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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-17
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

The firm of Arnold & Sons, of New
York, which for some time has essayed to
control the coffee market of the world, yester-
day retired from the business, having first
made an assignment Liabilities, e75O,O to
$500, 600.
Five men and woman were killed by
the explosion of boiler in steam saw-mill
1t Wendell. Mass.
The anthracite coal interest has
agreed to mine but three days in each week this
winter.
There has been another heavy failure
in the New York coffee trade. Bowie, Dash &
Co., one of the syndicate which essayed to con-
troll tho coffee trade of the world, has suspend
ed, with liabilities of 81, 40O,0 00
By fire in Ferris court, Philadel-
phia, Ann Higgins and John Lyons were burned
to death.
John Story, New York warehouse
man, has died from the bite of fly.
Inspired by jealousy, man named
Wardman killed his mistress, Miss Pinkham, in
Lawrence, Mass, and then fatally shot himself.
Four cases of fatal freezing are re-
ported from New York.
w. Knapman, of Lawrence, Mass,
shot and killed Miss Avis Hinkman and then
committed suicide. Jealousy.
The washing-machine factory OF F. F.
Adams Co., at Erie, Pa, has been burned.
falling wall killed fireman named George
Smith, and seriously injured four others. The
loss is s15O.OO0.
Edison announces that he is prepar-
ing test for the subdivision Of electric light,
by which the city of New York can be lighted
for s2.OO0.OOO.
The three negroes who murdered Mrs.
Kennedy, in Clarendon county, s. c., were
lynched at the scene of the tragedy.
A party of revenue officers had O fight
with moonshiners near Huntsville, Ala, re-
sulting in the death Of Deputy Marshal John
b. Hardie, and the wounding of Deputy Col
lector Bone The Commissioner OF Internal
Revenue has ordered relentless war TO be
waged against the illicit distillers in that Sec
ton
The Railway Commissioners of Georgia
class roads to cents per mile, and the roads
will retaate by an effort to abolish the board.
A Nashville dispatch reports fight
near CoolSsville, Putnam county, Tenn, be-
tween the Welshes and Capt.. James Davis,
United States Deputy Collector, and United
States Commissioner @. w. Campbell, Davis
was killed and Campbell beaten nearly to death.
Tilman Webster, a saloonkeeper, and
William Stewart, farmer, quarreled at Cali
foinia, KY, about wooden comforter, when
Stewart went home, got his pistol, and, as he
returned, Webster shot him through the head,
killing him instantly. Webster escaped. Both
men are married.
DURING the services at Zion Colored
Church, near Pleasure Ridge, KY, Matthew
Miller and Sylvester Weatbers, two brethren of
fhc congregation, became involved outside the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-17
NEWS OF The WEEK.


The speech of Chief Justice May, of
the Queens bench in Ireland, in which he re-
fused to grant a postponement of the Irish
state trials, has caused great excitement among
the Land eaguers, who profess to regard 1t as
= plain intimation that the power Of the court
viii be used in the interest of the Crown during
these trials.
Numerous outrages are reported from
Ireland In attempting to execute decree at
Ballingilly, Bailif Mulholland was shot dead by
Q man named Graham. In many small towns
the Land League has caused the letters
l.. l.. to be painted over the doors
of sympathizing shop-keepers. Lacquer
ut Portadown has been threatened
with death unless he ceases addressing meet
ings Nangle, the Ulster tenant, who fired at
his landlord, has been sentenced to twenty
years penal servitude.
Capt. H. w. Howgate, of the signal
service has rendered his resignation.
Spain has taken $4,000 shares in De
Lesseps, Panama-canal enterprise.
Healy, Mr.. Parnell's private secretary
and a member of Parliament, has been indicted
at Cork on a charge of intimidating Manning
The British Admiralty has at last
abolished the cat-o'-nine-tails in the navy,
which, henceforth, is TO be disciplined without
Hogging.
Graham, who shot Bailiff Mulholland,
near Cookstown, Ireland, has been committed
for murder.
An explosion of fire-damp in Welsh
colliery, near Cardiff killed eighty six Of the
miners. The shaft IN which the explosion oc-
Cured is within half a mile of the Dinas col
hery, in which there was a similar catastrophe
two years since.
Cremation has been legalized by the
authorities of Rome.
De Lesseps' Panama canal scheme
meets with little OF no support in England.
The agitation of the land question has
extended to England.
Two more regiments of British troops
are to be dispatched to Ireland.
A Dublin dispatch says the Claremor-
ris police patrol, near Irishtown, fired on body
of men whom they suspected were about to at
tack house One man, who was seriously
wounded was arrested.
The loss of life by the recent explosion
In Welsh coal mine is now placed at 100.
No less than l, 430 English farmers
went into bankruptcy last year.
News of the death of Madame Theirs.
widow of the late President of the French re-
public and celebrated historian, is telegraphed
from Paris.
Five thousand additional troops are to
be sent to Ireland at once.
At q British Cabinet Council it was
decided to request of the Queen the suspension
of tho habeas corpus in Ireland.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-17
POLITICAL POINTS.

