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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18
New York Marriage Statistics.

From the annual report of the New
York Board of Health for the past year
the following extracts are taken: Two
native Cinnamon married Irish women,
three were married to women born in
the United States. The total number
of marriages during the year was 1929,
and of this number 7,435 were white
males, and ,447 females, and 1914 colored
males and 1872 colored females. This
shows that twelve white females married
colored men. Seventy-one males and
thirty-three females were married for
the third time, and two males for the
fourth time. Ten males and one fe-
male were married between 20 and so
years, and one male between 80 and 80
years. Five thousand three hundred
and sixty-nine marriages between 0ach-
elOrs and spinsters took place; 4S4
bachelors married widows. The mar
riage rate of this city, like the birth
rate, is not complete, there being 704
marriages to every 10000 of popula-
tiOn.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18
Remembered, but Twisted a Little.

know woman who keeps boarding
house a charming woman, always So
licitous of the comfort of her household
but with peculiarly. She remembers
faces but not Names" Now it never
mattered to me that with every cub of
coffee or tea she gave me L was re-
christened. On the contrary, l found
it very entertaining. But this did dis
tress her daughter. All in vain she la
bored with her mother, who smiling
went on in her own way in spite of her.
But there came time and occasion
when her daughter set her heart upon
her mothers addressing a gentleman
stranger correctly. ALI through the day
of the evening on which he was ex-
pected, the daughter could be heard to
say, as she followed her mother from
room to room, "Now, rem ember, his
name is Mr.. Co,Cdryp to which the
mother in every instance would reply,
Yes, dear, am sure l know it, COl0-
dry" The stranger took his seat at the
table. That blessed woman, with smile
like an angels and a self-possession 1
have never seen surpassed, looked
sweetly across the board and inquired,
mr.. D1 y-co,C, do you take cream and
sugar ?"-BoStopa transcripts Ne,o-
port letter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18

in singular manner. She was ut the
Farr boarding house. The electric cur
rent touched the ridge of the house
and passed to the bedstead upon which
Mr.. Halford, who was sick with the ty-
phoid fever, was tossing. The bedstead
was shattered, but, instead of being
hurt, Mr.. Halford was made almost well
by the shock. From the second floor,
where Mr.. Halford was, the fluid passed
to the room below, killed Miss May and
set the house on fire. When the flames
had been extinguished, Dr. @. H. Reed
examined the young ladys body. He
found that the bolt, CHANGING from her
head TO the left shoulder, passed down
the spine to the sciatic nerves of the
limbs. The limbs were scorched and
the flesh broken on both ankles. The
dark dress, trimmed with velvet, which
the unfortunate girl wore, was badly
torn. The shoes which incased her
feet were completely demoralized. The
lower half of the right one was divided
lengthwise, as if it had betn cut with a
knife. One half of the upper part was
missing. The left shoe was torn from
the top to the heel. "
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18
Writing by Telegraph.

The writing telegraph which repro
duces the messages sent in almost
perfect fac-simile of the sender, has been
fitted up in England between Waterloo
and Working, a distance of some twenty
six miles, and according to the London
Echo has been working very well. The
instrument it self is too recent an in
vention to have yet reached even an APP
proach to perfection, but the defects
made evident in practical working have
so far been remedied, and it is clear
that useful improvement will shortly
be available. One great advantage is
that the instrument Is quite automatic
at the receiving end, and does not re-
quire the constant attendance OF clerk.
It writes its messages on a roll of paper,
and they can be cut off and sent to their
destinations as opportunity offers. That
is an important point, because it is well
known that the time wasted in calling
and in obtaining the attention of the
receiver far exceeds that required for
the actual sending of the messages.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18
Onc-HOrse Comets.

A new comet is coming-sit down,
sit down, sit down; what's the use OF
getting excited? 1t is only visible from
the second peak of Mount Avt-
chimboguandalahasta in Central Asia,
and only there with three story tele-
scope, and then it is only visible twen-
ty minutes at midnight, and not then
unless the atmosphere is exactly right /;
and when it is visible it only looks like
q star about half the size of the little
one in Jobs coffin. By all the starry
worlds that swing in space, when "we'
were boy the comets used to come
around every summer, with heads on
them like fire. balloons, and tails that
stretched from the big dipper to the
southern cross, and wagged back and
forth like bewildered torchlight pro-
cession, and came 80 close to the earth
that they put the moon out. Out on
these single-barreled comets, three for
a quarter, that they get up for MS in
these degenerate modern days! We
wouldn't walk from here to Asia to see
q hundred of 'em.-BIrdette.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18
SINGULAR FATALITIES.

