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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-21

While the prices paid for pictures at auctions in
England are astonishing the world we may safely
challenge comparison with any other community in
the prices pay for chief seats in the synagogue.
The recent sale of pews at Dr. Halls new church in
Fifth Avenue marked the highest point yet reached
in this direction The best pews were sold at $4,000.
and premium from 81 800 down was added for tho
privilege Of choice. Even this is not all After this
price is paid for the fee of pew the occu-
pant is required to pay yearly assessment of per
cent on its value This may seem like extravaganza.
but there is certainly more satisfactory way Of
spending money, for those who afford it, than by
securing for oneself and family pleasant place in
beautiful church where may always be sure OF
hearing sound doctrine in eloquent words. This il
the merely selfish view of the and these high
prices are much more easily understood when We
remember that every cent which goes into the treas
ury OF the church. after the necessary wants of the
organization are supplied, is devoted to good and
charitable works. OF course not all the pews, even
in the most popular and fashionable churches arc
held at sch high rates. There is room for the poor
and for the stranger even in the magnificent temples
of Fifth Avenue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-21
Amuscments ano 1alcetinss.

BoorH's THEATER.-" Macbeth"
DALrs FIFTH AVENUE THEATER.-" The Big Do"""'
GRAND OPERA HOUSE." Twelve Temptations
LYcEUM THEArER-" Girofe- Girofa." 1eonroy'
LYRIC HALL--Reccption dansante
OLYMPIC THEArER.-variety Entertainment
ROBINSON HAL" Girofe Girofa" In English.
SAN FRANCISCO MlSsrRELs.-Blrch and wambold.
rHKArrR CoMrouE-variety Entertainment
UNION SQUARE TuEArER-At $50; Benent ferior"
anca AZ 81 "The Two Orphans"
wALIACKs THEATER.-"The irish Heiress
ACADEMY OF Decentralization OF Paintings
ASSOCIATION HALI~-Dramatic Recital Prudie Cole
CENTRAL PARK GARDEN.-Concert- Thomas.
CoIoRED ORPHAN AsyLUM.-Annual Exhibition.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM ART-Painting. Statuary, etc.
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Dnsincss Notifies.

Own Two Million Dollars Paid in cash
benefits 10 by TUE TRAVELLERS of Hartford
STERLING SILVER Forks and Spoons, hand
made engraved patterns, at manufacturers lowest piiceo
y. FORD, ST. Ircidway. between 1871 and l4ti-sts
WILpOR', COP LIVER OIL AND LIME.Elh ne
great popul-ity and efc2cious preparation
alone .iuut be intrinsic worth III the cure Oh
Corgla Colds Asthma. Bronchitis Wlooping Cough ScroIu
Ions fmOr ana an Ccnsumpve symptoms, II has no snIo
nor equal neglect the early SYMPTOMS on o
ease agent is thus at hand when VIZ ae.la ~.
com,ai IT. az tie Chest Lun,S Throat Manuacrcu only
by A. d. NIBOK Chemist Boston. sold by al! diuselst
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-21

Two months have not passed since the whole
country was ringing with the story of fraud in
canal management and here we have the
Board busy in preparing for the dirty work
again. Our Albany dispatches give the par
ticulars of a piece of jobbery, the Canal Board
altering contracts without calling for bids; the
Whole performance being aTeRetition Of one
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On our fourth page letter from we'll
known correspondent in Colorado reviews the
probabilities of the coming crops dispatch
in another column gives the details OF fright
full devastation already inflicted by the grass
hoppers upon the Greeley colony many of
the farmers find themselves on the verge of
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and corn Winter wheat in few of the
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country. Only in California and Oregon have
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of the processes for facilitating fraud which
have been 30 fully exposed in The TRIBUNE.
The action of the Board argues an equal con-
tempt for public opinion and for statute law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-21

