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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

WILLIAM II Stout went from Texas
to Illinois with a companion, who was
soon afterward murdered. Stout was
accused of the crime, and his defense
was an alibi-that he was in Nebraska
at the time Of the murder. A tavern
keeper near the place of the killing,
however, testified positively that the
two men slept in his house together.
Stout was convicted and sentenced to
death I; but the punishment was altered
to imprisonment for life. Now, after a
lapse OF four years, an account book be-
longing to the tavern keeper comes to
light, in which an entry showing that
the date of Stout's lodging was month
earlier than was supposed. There is
other proof of his innocence, and he has
been pardoned. %
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
Real WOrkingwOmen.

1t is an odd spectacle to witness scores
of women doing the work of longshore-
men on the wharves of st. Johns, New
foundland. When the time arrives for
vessels from Southern Europe, Brazil,
West Indies, and elsewhere, to take
aboard their cargos of salt cod, herring,
ETC., files of buxom females, with
tucked-up gowns, barred arms, and
coarse brogans, may be seen along the
wharves, carrying fiat barrows of fish to
and fro. Each barrow has four han
dies, and is borne by two women. They
perform the same labor as men at this
business, but their pay is inferior. In
fact they seem to work more arduously
than their male CO operators, and con.
tinue to do so the same number Of
hours. Women also go on the sum
mer voyage" to Labrador, and act severe
ly in the capacities of "splitters,
"salters" and "headers."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
EdisOn's Early Life.

This remarkable inventor, of whom
the public has recently heard 80 much,
is still a young man, having been born
in 1847 at Milan, Erie county, Ohio.
His mother was of Scotch parentage,
but born in Massachusetts, she was fine
ly educated, literary and ambitious,
Young Edison's only schooling came
from his mother, who taught him spell
ing, reading, writing and arithmetic.
He lost his mother in 1862, but his
father, a man of vigorous constitution,
is still living, aged "a. When
he was years old, his parents re-
moved to Port Huron, Mich. The
boy disliked mathematics, but was fond
of reading. and, before he was II
years old, had read the "Penny Cylo-
pedia," Hume's England" and Glib
bon's "Rome." He early took to the
railroad, and became newsboy on the
Grand Trunh line, running into Detroit.
Here he had access to a library, which
he undertook to read through but, after
Swimming over many hundred miscellane-
GUS books, he adopted the plan of select
reading on subjects of interest to him.
Becoming interested in chemistry, he
bought some chemicals, and fixed up a
laboratory in one of the cars. An I'M
fortunate combustion of phosphorus one
day came near setting fire to the train,
and the consequence was, that the con-
ductor kicked the whole thing out He
had obtained the exclusive right to sell
papers on the road, and employed four
assistants but not satisfied with this, he
bought lot of secondhand type, and
printed on the cars little paper of his
own, called the Grand Trunk Herald.
Getting acquainted with the telegraph
operators along the road, he took notion
to become an operator himself. In
his lack of means and opportunities, he
resorted to the expedient of making his
own apparatus at home. A piece OF
stove-wire, insulated by bottles, was
made to do service as the line-wire.
The wire for his electromagnetic he
wound with rags, and in similar way
persevered until he had the crude ele-
ments of telegraph but the electricity
being wanting, and as he could not buy
a battery, he tried rubbing the fur OF
cats backs, but says that electricity
from this source was failure for tele-
graphic purposes. Sketch of 4. A,
Edison" IN Popular Science Monthly
for august.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

out on the porch, and climbed up to the
roof of the house.
There he rested; and there he was
when the whole household, frightened
by Bella's shrieks, came running up to
see what was the matter. In vain Bella
scolded In vain Richard coaxed and
threatened. Jocko would not come
down until he had finished his work; for
he was busily engaged in tearing poor
Bella's bonnet into fragments.
"As ribbon after ribbon was de-
stroyed, her screams grew louder and
louder; and nothing could move her
from her determination to kill the
monkey, except the promise of a gayer
bonnet than the one that Jocko had
stolen.
"But Jocko never was forgiven; and
the poor fellow would have gone supper
less great many times had it not been
for his devoted young master. "-Nurs-
cru.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
The marriage of Queen Victoria

THE marriage of Queen Victoria's
third son, Arthur William Patrick AL
bert, Duke of Connaught, to Princess
Marie Louise, of Prussia, will leave
only two of the Queens children I'M
married, namely, Leopold and Beatri re.
Prince Arthur is % years old. The
Princess Marie Louise, of Prussia, is
daughter of Prince Frederick Charles,
who is a nephew Of the Emperor Will
lam, and is the Prussian General to
whom Bazaine surrendered Metz. The
Princess Marie Louise is the Oldest
child, and was born on the 14th of Sep
TENDER, 1856.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
A Monkey story.

