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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-12
BREvIrIEs.

OLE BULL plays upon violin s16
years old
PoRK-PAoKMa ranks as the third
American industry.
A GOOD word for bad one ia worth
much and costs little.
NEARLY every man gets his rights at
last-his funeral rites.
IT is hard to fool castor-oil-that ia.
it is hard to take it in.
ACTIVE benevolence is the rich mans
only chance of happiness.
MANY q writer of note languishes in
prison. Put another mans name ON
the note. you see.
The royal carriage of Russia is lined
with chilled steel to watch the royal
heart, probably.
COLORADO has doubled her popula-
ton since her admission as State four
years ago.
MARY ANDERSON, "the fairy of the
stage" weighs 1873 pounds in her slip
pers, and chews spruce gum.
KANSAS is drunk with immigration
The way the State is filing up is quite
enough to turn her head.
COLDS and coughs are SO common in
Russia that many of the citizens have
names ending in the syllable "kof."
DONALDSON and Wise, professors of
aereonautical science, both continue
mysteriously absent with their air-ships
IT rains alike on the just and the un-
just-on the just mainly because the
unjust have borrowed their umbrellas.
THERE are more watches worn in the
United States than in any other coun-
try. But do the people have better
time?
The acreage of wheat sown this
be more than double that of any in the
past.
AT Madrid sentries exposed to the
death BREATH" blowing from the GU
adarama mountains, are changed every
half hour.
IT is sometimes question whether
the goat in the back yard or the oleo-
margarine on the hotel table is the
strongest butter.
ONLY five of the nineteen Presidents
of the United States have had middle
names-the younger Adams, Harrison,
Polk, Grant and Hayes.
The State of Maryland pays its Gov
ernor S., 800 year and gives him home
to live in that requires an income of
$4,000 year to keep up.
RUsKIN says the European wars
would not last week if their effect was
to break all the china in the houses of
the governing classes.
The new Cathedral at Edinburgh,
built by the Misses Walker, is the
largest Protestant Episcopal Church
erected since the Reformation.
SOMEBODY asked minister if there
had been an awakening in his church.
No, sir" was his reply; "there ha 8
been no sleeping in my church"
The Irish-stew missionaries are found
to have wonderful power in drawing
crowds in the East End of London.
They gather their cold and hungry
focks to feed them thrice week.
The School Trustees of Missouri
district made rule that no pupil
should attend school on the day after
spending a night at ball. The le-
gality of this measure is to be tested in
the courts.
A RECENT visitor to Jefferson Davis,
on Ills farm at Beauvoir, says that he is
hard at work on his memoirs, his cotton
crop for next season will reach 1000
bales, and his wife and nephew, Gen.
Joseph Davis, are with him.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-12
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

To PREVENT glue from cracking when
dry, add about one tablespoonful of
glycerine to pint OF solution while it
is hot.
For sleeplessness high London au-
thority recommends, instead of stimu-
lants, breakfast cup of hot beef tea made
from half a teaspoonful of Leibig's ex-
tract. 1t allays brain excitement.
To FIND the interest on given sum,
for any number of days, at any rate of
interest
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-12

PHILADELPHIA is carrying on q war
on bogus butter. Grease, under the
euphonious name of oleomargarine, is
said to smell as sweet as genuine but
ter, and thirty wholesale dealers were
arrested the other day, charged with
dealing in the counterfeit article. Phila-
delphia doesn't intend to consume oleo-
margarine, at least not as genuine but
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-12
An Interment.

Scene-A public dining-room on the
avenue. What's that-a niger fune-
ral?" "No, sir" replied an indignant
waiter; mot il we Sons Of Ham know
ourselves. II would have boon q mig
ger funeral twenty years ago; now it's
cclored interment."
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Che Trlle Wurthsrnsr.
FRIDAY. MARCH -, 1880.

