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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11
The Child Orator-A Boy Phenomenon.

really amounts 10 nothing. eNt
The Child Orator-A Boy Phenomenon.
Master J. Harry Shannon, the infant
prodigy. or "child orator. as he "a
called In Washington and Baltimore,
where he has come to be very well
known, is now in this city, and Monday
evening he surprised the large audience
at Gilmore's Garden by suddenly
mounting the music. stand and beginning
to declairn the famous speech which the
Irish patriot, Robert Emmett, made from
the Green street dock, in Dublin. ~ Mr..
Levy had just finished his cornet solo,
and. us usual, most of the audience was
within good hearing distance, but, when
q child began thus on sudden the de-
livery of a great speech from rhe spot
just vacated by the musician, every per-
sonin the Hippodrome gathered as near
as possible, and for about forty-eight
minutes Master Harry held the.audience.
Even the bartenders and walters desert
ed their places and went out and mingled
with the audience, for no business could
be done SO long as the child continued
to speak. The surprise had been ar
ranged by Mr.. Shook, who is a friend of
the gentleman who has Master Harry in
charge. The child is native of Wash
ington city. Some time ago he sudden
~ developed the capacity to commit
any speech or. writing to memory Mt
single hearing. His mother was
reading aloud, when the child stopped
her suddenly and asked permission to
recite what she had been reading. He
started off and repeated correctly the
piece she had read, at the same time
making gestures and modulating his
voice where it was required, insomuch
that his mother found her boy delivering
an Grafton to an audience of one, and
marveled greatly. She was frightened,
and ran to inform some of her neighbOrs
of what had happened. Ever since that
time the phenomenon has remained the
same, and two or three public exhibit
tons have been given at Washington.
Master Harry is now only years old.
He has never received any education
not even learning to read. He manifests
no desire to get book-learning, appar-
emily satisfied with what he seems to
get by inspiration. His brother, who is
only 81 years old, has, it is said, devel
oped talent for music, which is still
more wonderful than the phenomenal
rhetorical powers of the elder brother
1t is said that Master Harry wants to
take the stump for Gov. Tilden. In
appearance he is fine, bright-looking
lad, of full height, though rather slight
and delicate in build, and with an espe-
cially fine head and pair of eyes.-NeW
YOg.E World
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11
TIE VIOLIN.

Ho Z II has Developed Since Its Invention.
Thee hundred years have passed since
the violin began to rise from its original
obscurity. When it was invented we
do not know. Like most good things,
Topsy included, it was not born it
!" growed." 1t was gradually developed
from some yet undiscovered germ, like,
if we are to believe the Darwinites, the
human creature whom it delights by ex-
pre- ssing his emotions and his sense of
audible beauty with such unrivaled fa-
cility and power. 1t began when the
first vibrating string was stretched across
resonant surface, which answered the
double purpose of sounding board and
support rude examples of which are
found even among the most barbarous
peoples. This is the beginning of all
stringed instruments and from this
the progress is divergent in two lines !;
one of which passes through the Tyre,
the harp and the lutte, and ends in the
piano-forte; the other passing through
crawth or crowd, and the violas in their
various forms, and ending in the violin
and the violoncello. The distinctive
characteristic of the violin family is that
upon them the musical tone is produced
by drawing bow across the strings, and
the various musical notes by the press
IRE of the players fingers upon the
strings at various intervals. 1t is this
direct communication of the performer
with the strings, both in the production
of the musical vibration and in the stop
ping, as it is called, of the notes, which
gives the instruments of the violin fam
lily their peculiarly expressive power and
their unapproachable superiority. 1t is
the human touch upon the cord which
makes its tone so touching, which gives
the tone its human quality, in which it
is not only without an equal, but with
out q rival 1t is kind of direct COM
munication with the soul of man, which
gives the violin, alone among ali musical
instruments, ga SOUL" There is no
emotion which the violin cannot express,
from that OF the mere consciousness of
serene happiness and sense of beauty
to that of the profoundest and most agi-
tating woe that can disturb the human
heart. 1t laughs and chatters it weeps
and walls and shrieks and sobs with the
utterances Of a ruined happiness. When
Beethoven, at the end of the funeral
march in the "Heroic Symphony, makes
the great instrument, the orchestra upon
which he played with such divine mas
terry, sob forth the theme in broken
phrases, it is upon the violins that he
depends for the utterance of that grand
emotion. Modern music would be i'm
possible without the violin.-The
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11
A SOmnambulist's Peril.