Great success attended the celebration of the
Meckenburg Centennial. The weather, the
arrangements, the speeches, were all fellctous,
and nothing marred the day. In the very full
account which we present to our readers this
morning the most notable feature is an en-
thusiastic patriotism, for which those who did
not know the real condition of Southern sentl-
ment will hardly be prepared. The only de-
ficiency at this celebration was the marked
absence of any representative of our National
Government. In all else it more than met ex-
notation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-21

The passage in the Senate of the bill au-
thorizing Court of Arbitration in this city
will be welcome news to our mercantile COM
munity. The class of suits that will come be-
fore it, being purely commercial questions, can
be better decided there than in court over
whelmed with miscellaneous business, and the
quckness with which decisions can be reached
will be great saving where heavy interests
would suffer by delay. Con. Hustled was not
far out of the way in characterizing it as
"the best bill that had been brought before
"the Legislature in twenty years"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-21

Our Albany correspondence points out weak
place in the arrangements of the Joint Legs
lative Committee to Investigate Canal Man.
agement-that is if investigation is really
meant. The counsel of the Committee are now
and have frequently been the counsel for
noted members of the Canal Ring. Surely that
is not the proper quarter in which to look for
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-09
Don't Quarrel.

People talk of lovers quarels rs
rather pleasant episodes-probably be-
cause they are not quarrels at all. She
pouts he kisses. He frowns f; she
ceaxes. 1t is half play, and they know
it. Matrimonial quarrels are another
thing. doubt seriously if married peo
pie ever truly forgive each other after
the first falling out. They gloss it over;
they kiss and make up; the wound ap-
parently heals, but only as some of those
horrible wounds given IL battle do, to
break out again at some unexpected mo-
ment. The man who has sneered and
said cruel things to sensitive woman
never has her whole heart again. The
woman who has uttered reproaches TO
man can never be taken to his bosom
with the same tenderness as before those
words were spoken. The two people
who must never quarrel are husband and
wife. One may fall out with kinsman,
and be friends again. The tie of blood
is strong one, and affection may return
after it has flown away but love, once
banished, is n dead and buried thing.
The heart may ache, but it is with hope
lessness. 1t may be impossible to love
any one else, but il is more impossible to
restore the old idol to it's empty niche.
For word or two, for a sharpening of
the wits, for moments self-assertion.
two people have often been made misera
BILE for life. For, whatever there NAV
be before, there are no lovers duarreis
after marriage.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-09
4 Terrible Combat with Rats.

Mr.. Jesse Laverty, of East Pennsboro,
living near Booser's mill, was lately very
much annoyed by rats, which carried of
his eggs, and made sad work with his
corn in his crib, and then invaded his
granary and commenced destroying
bin of wheat. Mr.. L., on examination,
found there was but one place where they
got in. He thereupon resolved to kill the
rats by an artifice well worthy of the
cause. He strewed corn meal literally
on the floor of the granary, and about
one hour later he nailed the hole shut
he then called his dog Ga Spanish terrierl
and armed with club, went to battle.
Now the door to the granary is fast
ened with long wooden latch extending
full across the door, and can only be
opened from the outside, and Mr.. L., on
entering the granary, drew the door
shut and heard the latch fall. He then
thought that the enemy was his, but this
was an error, for the rats We're more
numerous than he expected, and finding
no way of escape, attacked both Mr.. l.
and his dog with great fury. Mr.. l.
laid on his blows hard and fast, and one
blow, aimed at rat, unfortunately hi
the dog on the head and killed him.
Mr.. L., being thus deprived of ms
faithful ally, would have fled but could
not. He then commenced calling for
help, the rats meanwhile kept skirmish-
ing around his legs, ran up his body, biz
his hands, and one bolder than the rest
bit his nose. 1t is impossible to say
what the result of this unequal contest
would have been had not a passing neigh
bor, attracted by the noise and cries, went
to the relief of Mr.. L., who presented a
shocking spectacle, his face and hands
bloody, and his clothes torn into shreds
Mr.. L., being washed and rehabili-
tated, sat down to reflect, when he luckily
hit on better plan of warfare. He went
and borrowed twelve cats, which with
his own made fifteen these he in the
evening shut up in his granary with the
rats, and the next morning he found, on
examination, ten dead cats, one blind
one, and two with one eye apiece. The
remaining two were unhurt, and by
actual count he found ll9 dead rats
of the dead dog there was nothing left
but the bones and hair, the rats doubt
less having eaten him while Mr.. l.. was
hunting cats.-Cdrlisle (Pd.) Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-09

