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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-12
sfigahle CorrespOndent.


NJ w. Smalley devotes his last
better 70 tt, New York Tribune entirely
to nG Zee Rthe death Of Mr.. John A.
MACE okan, * the London Daily NeWs,
but bosn in Ohio, whose war correspon-
|dence has ptobably exceeded anything
of the kind ever known in the history OF
modern journalism An extract from q
letter in the News of recent date will
give the reader On idea of the. indefati-
gable methods and indomitable perse-
verance necessary sometimes in
newspaper representative. The writer
says:
Let me recount the physical hindran-
ces under which MacGahan distin-
euished himself SO brilliantly in the re-
cent campaign. At Kischenef, In the
early part of April, be broke one of the
bones of his ankle when riding young
Cossack horse belonging to Prince
Tserteleff. When met him first on the
platform of the railway station at Jassy,
he was imping along with this ANGLE IN
closed in mask of plaster OF Paris. He
was still lame when he started into Bull
garia with Gourko's column. At the en-
trance to the Hapkioj pass his horse
slipped up and fell on him, and the
rider, attempting to rise, found that one
of the small bones of the same leg was
broken. Most men would have tried to
make their way back to Tirnova. and
accepted the invalid condition until
mended. MacGahan got himself hoist
ed on the top of an ammunition cart.
Later IN the same day the ammunition
cart rolled over on him and bruised him
sorely. But he struggled on indemita-
bly, till Kezanlik was reached, and then
had short spell of rest But he was in
the saddle again long ere his broken
bone was properly set; and as fact he
never gave it time properly to set at all.
Rather than "be out of it," he delib-
erately accepted the prophesied fate of
being lame for life; and have no doubt
that he died lame. He went through
the campaign 80 great cripple that he
could not walk mile, and whan / saw
him last, at Christmas time, the lame
ness had become chronic.
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Michigan Life Insurance.

The eighth annual report of Commits
sioner S. II. Row, part 2, relating to life
insurance companies doing business in
this State for the year ending Dec. 81,
1877, is contained in q pamphlet of
eighteen pages. It's tabular statements
are clear and concise. TIL, total num-
Der of companies reported doing bust
ness in the State is 81, which issued 3,206
new policies during the year, representing
So, 624 97l insurance, receiving prem
iums (nominal) of 81, 240, 1863. Thelosses
and claims actually paid to Michigan
policy holders were $469, 1876.
Since 1871 there has been a gradual
decline in the new policies and compa-
MES doing business in Michigan. In
1871 there were 56 companies, and they
issued 10, 156 policies, insuring ST., $780,
265, receiving 81 1924, 975 premiums, pay
ing S432, 100 losses. In 1877 the COM
panies had shrunk to 81, loss of 80;
the policies had shrunk to 5000, loss
of 6, $50; the amount insured had shrunk
to s., 624, 971, loss of 81, TIA, 294; the
total premiums received had shrunk to
81 ,240, 1853, a loss of 1854, 612. The
losses paid had increased to S469, 1876,
being $27, 1875 more than six years pre-
viously. There was slight increase of
premium receipts in 1872 over 1871, but
a steady reduction for five years past.
The number of policies in force in 1877
in the State was 1922, insuring $59,-
498, 951; in 1877, the number was only
20, 1872, insuring $40, LOT. 9S2
The income of all the companies rep
resented in this State during 1877 was
1921, 1856. OF, of which about rs per cent.
was premiums and the remainder chiefly
interest on investments. The total dis
bursements for the year were S703.-
1876. Is, of which about 353 per cent. was
for losses and claims, AZ per cent. divi-
dends, etc., to policy-holders, II per
cent. management expenses, and per
cent. dividends to stockholders.
The general balance sheet with refer
ence to admitted assets and the liabili-
ties of companies shows surplus as re-
CARDS policy.holders on the basis of
admitted assets to be $50, 598. 7GS. or
about Is per cent. above what the law
requires.
During the year the Knickerbocker
Life Insurance Company and the Globe
Mutual Life Insurance Company, both
of New York, withdrew from the State,
and the Provident Savings Life Insur-
ance Society, of New York, was read
mitted May 4, 1873. The Commissioner
has within the year examined the Michi-
gan Mutual Life Insurance Company, of
Detroit, and the National Life Insurance
Company of q. 3. A., located at Chicago,
aud found them solvent and able to meet |
ali the requirements of this State
i, The total expenses of the Insurance |
Bureau for the year ending May l, 1878,
we're S7,613.05.
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Grant and Stonewall Jackson.

