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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29
An Affecting Lie.

An early settler in Chicago relates
an incident in which he was an actor:
''As l sat there In the long ago, and,
shrouded in the September haze, was
dreaming of fortunate future for my
self, heard the muffled tread of innum-
berable feet drawing nearer and nearer
to me. The sound was like the football
of regiment of infantry approaching,
and rose to see what was the cause L
had not long to wait, for very soon there
hove in sight very singular spectacle.
First came large Illinois hog ut the
head of long column of Illinois hogs,
all marching Indian fashion, and grunt-
ing with that gentle, placid grunt which
the hog carries with him. On closer ex-
animation into the singular phenomena
L saw that all the hogs, except the leader,
were blind, each animal having his pre-
decessor's tail in his mouth throughout
the long line, consisting of thirteen thou
sand five hundred and twenty-one
unfortunate, sightless hogs, cheerfully
following their leader to the water. L
was never so struck with the wonderful
instinct of the brute creation In my life,
and my eyes filled with tears when [
saw the child-like faith and confidence of
each blind animal following with implicit
trust the more fortunate guide. Soon,
however, great dazzling three-cornered
idea worked its way into my intellect.
Dashing away my idle tears L drew my
revolver and shot off the leaders tail,
leaving the long line of disconnected and
aimless hogs in the middle of broad
prairie with no guide but the dephlogis-
ticated tail of hog who was three-quar-
tiers of a mile away. Then stole up,
and taking the CORY tail in my hand 1
led the trusting phalanx down to the
stockyards and sold the outfit at eight
cents live weight. This was the start of
my dazzling career as n capitalist,
career to which 1 now point with pride.
Thus from poor boy with one suspender
and poor toe have risen to be one
of our leading business men, known and
respected by all, and by industry and
economy and borrowing my chewing to-
bacco / have come to be one of our solid
men"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29
An American Drama.

Owing to the public demand, another
appearance of the popular new American
play, "One Hundred Wives" is an
nounced in Chicago, at McVicker's The
alter. Interest in this drama is main.
tanned by the thought now being given
to the Mormon problem.
Zone Hundred Wives was first pro-
duced last October, in Philadelphia, and
was then heralded by the press of that
city as an assured dramatic triumph.
The Philadelphia Ledger then wrote of
ii as follows:
IL this play could run for 100 nights, instead
of closing this week, it would still not exhaust
popular interest, for every one who has once
seen IT must want to go again. II has taken
the town by surprise, and that, too, in the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

ORsoN SHEPARD, of Tonawanda, N.
Y, received 100000 in railroad bonds.
His wife saw him put them into the
safe which held all his valuable docu-
ments. He died four days afterward.
The administrator of the estate had the
safe broken open, the capitalist not hav-
ing revealed the combination, but could
not find the bonds. Every drawer was
removed and every bundle of papers
examined over and over, but in vain.
1t was deemed clear that the treasure
had been stolen. Everybody who had
been near the safe after it was opened
was suspected. Detectives were en-
p.oyed and the whole town was excited.
A reporter of the Buffalo Courier went
t. Tonawanda to write up the case. He
'examined the compartments of the safe
critically. One of the drawers had a
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29
StOnewall Jackson and the Wagon
Tongues.

Mr.. Howell, one of the proprietors of
the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, says OF
Stonewall Jackson:
"His genius lay in two things-the
thoroughness of discipline and his devo-
ton. do not think he was man of
great natural ability. He could not talk
at all. He was not an entertaining per-
son. He was a rigid military man; edu-
Gated at West Point, he had learned his
lesson well, and applied it unfinchingly.
L remember single order which he
always enforced, which, in my mind, ac
counted for good deal of his success.
1t was that, whenever we stopped on a
march the wagons must go to the side of
the road, and be unhitched with their
tongues pointing to the road, so they
could be driven either up the read or
down. Now that would seem to be n
simple thing, but it accounts for the re-
markable CELEBRITY of Jacksons marches.
Suppose man would stop and his
wagon tongue would point the wrong
way. and at n certain hour in the morn
ing he would begin the march, and that
the wagon would block up the road? If
there were many such wagons the march
would bo delayed a certain time to- let
them get ship-shapc. jackson rode up
and down his lines every day, morning
and evening, TO see If such orders as
these were strictly carried out
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

