The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-03

ioou OF the JUSTICES OF tne Oupreme
Court, where he died.
THERE is at least one man in Oregon
possessed of a conscience. The Secre-
tary of War lately received a letter from
Portland, in that State, which read as
follows 81 was once in the service OF
the United States, but now am in the
service of my God. Enclosed find post
Office money-order for forty dollars,
which belongs to the Government of the
United States"
GEN. SHERMAN once defined his reli
gious creed to Miss Grundy thus !: 81
believe if people will act only half as
well as they know how in this world
they will be all right in the next The
General says he is not Catholic or
Protestant or a denominationalist of any
kind. Mrs. Sherman is Catholic, but
she never allows that fact to make
her forget that she is Gen. Sherman's
wife.
IT is no small affair to hold the Office
of Mayor of London. A man of moder-
ate fortune can not perform the duties of
the office, as in addition to the $780,
900 allowed him to pay his Expenses, "
he has to spend as much more from his
private purse to pay for all the banquets
and balls he is III duty bound to give,
beside disbursing largely to public char
tiles. About 100000 will just take his
Honor through the year. AS Cotton,
the newly-elected Mayor, is enormously
rich, he stands chance of getting
through the ordeal.
GEN. ORD, Commander of the Military
Department of Texas, III his annual re-
port to the Secretary of War, after Civ
ing q lengthy account of the border
operations of Mexican banditti, makes
these significant suggestions: "More
effectual means must be adopted than
sending troops to look on while our peo-
pie are being despoiled and murdered,
for it is very evident that the soldiers,
however willing, can do nothing if con-
fined to this side of the river, and an
order to make reprisals, with means to
carry out the order, has sometimes re-
suited in indemnity as well as security"
The New York Times recently made
hn III &c fl,e
Graphic. The latter, instead of reply
ing i'll kind, makes a neat point in the
appended paragraph: Jennings is
more than suspected of keeping two
hypothenuses in his house and being ON
intimate terms with cosine The corns
on his head are at times so troublesome
as to create vertigo and hurl reason
from her throne. One of his eyes is bot
tie green and his hair is red he is
afflicted with heterophemy and aphasia.
When he sleeps he lies on one ear for a
bed and uses the other as quilt his
toes lap. We call upon him to answer
these charges.
AN English correspondent of st.
Louis paper gives an elaborate descrip-
ton OF Mentmore, the country seat of
the English branch of the Rothschilds.
The vases, statuary and other embellish-
ments and furniture of the great entrance
hall alone are valued at 81, 900, 900, while
the rest of the mansion is furnished with
like costliness. The furniture of single
bedrooms cost $3.50, 900 each, and of the
dining-room 81 100000, The house is
80 large that il took the correspondent
three hours to pass through the rooms
without stopping in any one of them,
and the whole is alleged to surpass any
other establishment of the kind in Eu-
rope, even royal and imperial palaces.
It's sweet to be revenged. A few
years ago, writes a correspondent OF
the Chicago Tribune, two farmers in
Emmett County, Iowa, got into contro.
versy about calf. They went into
court. Both were stubborn and plucky.
1t did not take long to absorb the calf.
Soon the surplus property of the hti
giants followed the calf. Then went two
fine farms and, when each had nothing
more with which to feed the rapacious
NAV of the law, and could not borrow,
they quit, with heavy judgment and
large bill of costs recorded against them
The unsuccessful man in the suit has
embarked in the gravestone business
and declares that his only satisfaction
now is in the erection of a tombston,
over the family battle-ground of the MAJ
who cheated him out of his calf.
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, in the New
York Evening Post, gives the following
remarkable estimate of Edgar Allan Poe
"He was unmoral-if we may coin tn,