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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-21

From the Jackson Daily Citizen.
CE.N'TE.N.NIaL SO.N'G.
BY A. ROBINSON.
We live in beautiful time
The dawn of the hundredth wear :;
The bells are singing their sweetest chime,
While the roar Of the cannon is bass sublime
To the Nations grateful ear
We live in beautiful time
a year OF perfect peace.
The yoke of the slave is broken and gone;
Free labor is raising the cotton and corn,
TO the hymn OF his souls release.
We live in a beautiful time.
The engine Is fired and steamed;
The threads OF iron have woven the land,
While the telegraph message is shaking the hand
Where once the sabre cleaned.
We live in a beautiful time
A time Of justice and right.
Tbs Yankee boy is swimming to land
While he pushes ava, IA hisstrong right hand
Every wrong he meots IN the fight.
We hive in beautiful time
time Of the paying OF debts.
The crisis is here, we rejoice to see
The times that are forcing us all to be free
from our base and extrayagant pets.
We live in beautiful time
Away with the wrong and the sin
The ledger must balance, the scales must be
true.
The honest must win, though they're ever 80
few,
The times OF the false have been.
Then hail the Centennial year!
The century past and gone
Has been filled with strife, but we see the hand
Of God, as he raises 1t over the land
On this Centennial morn.
Then fling the flag to the breeze.
Let it float DER the land ard the sea:
hundred years ago to-day
Its birth was sang in joyous lay,
And so may it ever be.
Jackson, January /. 1876
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-21
PROCEEDI.N'GS or TIE RO.gRD
OF SUPERVISORS.
JANUARY SESSION, 1876.

JAN UARY SESSION, 1876.
The following are the Claims by the Board
OF supervisors, at their January Session, 1876,
to-wit:
National Republican., 1876-01-18

the once-fred animal submitting quietly to the
operation. The drum was then beaten under
the horses nose, the beast exhibiting q de-,
cided taste for this form of martial music.
Mr.. Rarey then placed the bride and saddle
on the steed and mounting lightly to his back,
rode out of the enclosure into the open streets
Of Brussels, leaving the court and the sristo-
cratic lovers of horse-fesh utterly confounded
with amazement.
This incident illustrates the political tactics
of the Confederate Rarey, as applied to that
high-spirited Arabian known as ''uncle SAM"
We might extend our argument by reproducing
the pictnre of the silent, patient Confederate
and the self-confdent, impatient North, and
by tracing the gradual approaches through
which this great nation has permitted the strap
to be securely lashed around one of its fore
legs. We might describe the late "plunge" of
the surprised North over Ben. Hill's speech.
We might show that this ''plungs" and up
rearing would be followed by reaction and
acquiescence, just as the North has "plunged"
and finally given up at other points of the
struggle with this Confederate party. We
might show that the House Of Representatives
represents the fore-hoof of the American
Arabian which has been securely captured, and
that the Senate represents the other foreleg of
the national steed, and that the skillful and
insidious political Rarey is already slipping
the fatal strap around this leg also. And SO
we could pursue this illustration until the
Confederate drum should be beaten as welcome
music even here in Washington, and Con-
federate should mount into the saddle of
Executive power at the White House.
Cannot American Senators understand that
the Confederate who is now pressing 60 closely
against the side of the nation is plsyiQg for
imperial stakes? Can they not understand the
meaning of the caresses and overtures of
kindness with which this political horse-tamer
is so lavish and with which every encroachment
of his is accompanied? VIII the Senate allow
the Confederate strap to be made secure around
the one remaining hold which the Republican
party has upon the American Congress?
National Republican., 1876-01-18

the fruits of labor. Whenever credit is
substituted for cash in the payment Of Ia
Dor risk is involved which must be com
pensated for either by an increase Of rate
ofwages or decrease Of the quantity Of
those inexorable necessities which it is to
supply. 1t matters not whether that credit
takes the shape Of due-bill irredeemable,
or bank note, or q low-rate bond, if it
will not bring the quantity of the precious
metals that it pretends to represent then
labor is cheated by the amount of its fail
ure. 1t is safe to say. therefore, that the
labor of this country is vitality intereste ! in
the earliest practicable return to the uni
versal, stable, unfuctuating measure Of
value recognized throughout the CONNER
cio1 vnrld
National Republican., 1876-01-18