HAVING taken good look at the newer
Senators, Mary Clemmer reports to the
Independent that Eugene Hale has a
patrician air, but talks through his nose;
chat Frye i, boyish-looking, with re-
treating chin under the nose of fight
or that Plat, of Connecticut, is pallid
but intellectual that Joe Hawley has a
pugnacious look, and is not always affa-
BILE in his manners that Miller, of CAL
ifornia, has a worldly but not unpleas-
ant face, heavy gold watch chain, an
air of success, and far-reaching eyes !;
that Philetus Sawyer, of Wisconsin, has
a big body, big head, red face and
snowy hair; that Angus Cameron, his
colleague, is a tall, thin fellow, with
deep, dark, flashing eyes; that Plat, of
New York, is /" the conventional gentle
man." and that Conger, of Michigan,
though shrill and ascetic in his public
capacity, is very good fellow in pri-
vate life.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29
Dutch and Germans.

The term Clutch is considered op-
probrious by the Germans of the present
day. 1t is more properly applicable to
Hollanders than to citizens of the Ger
man empire, but, less than $50 years
ago, when Van Tromp ruled the ocean,
to be called Dutchman was esteemed
an honor. This was not more because
the Dutch were great in war than be-
cause the people of Holland were great
in peace. In those days the bankers of
Amsterdam controlled the finances of the
world. When speculation drove finan-
ciers to ruin, the supremacy of the sea
was lost, and Holland speedily sank to its
present insignificance in the affairs of the
world. The greatness of Holland and
the weakness of the Germans caused the
latter to. delight in calling themselves
Dutchmen, which practice continued
until the time of Kaiser Wilhelm III.
and the powerful confederation under
Bismarck. The name German then
became relieved from the odium always
attached to it from the barbarism of the
ancient days, and as the honor of the
name German has increased with the
decrease of power in the Holland people,
and the metamorphosis is now 50 COM
plete that "Dutchman has become q
term of contempt and derision, while
"German" is honored and respected.
England to-day holds the proud posi-
ton Of mistress of the seas, and has the
reputation of holding the purse OF M
tons. Speculation, rapacity, injustice
are rampant In its borders. In a couple
of centuries it may be possible that the
word "Englishman Will have @ signifi-
canoe as low and contemplate as the
Dutchman of to-day.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
BY u. o. KNowLroN.

Oh, I wish the winter would GO,
And wish the summer would come.
Then the big brown farmer will hoe,
The littleshrown bee viii hum.
Ho, huml
Then the robin his fife will trill,
And the woodpecker beat his drum,
And out Of their tents I'm the hill
The little green troops will come.
lilo, hum
Now the blossoms are sick in bed,
A d the dear little birds are dumb,
The brook has cold In her head
o, summer takes long u come.
Ho, hunt
When In bonnie blue fields Of sky
And In bonnie green fields below,
The cloud-hocks fy and the lamh-hocks lie,
Then summer will come, | know.
Ho,. hol
Then around and over the trees
With fut,er and dirt will go
A rollicking frolicking breeze,
And away with whisk. no, no.
Ho, no!
Oh, the blossoms take long TO come,
And the lie Giles loSg 10 go;
But the summer will come. and the bees vii
And the bright little brook will flow,
know. Ho, no!
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

A COMPANY has been formed in France,
with capital of So, 900, 900, to build a
railroad across the Desert of Sahara,
1000 miles. The work will be easy and
comparatively cheap. One half the dis
lance there is absolute desolation but
the other half has q population of
5o,OOO,O 900, producing salt, sugar, coffee,
tobacco, ivory, ostrich feathers, gold and
a few diamonds. Instead of having been
the bed of a sea, Sahara is like any
other part of the worlds surface except
that the water in the beds of the streams
has evaporated. 1t contains beds of
salt, but no sea-shells. The Sahara
mountains run up to peaks as high as
10000 feet.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