Daniel Hurley, a hod-carrier, lives
with his family in the top story of five
story brick tenement at 507 East Thir-
teenth street. On hot nights he has
slept on the roof, which is unguarded by
any rail, and on three sides there is a
descent to the cobblestones of the rear
yards. On Wednesday night residents
III the neighborhood heard cries for help
and police. Many gathered in the rear
yard, but could not ascertain the direc-
ton whence the voice came. Mrs. Hur-
ley was aroused, and she ran about the
house calling for her husband. Officer
Boylson came quickly, and soon four or
five more policemen were on the ground.
Mrs. Hurley fell in the street, overcome
with terror.
The officers deserted Hurley dangling
in the air at the back of the house ut
Thirteenth street and Avenue A. In the
obscurity of the night the men could
not see what sustained him. but Hurley
shouted, "I'm on the clothes line for
Gods sake, help! 1 can't hold out
much longer. I'm slipping % The
officers, followed by the neighbors, ran
first to one housetop and then tc another,
anu III EtSU Tt;tcutu tDt Oue lTOu WHICH,
Hurley hung. Other officers placed
themselves in the yard under the sus-
pended man, that they might break his
fall if he lost his hold. Hurley family
called, "Hurry up; I'm aboutgone. The
policemen tied clothes line to the rope
on which Hurley lay, and were about to
cut the latter cord from its fastening in
the window, when the staple by which it
was attached to the house gave way
Hurley, dangling ct the end, was drop.
ped to point midway between the
housetop and the ground, and there held
by the cord in the hands of the police.
men. Slowly he was lowered to the
ground, where he lay painting aud ex
hausted for several moments. He saio
he remembered nothing until he found
himself falling, and then he clutched al
the rope. He thought he was going
down stairs to bed until the rope cnthim
Then he held on with both hands, an(
called for aid. Probably he arose in hit
sleep, and walked over the roofs to tn,
edge Of SOB, imagined that the court
yard was his bedroom, and stepped int,
lt.-NolO York San.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11
A Six.Year.Old Party,

A 6-year-old guest thus describes it
to his mother: First, we all had some
bread and butter. Then we had some
lemonade cold enough to freeze you.
Then we all had piece of birthday
cake. Then we all had lot of ice
cream and all the little boys had the
stomach ache. The big girls told us TO
go into the house and lie down on the
floor, and they made us drink pepper
and water till we felt better. Then we
all went out to play"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11
What LOndOners Die OF.

In London 1887 births and 1,175
deaths were registered during the week
ending July /, the former having ex-
ceeded the average number by lib
while the latter were 1872 below. The
deaths include from smallpox, 30 from
measles, 20 from scarlet fever, Z from
diphtheria, % from whooping cough, II
from different forms of fever, and 40
from diarrhna thus to the seven prin-
cipal diseases of the zymotic class leo
deaths were referred, against 160 and
1866 in the two preceding weeks.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11

THE Bank of England clips ev,ry
light SOY ereign that comes into the bank.
Three thousand are weighed in an hour
with one machine. Last year the bank
weighed coin to the amount of S115,-
100000, and rejected $4,2OO,OOO or,
about 3.6 per cent, as being light gold.
For this last amount the bank paid the
value, making deduction for the def
cheney OF weight, which is generally
about six or eight cents per light SOW
ereign. Mr.. Hodgson, M. F., bank
director, says that in box of 5000 SOW
ereigns the number which will be found
to have turned the point of light weight
will generally be about eight, if they
have not been disturbed, and he adds :
You are not aware that the sovereign
which is in your pocket at o'clock in
the morning is not the same sovereign al
IL O'Clock at night" After this rather
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11
THE LITTLE FOLKS.
Frightened Birds.

frightened Birus.
Hush hush ~ said the little brown thrush,
To her mate ON the nest in the elder-bush
Keep still don't open your bill
There's boy coming bird-nesting over the hill.
lie; go your wings out, so
That not an egg or the nest shall show.
Chcei chez IL seems to me
I'm as frightened as ever bird can be-"
Then still, with quivering bill,
They watched the boy out of sight DER the hill.
All, then in the branches again,
Their glad song rang over vale and glen.
CHI! oh If that boy could know
How glad they were when they saw him go;
Say, say, do you think next day
II could possibly steal those eggs away?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11
A YagabOnd in Female Attire.

