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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-30

In 1868 entries were made in but four
teen of the States and Territories, viz. /:
California, Colorado, Dakota, Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Min
nesota, Nebraska, Ohio, Oregon, Wis
consin and Washington. No entries
were made in any of the Southern States
until 1866, and in Louisiana not until
1867, on account of the war. From the
passage of the act up to 1871 there was a
steady and rapid increase in the number
of entries, the number that year reach
ing 1854, but in 1874, the year sue
ceeding the panic, the number of entries
fell off to %, ITO, and to still less in the
two succeeding years. The increase,
which barely commenced in 1877, has
become very apparent in 1878, the num-
Der of entries for the first six months be-
ing nearly equal to any whole year since
the panic, with fair prospect of exceed
ing any of the years that have preceded
it. The change in the tide of eInigra-
ton at different periodsfs quote notice
able. In 1876 Colorado received 825,
and In the first half of 1878 there were
4, 1913 entries. Kansas shows in the same
period gain from 1856, in 1875, to
$500 in 1878; Minnesota, from 234 to
1862, and Washington from 800 to $50.
California, under the influence of the
general prostration in the East, ran up
from 1,521 in 1873 to 3, 400 in 1875, but
fell off to 1,746 in 1877, and 923 during
the first half of the present year. Florida
went from 459 in 1873 to 1,766 in 1875,
and ], 1855 in 1877. Michigan, VISION
sin and Alabama show great decline,
doubtless from the fact that most of the
desirable lands have been taken, as in
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, where the
land system has but q nominal existence.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-30

q ss maY tate in the premises will be
Il N app iatoa when il is stated that
IL total amount of dollars coined
aud now n firoulstion here and abroad
ia e35. 90, 3d. Washington Cor. Chi
cd0o 7ribuha.I
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-30
PUBLIC LANDS.
Entt11c ve1pr the Homestead II II
Culture Acts- "

Culture Acts. "
Able IS been prepared in tho 9en-
eral Lend Office, in Washington, bow
ing the number of entries upon 6 pub
lie hands made in each State and Terri
tory under the Homestead and Timber
Culture acts. Since the passage of the
original Homestead act, May 20, 1862,
to June 30, 1878, the aggregate number
of entries in each year was as follows:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS oLHANrNas.

The twenty-seventh annual meeting
of the American Association for the Advance
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-30

: A prominent New York newspaper is
authority for the statement that the Sherman
Anderson letter, the document which it was
said was given by Secretary sherman to The
witness, James E. Anderson, OF Louiaians, has
been found, and is now either in the hands or
under the control Of the Potter committee.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-30

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The figures for 1873 include only half
theyear, from Jan. l to June 80, inclusive.
BY States the entries are as follows:
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-12-27

God what means this T? What ia this
solemnity-ths hesitation? Tread some
thing dreadful in your face"
He turned to her the full expression
of that face. IIe gazed into her eyes.
AS if unwilling to speak he pointed to
the fading sky above their heads.
"What p she gasped.
"He is dead"
She fell heavily upon his arm, with
out shrek, or wall, or moan. The un-
happy woman had tainted. Happy for
her had it been the undonsciousness of
death, for all the wealth of life had been
robbed from her in thosa few words for
the broken hearted in this world live on
ly in the torture Of memory.
And so the brief course of one sun
had measured off one human life-from
EXTREMIST happiness to EXTREMIST misery,
and in one short summer day heart
had broken forever.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-12-27
p uetieal.
THE MERMAIDEN

They say that a mermaid combs her hair
Under the wave of the western sea,
Where the sun sinks down TO bis couch at
night,
Into the wave so fierce and free;
Then the wind is hushed gu the turbulent
deep,
And the waters are SILENT aud all things sleep.
Sailors sailing over the main,
Over the wave of the western sea,
Tell of strange unearthly strain
Floating past them dreamly;
Ii sings in the shrouds, they know it well;
But what it sings of none may tell.
CLEAN of beauty, a sound of love,
Is seen, is heard, on the western sea;
radiance about the brow of Eve;
A note of far-off minstrelsy
Alb ! who can tell what this thing may be,
Which is seen, which is heard, on the west
ern sea
| The Maynard waters rush and roll
On the restless wave of the western sea
But no sign from above, no voice from below
From the depths may tell what this can be
| only know of the sunset-light,
And that voice that floats on the wings o.
night
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-12-27
Country Social Life.

