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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
The Eccentric S0uirt.

An uptown lad, whose pants were
hanging by one button and whose nose
had evidently recently been used TO
plow corn, decided to drink ont the
nozzle of a hose that was placidly coiled
up in front of store Oh Second street
He had just wrapped his features
around the nozzle, and closed his eyes
to take long. invigorating pull at the
dripping fountain, when clerk inside
who had been Watching the thing little,
turned on the full pressure of one hun
dred and ten feet to the square inch.
There was a smothered gurgle and the
sound Of Kissing waters for moment,
then all was still. The clerk came out
with the door mat and wiped tho water
from the calm features of the boy as he
lay there, then turned him over and
opened his mouth SO that the water
could run out of him, tenderly spanked
him with pine board to restore ANNA
ton, and sent him home.
We never bet except on dead sure
thing, but we are ready to lay wager
that the same lad will hereafter submit
to the irksome customs of our modern
civilization and drink out Of IL tin cup.
--Ecchangc.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
He Could Not Enlist.

No, am not one of the veterans OF
the war;" he slowly replied to the in
quiry, "but it is not my fault. /
wanted to DO there, but something
always held me back.
"That was too bad"
|" Yes, it was. When the war broke
out offered to go, but L was in Jail on
a six months sentence and they would
not take me. was innocent, of course,
but as L was in Jail the recruiting Off
Ger had to refuse me. Lands but how
L did ache to go down to the front and
wade In gore %
"And when You got out OF jail?"
Eyes, got out, but then my mother
died. was on my way to enlist when
she died, and, of course, that altered
my plans. No one knows how bitterly
L wanted to be down there and wade
around i'll blood and glory"
well, you didn't have to mourn all
through the war, did you?'
"Oh. no. Bless your soul, but only
incurred for thirty days, and then L
started out to enlist in the artillery. L
was just about TO write down nv name
when constable arrested me for breach
OF promise, and it was four months be-
fore got through with the suit. All |!
sir, but if you only knew how 1 suffered
at being held back when others were
winning glory on the field of carnage
you would pity me 70
"But the suit was finally decided?'
Yes, finally, and within an hour after
the jury brought in verdict / started
for Toledo to enlist in the cavalry"
"And you enlisted %
almost. / was being examined by
the doctor when got dispatch that
the old man had tumbled INTO the well.
and of course l had to go home. / had
not got the undertaken paid before light
ming struck the barn. Then some one
sat fire to the cheese factory, aud soon
after that L had three ribs broken aud
was laid up for n year. When L finally
did get around to enlist, the doctor re-
jected me because / was color-blind.
near-sighted, lame, and deaf. L tell You.
sir, when l think of the glory lost and
the gore didn't shed, it breaks me right
down and l don't even care for soda
water"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
FOREIGN NEWS.

