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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-03-15
sHERIFF's SALE.
The Aultman b Taylor Co.

vs..
VIC. King, VIM. Miller, ct. al.
Order Of sale, Henry County Court Of Common
Pleas.
BY virtue Of order Of sale issued from the above
named Court and to me directed as Sheriff of Henry
County, will offer at public sale at the north door
Of the Court House, in Napoleon, Ohio, on
Saturday, April l4th, 1883,
It the hour Of O'clock p. m, of said day. the fol-
lowing described real estate din Henry Coun-
ty, Ohio, to-wit:
The north half Of the southwest quarter Of secticn
"a, in town A. north range east and being in Rich
field township, Henry county, 0hies gseSg vss@wsa
Appraised at $3.50. as3 f ss e
TerMs OF sale, cash. -
FREDERICK ALLER,
Sheriff Of Henry County, Ohio.
Tyler s. Donnelly, Attorneys for plaintiff.
/ Napoleon Ohio, Mch. 18th, 1883. 7W
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For Sale.

Ths undersigned has first class horse-po
press cider mill which he offers at private sale cheap
For further particulars apply 10 the owner In Harr-
SON township, Q miles from Napoleon, two xnilss
south and nils east- Also, block and tackle for
sale. mchlb-3m ANDREW kNEPhEn.
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skinny Men

ssWells' Health Renewer" restores
health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Im-
potence, Sexual Debility. ef. fAH
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Democratic Nortbue,t.
en- oFFIoIAL PAPER OF HENRY COUNTY

rN W1enyeu pay more for The Rent0
vouf BaSness House than for Advertasslg
vour Busiaess, you are pursuing ydtse
Dottcy. If yo~ can do business tet u oe
kpoWn,.- FRANKLIN.
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.-wersspectfuily ask the clergymen aswell
A alIothers in Henry county, to send US forpublca-
tion in the NORTHWEST allthe marriages and deaths
sapeciaIly cometo their notice.-ED.)
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
Whittier's Opinion Of a Boiled Dinner.

ldeo. vi. " ulte, III daIper'S AlaBaZlne.l
The old-faslioned New England bev-
erage CIDER Was mentioned, and MIR.
Whittier stated that he had once derived
much benefit when unwelI, "whep
nothing tasted good" from the use Of
cider. Huntington suggested that with
o'at cider We should not have vinegar.
SWELL said Whittier, "vinegar is
Lot OF much Use, after all
Except" replied Huntington, "to
eat on cabbage aud cucnmbers. " g. Meth
er of which are lit to be eaten," re-
marked the poet. ~ think it would
be good idea to start prohibition
party Oil those two articles. As for cab
bage, it is not fit to be eaten; if YOU cook
it in the !io:ise, you have got to burn
your house down afterward to get rid OF
the smell; it is certainly the most
diabo'ical smell that was ever in
venteu;" and Whittier, who was
sitting near the open stove CRATE, upon
the top OF which he had deposited his
tall hat, folded his hands and laughed o
hearty silent laugh. "What DO you
think OF onions, Mr.. Whittier ?" asked
!. "Wel," he replied, "oniens nre not
quite SO bad for you can get rid OF the
smell of those in three or four days. "
"Then," said Huntington, "you would
not approve of the old fashioned boiled
dinner?'" "No. I think that is de-
testable dish. I remember that my
father used to have it, in which cabbage,
onions, beets, potatoes, turnips and car
rots we're all boiled up together, and
turned out into great dish all
il a heap, with great greasy pice of
meat in the middle. 7 think that is the
reason why the present generation is not
so strong as the former. 1t is owing to
the way the parents lived, eating so
much pork and potatoes. Our last war
showed that. The formers were not
nearly as strong as the men recruited in
the cities-Portlapd, Portsmouth and
Boston" ''But the people in the cities
do not have the free air we get in The
country" said Huntington. 81 know
that" replied Whittier; Shut they live
better, and that makes great differ
ence."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
The mahWa Tree

This is one OF the Indian fruit trees,
The slngularity of the genus consists in
the fact, that not only is the fruit eat.
able, but the fesby deciduous corollas
are also largely employed by the natives
OF India for the same purpose, constitut-
ing, in point of fact, staple, and indeed
sometimes the only article OF diet avail
able for the very poorest classes during
some months OF the year. The tree is
not unlike our oak in form, size, and the
coloring Of the foliage; it grows from
thirty to forty feet high; flowers in the
months OF March and April, and is found
IN nearly every part of central India.
The flowers ripen towards the end OF
February or beginning of March, the
coro]las become fleshy and tiDged with
the Juices they secrete. They then grad
ually loosen from the calyx, and, falling
to the ground, are carefully gathered by
the native women and children being
chiefly employed in this business.
They never strip the trees entirely of
blossoms; in good seasons each tree will
produce from two to three hundred
pounds of flowers; and a good many are
allowed to remain to seed themselves.
Fifty pounds OF mahwa are said to be
enough for a months food for family
Of five. 1t is not generally eaten alone,
however, but mixed with different seeds,
and very often rice is added. When
dried, mahwa flowers rather resemble in
ferior figs. When fresh they have .
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
Doq and Wild Doc.

