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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

GA PITCHED battle is certain to be
fought very speedily" says the London
Times. lover the revised version of the
New Testament. Already respectable
organ of conservative opinion has
sounded the war-cry against its new
readings with as much feeling as If it
thought that Mr.. Gladstone had been
among the revisers. Vituperation and
taunts will not arbitrate finally between
contending scholars. If at the end of
the wordy warfare the public be able to
perceive what is the actual amount of
questionable matter, something will
have been gained. The high probable
ity is that majority of persons who
speak the English language will be con-
tent to. regard the uncertainties as still
uncertain, provided they may keep so
much as remains behind admitted"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17
matched in the West. The story reads:

matched in the West. The story reads:
"Nearly every one has seen lady open
a door in a public place-a store or sta
tion-while men OF all styles of dress,
although of one style of rudeness, rushed
through. The other morning little
old lady dressed in black opened the
door of railway station, and was COM
PEELED to hold it open while no fewer
than seven strong, healthy men pressed
in. Each man was well dressed so far
as the cost of his clothes was concerned.
When they had all entered, a colored
man, who was ON the outside, held the
door open for the old lady, and the
brutes looked at him stupidity"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17
The Cannibals' Good Points.

Since everybody, including Judas and
Nero, have their apologists, the Feejee
cannibals are now declared not to be so
black as they are painted. In the first
place, they had, in the way of flesh,
nothing but each other to eat Except
flying foxes and rats, there we're no four
footed animals on the islands. The pres
emit names Of their domestic animals be-
tray European origin, collie, for dog |;
pussi, for cat ose, for horse seep,, for
mutton; goti, for goat ; and buitama
kosO, for beef. The wooden spoons for
human broth, and cannibal forks, eight
cen inches long, with four or five prongs,
arc still in existence. A berry, resem-
bling tomato in shape and color, was
the special and proper vegetable to be
eaten with "long pig" One of the
chieftains lately said he would like to
see q woman who would not eat her full
share, and declared that human flesh
was ever so much better than pork
"Long pig" was sometimes made into
buildings. When friendly neighbor-
ing tribe visited another, the chief OF
the latter would make a raid among his
enemies, and bring back women enough
to make a feast for his visitors. Fifty
and eighty people were served at some
of these feasts. Formerly. when one
sneezed, they said, "May you club
somebody" Now they say, "Bless
you," or "May you live longl Chief
tains were distinguished by the number
of persons they had eaten. Before he
was converted to Christianity, one of
these had devoured forty-three of his
fallowa
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

OK Chicago street on recent morn
ing, there was dog. of not over-retined
breed, watching by the dead body of
another dog with all the appearance of
mystifed grief and undespairing affec-
ton. The survivor would lie on its dead
friend with the evident hope of warming
him back to consciousness. Passers by
were threatened by the faithful sentinel,
and other dogs were especially under the
ban of his displeasure. At times he
would sit or crouch at little distance
from his dead companion, watching the
rigid, motionless remains with every at
titude and gesture of silent, woe-begone
solitude.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

Mr.. CHARLES LoEBER has been study
ing the flying of a wild duck, and thinks
he has found out how it Is done. The
air ship of the future, therefore, is not
to float, but to fly, propelled on the
same principle as the duck is, by utiliz-
ing the resistance of the air, which he
claims is much greater than it seems.
OF the four pounds which duck weighs,
not more than an ounce floats, and the
body Is suspended and moved by me-
chanical effort.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

ALEXANDER MITCHELL, President of
the st. Paul railroad, owns new pri-
vate "palace" car that is said to be one
of the finest in the world. 1t Is painted
a deep brown, and is finished in gold,
with silver-plated ratings, handles and
corners. 1t contains parlors, library
for writing, sitting-room, sleeping-room,
kitchen, dining-room, and all improve
ments known to modern car builders.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17
The American Government il At pres.