The London Economist says that in
1879-S0 England will have paid $780,
100000 more for American cotton, to-
bacco and food than in 1888.
Europe, the Economist thinks, will pay
S5O. 900 900 more this year than last.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-12

DIR. ]. MILTON BowERs, San Fran
cisco physician of high repute, desiring
TO possess the six volumes of an expen-
sive medical work, is accused of trying
10 get them by theft. He carried off
two of the books and then two more,
but the third attempt was seen through
q gimlet hole by clerk, and the doctor
was arrested.
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MOUNT BLANC is not the highest en-
inence in Europe. According to the
latest measurements, the Elburz, q
mountain of the Caucasian chain, ex-
ceeds il by more than 1900 feet.
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AT the annual meeting of the De-
troit Board of Trade, the Sec
retary's report showed the grain
business of the year to have
been the receipt of 800, 324 barrels of
-four, 11,393,455 bushels of wheat,
307 1862 bushels of corn, 447 ,480 bush
els of oats, 337 900 bushels of barley.
The shipments of -four were 148,473
barrels; wheat, 8,972,797 bushels; corn,
Ill, $50 bushels; oats, 67,850 bushels !;
barley, 81 ,4S9 bushels.
THE Clerk of Antrim county lost the
keys of his office vaults, and could not
get at the records. So he sent 20 De-
troit for new keys. They did not come,
and eventually the Clerk of Antrim
county got into something very like a
state of nervousness over the matter.
About this same time there appeared
on the scene an itinerant artisan, who
claimed to be able to open the safe for
a given sum of money. Eventually it
proved that he had the keys, and he
said he had found them. He was ar
rested, but nothing could be proved
against him. when he was discharged,
aud went away openly rowling the
officials.
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WILD pigeons have begun to make
their appearance in Michigan.
OHEBoYaAN's one case of smallpox
cost the corporation nearly $500.
ABOUT forty men from Battle Greek,
and thereabouts, will soon go on pros
pecting tour to Colorado.
PORTER w. KNOWLES, of Onondaga,
Ingham county, for selling whisky on a
beer license, paid $l45.
A SON OF August Smith, at Ionia, has
been convicted of stabbing q neighbor's
colt and damages of $85 awarded.
Two WOMEN have just sold out their
drug business at Fenton, which they
have prosecuted for twenty-three years.
JOHN WADDLE, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Sebewa, Ionia county, died re-
Gently of an overdose of opium taken
for o cold.
The Bay City Tribune says that a
telephone line is about to be run from
Bay City to An Ores, distance of for
ty-five miles.
The indications all show that the
fight for the Perrin estate at Marshall
will be one of the biggest property law
suits ever waged in Michigan.
IT has been decided that the State
fair for this year shall be held at De-
troit, the money demanded by the So
ciety for exhibiting having been raised.
A CIRCULAR has been issued inviting
the land surveyors and civil engineers
of Michigan to meet in the new Capitol
March "a, for the purpose of forming a
State Association.
A NEW $4,000 Court House was dedi-
Gated at West Branch, Ogemaw county,
Feb. %. A large crowd was present
and it was the grandest affair that ever
occurred in the county.
The case of a girl who sued school
board in Lee, Calhoun county, for
damages by reason of expulsion from
school. has been decided in favor of the
girl. Verdict, 6 cents.
CHILDREN and matches burned two
barns belonging to Adam Clark, in West
Leroy, and their contents, consisting of
a quantity of hay, seventy-fve bushels
of wheat and 400 bushels of oats.
IT is reported that Otto Kirchner, At
torney General of the State, is also of
opinion that the legislative provision
tor M election on a constitutional
amendment in April is unconstitu-
tional, and will so report to the State
officers.
MAYOR ENGLEMAN, of Manistee, has
raised $4,000 by subscription among
the lumber manufacturers of that city,
to pay the expenses of dredging q
channel eighty feet wide and fourteen
feet deep between Lake Manistee and
Lake Michigan.
The State taxes OF Wayne county
this year are % per cent. higher than
in 1878, the figures being $l85, 7.96
against $l42,745.37. The increase is
due to the levy for the new Reform
School for Girls, the new State Blind
Asylum, and large appropriations for
other State institutions.
The following is statement of the
receipts and disbursements at the State
Treasurer's Office for the month ending
Feb. %, 1880:
Balance on hand Jan. 81, $780,. 752, "a
receipts for the month";. HO,74s.45
Total Al ain 6,l; 90
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JAY GOULD controls fourteen rail-
ways and 5000 miles of track in the
West.
National Republican., 1880-08-23
MARYLAND NEWS.


