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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-03-04

theory or a. q wosking dogma Let as
recognize II, however, - > iactr and
shane the Efforts for The Improvement
of the race m accordance with i, en-
coursging itin some directions, restrain
ing II from injustice in others. Work
ing BY this recognition, VIC shall save
the race from many failures and disaP-
pointments, and spare the world the
spectacle Of republics ending in despo-
tfsm, and experiments in government
ending IN anarchy.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-03-04

o. Little Henry returns from cate
chism. He wears an air of melancho-
". Whats the matter, dear ," asks
Aunt Augusta. Monsieur lie Cure is
always scolding me. To-day he asked
me how many Gods there were. /"
well, you told him one, suppose 2"
"0h, Aunty told him five, and even
that didn't satisfy him ~
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-03-04

o. At a legal investigation Of a Ii
quor seizure case, the judge asked an
unwilling witness, "What was IN the
barrel that you had ?" "Well. your
honor" replied the witness, sit was
marked 'whiskey' on one end OF the
barrel and 'PatDufy' on the other end
so that l can't say wether il was
whiskey or Pat Duffy was in the barrel
being as am on my OATH"
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-03-04

Hr"After examining clussly the va
rious pretenshuns ov the world says
Josh Billings, 4 am more than half in-
kIined TO envy the happiness ov, a Hell
thy PhoOl."
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-03-04

6r"Mamma, how can God hear me
pray hen he's so far away Z" Before
the Lady could reply younger one
said, Hes dot telephones runnin' to
every place."
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-03-04
Common Sense Washer.

JOSHUA JONES, EsqF., has obtained the
u Agency for st. Mary's county to sell The
COMMON SENSE WASHER
patented by the Erie Washer Company OF
Erie. Pa. and Is now canvassing for purcha-
sers. The inventor was pioneer IN this class
that have gained q worldwide reputation. In
PRODUCING the present one, he had the benefit
Of large experience, which he has skillfnlly ap-
piled. sparing no pains 10 make it as perfect as
Il 4 possible 10 make any piece ofmaehinery for
a speciaI purpose. It contains all the good points
found in all the Others reduced 70 the most Prac-
teal form, and has no weak parts. Mr.. Jones
also sells the
Walker Washer and the Walker Lerer
WriRgey.
The price Of the Common Sense Washer is SIS
the Walker Washer Is sold for $S-the Walker
Lever Wringer also for So. Persons desirous OF
making inquiries 10 regard to these machines
with O view to purchase can see the agent per-
sonalIy or communicate with him ~ lettsr, ad-
areused to the OakviI1s Post O@es.
ysiy "a, lsTs.
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Sept II, Is7e-ly.

NM A WEEK In your own town, and no
WI capital risked. You can give the bug
Nm iness a trial without expense. The
mlI best opportunity ever offered for those
willing TO work You should try nothing else
until you see for yourself what you can do 81 the
business We offer No room TO explain here. fou
can devote all Of your time or only your spare
time 4, the business and make great pay for ev-
ery hour that ron work. Women make as much
Al men. SeBd for special private terms and par
tieulars, which we mafIfree. IS outhtfree. Don't
eomplafn Of hard times while you have such .
chance. Address n. HALLETT 4 CO., Port
and, Maine. June IL, 1873.
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es-"Have you q mother-in-lsw p
asked a man OF disconsolate-looking
person. "No," he replied; shut have
a father in jail"
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-03-04
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
orphans, Court Of 81. Maryls County, S

Orphans Court OF st. Mary's County, Set:
Jan. 10, 1880.
nRDERED by the Court That Henry @.
~ Adams, Executor Of John II. Jenifer, lSte
Of st. Mary's county, Maryland, deceased, give
the notice required by law 10 the deceased
creditors 20 exhibit their claims and that the
same be published once q week for six success
sive weeks in the ST. Mary's BEAcon-
Test J0mK b. ARELE,
Register Of Wills Tor St. Mary's county
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r. A D AN 5,
BUILDER & CONTRACTOR

gWVHE urdersiwmsd il prepared 10 contraction
BUILDING and REPAIRING in 81. Ma
rvs and adjoining coanties. AL work intTns-
I'D to him win Be done with despatch and in
werkmanIike manner. Address,
r. d. ADAMS, Msehaniesvili
g. Masy'seounsy Nd.
Asgf, s7s--tf.
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1880. 1880
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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-01
MICHIGAN NEWS.