TIE Democratic party is party of dis
integration. Even Senator Thurman eX-
posed its cloyen foot of dissolution yester-
day by his opposition TO the proposed
modification of the joint rules of the two
Houses of Congress He is reported to
have asserted that the joint rules Of the two
Houses were always in force. He might
as well assert that the Speakers tenure of
office holds over from the 4th of March till
December after the term for which lie is
chosen expires. Each House makes its
own rules, but csnEot bind its SUCCESSORS to
observe them. The Democratic party
seems to be given over to the dog -in-the-
maHger policy Of destroying everything
which it cannot control, even to the United
States Government. 1t was this policy
which instituted the late rebellion and it is
the same which governs its action to-day.
"Rule or ruin is its motto. And ave
are sorry TO see that Judge Thurman is its
DrODlet
National Republican., 1876-01-18

THE following brief facts speak volumes
in favor of public sentiment concerning the
proposed appropriation of 81, 800, 900 for
the completion Of the Centennial buildings.
Yesterday the Editorial Association of In
diana, numbering two hundred, were on
an Independent visit to Philadelphia, and
after careful investigation OF the present
state of affairs in connection with the
national jubilee they adopted series of
formal resolutions asking Congress to make
the appropriation prayed for, and they sent
copies TO Senators Morton and Mcdonald,
and to Mr.. Speaker Kerr. 1t is well to note
the fact that the association was not there
by invitation, nor was any attempt what
ever made to influence the expression of
this opinion, and for this reason it is in
high proofo the popularity of this proposed
appropriation among the masses of the peo-
pie who are rising up all over the country
and instructing their Representatives TO
vote for it.
National Republican., 1876-01-18


THE Centennial Commission asks the
iorty-fi7e millions of people Of this coun-
try to contribute, through their Represent
atives, the small sum of three and one third
cents each to their stock or funds, to insure
the success of their grand centenary
Fourth Of July celebration this year. That
is all. One million five hundred thousand
dollars is all that is needed. Who will re-
fuse it We hope the yeas and nays will
be called upon this vote. 1t will be a
pleasure to learn the names of those men,
bers whose gauge is below three and one
third cents. Those Cheap Johnnies''
who won't 90 third of dime on the eel
ebration of the glorious Fourth once in a
hundred years should be photographed for
the ''stingy mems gallery, and their auto
graphs should supplement every new copy
of the Declaration of Independence which
is printed. Going, going, gone, three for
a dime
National Republican., 1876-01-18

HON. SAMUEL J. RANDALL appears TO
want everything in this District brought to
q standstin until after the Centennial. Will
he stop the collection of taxes, too? Or, is
he only anxious to put stop to the pay Of
the poor laborers who earn their bread by
working on the streets? We learn from
petition presented by Democratic men,
ber the other day that there are only about
1900 of the latter TO suffer by the passage
of this resolution. 1t is just possible that
this number may be slightly inflated, but
the principle is all the same. We hope
Mr. Randall will apply his amnesty princl-
pies TO this resolution, and allow the Com
missioners to collect taxes, clean and repair
streets, and protect property from injury
and decay. His resolution is very sweep
ing, but we would prefer, for decency's
sake, and upon sanitary considerations, to
have our streets swept, as by (W)right
they should be, with Wright's sweepers.
National Republican., 1876-01-18

The people are disguised with Congress
sional tinkering of the currency. The
prosperity Of the country depends greatly
upon the stability of a measure of values.
Spectators and gamblers alone thrive by
fluctuations Of values. Labor always Ian
guishes when the basis of its rewards be-
comes shlky or uHcertain. It's paralysis of
to-day arises from the uncertainty of the
measure of the value of the rewards which
it has a right to expect. This measure
should be Of an intrinsic value, as nearly
Interchangeable and unfuctuating as practi-
cable, because that labor has always mex
Orable necessities to be supported by its
rewards. Experience has demonstrated
that the precious metals come the nearest
TO filling these acquisitions as measures of
value, and that therefore they afford the
safest and best medium for the exchange of
National Republican., 1876-01-18