Country folks are in general so fully
occupied with the affairs that they have no
time to discover how lonesome they really
are. SO far as this is concerned we think
it misfortune. We are too busy. We
work too hard. We take few or no holt
days. We read and think too little and
do not spend sufficient time in social cul-
ture. There is no reason why those
who pillow the soil or "whose talk is of
bullocks" should not experience the re-
6nements which are the result of former
social life. In business, at bargains, in
pursuit of dollars, no man is seen at his
best. He is thorny, spiny, with his
back up as porcupine might be at his
business. Let one dof his working
clothes and enter room full of his
neighbors-men, women, young men and
maidens--and he is a man of another
kind. He naturally falls into the ways
Of an intuitive kindness which is really
the truest politeness, the doing to his
companion what he would that be should
do to him. He "lets himself OUT to
please, and, after an evening spent in
social converse, he retires with many
rough corners and asperities toned down.
For few days the influence remains.
1t would be permanent if it could be re-
inforced now and then, and the good
results would be most agreeable and use
full. There is no difficulty in bringing
these influences to bear Two or three
persons, with energy and some magnet
ism about them, can put them in motion
with case. Now is the time to begin the
effort.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-12-27

THINK OF TINS. Here is a quiet de-
scription of what every woman has been 4,
or hopes to be---a bride. She quits her
home, her parents, her occupations, her
amusements-everything on which she
has hitherto depended for comfort, for af-
lection, for kindness, for pleasure. The
parents by whose advice she has been
guided, the sisters to whom she dared
impart every embryo thought and feel
ing the brother who has played with her
by turns the counselor and counselcd,
and the younger children, to whom she
has hitherto been the mother and the
playmate--all to be forsaken at one fell
stroke, every tie is loosened, the spring
of every hope and action is changed and
yet she flies with JOY into the untrolden
path before her. Buoyed up by conf
dencc of requited love, she bids fond
grateful adieu to the life that is past, and
turns with excited hopes and Joyous an
ticipation ,of happisess to como. Then
woe to the man who can blight such fair
hope, break the illusions that have won
her, and destroy the confidence that love
had inspired
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-12-27

One Of the saljest and most vexntious
trials that comes 20 girl when she mar
rics is that she has to discbarge her
mother and depend upon hired girl for
help.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-12-27
OUR GRANDPARENTS WATCH.

Our grandfather's ticker
Was too big for his vest,
so he wore 1t in his dusler tail pocket;
And one day goin to town
In that farm wagon of our'n
The jounciu' of the vehicle broke It.
All of sudden his.big hand
Under his duster tail he ran,
AS his eyes and his mouth he opened wide,
But it had stopped short, aa
Never 10 go again,
And the old man cried.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-12-27

A grim. hard-bcaded old judge, after
hearing a Howery discourse from a pre-
tentioas young barristcr, advised bin 10
pluck out some Of the feathers from the
wings Of bis Imagination and put them
IN the tail Of bis Judgment
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-12-27

thought to mention it to Mrs. Jordan
when telling her, as pleasantly as he
could of the public interest in her hus-
bands trial and of the crowds which
sought admission to the scene of the
trial.
Poor woman! While, as she wrestled
in this morning prayer, the strained Wis
ion of her loving fancy was turned to
her husband, there were other eyes more
nearly watching him, feversh, fugitive,
cat-like eyes, that were never withdrawn
from him as he sat waiting the verdict
of the jury-waiting his fate while the
paling sunshine through the widows
came to him as messengers from home.
Again she kneels and prays. Again
she looks out on the long brown road
that comes down the green slope of the
valley. This time not in vain. A light
springs to her eyes, and the blood beats
in her throat; for she sees horseman
squirting furously down the valley,
while clouds of dust, sprinkled with sun
shine, float behind him. He waves a
white handkerchief.
1t is not her husband. It is not
Maitland. 1t is a Mexican vanquero
What can it mean? But there is good
news 10 his face
"Bueno! bmeno ;" cries the man as
he leaps to the ground before he has
stopped his horse, checks him with lis
lariat, and presents folded paper he has
carried in his sash. How great a JOY in
SO few words:
'Jordon is acquitted, thanks to God
| send messenger at once. Myself and
j. will be with you in an hour or two
Faithfully, john MAITLAND.
And knceling again, this time il
thanklulness and praise, the relieved
wife is too happy for words except those
due TO God
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-12-27