Gen. Grant was recently reported by a
correspondent as speaking disparagingly
of Stonewall Jackson while at CONSTANT
nople. Col. Mosby, of Virginia, wrote
to Gen. Grant, inquiring if he had used
the language attributed to him. Gen.
Grant, writing under date of Paris, May
20, in reply, says: "You say am re-
ported as speaking disparagingly of
Stonewall jackson by one correspondent.
I have not seen that. I knew Jackson
when he was cadet, served with him in
the Mexican war, and know that he en-
joyed the confidence and respect of all
who knew him. He was regarded as q
man of great ability, great perseverance,
and great piety. Whatever he did he
did conscientiously, no matter whether
it was right or wrong. I have compared
him in conversation with Cromwell. It
is probable that I have said as much to
you about jackson rs ever have said to
any correspondent. "-Baltimore Sun.
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POLITICAL POINTS.

President Hayes was interviewed at
wikesbarre, Pa, whittier he went to attend
the Wyoming centenary. He expressed him.
self, regarding the Potter investigation that
the whole affair, so far, was farce-sn exam
pie, indeed, of much cry and little wool or,
more correctly, no wool at all. II they had
accomplished anything, it was the reafiirming
by Congress of his title, which was, probably,
what they did not start out to do. He thought
certain Republicans, some Of whom he
named, originated the affair, and were con-
Quoting its operations under cover. Secretary
Sherman was also interviewed, and said he be-
lieved the story told by Weber to the commit
tee was concocted within the last ten days.
He thought such story would deceive no one
acquainted with the darkness of Louisiana poll
tics Mr.. Sherman said if he mad the most
distant recollection Of having written the So
called "Sherman letter." he would acknowl-
edge it promptly, for there is much in it that
he would have said had he been writing at that
time, but he has no recollection whatever Of
at any time.
The Democrats of Arkansas have
nominated Gov. Miller for reelection.
The Alabama Republican State Con-
ventior, in session at Montgomery last week,
decided to make no nominations for State Off
GERS, and tabled a resolution indorsing the
administration of President Hayes.
An inmate of the National Asylum for
Soldiers at Hampton, Va, has preferred a
charge Of violation OF the articles Of war
against Gen. b. F. Butler for circulating under
his frank copies of the speech of Senator Howe
attacking the President.
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Singular Attachment.

Last spring, Mr.. w. Cambray, of
Canada, caught young crow before it
could fly, and brought it home, where it
soon became tame. 1t struck up warm
friendship with a young hound belong
ing to Mr.. Cambray. The crow was al
ways around with the hound, shared his
meals, and slept in his box at night, on
the bottom, not seeking a perch unless
they were disturbed during the night,
when he would come out and fly up in
one of the trees near by and remain there
till morning. When given food, it inva-
riably took portion to the hound. II
did not give it to him at once, but would
ay around above his head with piece of
meat or a crust of bread in his bill, and
keep teasing him with it, and then would
finally let him have his share. But in
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DEATH IN TIE GOULD 4 CURRY.
overpowered BY the Heat Nearly Halt =
Mile ,n n..ew the E.sc':r.ases,M