Gov. Fisk, of Kentucky, who was
Governor of the State at the outbreak Of the
war, and did much to aid in preventing the
State from seeding, is mentioned ~ a proper
person to represent the South in Gen. Garfield
Cabinet.
The Governor of Missouri has given
Ford, Greenbacker, the certificate OF election
as member of Congress from the Ninth dis
trict. According to the official returns Ford's
majority is 2.
Allen Campbell has been nominated
and confirmed Comptroller of the city of New
York, in place Of John Kelly, who retires to the
shades of private life.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-17

ealing upon the Secretary OF the Treasury for a de-
tailed statement Of the moneys paid u. \. Grant
from 1861 10 1877. Mr. Cakins secured the passage
Of an expression OF sympathy with the
happy laboring Glasses OF Ireland. Mr..
McCoid presented n bin 10 regulate COM
merce by railroad, providing for uniform
rate of fare aud freightage, and for Congressional
Committee Of Inquiry and Enforcement Mr..
Deuster introduced q bill 10 terminate existing
treaties between the United States and the North
German Confederacy; Mr.. Warner one providing
for commission OF Ave Representatives,
four Senators and five experts, 10
revise and readjust the tariff. Mr.. Willis
offered bill TO reduce the postage letters and
letter. meter to cents for each one-half
fraction thereof; ALSO TO reform the civil service of
the United States. The latter provides that
all persons who have been In office
four years shall retain their places during
good behavior that all future appoint
ments be made from among those who make the best
showing at competitive examinations; there shall
be preferences for any class Of citizens, but sol
diers and sailors The President viii be entitled TO
ten places in each department for such as he may
choose. The credentials of Mr.. Taylor, elected
the successor of Gen. Garfield were presented.
Objection ~as made 10 admitting him TO a seat the
opposition claiming that, the State having been APP
portoned into new Congressional DISTRICTS the dis
trict was reconstructed, and not the same as
that which Gen. Garfield represented. Mr.. Taylor
qualified, and the credentials referred TO the
Committee on Elections
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-17
WE notice but few new designs q,

WE notice but few new designs "a
Christmas slippers. They are still made
on lasts modelled after an Erie canalboat.
which makes it very convenient for the
wearer to turn around without lifting his
feet from the floor. The little nails SO
much appreciated by gentlemen with ten
der feet, show no deterioration in quanti-
ty or point. The worsted contortions are
of the old exasperating types. You will
perceive the point of these remarks-the
points of the nails, at all events-when
you begin your annual martysdom this
Christmas morning.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-17

There Is civilized nation in the Western Hemisphere
In which tho utility Of Hostetters Stomach Btters a.
tonic corrective and antbious medicine Is not known
and appreciated While is medicine for all seasons
and all climates 1t s especially suited the complaints
generated by the weather being the pursst and best
vegetable stimulant In the world.
ts For sale by Druggists and Dealers TO whom apply
for Hostetter's Almanac for 1881.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-17

il Sherman should retire, as, by law, that Office
expires either by the death or resignation of
Gen. Sherman.
Edgar Stanton, OF Illinois, has been
nominated by the President for Consul General
at ST. Petersburg.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-17
CarlOtta.