james II. S. Gibbons of Charles county died
on the llth instant.
Lights hotel stable and carriage.house at
Hancock were destroyed by fire last Tuesday.
Suits have been entered by a number of per.
sons against the city of Cumberland TO recover
witness fees.
Tho New Central Coal company have re.
opened the johnson mine, and are taking out
100 to ns daily.
The heads Of / 100 hawks were returned to
the Somerset commissioners, at cost to the
county OF $S5i,50, during the last fiscal year.
Tho fishermen ir the creeks about the mouth
of the ChOpGauk have made some of the largest
tailor fshngs in gill.ncts this season ever
known.
James Barber, employed in the New Central
compauy's Midlothian mine, was run over on
Monday last by one Of the mine cars and died
soon aitcrwOrd.
George L. Grove, a lad about fourteen years
old, whose father lives near Farvicw, Fred
oriclS county, was killed on Thursday by being
thrown from horse.
A little son of r. W. Sloncstrcet of Mont
gOmery county, who was severely injured by
falling from straw rick, died on the l7th
from congestion Of the brain,
On tho 18th instant lightning fired the
stackyard of Mr.. @. j. Scott, near Sassafras
and burned over forty stacks of straw. For
tunatey the wheat had been threshed.
In Caroline county last week the twelve.
year.old son of William Ncascy was strnck on
the head by falling brick which fractured
his skull and caused death in few hours
Spicer Goady, an aged citizen of Wicomico
county, died on Monday, aged scyenty-siN
IIo died in the house in which he was born,
u,I a. IigIipuufsL ttnit thot kt, ,ug
never known to taste fruit Of any kind.
A young colored man named Jackson at
Elliridge Landing, cut himself recently on
the knee while iOolng with razor. lie APP
piled salt TO the wound, but paying no further
attention gsngre nc cnsuCd and carried him oil,
Professor Ryder sNidto have been formerly
q rabbi Of jewish synagogue in Chicago, but
converted under the influence of Mr.. MOody's
Sermons has been preaching at Havre dc
Grace. lie also cctured to large audience
on "Jomsslem and the jews"
Mr.. Solomon Haupt's barn, about two miles
from BoOnsborO, was burned on the 18th during
the absence of tho Owuor from home. The
fire owed its origin to some children playing
with matches in the vicinity. Tho entire
yield of wheat, which had just been throshed,
was consumed,
The New England Granite company has
been awarded the contract for a granite figure
of confederate soldier for the monument to
be erected in Frederick, This is the same
company that exhibited tho statue Of fed
eral soldier at tho centennial, since erected
in the National cemetery at Autictam.
Livingston Il, Showell who is the manager
selected for Sllynls American tour, is the
owner of productive peach farm in Kent
county, Md, known as Rock Hal. During
the actors vacation season, now about closing,
Alr. Shewcll has been extending generous
hospitality TO numerous friends, Including
brethren OF the sock and busiin,
National Republican., 1880-08-23
DomoerntIe synnpathy.

