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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

EN- evry bit up. Then CATER he see that
Jack was pokin fun at lnm, and he was
furious ole man like you never see, he
said Jack Brily, mex time the ship sinks,
and your drowndin, yule think of wot
yuye been a sayin, and Jack Brily he
said Yes, CATER, and then lie wish / had
got that fer fish so cude dry my self.
but Uncle Ned he said if you was RELY
drowndin Jack you cuds afford to wait a
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

A FARMER in Jackson county, Mo-,
recently ditched and destroyed one hun
bred and twenty bushels of grasshoppers
in three days work.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28
FRESH TOPICS.

The annual rental of pews in Ply
mouth Church came off the other day,
and Melted the neat little sum of 81, 165.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

A CHICAGO editor mentions the fact
hat Weston, the pedestrian fraud, is
again walking against time, and cruelty
exclaims /" If he would only walk up
very hard against barrel of nitro
glycerine 70
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

infest Southern Illinois the present sea-
son. Should such be the case, the injury
would be incalculable.
A NEW YORK letter writer, gossiping
about New York journals and journalists,
says the Tribune probably has more out
side contributors than any daily in the
country. As many rs twenty-five or
thirty men and women of ability, learn
ing and reputation furnish editorials
from time to time; among them Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, Lucia Gilbert
Runkle, Octavius b. rockingham, Re
becca Harding Davis, John Fiske, Julia
Ward, Howe, Henry James, Edmund
Clarence Stedman, Kate Field, Thomas
Hughes, Moncure ID. Conway, VIM. r.
Alger, Gail Hamilton, John G.. Whittier
and Richard Henry Stoddard. The rate
is SO to SIS column sometimes,
though not often, $40 and upward.
Mr.. JAMES LICK, the eccentric Cali
forum millionaire, has made new trust
deed, differing from the one revoked in
very few particulars. The donation
for statuary at the State capital of $780,,
600 is changed to $1OO,0OO for statuary
at the City Hall in San Francisco. The
appropriation for the Key monument is
reduced from $50, 900 to 100000. The
100000 for the Lake Tahoe Observa-
tory is committed to the University of
California, to be used for the same pur-
pose. The donation to the Mechanic
Arts School is raised from 100000 to
$4,000 The gift to his son is raised
from $1,000 to $4,000. For himself
he gives up the lien of $25, 900 annually,
and takes a gross sum of $500,000 The
estate becomes Immediately available for
beneficiary purposes. He will be one of
the trustees himself.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

THE New York Herald publishes sen
sational dispatch from London to the
effect that it has been discovered in En-
gland that Messrs. Moody and Sankey,
the celebrated Evangelists, are in the
employ of p. T. BarnuIn, the great show
man, whose object is to found new re-
igion. The story runs that Moody and
Sankey are put forward as a counter
po;se to the novelty of English and
American Cardinals.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28
Cattle i'm the East and West.

The following table exhibits the num-
Der and value of cattle in twenty-one
States of the Union:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
AIilmy-Melny.