The ex-Empress Carlotta has FORUM
ately lost all memory of her Mexican
experience, never making any allusion to
it. The unhappy princess in the dark
ness of her mind still retains the habits
of court etiquette, exacts all ceremonious
adjuncts, even to gaurd of honor, and
always attires herself in handsome cos
tune for dinner The only visitor whom
she consents to see is Queen Maria Hen
riette, who shows kindly devotion TO
the invalid which does her honor.
A MEDICAL writer asks: "Does posi-
ton affect sleep?' Well, rather if
you're hung up by your trousers on a
spiked fence, you won't sleep very
soundly. boston Post.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-17

The difference between dancing and
card playing is just exactly the differ
ence between the reel and the Ideal.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-03-16
QUOTING DEAD LANGUAGES.

An excellent anecdote illustrating
scholarship in the pulpit is told by the
Philadelphia Inquirer. A preacher who
had been on trial in a country church in
Northern Pennsylvania was told by an
older preacher that it would please the
congregation greatly if he would quote a
little Latin, Greek and Hebrew in his
sermons, taking it for granted that his
hearers understood it, when in reality
none of them knew anything about those
languages. The preacher was puzzled.
He didn't know anything Of either He
brew, Greek or Latin himself, but he was
native of Wales, and thought they
wouldn't know the difference If he gave
them a little Welsh every time. So he
made Scripture quotation in his first
sermon to them. and said: "This pas
sage, brethren, has been slightly altered
in the translation. 1t is only in the
original Hebrew that you can grasp its
full meaning. | will read i, to you in
Hebrew, so that you may comprehend 1t
more exactly" and he gave them the
passage in good Welsh. They liked it,
and presently he gave them some Welsh
as Greek, and then some more as Latin.
Then he was going to give them the
Chaldaic version in Welsh, when he saw
a Welshman sitting by the door, almost
bursting with suppressed laughter. The
preacher didn't lose his self possession,
but instead of the Welsh quotation he
was going to give, said in Welsh, "For
goodness sake, my friend. don't say
word about this till have chance to
talk with you" The Welshman never
betrayed the secret, and the congregation,
completely deceived, called the preacher
to be their pastor.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-03-16
MRS. BURNETT AT HOME.

She lives quietly and pleasantly in First
Street; she has charming husband and
two lovely children, with whom she is
happy and whom she makes happy, any
irresponsible correspondents chatter not
withstapding. DIR, Burnett is an ocullst
of much distinction already,-for he is
Young man-and has in his own way and
profession as great a reputation as his
wife has in hers, so say those who know.
She is altogether charming, and as unaf-
fected as a woman could be-indeed, far
more so than most women. Her CONVEX
sation is strikingly bright and original
as one might expect from the creator Of
"owd Sammy Craddook.'
can't make up my mind whether she
is fine looking or not. She Is plump
little woman, too plump for her low stat
ure; she has pretty brown hair. which she
wears in club braid behind and frizzed
in front, to cover, as she says, my hor-
rid great forehead 1t is noble FORE
head. square and projectiRgi her nose is
good, and rather large; her mouth and
Jaw firm, with pretty, white, small and
even teeth, and a charming, cordial, jolly
sort of laugh and smile. Her eyes are
her best features, large, intense and ex-
pressive, and when fixed upon ones face
seem to look through into the innermost
foibles of ones heart. Their color is in
definite, being those wonderful eyes that
are never twice alike. Ihave seen them
gray, and l have seen them black and
glowing.
One wouldn't describe her exactly as
sweet woman, and yet she is, too--wo-
manly and fascinating to a great degree
and most delightful companion. She
speaks of her books, Of her stories, in &
] frank way that is very refreshing; she en-
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-03-16