70 tho Editor Of The National Republican,:
SIR: Through your valuable paper | beg
leave to make few remarks on au article
which appeared in the Washington Post Of the
Sd instant purporting to be the "viows OF a
colored democrat" 1t seems us ifhe is piniug
over the loss of $3.50 he claims to have loaned
to some white man whom he says wasa New
England republican" but who proved to be o
sharper, and did not pay tho money back
Now this "colored democrat charges the re.
publican party with that great su, aud gives
it as a reason for saying that the southern
democrats are tho best friends that the coored
people have, aud says that 1t Is rare indeed
that they have called on their old democratic
friends when In distress but that sympathy
was extended. Now, Mr.. Editor, to show tho
aJsurdity Of these statements, would it not
be well to ask my "COlOred democratic" friend
If he has forgotten tho bloody campaigns of
n and '76 in which hundreds of colored re.
publcans were murdered in South Carolina
alone, to say nothing of OfLOulsiaua, Florida and
Mississippi Let me ask him rs to tho sym
pathy" shown by the democrats TO our peOple
when in distress" by citing the case Of Au-
thony johnson Of this county, who was bru-
tally murdered by them, whose only sin was
that he was a candidate for the legislature
on tho republican ticket Was not his wife
in distress" when she lifted her hands aud
asked the ku kIuX in the name Of God to
spare the life Of her husbands But to her en-
treaties for sympathy" the only response
she received was Bring out a light, you God
id wench, or we will blow your brains out"
and they made her hold the torch while they
riddlod her husband with bullets Aud this
is specimen OF sympathy that all cOlored
republicans in the south got from our "old
democratic friends" What sympathy was
shown TO those sixteen members Of the colorcd
militia company Of Union, 5, c., for defending
themselves against the ku kiuY2 False charges
were trumpcd up against them. They were
put in Jail aud taken out at might and all
hanged, They pleaded with "our kind demo.
cratic friends fJr sympathy" SO ala tue
nineteen uuarmol militia at Hamburg, Z. c.,
plead with VI, c. Butler aud his armed mob
from Georgia. II time and space would allow
l could cite many such cases OF "Niud demo.
cratic ,ympathy' A. NJ,
spAEgANnugG, s. C., Angus, ;, 1850
National Republican., 1880-08-23
4 TENNESSEE FIGRT.
A CowardIy Assassin Finally Shot q
Killed

a Cowardy Assassin Finally Shot and
Killed.
KNoXYILLE, TENN, Aug. 2l.-Previous to
the performance at Robinson's circus at Nor.
ristown last night tho sheriff of Hamilton
county was shot aud Officer Morris killed by
Ben Richardson, while attempting 10 arrest
the latter Another officer killed Richardson.
Six others were wounded ia the all'ray. Rich.
ardson was a dreaded desperate. He is son.
in.lsw of Hon. w. Mcfarland. lie came carly
to tho circus yesterday, aud made himself
conspicuous for dis0rderly
conduct. From tho circus ho went to j. j.
Skies saloon, and there accused negro of
insulting his wife two years ago. Tho negro
protested his innocence, but Richardson drew
a revolver aud fired two shots at the retreat.
lug negro without effect. Town Marshal
Jamcs f. Morris appeared Immediately, and
ordered Richardson under arrest The latter
drew pistol, but Marshal Morris covering
him with a pistol he yielded aud went to a
magistrate. lie was held TO await the action
of the grand jury gave bonds aud was re-
leased,
Richardson went to the circus, stayed till
@ IN the evening, when he returned to Skies
saloon, entered il by the back door, passed to
the front door and looking out saw Marshal
Morris standing near with his back toward
the door. Without q word Richardson sent
a pistol ball through Marshal Morris head,
killing him instantly. Sheriff If. Loop,
who was standing near the murdered man,
looked around TO see where the shot cumc
from, but barely In time TO sec Richardson
fire TWO rapidly successive shots at him,
Loop received the Arat shot in his abdomen
National Republican., 1880-08-23
CRIME IN NEW YORK..
Highway Robbery in Sew York street
Cur.

