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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

conveying convicts to State prisons,
ETC., are given by counties that have re-
ceived the benefits, and the entire
amount is apportioned to the several
counties, so that the amount paid in
State tax il each county appears to IL
lustrate the fairness of this plan. One
county pays in State tax $S,5S0.39, and
receives as an offset $l,9S3.42. The
usual $500 has been received during the
year under act 226, laws of 1875. "This
would indicate that but one person had
travelled in Michigan during the entire
year soliciting orders for liquors to
be shipped into this State by a person,
copartnership, association or corpora
ton not resident in this State. Is not
this law farce" The gentlemen who
operate under act 228, laws of 1875, as
amended by act 1877, laws of 1877, make
far better showing, viz: Under this
law there were 1872 manufactures, 66
wholesale and 4,015 retail dealers. The
tax paid by the manufacturers was 81,
S22.36. The tax paid by the wholesale
dealers was $13,7S3.51. The tax paid
by the retail dealers was 1851, 91038.
Total tax paid by all, $373,4l625.
Amount of interest paid, 81 ,672.93. Tax
and interest paid, 1874, 4S9.e8. Amount
of uncollected tax, $35, 54561.
This class of liquor tax is not paid to
the State treasury.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

QUEEN VICTORIA is inexpressibly
shocked by the recent calamity near
Dundee. She we'll may be, for, uncon-
sciously and innocently, her example
probably led many persons to take the
fatal train who would otherwise have
avoided it. Last July, when the public
prejudice against the bridge was at its
height, the North British Railway Com
pany invited Queen Victoria and her
court to take thav route en- her trip to
Balmoral. She consented. Her course
gave the bridge the prestige the com
pany desired, and did away, to great
extent, with the feeling of insecurity
with which it had heretofore been
regarded.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY recruits 10

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY recruits Tor
the Second United States infantry,
who left Governors island, n. Y, in
November to join their regiment in
Idaho, had a severe experience OF the
privations to which private soldiers are
subjected before they arrived at their
destination. On the steamboat which
conveyed them from San Francisco to
Vancouver they were halfstarved on
rotten food until they mutinied. threw
the dishes, rations and all overheard,
and foored the Captain. On the Col
umbia river the boiler OF their steam
boat exploded, and they were COM
PEELED to proceed the remainder of the
way-10S miles-on foot. The Their
mometer was below zero all the time,
and when they arrived in camp many
of them were suffering from frozen
hands, feet, ears and noses.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

Times. There was no Atlantic cable,
of course. The convention had been
fighting over Buchanan, Cass and
Douglas from Wednesday till Satur-
day, when the Collins steamer was to
sail at noon. Mr.. Lester made private
arrangements with Collins to hold the
steamer on the bar until B o'clock.
When, AZ 2 40 p. m, the news that
Pierce had been nominated reached
New York, Lester hired tug and
steamed down the bay. On the way
down he dictated in photography two
column letter to the London Times.
The letter appeared In the Thatnderer
two weeks ahead of any other European
journal. The Times sent him a draft
for 500 guineas.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09
Cold Weather i'm the Past.