JUST before going to bed, the wife of
Samuel Miller, of Williamsport, Md,
took smoke. She put the pipe aside
without emptying the ashes. In an
hour the pipe had set the house on fire.
Mrs. Miller was burned to death and the
house reduced to ashes.
NELSON EVANS, whose home was three
miles west of North Manchester, Ind.
attempted to go down into we'll. When
about half way down foul air overpow-
cred him, and he fell to the bottom, a
distance of thirty feet. Another man
tried to rescue Nelson, and he, too, got
down about half way, when his strength
gave way and he fell on top of Nelson.
They were both fished ont by ropes,
but will probably die.
AN awful accident occurred to James
Burns, an Irishman, 80 years old, at
Fayetteville, VT, last week. While he
was working on a railroad, high bank
caved and buried him to the chin,
spreading his legs so far apart that his
body was split two inches deep. The
wound, which was five inches long, was
filed with sand, the removal of which
caused him excruciating pain. The ac-
cident will probably be fatal.
WHILE Andrew Banks, a well-known
farmer of Cedar county, Iowa, was driv-
ing across a creek he discovered
muskrat. In undertaking to hit the
animal he fell out of the wagon, striking
the back of his neck on the end of
plank. He was unable to get up and
remained there until assistance arrived,
when it was found that he was complete
ly paralyzed, in which condition he has
remained ever since. He is perfectly
conscious, but has no feeling in his
body, and cannot, the doctors say, re-
cover.
A LAWRENCE (Kan.) paper tells how
q fisherman was caught by fish: "A
singular case of drowning happened
here this morning. A colored man,
named Charles Williams. was engaged
fishing in the Kansas rlver, near the
falls, and, while assisting to land large
catfish, he was drawn in the flood be-
low, and all attempts to secure his body
have been unsuccessful. It has been
the custom of the fishermen to wade
into the stream, and when they have
found large fish, . spear, connected
with rope which is attached to
the wrist, is plunged into its back.
Sometimes the fish, if he be large one,
makes desperate struggle before he is
landed. This was one of those cases. |
Williams failed to slip the loop which
was about his wrist and let the fish go.
Catfish have been taken from the Kan
sas river here weighing from $50 to 200
pounds"
Miss AMY MAY, of Eldred, near
Bradford, Pa, was killed by lightning
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18
The Seasons Calamities in Europe.

The calamities of Central and East
ern Europe seem likely to; be supple
mented by season of dearth, conse-
quent upon the unfavorable state of the
crops. The Spanish harvest, though it
is not expected to equal the average, is
looking better than was at first antici-
pated, and Sicily, despite the recent de-
vastating eruption, also makes tolera-
BILE show. On the other hand, North
ern Italy is in very unpromising con-
dision from the recent Hoods, and the
same cause has done much mischief
in Hungary likewise. Russia, how
ever, seems to be the most un-
fortunate. Along the whole northern
coast of the Black sea, from the Pruth
to the Caucasus, corn-seetles and grass
hoppers, have made terrible havoc, their
ravages being supplemented by several
OF those terrific hail-storms which are
the curse of the Russian corn lands in
summer. The worst of these took place
just ten years ago, in July, 1869, de-
strOying 1000 acres of magnificent
corn in two hours and half. Many of
the hail stones were as large as tennis
balls, and the noise of their fall was like
the distant beating of countless drums.
In one place, the bodies of number of
wild fowl were found literally pounded
into the earth; and two or three men
who failed to find shelter were so badly
bruised as to be completely disabled for
the time being. Curiously enough, the
storm appeared to strike in alternate
swathes, one field being sometimes un-
touched, while the next was completely
destroyed.-NeoD York paper.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18

WHY THE SNAKE sntp HIS SKIN.