A somewhat uncommon case was
heard the other day by the tribunal at
Beziers, in the South of France. The
pri .oner, young man answering to the
suggestive name of Brigand, was tried
under the double charge of being a
rogue and vagabond, and of going
about the country in female attire. His
defense, put in ms own words, was very
simple one. He said : 81 will tell you
the truth, and nothing but the truth. A
native of Narbonne, and resident for
some time with my family at Clyde, /
found that the latter did not lend me the
assistance l was entitled to expect from
them. Reduced to rely upon my own
resources, and seeing that the trade of
tailoring, which then followed, WIS but
q poor one, / determined to become O
strolling singer. Now, the profession OF
strolling singer is very lucrative ; but
there must be lady to go around with
the hat. Not being married, and having
no wish to take to myself wife, re-
solved, as l had the figure and the voice
of a young lady, to get over the difficulty
by assuming female attire. Profiting by
my skill Us tailor, I made myself a
dress-body, skirt, pouff aud about of
q nice material fit for summer wear, and
/ trimmed handsome straw hat with a
few simple flowers. then purchased q
parasol and dressing-bag, the latter
fitted with those indispensable articles
of the toilette, to-wit: combs, brushes,
pomade, cold cream, and powder. Busi-
ness is business. Thus.elegantly attired
/ made many lucrative excursions.
called myself Baptistinc, instead of Jean
Baptiste. / sing in the cafes-and &c
round with the hat afterward. Business
is business have no license, but ]
follow an honorable profession there
fore l am not vagabond." This in
genious statement might ave secured
for NJ. Brigand an acquittal but, un
fortunately for him, the public prose
Gator stated that he had already beer
imprisoned, once for robbery aud twice
as vagabond, and the sentence of III
unsympathizing tribunal was Z" tire,
months"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11

and is so called when dealing in that
size. Few Of the articles of the trade
are sold in dozens OF twelve, plates being
almost the only ones, and some of them
are sold at sixty to the dozen.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11

CLARENCE, you've got real kind
heart" gratefully observed a young lady
on the cars to a sallow-faced youth,
as he dropped prize-package of pop
corn in her lap. "Yes, Mary, my
hearts all right" he sadly replied,
" what lwant is a new liver. "-Brooklyn
Araus.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11

A MusKEr cartridge has to go through
six different processes of manufacture
before in can go through soldier.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11

"GooD times coming" declare tb
seers-The dnanciers,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-08-11

70 find Mr.. Hodgson stating also thar
the charge for light weight on the eight
deficient soyereigns would Ls about fou,
cents per coin, making only thirty-two
cents on the box OF $2b, 900 SO that sit
really amounts TO nothing" cit
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-10-19