Highway Robbery in Sew York street.
Car
New YORK, Aug. 22.--About o'clock this
morning gang of five thieves boarded one Of
tho Third.avenue horsc.cars on the Bowcry,
near Spring street, and frs, robbed tho driver
Of Slil. When the conductor came to the
forward platform to collect their fare they
rushed passed him into the car, and drawing
TeYolvers, robbed several passengers Of watches
and money. One passenger was lifted bodily
ont of the car, knocked down and kicked into
tho street. IL is said that policeman came
along, wncn some one said him, IT'S all right,
Jackson" and he made no arrest Tho plan
OF the thieves was so well arranged that the
AFFAIR was all over in three minutes
A Garroting Case on First Avenue.
New York, Aug. 2l.--Mr Marx Levinger a
collector, whiIc walking along First avenue
this evening near Forty.ninth street, was
suddenly sot upon by two men, one of whom
seized his ar nus and the other riiled his pocket
book and seized his watch and chain. They
thcn threw him into the gutter and fled down
Foriy.ninth street. Mr.. Leyinger, who was
i'll no way injured, gave chase when suddenly
ono OF the thieves turned and discharged Il
revolver at him. The ball missed the object
intended aud buried itself In tho neck of otto
Schmongcr eighteen years old, butcher boy.
The young man fell to the ground, the blood
gushing from his wound. lie was taken to
the hospital, where his injury was pronounced
latNi. The thieves escaped
National Republican., 1880-08-23
CAME NOTES.

BERLIN, Aug. 22.--Louis Charles Honri Won
DerpcrtIrtcn, the eminent German lawyer, is
dead.
ST, PETERSBURG, Aug, 22.-Siztocn hundred
and ninety.siy persons continue under police
supervision.
PHILTpPoPoLIs, Aug. 22,-Aliko Pasha has
arrived from ConStauliuopG and bee cnthuSi.
astically received.
BELGRADE, Aug. 22.-rho Sorvian govern
ment is seeking 100000 rides Of the newest
pattern in America, deliverable before the
end Of this year.
LONDON, Aug, 23-Land meetings were held
Oh Sunday in various parts Of Ireland, but
nothing noteworthy occurred. The proceed.
ings were orderly aud the usual violent
speeches were made.
ROME, Aug. 22-'rhe DirRtO asserts that the
italian consul at lacna, Peru, was menaced
aud insulted by the Ckilians, and that the
Italian cabinet has addressed complaint to
the Chiian government
LONDON, Aug, 23,-rhe Daily Ncps has tho
following from Constautiuople: Tho impress.
sion is daily growing stronger here that tho
difficulties between Turkey and nor ncig ghbors
will DO settled without bloolshcd the oppo-
sition made by tho Turks beug solely die
taiod by tho hopo that delay may bring about
discord between tho powers.
National Republican., 1880-08-23
Tho Fraud and Its Probable ET.ct

These are not small matters, nor done in a
corner nor resting ON single witnesses, I'm,
less they are met, met promptly, met fully,
Ciey will mako New York republican, and
take Indiana out Of the line of doubtful states.
The southern whites ar3 woIcomo TO nlauagc
in their own way, it it Is tir way; IL 10 Is
not, the north proposes to know 10, vote tbc
southern whites down, aud keep them down.
election Is two months uud % half away.
There is time enough for tho truth to ba hoard
and understood. Ii thes, charges hav0 the
truth in them 70 united uortl wtl, again cou-
front a solid sJuth,- springfield Republican,
National Republican., 1880-08-23
nmmIcrntinn stnti,tics.