BIG RAPIDS now has telephone ex-
change.
THE new salt well at st. Louis has
reached the depth of 900 feet.
THE school population of East Sagi-
nav il B. 1886, and in Bay City 5,411.
The total receipts of the State Fair
were about $40, 900, against S26. 900 last
year.
Two AND HALF miles of gas pipe
have been laid in Marshall in the last
three weeks.
AT Big Rapids the authorities will not
permit the public interment of person
dying of diphtheria.
EDWARD BARRETT stepped into molten
iron at the furnace at Negaunee, some
days ago, and had the bottom of his foot
cooked.
ROBERT RooF's residence at Battle
Greek, valued at $4,000, burned down
lately. The insurance on the building
was only $4,000.
ALANsING man, last week, put down
well twenty-five feet and found sea-
shells, which he shows to friends as
curiosities.
SAMUEL GORDON, of this village, has
flowing well, struck at the depth of fifty
feet, and flowing six feet above the sur
face.-,St. Louis Herald.
A wELL-KNowN Michigan fruit-grower
is of the opinion that the common
moose-wood growing near plum trees
will, by its effiuvia, keep off the de-
structiye curculio.
A YOKE of oxen, while being ferried
day. were yoked together and hitched
to an anchor. The animals became I'M
manageable, dragged the whole outfit
over, and went down for keeps.
A 7-YEAR-oLD son of Charles Evans,
residing near Richmond, was jerked
from the rear of his fathers wagon, and
land-roller hitched behind passed over
him. The boy died from the effects OF
his injuries in few moments.
THE extension of the Mackinaw divi-
sion of the Michigan Central railroad,
from its present terminus at Gaylord to
Cheboygan, n distance of about forty
miles, will be opened to the Straits OF
Mackinaw early next spring.
A FIERCE fire broke out in the lumber
dock of A. Rust & Co., Mt Bay City, a
few days ago, and rapidly spread to the
adjacent lumber-piles. A strong wind
was blowing, and at one time the entire
city was threatened with destruction.
1t was only with the greatest exertion
that the fire was got under control, and
the threatened danger to the city avert
ed. About /, 100000 of lumber was
destroyed. Loss, $4,000 insurance,
1000.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-01
MISCELLANEOUS aLEANINas.

A bold bank robbery Is reported from
Montreal. A paying teller Left his compart-
ment for two or three moments to go to an in
ner Office, and did not lock his box, containing
$4,000. During his momentary absence
sharp thief gobbled package containing over
$1,000 and made good his escape.
In compiling table showing the COM
parative death rate in the leading cities of the
country, for the last ten weeks, the National
Board of Health finds that in Chicago it has
been 20 in 1000; in New York, "a in Brooklyn,
AZ in Philadelphia, 80 i'll Baltimore, "a i'll
Boston, %; in Cincinnati, % and in New Or
leans, %.
Silas NJ. Waite, the absconding Pres
ident of the First National Bank of Brattleboro,
VT, has been arrested at Omaha, and taken
back East. He stole about $500, 900.
More than $4,000 emigrants arrived
in this country during the month of August.
Peace having been restored in Cuba,
the Spanish Government will recall $4,000
troops.
Lieut.. Schwatka and party, who sailed
from Now York two years ago to discover the
remains Of Sir John Franklin and his Arctic
expedition, have arrived at New Bedford
Their long journey was not as successful al
might have been wished by the projectors,
but it was not altogether frutless. They have
obtained many relics of Franklins party, made
numerous charts which will be of great value to
future explorers, and demonstrated that white
men can adapt themselves to the habits of the
Esquimaux in making long journeys in the polar
regions.
The New York Herald publishes n
letter of a correspondent who accompanied the
Schwatka expedition to King Williams Land
The story refers more particularly to the incl
dents of the great sedge journey. This is sup
plemented, however, by the discovery of the
nesses which lead to the sad conclusion that the
fate of the officers and crews of the Erebus and
Terror was terrible, even to the utmost limit of
the imagination, and that the records of Frank
Inns expedition are lost beyond recovery.
Old men and women Of the Esquimaux tell the
story Of those who were doubtless the last sur
vivors OF these unfortunate vessels with
mnuteness Of detail and evident truthfulness
which place their fate beyond doubt. or what
had become of their great leader, and of the
large number of men who constituted their
crews, nothing could be discovered. Only
small party Of officers, black about the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-01