CONGRESS.
Try TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBrNEl
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S.-Influential Democrats
here have already begun to pan in view of the pos
sbty that the results of the Presidential election
are not what they wish them to be- Their plans are
apparently based upon the belief that the XAlld
Joint Rule is still in force, and that under it the
Democratic House can, by the arbitrary will of
partisan majority, reject the electoral vote of any
State and thus defeat the will of the people An in
formal meeting Of leading Democrats is said TO have
been held at the Ebbitt House late last evening to
discuss what policy Is best TO adopt to meet the
movement of Gen. Grant upon South Carolina
Judge jeremiah Black was the principal speaker.
plan was preached and approved which VIII be per-
fected to-day. This is to telegraph to Wade Hamp-
ton and his followers to withdraw pegemptory from
the canvass and leave the Republican ticket without
any opposition: then the Democratic House will not
allow the vote Of South Carolina to be counted in
February upon the ground of its illegality
If the XXIId Joint Rule were in force such course
would have been possible, and partisan majority
in the House could have thrown out the vote of any
State without assigning any reason and without APP
peal Indeed il would have been possible arbitrarily
to reject electoral votes enough to prevent any
choice by the Electoral College and consequently to
force the election of President by the Democratic
House OF Representatives,. lHdI iHt l'tHi"'id'S
have supposed this rule to be in force is evident
from the proceedings of the House itself. The record
shows that at the beginning of the last ten days OF
the session the Democratic leaders as would have
been the custom had the rule been in force moved
to suspend the XYIth and XYIIth Joint Rules for
the remainder of the session THIS motion was car
Rcd al the suspension resolution was sent to the
Senate for concurrence When it arrived there Sem
at,r Fdu,iu,ls remarked that the resolution of
the House could not be acted on for the
reason that there were no JOINT rules OF
the two houses to suspend. Further exam
ination Of the record showed that Mr.. Edmunds was
right and that the House in adopting the rules o.
the last Congress had neglected to include the
Kid joint rule. Any plan of conspiracy to
elect Mr. Tildcn by rejecting electoral votes at the
will Of the House under this rule, must therefore be
abandoned.
The only existing provision for counting the vote
Of thc Electoral College is the Twelfth Amendment
10 the Constitution which makes the President OF
the Senate the custodian Of the certificates OF the
votes and requires him TO preside at the JOINT con-
yeuon Of senate and House To open the certificates
and to declare the result, to which may be added
the law requiring that these votes shall he counted
the second Wednesday in February. IL is for SEN
ator Ferry of Michigan Therefore, TO declare what
Il the voice Of the electors of the whole country 1t
i, possible thus that blundcr Of the Confederate
House may have disarmcd revolution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-10-19

easy to imagine that the official to whom this idea
a commission thus constituted occurred chuckled
with delight as he thought what an amount of dust
could by this means be thrown in the eyes of the
skeptical by one of their own religion. Az usual,
however, the Government by this action simply gave
evidence of its shOrtsightedncSs The Christian
save the mark -oilcials of the Porte are i'll truth
more TurkOphile than the Moslems themselves.
They would never hold the high offices which some
of them do had not they been useful tools for the
Government i'll cases of this kind. NOminally
Christians, but III reality apOstates, they have only
been promoted to the positions the hold; if not by
successive acts of oppression committed upon their
coregionists at least by shutting their eyes when
these acts have been committed by the Turks, and
thusindirectly countenancng and approyingof them.
Americans are probably familiar with the name Of
Bacque Beg, who married the daughter of the cele-
brated surgeon, DR.. Valentine Mott of NewYork,
and subsequently Turkish ambassador at
Washington. He was recalled from the American
capital on account of having been personally inter
ested in contracts for the purchase of arms out Of
whic he made large fortune. Although for a
tune, after his return from America, Blacque Bey
under a cloud, yet the rapdty with which
Grand Vizers are changed, and the frequency with
which councils of State are altered and remodelcd
in this country resulted in the past being forgotten
and he has been renstated in Office as head of the
press bureau.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-10-19
A GREAT WAR AT HAND.

RUSSIA ABOUT TO INVADE TURKEY.
TuRTHFR DIPLOMACY DEEMED NEEDLEss-"AR
DEEMED INEVITABLE AT PEsTII-A GREAT RUS
SIAN 1RoN-cLAD ORDERED TO THE MEDiTEERA-
MEAN.
Yesterday the signs of approaching war between
the Ottoman Empire and Russia were such rs 10
leave little hope for peace. In London
are deemed practically at an end. Az peisi"u''
Minister Ristcs declares that hostillteS Will SON oo
resumed, and that Russia will come to the anu u
seryia. 1t is also stated at the Seryan capital tha'
Russia has issued a circular note announcing that
she is about to invade Bulgaria and Armenia. Aus
tria is disposed to keep in accord with Russia and
Germany. Italy is understood to be acting IN con-
cert with Russia In Great Britain public opinion
is divided. The European stock exchanges are
greatly agitated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-10-19
Tie Times says:
PHASES OF THE EASTERN QUESTION.