after this, on the death of the good old
grandmother, the house was remodeled
and no attic left. Parson Phimstickle
took the desk, and, after it was repaired,
placed it III his study. 1t had been
there two years, and was considered by
all rather n curious old desk [; but, rs
said before, nobody suspected how curl
ous it really was. Meanwhile Hannah
Phimstickle continued to dream of rich
cousins and ancestral knights. Jerusha
had grown more disposed to content
ment, and more inclined to take things
us they came. One thing which came
pretty often being Joe Jobstock, she had
also concluded to take him.
"Jerusha," said the parson, as they
were all sitting together i'll the study,
"will you pass me few troches from
the upper right-hand drawer of the
deskg"
Now Parson Phimstickle had cold
and wanted the troches for his throat.
He little dreamed that this simple re-
quest would lead to an important dis
covery-for neither Parson Phimstickle
himself, nor his daughters, nor the
neighbors who had often seen the desk,
suspected it of having any secret. Now
it happened that Jerusha, when her
father spoke, was writing letter to her
absent lover at this very desk. 1t also
happened that when she drew forth the
drawer it came entirely out. This had
frequently occurred before; and surely it
was nothing very marvellous. But on
this occasion, Jerusha's eyes being ON
an exact level with the drawer, before
she placed it in its accustomed niche, she
espied small hole in what she might
otherwise have supposed to be the back
of the desk. A sudden thought flashed
through her brain.
Father, are there any secret drawers
in this desk"
"Not that | know of, my daughter;
but, now you speak of it, L do remember
to have noticed that the extreme right
hand drawers are shorter than those on
the extreme left. "
"Secret drawers!" exclaimed Hannah,
springing toward the desk. "Where 2"
Jerusah pointed TO the place. The
parson handed pocket-knife to the ex-
cited Hannah, who, by its assistance,
drew forth, with trembling fingers, a
secret drawer. All eyes were bent eagerly
upon it, and there, buried beneath the
dust of centuries, they beheld-nO
will !--Hearth and Home.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-09
ROad-Making.

The Illinois State Board of Agriculture,
fully appreciating the Importance of good
roads to the State, and desiroUs OF bring
ing out the best and most economical
devices for road-making, decided, at the
winter meeting OF the board, to offer the
following premium:
For the best one-half mile of earth
road, made in 1875, under the supervis-
ion of committee of three members of
the State Board of Agriculture, a premium
of 800.
The points to be taken into considera-
ton will be- The kind of soil; the devices
adopted in construction; the time i'll
which the work is done, and the cost of
construction.
The road-bed TO be made twenty-five
feet wide, and bitches seven feet wide.
The work to be accomplished in three
days.
The time and place of trial will be an
nounced ut least one month before the
test will take place.
Two entries mt least will be required
to insure the trial being held
Entries can be made with the Secre-
tary at any time before the 10Th of May,
1875.
Localities desiring the trial will com
municate with the Secretary, at Spring
field, stating their proximity to railroads,
and what facilities in the way of location,
teams, ETC., they will provide.
Owners of machines or devices for
road-making desiring to compete will
make entries at as early day as may
be, so that the necessary arrangements
for the trial can be made.-Prajrie
Farmer.
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Civil Marriages i'm Germany.