Overpowered BY the Heat Nearly Hall =
From ~ sisIDi. Z Essa
Last evening q ths Gonld h Curry.
Victor Berna, James FCsarty and Jediah
Paul were overcome ed snffocated by
the heat, in the vinze leading from the
LOO to the 1900 level. A donkey
pump had been left in the 1900 level,
and five men were sent down for the
purpose OF bringing it up. The 1900
level is very close and hot, the Their
mometer marking upward of 135 de-
grees. After the men got the donkey
pump loaded they were SO utterly ex-
hausted that they felt IL would be Ger
tain death to remain longer, and they
all started up the incline, assisting
themselves by clinging TO the cable at
tached to the giraffe. AS they sscended
they continued to grow weaker, and
finally James Fogarty, overcome, fell
senseless. 1t was with the greatest
difficulty that the four remaining men
reached the LOO level, where they ar
rived almost speechless, and it was some
little time before they were able to give
the details of the accident, and inform
the other miners that Fogarty had been
left below. Three of these men were
Immediately sent to the surface. and
even when they reached the fresh air
they were 80 weak and confused that
they seemed hardly to realize where
they were or what had occurred.
Shaughnessy, the shift boss, deter
mined to attempt the rescue of Fogarty.
The two other men who lost their lives
Victor Berna and Jediah Paul. were
working on the main incline, .and volun-
teered to accompany him. They all de-
scended the incline as far as the giraffe,
upon which they placed the body of
Fogarty and gave the signal to hoist.
The giraffe came up to the 1900 level,
and there it became jammed, and the
engineer stopped the engine. He then
started down the incline, and, after de-
scending about thirty feet, encountered
one OF the men clinging to the rope and
making a moaning noise. He thrust
out his foot, telling the man to catch
hold of it and he would assist him in
climbing up.
About this time the second man, who,
it seems, was short distance below the
first, let go his hold, and the engineer
heard his body rolling down the incline.
The upper man then made a desperate
effort to seize hold of the engineers
foot, but his fingsrs refused to do their
Office, and he, too, relaxed his grasp and
rolled down the incline.
The engineer returned to the LOO
level, and stated what had occurred, and
several men went down the main incline
to the 1900 level. They found the
bodies of Berna, Paul and Fogarty. At
this point the heat was so intense that
the men were unable to remain longer
than few minutes at time, and the
body of Fogarty was not extricated un-
til about half-past 9 o'clock, an hour
after the accident.
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Gerrymandering.

The political papers have lately had
much to say in reference to what the Re-
publicans call the gerrymander" of
Ohio. It is not for us to say whether
the term is rightly or wrongly applied
in this case, for this would trench upon
the field of politics, which we must not
enter. But the term itself should be ex-
planned, for real gerrymandering is one
of the most unjust and disgraceful of
political tricks. "a
Under our system of alloting repre-
sentatives in our State Legislatures and
in Congress according to population, it
becomes necessary to change the lines Of
districts almost las often as new CEN
sus is taken. Under the census of 1860.
Iowa, for example, had only six repre-
sentatives in Congress but her popula-
ton as revealed by the census of 1870,
entitled her to nine. OF course it was
necessary to redistrict the State.
This work can be done fairly or
unfairly. Gerrymandering, as now gen.
orally understood, is doing it unfairly.
Originally, the sense of the word was
restricted to particular form of unfair
ness.
In 1911, the Democrats were in power
in Massachusetts,. AS the Legislature
had the duty that year of dividing the
State into districts, the idea came to
some of the representatives to arrange
the lines 80 as to make as many Demo
cratic and as few Federalist districts as
possible. Accordingly, they formed the
districts without any reference to their
geographical position or the convenience
of the people.
One of the districts, in particular, was
in form a long, narrow, crooked one,
starting from the coast just north of
Boston, and after passing into the lnte-
rior came back to the coast at the north
eastern boundary of the State. A Fed
eralist editor drew plan of the district.
Its form was something like that of a
lizard, with head and tail dropping. The
editor added wings and a mouth to it,
and showed it to his friends, saying that
it looked like salamander.
Salamander |" exclaimed another in
dignant member of the same party; 81
should say it looked more like Gerry
mander."
The Governor of Massachusetts, that
year, was Mr.. Elbridge Gerry, after
ward Vice President of the United
States, and very distinguished man.
He probably had nothing to do with the
formation of the district, but, as he
signed the act, he was held responsible
for it.
The word Gerrymander was caught
up, and soon became the recognized
term for shapeless district, constructed
for partisan purposes. 1t has since, as
we have already said, received a more
general application. - Youths Con,pan-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-12
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