This is one of the true stories that 1
tell my little boys over and over again
as we sit before the fire and make ready
for their journey to "Sleepy-Land:"
"When your grandfather was a lad
about II years old an uncle of his made
a voyage to South America, and brought
home as present to his nephew a fine
large monkey. OF course Master Rich
ard was very much pleased; and the
frolicsome pet would have had warm
welcome from the whole household had
not the uncle seen fit to report some of
Jocko's pranks on shipboard.
This put the young ladies upon
their guard. But old Bella, the cook,
never seemed prepared for his capers
and the fuss she made over them pleased
Jocko 80 much that she became the OBJ
iect of his attacks.
Zone day Bella went to the city, and
brought home fine new bonnet in a
large bandbox. During the evening
she showed it with great pride to the
young ladies'; and, unknown to her,
Jocko enjoyed the sight of the ribbons
and laces and flowers behind the parlol
sofa.
Like Bella herself, he was fond OF
fnery; and the bonnet seemed to him q
very fit garment for a monkey to wear
So the next morning, while Bella was
busy in the kitchen, Jocko went to hel
closet, took out her bandbox, dressed
himself in the bonnet, and stole dowr
the back stairs.
bella, hearing noise, looked around
and there he was, his head literally los
in sea of red and yellow ribbons
With shout of rage, she seized th,
broomstick, and hurried after the thief
But before she could reach him, Jock
had mounted two flights OF stairs, leapec
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
who Did 1t.


Who tracked the mud across the floor,
And through the hall and up the stair?
And left IL clinging to the chair?
Whose fnger-prints deface the door?
Whose crumbs beneath the table lie?
Who smeared the butter ON the cloth?
Who spilled the gravy, stopped the broth,
And dropped pickle In the pie7
Who pulled the curtain with jerk,
And left 1t hanging all askew,
And broke the cord TWAS nearly new:
wonder II twas mothers work?
Whose knife is this, with handle stained,
And open blade with rust 30 marred:
Twas found this morning in the yard,
Upon the grass--last night IL rained.
Just now 1 slipped and nearly fell
A marble rolled a rod or more,
And then crushed an apple-core-
Whose was IL, mother? Can you tell?
Face downward on the slab, book
Lies open, leaves dog-eared aud thumbed
And near, a handkerchief, be-gummed
And stiff with taffy-only look
Upon door-knob hangs a hat
IT'S passing strange it hangs at all;
And In the corner Is a ball,
And on the sofa rests a bat.
missed the hammer yesterday;
The Ratchet vanished long ago;
All winter, underneath the snow,
Behind the house the shovel lay.
Are things bewitched? Do genii hide
Within my closets and my drawers,
And skulk behind the chamber DOORS
And through the darkened attics glide?
often go from room to room,
And sweep the floating cobwebs down,
And wonder when the spiders brown
Departed with their dainty loom
But then-who knows ?-those films so fine
May once have lain upon my shelf
Beneath the little bowl of delf;
Twas there / used to keep my Irvine.
The tiny tacks lost last spring
A paper full, with polished heads
AS black as jet and round as beads,
But deader than a mummied king
What do you think they did to-day?
NV sugar-bucket's sides they stormed,
And in the sugar fairly swarmed-
Who turned tacks into ants, tell me, pray?
The elves are in the house, tits clear
I'd like to catch that one who took
The clothes-brush down from off the hook
And left II on the etagere.
Who was it, little Johuny Bell?
Why do you stand 80 shame-faced there,
And blush from chin to forehead fair p
think you know the culprit well.
Mrs. Il. ID. Kendall, IN August Wide AiCake.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
ACCORDING to a statement published

