; theyrgued that tho whole
country ought to know lat once, and express
ed their astOnishment his Indifference to
the subject. His ear al heart being at all
times open to the call obufTering humanity,
he has at last, after havig received testimony
from hundreds who havbeen speedily cured
by it, aud many of themfter quinia and all
the usual means had faill, consented to make
the matter known.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
Rustic Gentry.

Walpole says, in speaking of the gen
try of the country "Only imagine
that 1 here every day see men who are
mountains of roast beef, and only seem
just roughly hewn out into the outlines
of human form, like the giant work of
PratolinOl I shudder when l see them
handle their knives in act to carve, and
look upon them as savages that devour
one another I should not stare at all
more than ] do if yonder alderman at
the end of the table were to strike n
knife into his neighbours Jolly cheek
and cut a brave slice of Drawn and fat.
[ have an aunt here, family
piece of goods, and an old remnant OF
inquisitive hospitality and economy,
who, to all intents and purposes, is as
beefy as her neighbors. She wore me
so down with interrogatories that /
dreamed all night that she was at my
ear, with who's and why's, ana whens
and where's, till at last in my sleep I
cried out, For God in heavens sake,
madam, ask me no more questions
I am so far from getting used
to mankind by living among them that
my natural ferocity and wildness does
but every day grow worse. They tire
me; they fatigue me I don't know
what to say to them L fling open the
window and fancy / want air and when
get by myself 1 undress myself, and
seem to have had people in my pockets,
in my plaits, and on my shoulde1sl /
indeed find this fatigue worse in the
country than in town, because we can
avoid it there, and have more resources
but it is there toe"
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-09-18
Men as Cooks.

BY way of triumph over the monster
man, Kate Stanton writes as fol-
lows from Paris: HThe Paris men
have found one proper vocation,
namely, to cook and wash dishes and
admirable cooks they are. Paris is the
most scientific city in the world, and
mems 'sphere' is here scientifically
settled in one respect, 1 am happy to
know. If men fall below women in
every other fine art they may claim the
palm in cooking. 1t is delightful to see
how domestic and useful men can be
when they are in their natural element |!
/ am led to believe that ono of the
charms of the tented field is the