While O number of tenants on the es-
rejoicing over the marriage of their landlord, a
disguised party of nearly hundred men fired
into them, wounding ten Of them. two rather
seriously.
Three fresh battalions of French
troops have been ordered to North Africa.
Great forest fires are reported in va
rious parts Of Algeria. 1t is believed that
many of the natives have persisted.
A "memoir" of the actual condition of
Russia has been published by two prominent
friends of the Gar. The memoir acknowledges
the present sad condition Of affairs, and advo-
Gates a popular administration Of some kind.
II is supposed to be published with view of
showing what the Gear might do if the Nihiists
would give him q chance.
John Givan, one of the Liberal mem.
bers of Parliament for Monaghan county, has
been appointed one Of the Assistant Commits
sioners OF the Irish Land Court. Givan Is an
attorney by profession, and has the confidence
of the Ulster Presbyterian farmers, from
whom he has sprung. His appointment is not
by any means pleasant to the Irish landlords.
The lowlands Of Cheshire, Lancashire
and Yorkshire are completely submerged, and
the crops on them are utterly destroyed. The
rainfall in some localities is estimated at
$50 tons per acre in eighteen hours. The re-
port from other parts OF England than those
named are of an equally dismal and dishesrt-
ening character.
The steamship Teuton was wrecked
near Cape Town, south coast Of Africa. She
had on board 227 passengers. Of whom only
twenty-soven were saved in two boats.
A Bombay dispatch from Candahar
reports that the Ameer is rapidly advancing on
Ayoob Khan, who has only seven weak regi-
ments 10 oppose his now powerful foe.
The Welsh national festival, the
Eisteddfod, was held at Merthyr Tydvil on the
3lst nit Resolutions Of sympathy with Mrs.
Garfield and with the American people, on ac-
count of the continued prostration of the
President, were adopted with great unanimity.
At the annual meeting of the Property
Defense Association, sort Of union OF Irish
landlords, held in Dublin, II was resolved to
levy tax OF per cent. on the valuation Of the
properties of members in order to defray
the expenses Of fighting the Land League,
1t is rumored that the King OF Wu-
temberg has "gone over to Rome that he
has become convert to Roman Catholicism.
A Vienna journal is responsible for
tho statement that the Emperor Of Germany
went to witness the Hanover military maneuv-
ers over different route from that first in
tended, because he feared an attempt on his
life by the agents of the German Socialists.
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property in the recent gale than had been pre-
vsouely reported Each sailing craft coming to
port brings news OF death and disaster The
loss OF life will DO in the neighborhood OF 200.
The property loss cannot be estimated.
The ex-Confederates ut Chattanooga
and vicinity are preparing to give the Society
of the Union Army of the Cumberland a cordial
reception ON the occasion Of the latter's annual
reunion, which will occur in that city Sep. Il
and %.
A telegram from Little Rock, Ark,
says 1.-THE worst feeling imaginable still pre-
walls at Center Point, Howard county, between
blacks and whites. Several riots have already
occurred, attended with loss Of life. On Mon
day well-to-do negro named Anderson Smith
appeared in town, got intoxicated, and was
roughly handled by two white men. Next
day he returned with squad Of thirty or forty
negroes, and this force was met by body of
white men ON the outskirts Of the town. A
regular battle occurred. The negroes were
driven into barn and, after several hours. re-
treated to the woods. Several were killed.
Center Point is of from the telegraph line and
DhIUCulhIb arc hoa<cis SOiohou Pcopic nave
repeatedly threatened to burn the town. which
is guarded day and night"
A train near Atlanta, Ga, struck q
crowbar on the shoulder Of track hand In
an instant his chin was gone from the lower
lip down. and his teeth scattered in every di-
rection.
Cotton is dying of drought. Carefully
compiled reports from 166 counties show an
average condition "a per cent. worse than
last year.
The Texas and Pacific road has been
completed 10 point 449 miles west of Dallas,
and track-laying progresses at the rate of two
miles per day.
Three thousand citizens of Birning-
ham, Ala, assembled at the park to witness
twenty-minute fight between two bulldogs and
a wildcat The latter scratched out the eyes
Of its adversaries
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGy.