THE American Government is at pres
emit constructing some iron lighthouses.
One of them, which is nearly finished,
is at White Rock, Narragansett Bay. 1t
is made of iron, and consists of pile
work foundation in three sections, each
about six feet high, with forty piles for
each section. The lighthouse, which is
erected above the pile work. consists OF
four sections, and is surmounted with
the lantern. The height of the whole
construction is about sixty-three feet
above the level of the water. Other
iron lighthouses are to be constructed at
Connecticut and at Border Flats, Fall
River.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

DONALD G. MITCHELL, the Tx Mar
vel of former years, is now almost 60
years of age. HIS hair and bushy whisk-
ers are plentifully sprinkled with gray,
and he has grown stout, but his face has
the ruddy hue of health. He bears a
striking resemblance to the Rev. DIR.
Richard S. Storrs, of Brooklyn. Mr..
Mitchell occasionally leaves the retire
ment of his EARN at Edgewood," near
New Haven, to read lecture before q
popular assembly.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

THE offer of $4,000 to the inventor of
"humane cattle-car has brought out
700 models, none of which come up to
the mark, however. What seems to be
wanted is car carpeted with Wilton,
furnished with mirrors, and roomy
enough so that all the old cows can have
lower berths.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

SAMUEL BELL, who died at San An
tonic, made swords for American soldiers
in the war of 1912, and was the first
Texan to hoist the Union flag after the
surrender of Lee.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

A JUDGMENT has been entered up
against Mrs. A. 7. Stewart for ST., 1928. "a
in favor of Thomas Stringham, laborer
who was injured while in her service.
This was occasioned by the fall Of an
elevator at Garden City.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

THE official statistics show that $780,
919 bushels of potatoes, valued at $780,
461, were imported into the United
States last year from Ireland, Scotland,
Nova Scotia and Canada, and without
these we might have had potato famine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

A LITTLE Washington, N. j., photo
grapher has been trying to photograph
q kiss, but there are so many noses and
chins in the way that he cant get at the
real sensation.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17
Health in Michigan.

Reports to the State Board of Health,
Lansing, by fifty-four observers of dis
eases in different parts of the State, show
causes of sickness during the week end
ing March 4, 1882, as follows:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

THE use of gas as fuel is suggested as
a means of freeing London from the
intolerable smoke with which it is now
afflicted 1t is thought to be hot alto
gether improbable that, with the gen.
eral adoption of electricity as source
of light and the employment of gas for
heating purposes, the dream of smoke
less London may be realized at no very
distant period.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

The roughness of Western manners
forms never-failing source OF comment
in the Eastern press, but we doubt il
this from the New York Herald, descrip-
!, tive of a scene in Gotham, could be
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

TRAMps on the Pacific slope long for
return to the good old days, when a gen.
tleman scorned to give beggar less than
a dollar.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17
How u Little Girl Suggested tho In
vention Of tho telescope.

Some of the most important discov-
cries have been made accidentally and
it has happened, to more eth than .s one in
after some new combination or material
for carrying out pet idea, to hit upon
the right thing at last by mere chance.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

Mr.. BLAINE confines himself at feasts.
as regards drinking, to mineral water
dashed WITH few drops of wine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

THE difference between hungry man
and glutton is, lone longs to eat, and
the other eats too long"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

Miss HERsoHELL, the daughter of the
great astronomer, is in Washington.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

| Number and Per-
ICe,n. Of Obsevv-
ers by Whom
Each Disease Vas
| Reported.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17
The Dukes Death.

