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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06
A MAN OF A THOUSAND.

CoNsUMPTIvE CURED.-When death hourly
pected from Consumption, all remedies having
failed accident led 10 discovery whereby DR. H. James
cured his only child with preparation Of Cannd5s IN
ca He now gives recipe free on receipt OF two stamps
to pay expenses There not single symptom of Con-
sumption that IL does not disspateSght Sweats, lrr
tation of the Nerves Difficult EIpectoraon sharp Pains
In the Lungs, Nausea at the Stomach Inaction of the
Bowels, and Wasting of the Muscles. Address GRAD
DOCK CO, 1852 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa. CIV
ing name of this paper.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06

WILHoFT'S Tonic l-UNFAILING AND
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Chills without the intervention OF doctors and
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health. 1t is the friend of the poor man, be-
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rich, because it prepares him TO enjoy his
wealth. This great boon to mankind is cheap,
safe and prompt. WHEELocK. FISLAY d Co.,
Proprietors, New Orleans.
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06

A WANT has been felt and expressed
by physicians for a safe and reliable purgative.
Such want is now supplied in Parsons Pur-
Qdfire Pills.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06

HENRY X. BOND, of Jefferson, Maine,
was cured of splitting blood, soreness and weak
ness OF the stomach, by the use of JotnsOn's
AnOdyne Imminent internally.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06

BISHOP PADDOCK, of Boston, met
with an accident recently. He fell
from a chair in which he was standing,
and dislocated his collar. bone.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06

which some disinterested people" for
the good of their fellow creatures"
ut two dollars bottle consisted simply
of few cents worth of iodine in solu-
ton. Iodine is dangerous, however, i'll
overdoses, affecting especially the eye.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06
How TO GET HOME. Sec advertisement.

GLEN FLORA SPRING WATER, at Waukegan,
H., cures all kidney diseases.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-08-06

CA0 COX per day Send for Chrome Catalogue
DUE Do. H. BUrronp's sons, Boston, Mass
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
ninter Amusements.

DIR. Holland whites as follews in
Scribner for December on the subject
Of winter aInusements:
1t is an easy thing to establish either
in country or city neighbUrhoods, the
reading club. twenty-five young men
and women of cOngenial tastes, habits
and social belongings, can easialy meet
in one anOther's houses once during
every week through five or six months
of the year. With small fund they
can buy good books, and over these,
read aloud by one and another of their
number, they can spend an hour land
a half most pleasantly and profitably.
They will find in these books topics
0i conversation for the remainder of
time they spend together. II they
illuminate the evening with music all
the better. Whatever acct mplish-
ments may be in the possession of
different members of the club may be
drawn upon to give variety to the intr-
est of the occasion. This is entirely
practicable everywhere. Is more prac-
ticable than amateur theatricals, and
less exhaustive of time and energy.
1t Can be united with almost any liter
ary object. The Shakespeare Club Is
nothing but reading club, devoted to
the study of a single author; and
Shakespeare may we'll engage club
for u sngle winter. Such club would
cultivate the art of good reading, which
is one of the best and most useful of all
accomplishments. 1t would cultivate
though, Imagination, taste. In brief,
ecWhOIe tendency of the reading club
Is toward culture-the one thing, not
withdrawing our educational advanta-
ges, the most deplorably lacking in the
average American man and woman.
The exercise may take great many
forms which it is not necessary for us
even to suggest. Books may be read,
original papers may be presented mu-
sical rehearsals may form part of the
products of art may be
there may be dramatic and
practice, and practice
in French and German. There is no
limit to the variety of exercise that
may be prOfitably entered upon.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
The Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee.