Mr.. Robert r. Campbell and Mr..
James O. Scott are lawyers of WarrentoD, Va.
During a heated political discussion Campbell
called Scott liar. Nothing but "goah" would
satisfy SCOTS wounded honor. Pistols were
the weapons chosen, the distance was ten PAGES,
the shots were exchanged, enc of SCOTS hands
was hurt. Campbell shook the other, and the
two men Of "honah" made up.
The dory little Western, sixteen feet
in length, has reached Halifax from London.
The colored Baptists have just held
their forty-third annual convention in Chica-
30. Thrty-two churches were represented.
President Barras, of Guatemala, has
dispatched special envoy to Washington with
message OF sympathy for President Garfield
After consultation with Secretary of
War Lincoln the Governor OF New Mexico has
decided to recommend the formation of militia
companies all over the Territory, which he will
arm and equip, to prevent Indian raids.
The continued dry weather has had
very disastrous effect on the crops in nearly
every part Of the West and South In Central
Illinois and Indiana cattle are suffering much
from scarcity Of water. Drinking water has to
be hauled for miles.
Toronto, Ont, is filled with q dense
smoke caused by the brush fires raging through
out adjoining country.
Two thousand one hundred and nine-
teen immigrants arrived at New York in one
day. last week.
Jay Gould and Maj. De Gress have
organized in New York the Mexican Oriental,
international and mteroceanic Railroad Com
pany. Three parties Of engineers are now run
ming surveys.
Brush fires are raging in the region
round about Montreal.
The past month was the hottest Au.
gust rlnce 1872, and the rainfall wns less than
for any August during the past ten years
Work proceeds ON the Panama canal
undor great difficulties. Yellow fever has
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The President gained slightly yesterday.
His symptoms last night were somewhat more
favorable than on the previous night, and
through the day his pulse was less frequent
and more steady than it had been the day be-
fore. He relished his food rather
better than at any time since his re-
lapse. The patient is still very weak. The
parotid gland continues to suppurate and has
not yet commenced to heal, and the wound has
not improved much. The most hopeful symp-
toms are the patients growing
appetite, the healthy condition OF
his stomach, and the readiness with
which the food he partakes Of is assimilated.
Yesterday he took some soup, aud chewed a
piece OF stewtd squirrel, and asked for
more. but 1t was not deemed well
to nccede to his request The patient
evinces q great desire to be removed from
the capital. and, though the physicians do not
think 1t safe 10 comply with bis wishes in that
matter just at present, they are free TO say that
N soon AZ it can he safely done they will advise
his removal, probably to Long Branch.
WASHINGTON, Sept, s.
The Presidents condition ON Saturday night
seemed to be assuming the grave features of
another relapse. Owing to the efforts made to
clean his throat, the stomach was 70 much irri-
tated AZ 10 cause two spells Of nausea and vom-
lting. During Sunday he had no recurrence Of
this difficulty, but the pulse ruled higher
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than II had for two previous dayh
The parotid gland is nearly recovered, the
wound showing no material change. Arrange
nents are being made for the removal OF the
President 10 Long Branch within very Few
DAYS. The attending physicians believe that
this is absolutely necessary, and, although the
experiment is an extremely critical one. II is
thought that his stay at the White House will
be not loss dangerous. car prepared
for the purpose by the Pennsylvanls road Is on
it's way to the capital. Forty men finished tho
repairs in seven hours. The seats were taken
out. storm and folding doors inserted, the par
lor apartment incosed by wire gauze, Brussels
carpet laid ON the floor, and two large ice-boxes
constructed. The President talks constantly
about his trip and experienced some difficulty
in getting to sleep last night
wAsnISGroY, Sept. d.
The President was somewhat restless yester.
day and last night, in consequence of the ex-
treme heat, though there was no material
change, either for the better or worse. At this
hour 70 a. m everything is ready for the re-
moval of the patient from the White House to
Long Branch, where it is hoped the bracing air
will have the effect Of restoring the much
suffering, much-loved patient to health and
strength. He will be moved from the
White House to the railway station in a
treasury wagon, and nothing that pa
can suggest has been left undone to make the
removal O. easy and little hurtful to the patients
condition o. possible. He will be conveyed
from the depot at Washington to Long Branch
in a car specially prepared, over track COW
cred with sawdust, and drawn by an anthracite
engine, 30 that there shall be the least possible
amount of noise. The patient himself exhib-
ITS great anxiety to be removed. and tho physi-
clans hope for the best results On account
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played dread havoc among the workingmcn.
Most of the captains OF the brigades have been
stricken by the dread disease, and the men en-
ployed ON four sections have been forced 10
abandon the work. The mortality is very great
among the sufferers. Two-thirds OF those who
have been taken to the hospitals have been
taken therefrom dead. None but persons ac-
venture to work on the canal with any degree
OF safety.
Over thirty families in the neighbor-
hood OF Pembroke, Ont, have been rendered
homeless and destitute by bush fires. Bush
fires continue to rage in tie vicinity OF Kings
ton. The air is filed with smoke and river
navigation is much interrupted in consequence.
Gustave Richter, celebrated artist
and professor in the Berlin Academy of Art, IL
dead.
The total number OF lives lost in the
wreck Of the African steamer Teuton was forty
four.
William M. Evarts, fresh from the
International Monetary Conference, has reached
New York. He reports entire unanimity Of
feeling between the United States, Italy, Hol-
land, France and Spain as to bimetaliism, and
thinks the gold drain now in progress will open
the eyes of Great Britain as TO the wisdom Of
our position.
The loss of life by the laundering of
the Teuton of the Cape of Good Hope is now
stated al 236.
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Making Paint Of Mummics.