"Kneel here by my side, Lurline, F."
and in obedience to the summons, a
beautiful girl flung herself in an ADAM
don of grief near the bed on which lay
the eighth Duke of Twenty second street,
Rupert Rollingstone. Rupert was dying
dying away out on the West Side. A
cold had developed into quick con-
sumption. The dreaded disease had
made known its presence while Rupert
was at the house of friend on Latin
street. "You can not live more than a
week." the doctor had said. "But my
people," cried the sick man, in an agony
of fear; "they are on Twenty-second
street, and too poor to hire q carriage.
How shall 1 see them?" and he wrung
his hands in an agony of despair.
1T can not be done, my lass" said
the street-railway superintendent, look
ing down kindly into Lurline's face.
II would gladly do aught that might
ease the last moments of dying man,
but can not accomplish impossibilities.
A car from Twenty street to the
corner of Latin and Van Buren, in five
days? BY my halidom, you jest brave
ly," and, picking up pair of shears, he
again resumed his occupation Of cutting
coupons from government bonds. When
Lurline had knelt by the dying man, he
turned to her and spoke: "Lurline, my
darling" he said, 81 am dying down.
shall soon be in the sweet pretty quick.
But ere 1 start. want you to make me
one promise-a sacred one, that you
will keep forever "Name it," said
the girl, in sob-choked voice. "When-
ever you are in hurry, avoid the street
car. :" Il PROMISE" was the reply.
Rupert's face Lit up with a sweet, peace.
full smile. Goodbye, my angel. .
Bung soir," was the faint response, as
the girls head fell on his breast amid O
storm of sobs. 81 see heaven, MUIR
INJURED the dying man. 81 know it is
heaven, because there are lots of street
cars, and they run every three minutes. y
Rupert was dead. Chicago Tribune.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-02
LATER NEWS.


The sixdays' pedestrian match at New
York was ended on the night of the 2Sth,
and was won by Fitzgerald with score OF
577 miles and 20 laps. Financially, the
walk was failure, as the receipts barely
covered expenses. Fitzgerald, the winner,
gets so per cent of the sweepstakes, which
amounts to 81, 800.
THE Bey of Tunis is dead. His brother
has assumed power.
-SHARPENBURG & KEEvER, who superin.
tended the display of fireworks at Phila.
delphia on the oath, when the disastrous
explosion occurred, by which eight persons
were killed, have been held to await the
action of the District Attorney.
AT West Brookield, Mass, recently,
burglars robbed drug store of $50, shot
the clerk fatally, boarded a train to Bos
ton, and after going about ten miles forced
the brakeman, at the point of revolver,
to stop the train, when they jumped OF
and took to the woods.
Mrs. FRANCES M. SoovILLE, sister of the
assassin, Chas J. Guiteau, after an ex-
haustive examination before the County
Court at Chicago, was adjudged insane by
a jury on the 28th. This nullifies her sui [
against George Scoville, her husband. for
divorce and alimony, and gives him the
possession of their little daughter Bertha
The evening previous to the rendering OF
the verdict Mrs. Scoville mysteriously dis
appeared, and it is thought she grew un.
easy as to the result of the trial and fled to
Canada to escape confinement in an
asylum.
A GENERAL naval Court-martial has been
ordered for the trial of Captain Alfred
Hopkins on the charge of un-officer like
| conduct in having deserted his post at the
Navy-yard at Pensacola upon the first ap.
proach of yellow fever.
A STEAM tug exploded near Racine,
Wisconsin, on the 2Sth, killing the Cap
| tain, William Kelley, of Chicago, and two
engineers, none of whose bodies could be
found.
AT Osborne, Kansas, on the 2Sth, Theo.
| dore Rudman was killed, his wife knocked
| senseless, his daughter stabbed four times,
| and his watch dog shot by negro named
Hopson, whose pigs had been locked up foi
getting in the corn.
AN excursion party including the Duke
of Connaught, which visited Aboukir and
Rosetta on the 2sth, discovered, mile
above Rosetta, very strong fort, the ex-
| istence of which was previously unknown.
| GOVERNOR ALEX. STEVENS, of Georgia, is
said to be a candidate for Ben. Hills seat
| in the Senate.
FOREMAN DICKSON, of the Star Route jury,
was arrested in Washington on the 2sth,
and gave bond in the sum of Sc, 900 for his
appearance for trial.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-02
Hubben to the Front.