The abnormal severity of the weather
which has been experienced in Paris
and throughout the greater part of
France during the last few days, seem
ing, as it does, to threaten us with an
exceptionally hard winter, may render
interesting brief glance at some of
the great "frosts OF by-gone and mod
ern times. Thus, to begin at very
early period, snow is recorded to have
fallen in Rome during forty days in the
396th year before the Christian era.
Nearly eight centuries after-the exact
date is uncertain-the Black sea was
frozen over for three weeks. In COS,
the vines are stated to have been de-
stroyed by frost over large portion OF
France. There is a tradition again that
III $50 snow and intense cold prevailed
over Europe for six months, even the
Adriatic being frozen. In 974 the Bos-
phorus could be crossed by the ice on its
surface. The severe weather was fol-
lowed by epidemics and famine, to
which third of the population of
France is said to have succumbed. In
1853 the Pc was frozen over, and wine
CONCEALED in the cellars. The winters
of 1923 and 140S were extremely cold.
In the former year the ice-bound sur
face of the Baltic was used as a thor
oughfare for six weeks, and in 1908
nearly all the bridges of Paris were car
ried away by the blocks of ice floating
in the Seine. The Clerk of
the Parliament of the day declared
himself unable to register the de-
grees, owing to the ink freezing on
his pen in spite of the large fires kept
burning in his Office. In 146S the wea-
ther was so severe in Flanders that the
frozen wine had to be cut with hatchets.
Ten years previously force of 41,000
men encamped on the Danube. In 1904
and 1907 there were games and bonfires
on the Thamas. And 1854 is memoir
able as the year of the great fair held on
the English river, which was covered
with ice twelve inches thick. An in
scription in book of the period says
g the people kept trade on the Thames
as in fair held till Feb. 4, 1854. About
forty coaches plyed on the Thames as
on dry land" Thirty years or SO later,
in 1716, another fair was held on the
same river in midwinter, and yet an
other in 1740. The years 1766 and 1889
were notable for intense cold through
out Europe. Another ice fair-the
last-took place on the Thames in 1914.
Hard winters prevailed in 1929, 1910,
and 1849. In 1916 the greatest cold
experienced in France since the inven-
ton of the thermometer was observed
at Pontarlier, when the mercury went
down to 81 degrees below freezing
point. In 1S49 quicksilver froze in
Norway. The winter of 1858 was gener-
ally severe throughout Europe. Since
that date several very cold years have
occurred, such as those of 1860 and
1S7O-'71, but they are too fresh in the
memories of our readers to need fur.
Their reference to them here Galig.
nants Messenger (Paris).
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

ALTOGETHER during the six months
campaign, from the beginning OF August
1870, to the end of January, 1871, the
Germans took or forced to surrender
six-and-twenty French fortresses. OF
these, two, Metz and Pfalburg, fell be-
cause the provisions of the garrison and
inhabitants were exhausted; hunger and
the devastation wrought by partial
bombardment caused one-Paris-to
capitulate; thirteen were reduced by
bombardment- namely, Lichtenberg,
Marsale, Sedan, Toul, Scissors, Schlett-
stadt, Verdun, New Breisac, Dieden-
hofen, La Fere, the citadel OF Amiens,
Montmedy, Mezleres, and Peronne one,
Strasbourg, was taken by a regular siege !;
while two, Vitry and Laon, surrendered
upon bombardment being threatened.
Finally, two fortresses, Bitche and Bel
fort, invested early in the campaign
held out until the preliminaries of peace
had been concluded. The longest re-
sistance was made by Paris, the seige OF
which lasted for 1872 days. The siege
of Metz lasted sixty-nine days, of Stras-
bourg forty-eight, and of Verdun forty
five davs
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09
JEREMIAH AUSTILL. who di

JEREMIAH AUsTILL, who died in
Clarke county, Ala, a few days ago, at
the age of Sc years, was the hero of a
fight with the warriors of Tecumseh.
When that great chief dug up the
Ratchet in 1913, Austil and three COM
panions found themselves bound down
the Alabama in canoe. One morning
an Indian canoe containing eleven war
riors shot out from the river side,
fiercely assaihng the pale-face voyagers.
Few shots were exchanged, for the
boats crashed together, and all fought
with the butts of the rifles, hand to
hand. Austill was knocked almost
sepseless by the chief, but recov-
ering dealt him such a blow that
his brains covered both canoes. The
eleven Indians were killed or drowned
and though the white men were sorely
wounded they escaped with their lives
Austill entered the Confederate service
at the age of 66 years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

CINCINNATI has been shorn of her
crown as the great hog market of the
country, but she still holds her own toll
erably well on whisky. The report of
the Superintendent of the Chamber OF
Commerce shows the total production
OF Hamilton county distilleries during
the past year to be 1O,423,53l.21 gal
Ions. This is an increase of 1924,
1921 gallons, or Fl per cent, over the
preceding pear. Adding Covington
and Newport distilleries, the production
was 1854, 922.SO gallons. The Gov
eminent profted by this business just
1901 ,5O9.91-an amount nearly suf-
ficient to pay the entire cost of its legis
lative, executive and judicial depart
mentS
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09
John Milton and His Daughters.