READ AGRICULTURE. Young man.
before beginning TO read law. medicine
Or theology ask yourself if it would not be
better to read agriculture and practice it,.
Arc not the so-called learned professions
crowded to their utmost capacity? Is
there not a more inviting field open be-
fore you as learned farmer, than n
learned lawyer, divine or doctor2 To
attain distinction in any Of these pro-
fessions, you will, most likely, have to
60 through the starving process for
several years, aud TO labor harder than
any farmer labors. Think Of these things
If you don't think OF them now, you
will think Of them often before you make
a living by your profession.
Look on the bright side, the right one.
Times may be hard, but it will make
them no easier to wear a gloomy counte-
nance. IL is the sunshine, and not the
clouds, that makes flowers. The sky is
blue ten times whe:e il is black once
You have tr0ubles--so have others
None are free from them. Troubles give
tone and sinew to life--fortitude and
courage ~ man. That would be dull
sea, aud the sailors never get their skill
where there was nothing to disturb It's
surface. What though things look a
little dark, the lane will turn and the
night will end 10 broad day.
Human affections are the leaves, the
foliage Of our being, they catch every
breath, and 10 the burden and beat Of
the day they make music and graceful
motion in sultry, sombre world -
Stripped Of this foliage, how unsightly /
is poor human nature.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-10-24

The fellow who was lsyed out found
himself 10 stralghieued circumstances.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-10-24
now TO DISCOURAGE a MINISTER.

Eleven ways are suggested by the Ad'
vance by which minister may be broken
down in spirit and ruined in Influence
We condcnse the advice, hoping Il may
provoke some TO repentance:
1. Go to church only occasionally,
and when you go, go late; take no part in
the singing, norin following the Scripture
readings, but keep up whispering.
2. Find all the fault You can, Point
ont his DEFICIENCIES before your children
aud others.
3. Don't aid his work but despse his
lack Of good sense.
1. Tell tales to him about the people
aud their criticisms about him.
5. Tell him how much his predeces'
sors were thought Of.
6. Keep away from all weekday meet
ings.
z. Get up saycties particularly some
entertainment near the communion sea
ION.
3. Require him to be present every
where
Q. lie breaches at home, insist on
exchanges; aud II abroad, complain that
Lc is never at home.
10. Keep back bis salary.
IL. Keep talking about general di5sat-
isiaction.
Patient continuance in these practices
will surely drive away both The Spirit
OF God and the minister oi God.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-10-24
sAlAnlrs rnr ssolrsn cLaRe,