A gentleman, passing through Long
Acre, peeped into n little shop and
started suddenly at the sight of several
dead bodies. They had been dead for
over 1000 years--they were mummies.
Where did they come from? From
Thebes. Are more coming? Yes |;
plenty. There appears to be regular
business going OH in mummies between
Thcbes and Long Acre. The mummies
are brought over enveloped in their rich
bituminous covering, and--horresco ref
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The Ambitions Lover.

81 am very rich, my darling" she
said softly, punctuating her sentences
with soft, warm kisses. Already l
have 500, 900 worth of per cents reg.
istered in my name, and when the leaves
are turning red in the golden October
days and the fields are laughing in the
rich abundance of bountiful harvest,
shall cut off the coupons. And when
900 more. Yes, my sweetheart, / am q
very happy girl, and fair young head
nestled confidingly on the shoulder OF
the strong hmbed, hazel-eyed young
man to whom this avowal was made.
He looked tenderly down at the brown
treeses and the invisible net that bound
them to the fair forehead. Gently lift
ing the beautiful face to his, he pressed
a passionate kiss on the full, red lips
that seemed only made for OSCILLATION.
Turning his head away, Herbert Ans
leigh appeared for a moment to be
wrapped in thought. Then, kissing Mir
lam with rich, warm, two-for- quarter
kiss, he said: Do you love me,
Birdie ?"
She gave answer by placing her soft,
white arms around his neck, aud throw
ing herself madly on his shirt front.
'Do not hug SO hard, darling, AN
you love me. or my collar-stud will raise
a carbuncle on the back of my ck,"
he said III low, mellow tones.
1T is only the deep, passionate long
ing of my love, Herbert. 1t recks not
OF carbuncles. But you are right. Too
much pressure on the cervical vertebra
will cause an exOstosis. My Professor
of Anatomy told me that"
"And we will be married in the fall,
my sweet?"
"Yes, Herbert, in the rich, hazy, sens
uous days of Indian summer, when the
low note of the farmers boy seeking the
lost COW is heard as he sits on the vine-
EMPOWERED stile and blasphemes until
the FREELY leaves for a cooler spot. You
must take all my money, Herbert it
must be yours to do as you will with it;
to attain glorious fame that awaits you,
for know that my loves name will some
day be known through the length and
breadth of the land. Surely, you have
an ambition ?"
81 have" said Herbert, kissing her
while she caught her breath.
"And you will not let any false pride
stand in the way of using my money
to attain the height you fain would
reach ?"
"No, darling, will not. You say
you have 500, 900 i'll per cents. It is
enough. Tomorrow l will act, and in
less than daym name will beas familiar
throughout the world as that of En-
glands proud Queen"
"Oh, Herbert, what will you do?"
g shall purchase Maud s."
Two minutes la.er human form fell
with q dull thud on the front porch of
the naughty pork-packer's residence.
1t was Herbert Ainsleigh. The old
man had fired him out.-Chicago TJib-
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The New York Republican State Cen
trail Committee met III New York city, last
week, and decided to call State Convention
for Oct. 5, at New York city. Vice President
Arthur, the Chairman of the committee, was
not present at the meeting. The total number
OF delegates to the convention will be 49, of
which New York city will send seventy-nine.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee of Nebraska has called convention at
Lincoln. for Oct. 8, with AL delegates.
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erens-ground mp. bones, cases, COW
erings, bitumen and all. What for
Why, for paint. There seems TO be no
burnt sienna like ground mummy. The
artists are willing to pay high prices for
this mummy paint. Our Academy walls
may be limned with the dust of the
Ptolemies. London Truth.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-09