And surely it is his simplicity alone
that can excuse his conduct to his
daughters. Millions Oriental views of
the function of woman led him not
only to neglect, but to positively pre-
vent, the education of his daughters.
They were sent to no school at all, but
were handed over to a schoolmistress
in the house. He would not allow
them to learn any language, say
ing, with sheer, that "for woman
one tongue was enough" The Meme
sis, however, that follows selfish sacri-
fee of others is so sure of stroke
that there needs no future world of
punishment to adjust the balance.
The time came when Milton would
have given worlds that his daughters
had learned the tongues. He was
blind, and could only get at his precious
books-could only give expression to
his precious verses-through the eyes
and hands of others. Whose hands
and whose eyes so proper for this
as his daughters? He proceeded
to train them to read to
him, parrot-Gke, in five or six Ian
guages, which he (the schoolmaster)
could at one time have easily taught
them, but of which they could not now
understand q word. He turned his
daughters into reading machines. 1t is
appalling to think of such task. That
Mary should revolt, and at last, after
repeated contests with her taskmaster
learn to hate her father-that she
should, when some one spoke in hel
presence of her fathers approa ching
marriage, make the dreadful speech
that cit was no news to hear of his
wedding, but if she could hear of hi,
death, that were something's unut
terably painful, but not surprising
AthenBum.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

No SOUTHERN negro ever suffered
under such reign of terror as the
blacks of Georgia now do from fear of
the grave-robbers. The resurrectionists
have been unusually active of late, their
subjects principally deceased Africans,
and so strongly has the body-snatching
impressed itself on the superstitious ma
lures of the negroes that they are afraid
of being taken alive by the ghouls and
transformed into subjects" in twink
ling. Very few of them venture out of
doors after dark.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09
How Lincoln Greeted the Soldiers At
ter Bull Run.

The day after the terrible Bull Run
scare, / was in the camp of German
regiment from New York. Gen. Nc
Dowell, in a forage-cap, his boots and
clothes covered with mud, sat on his
horse listening to report from the Ad-
iutant, when word was brought that the
President and Mr.. Seward were driving
up In carriage. In a few minutes
they were there. I think Mr.. Lincoln
wore stovepipe hat, black clothes, and
black gloves, and Mr. Seward had on a
light suit and broad-brimmed hat. At
ter talking some time with Geu. Nc
Dowell, the two dignitaries left the car
riage and strolled toward the men who
were drawn up by companies in double
rank. The President looked at them
They were dirty, soiled and stained
Without word he took off his hat,
placed it on the ground, and advanced
to the end of the double ranks. To the
man on his left he gave his right hand,
to him on the right his left, and so
down the entire line he passed, hand
over hand, shaking each heartily, and
saying: God bless you, God bless
you'll" Down the line he went, followed
by Mr.. Seward, who did as his leader
did. Up the next line he came, his
honest face aglow; "God bless you, God
bless you'll" at every shake; and on and
on, until the last man in The regiment
had been thanked and blessed. 1t was
little thing. Years later it would
have been an absurdity. But it told the
story of Abraham Lincoln's heart and
purpose better than volume of eulogy
Joseph Ho,card, Jr., an the Spirit
of the Times.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

It will be noted that the greatest
amount of track-laying has been done
in Kansas, which shows nearly 500 miles
of new roads, while Minnesota follows
with 1914, Iowa with 81, young Dakota
with 900 and old Ohio with 2l34, and
so on.
1t is also notable that nearly one
quarter of the total mileage-at least
72S miles-is of narrow gauge, showing
that the narrowgauge delusion," as
some call it, has not yet run it's course.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09
Railroad Construction Statistics.

The past year, says the Railway Age
has been an extraordinary one in re-
spect to the revival of railway building
more miles of track having been laid
than in any year since 1873, and prob
ably more than in that year. The re-
turns, of course, are not yet all in, but
from various sources of information we
have compiled the following table
showing the total mileage constructed
in each State so far as we are able to
learn, reserving the opportunity to de
tailed statement with additions:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

WHEN Abraham Lincoln made a
speech in Manchester, N. H., before his
first election, the women of the city
presented him with a pair of old
fashioned New England stockings, the
provision being that he should wear
them on the occasion of the delivery of
his Inaugural, address. The Sibley
Iowa Gazette says that Mr.. Lincoln
did wear them, and with great gusto
told Nat Head and Gov. Gilmore how
he had kept his promise to the Man
chester women.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

the mourners had become so intoxicated
that one of them, when lowering the
coffin into the grave, staggered forward
and fell into the tomb. He became
jammed between the descending corpse
and the side of the grave, and was ex-
tricated with difficulty.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09
State Auditors Report.