Oswald, al enterprising traveller and
naturalist, describing the wild dogs of
Mexico, and their hatred of domesticated
ANIMALS OF their race, gives an instance
OF their saaguinary propensity. "The
only animal ever saw torn to sbreds, ="
he says, twas Mexican butcher.dog
that had followed us across the Bolson
de Mapimi, the rocky plateau between
fhe plain Of Durango and the valley of
the Rio Grande. The brute got little
but abuse, am sorry to say, but he fol-
lowed us with the resignation OF a mar
tyr. One day when we were passing the
edge of ravine, we saw, forty feet, be-
low the road, a swarm of tramp dogs
devouring the carcass Of dead mule.
At We STOOD locking down at them they
lee,ed at rs with their savage eyes, but
eeut OH with their eating, till suddenly
something seemed to excite them and
turning around, I saw the mastiff, stand
ing at the very edge, gazing down with
a sort OF pensive interest. At that mo-
ment heartless muleteer ap-
preached him from behind, and
gave him push that sent him
heels over head into the gully, landing
HIM plump in the midst OF his gaunt,
wild brethren. The unlucky brute
picked himself up, and stood rigidly
still, facing the 'tramps,' who had scat
tered in every direction, but now gath
cred around HIM with omlnous looks.
They approached within ten or twelve
yards, and then came to halt, watching
the intruder with steadfast gaze, silent
ly, and with a gradual contraction of
their launches like panthers crouching
for spring. There was a moment of
suspense, and then the whole pack leaped
upon him, and two seconds after the
sound of cracking bones announced the
end of the unequal struggle. Three Of
the big tramp-dogs did most of the kill
ing. but at once all the rest laid hold.
and in less time than it takes me to write
the words, they had literally torn him
10 pieces with fury and rage of de-
structiveness which plainly showed that
hunger had nothing to do with their
motives. It was evidently an act of re-
verge, provoked proximately by the
mastiff's uuceremonious intrusion into
their midst, but chiefly, without doubt,
by the 0di,>n, invid0e, the pariah's deep
seated and long-cherished hatred of the
privileged caste whose representative
had bearded them in their deD."
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
Jefferson and Randolph,

