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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


The new French Cabinet has been
constituted, and the following are the changes: M.
waddington, President of Council and Minister
Of Foreign Affairs; Senator Leroyer, Minister of
Justice; M De Marcere. Interior and also Public
Worship, ad interim; NJ Jules Ferry, Public
instruction and Fine Arts; NJ Lepere, Agri-
culture; Admiral Jaurequiberry, Marine
France is taking measures to prevent
the introduction of the plague.
The visit of the American industrial
deputation 10 Mexico promises to result In
greatly developing the trade between the sister
republics.
A cable dispatch of the 9Th inst. re-
ports that from 80, 900 to 5000 mon were on q
strike at Liverpool Many sailors had joined
the strikers, and the demeanor Of the idle
crowds was threatening.
The Chinese crew on the Australian
bark Kate Waters. from Hong Kong for Foo
Chow, mutinied, murdered the officers, and
scuttled the vessel
Our English cousins have recovered
from their cattle-disease scare
The Russo Turkish definitive treaty
Of peace has at last been concluded and signed,
and the Russians will at once evacuate Turkish
territory.
Paul Gervais, the eminent French
naturalist, is dead
Gen. Chanzy has been appointed
French Minister to Russia.
In addition to the plague, the spotted
typhus and smallpox have appeared in some
districts Of Russia.
1t is reported that large numbers OF
Cossacks who fled from the plague in Russia
were frozen TO death on the river volga
The British troops have met with a
serious disaster ia South Africa A column of
LOCO men was overwhelmed and almost ami
Inflated by large force Of Zulus. Half OF
them were killed and their supply train capt
ured Several Thousand blacks are reported
killed in the engagement
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14
Fighting Texans.

In Goliad county, Texas, two men,
Lockhart and Henderson, got into an
alteration, when both drew pistols. Be
ing ut close quarters, Lockhart caught
Henderson by the arm which held his
pistol, and, pressing his own weapon to
Henderson, fired six shots, all taking
effect except one. Henderson, being
held firmly by Lockhart, was unable to
bring his pistol to bear on his antagon-
list, though he emptied all the chambers
of his revolver in his endeavor to do So
Bob Henderson, brother of the wounded
man, then rushed INFO the room and
opened fire upon Lockhart, who, having
NO loads in his revolver, closed with
Henderson and threw him to the floor.
Henderson succeeded in gaining his feet
again, when he emptied his revolver in
Lockhart. killing him instantly, the bull
let striking just beneath the eye. Hen
derson died in few hours, having been
shot several times through the breast
and stomach. Lockhart was the largest
man in Goliad county, weighing $50
pounds.
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Hotel Deadbeat.

