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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-07
WILLY.
BIT r. a. srorDARD.

take his picture from my knee,
And press IL To my lips sgain;
see a hundred in my brain,
Aud all Of him, and dear TO me.
He nestles On his nurses arms.
His young eyes wlnkinR In the light
hear his sudden shrek at night.
Startled in dreams by vain alarms.
We walk the noor and hush his moan;
Again he sleeps-we kiss his brow
toss him on nv shoulder now
His majesty is on his thronel
His kingiy clutch is in my hair;
He sees a rival in the glass;
II stares aud passes as we pass
II fades. breathe the country air
see a cottage leagues from here;
garden ne ar some orchard trees;
leafy glimpse OF creeping seas;
And in the cottage something dear;
square of sunlight on the floor.
Blocked from the window; in the square
happy child with heavenly hair,
To whom the world Is more and more.
He sees the blue fly beat the pane,
Buzzng away the noontide hours,
The terrace grass, the scattered flowers,
The beetles, and the beads OF rain.
The narrow arboi draped with vines.
The light that like an emerald shines,
The small bird hopping to and fro.
He drinks their linked beauty in:
They I'LL the thoughts with silent JOY;
But now he spies a late-dropped toy,
And all his noisy pranks begin.
They bear him to an upper room
When comes the eve; he huns for me,
Like some voluptuous, drowsy bee
That shuts his wings Ill honeyed gloom.
see a shadow in a chair
see a shadowy cradle go:
hear duty soft and low
The mother and the child are there!
At length the palm OF sleep Ia shed
Cine bud contains my bud ana flower;
They sleep and dream, and hour by hour
Goes by, while angels watch the bed.
Sleep on, and dream, ye blessed pair
My prayers shall guard ye night and day
Ye guard me so, We make me pray
Ye make my happy life prayer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-07
HER LETTER.
By BRET HARTE.

I'm sitting alone by the fire.
Dressed lust as came from the dance
I'm a robe even you would admire
IT cost q cool thousand in France
I'm be-dianlOnced out OF all reason,
NV hair il done mp in cue,
Tn abort, sir ''tbe belle Of the season
Il wasting an nour ON you.
A dozen engagements I've broken;
left in the midst of a set;
Likewise proposal half-spoken,
THAT vaits--on the stairs-for me yet.
They say he'll be rich--when he grows up
And then he adores me indeed,
And Won, sir are turning your nose up,
Three thousand miles off, as you read.
81 And how 10 like roy position?"
"And what do 1 think Of New York;"
" And now, in my higher ambition,
With whom do waltz nirt or talk ~
oAnd isn't IL nice 20 have riches,
And diamonds and silks, and all that?
" And aren't II change to the bitches
And tunnels Of Poverty Flat?"
Well. yes-if You saw us out driving
Each day in the park, four-in-hand-
If you saw poor dear mamma contriying
To look supernaturally grand
II You saw papa's picture, as taken
BY Brady, and tinted at that.
You'd never suspect he sold bacon
And -four at Poverty Flat.
And yet Just this moment, when sitting
In the hustle and glitter BETTING
The " finest sCiree OF the year,
IN the mists of gauze de Chambery,
And the hum of the smallest of talk
Somehow, Joe, thought OF the Ferry"
And the dance that we had on 1.-THE Fork"
OF Harrison's barn, with its muster
OF flags festooned over the wall
OF the candles that shed their soft luster
And tallow on head-dress and shawl
OF the steps that we took to one hddle;
OF the dress of my queer vis-a-vis;
And how once went down the middle
With the man that shot Sandy McGee.
OF the moon that was quietly sleeping
On the hill when the time came 70 go;
OF the few baby peaks that were peeping
From under their bedclothes of snow;
OF that ride-that 10 me was the rarest;
OF the something you said at the gate;
All, Joe, then wasn't an heiress
To "the best-paying lead IN the State"
Well, well, it's all past; yet it's funny
To think, as stood IN the glare
or fashion, and beauty and money,
That should be thinking right there,
or some one who breasted high water.
And swan the North Fork, and all that,
just TO dance with old Folinsbee's daughter,
The Lily of Poverty Flat
But, goodness! what nonsense I'm writing.
(Mamma says my taste Is still low,
Instead of my triumphs recitiDR,
I'm spooning on Joseph -heigh-hol
And I'm TO be " finished " by travel
Whatevers the me anirg Of that
Oh, why did papa strike pay gravel
In drifting on Poverty Flat?
Good-nigh the end OF my paper;
Good-night-if the longitude please
For maybe, while wasting my taper,
Your suns climbing over the trees.
But you know, If you haven't got riches,
Aud are poor dearest Joe, and all that
That my hearts somewhere there in the bitches
And you've struck it--on Poverty Flat.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-07