mllmy-meimy.
Many hundred years ago,
People say,
Lived in busy Rhineland
Giants gay;
Folks OF mighty stature,
Made 40 tall,
They would hit the sky in walking
Stars and all.
when one stretched him on a mountain
Why, the clouds would At him
Like a cap;
In the valley under
sprawed his toes
How he could get out Of bed
Ne one knows!
Did he snore a little loudish
do you wonder?
People only thought IL
Heavy thunder.
Did hs have the nightmare,
knock-a-knock!
Everybody grimly muttered:
Earthquake sbock!"
One of these tremendous fellows,
i suppose,
Gould have hung your father
On his nose.
Half a score like you, sir,
Don't look pale y
Might have straddled see-saw
His thnmb-nail
He'd have bean a crony
Worth the knowing
For they we're the kindest
Creatures going.
So good-naturod somehow,
In their ways;
Not a bit like naughty giants
Nowadays.
Well, the biggest one among can.
So they tell me,
Had pretty daughter
hilmy-Melmy
Ten years old precisely
ToaT;
Stout enough TO make a meal OF
You and me.
On her birthday, Milmy-Melmy,
All alone,
Started ON a ramble-
Unbsknown.
Left her toys behind her
For run -
Big IA elephants and camels,
Every one.
Through the country, hill and valley,
Went she fast
willows bent TO watch her
As she passed.
Hemlock slender, poplar
Straight and high,
Brushed their tops against her fingers,
Tripping by.
Half mile to every minute
Like enough
Though she found the going
Rather rough;
Men folk, glancing at her,
Cried aloud:
I" We shall have a shower shortly
See the oloud!T
Milmy- Melmy thought it rather
Jolly play
Nurse to leave behind, and
Run away.
In her life Qmagins
II you cam
She had never seen woman,
Or a man.
Three times thirty leagues Of trudging
Brought her to plowman
AT his pillow;
Getting rather tired,
Stubbsd her toe;
STOPPED to see what sort Of pebble
Hurt her so.
Picking up the plow and plowman,
Oxen, too,
Milmy- Melmy stared at
Something new
Stuck them in her girdle,
Olapped her hands
Till the mountain echoes answered
Through the lands.
a" Here's better birthday present."
Shouted she,
" Than the leather dollies
Made for me.
These are living playthings-
Very queer;
Ia the cunning little carriage
huf n Aaar
SO into her apron tying
The new toy,
on she hurried homeward
Full OF joy;
Stood it on a table
In the hall;
Ran 10 bring her father 10 it,
Told him all.
" BTilmy- Melmy, " cried the giant,
- What a shame.
You must take the plaything
Whence II came.
These are useful workers,
Daughter mine,
Getting food for human beings
Corn and wins.
" Never NEEDLE with such tiny
Folks again;
Only ugly giants love to
Trouble men,"
Milmy-M0lmy pouted
CTwasn't NICE,
But she carried back the playthings
In trice.
When she'd made her second journey,
Little sinner
Really felt too tired
For her dinner.
So to bed they put her,
Right away,
And she had her birthday pudding
The next day.
What the plowman did about II
Mercy knows
Must have thought il funny,
suppose.
If you want a moral,
Ask fly
What he thinks OF giants such rs
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

AT the recent election in st. Louis,
the new system by which the judges of
election count the ballots every hour was
followed with the most satisfactory re-
suits. The returns were all in early,
and it was shown that the hourly an
nouncements of the number of votes
cast was an effective preventive of some
of the frauds that have heretofore been
noticeable on the part of judges of cleo
ton. With an increased number of pre-
cincts to reduce the pressure at the polls
and render voting more convenient, this
new system will doubtless meet the gen
eral appreciation, and should be univer-
sally adopted.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

SOME one proposes that the descend
ants of the original signers of the Declar-
alton of Independence shall meet in 1876,
at Philadelphia, and have first-class
DOY-WOw
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

A NICE old evolutionary party lives
at Lodi, Ohio. His name is Homer
Griffin. He is Ia years old, has only
one arm, never smoked nor chewed nor
snuffed, bat (alas , has been an habitual
consumer of ardent spirits for over a
century. He can still work in the gar
den and chop wood with his remaining
arm. His first vote was cast for George
Washington, who was consequently
elected, many others following young
Mr.. Griffin example.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

The late John G. Breckenridge was
one of three of the most exalted Masons
in the United States-Gen. Albert Pike,
of Arkansas, and Col. De Saussere, of
South Carolina, holding equal rank.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

IT is estimated that three-tenths of
the goods imported in New York are
struggled, and that the government does
not derive over 20 per cent. of the gross
revenue due upon importations in that
city.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

ONE of the crew of the Inflated Schiller
was arrested. in Hoboken for being
drunk, fd~ days before the vessel
sailed, and sent to Jail for five days. His
time expired the day after the Schiller
sailed, and he escaped the fate of most
Of his companions. This statement is
made as matter of news, and not to
encourage bibulous persons in the habit
of getting drunk in the hope of thereby
escaping marine disasters.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

A NEW YORK dispatch says Judge Neil
son is outlining his charge to the jury in
the Tilton- Beecher scandal case. His
Honor's ideas of what the Judges
charge should be are somewhat different
from the practice which has obtained
with some Of the Judges in the State.
Judge Nelson is opposed, as general
rule, to any comments by the Judge
upon the testimony as presented. He
believes in combining bis charge to an
outline of the case as presented, the
points of law involved, and points in the
evidence that are entitled to particular
consideration. The charge will proba-
bly, occupy from day to a day and a
half.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

