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id Indifference Of the prisoner was re
markablc. lie was evidently less sur
prised at the verdict than most of the
audience who expected Il conviction in
the second degree and would not have
been astonished by mahslaughtcr.
SENTENCED TO DEATH.
1t was ten minutes to three o'clock on
Saturday, the 18th Of February, when,
amid such crowd rs was never before
seen in a Seattle courtroom, John
Thompson was led in to receive sen
tenCe His face WAS pale, but no more
so than usual. The room was densely
packed and the air was sitting as the
Court ordered the back doors to beopened
and the crowd to be silent. The Court
then said, John Thompson, you have
been convicted of the crime Of murder.
Your counsel has given notice Of mo-
tion for
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George Elllotsays that girls are delicate vest
sells in whlchis borne onward through the ages
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A NEW TRIAL"

A NEW TRIAL"
Mr.. Haniord.-"Your Honor, | am
ready to make my motion but my bill Of
exceptions is not yet ready"
Judge Lewis. Your bill Of excep-
tionS may pass for the time being. Your
motions for new trial are now in order"
Mr.. IIanford then read his motion, to
the effect that the crime committed was
nothing hut justifable homicide that
testimony favorable to the defendant
had been excluded, and that no evidence
OF deliberate malice against the deceas-
ed, on the part of the defendant, had
been adduccd by the evidence.
JUDGE LEWIS.
Said "the court overrules the motion
aud denies the trial. John Thompson,
stand up. You have been convicted by
an intelligent and impartial jury of the
crime of murder You have had able
and inteligen. counsel who have done
all in their power to exculpate you from
the load of guilt that seemed to crush
you. Have you anything to say why the
sentence of death, as provided by our
statutes as punishment for the crime
of murder, should not be passed upon
yOuF
THE PRISONER ROSE
With alacrity and said, "Your Honor,
| plead guilty nf committing n breach OF
the Sabbath and keeping bad company.
had | been sober man of good habits,
this might not have happened but as
for shedding the blood of my fellow man
| did not mean to do it," Here the
prisoner sat down and the Judge began
to read to him resume of the evidence
in the case and to recapituate the events
attending the crime, He then said "thc
statute provides that the punishment
for the crime Of murder is death, You
are
BEYOND THE MERCY
OF courts and human tribunals devised
tor the prevention and punishment OF
crime. 1t is the sentence Of this Court
that on Friday, the 30th day of March
next, you be taken from your cell to the
Jail yard of the Seattle Jail and then and
there, between the hours OF 10 A. NJ. and
2P. NJ, you be hanged until you are
dead and may the Infinite God show
unto you that mercy whichyou denied tc
your unfortunate victim" The prisoner
merely said this is not justice" ant
manifested no other emotion.
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
A New Way OF Controlling Vicious
Horses.

French ingenuity has invented
method of controlling the most fractions
horses without any exertion on the part
of the driver. The horse of the future
is not to be driven by ordinary reins,
but by electricity combined with them.
The coachman is to have under his seat
an electro magnetic apparatus, which he
works by means of a little handle. One
wire is carried through the rein to the
bit, and another to the clupper, so that
a current once set up goes the entire
length of the animal along the spine. A
sudden shock will, we are .gravely as
sured, stop the most violent runaway,
or the most obstinate jibber. The crea-
ture, however strong and however vic
ious, is sat once transformed into sort
of inoffensive horse of wood, with the
feet firmly nailed to the ground" Curl
ously enough, the very opposite result
may be produced by succession of
small shocks. Under the influence of
these the veriest screw can be suddenly
endowed with vigor and fire indescrib-
able. What is the effect upon the con-
dition of the horse is not stated, but the
Steele congratulates M. T. Fancher
upon "an invention equally original and
salutary," and one which places in the
hands of even an infant power over
the horse which is as sovereign as it is
invisible. Home Journal.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
An English Newspaper "Scoop.v