mouths, with no flesh on their bones, is seen
dragging boat across the ice, and then they
disappear, and nothing more is seen of them
until their skeletons are found under their boat,
and in tent, prey TO wild beasts, and with
dreadful evidences that they had been driven
10 feed on the weaker OF their companions be-
fore finally yielding to starvation and cold.
Such is the sad conclusion which the discov-
cries of the expedition irresistbly lead to.
1t is said that an enterprising show
man has engaged Sitting Bull and will exhibit
him throughout the country.
The Arctic exploring ship Gulnare
has returned to St. Johns, N. f., with the loss
of her deck load and one boat in gale.
Capt. Howgate has ordered the Gull
mare to return to Washington. The Arctic ex-
petition has been abandoned for this season.
but Capt. Howgate proposes to repeat the ex-
pertinent in the spring.
During the fiscal year ending June 30
last, $4,000 tons of newspapers and periodicals
were transmitted through the mails the post
age collected amounting to 1926 52
National Convention: will be held at Far
well Hall. Chicago. on the 14th of October for
the purpose of discussing the shipping interests
of the country, and to devise ways and means
to secure interstate regulation and Govern
mental control of railroads. The question of
taxation will also be discussed. The cooperation
of the New York Board of transportation, and
New York Farmers Alliance is assured, and all
the farmers societies throughout the United
States are requested to send delegates to take
part in the proceedings. The farmers alliances
which are now of only local influence will or
ganize national body, at the same time. Good
speakers will be in attendance. For full par
ticulars, write James W. Wilson, Secretary
Cook County (nl) Alliance, Dearborn street,
Chicago, III.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-01
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
IOREI0N NEWS.

The crop prospects in England are
bad trade in stagnant, and labor cannot find a
market strikes are breaking out all over the
country, and in the larger cities there is great
offering among the laboring classes.
Miss Florence Tilton, daughter of
Theodore Tlton, has been married in London
to Mr.. Pelton, of Louisiana.
A ferry steamer while crossing the
river Garonne, in France, capsized, and six per-
sons were drowned.
A London dispatch says that serious
disturbances are reported in Canton, China.
Europeans have been threatened, and are in a
state Of alarm The Catholic Mission has been
attacked. The military has been called out,
and several rioters killed and wounded.
The policy of the new French Cabinet
will be one Of peace
Lord Mountmorris, q small landlord
In Galway, Ireland, has been murdered, proba-
bly, by his tenants, with whom he was on bad
toms.
Two British officers are under arrest
at Candahar, on suspicion of having intention
ally contributed to the defeat of Gen. Roberts
by Ayoob Khan.
The United States Consul at Lyons
reports that the French cereal crop this year is
very good, much better than the average, but
the German cereal crop is very poor. American
grain, he says, will find good markets in both
countries.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-01
DO Animals ReaSOns

In the Penn Monthly w. w. Kinsley
gives facts to show that our poor rela.
tons, the brutes, are endowed with the
faculty of reason. A clergyman testifes
that he observed a fox playing i'll an in
closure where there were swine and their
young. At length he seized block
about as large rs one of the pigs and
dashed through the fence, of course
without alarming the mother SOW. Find
ing that the hole was large enough, and
that he was not pursued, he returned
and carried off pig without exciting
disturbance.
Bishop Wilson knew an elephant
whose blind eye was cauterized by a
surgeon, causing the poor beast to yell,
but curing him. By-and-by the other
eye had to be operated upon with nitrate
of silver, and they feared the elephant
would fly at the same doctor but he re-
ceived him kindly, and submitted at
once to the operation.
Huber one day saw piece of comb
fall in hive, because the supports were
too weak. The bees first fixed under it
temporary supports, then fastened it Sc
curely to the sides of the hive, then cut
away the pillars which INSTRUCTED their
pathway. They probably never had
such an eXigency before. Instinct
would never have suggested blocking up
their own road to the untitled combs !;
and then there must have been some
consultation to enlist their whole force
In the work.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-01