Ia addition to their stated SALARIES. ihs
srchbithops aud bishops kAvc each an
episcopal residence OF palace reni Tree,
aud residences are also furnished With
The deans Of the eAihcdrals, The AFch-
bishop Of Csutcrbury's salary Is $4,000
per year, that Of toe Archbishop Of York
I $4,000. Rishop Of London SO 0l0, Bish-
op Of nurhsm $4,000, Bishop Of Win
chester ss3. 600, Bishop OF Ely $1,000
six bishops have S25 600 each, eight have
S22 500 each, eight others have $4,000
each, one, the Bishop oi Truro, has Sl5.-
600, aud Que, the Bishop Of sodor aud
Man, has but sl2 900 The average sala.
ry Of The thirty arohbisbops aud bishops
I il $40, 100 To The various calhedfals
there are twenty-uine deans, With an
average salary of 81 ,007 each. The bigh-
est Is that of the Dean of Durham, 3d..
coo, aud the lowest S4,025, that OF the
Dean OF ST. David's. The deans OF Paul
and Westminster have $4,000 each
Most Of tho eathedrals have also from
four TO six eanons each. The whole
number il i2s, and the average salary
S3,sl9. A number receive as mnch as
50 $50 each and few have as little as
1850. The most expensive see Is that
OF Durham. The bishop has $40 goo and
the dean si5, 600; one canon has 81 300,
five other eanons have $4,000 each, and
three srchdeaeons receive an aggregate
OF s., ,290, The total OF items given is
$94 100. This, however, Is only part o.
the whole expense, for there are prcbeud
aries, minor canons, singing men, chorist'
ers, a treasurer, chancellor, registrar,
chapter clerk, etc. besides, who are 3
part OF the force OF every cathedral. In a
parash rector is more than mere ten.
ant. He is the absolute owner OF the par.
sonage, glebe lands, aud other parocbial
real property for life. II is possible to
dspossess him of his beneflce, but this is
a thing very rarely done, and is by no
means an easy matter The rector owns
tutn ploItiNl just NJ AhuSu a. NHN buhp "
Deyonshire owns his vast estates, The
rector cannot sell It, II Is true, neither
can the Dnke OF Devonshre sell his with
out special act Of Parliament. Nearly
all the large estates in the kingdom are
under the law Of entail, that Is, the de-
scent Is fixed, and the owner cannot sell
II, or change the course OF descent. How
ever, when all interested parties are
agreed, the estate may be disentailed by
special act of Parliament. The value OF
livings is various. The clergy list gives
the incomes OF over $4,000 beneiices--
mostly parishes from these i APP
pears that 1854 elergymen get less than
$500 per year; 2,99l get from $500 to Sl,-
600; 1853 get from 81 900 to $4,000; l, !.
500 get from S2,500 TO $1,000; 240 get
above 50 900, aud the remaining incomes
are not stated The average OF those
stated is 81 600, and TO this must always
be added the use of the parsonage, rem
free.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-10-24
rns noll, .,.tsa o. ns.t.e

E.r. Holly of l.ookpori, y A., sop o.
Birdsill Holly, Toe Inventor. Is IA this
city lookiog aiier Ibe lntreducliop u tho
Holly s9stem oi steam heatlaF, with
which The gas.iigbl company ia about 30
experiment The extension of the steam
pipes, now going Ia on Main street, from
the oorneg ai Elm 10 The corner of Stslc,
will give much better opportunity tot
testing system than could have been -.
cured on Elm stree, atone, aud most Of
the stores on that portion Of Main street
viii soon he enjoying the la1ary of steam
heat. Tho Holly system has undnred one
winter. test II Lockport. n y, where
Z it wss frst introduced, aud Tie officers ot
our gas company, who visited that city,
found that the people there would not
+ part with u on auy consideration Among
tho buildings heated was one of lhe larg.
est school houses In the city. and the
board at education testify that Il wasney.
CT heated 50 well before. Tho steam Is
also used IN Lockpori ior power, aud
baker balla mile from the boiler house has
run sleu horse power engine with Il,
using the steam afterwards for heating
both bis bakery aud dwelling, Tho Holly
company are satisfied, from their expert
ments, that steam can be carried, through
their heavily protected pipes, the
extraordinary distance Of II miles, (pro-
yided a Il inch main be used) without
condensing enough to prevent The heatioS
OF dwellings at that distance. Practically
however, Il will be found more economi.
cal TO carry 1t only two or threo miles,
aud II is estimated that eight or ten bat.
teries OF boilers, located at convenient
oenters, wonld be sufficient to heat tho
whole OF The city Of New York, where, by
the way, this system Is to be introduced
as soon as two rival companies, who have
purchased the right, can settle their ac.
counts with the board Of aldermen. The
arrangements Of the boilers Is such that
the mains are never deprived of beat day
or night, aud as they cannot be touched
by frost, the loss from condensation out
side Of the houses, Is exceedingly small
Tho pressure ON the street mains will be
from 40 to GO pounds, but regulators.
placed IN the cellars, will limit the house
pressure TO foar pounds, aud Ia mild
weather will be ample with less than two
pounds pressure. The radiators are 80
arranged as to be noiseless, aud the water
condensed in the houses will be carried
away in the sewers. Pipes under side
walks will keep them clear IN winter, at
the trining expense Of five cents for mott
Ing ton of snow. The cost OF putting ia
the apparatus will be about the same as
for the purchase Of furnace, bat where
furnaces are already in, steam coils can
be placed inside OF them, aud The heat
supplied through The registers rs at pres
ent. The cost Is guaranteed 10 be no
more than Tor the same amount OF heat
from coal, aud will probably be less
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-10-24
GOOD or 4 sEitmoN