DIR. Mackay, in his "Forty Years
Recollections, gives the particulars OF
an incident which occurred during the
crisis OF the race between the two great
newspaper rivals, the London Times
and Chronicle. The Americans had
been making claims to the whole of
our Western Territories on the Pacific,
including what are now called British
Columbia, Vancouver's island, and
Oregon, and the relations between the
two countries looked very threatening.
The money market was depressed, and
the Presidents annual message was ex-
pected with great anxiety. Early ole
morning, when everybody on the staff
of the Chronicle, except Black ana
Mackay, had gone away, stranger
called to see the editor. Mackay saw
him, and learned that he had Just ar
rived from New York, and had a copy
of the New York Herald, with the
Presidents Message, in his pocket. He
had left the steamer in which he came
from New York at Queenstown, where
she was to remain four hours had
caughta Liverpool steam-packet which
was just starting; and had, on his ar
rival there, taken special train to Lon
don at price of 80 guineas. He now
offered this precious document to the
Chronicle for f5O0. Black appre-
ciated the Importance of the message,
but 1t was large sum, and there was
nobody whom he could consult. The
man said he could only wait ten min
utes and would then 60 elsewhere.
Black was much excited and perturbed,
and was ready to promise the money
gladly, if he could have been sure the
contract would not be repudiated
Mackay advised him to risk it but at
the last moment Black shrank from the
responsibility, and off went the visitor.
He had not been gone two minutes
when Black changed his mind Mackay
bolted to the street, but the stranger
had taken a cab and was rafting onward
to Fleet street, and there was no other
cab to be had at that hour. Thus the
Times got the mess ,ge before any one
else, and it was, OF course, great
triumph for it. There was discussion
among the proprietors of the Chronicle,
in which they expressed great regret
after the event-that the news was not
secured for their paper. This led Black
to urge that u chief editor ought always
to have share of the paper. so that he
might act without hesitation in an
emergency; but "here," says DIR.
Mackay, the subject dropped"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
Postage Stamps.

BY about the middle of next May the
public will have seen the last of the
present tbree-cent stamp, and begin to
possibly new tint. The best aud fast
est color known, the green three, has
proved placer for stamp-washers. who
take off the oily cancellation without
acid or alkali, and set the stamp adoat
again.
So far, the department has found no
way out of the difficulty, and the long
series of experiments just completed
has resulted in nothing more than the
assurance that the green is the poorest
Of stamp colors. At the time it was
adopted, no other nation used it for its
unit of letter postage, and, with its dis
will run to reds and browns.
With the change of color, May /,
there will be a change of design. The
medallion head of Washington will be
relieved by an open space OF white, and
the scroll-work will have different pat
tern. Altogether, the new stamp will
bear some resemblance to a stamp of
sixteen years ago, which most people
have forgotten. The white background
is adopted in the hope that any attempt
to wash the stamp will leave this part
irretrievably soiled.
Some other general changes in the
stamps are likely to follow the making
of a contract, May 1, and a new head is
likely to be introduced in the shape of q
medallion of Liberty-one step toward
bringing more similarity between the
designs of coins and stamps. There is
some intention of putting this design
on the tive-cent stamp, used for the
most part, for foreign postage.
Conference and correspondence with
other postal authorities show that loss
from the reuse of stamps is much more
frequent here than abroad. It is scarcely
known in England, and there the stamps
offer the additional temptation of being
easy to counterfeit. The practice has
recently begun in India, and the frugal
folks are giving the Anglo-India Office
serious loss by their skill in dealing with
cancelled stamps.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
Changed His Mind.

The Nevada miners sweetheart had
Tilted him. He loaded his six-shooter
and wrote to his landlady this little mis-
sive: II am tired of life, and will
blow out my brains in the cemetery to-
night. My rent is paid up to the 9Th.
/ do this because life has become a
burden to me-" He then set out for the
cemetery which he had fixed upon "a the
scene OF blood. On his way he took a
short cut across a chicken ranch and
was attacked by savage bulldog.
Thinking that he had enough in his six
barrels for self and dog, he opened fire
on the animal, but in the twinkling of
an eye the owner of the ranch covered
him with shotgun. He fell ON
his knees, begged for life, and made the
most abject apologies for his presence
there. His Life was spared. Instead
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
Everlasting Harvest.

We last week witnessed the queer
spectacle of strawberry patch growing
in the open air week before Christ
mas. The garden is located about six
miles above the town of Sequel, and
about the same distance from Santa
Cruz. A Mr.. Thompson is the owner
of the rancho, and he inform ed us that
at any day or month in the year he could
go into the patch and gather at least
twenty quarts of the luscious berries in
a short time. He now has in cultivation
5000 vines, which occupy half an acre
of ground, and from these he has
gathered during the past year 5000
quarts of the large crimson beauties.
Half of this quantity he sold in the local
markets at an average of 20 cents per
quart, and the other half he gave away
to his neighbors, as there was no de-
mand for them from buyers. Blossoms,
green, and flaming red, ripe berries
smile and look sedate, and blush side
by side the whole year through, on the
same vine. This certainly is equal, if
not superior, to the ancient and tabled
land that flowed with milk and honey.
Now, let us see If his crop pays him.
To start with, they are not rs much
trouble to cultivate as patch of string
beans would be then, at an average of
20 cents per quart, the half-acre OF
ground would net him $500 per year.
Not only strawberries, but this gentle
man has also fine orchard of peach and
other fruit trees which are very promis-
inp.-iSdntd Cruz (Cdl.) Courier.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09