FROM yesteruayS s New YORK Post.
Mr.. William r. Morrison, whom
Speaker Kerr has to-day appointed
Chairman fthe Ways and Means Com
mittee of the House of Representatives,
WAS born in Monroe county, ILL.,, on the
14th Of September, 1925. After receiv-
| ing a common school education End
pursuing a course of study at McKen-
dree College, Illinois, he studied law
and was admitted to the bar in 1855 /;
he has since practiced his profession
when not in public life. He took part
in the Mexican war as a private, and
in the war of the rebellion organized
and commanded the 10th Regiment of
Illinois volunteers. From 1852 to 1854
he was Clerk of the Monroe county
(Ill.) Court. From 1854 to 1860 he was
q member of the Illinois Legislature,
and during the last two of these years
was Speaker of the Lower House. He
served again in the Legislature in 1870
II, and was the Democratic candidate
for Speaker.
Mr.. Morrison was elected to the
Thirty-eighth Congress as Democratic
candidate to the Thirty-ninth and
Fortieth Congresses was defeated. He
was elected to the FOrty-third Congress
by majority of ] ,S99 over J. 3. Hay,
and was reelected to the present Con-
gress by majority of 4,64S over MIR.
Rinak. A careful examination of the
official reports of the proceedings of
Congress for the years in which MIR.
Morrison has served, shows that he has
never made a speech in Congress on
any subject, and has never introduced
any important .neasure. His name is
found on the list of yeas and nays in
very few of the important votes on the
currency question, which were taken in
the session of 1874. He did not vote
at all Gn the Senate imitation bill, which
the President vetoed; on Kelley's 3.56
bond scheme; on Hoar's amendment
providing that after July 4, 1876, moth
ing but gold and silver coin shall be a
legal tender in the United States; on
Fosters amendment reducing the
amount OF legal-tender notes to $780,
600, 600; or on the final passage OF the
House currency bill. He voted against
Maynard's substitute bill which pro-
vided, among other things, that after
July 1, 1878, United States legal tender
notes should be redeemable in multi
pies $50 in bonds; this substitute was
supported by hard-money men like
Hoar, Garfield, Dawes and Phelps. He
voted with the hard-money men
against the Conference Committees
first report on the bill, and voted for
the second report, which was support
ed by some hard-money men, and vot-
ed against by others like Cox, Hoar,
Hooper, Phelps, Lawson, and Pierce.
Mr.. Morrison is now looked upon as
an uncompromising advocate of sound
currency and sound system OF taxa
tion.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
A Sensible Suggestion. !.

The following extract is from an
English newspaper. and contains a
somewhat novel but very appropriate
suggestion in reference to taxing beer
for the benefit of the hospitals:
"The medical profession is vieing
with the clerical in the earnestnesS
with which it is considering the great
National curse of drunkenness. The
Lancet in its latest number calls atten-
ton to the fact that the wOrking-men
of Birmingham contribute $4,000 a
year toward the hospitals of that town,
and s900,000 year to the public
houses. That is to say, they give thirty
times aSmuch to the institutions which
are the canse of their diseases as they
give to the institutions where those
diseases are cured. 1t is very dis
creditable state of things, and we fear
that Birmingham is in this respect only
a sample of most large towns OF this
country. The Lancet urges that as the
State gives SO many facilities to the
publicans to enrich themselves by ruin
ing the health of the public, it should
compel the publicans to pay a special
tax toward the restoration of the pub
lie to health. A hospital rate levied on
drink sellers would be peculiarly ap-
propriate and just. If they did not like
it they might impose 1t upon their Gus
TONERS in the shape of an extra farthing
per pot. In that way topper would be
paying indirectly and cOmpulsorily for
the medical or surgical advice which
he is pretty nearly sure to want sooner
or later, but for which he will not pay
voluntarily and directly. In parts of
Germany and Switzerland every one
has to pay hosp Iitable rate, and that
gives the payer the right to be treated
in the hospital should he desire to be
so. In England the middle classes do
not so com nonly resort to the hospitals
as they do on the continent; but the
English working classes alone use them.
1t would be difficult to impose rate
upon dodgers who are here to-day and
gone tomorrow but tax upon their
beer would reach them in way that
they could not escape. They would
feel, moreover, that just in proportion
as they drank more, and thereby rem
dered themselves more likely To need
the services of a hospital staff, would
they be contributing toward its sup
pOrtO
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
The Makeup of the Committees
Special to the Gin. Gazette.