ACCORDING to a statement published
by DR.. G.. Mayr, the Director of the
Royal Bavarian Statistical Bureau, the
proportion of blind, deaf, and dumb
people, and of imbeciles in the different
countries of Europe and in America is as
follows The proportion of blind people
is, in Germany, $40 per 1000 of the
population in England, 8. 35 in Den
mark, 1856; in Norway, 1858 in Swe-
den, SOC in Finland, 22.46 in Austria,
5.55 in Hungary, II; in Switzerland,
7.61 in France, s.37; in Spain IL. 26;
in Italy, 10.1 /; and III the United States,
5.27. OF deaf and dumb people the
proportion is, in Germany and Austria,
9.66 per 1000; in England, STA
in Denmark, $40; in Norway, 1922 in
Sweden, 1923; in Switzerland, 24.52
in France and Spain, 6.26; in Italy, 7.34;
and in the United States, 400. The
proportion Of idiots is, in Germany, %
per 200; in England, 81 in Denmark
and Sweden, % in Norway, 30I in
Switzerland, %; in Belgium, ID; in
France. 26 /; and in Italy and the United
States. 16.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

WHAT England has undertaken in Of
fering to insure good government
throughout Asiatic Turkey will appear
from the memorial presented to the For
eign Secretary of State by the Armenian
Committee of London. The Armenians
in the Turkish empire number 4,000,-
600. They are commingled with the
Moslem population; in some districts
they are more numerous than their
Moslem neighbors, in others less. They
are subjected to oppressive taxation,
can obtain no justice in the courts, and
are excluded from the police and the
army. In addition they are harassed by
wandering tribes of Kurds, who claim
the Armenians as serfs, rob them, and
sell them at pleasure. The Turkish
Government is either Indifferent to these
Kurd outrages or unable to punish
them. The Armenians pray for British
interposition, which England has nov
bound herself to accord.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
JOKE on Alexander H. Stephens II

JOKE on Alexander II. Stephens His
feeble condition warrants MIN in carry
ing small flask of good whisky for
medicinal purposes, and, when he be-
comes exhausted from speaking in the
open air, he draws out the flask and
takes drop before the audience. The
other day he was expatiating upon the
principles of Jefferson, and, i'll the mid
die of one of his most glowing passages,
stopped and took drink from the bot
tie. Resuming at once the thread o.
the discourse, he said: eyes, fellow
citizens. This is the true Democracy,
whereupon the audience. thinking of the
whisky and not Of the discourse, clapped
and smiled audibly at Old Alexis ex
pense.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

of fertility, CALIFORNIA; navigable rivers
are also filling up, so mucL 80 that the
Sacramento is not at all the stream it
was twenty-five years ago-the large
steamers have been withdrawn with in
creasing distinctions, and it's lower bays
have so filed up that old surveys are
not to be relied on, and Congress has
granted an appropriation for surveying
them anew.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

A REMARKABLE accident occurred in
Chicago the other day. While at play
on the fourth floor of building, little
S-year-old girl fell over the banisters
through the well-hole of the stairway to
the bottom floor, a distance of sixty
feet. Her playmates gave the alarm,
and the frantic mother rushed down
stairs, expecting to find her child man
gled corpse. She was astonished be-
yond bounds to find her alive, and, SO
far as she could discern, with no bones
broken. A physician was sent for, who
made a close examination for internal
injuries. Considering the nature of the
accident he was greatly surprised to find
that no bones had been fractured; in
deed, not so much as an abrasion of the
skin could be detected. There were nc
internal injuries either, and, after hel
recovery from the nervous shock, the
child resumed her play as well as ever.
This is certainly one of the most mar.
velous escapes from death on record.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

AS CALIFORNIA is becoming more
thickly settled, the rapid disappearance
of its forests attracts serious attention,
5O0,OO0,000 feet of lumber being drawn
from them annually. Laundering opera
tons are carried on there, as in all new
countries, with prodigal waste of tim
Der, and the business is increasing, to
supply the growing home population
and for shipment TO foreign market.
Besides this threatened aridity and loss
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

A GENTLEMAN who was with Mr.. Bar
mum for several years says that Maj.
and Mrs. Newell were the smallest we'd
ed couple that ever lived. One smaller
pair is mentioned by Marco Polo in his
travels in Tartary. They were each 20
years of age respectively. They mar
ried by order of the Khan, and their
fourth son was six feet two inches in
height.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
DRs. BRAproRp and Gutter. of Bosto

