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THE entire estate of the late E. b.
Ward, of Detroit, has been wiped out
in the payment of debts, except that
portion bequeathed to Mrs. Ward and
her minor children, so that there is alb
solutely nothing left to furnish an in
come for the support of the helpless in :
sane children by Mr.. Wards first wife.
The property bequeathed to Mrs. Ward,
now Mrs. Cameron, and her infant chill
dren consists of lands in Mason, Lake,
Oceana, Newaygo and other counties in
that part OF the State, and is valued at
81, 100000.
The seventeenth annual report of the
Secretary of the State Board of Agri-
culture. for the fiscal year ending Sept.
30, 1878, with supplementary paper, is
out. 1t is partly devoted to the affairs
of the Agricultural College for the year.
The report of the Treasurer, f. Long
year, shows the receipts for the year,
including balance on hand at its com.
mencement, to have been $50, ,4O7 IL,
and the expenditures $58, ,525. IS, leaving
a balance of $S81.37 at the close of the
year. The inventory of buildings, farm
stock, ETC., makes a grand total of $267,-
611.70. The students labor during the
year amounted to $5,09917.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17
Steam On the Canals-The Belgian Cable
system. ,-'

The canal-boatmen are talking of
holding mass meeting soon to urge
the Legislature to reduce the tolls.
Some of the leading boatmen said yes
terday that a new era in canal traffic
was approaching, and that they would
soon be in position to compete with
the railroads. The Belgian cable sys-
tenn will, they claim, reduce the ex-
penses about one half, and the time
consumed two-thirds. The State has
granted to the company for fifty years
an exclusive privilege of laying cables
in the Erie canal between Buffalo and
Albany for this purpose, and it is be-
lieved that the cables will be laid as far
as Troy before winter. Alonzo Rich
mond, ex-President of the Buffalo
Board of Trade, said that one of the
great advantages in the wire-rope sys-
TEN was that boats would take full loads
west instead of part loads, as at present,
and the saving in freight would give
New York State virtually free canal.
Early in the present season the lay
ing Of the wire-rope cable was put un-
der contract, and a fleet of steamers
was ordered to be built at Lockport.
Now the cable is complete within four
miles of Rochester. Some tows have
already been carried over it, at three
miles an hour, which is double the
average speed attained with horses.
Next week steam-towing will begin
from Buffalo to Rochester. A contract
has been made to do the towing of the
only horse line on that part of the canal
at 20 cents a mile. Horse-towing costs
at present 30 cents mile. The system
consists of a towboat propelled by
steam, with rudder at each end, and
furnished with two steel-wire cables
one inch in diameter-one for the up
boats and the other for the down.
Three traction wheels are ON the side of
the boat, over which the cable passes.
Thus the tow-boat is drawn along the
cable. Six boats constitute tow, and
it is estimated that under the new sys-
tenn the 5000 boats now employed on
the canal can do double the work.
NelC York Tribune.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17

VIRGIL JAMES was dying at Little
Rock, Ark. 1t was known that he had
$4,000 hidden somewhere, and he was
asked to divulge the secret before it was
too late. NO." said james; 1 will
tell my sister when she comes" When
he was nearly gone an old negro man,
who formerly belonged to the family,
went to the dying man, and, leaning
over, said: MARS Virgil, you can't
live but few moments longer. Tell
me where your money is, and I'll tell
her when she comes" No." replied
James; i will feel better after while.
NY sister will be here pretty soon."
Thus, from time to time, he refused.
His sister did not arrive. Faster and
faster his life ebbed away. Bending
over again, they entreated him to dis
close his secret, but he died with it
buried in his bosom, almost his last
motion being a slight negative shake OF
his head.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17
The Songs Of Scotland.