EYES," said the affable clerk at the
Palace, the other day, as he lifted his
stomach up on the office counter and Sc
lected another tooth-pick. ~they are up
to all sorts of dodgee-these hotel beats
and we fellows have to keep very
sharp lookout for 'em, bet your life"
"Do-eh?"
~Now, for instance, about four months
ago q nice old gentleman came in with a
rather astlooking young ran, who had
just arrived from New York, ne said,
and who engaged handsome suit on
he fifth floor. The old man took me
aside, and said he was forced to run
over to Hong Kong himself on the next
steamer, but that he would leave his
son with us. The latter, he confiden-
TALLY explained, was Just then sowing
considerable wild oats by the wayside.
In fact said the old gentleman, with
much feeling, he is so dissipated I
dare not leave any money with him. and
l especially desire that none be fur
nished him by your cashier-not one
single cent, remember. For fear, how
ever, he gets into any real trouble dur
ing my absence / will deposit in Your
hands this package of gold notes. Use
it freely if imperatively necessary, but
do not let him suppose you have any
such deposit, as he would be all the
more reckless and dissipated.' If any
thing should happen, we were to write
TO the old party, care Rothrchlld's Hong
Kong agency"
@Well-and them
well, the young fellow raised merry
Ned round this edifice for about three
months. He beat Smith and I out of
800 at pedre; gave queer little supper
parties in his room; got drunk, and
tried to hold the elevator mans head
overheard 30 that the next landing
would cut it OFF; was chased round the
corridors by some married man with a
pistol nearly every night of his life,
and, in fact, was regular shorter in
every way"
"Should think co."
@Of course he never paid any board
we didn't expect this, having his gov
ernor's bundle of securities locked up
all right in the safe. But one day he
did something 40 blamed outrageous
that we couldn't stand it--had chicken
fight in the ladies' parlor, or something,
80 we wro'e him warning note"
@Wbat did he say?" rtt4
Nothing but 'ta-ta,' and left the
hotel that very day; van osed--disap-
peared. As we didn't get any remit
lance from Hong Kong. we opened the
package last week, aud what do you
suppose was in it?" s
counterfeit money!
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"A any other witness end testified substantially
e follows: II never entered into any arrange
ment to purchase the vote Of South Carolina or
Florida had no information and no suspicion
that any such communications were being car
riod on until / saw the dispatches published In
the New York Tribune. had no knowledge
and no dealings with any parties to these ne
gotiations. never authorized any such
negotiations In any form whatever. On
the morning of Nov 20, 1876, Mrs. Col
Pelton mentioned In my presence that her hus-
band had gone for the day. didn't know that
he had gone or was going out of the city. He
went to Philadelphia, believe Later in the
day was called on by Mr. Cooper, who was on
his way down town, and was told by him that
he had received On offer from some party, Offer
ing to obtain, for money, the vote OF South
Carolina l said that / would authorize no
such transaction, nor spend money for any such
purpose The whole conversation occupied
only few minutes. obtained Col Peltons
to come home knew nothing of the ciphers
that had been passing between him and others
and could not have translated them In regard
to the Oregon dispatches, I did not know that
they came in cipher until after the meeting of
the committee to investigate them From the
7th of November, 1876, until Dec @, of the
Same year, under no circumstance did enter
into any combination for seeking certificates
by venal inducement There never was
an hour nor minute that entertained such a
thought. To the people who, as l believe,
elected me as President of the United States,
to 1900, 600 of citizens who were defrauded,
owed it to proclaim that would not yield one
jot or title of my right Whatever evil may
result from this subversion of the electoral sys-
tenn, and of free Government, resolved that
would enter into no auction for the purchase
of the Chief Magistracy. 1 was resolved that
would continue to protest against q wrong by
which the people were defrauded out Of their
rights- declare before God and my country
that the vote of Louisiana and Florida were
bought (meaning by the Republicans).
would scorn and condemn my righteous title if
the Democratic party had secured 1t by fraud
The committee decided to examine no more
witnesses In New York, and left Immediately
for Washington.
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Has Edison Failed!

The continued silence of Mr.. Edison,
inventor, with regard to the electric
light, which, for nearly year, the pub
lie has been led to believe was about to
be rendered practicable for the ordinary
purposes of illumination, has had a re-
dictionary effect upon gas stocks. The
theories of Mr.. Edison were Mt first
hailed by some of the press as accom-
plished facts, aud produced nervous
ness among the holders of gas-shares,
which exhibited itself in decline of at
least 90 per cent. in the quotation of
values not only here but abroad. Sci
entific men all over the world have ex-
perimented, and nearly all have pro-
duced an electric light from which, at
the outset, they expected great things,
but latterly have confessed their in
ability to divide and make it practicable
as competitor of gas.
These statements, however, have not
been made with the force that should
always accompany a positive DECLARE
ton. Probably the scientists preferred
that Mr.. Edison should have all time
and opportunity to perfect his theory
or acknowledge his failure, without the
possibility of jealousy being insinuated
against them.
DR.. Ozario Lugo, an electrician and
chemical expert of this city, who has
spent time and money in experiment.
ing, is Of the opinion that until an cleo
trical current, now unknown, is dis
covered, a divisible electrical light must
remain problem, an opinion that Mr..
Edison may share in and yet acknowl-
edge.
Although it is hardly fair for the
public to expect that Mr.. Edison will
take it fully into his confidence, yet it
has right to know il heshas made any
progress that gives assurance of ulti-
mate success. This right to know Mr.
Edison gave to the public when he
aroused its curiosity and from time to
time admitted minor successes. His
silence leaves but one impression, and
it is daily gaining strength-that he
has failed.-Ne,o York Mail.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14