| the morning. 'rd like to go to it-that
is, have been once or twice." he said
"Fact is, Aunt 'Lizbeth, when we lived
down the river. before you took me, there
wasn't any school for me to go to, and SC
l am behind other fellers. Miss Kelsey
she makes 'rithmctic so plain, and help,
me with writin' and So"
"You might do worse" said Mrs. vii.
kin briefly. "Go if you want to. Only
one thing, Timothy Stone, won't have
any 10 cent business about it. Honest
is honest, and it's worth more'n 10 cent:
week to teach you anything, as know. v
Tim forgot to be astonished at hi.
aunt's knowledge, and overlooked the re-
flection upon himself, in the pleasure OF
expressing desire that he had cherished
secretly but hopelessly.
"She wouldn't take any more pay
cause she'd want to serve all alike; but
oh, Aunt 'Lizbeth, if | could just give
her and Johnny something nice for
Christmas
"Humph, I'll think about it, not dis
approvingly.
"Lizbcth," began Mr.. Wilkin nerv-
ously. the next morning. 81 wouldn't say
nothin' to anybody about thieves or
watchin' them mill folks, if | was you. "
81 don't mean to, replied his wife
with an odd pucker about her lips.
"Well, I'm glad Of it really am
said Mr.. Wilkin, in a tone of great re-
lief. II don't think anybody has stole
anything, and somehow it seems to me as
if our duty nowadays is a good deal
like it was when them lsraelites took
Jericho-only just marching against the
bit of wall that's right in front of US,
and lettin' our neighbors take care of
what's in front Of him. It sort of seems
that way, Liz beth"
Mrs. Wilkin did not answer, but she
took her revenge that evening, when Mr..
Wilkin was going out.
Reuben" she said quietly. "if yon see
any thieves round our smoke house, just
tell EN- there's couple Of chickens
hanging near the door, that dressed a
purpose. It's natural Belinda'd like a
change of meat as well as other folks. ="
Saturday afternoon.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-03-16
THAT ERE TENNYSON.' -

I'm kinder lookin' round for book of
poetry to give my daughter on New Years
explained an oldish- looking man the 9TH
er day as a clerk in Woodward avenue
book store came forward to wait on him.
"Ycs. sir. Have you any choice ofpo-
ets."
"Waal, s'pose they are all off the same
piece replied the old man as he scanned
the shelves. Il don't know much about
'em, but the gal she seems to think
heap of that ere chap named Tenny-
moon"
"Tennyson, you mean"
"Waal, guess so. hain't no hand
to remember names. Do you know any
thing about this ere Tennyson"
"Why, he's one of the leading poets"
Married man.
Yes"
"Move around in purity good society,
does he: Ever hear he wasn't exactly
straight"
"Why, Mr.. Tennyson is supposed to be
a gentleman said the astonished clerk,
Though, of course, l don't know any
thing about his private life"
"Does he use any slang words in his
verses"
'Of course not"
Anything about girls elOpin away
from home with pirates or robbers:'
''Not word
"The reason I'm leetle pertickler,
said the old man, sis because my gal Is
rather on the romance. She's just dyln'
to slope off with some pirate, or be lugged
off by some Injun-killer, and if that ere
Tennyson is on the slope 1 don't want
his verses"
"Oh, you can be sure that his poems
are all right. They contain nothing but
the purest sentiment.
"'Nother thing is, one Of the girls in
our neighborhood sent off after some ones
poems, and that ere pamphlet come nigh
workin' heap of evil. There was
song in it about boy with glass eye,
and another about flirting with feller on
the corner, and | can't tell you what.
'Twasn't week afore our Sarah begun
to say she'd like to collar beau, and
askin' her mother not to give her away,
and all such slang as that. KEEP her
churnin' butter from six in the mornin
till ten at night, and guess 1t reformed
her, but | don't want to set her goin
agin."
II assure you that Tennyson's poems
are all right" said the clerk.
"waal, I'm goin' up on the market
Just now, but after dinner I'll call and see
the book. If there's single crooked
word won't have it, for hain't goin' to
have Sarah slidin' down from her cham
Der winder at midnight to meet no bri-
gand, and if she ever tells me agin that
I'm kicker I'll box her ears, even ifshe
is goin' on twenty-three "--Detrot Free
Press.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-03-16

LII LUCK IN SEvENTEEN.-A certain
Mr.. Drillon has found that the number
seventeen brings bad luck to the impe-
rial dynasty. The Prince Imperial had
seventeen assegai wounds. There are
seventeen letters in the name Napoleon
Bonaparte. The addition of the figures
1908, the date of the birth Of Napoleon
Ill, numbers seventeen; so do the addI-
ton of the figures 1926, the date OF the
Empress Eugenie's birth, as also 1858,
the date of their marriage; from 1853,
the date of their marriage, to 1870, the
date of their fall, seventeen years. The
Prince Imperial was II years OF age
when his father died; there are seven
teen letters in the name of Lo Lieuten-
ant Carey, and the addition Of the figures
1862, the date Of Prince Victor's birth
again produces seventeen
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-03-16
joys her popularity, she laughs over shing..
that are said TO her, she doesn't seem to