AS THIS is the season of grish and love
making, this item will interest senti-
mental youths and maidens: "When
you write on a postal card to your sweet
heart, use ink made of solution of 10
grains hyposulphite of soda in Is tea
spoonfuls of water. This is colorless,
but on being exposed to heat turns
black"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

ADvIcEs from Western Missouri give
rather discouraging outlook for farmers
in that section. The grasshoppers, it
seems, have crossed the Missouri river
on, their eastward march, and are play
ing sad havoc with the crops. The
western tier of counties are already over
run with the pests, and they appear to
be eating their way eastward. Every
thing in some Of the counties from which
advices are at hand, has been destroyed,
and the farmers have been obliged to
drive their stock into Arkansas for pas
turage. It is feared that they will pass
through the entire State Of Missouri and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28

infest Southern Illinois the present sea-
son. Should such be the case, the injury
would be incalculable.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24
LOOKS BAD.

Next to Boss Tweed, Sweeny, Murphy and
all that noted gang ofthieves that robbed New
York city of so many millions few years
ago, the biggest combination Of public rob
bers this country ever saw was the Washing.
ton city ring, Of which Boss Shepherd was
the head. Indeed II is doubtful whether a
fun expose would not show that, as between
Tweed and Shepherd, the latter was the bigger
thief. Tweed, however, had the misfortune
to fall into the hands of democratic officials
vino made him disgorge part Of his plumber
and sent him to the penitsntiary, while Shep.
herd finds powerful friend in President
Grant who has thus far screened him from
punishment.
While II was found lmpracucable, however
(being iRerpedtem for the good of the party
probably, 10 strike down Shepherd, it was
hoped at leastthat a number ofhis underlings
such as Harrington and Kinds, who were no
toriously guilty of stealing vast sums of the
District funds, would be brought to punish
mcnt, and 10 this end their case was put in
the hands |. 5 District attorney Fisher Now
Fisher had been at work on these cases fol
two years, and of late it became 50 notorious
that instead of prosecuting the thieves he was
in their pay and determined to let them 90
scot free, that Attorney General Pierrepont
and SECRETARIES Bristow and Jewell demanded
of the President that he should be removed
from ogce. The President professed will
ingness To accede TO the demand, but declin
ing To remove the man himself, told Pierre
pont 10 do il. Pierrepont showed no lack OF
willingness to take the responsibility" but
when in the very act of making the order, i.
stopped by 4 telegram from Grant at Long
Branch ordering him to suspend further &c
ton in the case
Now the secret Of this extraordinary dis.
patch from Long Branch is, that the moment
Boss Shepherd heard that il was decided to
take of the head of hIs creature and tcady
Fisher, he went post haste 10 Long Branch
and, by his strange and mos, unaccountable
influence over Grant succeeded in getting
him to eOuntermand the order. The conduct
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24

amputation became necessary and under the
operation Mitchell died. His widow sued
the liquor sellers for damages and has lust
been awarded, by jury of the Lee County
Circuit court $4,000
The choir of Beecher church in Brooklyn
costs $4,000 ayear. Miss Lasar is the soprano
and gets $1,000 Il year, having refused an
offer of $500 from Grace Church; Miss Hol.
brook, the alto gets $500 J. W. Hill, tenor,
gets $1,000, and Mr.. Camp, basso and leader,
gets $500. The organist gets $500. Be.
sides this quartette, there isan unpaid chorus
of about $50 singers
Clark Holenback, of Kendall county, is
made to say, in the Yorkvlle Nei,s, that he
had been in Kendall county 46 years and had
not seen anything like a total failure of the
crops any season in that time. What other
section OF the country can say as much?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24
NEWS ITEMS.