There is very general impression
especially in England, that Burns Gre
ated Scottish song, and that all that is
valuable in it is his work. Instead OF
saying that Burns created Scottish
soug, 1t would be more true to say Scot
tish song created Burns, and that in
him it eliminated. He was born at a
happy hour for national songster, with
a great background of song centuries
old behind him, and breathing from his
childhood very atmosphere of melody.
From the earliest times the Scotch have
been song-loving people, meaning by
song both the tunes, or airs, and words.
This is not the side which the Scotch
man turns to the world, when ne goes
abroad into it to push his fortune. We
all know the character that passes cur
rent as that of the typical Scot-sandy-
haired, hard-featured, clannish to his
couptrymen, shrewd, cautious, self
seeking, self-reliant, persevering, un-
sympathetic to strangers, difficult to
drive bargain with, impossible to cir
cumvent. The last thing a stranger
would credit him with would be the
love of song. Yet when that hard, cal
culating trader has retired from the
change or the market-place to his own
fireside, perhaps the things he loves
best, almost as much as his dividends,
will be those simple national melodies
he has known from his childhood. Till
very recent time the whole air of Scot
land, among the country people, was re-
dolent of song. You heard the milk
maid singing some old chant, as she
MIXED the cows in field or byre; the
housewife went about her work, or span
at her wheel, with lilt upon her lips. In
the Highland glen you might hear some
solitary reaper singing like her whom
Wordsworth has immortalized; in the
lowland harvest field, now one, now
another, of the reapers taking up an old
world melody, and then the whole band
breaking out into some well-known
chorus. The plowman, too, in winter,
as he turned over the lea burrows, be-
guied the time by humming or whist
ling a tune; even the weaver, as he
clashed his shuttle between the threads,
mellowed the harsh sound with song.
In former days song was the great
amusement of the peasantry, as they of
winter night met for hamlet-gather-
ing by each others firesides. This was the
usage in Scotland for centuries, and am
not sure that the radical newspaper
which has superseded it is an improve
ment.-Atldntic.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17
JERRY TuLL1s died in Cincinnati

JERRY TuLLIs died in Cincinnati,
leaving an estate worth $2,000,000. He
had been a miserly, unsocial old man,
and, so far as was generally known, a
bachelor. He willed all his property to
J. F. Floyd, his chum and neighbor.
His three sisters threatened a contest,
and Floyd quieted them by compro-
mise. Now, America Redmond, mu-
latto woman noted in Cincinnati for her
beauty, sues as the widow OF Tullis, and
presents what appears to be conclusive
proof of relationship amounting in law
to marriage.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17
Etiquette OF Letter. Writing.

AS rule every letter. unless insult
ing in its character, requires an answer.
To neglect to answer a letter, when
written to, is as uncivil as to neglect to
reply when spoken to.
In the reply acknowledge first the
receipt of the letter, mentioning it's
date, and afterward consider all the
points requiring attention.
If the letter is to be very brief, CON-
mence sufficiently far from the top of
the page to give nearly-equal amount
OF blank paper at the bottom of the
sheet when the letter is ended.
Should the matter in the letter con-
tinue beyond the first page, it is wei,
to commence little above the middle
of the sheet, extending as far as
necessary on the other pages.
1t is thought impolite to use half
sheet of paper in formal letters. AS a
matter of economy and convenience for
business purposes, however, it is GUS
tomary to have the card of the busi-
ness man printed at the top of the
sheet, and a single leaf is used.
In writing letter, the answer to
which is of more benefit to yourself
than the person to whom you write,
inclose postage stamp for the reply.
Letters should be as free from
erasures, interlineations, blots and post
scripts as possible. 1t is decidedly
better to copy the letter than to have
these appear.
A letter of introduction or recon-
mendation should never be sealed, as
the bearer to whom it is given ought to
know the contents.-HsWs Manual
Social and Business Forms.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17

OF theamnestiedC Communists brought
back to France, last month, about 600
elected to be carried to Paris. There
they were given comfortable dinner.
and, after speech from Louis Blanc,
dispersed. A few had homes ready to
receive them, but the bulk-people of
the working class-were dependent on
the aid of the charitable. At first they
were shy about mixing with their whilom
acquaintances, and kept close together,
but the ice was soon broken. Never
theless, it was observed that, while
ready to talk about New Caledonia,
they preserve a decided reticence in
discussing the present situation. In
some populous districts a warm SYM
pathy with their needs has shown itself,
so marked, indeed, that those keeping
houses of entertainment have found it
to their interest to proffer hospitality to
the returned exiles.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17

Lieut.. McCauley, who was a warm
personal friend of Maj. Thornburgh,
says that that lamented officer was one
of the best marksmen on the frontier.
Hecould break glass balls with a skill
almost as unerring and remarkable as
that displayed by Bogardus or Carver.
The Lieutenant tells of having, on one
occasion, tossed nickel into the air
that Thornburgh might shoot at it.
The Major fred and the bullet struck
the piece of money when about fifteen
feet above the ground. The gun used
was the regulation Springfield musket.
He believes that if Thornburgh had
lived long enough after the attack was
begun to put his gun to his shoulder and
pull the trigger, the Indian at whom
his weapon was aimed has certainly
joined "the innumerable caravan" OF
Utes who have gone to "the happy
hunting-grounds. Chicago Times.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17
State Items.