Special to the Gin. Gazette.
The Ways und Means committee is
decidedly hard money, and, at the
same time, on the question of tariff is
IN favor OF tariff for revenue. The
Banking and Currency committee is
also strongly against imitation, and is
probably in favor of hard money. The
Pacific Railroad eOinIaittee could not
have been selected so as to lave been
stronger in favor of the Texas Pacific,
and many Democrats Declare with en-
phasis that it must have been under
stood that it should be thus constituted.
This curious feature is occasioning
much remark, i'm view of the vote OF
the House ON HOlman's anti-subsidy
resolutions,
The selection of Proctor Knott as
head OF the Judiciary committee is
criticised severely, and many Demo-
Gratis say it brings the whole business of
the Speakerer's naming committees
into ridicule. If Mark Twain, or Ar
temus Ward or Petroleum V. Nasby
had beeu announced instead, there
would have been no more evidence of
the unfitness of the selection. Mr..
kDOtt's friends declare that he is q very
dDic lSWyer, Dut tnS IaCL remains that
he Will never take the floor, even on
the gravest and most important legal
questions, that the House will not
break out in a general snicker, expect
ing, of course, line of remark and Joke
worthy Of y comic almanac. 1t does
not make the matter better 10 re-
fleet that Sayler, of Ohio, and several
very prominent Eastern lawyers were
consideren and dropped ia succession
for Knott, because it Was deemed policy
to give this committee to the South. in
view of the reconstruction measure. 1t
had suffered heretofore at the hands of
this committee. Northern Democrats
are sore also over the factthat the SPEAK
er has seen fit to give the South more
chairmen, and emitting the Ways and
Means and Appropriations, more i'm
portant CON- mmittees than the North,
twenty-five, and of important commit
tees the South has taken thirteen, and
the North twelve. Alex. Stephens has
been assigned a chairmanship; although
be has not yet been sworn in ~ MEM
Der of the House.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
Anguish Of a Greenback, Organ,

Cincinnati Enquirer.
The commanding position en- the
floor of the House, officially regarded,
is the chairmanship of the committee
on Ways and Means. He is looked
upon as the crowned leader of the
House, the man whom the dominant
party in the House of Representatives
puts forward as its representative on
the hoor in the shaping of the most inn
pOrtant legislation of that body. The
party had right to expect Of Mr.. Kerr
the selection of a man worthy of the
post And Mr.. Kerr chose Morrison
A Mr.. Morrison the leader of the Dem
ocratic party in the House A brawl-
ing, emptyheaded, unknown village
politician Of Waterloo, Illinois, at
tempting to direct Democratic legisla-
tiOn in the National House of Repre-
sentatives! Four years ago he was
member of the Illinois Legislature. He
has served in Congress, but the Amer
i,7an people will need 10 be told of it.
He was selected for the place not be-
cause OF his fitness, for microscope
could not detect that; not because he
repr, sents the Western and Southern
idea upon the measures uppermOst in
public discussion and importance, for
there is not Democrat in the House
who would not do this equally well,
ami there are scores who would do it
better. There is NO man in the East
more fully in sympathy with the wish
es of the East upon the currency ques-
tion than Mr.. Morrison. His appoint
ment was u reward for personal service
rendered to Mr.. Kerr; and thus the of.
ticer second in power in the United
States commences his high career by
using his power of patronage to pay
personal detits. As trustee for great
party he appropriates its most valuable
piece of property to the satisfaction of
his personal obligations. Mr.. Morri-
sons position will not be exactly a
fiowery bed of ease, for his chairman
ship OF SO strong committee is lu-
dierols attempt TO make the tail appear
the head. On his committee are Fer
nandO Wood, Mr.. Kelley, Mr.. Blaine,
Mr.. Garfield, Dir. Chaplin, the railroad
king of New England, either one of
whom will make Mr.. Morrison's chair
manship one but in name.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
Arab Horse Maxims.