WOULD you Like to know lie reason why de snake
shesi his skinr
Kase he TUX a.. ol. en-. on fur to let de deobil in
An Eve. che sot a-fshin' MD piece OF meat an
An de dsbbil he slip mp an put d' apple in her
An de way de debbii done IT, hr jst squat down by
de dItch.
An he seed de crazy. lash b'in'. az h- give de line
hitch:
An Eve, she tank him kindly. aud de debbil blow
his nose.
An say, :n't you got muffin but your skin an
hyar fur closer
She kin git yaller josey an a string o. clancy
beads;
An she say, "whar is de fatboats~ An he tole her
at de wharf;
An she mighty skeered o. Adam, but she TUX an
sot an larf.
Den de debb 'suade an 'suade her; an she leok all
round de lot,
An she seed ole Adam gwine aroun' de corner on
trot,
An she hear de dogs a-runnin', an ole Adam hab
his gun,
An she tink "dats for coon huntin'," she lowed
to have some fun!'
But when she eat de apple, an debbil fotch de
close,
You had oughter see dat niger step aroun' upon
She clean forgot hei cookin' an de hoe-cake in de
ashes,
An Adams mush fur supper, an de way he'd pour
de lashes.
Till she seed him comm jumpin' an sslingin' of
his gun,
An tell yer twas a caution den, de way she broke
an run:
De debbil he put out to h,r an lef' de ole snake
skin.
An dat de way de sarpents larncd TO wriggle out
an in.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18
QUIPS.

A HoRsE-cAR route always ends where
they take the horse-car in.
The cry of the chiropedist: 81
came, saw, corn-cured."
PARADoxICAL as it may appear, yet
mans first trouble may be his twoth
ache.
A LITTLE boy, proud of his new
jacket, informed his sister that he was
six. button kid.
A NEW brand of cigars is called "the
lottery ticket" because only one in
thousand draws.
"WE presume that it is because the
coral is kind of fish that it makes the
best red earrings.
ENGLAND may be mistress of the
Cs," but she has never yet been able
to fairly master the HIS.
WHAT Refuse to lend a paltry
Y to me, your other selfl" That's
why; you'd never return the money; /
know myself too WE'LL"
The man that got drunk in the mar
ble-yard explained to the Judge before
whom he was taken that he had been on
a monumental bust.
"IT's cool to-day" said mother to
her little son. Yes, it's school five
days out of the week." replied the en-
bryonic paragraphist.
WESTON was q book canvasser. When
one of the tribe visits you tell him of
Weston's success, and bid him kindly,
but firmly, to walk.
A Boston child remarked after gaz-
ing earnestly at man who was bald,
but had heavy whiskers His head
was put on upside down, wasn't it?"
A CORRESPONDENT from summer
resort" says the spring chickens they
serve there seem to be built on the
same principles as their spring-beds.
"YoU want fogging, that's what
you want" said a parent to an unruly
son. 81 know it, dad, but L will try to
get along without ii" said the independ-
ent hopeful.
OLD LADY-"Ah, you bad boy, drag
gin your little brother along like that.
S'posin' you was to kill him?" Bad
boy-"Don't care! Got another in
DOORS"
CHICAGO packers, since March 1, have
slaughtered $4,000 hogs. The motto
of Chicago should be, I'm hog signo
vinces. "-Neao York Commercial Id
pertiser.
JUDGING from the large number of
young physicians being ground out by
our medical colleges, we can no longer
sing, This world is but an M. ID. void.
-Yonkers Statesman.
WALTER, do You think the stars are
inhabited?" she SAID, glancing at him
with an expression that showed what
confidence she had in his superior wis
dom. "Clara," he replied, your father
only allows me 80 week; and you
can't expect any but high priced clerk
to answer that question. '-Andrelos
Bazaar.
AN urchin of 8 years was called to the
black board to write out words, and
spelled quite short ones very badly.
How could you have been so careless,
and on examination day, too ?" asked the
teacher. lis it Examination day? Weally,
if I'd known it's zamination day I'd
done better; for took letters easiest
to make" rejoined he.
ABOUT week ago an Iowa man died.
He was very wealthy and left three sons,
his only heirs, and would you believe it.
the ungrateful boys got together and
ran away with all the property before
the lawyers could get at it and divide it
with each other? There is so much
sOrdid, mean, grasping sel6shness in
this world, that sometimes it is enough
to discourage good lawyer.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18
SUNRISE OF IMAGINATION.
BIZ y. 3. NUDGE.