"Well, Miss Kitty Thorne al,oayshad
an eye to the main chance" said her
neighbors. "She Tilted Searle when he
was poor, and now he is rich she marries
him. What a fool q woman can make
of a sensible man-only it usually takes
a young one !"
The daily gazette., 1878-10-11

and renderit possible for a man IN. rpp
10 'Frisco and dispose Of hims, If and his
STOCKS with the utmost celerity and re-
turn at once to build I'D his exhaust, n
frame and make more money. Pine, u
Opera Honee hes become too small TO
accommodate its patrous, ,"at some of the
4, shaIoons men nave to wait their turns
:, peIofe drinking" and "gilded dens" are
big with the spirit of the times.n
Truly a new era of prosperity has
daw for Virginia City, and from the
ltast TO the greatest its citizens may clan
thelr bands like the rams and skip like
the httie hills. They may drink Them
selves drunk without thought of the NOR
row, and if they do not make that sort of
nay while the sun shiLes we are greatly
mistaken q them. They have found their
mississippi Scheme and their uli ps ready
prepared Tor them on paper in he bowels
OF the earth, and as they know that hard
times are sure to come in very short Or
der, it would be the height Of unwisdom.
as they look upon unwisdom, not 10 en-
Joy themselves before the evil days come.
only few months ago." says the
Chrofacte, "only the wealthiest citizens
''and very few at that-coulh afford 10 90
uoWn TO The Bay except on rare or i'm
portant occasions" and everybody not
only wishes to get there as soon as posi-
PIE, put clamors to be put through ON a
hghtning train. A man examines his
stock Quotations, draws 81 900 from his
broker, starts out to have good time and
by the time his mouey is gone-and that
ls not long, we may be sure-he finds
tina bis stock is several feet higher than
when he left town, and so he draws for
more. This is an extremely .xhilar atine
state Of affairs for poor devils who have
been starving for NJ months with dry throats
and eyes unseeinR of sights, and they
| make the best 1t. The American cay Il
scars high and money flows like water
Presently turn in the tide will come
and the prodigal sons Of capital will take
to enawing husls. The rich man now
| will be the poor man then, and likely
| enough the poor man now, If any sucl
there be-, will be as poor as ever. 1t Is 8
| delightful condiiion-that of flush mar
in flush tim, who locks out for enjoy
| ment, and we trust he will ,ake patiently
his sermons and soda-water the day af
ter.-N. Y. World.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-11
An Era of Prosperity.

After some months of bard-pan depres
sion Virginia City. New, has sprung
with a bound to the top round OF OF pros
nerity. quite as if, instead of finding new
veins of'silver, it's inhabitants had struck
a whole mine of greenbacks brand-crisp
from the press. Fabulous fortunes are
made in day, and, as the local Chroni-
Gle saws, "every foot that the Sierra n Ne e.
+" yada incline goes down makes the
" town SlOO OOO richer"-not as the suo-
sidence of a mountain chain in old geo
logical times might possibly nave peeh pee,
nroductive of some sort of real wealth.,
but as will ever be the case when tnere
ia chance tor stock gambling. Inc
neople of Virginia City take their goou
fortnne with Western hilarity, and easy
come easy 90" is their motto. In nush
times it would evidently be the absolute
baseness of parsimony for a man 10 % 10
careful of his money, since money ~
merely n medium of exchange, anu
therefore to produce its only reasonaole
effect sbould be exchanged for something
e,se as soon as possible, in order that a
healthy circulation may be kept up IN. Inc
excited people are demanding n nsh
n, No train for San Francisco every nlght
INSTEAD of the one which, now leaves
three times a week. They have sent sh
Mt petition to the officers OF tne zen, u
trail Pacific Railroad to hurry up ina''ei'
The daily gazette., 1878-10-11

w WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.
Atthe opening of the Fall term: Mon
day, Sept. 8, 1873 there will be N E W
President, NEW furniture. NEW repairs
the modern conveniences NEWLY intro
duced to add to the comfort Of tho young
ladies both in The public and private
rooms, and all this at the OLD Prices.
For catalogues address the president,
REV. j. M. WILLIAMS, A. M.
ix,I-
The daily gazette., 1878-10-11
War Deemed Inevitable.

LONDON, October 1.-THE Times dis.
patch from Constantinople says that in
both Turkish and Greek circles the idea
is gaining that war is inevitable An in.
tiuential party in the Turkish Council
headed by Osman Pasha, even holds thai
purely defensive policy is impossible
for military reasons. The Central News
Agency has report that the Russian
Videttes are within fifteen miles of Con
stantinople. Tue British Government is
anxious, and is re. olved to Immediately
demand an exclamation.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-11
The Chinese Fanatics.

Hone KONG, Sept. 12.-Tbe difficulties
between foreign Christian missions and
native fanatics continue In the province
of tn Kien, and churches and schools
have been burned by the rioters. Danger
GUS mobs have coDgregated in the dit
trict of Chusan, in consequence Of op-
pressive taxation, and 100000 peasants
threaten to rise at Ningpoo. The officials
have only few thousand troops in the
neighborhood. Several lives. have already
been lost in desultory conflicts.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-11
bilmington Markets.
,DELPHIA MARKETS.
Wednesday, Oct. 0, 3 p. NJ.

tuutSudyj CSe' " - AZ.
1.-THE market continues dull and
ID barely maintained. Sales OF
kls, including Minnesota extra,
E5S Tor new wheat, up to 81 rs for
4 Pennsylvania do. do, at 81 62h
[v wheat; Western do. do. at ~ rs
uew wheat, and patent and other
des at sS q $50. Rye Flour ID
y s5 for Penna.
Wheat was active, but prices
rctlOn lower sales OF 10, 900
Including red at 50 c., o 81 OF ;
lQY al4; No. Q red, in eleva-
lNS, and white at 81 05 a / on I;
at 81 OK lO2h, October, and
MEMBER. Rye Is neglected. We
uihefn at 5Oc., and Western at 90
Corn is very quiet, the demand
nhned to the wants OF the local
n sales of 1000 bushels, in
rejected and steamer at II a 4sc ;
ELEVATOR. at &c; yellow, in oars
depot, at SOC; and sail, mixed ,
October. 41ac Novem be. Oats
iye, buyers holding on for lower
sales Of 10000 bushels, including
.s8sc, new white at Na30c.
FBlle at 81 a 33c.
kfY-N bbls. OF Western iron
DID al 81 10 per gallon.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-11
RAILROADS.

kDELPHIA, WILMINGTON q
IlMORE RAIL ROAD.
September 23rd, 1878.
Will leave Wilmington as follows
elf'lia and Intermediate Stations,
700, sf. 10 90 a. M, 2 80,
siC, ,, IN.
4 ana New York, 2 90, 8 a. 0 At a. m.
4 to, p. m.
ort and Intermediate statians,
pre- and Washington, 70 81, IL, s3s.
2,59, 500, p. m,
iof Delaware Division, lea We FOR:
.s.le, o'2O, s.l5, a. m. Los, 8 30. d. IN.
Rlon and Intermediate Stations
', %, go p. m.
p. m.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
lPhia and Intermediate stations
800. $50, p. m.
elpn'a aud New York, 200, 8 a, q.
0'e and washiSgton, 1851, IIe q
oe, u ,hn Information passengers are
II. +. KENNEY
snuerintendent
The daily gazette., 1878-10-11
HOME INSTITUTE,