The Berlin Std0tSdnzeiger publishes n
royal decree laying down the particular
conditions under which the imperial law
on civil marriage is to be applied in the
Prlssian monarchy from the first of
March. The manageable age of the
adult male subject is fixed mt not under
20 years, and of the female Mt 16 but
exceptions may be made by lawful au.
thority. The consent of the father is
necessary before wedlock up to the end
of the young mans 25th year, and the
young woman's oath but if the father
be dead, then the mothers is required /;
and if neither parent be living, that of
the sponsors. Sects that, under local
customs, use no sponsors, are released
from this last restriction. And where
there is lawful guardianship, in the alb
sence of parents, by family council, its
authority is recognized. For children
born out of wedlock the mothers con-
sent takes the place of the fathers, and
the child of legal adoption requires the
consent, up to the full age, of its adopt
ed parent. In all cases of refusal, after
the first limit of marriageable age is
reached, the son or daughter has n legal
appeal to the District Court. The for
hidden degrees are of course those
recited in the original act of the Impe
rial Diet. Widows cannot marry, with
out legal dispensation, before the end of
the tenth month after their former hus-
bands decease. None of the special re-
strictions now existing as to the mar
riages of military and civil Prussian
officials, or of foreigners residing in
Prussia, are TO be affected by the intro
duction of the law, but all other impedi-
ments existing under former local laws
are repealed. Violations of the restric-
tons prescribed are to be punished as
offenses against the criminal code of
Prussia. And, finally, all dispensatory
power is for the future to rest entirely
in the hands of the state. Pail MAI
Gazette.
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THE OLD BACHELOR.

Silent he sits in his easy chair,
At the close of the Winters day.
His gaze is fixed ON the fickering fire,
And his thoughts are far away.
He thinks of the days when he was young,
And life was full OF Joy
When he daily trudged to the village school,
happy, careless boy.
He thinks of the home of his boyhood's years,
The old farm house on the hill
OF father, and mother, and sister dear
And with tears his dim eyes fill;
For they are asleep in the churchyard now,
And he is left alone,
To struggle through life the best he may,
With none to call his own.
He sees in his vision a maiden fair,
With eyes of heavenly blue,
With golden hair, and winning grace,
And heart both warm and true.
Fond mem'ry recalls the shadowy past,
And he seems to live again
In the tender glance of her deep blue eyes,
The happiest man of men.
But, alas for the shortness of earthly bliss
Death claimed her for his bride,
And, when she passed to the Better Land,
His heart within him died.
Bereft of all that his soul held dear,
OF kindred and of love,
He only waits Gods messenger
To summon him above.
His neighbors call him stern and cold,
And laugh at his lonely life;
And the merry girls with wonder ask,
Why he never takes a wife.
All little they k now of his early love-
And of her, hir promised bride;
And little they know when her life went out,
How his heart within him died.
The world may treat him with laugh and scorn
He heeds not the cruel jest;
He knows that the shafts Of ridicule
Are aimed at the purest and best.
Alone he plods on his weary way,
For he never can love again;
There are no blue eyes whose tender glance
Can make him the proudest of men.
Silent he sits in his easy chair,
At the close of the Winters day;
His gaze is fixed on the nickering fire,
And his thoughts are far away.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-09
Powerful but Miserable.

