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The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-02-15

NOUS in asserting the election of Hayes
and in fiercely denouncing all who
controverted their assertion. Not one
of them raised voice against making
a President with doubtful title; and
in consequences there was unanimous
| or well nigh unanimous beliefin the
ranks of the party, that in the declara-
ton that Hayes was elected they were
merely maintaining something to
| which they had a right. To go square
ly against such an opinion at such a
time would have been to provoke uni
versal condemnation, and to incur
charges of reasonable dealing with
the enemy. There would have ben
no mercy and no forbearance. No
matter how strong the conviction of
an individual that the party with
which he has been wont to act has ta-
ken a wrong. course, and is doing that
which ought not to be done, the prII-
dence of politicians requires that he
should at least maintain strict 81
lence. According to this prudence,
then, Mr.. COnkling was entirely right
in letting his party have their way and
in not standing up to offer than deter
mined resistance which the conclusions
of his judgment and the impulses of
ed.
On the other hand, however, there
are crises in public affairs when the
wisdom of the statesman looks with
scOrn upon the prudence of the politi-
clan; when the heroic elements of
character rise above the dictates of
partisan eXpediency; and when the
great man, refusing to be led by baser
inspirations, strikes boldly out into a
new path and precipitates the creation
of a new epoch. Such "a crisis Mr.
COnkling saw later on in the struggle
when his earlier fOrbearance had put
his own political existence at issue,
and when a clique of weak and pre-
tentiOus philosophers, who delight to
abase themselves at the heels of power,
had conspired together for his de-
structiOn. AT the Rochester cOnven-
ton he uttered new and manlier
note. He declared war against the
Fraud, and with that battle cry sum-
moned the Republicans of New York
to rally around his banner. 1t was
electrical, and the result was the utter
discontinue of his enemies and the eS-
tablishment firmer than ever of his
own position. Does not this indicate
that he might have been wiser it al
ready in February he had adopted the
policy of July, and if, instead ofwait-
ing till it had become with him, in Il
great measure, question of self-de-
fense, he had stood forth at that ear
lier day, q moral hero, careless of all
petty consequences, to defend the
honor af the Republic and to drive
Fraud aflr off from the possession of
our greatest civil dignity
For ourselves, wo answer this last
question in the affirmative, We be-
lieve that if Mr.. Conkling had. opened
his campaign against this great iniqui-
ty much sooner and in more de-
structive manner, lie might have suf-
fered some Inconvenience at the BEGIN
ming, but long ere this it would have
been understood that his courage was
the simplest wisdom, aud that every
one Gf his hlows was delivered by pa
triotisnl itself.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-02-15
,IoDERN xNIeHTHoOD.


"Thcre are no heroes now" said she
And turned with scorDful, weaTied air
And looked across the waves to where
\ dim gray island met the sea-.
81 wish there'd be Ninth Crusade,
Or Arthur's knights would come once
Cr or Nantucket's prosy shore
\ second Ilium might be made,
"No flame of genius light our page;
OuI music is dumb. No martyr wakes
Our heart from sleep. No hero breaks
The level of our stupid age"
He looked at her in sad surprise;
Was she so heartIess and so base!
Was there n bravery to-day
Could make hero in her eyes?
"And yet ON that prosaic shore
4 hero may have been," said he;
"a knight or martyr here might be
Who never cross or armor wore.
"Just off Nantucket's ragged coast,
one day last week boat went down
In sight OF dwellers in the town,
And all on board but one were lost.
"For there were two who caught an oar
And fioated for a moment; they
Had comrades been for many day,
Had danger shared on many shore.
"One felt the oar begin to sink
Beneath the double weight; he knew
ItsureIy could not float the two,
Aud one must go. He did not shrink;
s'His sacrifice his friend might save,
And pausing not TO give him choice,
He shouted with q ringing voice
That never faltered ,:strong and brave
"As when they scaled an Alpine height
And shouted TO the arching SKY
In triumph, 'One must go-gOOd-bye-
God bless you" and was lost from sight.
"His friend was saved; but now alone
He ever hears that voice repeat
od-bye,-G0d bless you clear and
sweet
In tides that roar and winds that moan"'
The red lips lost their scornful curl,
And quiver now with tender pain,
And tears fell like a summer rain
From the dark lashes of that girl:
THAT was a hero. greater love
Hath no man" passionately thrilled
The vibrant tones; her face was filed
WitIl reverence all words above.
he Irsurnlured to himself apart
watching the languid cynic's face
Transformed with radiant, tender grace
"4Ah! now know she has hearth
PARSONS.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-02-15