A correspondent of PHILADELPHIA
paper writes Of a pleasant i.teeI view he
had with Mr.. Alenan,ier II. II. Stuart,
al old Virgil IA Congressman and men,
Der Ct President Fillmore's cabinet. Mr..
Stuart was full Of interesting remini-
SCIENCES: and remembered and described
many Of Americas most famous states
men. OF Thomas Jefferson and John
Randolph he gave some incidents and
characteristics as follows: When + MAS
boy of nine or ten l have oeten dined
with my father at Monticello. Jefferson
was lonely mAn, the beauty and purity
| Of whose family relations had been only
! recently made known in the biography
by bis niece. He took great pride in
! Monticello. Wanting a Chinese gong
for the clock tower, in order to certainly
secure it, he sent by three different YES
sells going to China. As It happened,
| each vessel brought gong, and one he
! sent TO tny father. [ finally presented it
| to the Stanton fire department. When
in those troublous days, we were melting
up bells into canons, that was also sent,
but was returned as too valuable SOU
| venir to be destroyed, I did not like
John Randolph, He vas the most spite
| full Of men. If he was witty; his wiz al
ways left q sting. When I was young
| man l went down to Richmond. Ran
| do'ph was then in the assembly. Chas.
Fenton Russell, fine, genial man, wa
Just concluding an address, saying, II
am sorry to have been obligedto consume
so much of the time of my fellow men,
bers." $50 am l." squeaked out Ran
dolph, in high, shrill voice. But he did
not always get the test OF it. Daniel
Shettey Ha5 little Dutch shoemaker
II enc of the western counties, who show
ed such ability that some influential per-
sons interested in him had Taught him
to read; he afterward studied law and
became one of the most brilliant and
prominent men in the state. He
and Randolph were in congress together.
Randolph was intensely aristocratic, and
felt no small Contempt for the Dutch
shoemaker. One day in congress, Shelf
fey made fine speech. and one in which
he had shown no s::naail degree of humor.
This was more than Randolph could
BEAR. He got up and in the most elabo-
rate manner began to compliment Shelf
fey on his convincing logic, his weighty
argument and unanewe:able assertions,
but added, "Let my honorable friend
keep out out of the field OF humor, in
which his powers have not fitted him
to shine" Quick as fash Shelley was
on his feet. "The honorable member is
right" he said, "and since he never
trenches ON my province, I will hereafter
never intrude on his" - knoH Shef-
fey's appearance Is cetcssafy to appreci-
ate the totce OF his quick retort on the
house. toi he had little head, an enor-
nous paunch, little short legs, and re
sembled more than anything else hu-
mar frog.
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Our Population.
From the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press
A stranger leaned over the bar OF a
Michigan avenue saloon the other day
and whisperingly inquired;
Partner, what is the population OF
the United States?"
"Hard on to $4,000, 900, 1 believe, -
cts over 10, 900, 600 any how?"
"Oh, yes
you'll bet on that?"
"l'd like nothing better than to put up
$40 on it,"
"Well, you'll have chance. There's
chap down in the shoe store who claims
that we haven't got 100000 popula-
ton, and be is bluffing everybody. III
bring him up if you'll make a bet and
take him down peg"
Bring him along"
The stranger went away and returned
with the buffer, who bad no sooner en-
tered the saloon than he called out:
Where's the man who says this
country has over 40,000,000 popula-
tion?"
The saloonist modestly replied that be
was the man, and in less than O minute
the two ten dollar bills were put into the
bands of the first caller.
"There's new map in the store
across the way witch has the last cen
sus figures on it, said the saloonist,
and all went over to see the matter
settled.
The figures showed that the beer sell
Ter bad won by large majority, bu.
nothing on that map, Dor above, below,
nor behind 1t could tell what had become
of the man who held the stakes. Indeed,
it was only after the one who had lost
had also slipped away that anybody rea-
] zed that they were confederates. Then
the victim started out with club to
hunt the world over and reduce the
population by one, but his search was IN
vain.
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A STRANGE History.

Legal records are full of cases in which
circumstantial evidence has led to the I'M
prisonment and execution of innocent
men. Perhaps the most singular Of these
is the case OF James Maxwell, in Gibral-
tar. The story has all the elements of a
romance, and Is so remarkable that if
met elsewhere thap in dry chronicles of
the law, it wotlld be held as incredible,
James Maxwell was an English mer-
chant, who had acquired large fortune
by trading in Gibraltar with the Span
iards, Moors, and his own countrymen.
He married Spanish wife, who died,
leaving him one daughter, Elegia, of
whom he was passionately fond. He
hoped that her singular beauty and
Sealth wouid command for het marriage
in class much higher than his OVID. To
his great chagrin, however, she became
attached to a penniless, worthless young
aoyenturer, William Kaltby name. When
Kalt came TO ask her hand he was re-
fused with contempt, and on q second
application Maxwell ordered bis servants
to put him into the street. Both men
were enraged. Maxwell in his fury,
locked ub his daughter, declaring that
he would kill her rather than
to give her to this English vaga-
bond. Two days afterward cries and
g1oans were heard proceeding from a
cave, in which was stored wine, near
Maxwelps warehouses. The town was
aroused, search was made. Elegia had
disappeared, but shoe, portions OF her
! dress, and some of her hair, clotted wit
blood, was found in the cave. The mer.
chant was arrested, charged with the
murder of his child. He was known to
be man of incorporate passion, and it
was supposed he had committed the deed
when taaddened Ey her stubborn refusal
to give up her lover. He was tried,
found guilty and sentenced to death.
When he was led to the gallows he We.
hemently protested his innocence.
| Among the crowd stood Kalt. Maxwell
beckoned to him saying, saying: 81 wish
! to die at peace with all meu. forgive
you tue trouble you have brought upon
me-" 1t was noticed kali was greatly
agstateu by this address, but he made no
reply. In Gibraltar, according to
an old custom the execuiioner cries
out, while he is performing his terrible
duty. "Justlce is doing! Justice is
lone!' But at the first sound Of his
voice, Kalt staggered forward crying,
"btopi He is innoEent!" He confessed
that he had eloped with the girl, and
finding that her father was suspected of
having made way with her, had, to graft
fly his revenge, placed the hair, clothes,
etc., wet With blood, in the wine-cellar,
in order to furnish proof against him.
Maxwell meanwhile had sunk down on
the scatfold. When Kalt had finished
his confession, the executiontr went to
the condemned man and removed the
black Cap f1om his face. He did not rise.
Terror and the sudden relief brought on
CONFUSION OF the heart. He was dead.
lhe domestic history Of the sixteenth
and eighteenth centuries is full Of such
incidents, made more dramatic by the
rude customs of the times. Our customs
are more civilized now, but we question
whether the passions which prompted
these tragedies are not just as fierce
under their control.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
A Self.Mads Mai:

Having regard to his antecedents, The
Rt. Hon. W. H. Smith is perhaps the
most successful English public man of
to. day. His father kept small news
stand in all obseurs and disreputable
stteet, bit rose in the world by estab-
fishing neNstjapsr booth at a railroad
station; which was the beginning of q
busiues5 nov worth $250,000 year.
The son acquired ) good common school
education and assisted mis- fafher in the
business. After rising almost to control
the newspaper-selling business in Lon:
don making himself useful in parochiai
and local matters, he stood for parlia-
ment In Westminster and was defeated.
But on second trial he was successful.
He soon made himself prominent in the
house as i man Of business, and Dis
raeli made him financial sectetaty *f the
treasury and afterward head Of the ad.
miralty. He retains his place in the
news agency, and is popular member
of society in London and in Bucksllire,
where hs owns a f',e country seat.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24

taste, but W Sd Means agreeable odor.
The fruit succeeds the blossoms. It is
about the size of very small apple, and
the kernels contain oil, which is often
an inferior color an rancid taste, but is
very generally used by the poorest ma
tives for lighting purposes rs we'll rs for
cooking; and it is al< Q applied EXTERNAL
ly rs q remedy %os wotnde, sores and
cptaneous diseases generally. The fresh
dried flowers yield, on distillation, &
very intoxicating spirit, called by the
natives daru. 1t is usually diluted with
from five to ten times it's bulk of water,
and is then offered fora penny per quart.
Tire oil is manufactured from the see DIS
ply bruising, rubbing, and sub{ecttns
them to heavy pressure. It ia n coarse
sort of oil, but in the manufacture of
soap is largely ,,sea in this country, and
also for candles.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
RATES. cHAsM.
CAPE ANNE. SEPTEMBER SURF, 1882.

CAPE ANNE. SEPTEMBER SURF, 1857.
White fire upon the gray-green waste of waved,
The low light of the breaker fares. All, seel
OutbuTsting on sky of steel and ice,
The baffi Il sun stabs wildly 1T the gale.
The water rises like god agow
Who all too long hath slept, and dreamed too sure,
And finds his e ddess fed his empty arms.
Silent, the mighty cliff receives at last
That rage of elemental tenderness,
The old omnirotent carcss she knows.
VT once the solid earth did melt for her,
And, pitying, made retreat before her Eight.
Would she have hidden her forever theres
Or did she, waverng lnger long enough
To let the accustomed torrent chase her down?
Over the neck OF the gorge
cling. Lean desperately!
He who feared chusm's edge
We're nov, the one to see
The torrent and tie triumph hid
Where the deep snrges be.
ri.rce the gul ; I sweep the coast
Where wide tho 1ltlr ngs FREE;
searchns never soul sought before.
There l. not patience enough in all the shore,
There is not passion enough j., all the sea,
T" tel ,uyl We for 'hce.
Elisabeth Stuart Phelps, IN Har1cr's Magazine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
Rerlin's Benevolence.

Berlin may we'll be proud of its benevo.
lent institutions. Besides five hospitals,
eight orphan asylums, widow funds. pen
sion funds, and similar institutions,
there exists IN the imperial capital no
less than $50 relief societies, from some
OF which non-residents are also benefit ed.
The largest of these is the Victoria
National Invalid's Fund, which, accord
ing to the last report, disposes Of CAPT
tai OF 2, 1877, 632 marks for the relief Of
members OF the army crippled Outing
the war OF 1866 The sec''nd largest il
the Grown Prince F,,nd, with capital
of l, 1000 marks, for giving aid to tbt
soldiers and families Of soldiers who
fought in tho wAs of 1864. -. H.. -.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
DAKOTA.