Totals ...... ..... 1854, CSC, 600 $34, 1874, 500
In addition there were fires reported
in Canada where the losses were SO, 49,
200 and the H. surance losses $3,887,
600.
The 9,301 fires tabulated by the
Chronicle are subjected to classification
under more than 800 heads 1t is note.
worthy that, as usual, hotels were liber-
ally burned up last year, 800 (more than
one every day. having been cremated.
We notice, too, among the fires of 1876,
297 country grocery stores, 215 saw
mills, 160 restaurants, 159 liquor stores,
1876 livery stables, 166 drug stores, 102
furniture factories, 80 gin-houses, 81
Touring 103 carpenter-shops, IA
carriage-factories, 70 churches, IA black
smith-shops, Go bakeries, SO planning
mills, SO lumber-yards, SO ice-houses, 81
machine-shops, and so or through the
300 and odd specifications Of hazards.
The Chronicles record eschews dwell
ings and barns.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
FRANK LEs11E's POPULAR MONTHLY

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has taken rank as the largest most literally
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FRANK LESLIE, 597 Pearl street. New York.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
Bold Robbery.

Another of those daring robberies
which are occasionally perpetrated in
broad day has just been made public,
the victim this time an Abingdon bank
cashier, who lost So, 600 by seeming care
lessness. On Saturday afternoon last
Mr.. j. n. Farrar, cashier of the Abing-
ton National Bank, entered the Atlantic
dining rooms, corner of South and
Essex streets, carrying in his hand q
sachel containing $500 in bills, to-
gether with bank book, papers, etc. :,
which he was taking from one of our
Boston banks to his own institution. He
placed the sachel on the floor near the
counter and took seat at some distance
away. Soon after Mr.. Farrar was seated
two men entered, one of whom took a
seat near him, and the other near the
bag containing the money. The one who
was seated near him made loud remarks
about the food, and while the attention
of all in the room was thus directed to
him, the other man, near the door, paid
the amount of his check and departed,
taking the money sachel, it is supposed.
Shortly after the second man left, and
when Mr.. Farrar was about to settle bis
bill he became aware of the loss of the
bag and its contents. Detectives were
at once given the case, and on Sunday
the first clew was obtained by the re-
covery of the bag on Cove street, minus
its contents. Several parties in the sa-
loon at the time will be able, it is
thought, to identify the men under sus-
picion, and, as the detectives are work
ing hard, it is probable that the thieves
will soon be brought to justice. Boston
Globe.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
Murdered by Indians.

A letter from Cheyenne, Wyoming
Territory, says: "We have news of
another of those blood. curdling Indian
murders committed by the Indians on
Cottonwood creek, forty miles south.
west of Fort Laramie. Two hunters,
Max McKnapf and E. T. Oliver, who
had been hunting and trapping during
the day, while cooking their supper
were startled by the warwhoop of eight
or nine Ind ans. McKnapf was bend
ing over the camp fire when ball struck
him, knocking him down, but he man
aged to crawl into tAe tent, and, Oliver
handing him his gun and ammunition,
both determined to resist as long as life
lasted. The Indians approached to
within fifty yards of the tent, and, Sc
creting themselves behind rocks and
trees, began their firing, which was re-
turned by the troopers. McKnapf, ex-
hausting his ammunition, rose to get
more, when he received ball through
the body. He cried, tom, fight them =
and expired. His partner, having been
wounded in the hip, and seeing his
chances were poor, determined to escape
if possible, and, grasping his knife in
one hand and rifle in the other, broke
through the brush to where their mules
were fastened, and, mounting one of
them, rode twenty-three miles, till he
reached a military camp near Phillips
rancho, on the Chugwater, where his
wound was dressed. A party of soldiers
returned and found the body scalped
and horribly mutilated, with all of the
camp equipage piled upon it. The re-
mains were brought in and buried.
McKnapf was formerly from Highland,
Madison county, ILL.,"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09

ONE of the most extraordinary judicial
errors on record was rectified in the first
week of this year in Bristol, Eng. A
man named Lewes had been convicted
on charge of stealing books. A few
days later il was found that the CRANE
Jury had failed to find true bill against
him, and had ignored the charge for
want of evidence. Nevertheless the
Magistrate had convicted him, although
he had not even been indicted, and when
the order arrived for his release, ne had
been close cropped and dressed in con-
vict uniform. Lewes threatens an ac-
ton for damages, but his chance OF re
dress probably depends largely upon bis
pecuniary means. luL.-AAa
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
EASTERN AND WESTERN GRAIN.
Demand for American Breadstufis Caused