That was good sermon, was Il not
that we had last sunday
True for you, yer honor, an allganI
one IL done me power Of good, intire'
",
I'm glad Of that. Can you tell nc
what particularly struck your What wa'
Il about?
oh, well, scratching bis head, don't
rightly just exactly know. I--a--I,
a. where's the use in telling liesf sure
don't remember one single 'diyidual
word Of it, good or bad. sorra bit Of ne
kno 9s what il was about at all.
Aud yet you say il did you power d
goodY
So Il did sir. III stick to that.
! don't see how.
Well now, yer honor, look here. Theirs
my shirt that the wife is after washing
and clean aud white II 10, by reason of all
the water and the soap and the starch
that's gone through II. Bat dot drop oI
'em aii--water, or sosp, or starch, Or
blue has stayed in dye zee. And lbar'
Just tie same With me aud that sermon.
It's run through me, yer honor, an ifs
dried oui Of me bat al the same, jast
Ike my Sunday shirt, I'm the better aud
The cleaner for H.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-10-24

An editor VITO has been married
bot few days. inquiries seriousiy, IL
civil wag iminlnentf This looks bad.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-10-24

| am no fanatic, hope, az 10 saHdag;
bat lock abroad over the map Of popu.
lsr freedom IN the world, and Il does not
seem 10 me seeIdenlsl that Swilzerland, /,
Scotland, England, snd tbe United
States, the countries which best observe
sunday, constitute almost the entire
map OF safe popnlaF government.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-10-24

II isn't Kearney thai makes eommu.
nists Of men; Il isn't yiolent bafangues,
aud incendiafy speeches. Il Isn't the vie,
eious teachings Of hot.beaded demagognes
that mskes men communists. u i when
the president aad directors of solid in.
suFsnce company; when the president aud
directors 81 Boston Or Chicago savings
bank get the bard earned dollars oflabor.
Ing men and working women into their
own hsnds and then divide Il up among
themselves and retain their stations IN
The bes, society; these are tbe things that
make the common people ihink that dl-
vision 81 eli property wonid benefit the
poor quite - much 81 special division
of the savings 81 the poor among The few.
We started out to say something funnY
on this theme, bat s0me how o. ofher
when yoa get dosa into 4 there's moth
lag faasY about.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-10-24
A QUEER EIsnnI,

| An account of remarkable incident
comes from Aurora, Indiana. A few
days ago, as trio Of young men, one q
son Of prominent citizen of this city,
were fishing Tor bass in Hogan creek,
near Aurora, they were disturbed by u
splash in the water az OF some animal
jumping into the stream. Looking In
the direction whence the sound came they
saw large black hog, which had evident.
ly come down from among the roaming
lots of porkers which make life burden
in and around the town, swimming rapid.
ly toward the center Of the pool, which
was about one hundred feet wide and
eight feet deep. At about the center tho
animal disappeared, renaining under the
water for considerable time, aud on re-
appearing was seen TO have IN bis mouth
fine live bass abOut eight inches long
with which be swan ashore. and, on arr
riying on land, proceeded 10 eat with the
avidily aud relish peculiar to its species
After having swallowed The last yestige,
With 4 grunt the animal again betook
himself 10 tbe water, and again diyed 10
The bottom remaining Q considerable
time. Coming up with snort, he made
again for the shore win another Gsh.
which he Dispatched Us quickly ~ before.
This was repeated lhfd Time, aud ou
the fourth Zip ihe animal secured a email
turtle, which be also carried ashore, and.
after somo difficulty mauaged to dispatch.
breaking the sbei With bis strong teeih
after which II smbled Oh satisfied with ".
fishing experiences for The day.
The story i remarkable, bat IL vouebsi
for by young gentleman Of uDdoubted
yeracity, a son of Mr. Henry W. Smith,
Of this city, who was present and saw he
same performance. He thinks the animal
must have caught the fishes under the
lodges Of rock al The bottom Of the stream
80 il seemed TO be roofing among the
stones while under the water. Il 10 re.
lated that gentleman At some uncertain
period had trained hog which excelied
the most keen scented aud thoroughly
trained bnnung dogs 10 pointing f0r game
but this il The tirst instance on record Of
an animal a. an expert 10 the fishing line
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-10-24
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