The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-12

SCHOOL children in Wisconsin have
rights which teachers are bound to re-
spect The Supreme Court of the State
has just decided that the whipping of a
child by public school teacher is an
assault and battery, and that an offend
ing teacher may be mulcted in damages
as well as held answerable for violating
the dignity Of the law.
GEORGE ". CHILDs, OF the Philadel-
phia Lcdger, denies that he is response
BILE for the obituary poetryin his paper, at
which the press Of the country is always
polling fun. He says the poems were
feature Of the paper when he bought
it. and not one line of those verses is
written in The Office. THEW are printed
just like any other advertisements-for
money.
The dispute which is constantly re-
curing between sportsmen whether the
race horses Of England are equal to those
of this country IS going to have a prac-
tical settlement by trial of speed be
tween horses OF the two countries, Mr..
Sanford, Of New York, having shipped
eight of our most celebrated runners for
London with the intention of contesting
for the prize cups next year.
PEOPLE who write letters will find in
struction IL the facts shown in the report
of the Dead-Letter Office last year. Some
$780, 97 letters went astray, mainly
through carelessness in directing. There
was taken out of these letters the as
tonishinGly large sum of S3,500,000
All this was returned to its owners with
the exception of $400, 200, which remains
as a profit 10 the Postof1ice Department.
The search for Charlie Ross is taken
up by Walter I. Baker, the young Phil
adelphia carpenter, whose receipt of let
ters from a former associate about the
boy who pIofessed to have stolen him
was lately mentioned. He has followed
mp the writer of the letters, and obtained
-clews enough TO determine him to go to
England and obey the instructions given
him. Ny. Baker and his friends bear
the expenses of the journey.
The coming report of the Commission
er of Patents will show steady increase
in the use Of trademarks by the various
members Of the mercantile business
throughout the country. In former
times the use Of trademark could only
be secured by long and continuous use.
Now, upon the issuing of certificate
from the Patent Office, firm is secure
in the use oi any trade mark it may de
wise. II the fiscal year ending June 3,
1870, some 300 certificates were issued.
The report for the last year shows that
some 900 were issued.
THE official returns show that the DC
tCber election IN Ohio called out by fan
the largest vote ever cast in the State,
the total being over $4,000 more than il
the Presidential election OF 1872, which
has hitherto been the largest. Hayes
has 5,549 plurality over Allen, and 9, 1855
majority over Allen and Odell, the pro
'hibitory candidate, the totals being
Hayes, 297,S Allen, 292. 264; Odell
1851. Cary ran over 1000 behind Al
len, the figures for Lieutenant overno
being: Young, 297,931; Cary, 2S7, 1868
prohibitory, 3,630-the highest vote cas-
for that party; Young over Cary, 9,96S
WITHOUT noise and confusion, Iowa i
making steady progress in woman
rights. Although the word "malo" il
the Constitution of the State debars he
from serving in the Legislature, becom
ing Governor, or exercising the right o
suffrage, she is working her way int
many offices of trust, and into tn
learned professions. Three women hav
already been admitted to the Suprem
Court of the State Mrs. J. Ellen Eos
ter, of Clinton; Mrs. Annie G.. Savery
of Des Moines, and Mrs. Emma Had
dock, OF Iowa City. Mrs. Haddock ha
been admitted to practice in the Unite
States Circuit and District Courts Q
Iowa-the first case of the kind in an
State of the Union.
The project of monument in con
,memoration ofthe hundredth anniyersar
of American independence, to be erecte
in remembrance of the ancient frient
ship of America and France, deserves I'll