The report of the Postmaster General
of Japan for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1880, shows that there is considera-
BILE improvement in the postal service of
that empire. The aggregate length of
mail routes is now AZ, 295 miles, an in
crease of 6,242 miles over 1879. There
were transmitted through the mails,
during the year, 32,918,39 letters,
17.342,311 registered letters, IA, los, 271
newspapers, 800, 063 books and 1885, $50
communications. There are now in ia
pan 4,377 postoffices, 207 receiving
agencies and 2,4O6 stamp agencies. The
present postal system was not estab-
lished until 1871.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

A LOUISVILLE lawyer came very near
swearing that he would tell the truth.
He wanted to be admitted to the bar,
and, having passed satisfactory exam
ination, the court told the clerk to swear
him in. The clerk commenced "You
do solemnly swear to tell the truth, tho
whole truth, and nothing but the truth "
and had gotten that far when the
court yelled out "Hold on, there.
Swear him to support the constitution
of the State of Kentucky" The young
lawyer trembled at his narrow escape.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

TOBACCO has become an important
product of Wisconsin. Formerly an in
ferior quality was planted and sold to a
small extent as low as to 6 cents q
pound; but now that finer grade
known as wisconsin Havana" has
been substituted it has sprung ate
favor, and the demand for it at II to IA
cents pound is rapidly increasing.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

KARL FLUCK was the cashier of a bank
in Pesth, Hungary. and apparently in
comfortable circumstances. In 1876 he
was welded to a lovely lady belonging
to wealthy family of the same city.
The wedding revelry was over, the
guests had departed, and the newly
married couple were themselves about
TO retire when a visitor called ana IN
sisted upon an immediate interview with
the bridegroom. Fluck went out to see
him, and, soon returning, told the bride
that he must leave her for short time
to attend to some pressing business at
the bank but he promised to be back
speedily. He has never seen her since.
His untimely visitor was police official,
who came to take him to prison. 1t had
been discovered that he was guilty of
embezzling some $1,000. He was SEN
fenced to five years Imprisonment. His
biide, after waiting four years, re-
nounced the Roman Catholic faith, and
has now just obtained divorce. Fluck'
ruin was caused by his love for birds
and his gaming in lotteries. He was
found to own two houses, one of which
was full of birds from foundation to at
tic, while the floors were strewn with
lottery tickets. The lottery playing was
INDUCED in mainly to obtain funds for
gratifying the insane bird-fancying.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

A NEW JERSEY preacher, who was an
noyed by the ladies of his congregation
turning about in their seats, paused in
his discourse to say Ladies. if you
will give me your attention for few
moments, will keep lookout on the
door, and if anything worse than a man
enters, 1 will warn you in time for you
to make your escape"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29
thicker bottom than seemed necessary.
He pried it up and found the missing
$50, 900 in secret receptacle.

A LETTER from Edgar Allen Poe to a
friend in Baltimore, under date of lS4l,
has now seen the light for the first time,
being found among the papers of DIR. L.
L. Snodgrass, once editor of the Boston
Sunday Visitor. 1t was the reply to
charge that he was a drunkard, made by
Mr.. Burton, by whom he was employed
in the editing of the Gentleman's Mag
azine. During all the time that he was
in his employ Poe says: Nothing
stronger than water ever passed my
lips" He adds that he was never what
men called Incorporate never in the
habit of intoxication. While in Rich
mond, editing the Messenger, he says
he certainly did give way at long inter-
walls t. the temptation held out on all
sides, but his sensitive temperament
could not stand the excitement. But it
was then four years since he abandoned
every kind of alcoholic drink. This
would seem to be reasonably conclusive.
The probability is that Poe, like Byron,
was extremely susceptible to alcoholic in
fiuences, and comparatively small use
of liquor produced very marked effects.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

EDWARD CLARK's new hotel on the west
side of New York, at Seventieth street,
will occupy two years in building and
will cost 81 ,000,000 1t will be 204 feet
by 200, and will be like the Grand Hotel
of Paris, with court in the middle 100
feet by IS.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