DRs. BRADFoRD and Gutter, of Boston,
have investigated anew the physical con-
sequences of rowing races. They found
that 113 Harvard men had rowed in in
tercollegiate races up to 1870. OF these
ten were killed in the war and two died
of diseases contracted in the service.
Of the remaining 101, one died of Brights
disease, five of consumption, one of neu-
ralgia, one by suicide, two by accident,
and one from an unknown cause. OF
the eighty seven who are still alive, six
ty-seven say that they are in perfect
health, and nineteen have not definitely
answered the question. The average
health of all these oarsmen is rated as
having been above the average. DIR.
Bradford says /: ;" Although the few facts
we have been able to collect are INSULT.
cient to prove that the practice of row
ing and training is beneficial to the
health, they appear to show that it is by
no means certain that rowing and train
ing are as injurious as is often sup
posed"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

The important decision of Secretary
Schurz, that the lands granted to the
Pacific railroads are, three years after
their completion, subject to entry and
pre- .emption by actual settlers at $l.25
per acre, is slowly making its way into
the public mind. The following are the
figures of an estimate of the quantity OF
these lands:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

THE territory which Turkey loses by
the treaty OF Berlin is roughly estimated
by the London Daily Nea0s at 1880
square miles, or about 10, 000square miles
more than the whole area of England
and Wales. The loss in population
amounts to more than $500, 900. or
somewhat more than the entire popula-
ton of London.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
The Trlle Nurthernsr.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1878.

THE latest story in regard to Gen.
Sherman's son, who is to enter the
priesthood, is to the effect that he loved
his cousin, the present wife of Senator
Cameron, and that, on hearing that his
love was not returned, he decided to
leave the country and become priest.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09

So DIsGUsTED was farmer who had
taken two horse load of corn to Dallas,
Tex, on Earning that the buyers would
pay no more than 35 cents, that he pail
45 cents to drive bis wagon to the mid
die of the toll-bridge, and there solemn
ly emptied the grain into the river.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
THE DIFFERENCE.

The Democrats want the greenba * con-
vertible into gold. That IL just what the
Republicans desire. Both are seeking a
gold basis for paper currency. This suits
the gold kings because they, having the
gold, can make the grqenback fuctuate in
value az they cause gold to fluctuate. The
idea is for gold to be king and for the hold
ers of gold to control prices, control labor
and enslave enterprise. This is the old
idea of the gold harrons dressed up in
greenbaCk suit Of clothes. 1t won't win
The basis is not gold alone or silver and
gold both, but these added to the credit o
the nation.
This is the true Greenback idea-th,
National idea.
There never was and never can be an,
snch thing as specie payment The speci
is not adequate in quantity-never was
never will be.
The Democrats are not holding the bond
holder TO the contract of taking greenback
for the bonds. The Republicans promis
specie and SO do the Democrats.
The Grcenbackers hold Shylock to hi
bond and will insist on the bargain mad
by Lincoln and Ben Butler.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

The interest paid by labor to the un-
taxed bondholders amounts TO nearly one
hundred millions year in this country
alone. A few more wars and few more
laws like the "bill to strengthen the public
credit" passed in 1869 by Sherman & Co.,
would absorb all the net earnings of labor,
as perfectly as sponge absorbs the water
in tea cup. Labor already staggers halt
starved on the highway to ruin and crime
while untaxed capital pronounces the YER
dict Of "vagabondage" against it. The
Democratic remedy is to make the green
backs and coin equal in value. They arr
equal now and behold the result. Th'
Republican remedy is to compel ever,
debtor to pay his debt in coin. Ths Ma
tional, and true remedy is pay off the bond
in greenbacks an give $50 per capita 0
| currency.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

Will resumption convert our national
debt into a circulating medium again, like
that we had in 1866, so that ii will bless
and not curse "the land OF the free and the
home of the brave?"
Answer NO at the polls BY voting the on
ly ticket which promises TO return to the
prosperous days of 1866. and restore that
value to your property which equals it:
cost and its power to redeem your notes
and IN ortgages.
A vote for the greenback ticket is Il voi'
for increase Of prices, an increase of vslues
employme ent for labor, activity to bushes
, and emancipation from the rule of th'
money power.
1t ia vote for aid to poor men to settle OIL
the public lands already given them.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03