Among tho more important patents lately
issued is one IN favor Of Mr.. Francis Murphy,
of Streator, in this county, for an apparatus
for the ventilation Of coal mines The Strea-
tor Pioneer, whose editor has seen 1t work,
pronounces 1t by 100 per cent. ahead OF any.
thing before invented for the purpose named.
The Chicago COurieris out in favor of Lieut..
Governor Glenn as the next democratic can
didate for Governor of Illinois, saying with
entire truth, Gov. Glenn, both personally
and politically, would make an exceedingly
strong candidate, and one whom we would
be glad to support
Under the regime of President Grant there
has been one economy. In the bills of prevl-
Gus presidents there was regular yearly sal
airy of $3.50 for books for the libraryof the
Executive Mansion" Under Grant that sal
airy disappears. They don't want any books.
A man named butcher has just completed,
at Springfield, Mass, a 500 mile walk in the
unprecedented time of days 90 hours and
% minutes. This is II hours better than the
great walk Of O'Leary IN Chicago month
ago.
The grape crop IN Ohio has been seriously
injured by the protracted rains. Wheat is
also suffering there, and farmers complain
that the rains have interfered with the cult
walton of the growing corn.
Reverdy johnson, who Is in his eighty-first
ba u al hor 1oct 1ronly
by standing and arguing case in court for
a whole day, without apparent fatigue.
George n. Jackson, deputy collector of in
ternal revenue at Louisville, Ky, having been
detected as a defauter to the amount of 49,
O0) a week ego, took a dose of cold poison,
of which he died.
Here's ingratitude In 1872 Horace T.
Claflin, the biz New York merchant, gave
fifty thousand dollars 20 re-elect Grant, and
now Bristow has got thirty-seven indictments
against him for defrauding the revene.
A. Burton retires from the Marseilles Her
ald and Ira r. George takes his place. Bur
ton says, IL retire, don't want any more of
it for some time" and hopes the people Will
extend to his successor the same liberal pa
tronage they dtdt't extend to him.
\. J. Grover has sold the Earlville Trans
eript to c. p. & F. Z. Fillmore. The Trans
crypt was an able, independent and inhuen-
tial paper under Mr.. Growers editorial man
agement, and we hope its new editors VIII
maintain Its high standard.
Frederick Mitchell, of Palmyra, Lee coun-
", while drunk, year ago, attempted 10
force his way, in the middle of the night, by
breaking down the door, into the house of a
neighbor named Fredenburg, and was shot
in the leg for il. The wound was so bad that
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24
FATAL BALLOON ASCENSION.

Amonr other features of Barnum's big
show which exhibited in Chicago last week
was balloon ascension each afternoon by
the well known aerial navigator Donaldson
The balloon used was one OF moderate size,
and usually made trip of from Ave TO hi'eeh
miles out Of town, and as no spot within that
distance from Chicago is over mile irom a
railroad track, the balloonist usually MADE
his trip ard was safe home before bed time
the same evening. On each OF his lorTner
1rips, q reporter Of one or the other chicago
dalies had accompanied him; and in his trip
on Thursday afternoon n ). Grlmwood, a
reporter of the J0GTndI, entered the car With
The balloonist for short voyage. Instead,
however of the balloon making 1T usual
brief fight out on TO the prairie, II started
north. east across the lake To ado to the
neriIs of the situation; before the balloon
could have reached the other side OF the lake
by the direction it had taken, furious gale
arose. in which no such frail craft could pos
sibly live ten minutes. The result was, the
balloon was lost and the adventurous aerial
navlgators have doubtless persisted. Atleast'
no trace of them has been discovered since
week last Thursday. There have been numcr-
Gus of fragments of the balloon having been
seen in theLa!.e, and Of dead bodies ahoat, but
none of the rgmors could be traced to re-
liable source, and the upshot Of it is, the
fate of the balloonists remains profound
mystery.
The AFFAIR excites especial attention from
the interest that is felt in young Grimwood,
the Journal reporter, whose untbnely taking
off it involves Grimwood was native OF
Kendall county, where his parents, brothers
and sisters still reside, who are among the
most substantial ana respectable people OF the
county The young Tan-not over % years
of age-had developed an early talent for
newspaper writing, and as associate editor,
first of the Yorkville NeWS, then of the Lock
port C0rier, then of the Joliet San, and final
ly Of the Chicago Jeurnal, had shown so
much sprightliness and original wit us to
indicate that high career awaited him as
one of the most brilliant writers of his time.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24

Late reports from the Black Hills indicate
that the Sioux Indians are getting very rest
i've on account of the increasing number OF
miners in that region. The authorities a,
Washington have sent renewed promises that
the intruders shall be driven out, but the saw
ages are hardly simple enough to be satisfied
with mere promises when it Is manifest thai
if half the present L. $. army were employed
they would be unable to keep out the golt
seekers if gold Is really found there in pay
ing quantities. The soldiers thcmseve
would desert as they did in 1913 IN Califor
MIA, and join the gold diggers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24