THE Supreme Court has commenced
with 16O cases.
Mrs. STEARN, mother of Matthew
Stearn, of Campbell, Ionia county, is
104 years old.
THE Catholic Church burned, few
days ago, at Marquette. Loss about
$4,000; insured for $4,000.
The Grand Chapter of the Order of
the Eastern Star was in session in Bay
City last week. Delegates were present
from all parts of the State.
ACCORDING to the Luding,on Record,
fair but over.worked girl, IA years
old, in Riverton, is doing fall plowing,
through the avarice of her parents.
The body of Jonathan King, of
Rives, has been received. He went
north on hunting trip some days since,
and died in camp. Ho was an early
settler of the county.
The fourteenth annual reunion of
the Twentieth Michigan infantry oc-
Cured at Marshall the other day.
About 100 were present. The next re-
union will be held at Jackson, Oct. 13,
1880.
MARVIN r. SALTER, of Disco, Ma
comb county, issues piteous appeal
for assistance in search of his missing
brother, Milton b. Salter. He says
Il have not heard from him for six
months Che left home March 19), and
mother is almost Wild"
Mr.. G.. W. PARTRIDGE, who has been
appointed special Deputy Collector at
Detroit, in place of Mr.. V. B. Bell, re-
signed, has had ten years experience in
clerical duty in the army, and in the
War and Interior DEPARTMENTS, and was
for tour years clerk to the Senate Com
mittee on Commerce.
ToAMy KIDD, life man at the State
prison, has gone quite extensively into
the bird-raising business. He has a
number of very fine canaries, all of
which, except the younger ones, are
good singers. He is the man who made
the beautiful fowerbed in the yard
which has been so much admired by
visitors the past summer.
The report of the State Salt Inspect
or shows the amount of salt inspected
during the month of September to be
264,304 barrels, the largest monthly
production in the history of the Michi-
gan salt trade, being 4l,OOO barrels
more than the product of the CORE
spending month in 1878. The product
tor the year up to Oct. 1, is 1,612,295
barrels against 1,511,775 barrels for the
corresponding season in 1873.
A CYCLONE, accompanied by heavy
rain, passed over the county fair
grounds at Watrousville, Tuscola coun-
ty, during the exhibition, doing great
damage. Cloth tents were torn to
shreds and fences blown down. One
tent where tables were set for 100 per-
sons was blown down, overturning the
stove and large reservoir of boiling
water, severely scalding six ladies, one
Of them with an infant six months old,
probably fatally. In the main hall the
The true northerner., 1879-10-17
Paner from POnlar.

1t surprises people to see the great
logs of poplar wood go through the
powerful machine at the Connecticut
River Pulp Mill, at Holyoke. The
wood, as it is brought to the mill, is
about the size of cord-wood used for
fuel, and in this shape the machine
takes it and gnaws it up very fine. So
rapidly does this process go on that the
machine eats about seven and half
cords of wood day, and this makes be-
tween three and four tons of pulp.
After coming from the machine the
wood isput into vats and reduced by the
action of chemicals. 1t is used for the
manufacture of news and book paper.
The wood is obtained mostly from Cam
ada-Boston Transcript.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17
The Southern cotton-mills are more

The Southern cotton-mills are more
prost erous this year than ever before.
The total consumption of cotton in the
South was 1S6,4S9 bales during the
year ls7S-'79, against 147,747 bales in
the preceding year--a gain of 26 per
cent. Georgia is the first cotton. manu-
featuring State in the South, having
100000 spindles, North Carolina stand
ing second, and South Carolina third.
Texas manufactures the least cotton.
The North gained only 2 per cent. in
cotton manufactures last year, while
the Southern gain was 26 per cent.
Alabama will probably develop manu-
factures largely, as coal has recently
been discovered in the northern part of
the State.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17
Lead Poisoning.