WE are glad that Hon. Fernando Wood
has offered the President an opportunity, by
an official reply to his resolution, to refute
some of the numerous ISLANDERS which have
been circulated during the last few years
by the detective press In relation to his
official family. There is no doubt that the
reply will be entirely satisfactory to the
Committee on Military Affairs and the
mover of the resolution, as we'll as highly
honorable to General Grant.
National Republican., 1876-01-18

Mr.. HOLMAN should n0tallow his ambi-
tfon for distinction to lead hin into such
grave mistakes as that which he made yes
terday in bis attempt to forestalI Mr.. Nor
rison on the currency question. He should
have known of the defeat which awaited
his proposition. 1t was bad move, and
will not even avail him as Stamping stone
TO the Gubernatorial chair of Indiana.
National Republican., 1876-01-18

THE Declaration of independence was
written by Thomas Jefferson, Virginisn,
and seconded by John Adams, of Massa-
chusetts. Let their act be ratified and ap-
proved by Virginia and Massachusetts, in a
becoming manner and by the 40, 900, 900 of
Americans at Philadelphia in 1876, in the
presence of the representatives of the na-
lions Of the world.
National Republican., 1876-01-18
Eeu PuhlirRtions

''Mrs. Lemben's Rattle" Published by D.
Appleton & Co., New York. For sale by Solo,
mons & Chapman.
'The Movements and Habits of Climbing
Plants" By Charles Darwin. Published by
D. Appleton & Co., New York. For sale by
Solomons & Chapman.
"The Little Joanna" BY Kamba Thorpe.
Published by D. Appleton & Co., New York.
For sale by SoIomons & Chapman.
National Republican., 1876-01-18

THE friends of Mr.. Blaine in the Penn
sylvania Republican Association last night
did a wise thing in tabling the resolution
nominating him as a Presidential c2ndi-
date. 1t is too soon to talk of such things
in an authoritative manner
National Republican., 1876-01-18

The battles of 1TT6 were fought by the
United Colonies. May the celebration of
1876 show union of the whole people in
reioicings and in exhibition of our strength
and resources
National Republican., 1876-01-18

THE love of our reconstructed friends
from the South for the memories of the
American Union will appear in their action
upon the Centennial appropriation bill. Let
lis see
National Republican., 1876-01-18

The Democrats by their general amnesty
efforts are simply demanding of the American
people that they open the doors of the Senate
to jeff. Davis.
National Republican., 1876-01-18

Tomorrow is the anniversary of General
Lees birthday, and we quietly suggest that
the Confederate House adjourn out of respect
for his memory
National Republican., 1876-01-18
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Also. q full line OF Burnsley Damask,
Floor Linens, la-4. l2-4 and B6.4 wide,
for Dancing SIoths.
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National Republican., 1876-01-18
EDITORIAL GOSSIP.

are the latest Democratic mentionees for the
Presidency.
National Republican., 1876-01-18

Russia is rapidly increasing her military and
strengthening her defenses. A blaze will soon
leap forth from all this smoke.
National Republican., 1876-01-18

The common council of Brooklyn, New York,
passed resolutions yesterday requesting their
representatives in Congress TO vote for the
Centennial appropriation.
National Republican., 1876-01-18

you drove us out Of the Union, and we
took the Constitution in our arms and carried
it with us, shouted Brtgadier General Hill.
Yes, anG Floyd took forty millions of money
with him on the same principle exactly.
National Republican., 1876-01-18

TIE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, HAS 4
LARGER CIRCULATION THAE ANY OTHER
MORNING PAPER IN TIE DISTRICT OF co.
LUMBIA.
National Republican., 1876-01-18
LOST AND FOUND.

oO(1 REWARD.-LOST, ON SATURDAY,
sDAO the 18th, at Mrs. Grants recep- -
tion, or in coming from there down EfsfzSfHX
Pennsylvania avenue to New York ave- EsEtltf&M
nue., down II TO Ninth, = small Buck Ez-.zzEl
skin PURSE. 1t contained 8lle-one SO bill and
the rest In twentes and tens. The finder will
please leave 1t at 7 Ninth street, between and !,
and receive the above reward. jal7-'
EUUND-AN OPERA GLASS AT THE
II woodruff lecture, which the owner may OBJ
tain by addressing 'B. D. A" at this Office, prov
ing property and paying charges. jlnl3
c10 REwARD-LOST OR STOLEN, ON
tDlO the 18th instant, one large brown paper
ENVELOPE, containing pApers OF no value ex-
cept to the owner; also . Physicians POCKET
RECURD for 1876. The above reward will be paid
on return % the Chr0nicle office. de2l-tf
National Republican., 1876-01-18