The receipts of the State from all
sources during the year, as shown by
the report of the Auditor General,
amount to $2,225,S 12.77, and the dis
bursements for all purposes for the same
period were $2,019, 1888. The receipts
exceed the disbursements by $685.
9271S. The balance in the treasury
Sept. 30, 1873, was 500, 340.35, and on
Sept. 80, 1879, 5000, 267.53. The bond
ed debt has been reduced during the
year $4,000. The outstanding bonded
indebtedness is 1913, 1897. Of this
amount only $S90,OO0 is interest bear
ing, which is payable through the sink
ing fund, and in this sinking fund is
1904, 020.18. The State is practically
out of debt, for if the bonds could be
purchased at reasonable premium they
would all be retired at once. The
amounts received by the several classes
of State institutions during the year
are shown by the following. The re-
ceipts for the year were:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

IT is estimated that over 1000 deer
were killed Alpena county alone.
A COMPANY is being formed in Bay
City, for the purpose OF manufacturing
paper from prairie grass.
The large Gale Manufacturing Com
pany works at Albion are about to re-
move to Grand Crossing, near Chicago.
AT the rate copperis being forwarded
from Marquette by rail there bids fair
to be but small accumulation for the
boats next spring.
THREE large red foxes, which for some
time past have been gorging themselves
on Leoni poultry, were lately caught by
John Ramsdell.
The Calhoun county Supervisors
have decided to submit the question of
erecting new Jail, at an expense of
$4,000, to the people at the spring
election.
The annual meeting of the executive
committee of the Michigan State Agri-
cultural Society will be held at the
Michigan Exchange, Detroit, on the
18th of January.
THE twenty-eighth annual meeting of
the Michigan State Teachers Associa-
ton was held last week at the capital,
with many prominent teachers present
from all parts of the State.
The bursting of fue of locomo-
tive on the Chicago and Grand Trunk
railroad, three miles west of Battle
Greek, killed Fireman Fralick and Sc
riously scalded Engineer Burial and
Brakeman Strong.
AT Big Rapids, in this State, John
Grafton and Frank Tanner got into a
quarrel in a saloon about some rattle
tickets, and Grafton followed Tanner
and stabbed him several times, infiict-
ing wounds from which death resulted.
DIR. WILLIAM BRONSON died suddenly
one morning last week, it is supposed
of heart disease. He retired as we'll as
usual the night before. He was a
graduate of several European colleges,
and had lived there many years.
On going to the barn one morning
last week ID. B. Harrington was some
what surprised at not finding his horse.
After diligent search, he CHANGED TO go
up stairs and there he found his horse
comfortably guartered in the hay-loft.
With some assistance the horse fell
down stairs and landed at the bottom
without even being bruised.
Mrs. LUCY KARNEY, an old colored
lady, died recently in Lansing, at the
residence of her dauehter-in-law, Mrs.
Charles Reeves, after having attained
the age of III years IL months and q
days. She was born at Freehold, Mon
mouth county, N. j., Jan. 2, 1862, and
was slave for fifty-fve years. She
was not nurse to George Washington,
but remembered distinctly to have seen
the General after the battle of Mon
mouth and on several other occasions.
A CASE of peculiar interest, out of
which recently sprung suit without
any precedent in American jurispru-
dence, il now on the docket of the
United States Circuit Court at Detroit,
being the suit of Ephraim S. ohnson,
of New York, to recover title TO $40
acres of land in Genessee county,
Mich, entered by his father in 1888
and wrongfully sold in 1S49 by Elijah
Stanton, as guardian for the minor
heirs OF the elder Johnson, then de-
ceased.
The log product of the streams in the
Saginaw district shows as follows for
1879. with comparisons:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

G. EDWARDS LESTER, who is living in
retirement in New York, tells a CORE
spondent Of the Indianapolis Journal
of great "beatr Gas news of importance
exclusively printed is called), which he
once made. When Pierce was nonin-
ated in 1852, Mr.. Lester was the Amer
lean correspondent of the London
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