Ii. Il. Paddock Breckenridge, V. =. WEIGH,
Bath, supplied Chester, j. Il. Wallace Char
lotte, G. ID. Lee Central Church, Lansing, ii.
M. JOY Dewitt. w. II. McElwell DuplaIns, NJ.
w. Knapp Eaton Rapids, A. j. Hamilton ;
Fowler, l.. NJ Gulick; First Church. Lansing,
G. G. Olds Grand Ledge. VIM. Swift; Ithaca,
j. II. Caldwell Leslie, Il. Delamartyr Maple
Rapids, j. b. Knott Mason, w. Doust Ovid,
G. w. Sherman Okemos, w. Taylor Onondaga,
s. Nelson; Potteryille, j. j. McAlllster ST.
Johns, G. A. Jaycokes st. Louis, G.. G.
Draper Victor A. I. Gray Vcrmontyille, ].
d. Watkins.
Biz Rapids District-A. J. Russell, p T..
Etno, J. +. Wallace Benona, NJ. l.. Bacon (;
Big Rapids. L. Masters Big Rapids Circuit
supplied Clare j. Gulick Crystal Valley, sup
piled Dushville, f. Il. Sanders Evart, j. G.
Floyd Fremont Center, J. N. DAYTON Grant,
A. Bushee Hart. w. l.. Tilden; Hesperia, w.
w. Llmport Holtons, G.. Varion Howard
Ludington, w. Mooney Manistoe, j. X. Stark /;
Mecosta, j. Hills; Nilbrook, supplied; Mt
Pleasant, L. III. Allenbeck; Morley, B. w.
Smith Pentwater, Geo. Donaldson Pierson,
G. G.. Thomas Rverton, A. Potter; Reed
City, w. A. Thompson; Riverton, Indian Mis-
sion, Lcars, G. f. Allen Shelby, A. A. Rolfe
Whitehall and Montague, H. r. Hawley.
Grand Traverse District-A. J. Eldred, p.
T.. Almira and Inland. w. Arney Bliss,
supplied Boyne, ID. II. Whitman Bears Lake,
w. w. f. Smith Cadillac, E. II. boy Cadillac
Circuit, s. Stephens; Charlevoix and Indian
Missions, j. Blanchard Fife Lake w. Heath (;
Frankfort, ]. II. Staley Kalkaska, o. J..
Golden Leroy, l.. ID. Mckee Long Lake. ID.
Green Little Traverse, L. +. Newall Manton,
S. Steel Mancelona, S. II. Hewitt Monroe
Center, T.. 7. Howell Norwood, c. NJ. Smith
Northport, A. NJ Edred Indian Mission, sup
piled Old Mission, supplied Petoskey Circuit,
supplied ; Petoskey and Indian Mission, w. s..
Sly; South Arm, Smith, Spencer's Creek, sup
piled Sherman, III. p. Blake Traverse City,
j. w. =. Carlisle Williamsburg, l.. Dodds.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-01
POLITICAL POINTS.

A dispatch from Augusta, Me-, says
that all the returns of the State election are in,
and the final result is Davis, 3,64O Plaisted,
1854. Plaisted's plurality, ia. Although
these figures are from the official returns the
official canvass of them il not made until the
Legislature meets in January and only that
body takes cognizance of errors III them. The
plurality amendment to the constitution is car
ried by large majority.
The Maine Greenback State Conven-
ton to nominate Presidential Electors met at
Portland Sept. 81, with 465 delegates in attend
ance. 4. ID. Hobson presented resolutions in
dorsing the action of the State Committee, rec
ommending fusion with the Democrats. j. b.
Chase, amid great excitement, protested.
Elliott King moved to accept the report and
the resolutions and to name joint electoral
ticket. Chase made a motion to amend by
nominating seven straight Greenbackers.
This was received with applause and
Kisses The speaker made an appeal
for fair hearing, and argued against
fusion. The Rev. Alvan Strout, +. NJ. Plaisted
and others advocated fusion, after which the
previous question was carried, and resolution
to fuse adopted, although there was consider
able opposition. The following electors were
then chosen: At Large-Solon Chase and
Samuel Watts. District Electors John j. Tur-
ner, Benz. Bunker, Charles r. Whidden, VIM.
A. Cromwell, and John p. Donworth. After
adjournment of the convention the delegates
opposed to fusion, to the number of seventy
three headed by Scion Chase, got together
and nominated straight-out Greenback cleo
toral ticket, as follows Scion Chase, j. j.
Turner G. r. Whidden, J. f. Hilton, Thomas
G.. Burden, G. w. Wooster, Z. B. Fry.
The Greenbackers of Massachusetts,
held their State Convention at Worcester, Sept.
%, and nominated the following ticket For
Governor, Gen. Horace B. Sergeant Lieuten-
ant Governor, George Dutton; Secretary OF
State, Jonathan Arnold Treasurer, Wilbur F.
Whitney Auditor, Charles T.. Warner Attor-
Large, II. B. Rowley and Eugene J. Flaherty.
Resolutions prohibiting the use of liquor and
tobacco, indorsing Scion Chase's bolt in Maine,
and oondemning Ben Butler for joining the
Democratic party were voted down.
Ex-President Grant telegraphs Chair
man Jewell that he cannot engage to attend
any political meetings during the present cam
paign.
The official canvass shows that the
constitutional amendment repudiating portion
of the debt of Arkansas, recently submitted to
the people of that State, has been defeated by
about seven thousand majority. The total vote
was 140,0 600.