Coin is the basis of paper money in tn
old world, and in this country it was
thought indispensable until rebellion
forced our government to cut loose from
this rotten dogma of the rotten dynasties
of Europe. The legal tender fat money
Of America was born in the storm Of battle
and performed the miracle of National
deliverance from disruption of the Union,
while it taught US lesson in finance which
robs the gold barons of their power over
labor and enterprise. Tho achievement OF
victory over the rebellion, glorious as it
was TO our arms, is not more glorious than
the new system Of finance which bases
currency on the national credit and prom
ises to float 81 500, 900, 900 of legal tenders
receivable for all dues, on a par with coin
and thus wipes ont the national debl while
it wipes out taxation and, like the rod Of
Moses, produces floods of revenue from the
rock of our dried up resources. Cling te
the fruits OF the war. Vote straight
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
The Lessons of the Past.

When a little over two years ago, those
Peter Cooper's Bus Load" frat organized
an independent political party, shout of
derision went up at the 'lunatics" and
idiots who proposed to enact into law such
"wild and chimerical" schemes. Webster's
Unabridged could not furnish words clear
and forceable enough to stigmatize the
"wildness" of the knaves and fools who
propose TO reform the currency"
It il matter Of considerable consratu-
la,ion to find how rapidly these Wild
schemes are being adopted by those who
were at first most bitter in denouncing
them, and we sometimes feel inclined to
Columbus, wealthy, but honest and in
telligent banker; he always opposed drag
ging the question of currency reform into
| politics, because, as he told US, "all that is
people of all classes and all political faiths
will support the issue. It is SO clearly
just and right, that there will remain NO
opposition after the people understand it,
From the actions of those who opposed
US, it would seem that he was more thar
half right, though the agitation would moi
have been so active and the minds of The
people attracted TO the reform to the same
extent, had it not been made politica
issue.
They were wont to say that we mus
contract in order to resume. Now the,
have stopped contraction.
They told us that the idea of the Gov
ernment issuing money was ridiculous
Now, John Sherman advocates the re
issue of treasury notes as they are pai
into the treasury.
They told us that national bank note
I were the best and safest money. Nov
}, nine-tenths of the people of the countr
: say "the banks must CO."
e They ridiculed the idea that greenbacl
= should be made legal tender for duti'
e on imports, and the last Congress can
e "within hair" of passing law makir
y them so receivable.
l. They told us that money must have q
Is intrinsic value, and they find that Congre
'f and its masters, in their greed and igno
ance, slipped up on that by giving to 8
grains of standard silver in two half dc
lars, the same purchasing power as 45
as grains in the trade dollar and the ten ce
IN piece.
m Everything proves that the "Greenba'
es luna1ics" were right, and the fact is brea
~ ing upon the minds of the people of o
lie country with lightning-like rapidi
al Truly the day is dawning.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-10-03
Senator Mathews.

We recognize in this man the best abiIi.
ty of tne Republican party IN Ohio. He
spoke to large audience last Tuesday
night in Somerset. We hoped he could
show some excuse. or reason for the exist
ence OF the Republican party. He failed.
His failure was not for any lack of ability
II he can't show reason for voting Repub
lican no man can that belongs TO his party.
The banks are useful. The national
banks issue good money Therefore they
ought TO remain if we have banks of issue.
The greenback is a promise to pay specie
to the holder. II the specie was not in the
Treasury to redeem them they would be
like Continental monsy-worthless
The above is an outline of the Senators
remarks.
The people are finding out that their
Senators know no more than their Repre-
sentatives, and that their Representatives
know less than their constituents
This is wholesome. The people ars
therefore doing their own thinking
The Senator could not mention III,
name of Ben. Butler without being inter
rupted by demonstrations fhis audience il
favor of that =" renegade from the Republi
can party" The Senator himself was ono
doubtful Republican He should kno,
better than to answer rcnegades by charge
Of this kind Butler knows the differenc
between Continental money and green
backs. Mr.. Mathews, it seems, has yet {,
find it out. The legal tenders is no, ia xet
says Mr.. Matthews. Is that SO? Ifit il
why don't he tax il?