A medical journal, writing of lead
poisoning. makes statement which will
interest parents and teachers: Those
who work in lead mines, or in any way
with lead, and absorb its fine dust into
their systems, except by the greatest
care, sooner or later have what in gen
eral phraseology is called printers or
painters palsy. The habit of children
to bite and wet their lead pencils is fol-
lowed by serious results, which are
more likely to be traced to a close
school-room and hard study than to the
lead pencils, slate pencils, and chalk
they have munched on at short inter
walls five days out of seven.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17

all its forms without. the Anal 9, THUS
defnit--ly111ness; indefinit-ly-ness,
Omit final in hypocrit, favorit ; also
opposit-ly--ness and apposit-ly-
ness. In words ending in "less-
ness" drop one from "less," viz,
carelesness, thanklesness. Omit the
fourth in assassin (assasin) and other
forms of the word. Change ph to Z in
fantom, fantasm, and all other forms of
the word; also in fonetic-s-al, fono-
graft, orthografy, alfabet, digraf, diff
thong
The true northerner., 1879-10-17
Totals s6a 600 600 81 l5a O96 u 81 az 800 90
The following counties were attached

The following counties were attached
to others: Crawford to Kalkaska !;
Montmorency to Alpena, and Oscoda to
Alcona.
The difference between the total of
taxes and the aggregate apportionment
in the counties of Allegan, Barry, Ber-
rien, Cass, Clinton, Crawford, Eaton,
Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kalamazoo,
Kent, Lapeer, Livingston, Macomb,
Monroe, Oakland, Ottawa. Roscommon,
Saginaw, Shiawassee, st. Clair, st. Jo-
seph, Van Buren,, Washtenaw and
Wayne is caused by the fact that the
amounts which those counties are in
debted to the State is added to the
amount of their apportionment.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17

ABOUT five years ago company with
s10,OO0,OO0 of capital began work on a
proposed tunne! under the Hudson
river to connect Jersey City with New
York and make a way for railroad trains
directly into the metropolis. Like
nearly everything of the kind, it got in
to the courts, and the work was sus-
pended. The litigation seems to have
resulted in way to encourage the tun-
mel company to 90 on with its enter
prise, and the work has been resumed
with vigor. 1t is understood that Wash
ington square will be the New York
terminus, and the tunnel, which has
been started 100 feet inland in Jersey
City. will be $4,000 feet long, twenty
six feet wide and twenty-four feet high,
and sixty feet beneath the bed of the
river. 1t will be laid with heavy steel
rails, ballasted with broken stone, and
supplied with gas pipes, pneumatic
tubes, water pipes and telegraph wires.
Within short time work will be begun
at the New York end and prosecuted
day and night, it having been estimated
that the tunnel can be completed
within two years. When finished it
will enable some 400 trains to enter
New York every twenty-four hours from
the Pennsylvania, Erie, Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western and the Jersey
Central. New York Justly regards this
as one of her biggest things.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17
Rabies i'm Paris.

Careful statistics in Paris of the cases
of rabies observed in 1878. The total
number of cases reported to the Pre-
lecture has been 40 dogs, 50 bitches
and three cats. Out of these 511 cases
800 were biting rabies. The number
of wounds inflicted on persons was 103,
and the number of deaths 30-about l
to 3. This is the same proportion as
resulted from previous inquiries. Al
most all these cases have been reported
The true northerner., 1879-10-17

THE Chicago Tribune and two or
three other newspapers have put in use
the following reformatory rules in
photography: Omit ue in demagog,
catalog, synagog, and other words end
ing in "logue" and "gogue." Omit the
supernuous me in programme, making
it program. Omit the second m in di-
lemma (dilema). Omit the superhuous
te in cigaret, etiquet, parquet, coquet,
and all similar words. Spell defnit in
The true northerner., 1879-10-17

THE Railroad Gazstte publishes a
table of forty-one leading railroad
stocks common and preferred includ-
ed) showing the prices and values of
their stocks in 1873, 1878 and 1879.
The highest value of their aggregate is
sues in 1873 was $3.50, 5,l62,6l1; in 1878,
$462, ,l6O, ,949; in 1879, $58S, ,226,737. In
crease in one year, S126, ,O65,TSS.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17

DIVORCES are reported as very COM
mon among the colored people of Geor-
gia. They have taken the law into their
own hands, and do not trouble the
courts. Here is copy of document
which was offered for record in a clerks
office: "Aug. 10, 1879. This is to GER
tify that Mollie Brown gives Jerry
Haslap pleasure to get a divorce by her
consent. She is perfectly willing. Wit
ness, Jasper Tison. For she says she
never intended to have him again"
The true northerner., 1879-10-17
ahh,s' ttas ssasftaRsss saa'tafRssFasss.
FRIDAY. JJcTFobbEERf! z, 1879.