Whose raiseth and traineth horse
for the Lord is counted in the number
of those who give aims, day and night
in private as well as public. He will
find his reward. All his sins will be
forgiven him, and never will any fear
come over him and dishonor his heart.
Observe your horse when he is drink
ing at brook. II In bringing down his
head he remains square, without bend
ing his limbs, he possesses sterling
qualities and all parts of his body are
symmetrically. Let your colt be do.
mesticated and live with you from his
tenderest age and when n horse he
will be simple, dOcile, faithful and in
sured to hardship end fatigue fyou
would have your horse to serve you on
the day of trial, if you desire him to be
a horse of truth, make him sober, &C
customed TO hard labor, and inaecessi
BILE to fear.-[Parson Murray's Golden
Rule.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
A Word of Caution,

We are advised that INSCRIPTIONS parties
are travelling over the country adjusting and
improving Wheeler d; Wilson'S Sewing Machines
and claiming to be sent out from this or some
other Wheeler & Wilson Office. All such per-
sons are imposters, as We have our adjusting
and improving of machines done at our Office,
We will not be responsible for the we'll work,
ing of any Of cur machines that have been
tampered with by these travelling charlatans
We are also informed that spurious needles
are being sold both by travelling agents and
local dealers. Our needles have our trade
mark, ". ". M'fg Co. stamped on the shank
none other are genuine. Our warranty is
binding only so long as our machines are used
with needles and other parts that we furnish.
Wheeler & Wilson M'fg Co.;
July l5>tf No. ~, 18th ST. Wheeling, w. Va.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
Wine and Water.
Boston Commercial Bulletin.

Boston COmmerclal Bulletin.
A story is told of two well known
merchants of this city, one of whom
has quite reputation as 4 connoiSseur
in matters of taste. Dining at the 9TH
er's table, the latter was particularly
requested to taste Ofa very choice wine
which the host sent him, and give his
opinion. The man of taste spped from
his glass, set it down, and resumed
conversation with his next neighbor at
the board. The host, observing this,
took the first opportunity of challeng-
ing his guest for an opinion, with sly
look at some friends as if he was bound
to show how fallacious were judgments
in wine tasting.
Say, my dear Beewing, you don't
tell me what you think of the wine l
sent you.'
Beeswig looked at the glass without
raising it, and quietly said no.
well, now, said the host, Il wish
you really would give me your honest
opinion OF that wine, BeeswiDg.'
Excuse me- said the other, depreca-
tingly, I'D rather not.'
rected to the dialogue. But I insist,
urged the host; for you have such a
reputation for taste want your opin-
ion now, and on this wine
1T will hardly be Courteous said
Beeswing, ito give an honest opinion
of the wine while partaking of the hos
pitalities of the host
Certainly it will; out with it, Bees
wing; we are all friends here. Splen-
did article-eh?'
The wine may be good, but it Is wa
tered.'
sWhat,' said the host, reddening to
the roots of his hair at this unexpected
reply. sWatered? YOU'RE mistaken;
taste it again.
Yes, watered, said Beeswiug, taking
another sip, and setting the glass down
upon the table.
well, now, look here, Beeswing, my
boy, for once in your life you are mista-
ken, for my father bought two casks OF
that wine abroad; it came home in the
same ship with him; it was unioaded
opposite his warehouse on India wharf,
under his eye; and hoisted up into a
loft over his own counting-room,
where, after few months ripening, he
had a man come and bottle it under his
own supervision; he then sent 1t up to
his own cellar, which, since his De.
cease, has come into my possessi %, ,ano
his wax seal ON the bottle is that which
is broken tonight. So acknowledge
my dear Beeswing, that you are mis-
taken about its being watered wine.'
Can't acknowledge anything OF the
kind said the obstinate Beeswing, fol
/ remember your fathers importation
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
GREELEY thus repudfates philantI

GREELEY thus repudfates philanth.
ropy in the money-giving line; 81
consider it all but an aximOn that be
who asks stranger to lend him money
will neAer pay it; yet L have known
an exception. Once, when Was poor
and needy, in a season of commercial
revulsion or "panic, 1 opened letter
from Utica, and found therein five dol
lars, which the writer asked me to re-
ceive in satisfaction of loan of that
sum which / had made him-a needy
stranger-On an occasion which he re-
called to my remembrance. Preplex-
ed by so unusual message, ard espec.
tally by receiving it at such time, l
scanned the letter more closely, and at
length achieved solution of the prob
lem. The writer was patient in the
State Lunatic Asylum"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
Respectable Migrants.