GHASES Of HE LAS lEhN w 10 IlDN.
PEACE STILL DIsrANT-TIIE sEEvIAS AEMY MASTERS
or TIE sITUATION-MB. LOVES STRUCTURES
on TIE GovEESMENr-THE DEMAND FOR A
WINTER SESSION or PARLIAMENT.
lFROM Az OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT or THE TRBUSEl
LONDON, Sept 3O-1he prospects Of peace can
scarcely be said to have improved since last wI1tc
though the Gar has written TO the Emperor Of
Austria an " autograph letter" of peaceful as
surances and stating that there is no fear of his
being led away by the SavOnic agitation his desire
is to cooperate with the other Powers in the interests
Of peace. The Russian exodus TO Seryia has not
ceased, military operations have recommended. and
Gen. Tchenaycf still, to all appearance regards III
dependence and not the stats quo as an object
TO be attained. The S0rvian Government still ap-
parently processes TO be anxious for prolonged
armistice to consider the conditions already
formulated, but Tchernayef and the army com
pletey Ofthe situation. The correspondentsa
Belgrade tell us that the only chance of peace lies in
the immediate acceptance OF Prince Milan's con-
ditons by the Porte. Even in that case it now ap-
pears doubtful whether Gen. Tchernaycd will not
continue his crusade 1t is more probable that the
hopeful signs must from Russia. If the
ST. Petersburg Government will only risk little
popularity and resolutely suppress the Russian and
and the drafts Of the officers of their army into
the Servian the complications will be removed, and
Prince Milan may be able TO conclude peace on
almost any terms short of actual independence
The outlook however, is certainly far from assur-
ing. train OF powder seems TO run III every dircc-
ton, and it only wants gnitng to cause a general
explosion all round
Some of the bitterness which has been infused into
the discussion on the Governments Eastern policy
now appears TO have reached the incidental ques-
ton of Winter session of Parliament Mr. Lowe
writes TO The Times to-day letter which is an excel
lent example of Mr.. loves best and bitterest
style, letter which Of course The Times rcproves
him for having written. Mr. Lowe doubtless twists
the facts when he says that Lord Beaconsfeld has
denounced "those public men whose opinions COM
eide with the country and are against the Govern
ment as worse than the authors Of the Bulgarian
atrocities !" and again when he says that the an
swer Of the Government is that they are 10 do as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-10-19
CRIMES AND cAsUALrIEs-BY TELEGRAPH

MONTPELIER VT, Oct 1S.-A young man named
Kelton living in MiddeseS w. hanged himself this morning
IN his barn. No cause is assigned for the act
NEW BEpFoRp Mass. Oct. 1s-Br1dget 0'Mara
Invalid having been left alone short time hls evening"
sufiOcated by dense smoke from stove
HARTFORD, Conn. Oct lS:-Cyrus Z. Marsh OK
West Newiowp Penn senior the Wesleyan University,
was drowned In the Connecticut River at Mdde;o"n thu
evening
MONTREAL. Oct. lS,-Early this morning burglars
were caught in Fanteauxs dry goods ~ 81
Bapste Village, and after uespeis,e ngnt M,n VIC
CoScoRp. N. H., Oct. 1S.-An attempt was made
20 wreck the up-eXpress train from BOSTON, near
Ferry the Concord Railroad this loenoon hess{
timber under tho but no usn tofsaAesV
passed on without accident
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-10-19
REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING IN BROOKLYN

Ex-Gov. Dix, Gen. William II. Brown of
Washington and Gen. George IL. Sharpe addressed a
large Republican meeting last evening at the Morgan
Wirwam at CassOn and Putnamaves, Brooklyn. The
President f. r. Kennedy, opened the meeting by
announcing few Of the nominations made yesterday IN
the Kings County Convention. Gen. Dix spoke at some
length upon the currency question, his remarks being
similar TO those lately delivered by him at Cooper Union
Cen Brown spoke OF Gov. Hayes's war record Gen.
Shame hogan his address by stating that he wished 10
te few practical remarks upon the question OF tue
currency He said that Gen. Cary was accustomed TO
ask any one IN his audience VINO qua pOS want want
more money to stand up, ana as no one
arose he would proclaim that IL the object OF the
Grcenback party TO give every one moro money ana
every one who did not rise would vote his
ticket The speaker said the value OF money was the
question at ISSUE the quantity. He wanted more
nancy but he did not want the fortunes OF every
else proporiionatey increased at the same time When
the grecnbacks were first issued prices steadily rose IN