The New York Sun thinks there
never was time when women dress
ed so prettily rs they do now.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-02-15

The Nashville Bannerlearns that in
addition to all the present incumbents
the following persons will be candidates
for position on the Supreme bench OF
Tennessee: T. NJ. Jones of Pulaski:
John w. Burton of Mufreesboro;
Chancellor William +. Cooper, oi
Nashville; Benjamin J. Lea, of Browns.
Vile, and Howell f. jackson, of West
Tennesse.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-02-15

SENATOR VOORHEES, receives more
congratulatory letters upon his late
speech than his official duties permit
him to read and answer. He has at
least one thousand on hand unOpen-
ed,
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-02-15

\ NovEL case has Just been decided
in Chicago. 4 Miss Mckee shot and
killed n constable sGme time since
while he was attempting to levy on
her furniture, and in doing so showed
no authority. The jury after being cut
ONLY few minutes returned YER
diet of not guilty. Constahles will be
very circumspect after this.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24
Obituary Of q Bonanza King.

BY the death OF William Shopey
O'Brien, California is minus one rich
man, and that is all. Tue riches are
still here, and so the rich man will not
be regretted by the community at large.
On the contrary, it is possible that some
OF the wealth that he had accumulated
may be distributed, and then his death
will be a source of good. 1t is sad that
man with such opportunities as Mr..
O'Brien should have died and lett be-
hind him no record; that his memory
should depend for perpetuity simply
upon the amount of money he was able
to grasp between his two hands. The
height of his ambition was simply to be
rich; the most refined of his enjoyments
was game of seven-up in the back room
of a saloon. He might have been a
philanthropist; he was only sensualist.
He might have left name that would
have been remembered with honor and
gratitude for ages, whereas his only cpl
taph can be, "He was very rich. But
if he did very little good to other people
with his money, he took very little en-
joyment out of it himself, and California
may be thankful that fortune placed
wealth in the hands of a man who was
not capable of using it for worse pur-
poses than the qualification of mere SEN
sual desires. We may congratulate our
selves that O'Brien, if he did little good,
was debarred by nature from doing
much harm with his gold. Fran
cisco Daily Ne,Cs. Jl'li~ iI-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24
A Suit for Seventeen Millions.

When the end of the gigantic expos
ure of the frauds known rs the Credit
Mobilier, 1871, had been reached, and
Cakes Ames, then a Congressman from
Massachusetts,, returned to his home
broken in spirit and ruined in prospects,
the country at large, the pulpit and the
press generally dropped the subject, I'M
til it ceased altogether to provoke any
comment. Once or twice ghost has
arisen, in legal shape, from the ashes
of the buried fraud, but these have oc-
cupied but little of the time or attention
OF the public. Yesterday, however, a
ghost of immense proportions doomed
up in the Circuit Court of the United
States in this city, in the shape of a suit
for ST, 000,0 damages brought by
Judge Ohm Leisenring, of Mauch Chunk,
Pa, against the representatives of the
original Union Pacific Railway Com
pany. The ground for the action is
stated by Judge Leisenring to be the re-
voking of a contract between himself
and the Union Pacific Company, under
which he was to build the road, and that.
being thus defrauded out of his legal
right to construct said road, he suffered
to the extent of the amount claimed. =
NeW York Star.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24
An Understauding Arrived AZ.