A RArTLEsNAKE five feet long was
killed on the sidewalk in Alma the other
day.
A LITTLE child of Mr.. Foersters, of
Frankenlust, Saginaw county, was
drowned in we'll recently.
EMERY BUcKwHEAT, aged ID, was
drowned in Saginaw river, at East Sagi-
nav, while bathing the other day. The
body was recovered.
LEWIS F. HADLEY, an old resident,
and at one time County Surveyor of Man.
istee county, is atpresent ahermit, living
in a cave in Kansas. His wife and chill
dren still live in Manistee.
AT Westphalia, the other day, p. Jen-
kins and a friend named Fenton were
thrown out of buggy by a runaway
team and both fatally injured, jenkins
being already dead.
As AN evidence of the growth of Free
mont, one of the papers says that the
old cemetery is entirely full, and new
one is imperatively demanded. How
many doctors are there in Fremont?
DURING June 1854 barrels of salt
were made in Michigan. Total product
since Dec. l, the commencement of the
inspection year, 1916, 900 barrels, an in
crease of 107, 971 barrels over the same
time last year.
TRAVERSE BAY Eagle: In accord
Land Office ut Traverse City will be
closed July ID, and on July Is will be re-
moved to Reed City and its business
consolidated with the ONCE there.
A MINER named Philip Navan was in
stantly killed at the Saginaw mine, near
Ishpeming, Marquette county, a few
days since, by piece of rock falling ON
him from hanging wall. He leaves a
wife and three children.
]. w. PURsEL, President of the village
of Schoolcraft, killed himself few days.
ago at his residence, going down in the
cellar, taking razor and cutting his
throat. The reasons that prompted this
deed are not known; probably it was
caused by the loss of his Touring mill
recently by fire.
THE Norwalk (Ct.) Gazette says :
eve understand that the Shiawassee
mills, consisting of -four, grist and saw
mills, located at Shiawassee, Mich, with
a capital of 800, 900, mostly owned by
persons in this place, have changed
hands-Wm. E. Cummings, of Corunna,
Mich. having purchased three-quarters
of the capital stock"
The following is a statement of the
receipts and Disbursements at the State
Treasurer's Office for the month ending
June 30, 1878:
Balance on hand May 31................Ss33,549 SO
Receipts Tor the month. 154, 1929
lOtal. 1901, ioz AZ
Disbursements for the month ......... 434. "A 81
Balance on hand June 30, 1873. 49,. 1885, l57.75
EvART Review: A brakeman on
logging train Of the Evart and
Osceola railroad, named Thomas Larkin,
was almost instantly killed few days
ago. He was on loaded car unfasten-
ing the chain when the logs started,
throwing him on the rollway just before
the rolling logs, several of which passed
over him. He only lived few minutes
after being picked up.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-12
What IL Really Is.

Pigweed is, because it is; or, more
properly speaking, the porcine qualifi.
cations of the sagebush soil produce GER
tain eliminative conditions, which, act
ing on the chemical properties of the
negative forces of the climatic influences,
as opposed to the astronomical devia.
tons of the positive poles, effect GER
tain contradistinction which, in the or
binary course of human affairs, without
regeneration or any circumlocutory in
fuences whatever, produce pigweed.-
Austin (Nev.) ReveilIe.
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.stinntu began to be too powerful, and he
~ that he must go to other
quarters Tor the winter, and il was ANUS
II towee how he tried to CO. W hcod
a9Ry eth him. He woS1d a. AMY q
LILLE Ire. and then alight and cay to
TIE dOg; then he would fly beck, aud
seemed In great distress becsuse be could
not induce his four-footed friend to go to
warmer quarters for the winter; but,
finding he would not leave, he at length
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-12
MIsCELLANEoUs oLEANINos.

Ex-Gov. Tilden sailed for Europe on
the 4th Of July.
The War Department will push re-
cruits to the portion of the country disturbed
by Indians with all practicable haste.
1t is stated from Washington that the
belief is almost universal among army officers
that there will be general Indian war in the
sections where hostile indications have pre-
sented themselves.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-12
No Sunday Kent i'm Paris.

II see that your people do not keep
Sunday" remarked an American abroad
to lady resident in Paris, recently.
All, no, monsieur" replied the
Partisan, with charming accent TO her
English, Eve does not keep 'um-we
let's 'um go loose"
The American believed her.-Chicqgo
Journal.
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TRUNKS that are both air and water.
tight are a novelty.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1878-05-03
ONGf f cllOscH .inuiUcvxUvu,