Joys erpopularity, she laughs over thing.
that are said to her, she doesn't seem to
have bit Of jealousy Or envy in her r.
ture, and she is a large-hearted, largo nsu
turedsxoman, in emryuway sssiDly .uaz
conventional and original. Shehss pref.
ty hands and dimpled wrists, and .useS
those white hands very gracefully. shsf
just as jolly and amusing with room full
of women and not man present as she
is when various adorers bow before her,
and They're not all in love with her, why,
they ought to be-that's all. -
She is busy on new. book. and says:
"Mercy! don't want anybody to think
that I'm staying at home this winter be-
cause | like it, or frowH upon society with
supercilious glare, or anything of the
kind, because I'm just dying .to take
header into it all; but I can't, because !
must have time to myself" The other
day she said very good thing, and. |
must tell it. if l don't invade the sanctity
of private life. We were speaking of the
author of new book. "Dear met said
Mrs. Burnett, 81 wonder why It is that
all the papers speak of her as appearing 50
modest at the Holmes breakfast; is there
any reason why she should have appeared
immodest, Just because she wrote book"
-Washington Letter to The Springfield
Republican.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-03-16

TIT FOR TAT.-Mr, c. was pastor
Of Baptist church in certain town in
one of the Western States. He had been
ON very bad terms with his flock for some
time. They abused him whenever they
could find occasion, and he reciprocated
with equal readiness. Before his con-
tract with the parish expired, he received
the appointment of chaplain at the
State-prison. Elated at this opportunity
of getting rid of him, the congregation
came in full numbers to hear his farewell
sermon, perhaps less to compliment than
to annoy him with their presence. Great
was their astonishment, and still greater
their anger, when the reverend gentleman
chose for his text the following words,
81 go to prepare place for YOU = that
,rhere ] an, u,ere ye may Dc also" Ed
tor's Draicer. IN Harper's Magazine for
March.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-03-16
ISIS.
BY FRANCES l. MACE.

Low al her feet watch and dream;
She will not I'm her veil;
dimiy see brow sublime,
And features grand and pale,
And feel mighty heart replies
To NIL my rapture or my sighs.
She IL so near her breathing falls
On my attentive ear,
She l. so far the twilight stars
shine through her mantle clear
A. silent as the grave may be,
And yet the soul of melody.
The lotus trembling on her brow
Exhsles divine perfume;
The mystic splendor OF her smile
Pervades my narrow gloom.
The dearth OF solitary hours
She answers with thousand flowers.
Oppressed with haunting, ,hindering cares
My heart rebels at fate:
She stoops 10 me. and To- share
Her own imperial state.
glide beyond my prison bars,
And walk with her the path of stars.
Forever sorrowfnl in death,
Forever glad ia birth.
Her face the glory OF the skies,
Her steps the bloom of Garth
As Natures self. the fallen, the free,
y Isis, interpret theel
-lHarper's.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-03-16

"A New York inventor claims to
have discovered process for making all
fabrics waterproof; but what is more
needed is an invention to make milk cans
waterproof. Or the COW. We believe
that it has never been definitely settled
whether the water leaks throug the COW
or the can.-Norristop Herald.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1880-03-16

BIBLE TERMs.-Readers of the Bible
will be interested in the following express
sions frequently met with in the holy
scriptures:
A days journey was 33 | 5 miles,
A Sabbath-day's journey was about 2-S
of English mile.
Ezekiels reed is said to have been near
ly II feet long.
A cubit is % inches nearly.
A fingers breadth is equal to one inch,
A shekel is about 50 cents.
A she.e, of gold was S9.07.
A talent of silver was sl650.S6.
A talent Of gold was S26,44S.
A piece of silver, Or apeAny, was Ia cts.
4 farthins was q cents.
A gerah was 3 cents; mite / cent.
A homer contained Is gall 5. and 5 pts.
An ephah, or bath, 7 gals. and 4 pts.
A hin was gallon and 2 pints.
A frkin was I pints; an omer 6 pints.
A cab was pints; log was pint.