About 10 o'clock this morning a tramp
went into g street saloon and devoted
ten minutes in a very jealous manner to
the lunch table. By the time he had
masticated about pound of corned
beef the barkeeper stepped up and re
marked
"This table is for drinkers"
"Then why don't you bring on your
drinks I've been here ten minutes, and
haven't seen drop of anything. If it's a
drinkin table, where's the fuid2"
81 mean it's for the patrons of the
bar" said the barkeeper.
Then why amt they here7 I s'pose
you mean that man must spend money
at the bar before he eats ?"
Exactly"
"That takes me in. / took drink
here last summer and didn't eat mouth
full, and if / amt entitled to a lunch on
that drink then this system must be q
failure all round"
But the place has changed hands
since then" said the barkeeper, picking
up bung starter.
"Ah, indeed?" replied the urbane
hummer; that fact, as your gesture would
imply, raises new and embarrassing
complication in our diplomatic relations.
1 will, therefore, recede, as it were, from
my original position and await the as
sembling of the Peace Congress.
He had been gradually backing toward
the door as he spoke, and he lodged out
just in time to evade the proiectile hurled
at him by the indignant saloonatic. =
Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24
The Great West.
When good Bishop Berkeley wrote
the famOus line .-,.r

When good Bishop Berkeley wrote
the famous line, 30 a,m 80
Westward the star of empire takes its way,
he hardly would have realized how liter
ally the Poetic prophecy would be full
filed within a few generations of his
own time. He was thinking only of the
narrow strip of territory along the Allan
tic coast of America, behind which lay
thousands of leagues of primeval forest,
where the red man was sole master of
the soil, and where the great lakes and
rivers, now teeming with commerce, and
bordered by populous cities and thriving
villages, laved shores which the foot of
white man had never trod. His imagi-
nation would have been appalled, had a
vision of the present day flashed upon
his eye had he seen the vast wilderness
filed with mighty people, enterprising,
intelligent, intellectual, with great cities,
universities, colleges, schools, churches,
newspapers, steamboats,, railroads
country compared to which his own little
island is but an insignificant patch on the
map of the world country which gath
ers to itself the literary and artistic treas
ures of the Old World with prodigality
of expenditure unsurpassed by any
nation of Europe. Less than fifty years
ago the great West was "howling will
derness," but to-day it rivals the East in
culture aud intelligence, and nowhere in
the world is there more eager demand
for books of the highest order of literary
excellence. Bdzdr.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24
To Rid a Dog OF Fleas.

The american Agriculturist says
eff dog infested with feas is made to
lie for few days upon bed of fresh
litter from horse stable the feas will
leave him. He must then be washed
with soap and water, and supplied with
clean bed. A common cocoa-fber
door mat makes a good clean bed for a
dog, and is repulsive to lice, especially
if the bottom of it is occasionally smeared
with common pine tar. Soft soap and
water used frequently is the best pre-
ventive of fleas." From Western jour-
nal we clip the two following GA weak
tincture made with Persian inject pow
der and alcohol is safe and effectua.
when applied once week with a
sponge. "Mix one-sixth of its weight
OF spirits of turpentine with soft soap
rub the mixture well into the dogs
skin, and, after remaining an hour,
wash all out. The feas will be ali
killed, but the process must be repeated
in q week or two."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Republican State Convention of
Pennsylvania met at Harrisburg on the 18th
inst, and nominated Henry NJ Hoyt, of Lu.
zerne county, for Governor. A platform was
adopted, in substance as follows 1. Ad-
herence to the protective policy and hostility
to free trade in all its aspects and especially to
the Wood Tariff bill. 2. That, labor being the
source Of all wealth, lit is the duty Of the ma
ton TO protect and encourage it, so as to Sc
cure profitable employment 10 both labor
and capital. 8. That it is the duty Of
Congress TO aid IN developing Amer
lean commerce, and to promote the
prosperity Of the manufacturing and agri-
cultural, mining and industrial interests Of the
country. 4. That public lands belong to the
people, and should be reserved to actual set
tiers, so that the landless may be encouraged
and aided in occupying them. 8. That Con-
gress should extend its constitutional power TO
regulate internal commerce 30 as to prevent
discrimination in freight rates. 6. Denouncing
the payment OF Southern rebel claims, and
holding the Democracy responsible for the
presentation Of such claims, amounting to
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24