Tho chief Of the bureau of statistics fur.
nishes tho following information in regard to
immigration; There arrived in the customs
districts of Baltimore Boston, Detroit Huron,
Key West Minnesota, New Orcans, New
York, Possomaquoddy, Philadelphia aud San
Francisco during the mouth ended July 81,
1850, 90, l25 passengers Of whom 1922 were
immigrants aud 3922 citizens Of the United
States returned from abroad. OF this total
number of immigrants arrived there were
from England, 537S; Scotland, l,25l; Wales,
81; Ireland, GOG1; Germany ll2i5; Austria
OOG; Sweden, 3770' Norway LIB Denmark,
0OS; France. igs; switzerland, M; spain, "a;
Holland, lis; Belgium, 80; Italy rs; Russia,
551: Poland; l--; Hungary i5G China, sG5;
Dominion of Canada l2,fl6; Cuba, 90; all
other, Ii2. During the year ended June 30,
lsSJ, 1929 immigrants arrived in the Uuitcd
States uu increase of 2i9,i over tho number
arrived during the preceding A,cal year Tho
year OF greatest immigration was tho fiscal
year OF 1879, whom 41O,sl3 immigrants arrived,
exceeding the immigration OF the !a,l fiscal
wear only . 500
National Republican., 1880-08-23
AQU1TIC CONTESTS.
Tile nest Twenty-Five Miles Swimming on
Record.

Record.
New York, Avg. 22..-The swimming match
between George Wcrhan Of New York, whose
weight is 275 pounds, and Ernest Won schoen.
ing of Bath, L. l., weight 175 pounds, from
pier l, North river, TO Nortou's point, Concy
island, and return, distance twenty five miles
came off today and was won by Won Schoen.
ing. Tie men took the water AZ 11A5 a M
and at 3:45 p. m. Won Schoening touched Nor.
tons poiut aud started on his return. Wer
han touched the point at 1896 and then started
back When about mile from the point
Wcrhan gave up tho contest and was brought
back on barge. He said Won Schocning had
too much gain on him. Won Schocnng con.
tinucd his course and reached tho place of
starting at 6:i5 p. M, having made the best
time on record. lie was in good condition
when he left the water.
The Boyton-Fearn Match.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Aug. 21.-Thc deci
sive swimming match between Captain Boy
ton of America and George Fearn of England
took place here to-day, the course being for
Boyton two aud a.half miles and Fcarn two
miles. The mcu entered the water ut 1:O2 p.
m. Boyton mudo the first mile in thiriy-cght
minutes and Fcarn In forty.one minutes. The
former continued on his course to buoy
quarter Of mile beyond, while Fcarn rounded
tne Inllc Duoy, Nnen BOytOn hUu rounded
ho found his opponent was too far to be overta.
ken. He made strong squirt to overhaul him,
but failed, Fcarn coming in at 90 the winner
by six and a.haltmnutcs Boyton wore his rub.
ber suit and used his paddle. Fearu swan in
abathing trunk. The 81 900 stake money will
be paid to Fearr
Sculllng In the Dominion.
CoRNwALL, ONT, Aug. 22.-At the regatta
here yesterday the amateur scull race was
won by Laing Of Montreal beating Dunspaugh
of Toronto by three longths. The second race
was an exhibition by lIosmer of Boston and
Gaudaur of Toronto, The former winning
easily. The double.scull race was next called
1t was won by Gillespie and Lockerby. Hau-
Ian and Gaudaur closed the days sport
with exhibition sculling.
Boating Prizes.
GENEVA, N. Y, Aug. 22-Mr. Goodscl of
tho Watkins club has been entered for the
amateur single sculls, making twelve entries
for that class The Rochester Brewing com.
pany offer Il gold medal of the value of $50 to
the professional beating the best time on
record, and a citizen Of Geneva offers medal
of the same value to tho amateur beating the
best time on record
National Republican., 1880-08-23
TUO MORE DEiD.

Tho Tweuty-fifth Victim of the Mays Land
ing Disaster.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, August 22.-.Owen
Welsh, aged fifteen years, died at the episcopal
hospital early this morning from injuries re-
coived by the railroad collision at Mays Land
ing, n. j, on the 1lth. Thomas j. McGrath
another victim ofthat accident. died this morn :
ing at the Pcnnsylvanis hospital, making thus
tartwenty-dvc persons who lost their lives from
the accident. Not ono of those takon to the
hospitals have recovered sufficiently to warrant
their removal and it is feared several others
will die