| continued on "a pHJc.
ADDRESS Of wM. a. BENTLEY, l.. s. n. G.
| Life without some objective point some
goal to be reached. is an ngloro,ls failure
| without some laudablc purpose to the ac-
complislling Of which humanity demands
contributions from its choicest attributes,
1t is desert waste: and, if at last at its
close, we find nothing good and noble has
been accomplished. it will have been to
lis like Dead Sea apples; when we reach
for the final result OF our existence, it will
crumhlc to ashes in our grasp. 1 shall
not attempt to prove that life is for a pur-
pose, for might just as well attempt to
establish the fact that the sun shines at
midday; i'll our quiet cOmmunings with
ourselves VIC know it is for some object,
and ii is equally invidious to attempt to
prove that purpose to be a good one; VIC
accept it as postulatc, that we exist for
purpose, and that purpose good one, and,
II may be permitted more directly to de-
fine it. would say that the object of hu,
man life was the development of every
attribute Of our nature; that it was accom-
pllshcd only US we attained to mental, ply
slcal and spiritual excellence: and in pro-
portion as the plane we reach is, relatively
TO the germ with which we started: we
arrive at this conclusion from logical de-
ductions, and we arc led to believe that
just in proportion as he who devclopcs the
entire man physical, mental and spiritual,
accomplishcs his legitimate life work; man
starts out on the great ocean Of life in tho
trail bark OF childhood adverse winds may
meet him ut every point of the compass;
gool influences may bcckon him away to
the quiet seas of cmtentment, but youth
and ilicxpcricncc perhaps an angular i'm.
puls!vc temperament may many times lead
him astray, and without kind admoni,ions
and promptings born not Of hate, but dis
titled from the ycarnings of brothcrIy love,
h: may lay up for himself sorrows which
tic would give worlds if Le possessed tho.p,
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Supreme Court Territory OF Dnk0.a

rs. December.
. PETER i;nASreAs
| COuiI.
! On the eth day of February. 1877. the defend
ant Peter Brani i!ln. WAS indicted i'll the District
Court of Buri"igh County for the crime of murder
in killing one John W. Massingalc alle"edtO have
been committed wlifuliy, fcloniousy and with
malice afOrctlIOught.
on this Indictment the defendant was tried and
verdict Of gn;lty of murder charged in the i'll
dictment found by the jury: motion in arrest Of
Judgment and for a new trial were entered. and
overruled. aud the defendant sentenced To death.
Numerous exceptions were taken during the
progress Of the trial which he defendant has by
his writ of error brought TO this Court for review,
and which stated in the opinion.
ERWIN Il GRIFFIN. for flain,if in Error.
BENNETT. j. ' '''0
We have in the record before us. in form. Il
common law indictment for murder. with YER
dict Of guilty az chargcd: and Judgment of death.
Is this indictment sufficient. under our statutes,
defendant insists that ii IL not and that ii chnrg
es only mansiauChter in the first degree, for the
reason that it does not chsrgc lin h.rc verha
the homicide to have been pcrpc;ratcd with Il pre-
mcdi;ntcd design to utcc, the death IF the pcrsur
killed. Murder defined by the common law is,
unlawfully kiilcth any reasonable creature in be-
ing, and under the kings piece. with 1pulicc
aforcthonghs either express Or inplfti." Our
statutes Ga! Penal Codc) dcfncs m:rdcr as fol-
]. When pcrpctrated without authority of law
and with premeditatod design to effect She death
of the per:ou kilird or of any other hnniap being
2. When pcrp:trn;cd by any ac; imnincntly
dangerous to Others. and cvinciny depravch
mind regardless Of hum'u life. although without
nly premcditatcd design to effect the death Of
any particular individual.
3. When perpctrared without any design to eff
feet the dcutli. by a person engaged in til: com
mission of any felony. : -:lrr
twill be observed that the words with malice
atofethHncht.' arC not cmplopcd In our statutory
dciil'iri"u and that II criminal homicide may rise
I" The higher degree "f murder though wantln. in
the clemcnts Of premcditated design. What in
.retlicnt. if any. has orr statut" added to- cI
minated from thc crime of murder as it existed
ni tue common law! If Il" ingredient has been
added. md the crimo rc,nnus Substantially tho
same. though the phrascclogv Used By oar stIt |
ui"s in defining it may be different, then this i'll
siic;nia:s he held good.
The rujc .ou,eudcd for by counsel for defend J
ani. Illl lie i.llIic; uIl b; tic OIL.