OVER $4,000 buffaloes have within
six months been killed in Montana,
mostly for their hides, which bring from
So 25 to 1915. Men in the fur trade
say the animal will soon be extinct.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

A LAW has been enacted in California,
making opium-smoking crime. Three
white men of Sacramento were the first
culprits fined.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

WORTH, of Paris, advertises: "Ev-
cry class of corset for corpulency and
riding for gentlemen, and adds: Zig
ures padded for court Dress"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-02

Thurlow Weed is apparently amusing
himself in his old age by hoaxing interview
ers, or else ne is seeking sensation by &C.
cusing himself as having been accessory
after the fact to dreadful murder. He
Gays that man revealed to him long ago
the whole story of the murder OF Morgan,
the anti Masonic victim, and that he
let the man go. As Morgan's bones have
been recently discovered for the twentieth
time somewhere in New York State, this
story is seasonable 1t is told to show that
the present bones are not Morgan's, but
that was needless. It has been satisfac-
torily demonstrated that Morgan was killed
in dozen different places that he was
never killed at all and that no such man
ever existed. Under the circumstances.
therefore, a few stories more or less about
his murder cannot be regarded as possess.
ing any evidential value. Still we are
somewhat surprised at the morbid taste OF
Thurlow Weed.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-02

"should occupy in the popular mind or
"exert a real and salutary influence on
" American morals and manners. Ihe
truth is that the American notion OF
university is almost entirely wrong. The
Johns Hopkins University is, as we have
said, the only real one in the country,
and that is modelled after those of Ger
many. The rest are for the most
part copied from the English institutions,
which were originally monastlc, and
which have gradually and painfully
evolved, in a very awkward way, the
management they now possess. 1t is in
Germany alone that the university is
found to be framed altogether with sim
gle eye to the best interests of education,
and it is there that the ripest fruits of the
higher education are to be gathered. AS
for our State University, it has been made
evident that its Board of Regents are totally
unfit to manage it, and that they are only
capable of degrading the vital principles
of the institution, of lowering its standard
hopelessly, and of producing in their
hole-and-corner management the most un-
paIatable limitations of political abuses.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-02
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York Government bonds are quoted at
i17s FOR IS of 1907 LOG for 5s Of 1881; lag for
41s; sterling, 81 s5@4 81; silver bars, III.
Silver in London, 514 consols, 1ol DIG; 6, per
cent United States bonds, 1O5s As, l2O AIS, lis
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at ]
dis count to par; Mexican dollars, 9o4@9o2c.
At Liverpool wheat is quoted at 9s I'd sss Cd for
good to choice California.
Yesterday was another quiet day in the San Fran
cisco mining-share market The Boards adjourned
until Wednesday next
The Platt scandal is the prevailing sensation at
Albany.
Sir Edward Thornton, British Minister at Wash
ington has presented his letter of recall to the Pres
ident
A son of John G. saxe the poet, died at Albany
n. Y, yesterday.
In the Harvard. Columbia Freshman straightaway
race at New London, Conn.,, the former won easily
by three lengths.
LEROY. the alleged English railway murderer, has
been captured.
Samuel Williams, prominent journalist of this
coast died Thursday.
During the past week the real estate transactions
at Portland. Oregon, aggregated 81, 2ls.
The coinage at the Philadelphia Mint during the
past year amounted to s59, $4,000
Two men were killed Wednesday in an affray at
Allendale, S. C.
terrible coutagion has appeared near Toulouse,
France.
Taxler, tho American sculptor, died at Naples
Wednesday.
Mnnesotas wheat crop this year viii be 45, 600 900
bushels.
great fire is reported from Moscow, Russia, the
Kremlin itself being in flames.
A rain and hail-storm prevailed at Shasta yester-
day
The Oregon State Fair at Salem is being largely
attended.
The famous negro preacher, John Jasper, is said
to be dying at Richmond, Va.
new horse disease prevails at Elgin, III.
During the last six months 365 more failures oc-
CURED in this country than in the corresponding
eriod of 1880 and the liabilities were 81 OO0 900
greater
The internal revenue receipts this year exceed
those Of 1880 over 81, 100000.
The Legislative Assembly at Melbourne, Aus
traliz, have passed vote of want of confidence in
the Cabinet.
During the half year just closed 1880 persons
died in New York city.
At New York, during the six months just ended
al, 49S immigrants arrived-an increase of ei,5lS
over the same period last year.
The inside pages of to-day's RECORD UNION will
be found TO contain unjust al quantity of enter
tanning and valuable reading matter.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-02
MORE MYSTERIOUS D1sAppEARANcEs.