TIE NATIONAL REPUBLIo AN is published every
morning (sundAys excepted At the southwest cor
ner Of Thtrr street aud Pen 1sylvGniA kvenue,
.ud is furnished to (by c2rriersl at fy
cents per moath.
Mail subscribers, postage paid, $500 per year;
a 90 for six months, and 500 for three months.
Terms invariably in advance.
RATES OF ADVERTISING:
twenty-five cents per line. Advertisements IN.
d sr the he ssd Of 'tFor Sale or Rent" "W<nted,"
Lost aud Found, " and ''PersonAl, " twelve and
ahaIf cents ,er line.
~ All communications, whether on business or
for publication, should be addressed to WIN. j.
AURTAGH, Proprietor, NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,,
Washington. d. c.
National Republican., 1876-01-18

TUEspAY MoRsINe :::::::JANUARY Is. Is7G.
National Republican., 1876-01-18


Breathes there a member with soul so dead
who to himself hath never said ''the appro-
priation DILL must pass' If such man doth
surely live he should be -sifted through a sieve
to get his small soul en- masse.-Com. ADJ.
II the weather Of the future be as balmy as
that of the past there will scarcely be boy in
the city who has depended on snow-sweeping
as regular employment but what will be
forced into bankruptcy and wont be able to
pay two cents on q dollar.
The Presidential tarantula has fastened its
fangs in Governor Hendricks with a tenacity
which looks as though it was there to stay.
The Democracy of Indiana are working in be-
half OF their idol with an energy and shrewd-
ness that begins to have very visible effect.
The New York World sustained Tweed until
it was open disgrace to cling to his skirts any
longer, and then it heaTed him overheard with
tears and regrets. Since he has los. his grip
the World has become more and more ag-
gressiye towards and eften gets in percept-
bic sneer at him.
Pen Hill is the best man in the world to
pick up the pipe Of peace, look It over care
fully, and lay 1t down without single Whit;
and moreover when he buried the hatchet he
left the handle so far above ground that the
National Republican., 1876-01-18

A band OF masked White Leaguers took
from the Friar's Point Jail on Saturday four
negroes and murdered them in cold blood, and
there was no election pending. The only
reason that we can see for this bloodthirsty
act is that they are desirous of keeping their
hand in for the purpose Of being well prac-
ticed at the next election.
National Republican., 1876-01-18
MEDICAL.

GREAT MEDICAL BOOK AND sESEN
O CRETS Ny
for ladies and gents. Sent free for two
Address, 81. Joseph Medical Institute, NJ
st. Joseph. Mo. no2s-ly IA
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-10
How Jones Shaved Himself.

In view of the hard times Jones deter
mined to shave himself. His income had
been reduced and he had got tired of
waiting for his turn, of being pestered to
purchase toilet articles, of the persistent
and unnecessary brushing by the BARRIERS
boy, and the steady evaporation of his
small change. SO Jones invested in the
requisite apparatus, and upon bringing
them home remarked triumphantly to
Mrs. Jones that he was glad to have the
opportunity OF setting. the example of
economy. On Sunday morning Jones
commenced operations, and it was not
long before large part Of the household
was enlisted in his service. Mrs. Jones
must find him cup for soap, Miss Jones
must hunt UP some shaving paper, Master
Jones must find a hook for his strop, and
the servant some sweet oil for the same.
OF course Jones had a new razor. and new
razors proverbially need to be sharpened
and Jones undertook to sharpen it. First
he tried the oil stone, and rubbed away
until he had used up large part Of the
oAo'S "ih>t ICAt q iCottAACl GU t tS IOupu dS Tie
burr on a file Then came the Shopping
process, and Jones rubbed diligently half
an hour alternately on Nos one, two,
three andfour, at the end of which time his
blade seemed to be about where he start
ed, and he mentally wondered how the
BARRIERS managed to do it SO quickly. He
had seen them slash away with razor
and bring it TO keen edge in a few Wig
orous strokes. lie had vainIy been en-
deavoring 10 do the thing with precision
and deliberation. But it was no 90. All
sorts of reasons occurred to him. Per-
haps he had bad razor; perhaps the
strop was bad; perhaps he had too much
oil or not enough-in short all sorts of
reasons but the right one, which was that
Jones knew no more about sharpening
a razor than cat But Mrs. Jones was
looking on, and Jones did not dare ad-
NIT that he couldn't do it. So he finally
said, Therer' with triumphant air, as
if he had finally got it all right. Jones
said there" and squared himself for ac-
ton. His beard was stiff and stubborn,
and if the razor had been az all sharp he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-10
s1or non,1q blenders.
LOST AND FOUND.