Demand for American Breadstufis Caused
by the European Complications.
The latest developments in Europe
have. shown that no matter whether
there is to be war or not, we will GER
tainly profit to considerable extent
from the present complications in the
East. The concentration of soldiers by
Russia in the southern part of the en-
pire necessitates also concentration of
supplies in the neighborhood OF the
camps, and this creates an unusual de-
mand for all sorts of grains suitable for
use by the men and animals of the
army. The assemblage of troops in the
valley of the Danube, together with the
fact of terrible destruction both of
human life and of cereals during the
last spring by the Bashi- Bazouks, In
Bulgaria, causes, in the towns and coun-
try along the river, scarcity OF food,
that has not as yet amounted to famine,
but which 8 said to be becoming ex-
tremely unpleasant.
The movements of the troops and
the necessities of the armies on both
sides have, however, caused the ex-
portation of grain and cattle to come
to standstill both from Southern
Russia. and from the Danube valley.
These two regions, which, in prosper
GUS times, have furnished very con-
siderable portion of the grain needed
by England and Western Europe, have
thus, in effect, become as utterly I'M
productive as if they hal been sud-
denly tran. formed into deserts. From
this time on, until permanent peace is
proclaimed and commerce is resumed,
these districts will be not only non.
productive, but, in all probability, will
be very heavy consumers, since food
for the armies must be furnished, and
it is not likely that the two regions in
question will be able to supply even
enough to feed the thousands of greedy
soldiers who have been so suddenly
poured into those parts of the CONT
nent.
The cessation of expectation will be
commercial death to the Russian and
Turkish ports. but it means money in
the pockets of American grain merchants
and exporters generally. England
and Western Europe must have grain,
and If it do not come from the East, il
must be brought from the West. The
people who consume do not care whence
their supply is procured, so that it is
constant, regular and sufficient. There
is no doubt that American grain can be
sold in Liverpool as cheaply as grain
from Odessa, and, when the supply
from the latter port and contiguous re-
gions is stopped, we ought to be able to
sell twice as much as before. While, of
course, no American would rejoice at the
calamities of Eastern Europe, we can
not help being well satisfied to profit
pecuniarily by the misfortune the East,
ern nations have brought on themselves.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
THE FIRE RECORD FOR 1875.

Nearly sixty-five Million Dollars Worth
of Property Destroyed In the United
States.
The New York Insurance Chronicle
gives fre-record for 1876. 1t shows
that by 9.301 fires, observed and re-
ported during 1876, the amount of prop
erty destroyed was $73, ITO, 800, of which
sum the insurance companies paid $685.
262, 100. These last two items for 1875
were $50, 1913, 035 and $43, 631 700 re-
spectively. Arranged by locality the
fires of 1876 did their business as fol-
lows, as far as the United States was
cOncarned
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
Railway Accidents.

The record of accidents on the rail-
roads has just been officially published
for the past year. They were much
fewer than for last year or 1873, and
two more than for 1874. The percent
age, however, of accidents ascribed to
negligence or malice was larger this
year than for some years past, fact
that might suggest superabundanc of
tramps and incompetcncy in the cheaper
help now employed on most of the
roads. A comparative statement of the
accidents OF the past four years is as
follows
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
Cut This Out.

The Grand Central Hotel. Broadway, New
York, is in every respect first-class hotel.
1t has few equals, no superiors. Every line OF
stages pass the door. II is easy walking dis
lance to principal stores and places of amuse-
ment. The rooms are large, airy and elegantly
furnished the table and attendance all the
most fastidIous could desire, and last, but not
least, the prices have been reduced to e2.tC
and $3 per day.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
Electricity as a Germinator.

DIR. virson, Superintendent of the
italian Experimental Silk Farm at
Padua, has discovered that the hatch
ing of silk-worm eggs of suitable age
may be accelerated by a period of ten
to twelve days, and yield of at least 40
per cent. of silk-worm caterpillars Sc
cured by exposing the eggs to current
of negative electricity from Holtz ma
chine for a space of eight or ten min
utes. 1t is suggested that the same
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
"Old Reliable."

There are many reputed remedies for that
very prevalent disease, Chronic Nasal Catarrh,
but none which have given general satisfac-
ton and become acknowledged standard prep
arations except DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
1t continues to enjoy an unprecedented popu-
larity. This reputation has been earned throug h
the permanent cures which it has wrought,
having proved itself specific in the worst
forms Of the disease. Pierce's Pocket Memo
randum Books are given away at drug stores.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09

MANY people, particularly children,
suffer with the earache and for the benefit Of
such we give sure but simple remedy. Put
in two or three drops of Johnsons Anodgne
Lininaent, stop the ear with undressed wool,
battle the feet in warm water before going to
bed and keep the head warm at night.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-02-09
An Extended Popularity.

Each year finds "BRowN's BRONCHIAL
TRoCHEs" in new localities in various parts OF
the world. For relieving Coughs, Colds and
Throat Diseases, the Troches have been proUed
reliable. Obtain only "BnowN's BRONCHIAL
TRocHEs," and do not take any Of the worth
less limitations that may be offered. Sold
Eueru,pl.ere.