Hubbell, whose trademark is Jay,
and who is the assessor in ordinary to
the Republican party, is really de-
lightful fellow. He has been SO hard
worked in helping his party out of tight
places in various parts of the country,
especially Maine, and in preparing the
sinews of war for grand advance all
along the line, that he has only recently
had time to emerge from his imperson-
ality and give the country some strik-
ing illustrations of what naive, win
some, childlike and confidential fellow
he can be when he tries. We cannot
say we should care to have Mr.. HubbeH
member of the Democratic party. He
is almost too impulsive; but the way in
which he gallops around upsetting the
sober statues in the Republican party
is as good as circus to the disinteresfr
ed beholder. Hubbel enters into the
spirit of an interview splendidly. He
sake, and very little even for decencyss
sake. He will acknowledge all that is
charged against him, and then yolun-
indictment to the blush. Of course
can't help it. But Hubben also writes
which he talks. He has issued, in the
name of the Congressional Committee
and the Republican party, a campaign
textbook, which < really one of
the most finished compilations Of
billingsgate ever given to the coun-
try, and will, we doubt not, supply
to the Republican party in its pres
ent condition, want long felt. We in
fer that Mr.. Hubbel does not entirely
approve of certain gentlemen within his
own party. For instance he refers to
George William Curtis as ssbulldozer,o
''wilful ibeller," ''ballot-box stuffer,"
'shypocrite," 'sfriend of the Southern
oligarchy,'' "a Joseph Surface "a
Bois Guilbert'' and .Front de Beuf,' -
denounces all Civil service Reformers as
noodles" and ascribes the passage of
the act forbidding assessments to con-
spiracy of Confederate Brigadiers. As
this great politico-lterary achievements
| is called textbook and comes from the
Congressional Committee with its en-
dorsement, as we have right to sup
pose. we must infer that these senti-
| ments. of which we have given few
specimens, are the particular teachings
which the Republican party wants dis
seminated Just at this time. Happy is
this grand old party of moral ideas''
in having such an active and enthusi-
astic agent as the untiring Hubbell to do
its viii. The Republican campaign
textbook will be a great work to put
into the hands of the young, especially
the young Republican, and we may ex-
| pect to see its moral effect soon visible
in the enriched vocabulary of the small
boy whose mind is peculiarly suscepti-
BILE to the graphic ideas which the teach
ings of the campaign textbook, edited by
Hubben, indorsed by the Congressional
Committee and supported by the Repub-
lican party, suggests. - Boston Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-02
It Passeth all Anticipation.

The result in Ohio passeth all antici-
patton. 1t is true that the Democrats
claimed the State. There were good
reasons why they should win it. The
leaders of our party were confident of
decided victory during the campaign,
and down to the hour at which it closed
Governor Foster and the Republicans
were equally confident, and we awaited
the result, not without serious fear that
we might be disappointed in a State
which had SO often disappointed us be-
fore. A victory for our cause and party
was hoped for, but we doubt if even our
sanguine friend John G. Thompson
himself believed that it was possible to
reverse the old Republican majorit;es
and carry Ohio by such an avalanche as
has undoubtedly placed that great CEN
trail and controlling State safely and Sc
curely in the column of Democratic
States for 1884, and for all the future.
The Germans of Ohio have redeemed
Ohio. They have deserted the Repub-
lican party. They have joined the DEM
ocratic party. They have come to stay.
They have got home again. After twenty
years wandering after false gods and
under the lead of false prophets they
have come back to the party which gave
them political freedom long years ago in
the United States, and which is alone
able and willing to give them personal
freedom. The old issues of slavery and
the war are dead and buried. The Ger
mans found the party to which they gave
power in the States and in the coun-
try. ready to strike down their personal
rights and social privileges. There was
only one power in the land that could
withstand the well-directed assault.
That power was the Democratic party
which, Ike Providence, is always the
same, yesterday, to-day and forever" i"
The issue in Ohio was square and open
one. The Republican party in that
State as it had rightly thought itself in
Iowa and Kansas, thought it was strong
enough to strike for sumptuary and
Sunday laws, and in this way deal
blow at the particular element of the
population OF the State that would suf-
fer most from it. The issue was in
some measure disguised under spec Gus
pleas, but it was there all the same, and
the German people sIw and dealt with
| it in their own way, as they will do in
| other States. The Shermans, and the
| Fosters, and the Butterworths, and the
| Halsteads can hang their broken harps on
the bending willows in Ohio. And this
is the real meaning of the glorious tri-
umph in that State Omaha Herald.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-02
A Righteous Judgmens.