viii open its FALL TERM, Monday,
Septem Der 9th, with The usual number OF
capable and earnest teachers. This school
besides having the. great advantage of
home training, has special and competent
Instructors in ELoOUTfoN, FRENC /,
MATHEMATICS and NJ UsIC. Object Les
sons and Object Drawing taught by sys-
tenn used In no other school in Whining
ton. SENIOR, MIDDLE. junior and
PRIMARY CLASSES. Each recitation
strictly and carefully marked. Monthly
reports sent to parents. Number of beard
ing pupils limited. The only HOME day
and boarding SCI ool in the city. TERMS
MODERATE. For circulars, address
MRS. q MISS HOUSTON,
Home Institutes, 900 Delaware Avenue,
aug3l-d&wtf Wilmington, Del.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-11
BY and Large.
From the New York World, Dem.

From the New York World, Dem.
Taking the situation "by and large"
therefore, the Democrats have no cause to
be displeased with the results of Tues
days work. They made gains in the di-
rections where the fight was really waged
and strengthened considerably their posi-
ton for 1880. And S, me of them gained
healthful experience that hereafter may
prove salutary.
The daily gazette., 1878-10-11
EDUCATIONAL.
NTApLEWooD INSTITUTE,

Boys SO per quarter; Girls S45. stu
dents prepar ed for business, Yale or Har
ward Coleke. first class Professors.
JOSEPH SHORTLID0E, A. M,
The daily gazette., 1878-10-11

BULLS COUGh SYRUP
A fresh supply just received and for sale
wholesale and retail, by
Cor. s xth and Market Sts.
H. Fl. H. Horse Liniment.
A fresh stock received, and for sale by
z. JAMES BELT,
Cor. Sixth nd Market Sts.
Majors Centennial Cement,
For mending broken China, marble or
z. JAMES BELT.
Cor. sixth al d Market SITS.
Wire Hair Brushes,
Very superior to bristle bi ushes they
impart cooling all refreshing sensation
~ 'i'' ' z. JAMES BELT,
Cor. Sixth and Market SITS.
Leibig's Extract OF Meat,
In Hlb., Xlb., xlb: and Id. Jars, is sold
"A0''' z. JAMES BELT,
Cor. Sixth and MI rket streets.
Palmers Dandelion Coffee,
is not only less injurious than real cof-
fee but l. considered by those who have
used 1t to have positive remedial effects.
A fresh supply Just received. Sold whole
''''' ''''>' ~ " u. JAMES BELT,
Cor. Sixth and Market streets.
Hubball's Prepared Wheat.
This popular article OF children's food
may 10 '' " Z. JAMES BELT,
Cor. Sixth and Market streets.
| Chlorate of Potassium.
| One barrel just received, and sold whole.
2. JAMES BELT,
| Cor. Sixth and Market streets.
| Nursing Bottles and Fit ings,
! 2 JAMES BELT,
| Wholesale and Retail Druggist,
Corner Sixth aud Market streets.
The Best Qualities of MEDICINES
AT WILLIAMS
THE MOST RELIABLE PROPRIETARY
MEDICINES,
AT Ninth and Market.
Choice PERFUMERY, COLoGN &c
AT WILLIAMS
A fine assortment of HAIR, TOOTH, and
NAIL BRUSHES,
At Ninth and Market.
A choice I'm ported Key West, Pride OF Key
West or Greuley Cigar, s,
Choice FLAvoRING EXTRACTS,
Strong and Pure,
At Ninth and Market,
AT WILLIAMS
Fine AMERICAN 4 IMPoRTED SOAPS
" Get the best" WI LIAMS' sAPONA-
CEOUS DENTIFRICE,
AT WILLIAMS
Choice Goods, Accuracy IN dispensing and
Reasonable Prices.
WILLIAMS PRESCRIPTION STORE
apl2-tf Corner Ninth and Market
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-19
Legal Tender Circulation.