On where now is Tommy? and who has seen
Tommy? + r ~
And why does he keep so, all in worry?
We've hunted for Tommy from cellar to garrett
Co. run to the pond and the well-side-oh,
hurry r. -e' s-.
We've looked down the well, and we let down
the bucket
But we found not trace of our stray little
master
We searched in the pond, and we waded all
through it; ..s
But not in the pond had he met disaster"
Then go to the railroad down there by the STA
Perhaps on the track he has fallen while play
ing;
And go to the mill, then-perhaps he was carried
Straight over the dam to his death: there's no
sayingi' SEX ... .-s
He's not by the mill-dam; he not by the sta
ton;
He's not IN the carpenters shop by the way:
The blacksmith, the butcher, the grocer, the
Not one of them all has seen Tommy to-day"
There's Carlo! Here, Carlo, say where is vour
master? .'- N. '. .'..
You lazy old dog, have you left him in danger?
In the dark, lonely forest, say did you forsake
him,
Where help there is none from the tramp and
the ranger?" .f.
+" Bow-wow!" answered Carlo, with look rather
scornful;
And then starting up, he ran straight to the
stable:
We after him scudded, in hope to find Tommy;
And aunty, she followed, though hardly so
able.
With nose TO the ground, on, on Carlo trotted
To the hoorswhere the cowboy the hay had been
heaping;
Then barked, as if scolding poor aunty, and say
ing, .., FLY.
Here's Tommy, good woman, fat, hearty and
sleeping"
:" sly little Tommy! Why give US such trouble?
Why sleep on the hay when no sleep you re-
quired?' -..l s.-t -
But how could help it. dear aunty," said
Tommy:
= lay down to sleep there-because 1 was
tired
Hired Setocyn, In Nursery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-10

could have cut it easily. But the
razor wasn't sharp, and slid over
the stubble like sled over the snow.
Mrs. Jones Uttered, and Jones resolved to
brave it out. SO he seized the strop and
made desperate lunge-as the BARRIERS
do-intending to get an edge with one
fell swoop, but his first stroke cut the
leather fearful cash, the second slashed
the strop in two, and the third closed the
razor over his hand exposing an amount
of red meat that made Mrs. Jones scream.
"Oh, that's nothing said Jones, "only
a SCRATCH" and he tied up his hand with
towel. Just little slip, my dear :"
and Jones again seized the razor, lathered
his eyes, nose and ears full of soap and
started to NOW down his crop. This
time he managed to cut little hair off,
but it came hard and brought the tears to
his eyes. 1t was like tearing the hair up
by the roots. But Jones, nothing daunt-
ed, kept on bravely. He took it at diff
ferent angles; he supplied frequent lather.
He scraped and scraped until the cuticle
had been eXcoriated to the consistency Of
raw beefsteak. "There, my dear" he
said to Mrs. j., " feel how smooth that
is" and he tried to delude Mrs. J. into
rubbing the right way. But Mrs. j.,
with glazing and reckless obstinacy per.
sisted in rubbing the wrong way, and said
she didn't think it was very smooth.
Then Jones grew desperate, but said that
perhaps there were few hairs not quite
as short as they should be. So he went at
1t again. This time he was savage, and
in short time he made his face look as
If some young doctors had been trying to
dissect him. The point of the razor
caught in his nose, the heel in his ear,
and the center laid open his cheek with
CHASTITY seam that brought his shaving to
an untimely end. Jones has never shaved
since. But all the materials were uti-
liked. The soap for washing, the cup for
the baby, the strOp to thrash the boy with
and the razors have been a perpetual de-
light whenever Mrs. Jones wants to cut
her cOrns.-N. Y. Graph5c