Banks United States Marshall for Massachusetts
John Parker, Marshal for the Western District
OF Michigan; Ex-senator John n Patterson
Marshal of New Hampshire; Martin L Town
send United States Attorney for the Northern
District Of New York; and Decius & Wade
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Of Mon
tana
James H. Maddox was before the Pot
ter Investigating Committee at Washington last
week, and denied all of the testimony of wit
ness st Martins, 30 far as II related to MIN.
Maddox sworo that st. Marins had offered to
correct or withhold his affidavit for a money
consideration, but that he Maddox declined to
entertain the proposition.
The President has made the follow
ing appointments: Ephraim McMurtry to be
Collector Of Customs of the District of Minnesota;
John f. Hartranft, Postmaster of Philadelphia;
James Pollock, Naval Officer Of Philadelphia:
A. Loudon Snowden, Superintendent of the
Philadelphia Mint; Martin Parry Kennard, As
sistant Treasurer Of the United States at Bos-
ton, and Thomas Stevenson, Collector of In
ternal Revenue of the Fifteenth District of New
York.
Col. George w. Garter, of Louisiana,
testified before the Potter Committee, at WASH
ington, In relation to St Martins statements.
He denied the allegations of St Martins so far
as they concerned HIM, and said lac had no
knowledge whatever of how subp@nas were
served, of the coaching of witnesses, etc. A.
M Gibson, Of the New York San, testified
before the committee that st. Martins story, 30
far as it related to him, was a tissue of false
hoods.
Mr.. Christiancy, Senator of the United
States from Michigan. formally rendered his
resignation on the 10th inst
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A Woman Inventor.

After I'LL the search for same method
of deadening the noise of the Metropol-
itan elevated railroad at New York, g.
practicable device has been discovered
by a woman, Mrs. Mary e. Walton.
When Edison went west to see the
eclipse, she rode over the railway and
perfected her idea, which is simply o
continuous box, fourteen inches wide
and eight deep, in which to make real
bed and ballast for the rail. She puts
in first layer of tar, then cotton, then
gravel, coated over with asphalt to keep
out the water. She got her patent, and
it has been adopted by the road, having
been on trial since October. Mrs.
Walton is of mechanical turn OF
mind. and has other patents.-Sprisag-
field Republican.
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DOMESTIC INTEI.I.I0ENCE.