A Kentucky paper expresses itself
thus: There are numbers of young
men here in Bardstown, who loiter
away their time on street corners and
in bar-rooms, who ought to have too
muc b spirit and Independence to live
off their relatives-toO often female rela-
tives. They are what might be called
respectable vagrants, g and the history
of this class is that they 60 on from
idleness to dissipation, from dissipation
to dishonesty, and finally land In jail,
leave the country In disguise, or fill
drunkards' graves. Hard times will
exist in Bardstown until these idlers
are starved out and forced to earn the
bread they eat; for no town can prosper
when its young men spend their time
in idleness and dissipation. These
drones will bankrupt their friends, and
ruin others as well as themselves, "a
they not only consume the substance
of those who support them, but demor-
alize the youth Of the town by their
bad example,"
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
Winters Hope.

The Autumn days are gone-all flown;
The yellow leaves from off the trees
Are shed, and sad and doleful moan
Of whistling wind and mournful breeze.
The numbered earth bears far and near
Those saddening signs of Autumn's death;
And leafiess forests, moist and drear,
Cypress US with their chilly breath.
But let us look around once more
Is there no beam to cheer our sight?
No rift in these dark clouds? All, sure,
We are not left without some light.
No; It's not so, Ee'en while we gaze,
See, from yon hill the red sun rise,
llluming with his cheering rays
The earth that all so darkly lies.
And in deserted hedgerow springs
The hawthorn berry, brave and bright:
While perched atop the robin sings
His clear, sweet song with all bis might.
Our life will come TO Autumn hours,
And all may chill and dreary seem,
But even then we'll find some flowers,
And even then some joyous beam.
Repine not, therefore, that thy youth
And manhoods prime so swiftly flee;
Lo, with advance of years come truth,
New light, new hope, calm joys for the thee
Chambers Journal
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-12-30
Curious Poison Stories.

A story is going round the daily
press, to the effect that man once spit
into rattlesnake's mouth, and the
snake died +; he did the same thing to
an adder, and it died also. Another
adder would not open its mouth, SO he
spit on q stick, rubbed the spittle on
the adder's nose, and it died. A nom
poisonous black-snake was treated in
the same way, but it did not die; and
the conclusion is drawn that human
saliva is as poisonous for poison Ous
snakes as the poison of snakes is for
man.
In order to realize the imprObability
of this story, we will state that the
poison of snakes is not their saliva, but
special fluid secreted in bag situated
near the root of the poisonous fang,
which il provided with channel to
conduct the poison from the bag to near
the point, so that it may be injected
into the wound.
Many poisOns, dangerous if given by
injection, are harmless in the stomach,
where, by the digestive powers of the
gastric and other juices, they are de-
composed and made harmless. So the
vaccine virus, which by innoculation
produces the well-knOwn ulcer, is per-
fectly harmless when swallowed; and
several other organic poisons, especial
ly of the septic kind, of animal origin,
are only dangerous when entering the
system by wound, and may with fm-
punity be taken into the mouth and
stomach. An excoriation or scratch on
the lips or tongue, by which they may
enter the circulation, is dangerous, as
has been proved by many examples.
Hence the danger of wounds during
dissection by medical students, by
of the subject enters the circulation,
and kills the poor victim rapidly /;
while students with an uniin paired
skin on their hands may dissect any
subject with impunity. A case is on
record Of a young lady who kissed the
dead body of her father. She had a
little excoriation on her lip, which was
touched by the moisture on the lips of
the corpse; 1t soon inflamed with all
the characteristics of virulent dissec-
tiOn wound, and In few days she was
CO, pse also. The poison had entered
into the circulation of her blood.
Experiments in this line are of course
highly Objectionable; but, as far rs
experience has shown, most poisons of
this kind may with impunity be taken
IN the stomach. II the saliva of man
or animals has any dangerous qualities,
has any dangerous qualities, it is most
| ly only manifest when entering the
circulation of the bitten individual, and
especially when the saliva has been
changed in its nature by the excitement
of passions, such as great fear. anger,
etc. Hence arises the often malignant
appearance of bites by infuriated men
or animals; while the introduction Of