$500, 100000. 7. Indorsing Gov. Hartranft's
administration.
The Democrats of Ohio have deter
mined to hold their State Convention ct Co
lumbus ON June 20.
The committee appointed by Speaker
Randall to conduct the investigation of the
Louisiana and Florida elections, provided for
by the Potter resolution, is constituted as fol
lows: Clarkson N. Potter, Of New York Win.
lam r.. Morrison, of Illinois Eppa Hunton, OF
Virginia John A. Mcmahon, Of Ohio; ]. G. s.
Blackburn, of Kentucky; W. s. Stenger, Of
Pennsylvania Thomas r. Cobb, of Indiana
Democrats. b. r. Butler, Of Massachusetts,
Frank Hiscock, Of New York j. d. Cox, Of
Ohio, and Thomas b. Reed, of Maine-Repub
licans.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The report of Gems. Barnard and
Wright, United States Engineers, to whom the
petition of Capt. Eads for the modification Of
the Jetty act was referred by the Secretary Of
War, states that the works are permanent, and
their success is 80 decided as to make it i'm
portant to prosecute them with vigor.
The President las removed Gen.
weitzel from the Collectorship at Cincinnati,
and appointed Amos Smith, Jr., as his sue
cessor. The President has also nominated
Gustavus st. Gem, Surveyor of Customs at st.
Louis; John H. Smyth, of North Carolina,
Minister Resident and Consul General at Lii
IBERIA, Africa; and Charles Tuttle, Of New York,
a member of the Board of Indian Commits
sioners.
The President has appointed exCon-
gresham Rapier Collector of Internal Reve-
nue. in Alabama.
The President sent to the Senate last
week q message inclosing communication
from the Secretary Of State on the subject of
the result of the deliberations of the Fishery
Commission appointed under the treaty of
Washington. The President, in his message,
recommends the appropriation Of the neces-
sary sum, with such discretion TO the Executive
Department in regard to its payment as, in the
wisdom Of Congress, public interest may seem
to require.
Vice President Wheeler and Mrs. R.
B. Hayes left the capital last week for Malone
N. Y, the home Of the former, where they will
rusticate for several days.
The House Committee on Expendi.
lures in the State Department has agreed te
report articles OF impeachment against Consul
General Bradford at Shanghai. The Republic
can members have doubts that the Office is inn
peachable under the constitution.
A Washington dispatch says "tht
sale of the 4-per-cent. bonds has already
reached such an amount as will shortly justif.
the issue of call for five million per cents.
which will be replaced by per cents. Sher
man denies that the Syndicate has made al
offer for six hundred millions of per cents. a
par, provided it was given a monopoly Of the
sale. He says that under no circumstance
will he give any bankers monopoly Of the
fours. They are, he considers, the people,
bonds, and lie intends they shall remain So"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24
The French Exposition.

The International Exposition at Paris
intends to be more universal in one re-
spect than any of its predecessors, and
it will, accordingly, have an interna-
tional show of live stock. From June
5 to July 18, cattle, sheep, swine, barn
yard birds and some other animals will
be exhibited. Sheds have been erected
for the accommodation of at least / 800
oxen, and quite as many for other stock
that will be on exhibition at the same
time. In September there will be a
show of horses and asses. These two
features of the Exposition will have to be,
necessarily for the most part, a Euro
pean display, but they will not only add
to the value and attraction of the exhi-
bition, but help swell the general ben
eft to be in many ways derived from
bringing together specimen productions
of the earth. I'll
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24
- FORECLOSURE.


An Important supreme Court Decision.
In the case of Brine ct al. VS.. The
Hartford Fire Insurance Company, APP
pealed from the Northern District OF
Illinois, the national Supreme Court has
jwst rendered decision of great general
importance.
The Illinois statute provides that, in
cases..of sales under foreclosures OF mort
cages, the debtor shall have twelve
months, and his creditors fifteen months,
in which to redeem from the sale, by
paying the sum for which the property
was sold, with interest at 10 per cent,
and costs. The State courts have en-
tered DEGREES for sales directinr, the mas
ter to issue a certificate to the purchaser,
and. if redemption be not made within
the time, to give q deed upon surrender
of the certificate. But the United States
Circuit Court has been in the habit OF
decreeing that, If the money found due
be not paid within 100 days, ther the
master shall sell and give an absolute
deed. In effect, this practice ignored
and cut off the statutory right OF redemp-
ton, and the consequence was that the
national court was chiefly resorted to IN
foreclosure proceedings. The mortga-
gee, obtaining an absolute decree OF
sale, was enabled to bid in the property
at almost any sum he might choose to
name. and in many instances get de-
cree over against his debtor for re-
mainder Of the debt which the sale of
the property mortgaged did not satisfy;
whereas. in the State courts, the statu-
tory right of redemption practically COM
PEELED the MORTGAGE to bid at least the
full amount of the Indebtedness.
The Supreme Court has now reversed
one of these DEGREES by the national
Circuit Court, sc far as the mode of sale
was concerned. The ground of the re-
versal must have been that the right of
redemption under the State law should
be treated as not cut off by the sale, and
that in this respect the practice in the
State courts should be followed. The
statutory redemption right has been held
to be part of the mortgage contract,
agreed to by both parties when the mort
gage was given, and therefore as binding
as any other covenant in the instrument.
This, undoubtedly, is the view which the
national Supreme Court has embodied
in the present decision. The Importance
of the decision, both TO mortgage debt
ors and mortgage creditors, is therefore
manifest.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