There seems to be a gathering
opinion that the resumption repeal
scheme will come to grief. Giving
color to this idea is the well under
stood fact, that the members of the
Senate Committee on Finance are
almost unanimously. of the opinion
that bill will be agreed upon by
the Committee at an early day,
which will be acceptable to the mod
crate men Of both Houses, as well as
generally acceptable to the business
men of the country. The success of
the Secretary of the Treasury in dis
posing, in New York, of $lOo,OOO,-
900 Al per cent. bonds, and the ap-
probation of legal tenders to within
quarter of cent of gold, has cor
vinced many of the opponents of
resumption that no legislation hos
tile to resumption on the 1st day of
January next can now be attempted.
The members of the Senate Commit
tee, with perhaps one or two excep-
tions, agree that the House bill to
repeal the Resumption act, which is
now being considered by the COM
mittse, is dead and beyond all hope
of resurrection. The COMMITTEES
have not formally decided upon the
features of the bill, in contemplation,
but upon one point they are almost
unanimous, and that is not to report
the House bill or any other PROPOSE
tion looking to repeal. This much,
at least, we are told, may be regard
ed as fixed. The fore-shadowings
of the bill to be presented, it is
thought, will contain something of
the following features:
bFrst-Legal tenders shall be accepted
at their face value for Customs duties after
July 1st.
SecOnd-Authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury to sell funding bonds for ls-
gal tenders.
Third-Repealing so much of the Re
sumption act as requires the retirement
and cancellation of so per cent. of legal
tenders for additional circulation issued to
National banks.
FOurth-Fixing the amount of legal
tenders to be maintained in circulation,
and prohibiting the Secretary of the Treas
ury from retiring or boarding for any pur-
poses whatever any portion of the amount
of legal tenders so established.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-19
Resumption.


Greeley said "the way to resume
was to resume" and the outlook al
this time, is, that that is about all
there is of it. A dispatch from Chi
cago, of Saturday last, says that the
practicability Of resumption has been
instaneed here to-day, in various
ways. At the Sub-treasury a $50
gold piece come in to be exchanged
for currency, and three coin checks
issued by the Collector of Customs
were deposited by the bank as cur
rency. Gold is beginning to be
paid out by the merchants quite free
The Northwestern National has
advertised that it will redeem IN
gold, at its counter, all its circulating
notes that may be presented.
The Third National bank, of Gin
cinnati, began, on Monday last, to
do the same, and other National
banks of that city are expected to
do likewise.
Really it does not look as if re-
sumptiop was such an everlasting
lob as some of our village fnanciers
look upon it to be. Will they not
have to come to time with the logic
of the times 4?
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-19
Important Decision.

A recent decision of Judge Bax-
ter, in the United States circuit
court of Cincinnati in the case
of the Merchants Bank Of
Toledo against the county Treasur-
er, attraetsmuch attention and com
ment through the country. 1t is
sturdy blow at reform, in a direc-
ton called for by common justice.
Our banks are taxed to death-tax-
ed invidiously, and with unfriendly
discrimination, and as shown illegal
ly. 1t is apparent from a citation of
the provisions of the laws regula-
ting taxation in this State. They
require that all property shall be
assessed for taxation at its actual
cash value, but this requirement is
notoriously disregarded, and as real
estate in Toledo was assessed al
about forty per cent. of its value as
stated by the Leader, the banks re-
fused to pay taxes on more than tor
tv Der cent. of the value of its shares
1t applied for an injunction to re
strain the collection of the tax assess
ed, which Judge Baxter has granted
He held that the principle of the law
and the constitution forbids the col
lection of higher rate of taxation
from one kind of property, as bank
shares, than is collected from other
kinds, or than would be assessed il
the same money were invested II
real estate. Also, he holds that the
National Banking act forbids the
State to levy any higher rate of tax
alton on National Bank shares thar
it levies on other property. This de-
cision is like to bring about more re
gard for equality in taxation on the
part of officials. And will be of ser
vice to banks generally, and especial
" to the Cleveland banks in theil
fight against the outrages of the State
Board of Equalization, SO called
which cut down the assessment Oi
the Cincinnati bank shares and rails
ed those of Cleveland beyond theil
total cash values as shown by theil
books. This Board of Equalization
is good deal of sham, and fraud
which is not only shown by the treat
ment of the banks of the northern
and southern cities of the State, bu
also of country banks. 1t is ever
claimed, and with some showof plau
sibility at least, that the banks o
this county are not exempt from it
incompetency, or incorrigibility.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-19
Relations with Mexico.