The President has not improved much in the
last twenty-four hours. He held his own, how
ever, the physicians say. and although, he did
not gain strength enough to help imself. he
looked better, his voice was stronger. and he
talked more. The condition OF the wound did
not improve, and the physicians think 1t will
not until the gland is better. The patient
chewed piece of chicken yesterday and sws-
lowed the juice he also swallowed the juice OF
a Niece Of beefsteak. and took little oyster
soup in addition to the usual amount of liquid
nourishment. The fluctuations Of the patients
pulse are attributed to weakness. When lac
grows weary or his wound Is dressed
there is an immediate rise in the
pulse. Tie question of the Presidents
removal was discussed by the physicians ycster-
day, but no action was determined on
There il one disquieting feature OF the case
which accounts possibly for this high tempera-
ture, aud that il, that the stomach is not
doing its work, the food does not
assimilate, and there Is consequently no IN
crease In strength.
Ii IL said that the members eff the Cabinet
have several times discussed the feasibility OF
calling upon Vice President Arthur to attend
to executive business until the President re-
covers, but no one is yet ready to advise this
step.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

Paymaster General Cutter, of the
United States navy, having reached the age OF
81, retires from active service. Secretary Hunt
will appoint some one to act in his place until
the President is sufficiently recovered to deter
mine on successor to Cutters position.
Capt. Howgate left Washington two
or three weeks ago, leaving his family without
a dollar, and, as nothing has been heard from
him, it is believed that he has fed the country
with his mistress.
Samuel NJ Lake, Chief of Division of
the Inspection Office of the Second Assistant
Postmaster General, has been removed, and
John W. Green, late of the Treasury Depart
ment, appointed in his stead
Following is the regular public-debt
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-10
czioAao. MILWAUKEE . ST. PAUL.

RACINE SOUTHWESTERN DIVISION. %
Leave for Racine and Milwaukee s:25 am; II 00p&m
Leave for Dubuque, Winons4 st Paul and MINNIE
apolis $3.50 am.
Leave for McGregor. Portvile, Camas, Sioux Cit
and Yankton II 100 pm. roo AZ (. =.
AT. from Racine and Milwaukee b:l5 am; Gas pm
Ar. from Minneapolis, st. Paul, Winona and Du-
bGque 600 pm.
Ar from Yankton, Sioux City, Portville and Nc.
Gregor 5:I5 am. aa- - ~
Through Sleeping Cars are run on all night trains
The night express leaving Rock Island every
Sunday night st II go connects with the train arri
wing in Chicago early Monday morning. No lay
over checks given on through tickets from Rock
sland to Chicago Through tickets only good on
thistTaln. e--=----
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=. j.
s. All down along the line has come the
news of democratic gaines. New York, is
once more democratic, although that re-
publican machine Tammany did its best to
avert that result. A gain of one congress
man has been made in that state and the
legislature has assumed such a political
complexion that Miller and Lapham will
be charry about resigning. Wisconsin is
no doubt, and if carried at all by the re-
publicans has dropped from the majority
of twenty five thousand of last year to one
of about three thousand, this. Pennsyl-
wanna is in similar fix the republicans
only claiming that strong hold of their
party by seven thousand and this claim is
seriously disputed. No state polled its
vote Tuesday but it showed democratic
gain and substantial one. To say that
the republicans are repenting of their sins
is perhaps giving credit for too much
right feeling, but there is no doubt that
men who vote according to their ideas OF
right "a have deserted the party, Fac
tlonal discussions have also divided it, and
it once again sees itself in the road to
downfall.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-10

The Sacramento Union has this statement
to make in regard to the natural demise of
a party which had no cause for its exis-
tence. 1t says. 7a
1.-The Workingmen's party of California
died natural death yesterday. The mem
bers of the State Central Committee met,
and after long discussion, decided that it
was useless to continue the existence of
the head of the organization, which had
neither body nor. tail 1t was further de-
cided to devote the funds remaining on
hand, about $50, to some worthy chart
BILE object, and the members seemed to
consider themselves by the collapse of the
party, objects of charity. They divided it
among themselves"
The division of the funds was undoubt-
ed move in the right direction, had there
been a prospect of getting more to divide
they would never have disbanded so soon.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-10


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