The number of mysterious disappearances
in these days is great, and SO is the num-
Der of equally mysterious Temperatures.
Indeed it is getting to be common feature
of these episodes that the victims nearly
always returns after an interval, and tell
precisely the same story. This story is
monotonously incredible, and though it
probably deceives nobody, it seems to be
thought the proper thing to tell. The
victim-who is usually young man with
relish for the naughty but nice" things
of this worlds travelling somewhere
when suddenly he vanishes. Three or four
months afterwards he is heard from, and
then all he can say in explanation of his
disappearance is that he found himself,
after greater or less interval, at some
remote city. and that he has no idea how
he got there. Sometimes he has been
robbed, sometimes not. Sometimes he
took drink, and thinks it must have been
drugged. Sometimes he turns up in
hospital or an insane asylum. Sometimes
he finds himself wandering in the streets of
a distant. city. But in every such case
the public are expected to believe
that a man travels several hun.
dred miles in a state of complete I'M
consciousness, and that conductors pass
him along without money and without
price, and that he either goes without food
OF feeds himself while in this condition
of perfect insensibility. Sometimes we are
asked to believe that gang of mysterious
ruffians have carried the victim off,
though it never appears that they have
any use for him. They drug him how
ever with wonderful drugs, which keep
him unconscious for weeks or months to.
gether, and then they spend their money
in carrying him all over the country by
rail, and drop him at last in hospital or
asylum. Now it is time to protest against
the transparency and lack of inventive
talent which characterizes these items.
They are far too diaphanous. They in
suit the intelligence of the great American
public. They do not serve to conceal
the real facts, for everybody laughs at
them, and at once proceeds to construct the
most diabolical theory conceivable. 1t
would be even better for the victims of
disappearance to tell the truth about their
vagaries than to continue to palm off these
fossilized fables.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-02
FROM FRYING-PAN TO FIRE.

The English Tories are having the kind
of time the Monkey and the Parrot had in
the story. No sooner are they temporarily
relieved on one subject than another
crowds upon them. Before they have done
fighting the land bill they are informed
that as soon as that measure is out of the
way it will be in order to prosecute reform
of the franchise. Representation in Eng
land is still very imperfect and unsatis-
factory. Since the passage of the Reform
bill the country has undergone great
changes. Places which were small boroughs
then have developed into great manufact-
uring towns, and on the other hand places
which were then of some Importance have
become insignificant. There is moreover
strong determination to break the power of
the landlords, and judging from the gen.
eral decline in real estate throughout the
United Kingdom this ought not to be very
difficult. The poor Tories indeed are in
great deal of trouble. but it is by no means
certain that the Liberals are not preparing
even greater difficulties for themselves.
The agricultural laborers demand the fran
chise. They are organized and formidable.
1t is impossible to deny them what
they ask, but when they have it another
step will have been taken towards democ.
racy, and another element of ignorance
and peryefsity will have been added to
the voting population. The landlords are
threatened with determination. The de.
mos looms up behind them. What will
be the result of this virtual elimination of
once dominant class, and the creation
at the same time of political factor con.
corning which nothing can be predica ted
The Tories have certainly done great deal
of harm, and prevented a great deal of
good. But even Toryism may be less
dangerous than Sansculottism, and it
really looks as if something of the latter
kind was imminent. The danger is in the
apparent removal of balance.weights.
The political machine is running away with
the Liberals, and there are indications that
it has already passed beyond their control.
Representative reform is always ticklish
question, but as the suffrage is extended