The Department of State has not
vet received official intelligence OF
recognition of the Diaz Government
by Minister Foster. There is no
doubt, however, of thu fact as the
instructions to that gentleman on re:
turning to Mexico authorized him to
do so, should he find the proper con-
dition of affairs to warrant such ac-
ton. The reason for recognizing the
Diaz Government are that it has
shown a disposition to arrange all
the matters in dispute between the
two Governments and given evidence
of earnestness in that direction, hav-
ing among other things sent Federal
troops to the frontier to preserve
peace, thus supplanting the inefficient
militia. Consequently no raids have
occurred on the Rio Grande for the
last three months; certainly none of
serious character. Besides, the Mex
ican Government has promptly paid
as they became due, two iustallments
of the Mexican indemnity amount
ing to 100000, and recently the
Mexican Government checked an at
tempt at Matamoras to levy forced
loans on American citizens. There
has been no other such attempts for
some months past, and every precau-
tion will be taken to prevent them
in the future. Further, the Mexican
Government expresses readiness to
enter upon negotiations for the ad-
justment of all questions in dispute.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-19
Resolutions of montgomery Blair


Though they have passed the Maryland
Legislature and been presented in Congress,
they do not seem to have created even a
sensation. Republicans and Democrats
alike condemn them. Senator Whyte,
Democrat, of Maryland, in speaking Of
their adoption by the Legislature Of his
State, said:
He felt humiliated that the MARYLAND
Legislature should have done SO foolish a
thing. Mr.. Blair's resolutions, he said.
have no solid foundation, and he predicted
that they will be as impotent as the Pope's
bull against the comet. Senator Whyte
also said that any attorney of standing
knows that the only possible way in which
the President can be removed is through
quo warranto filed by the Attorney-Gener-
al OF the United States, and that the Leg
islature of Maryland can have no more iur-
lsdlctlon over the subject than could the
Common Council Of the City of Baltimore.
A Washington special of the 11th thus
refers to the speech of Mr. Dennis, Demo-
crat, of Maryland, on presenting the reso-
lutions in the United States Senate:
In the Senate, Mr. Dennis, of Maryland,
presented, as ne said, by request, the fa-
nous Blair resolutions looking to the re-
moval of Mr.. Hayes, and they were re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee. In
presenting the document, Mr.. Dennis took
occasion to remark that he had no sympa-
thy with the movement and severely depre-
Gated it. There was an unsual expression
OF appreciation from the Senators Of both
parties OF Mr.. Dennis remarks, and Mr..
Conkling, as he finished, at once walked
across the Chamber and shook his hand.
Several other Senators followed Mr.. Conk-
ling's example, and Vice-President Whee-
Ter left the chair to offer his congratula-
tions
Our Democratic friends-such for in
stance as the assistant Of the Standard
had better not initiate very much oyer this
matter, yet.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1878-04-19

A lively fight has been going on for
some days between the Chicago and ST.
Louis roads, for the Missouri River freight
transfer. The cutting Of freight rates are
fierce and ferocious. The Chicago roads
cut down on Saturday morning last, from
10 to Z cents per 100 for grain freights from
the Missouri River to Chicago. The cut
ting takes effect both ways, and is to be
carried still further.