The vanity of human ambition, and
the homilies of the preacher about the
inability of fame or riches to confer hap
piness, were never more strillingly con
tirmed than in the person of the most
eminent political parsonage now living.
One would think that nature and fort
une had conferred everything on Prince
Bismarck calculated to afford him bound
less content, proud retrospect, and the
serenity of happy safety. He may plume
himself upon the conceded fact that, of
all men living in the possession of pow
er, he is the chief; if there be a world
mover III this generation it is he. A
word from him would set legion of n
million and half of the best soldiers on
the globe in notion; in one hour he is
impressing his will on foreign courts, in
the next he is waging a successful fight
against the still mighty spiritual forces
of Rome. Cars and kaisers are even
seeking to conciliate him. Wealth he
has, and might have rs much more as he
wished, for German gratitude to him who
has made Germany nation has no
bounds. He has more than won the
highest rank to which subject or states
illelh tOiili ilV 10 blCooSNt Nlbll IL
devoted family, whom he loves, and who
idolize him. In Berlin he is greater than
the Emperor; in Pomerania he isa feudal
despot who needs no law to enforce his
authority, whose yoke is accepted by
the ardor of veneration.
Yet Bismarck, according to Berlin
letter-writer, is one of the unhappiest
and most discontented of men. He is
harassed by the opposition of the spec
tacled doctors of the Reichstag; the
petty details of Office worry and fret
him; chronic illness too often paralyzes
his vast powers of body and mind.
Every days mails bring him letters
threatening his life; and these tease
though they do not frighten him, as a
sick lion is teased by the perpetual
biting of very small insects. The police
tell him to be careful; he lives ever in
a sulphurous atmosphere of vague dan
ger. Even power has grown nauseous
to him, and adulation has ceased to
give its sweet sting of pleasure. He
longs to abandon the scene of his tri-
umphs and his troubles-to get away
from all this worry; will gladly let his
name pass out of mems mouths if he
can but get peace; and would fain ex-
change those things for which men so
keenly envy him, for the vine and fig
trees of remote Varzin. 8
Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-09

THIS is the sort of thing we may ex-
pect to see in schools and lectures
" First class in beef-steak, stand up
Miss Martha, please describe the process
of cooking n beef-steak one inch and n
half thick, measured 10y WhitNorth' s
gauge" g Put it on a gridiron and broil
it thoroughly, without scorching, and
serve it up with salt and pepper. :"
|" Wrong. You may step down and cut.
The process of cooking a beefsteak of
the above dimensions is to place it on
gridiron over hot fire until the outside
is properly Drowned, but not scorched (;
you are then to remove it, and put it on
a plate in n hot oven, where you are to
leave it from three to five minutes; at
the end of that time il will be found
cooked through, and of n delicate, roseate
pink hue, neither dried nor burned in
any part thereof. If you dare to salt or
pepper it before serving You will receive
no diploma from this institute. .'-Er-
change.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-09

He laid down the basket of chips he
had pilfered, and, looking hard at the
urchin who had been making target of
him by shooting at him with = nigger-
killer" said: "Whar was you raised,
chilel" "Shucargo, said the young
hoodlum. "In the Norfg" "Yeth,
thur" "I tort so. Suddem white folks
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-09

The University of Leyden celebrated
recently the ten-centenary of its founda-
ton 10y William the Silent. Thirty-three
foreign universities were represented ON
the occasion.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-09

children wuddunt do like dat. Lemme
tell you, honey, manners gwine to carry
you furder den money. You hear me ~
Dallas (T6cds) Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-09

T \. DOwD, General Dealer in Family Groceries.
- Crockery, etc Teas made a speciality. Phelps
street, Decatur. Mich $40
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LNRST NATIONAL BANK, of Paw Paw ONCE
u north side of Main street, 3 doors west of
Kalamazoo.
A. SHERMAN, PRES. FITZ f. sTEvFNp uAsH'R.
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DECATUR DIRECTORY.
Susinrss Garos.

EOSTBR h BEEBE, Attorneys and Counseors
IL at Jaw and Solicitors in Chancery. Office in
First National Bank Building. up stairs, Decatur,
Mich.
NEWTON FOSTER. W. SCOTT BEEBE.
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DICHARDS 4 BARNUN, Attorneys at Law.
IL Office over First National Bank, Paw Paw,
CHANDLER RICHARDS. Sq4 7. L. BARNUM
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GEORGE W. LAWT0N. Attorney and Counselor
VI at Law, Notary Public and Probate Judge.
wiz hold Probate Court at Paw Paw. on Monday
of each week.