The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-06

pounced upon ii at once, declared that he had
read it before he couldn't exactly say WHARF,
but he would take his oath il was downright
plagiarism from beginning to end That would
have been pretty fair joke, but the next day
the republican editor came out valiantly IN de-
fense OF the governor, pronounced the charge
false and hbelous, aud challenged any man-
living to produce one single line OF the proc
lsmation that had ever appeared in prn. before.
Madam Holkovsky, OF ST. Petersburg is CD
gagged in founding an association to build work.
shops for embroidery by machinery, sscb 90
exist in Switzerland. She IL now travelling IN
foreign countries to give close study to this
industry, and to order materials and engage
vsrkmen to come and teach the art 10 Bussle,
which enterprise will be conducted on q grand
scale.
The waters have gone over me, but out OF IT'S
black depths, could be heard, would call Qua
to all those who have set foot in the perilous
food. Could the youth to whom the favor OF
the frst vine is delicious as The opening scenes
Of life, or the entering upon some newly-dls-
be made to understand what creary thing Il
is when be shall feel himself going down
precipice, with open eyes and passive will; TO
see his destruction, and have no power to stop
it, and yet feel 1t all the way emauatng from
himself 30 feel that all virtue has left him; to
bear about the piteous spectacle OF bs own.
ruin, it were enough to make him dash The
rI,I tl,a 4ba
OF its mantling temptation.-Chsrles Lamb.
Loss OF A FR1END.-rhe loss of friend upon
whom the heart was fixed, to whom every wlsh
and endeavor tended, Is 4 state OF dreary desc
lston, IN which the mind looks abroad-mpa-
tient of itself. and finds nothing bat emptiness
and horror. The blameless life, the artless
tenderness, the pious simplicity, the modest
resignation the patient sickness. and the quiet
death arc remembered ony to add value TO the
loss, to aggrivate regret Tor what cannot be
amended, to deepen sorrow OF what canroi be
recalled.
SKNsIBLE WonDs FROM A JUDoE.-Judge
Pinckney Of the criminal court of Baltimore
delivered very strong and sensible charge 10
BSkuu jury lew tBO. lu tue COuIb 90 VI
his remarks he said 1t is not nfrequent that
. trial mscarres because OF some flaw Ia the
Indictment, or variance, as it IL called, in the
evidence, which cannot he cured by an amend
ment. For this state OF the law an excuse
existed formerly in England, when there were
more than 200 capital offenses, in the natural
desire OF Judges and lawyers that as many
persons as possible, whether innocent or gull
ty, should escape the outrageous cruelty ;of o
verdict Of guilty, which might consign to tho
gallows perhaps . mother who had stolen
penny's worth OF bread to satisfy the hunger OF
starving child. But all this 10 now changed,
and instead Of the fear Of the innocent being
convicted, the scandal OF the law is that so
many OF the guilty escape punshme The
states attorney, then should be allowed by law
to amend his indictment at the trial Except,
prebsps, in capital offense), according to the
proof in the cause, whenever an amendment
would not prejudice the defendant in his de-
fenso on the merits. In that case the court
might have power to discharge the jury WITH
out verdict and to postpone the case.