In New York, few days ago, John
Flanagan, q laborer, returned home from an
unsuccessful search for work, and found his
wife and 2-year-old child dead from starva-
ton and ais II. D elder children nearly dead
A horrible tragedy is reported from
Troy, N. Y g. +. Simmons, crazed by the
elopement of his wife, poisoned his three chl-
dren and then cut his throat
West.
The remnant of the Cheyenne In
dams have been transferred from Fort Robin
son to Leavenworth. There are but seven
bucks In the lot, and they offered no resistance.
The oldest citizen of Chicago has just
aied-Michael Mcnamara, aged loS years.
Fred Wales shot and killed his uncle,
August Rubine, and his cousin, the eldest
daughter of Mr.. Rubine.
A hydrophobia scare in Floyd county,
Ind, led to a general war ON the canine race;
ever 200 dogs were killed in one township
At Carrollton, Ill, DR.. McAuIff, the
murderer of James Havener, was hanged by
mob; and near Columbia, Ill, Jerry Collins
tolOrtuJ was fyIcncu ioh auo6iho SAo ~'~o-
ter of William Grnbh
The military court convened at Chi
sago for the purpose of inquiring into the con-
duct of Maj Reno at the battle OF the Little
Big Horn, where Custer and his comrades met
their sad fate, has concluded the testimony
The court sat for three weeks, and examined
some two dozen Witnesses The testimony is
regarded as favorable to Maj. Reno. The lat
ter made sworn statement in his own behalf,
in which he said that, while he regarded Gen.
Custer as not lacking In bravery, he had no
confidence whatever in his genius az a col
dior
Owing to the large houses and popu-
lar enthusiasm with which the people OF Chi
cago have greeted Alice Oates aud her troupe,
Manager Hsverly hiss retained that company
for another week-the present-at which the
attraction is the popular comic opera, 1.-THE
Chimes Of Normandy"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Canadian papers say there is no
foundation for the story that Sitting Bull has
returned to American soil
The President has nominated Digby
" Bell Collector of Customs ut Detroit, Mich /;
Algernon S. Badger, Collector at New Orleans,
vice George l. Smith, to be removed, and
William s Mcmillan Postmaster at New Orleans,
vice Badger.
Secretary Sherman believes that q
good plan to raise funds 20 meet the require
nents Of the new Pension law would be TO an
thori0e s4o,OC0OCo of 4-per- oent bonds. which
he could sell after taking mp all available SKIES
the latter part Of the year; but the better plan
still, he thinks, would be to enact national
income tax, and pay pensions out of the pro
ceeds at the rate OF ss,o0ooOo or slaoOaoOo
annually.
The Finance Committee OF the Sen
ate have voted to recommend reduction OF the
tobacco tax to 10 cents per pound
Elk Chief Justice Casey, OF the Unit
ed States Court of Claims, died ut Washington,
lAst week, aged GA.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14

Washington dispatch says, that at joint
caucus of Democratic Senator's and Representa-
tives IT was decided to add clause repeating
me test oath TO some important appropriation
bill, and insist upon its passage. They also
agreed to support a hill abolishing national
banks and replacing national bank currency
with greenbacks
The New York Democrats talk OF
nominating Horatio Seymour for Governor next
summer.
Moses W. Field, Chairman OF the
Greenback State Committee OF Michigan. has
called a STATE Conyeution Of the party for
Feb. ~
The President has appointed N. p.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14

Leaving these on the track, they forced
the engineer 10 continue at full speed
up to point where twenty-five armed
men on horseback ordered halt, where
upon the whole party carried of the
money on mules, killing the conductor
and seriously wounding an inspector OF
the line.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14

Laziness, says the Lady's Journal, isa
bad disease, and, like many other kinds, is
often self-imposed. In the case of many
individuals, it is an inherited malady.
and consequently hard to GUST from the
system. But it is oftener the case that
the disgusting temper is brought on by
their own deliberate selfishness-by D
vastly-discreditable disposition to shirk
the inevitable burdens incident to living
decent life. Laziness of this kind is
one of the cardinal sins, and should
submit the offender to the discipline of
the treadnill. More particularly is lazi-
ness offensive in the young and healthy.
To learn to work, and work cheerfully,
is the central Lesson of life. Begin to
learn it early; eschew laziness as the
most disgusting of all faults, and one
that will surely end in hopeless misery;
for, depend upon it, none can be so in
sensible through laziness as to be, in the
end, incapable of suffering. Nature is.
in the event Of non-payment of her
demands, stern and merciless creditor.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14
THE BLAINE INVESTIGATION.
AT CHARLESTON, 8. c.

The Teller Committee resumed its
sittings at Washington, last week E. W. Mac
kay, defeated Republican candidate for Con-
gress in South Carolina, was the first witness
He testified that the Republicans were, in
numerous ways, prevented from hav-
ing full and free vote in Charleston
county, and that the Democrats resorted to
frauds for that purpose. Witness, in order to
counteraet the Democrats, had 5000 tissue
tickets printed, aud these wore to be used only
in the event that the Republicans were certain
the Democrats were using tissue tickets r.
M. Wallace, United States Marshal for South
Carolina, testified to arresting Democrats for
breaking up Republican meetings, but on con-
viction resulted. The Democrats regarded the
voting of tissue ballots as a huge joke on the
Republicans, saying that they had learned
tricks from the Republicans, and were now
beating them at their own game
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14
Mexican Brirnnds.