New prosecutions of the Jews are to
be apprehended in Russia. Russian
official correspondents are openly in
citing them by insiDuating that the
Jews are mediators between Interna-
tionalists abroad and the Nihilists in
Russia, as well as being concerned in
circulating forged Russian bank-notes
made in Lc bn by Internationalists
expressly for N sNt purposes.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

CAVALIER was the name given to the
supporters of King Charles 1. during
the civil war, from number OF gentle
men forming themselves into body
guard for the King in 1541. They were
opposed to the Roundheads, or friends
of the Parliament.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09
Jhe Trlle Northerner.
FRIDAY, JANUARY Q, 1880.

DISPATCHES from Persia state that
the famine in the northern provinces
of that country is increasing in sever
ity. The territory contains provisions
for but two months, whereas supplies
for seven should be on hand, and Great
Britain and the United States are
looked To for relief.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

THE st. Georges Society, of Pbila-
delphia, has sent word to England
warning metal-workers against emigrat-
ing to this country without the means
of subsistence or the certainty of en-
ployment.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09
HE log product OF the streams III tnt
Saginaw district shows as follows fol

Logs held back at present and in boom,
137, 651 800 feet. hauled to Saginaw
mills by rail, 9,495, $50 feet; manufact-
ured lumber at inland points in the dis
trict, 100,000,000 feet, making grand
total for 1879 of 1,036,061, JOG feet.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

Total disbursements 5 97s,5isg7
The Auditor deals light blow to the
advocates of the sy stem of paying every
class of bills from the State treasury.
The payments for the support of insane,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-01-09

A SHOCKING spectacle was witnessed
at an interment at Kirkcaldy, in
Scotland, a few days ago. Nearly all
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-08-21
sPEAREvILLE NOTES.

-Porsuant to a call many Of the Repub-
licans Of the east end of the county me;st
Speareville, on Saturday. the 18th inst, and
organized Garfield and Arthur club, By
eleciing L. W. Nichols. President, J. W.
Sdiow and J. Ferrier, Vice Presidents. A
committee Of three was appointed by the
President to draft con situ,iou and bylaw,
and report at the next regular meeting to
take place on saturday, 2ls,, at 3 p. m.
Il. n. Van voorhis has gone (via War
saw, Ind.,) to Monongahala City. Pa, to
visit his parents and look upon familiar
scenes Of 6ygoae days.
II. B. and Edw. Slaven have returned
from Colorado, having been absent since last
spring.
-Riiteuhouse & Slaven have closed our
the remainder Of their sheep to Jos Gould.
brother Of John 7. Gould xho bought the
first lot of them.
Mrs. Myers and daughter, mother snd
sister OF Mrs j. NJ. Lsidigh, nave taken
their departure for their home in Pennsyl-
vania. They made many friends while here
who would be happy to welcome them back.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-08-21
PROPOSALS FOR COAL.

Sealed bids for the furnishing OF ore car
load Of either Usage, Canon or Trinidad
Coal. for use in the school building IN Dis
trict No. l. will be received by the under
signed Until Saturday. September 4, 1880, at
: y. IN; the contract to be given 10 the low
est bidder. Coal to be delivered October :,
1850, at the school house. The right is re-
served to reject any or all bids. Ry order Of
the Board. NJ KLArSx
Director, School Dis,ric. MOL.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-08-21

Mrs. Louisa NJ. Emerson, daughter of J.
W. Day, of Austin, Texas, died OF eonsump-
ton in this city Wednesday morning. Mrs.
Emerson came 10 Dodge short time ago for
the benefit OF her health, but the insidious
disease had taken firm hold, and the body
passes to the far of, bourne.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-08-21

w. j. Colvin and son, near Larned, has
the best lot Of full blood Merino rams for
sale in the State Of Kansas; and the most re-
liable for all practical purposes, at the least
figures; 30 cay their old customers. They
always have them on hand.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-08-21

The PerSirs Windmill sold by Colvin &
Son, near Lsrned, is the most substantial
and reliable mill manufactured in the Unit
ed States; and they know how to put them
up to stay; cheap to suit hard times. Try
one; il will be better than many dams.