The hop crop of England is so light
that English brewers will be obliged to
use the American article. England
seems to be short of everything save fog
and professional pedestrians.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17

from Paris out Of population Of 2,OOO,-
600. The number OF animals which
hayelbeen bittea Jbg mad dogs is l342
dogs and "a cats. Two hundred and
thirty-four animals were taken to the
Veterinary School of Afford either for
autopsy or for Mature.
The true northerner., 1879-10-17

State Taxes Apportioned to the Several
n Counties. - trtiu
d Following is the State tax apportion-
ment for this year, as made by the Au-
ditor General, Oct. 4:
The true northerner., 1879-10-17

GEN. GRANT read Lies Miserables"
on his way home from Japan.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-12-03

August, but that was about the end Of
their time.
TEE t~hfeesprime rules 10 b observed
In farming fowls y sound and various
food, warmth and cleanliness. There IL
nothing that . fattening fowl grows 70
fastidi0us about n his water. II water
any way foul BE- offered him he viii not
drink It, but sulk With his food and
pine, and you all the while wondering
the reason why. Keep them separate,
allowing to each bird a mitch space a
you : spare; spread the ground with
sharp sandy gravel, and take care that
they are not disturbed. In addition 70
their regular diet of good corn make
them . cake Of ground oats or beans,
brown sugar, milk and mutton suet. Let
the cake lie till It is stale, then crumble
II, and give each bird Z gill measureful
morning and evening. No entire grain
should b given to fowls during the time
they are fattening; indeed, tho secret of
success lies In supplying them with
nutritious food without stint, and in
such . form that their digestive mills
shall find no difficulty in grinding IL
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-12-03
A Poetic Rsbuke.

Mrs. Joseph Gales once gave q dinner
at lexington to Nathaniel p. Willis,
who was M of her special friends; he
sat beside . sprightly niece of hers and
the two became very lively. A MI.
Campbell sat beside the hostess and was
devoted in his attentions to her. This.
however, did not 30 absorb the aunt %
TO prevent her from watching the firta.
ton going on between MI. Willis and
her niece. She frowned and sent reproy.
Ing Chances down the table until the
young Lady seized pencil and paper and
hurriedly wrote and sent toher aunt the
following lines:
Dear aunt-why seek my acts to trsmmel9
fou strain at my Nat and swallow your Campbell.
This clever thrust silenced the aunt and
secured immunity for the young lady.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-12-03
A World or GoOd.

One OF the most popular medicines now
before the American public, Is Hop Bit.
tiers. You zee it everywhere. People
take 1t with good effect. It builds them
up. 1t is not ~ pleasant to the taste u
sons other bittefs a. 1t IL not q whisky
drink. 1t ID more like the old fashioned
boneset tea that has done q world Of
good. If you don't feel just right try
Hop Bitters.-Nunda Neecs.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-12-03

a3fD soattAS1lgAs befoss, & u castle
door, and HI hoess intsnt upon an early
meal on Tho rank herbags Of the grass.
CROWN court.
When be told his tale In the village
and q the neighboEing c-astlss, NO one In
The least doubted that he had almost, II
not quits, laid ths unquiet spirit Of the
lady Of Win&scrHa.p~ss Weakly.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-12-03
FRENCH PANCAKES,

Two eggs, n half-pint milk, two
ounces granulated sugar, two ounces
butter, iour, and jelly. ~ Beat the
butter and sugar to cream; beat the eggs
separately, the yolks to = cream, and the
whites q froth; and add the yolks to the
butter and sugar; stir the milk into
these ingredients; butter six tin pie.
plates; sift two ounces of -four with a
teaspoonful of baking powder, and stir
1t quickly into the above named mixture
with the whites of the eggs; put the
butter quickly upon the buttered plates,
and bake the pancakes brown in q quick
oven; dust them with powdered sugar,
lay them one over the other, with a
little jelly between; dust the top
with sugar, and serve hot.