On the TRADERS own showing the resolu,
tons, or programme" Are to be prepared
by the committee. viii this committee work
in secret or publicly? If in secret is not our
statement true? Does the Deacon think the
meeting of this committee will be held in
publicy If not, then will not the work OF
harmonizing now entrusted TO the committee
be done in secret?-Oitdnd Rcpubltoul.
Ridicule is not generous weapoa 10 use
against an opponent, but if he persists in
making himself ridiculous in this way. how
is body to help it?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24

A sad case Of drowning occurred at Peru
on Wednesday evening. Albert JAM, Ger
man aged "a years, and carpenter by trade
went bathing with three friends at the pier
His comrades could swim, but JAM, beng
ignorant of the art went down, having ven
tured beyond his depth. One of his compan
ions, while endeavoring to save him, was
clutched by the drowning man in vice.likC
grasp and fearful struggle ensued. The
coroner's jury rendered their verdict in accor
dance with the above facts. The deceased
was an unmarried man.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24

The medical officers of the different depart
ments about Washington are excited over a
report that the yellow fever has appeared q
Norfolk, Va, less thaa 100 miles away. The
vessel having the fever on board came tron,
Barbados, a2d though every r-ecaution hae
been taken against 1t the great fear is the
disease will break out III the city, whence il
would be next to impossible TO prevent its
spread to Washington and the northern cities
The report, at least furnishes al the higher
officials in Washington good excuse to take
a fight 20 the watering places
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24
MEGRUE.

Bristow, in his search for whiskey ring
thieves, is finding them IN strange and unex.
pected quarters In st. Louis he found a
witness, one Major c. G. Megrue, who pro.
fesses to have been in the employ of the ring
for the last three years as the paymaster,
through whom all the money was disbursed
When Bristow got this thoroughly posted
witness before the grand jury his revelations
were decidedly sensational. He not only i'm.
plicated Avery, Bristow's own chief clerk,
and Holt another clerk directly under his
nose, as connected with and in the pay of the
ring, but also included among the robbers
Babcock and Luckey, of President Grants
private household, ana Mcdonald and Ford
the Presidents most trusted friends-friends
IN his poverty and insignitcance-as well
as other high officials, the presidents boon
companions and confden;s. No wonder
Brstow finds the job he has undertaken Ia
expose these revenue thieves swelling into
such gigantic proportions that lie begins to
despair of being able to 20 through with it.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24

WHEAT.-There has been an extraordinary
week OF ten days, the advance of the cereal
within that time being in the vicinity Of 30
cents. 10. spring yesterday sold IN Chicago
at $1.2s@ S1.30, and other grades in proper
ton. Corn, also, in sympathy with wheat
has advanced some s q 10 cents in the las
ten days, selling yesterday at n q 7sc. Al
this comes of the unfavorable reports Of Tx
crop in Europe and the RAPID advance il
wheat at Liverpool, in the face Of the abun
dant crop promised IN the Northwest. 1t Il
a hard time for the bears, and four shorts
are reported to have failed at Chicago on
Thursday.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24

since the day he plated that thriving city
until now it has Go0O population, and has
never weared in arduous effort for the ac,
complishment of his designs. Day in and
dav out ." he has been dilligcnt in the bust
ness he set out 20 do, and now we rejoice that
he is permitted to "see the sight'-a new
clty-ior whose success he never spared non
orable and severe toll, Sireator VIII continue
TO prosper, and our hope is that Colonel Plumb,
and those who have noby seconded his efforts
will reap enjoyable profit because OF it dur
lnr long wears to come.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-07-24

The fact that Mr.. f. 5. Peddicord, of the
town of Marseilles, by tubing his artesian
well to the depth of 1900 feet, succeeded in
bringing the water TO the surface and getting
a flowing stream, seems to indicate that the
Mendoza well might be made flowing well
by the same means. The Mendoza well rose
several times during the boring we under
stand, to within twenty or thirty feet OF the
surface, but the water seemed to ind an out
let somewhere and receded to its fixed depth
of 10 feet below the surface.