A sum of $4,000, consisting of re-
mittances to Europe from merchants in
Mexico, has been captured by fifteen
brigands on the railroad between Puebla
and Vera Cruz. About dozen brigands
took third-class tickets, seated them
selves in q carriage next the. baggage
car. ard about half an hour after start
ing severed all the cars behind them.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14
MISCELLANEOUS oLEAN1Nas.

Fenian Head-Center Stephens has
returned to New York after an absence of three
years in France. He claims that Fenianism
still lives and aourishes, both in Britain and
America
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14

@Not such luck. Something can be
done with real good-aheml Why,
there was nothing in that bundle but q
couple of old Morning Calls. Think
OF il, Morning Callsi Ughl 1t makes
me sick to think OF it even now" and
the genial hotel official lifted his stom-
ach down again. and went sadly to his
fifth meal. San Francisco Ne,cs-
Letter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14

In Mr.. Ward II. Lannon's somewhat
famous life of Lincoln serious doubt
was intimated whether the parents of
the President were ever legally mar
ried, while the additional fact was pri-
vately well known that the book as
printed did not express that doubt with
anything hike the plainness which La
mon at first intended, the efforts of
Judge David Davis and Leonard SWEET
having been successful in suppressing
large part of the matter on the subject.
The story was that Thomas Lincoln,
Abraham's father, was wanting In char
acter" as q young man, 80 that Sally
Bush, "a modest and pious girl" refused
to marry him when he asked her, and
that, as q bond to the State of Kentucky
was required for marriage in regular
form, Thomas, when he espoused Nancy
Hanks, the mother of Abraham Lincoln,
never went through any legal cere-
monial The reticence OF the ex-Presi-
dent on the subject, the same DISPOSE
tion in other persons supposed to know
about it, and the alleged absence from
the record in the family Bible that Mr..
Lincoln kept of any mention Of his pa
rents marriage gave strength to the
story. But it is now ascertained very
distinctly that the evidence of their
marriage is complete and formal. Ex-
Secretary Bristow has received, at New
York, from Mr.. r. J. Browne, lawyer
Of high standing and gentleman of
character, whose residence is in Spring
field, Washington county, KY, a copy
from the county records of the bonds
which Thomas Lincoln gave, with Rich
ard Berry as surety, previous to his
marriage, and also of the certificate of
the Methodist preacher, Jesse Head.
who certifies thar he married them on
the 23d day of September, 1906. The
record is regular in all respects, and
completely slenees any charge or init
nation that the Presidents birth was
not legitimate. The simple explanation
why Lannon's searches, or those made
for him, did not discover the record,
seems to be that they were not made in
the right place.---Philadetphid Times.
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Feminine Curiosity.

A gang of counterfeiters has just been
broken up, and three of them arrested,
in Preston county, w. Va, though the
curiosity Of young girl who had been
hired by David Stenchel to nurse his
wife in sickness. Noticing in one of the
rooms of the residence an old trunk,
she, through curiosity, opened and
looked into it. She saw in it a
large lot of nickels, quarters and half
dollars, besides several dies for making
spurious coin. She went home and
told her father what she had seen, and
he communicated the information to the
proper officers. Warrants were issued
fer the arrest of Stenchel, Campbell and
Williams, and, after desperate fight
with the moonshiners, the officers sue
ceeded in arresting the three men above
named.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14

AMONG the measures which the Bra
lillian Government proposes to bring
forward is one for the total suppression
of the religious orders in Brazil, the
pensioning of the existing monks and
nuns and the application Of the prop
erty to the reduction of the national
debt. This property is estimated at
$500, 900 to 5000, 900, and the number
of persons to be pensioned would not
be more than forty or fifty, most of them
aged, as for years the admission OF nov
ices has been rigidly prohibited.
GEN. BURNSIDE two years ago became
a total abstinence man and has kept his
pledge to date.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-14

THERE are nearly two thousand per-
sons in the Illinois penitentiaries.