DAKOTA.
DAKOTA County has 40 settlers.
HAY costs $1b ton in Deadwood ut
present.
The Bismarck we'll is down 900 feet,
but no water.
DAKOTA prisoners are employed in the
Sioux Falls stone quarries.
DURING 1882 nearly 300 miles OF rail.
road track was laid in Dakota.
FIVE HUNDRED claims have been taken
in Faux County since October 18th.
A NEW postohice called Waterbury has
been established in Buffalo County.
The new postoffice building at Grand
Forks will be occupied in a few days
TIMBER wolves numbering one hun
dred to the pack are found in the Wess-
ington hills.
The proposed city of jamestown will
embrace an area of 5,S05 acres-about
nine sections.
A COLONY Of twenty families is organ
lying at Huron for the purpose OF
settling in Faulk COUNTY.
,, a HEAVY piece Of machinery fell Oh
E. F. Rogers, OF Bridgewater; and split
his skull five inches, but he still lives.
The names of Rex and Bramhall, two
stations on the Northwestern, Ia Hand
County, have been changed, the former
to ST. Lawrence and the latter to Rec
Heights.
The scheme to divide Lawrence Coun
ty seems to be gaining strength accord.
ing 10 the Deadwood Democra, and
Sturgis is making a strong effort to cut
the county in two on Il north and south
line.
A PARTY from Minnesota is canvass
ing the propriety OF establishing sugar
refinery at Alexandria that will manu-.
factu1e good brown sugar out OF sor.
ghum, the enterprise to cost about
$4,000.
TIE price Of beer has been raised III
Bismarck on the saloon-keepers, 10 add
to the trouble made them by the raise
in license, The Sunday law is also to
be enforced, and one saloon keeper has
already been arrested and held in ST ,O0O
bail.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
One Of Forests Good Deeds,

(Florence Revere Pendar in Baldwin's Monthly
About twenty-five years ago Edwin
Forrest, the actor, did very kind act;
to-day the daughter OF his friend relates
it here. One afternoon, as Edwin For
rest and my father and mother sat chat
'ibg together, Madame Nj who had
but short time before burie her hus-
band, a celebrated magician, entered the
room. The necessary introduction hav-
ing been performed, the conversation
soon d1ifted around to Madame Ms
own affairs; whereupon my father re
marked: o..-.-.
81 have been thinking that Madame
NJ might fellow il her husband
footsteps. She has bsen his confederate
for years, and 10 quite capable OF DO
ing SO. ~ - rs#. 80.
''Hum! not bad idea, George" az.
swered Forrest. Then, turning to
Madame NJ. he observed: "Wby
don't you adopt the plan, madame
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
A Little More,

lfrom the DETROIT Free PresS.
One OF the stockholders Of the new
Western Railroad was farmer who Lad
accumulated his money by hard toll,
and when ne had put in an appearance
at the meeting to elect board of
directors he felt it his duty to re-
mark:
Gentlemen, as I understand this
thing we elect the board and the board
elects the officers
Someone said that he was right, and
he continued:
81 don't go cent on high salaries,
and / want that understood. l am in
favor Of paying our president Il good liv~
ing salary, and no more"
"How much do you call good living
salary?" asked one of the crowd.
Well, 50 day Is the going wages,
but $3.50"
Here tie meeting began to roar, and
it was two or three minutes before tbs,
orator bad chance 10 concludes:
"But Of course we want man who
can run an engine, switch train, handle
freight, keep books AID lick anybody
who won't pay fare, and SO shall not
object to two dollars and half day. I"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-24
Madame NJ hesitated q moment,
colored slightly, and then replied frank.

colored slightly, and then replied frank.
81 would be glad to do SO, but, TN.
fortunately, all of Mr.. Ms abpar-
atus is held for debt. and I have net the
money to redeem it." ::
"How much would it take?" came
the question, in Forests rather abrupt
way.
"Abort thousand dollars" replied
Madame NJ. ~, locking rather surprised
! at the interrogation.
"Hum! a thousand dnllars. I'll let
you have it,"
The offer was SD wheliy Unexpected,
and Eeing rolled Out in FORESTS gruf:
test tones, that Madame NJ. whose
nerves were very mitch iinstrunR from
all she had at that time gone through,
| burst into tea RS, and hurried out of the
room.
eco after her, George" cried Forrest
to my father. Il was too rough with
the little woman. Tell her it's ali right.
will give you the check for the money
| tomorrow.
The following day, true to his word,
Edwin. Forrest handeA my father Z
! check To- the tho!isand dollars. Madame
M redeemed her husbands para
phernalia, and, as a magician, earned a
very good living for herself and two
children. know not if Madame NJ
still lives, but probably her children do
if SO, doubtless they have heard the
| stony of this kindly act done to thei,
mother in the hour Of her great need
and the name OF Edwin Forrest must
have warm placa in THEFT .hearts,,