Ira B. Wright, ten years Town Treas
urer of South Hadley, Mass, has appropriated
$4,000 of the town funds.
A mandatory of arms in Providence,
X. l., has received orders for 100000 rifles for
the Turkish Government-being part Of lot
bargained for under contract suspended
some time ago on account of the close of the
war.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman, the Connecticut
prisoner, died in the State prison at Hartford
last week.
All the steamers leaving New York
for European ports are crowded to their fullest
capacity.
The New York Syndicate, which re-
Gently contracted with the Secretary of the
Treasury to dispose Of $50, geo, 900 of the new
41S-rer-cent. Government bonds by the 1st o;
next January, has now taken the entire amount
of the bonds.
Mrs. Leon Lewis, the novelist, died
in Rochester, N. Y, few days ago.
THE Rev. Samuel s. Isaacs, editor OF
the Je,oish Messenger, and the oldest Jewish
minister in the country, died in New York last
week, aged "a.
West.
William M. Fisher, wholesale jewel
or of Providence, stopped at the Planters
House, st. Louis, engaged q room, stepped out
for few minutes, and, upon returning, discov-
cred that the door of the room had been forced
open and $1,000 worth Of jewelry carried off.
They have sensation in Indianapolis
1t is alleged that the Judge in the celebrated
case of Mrs. Glen, charged with the murder
Of Young, received $1,000 for Diminishing the
ease.
There are thirteen men in the Chicago
Jail awaiting trial for murder, and two more
under sentence of death.
There was Communist parade in st.
Louis last Sunday. Nearly 5000 men we're in
the procession.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-24
/" Little ClasSics.0

II was along about the kalends OF
May when Coriolanus went into the hall
closet at the head of the stairs and
brought forth pair of his last-summer
trousers. The mailed hand, that, |" like
an eagle in a dove cote, futtered the
Voices in Corioli, dropped with a gest-
ure of despair when he beheld yawn-
ing postern gate in the raiment, where
breach or fissure there should have been
none. To him, his true and honorable
wife, the fair Virgilia, said:
"Now the gods crown thee, Coriola-
nus, what appears to be the trouble
with your"
"Now the gods mend these trousers,
oh my gracious silence" replied Corio-
Janus. "See what rent the envious
tooth of time has made"
Virgilia dropped her tender, beaming
eyes and drew heavy sigh as she
turned and dived mournfully into the
rag-bag to hunt for patch.
"My lord and husband" she said,
YEARLY dragging up bits of red flannel,
tufts of raw cotton, scraps of calico,
tags of carpet-rags, and finding nothing
that would match the lavender trousers
any nearer than slab of seal-brown
empress cloth, tive patched those
trousers till my eyes and fingers ache at
the sight of them. / would the immor-
tai gods would send on Rome and to our
house the one unending blessing of
eternal piece"
Coriolanus looked at her steadily for
moment, but couldn't tell from her
uprippled face whether she meant it
or not.
"And I, too, thou noble sister of Pub
licola," he said, 81, too, thou moon of
Rome, for my great soul, to fear invul-
nerable, is weary of the restless god Of
wore."
Virgilia dropped the rag bag and
looked up at him quickly, but he never
smiled.
"Keno," she said.
Put it there" he said, and then they
both promised they would never behave
so like mounting paragraphers again.
burlington HdUk. Eye.