A mountain gorge with lofty pine,
Where murmuring streams round them wihd'
Aud naiads sport in rickiing spray
Shed from cascade watery play
Sat youth with hook and iine'
Phantom-like meath his fishing stan
The waters danced silver pain,
Where Neptune moored his stately bark
Along the foaming bank, but bark
The woods seem full OF laugh.
'cne echo glanced the lofty pines,
Athwart the mountains brink IL winds,
To where the elk in quiet rests
Then leaping down the shattered crests
A youthful heart it finds.
II launched its fiery darts apace;
Enchantment seemed to lend 1T grace,
And drove it's silver ripples Ger,
While Cupid stood upon the shore,
To paint lovers face.
o'erpo wered by thought, perhaps a dream,
A vision hovers DER the scene;
An angel heavens what's this to me,
ill., hook and line? false ecstasy
I'll dash them to the stream.
A wooded path that girts the glen,
Where tasseled boughs o'erhead extend,
maiden strolled in happy song
Wnle strewing flowers her path along,
Regardless of the end.
Ha. ha! I'm happy and so free
With woodland birds. The honey-bee
Has found my flowers to zip the sweet,
While daisies crowd around my feet
And sveetly gaze at me.
But on I'll rove, no task leave;
My book is through, romp III weave.
Ha festooned on this tiny throne
The bluebell strikes an under tone
Like falling dews at eve.
Oh, have the fairies gone astray
Aud left their harps where zephyrs play
A solo 10 the mystic wood.
While birds and bees in solitude
Repeat thechorus lay:
dare not tread their palace floor;
I've read that Cupid, long before,
Came hunting through their tiny realm,
With cleaning sword, and polished helm,
And banners floating DER.
And, with his Knights of starry plumes,
RECALLED the Queen with sweet perfumes,
To shake her power then bore away
Her may court from regal sway,
To reign the queen of thrones.
Again hear the phantom strain;
II strikes my ear like falling rain.
Then further in the glen IL go
OF leaves would stop their rustling SO,
Perhaps I'D find it plain.
Aye, there it is. that witching spray,
Casting gems in the golden Iay,
Murmuring on like a dreamy voice,
While merry birds around rejoice
Rejoice in tuneful lay.
Now TO his task young Cupid bent
His powerful art. With brushes lent
crimson ow of you'll full grace,
While round and round the maiden's face
Conflicting darts he sent.
And through the youths bewildered sight
He cleaned the cause of all her light,
Then throwing back his curly head,
In manly tones he gently said,
IL fish no more tonight"
LYONS OHIO.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18

HOMER LACY, of Fort Recovery
Ohio, while playing with broomstick
was accidentally struck on the temple
and died in FIVE minutes after.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18

The importation of crockery has de-
creased by about one-half in the last
ten years.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-07
A Fashion in Nurseries.
From the London Figaro.

rom the LOnuOu TlSaIO'
Babymania has been very fashionable
this year. The English word nursery"
has been imported, and it is to be consid-
cred the thing to have scales fixed up in
the room for the purpose of weighing
the Young folks. The mothers, accord
inc to the Pdrjsidn bet on their own
babies. This is all very well. 1t shows
that these are in the wrong who pretend
that family life is disappearing. The in
PRODUCTION of the word nursery" and
more especially OF the thing correspond
inc TO il, is a bad sign. In the old days
mothers did not Danish their children
from their sight, and have them brought
out of distant rooms merely to show VS.
itors. NJ. Leon Duprat reminds his
countrvmen in La Presse that they have
Just arrived at the point where they
were a hundred years ago, when ROus-
seau, in his emile" reminded mothers
that they owed absolute abnegation TO
their children. These were the days
when, as now, children were regarded
by the bellies mORddines as pretty toys,
coming in between their favOrite parrot
and the lap dog. One of them said with
candid sincerity: 81 like children be-
cause they look so well in front OF car
riage." Rousseau's stern preachingcaus-
ed establishment at first, but it led to a
reaction which was profound and dura-
BILE. 1t became the fashion for mothers
TO suckle their children and be proud TO
devote their lives to them. Since the
Second Empire the fashion of RELOCATING
them to the care Ofnurses has set in and
still continues. "The nursery" is the lat
est thing in "high tone"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-07
ADeserved Compliment.