:. No more righteous Judgment ever
happened teaP sitieal partF IN thiscoun-a
try than the overwhelming defeat of
the Republican party in Ohio. Nor was
it the work of the ss free whisky and no
Sunday Democracy y of the cities, as
"Calieon Foster, with the instinct of
demagogue and the arts of practiced
liar, characterized what is now the DOM
inant party of Ohio. The whole State
took hand in the rebuke-the farmers
as well as the village and city people,
and they made a thorough bit of work
of it.
The "po Sunday and free whisky
idea injected into the canvass by Foster
was a. close imitation of the sfno
popery' and 'the common schools in
danger" yawp, invented a few years
ago on the eve of election to save
Fraudulent Hayes and defeat Governor
Allen. 1t succeeded then, aud raised a
broad laugh everywhere at the guilt
bility of the voters.
( That Fosters humbug and can't about
temperance, taxation and Sunday OBJ
seryance was turned into an engine of
humiliating defeat, shows the politi-
clans cannot play this sort of trick a
second time on once deluded voters.
The Republicans in the latter DAYS of the
canvass publicly admitted the sham of
their whole plan of campaign. While
Foster in the rural districts was pleading
for the votes of temperance Democrats
and Prohibitionists, John Sherman was
on mission to the brewers and saloon
keepers of Cincinnati, and in public
speeches repudiated the issues Foster
said were the vital ones of the canvass.
There was very likely private under
standing between these tricksters.
The defeat of the Republican party of
Ohio, under the circumstances, is q
powerful disinfectant applied to humbug
and thickness in politics garnished with
the hypocrisy of fatulent morality.
The Gazette should dry its tears and
prepare itself for the next quadrille.
But mere disgust at the tortuous
course of such politicians as Foster and
Sherman does not altogether account
for the Ohio uprising. 1t is the State Of
Garfield, and Ohio Republicans are not
specially enthusiastic over the Guiteau-
made Arthur Administration. with its
low political jobbery. championship Of
the boss principle, and enforcement OF
| political blackmailing. The extrava-
gance of late Congress, and the bargain
ing of the Ohio Speaker, were directly
in issue in the election of Representa-
tives, and the verdict is about all that
could be desired. d.-ItttSbWgh Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-11-02
The Signal Service.

WASHINGTON, October Il
The Chief Signal Officer of the Army, in his
report, says eleven new stations have been
added, and special reports are made for the
cotton and tobacco-growing regions Of the
country, and the means for giving warnings
TO cattle-raisers of Texas against the approach
of ''northers' have been improved. Expert
nents have been made with a view of increas-
ing the value of the farmers bulletin by the
addition of a weather chart of the United
States, and it is believed that in a short time
these charts may be successfully reproduced
on the farmers bulletins w iths seactS year ff1ef
popular knowledge of the uses of this bulletin
enables tho e interested in agriculture to Judge
of the correctness of forecasts, and with the
addition of the proposed weather-map individ-
uals will be able to make correct predictions
Of the weather for localities which it is
impossible to provide for in the brief sentence
which expresses the prevailing weather indi-
cations anticipated for an entire district It is
contemplated, as the work of the office pro-
presses, to add to this bulletin brief instruc-
tions for the use of instruments which may
hereafter be furnished for local observers.
The railway bulletin service has proven Of
great value the past year. The system of frost
warnings for the benefit of the sugG- interests
In Louisiana has been continued. During the
coming year it is proposed to telegraph frost
telegraph offices in the esugar-growing sections.
it is proposed the coming fall to establish
q system OF frost warnings for the
benefit OF the tobacco-growing interests
of the country, also similar service for the
benefit of the orange growers Of Florida. A
system of reports for the benefit of the cotton
interests has been thoroughly organized and
successfully operated since September, 1881. At
the solicitation of those interested in the cult-
vation of wheat and other grains in the North
west it is contemplated to establish a service
similar TO that now in operation for the benefit
of the cotton interests, which will enable this
office to publish in the journals of the North
west the daily rainfall and temperature, as de-
termined from large number Of stations.
The cost to the Government of the men who
do the signal-service work is less than S450,0OO
q year. The cost of salaries alone for the same
number of civilian clerks would amount to
more than 100000.