We clip the following notice OF one OF
Berkeley county's most distinguished
citizens, from the Louisville Courier
Journal. IL was the conclusion OF an
admirable letter written by cores
pendent of that paper, from Harper's
Ferry:
The GubernatOrial Contest in this
State, which has, in a measure, already
begun, promises to be an interesting
one. One would very naturally infer
from the number OF candidates in the
field for the nomination that the office
is one which insures either a handsome
pecuniarv reward or vast amount OF
glory 10 the occupant. The Hon. Z. j.
Faulkner, whom you will remember as
the Minister from this country TO France
at the beginning of the wal, and who alter
wars became a member OF the stall OF
Stonewall Jackson, is the most proml-
nent gentleman spoken OF in that con-
nection. Mr.. Faulkner, who had express
eel himself as not desiring the Office, is
beyond doubt the choice OF a large
majority of the people, and should he
consent to become candidate, Will re-
ccive an almost unanimous nomination
i'm the State Convention neXtyear. Mr..
Faulkner is a gentleman of untarnished
integrity and great ability, and would
fiji with credit the Gubernatorial chair
of the young State OF West Virginia,
but Is fully adequate TO the discharge
of the duties of the highest office In the
nation. 1t was Mr.. Faulkner who first
sprung the great question OF military
duty due European Governments by
their expatriated subjects In America.
He pressed the matter vigorously upon
Napoleon during his residence in Paris
as our Minister, and finally succeeded
i'm obtaining the first concession ever
made upon that point. Mr.. Faulkner
wrote as follows in one OF his dispatches
upon this subject: ''No exercise of per-
Soual liberty is held by us more essen
tial to human happiness than the right
OF man OF mature years to abandon
community whose laws, religion, eli
mate. form OF government, or system OF
industrial pursuits are found destruc-
tive of his peace and comfort, and TO
identity himself with another nation OF
peOple. IL consistent with their policy,
whose taste and institutions are more
conyenial 10 his own. His allegiance TO
his native country is by tins act severed
forever. \ broad and impossible line
separates him from his native land.
should he return there for temporary
purposes Of business or pleasure, he
goes therean American citizen, with all
the privileges and obligations OF his new
nationality fully imposed upon him.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-07
The Way Vanderbilt Succeeded.

When Commodore Vanderbilt was
running steamboats,, he beat all rivals
bv crowding on steam 10 the utmost,
and even running down his enemy, if
necessary, to accomplish triumph.
When he went into railroading, he
adopted a much shrewder and more
successful way, by uniting vast lines
and their tributaries under his own
management, thus capturing all rivals,
by sharing with them the immense pool
OF profits that were made by his skillful
manipulation. Messrs. Lawrence & Co.,
bankers. New York, accomplish a much
greater success in stock operations by
their new combination method of deal
ing BY this system the orders of
thousands OF customers are pooled into
one vast sum and cO-Operdtsd uuder the
most experienced management, thus
giving 10 each shareholder all the bene.
fits OF large capital and best skill. Profits
divided monthly. Any amount from
s. 10 SIS 900 can be used with great sue
cess. Fifteen dollars will make SO
profit; $50 would return 500, or per
cent. on the stock during the month, ac-
cording To the market. The new circu-
lar mailed free has 1.-TWO unerring
rules for success" and full explanations,
so that any one can operate profitably.
Stocks and bonds wanted. Govern
ment bonds supplied. Apply TO Law
renee & Co, bankers, 81 Exchange
Place, y. y. City.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-07
STATE NOTES.

A CHARLESTON sculptor has received
a block of marble weighing ten thou
sand pounds.
A LARGER acreage OF wheat is being
sown in Raleigh county this fall than IN
any previous year.
MILLIONS OF hoop poles are now being
received at Ravenswood. Roane and
Calhoun counties are furnishing most Of
them.-Wir County Mentor.
A YOUNG man named Elijah Perkins,
OF BraxtOn county, lost an eye some
DAYS ago by the explosion OF a cartridge
which he struck with hammer.
THE New Martinsville Messenger says
that walnut knot was shipped from
that locality recently, weighing 200
pounds, and valued at Sl5O.
Ar Volcano there is some improve
ment. Depot and telegraph office are
being rebuilt, and several oil men have
resumed pumping oil. The rise in oil
will give an additional impetus, no
doubt, 10 business in that quarter, which
We will be pleased to hear OF,
Asa sample OF iormality in West Vir-
ginia legal Jurisprudence we give below
a verbatim copy of the summons issued
in the case OF the Gill-Moore cutting al
fray:
Carey Hielnm Geo. Hickman.)
MIN iven
John Bussey
John Doyle
eny scuntable
OF Harrison Con
will sumoned the
above witnes in
favor OF tobe Gill
AC Devve Up
-CI1rEsbur1 TslS1rdm