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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-18
THE DKlVE-WELL PATENT.
The District Courts of Two States Render
Decision Holding that the Patent Is

The District Courts of Two States Render n
Decision Holding that the Patent Is
Void.
The United States District Court, sitting
in Des Moines-says recent dispatch from
that city-rendered a decision in the cele-
brated drive-well case, holding the patent
void. The question was decided in the case
of Andrews VS.. Hovey, of independence.
The case was brought before the courts
of Iowa and Minnesota together the
Judges being Love and Shiyas, OF Iowa, and
Nelson, OF Minnesota and is conclusive as
to ali ca e. pending in both States. Judge
Shiras delivered the opinion, holding: |.
That the patent is invalid, because the in
ventor Coz. Green of New York, allowed il
to go into public use for more than two
years prior to his application for patent
=. That che reissue was void, because il was
not for the same invention as the original
patent, and void because that the instance
of prior use were, in the main, mere expert
ments OF wells at independence, Iowa, in
1861, and the successful use OF several
wells at Milwaukee N 1919 and 1850 were
from substantially the same invention
as Green's Judge Love concurred and
held further that, under the act of Congress
Of 1880, it was immaterial whether prior use
OF the invention for the two years therein
mentioned was with or without the consent
and allowance Of the invent +, and that such
prior use in either ca invalidated the pat
emit Judge Nelson di,sented The opinion
was very long, and all the questions in
VOWED were discussed Wi h much learn ng.
Judge McCrary sat with the Judges during
the reading Of the opinion, which wa
listened TO with the closest attention by the
bar and n room full OF spec ators The
plaintiffs, IL an appeal is made, will appeal
on law points.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-18

road killed Sheriff Cate, of Hamilton county,
Tennessee, and his deputy, John Conway,
and rescued John Taylor, who was being con-
veyed to Knoxville for trial, has Just been
tried, convicted and sentenced to death at
Loudon, Tenn.
At Oregon City, Ark, Sam Hester
insulted Van r. Elliott's wife. Elliott and
his brother hunted Hester mp and riddled
him with bullets, killing him.
On Warwick farm, near Saledo, Tex,
two Mexicans killed themselves with the
same knife One stabbed the other In the
region of the heart, leaving the knife stick
ing In the wound The other then quickly
drew the knife from his own breast and
stabbed his antagonist
During fire ut Baltimore, Mr..
Adams, paralytic, was sutfocated; colored
cook was burned to death, and a female
servant was seriously injured by jumping
from n third-story window.
At Holly Springs, Dallas county,
Ark, william Heads residence was de-
stroyed by fire and three children of his SON
in-law, James Goodgame, persisted in the
flames
Nine convicts in South Carolina
convict camp attempted to escape and were
fred upon by the guard, three of them be-
ing killed OF the others. four escaped
Austin, Texas, was visited by $l75,-
00O fire.
Immense deposits of chloride and
horn-silver have been discovered in the sec
ton of country lying between the Pecos
river and the Rio Grande, Texas
Negro miners lynched William Con-
nors, white, who killed two men and seri-
ously wounded two more in drunken quar-
rel at Glenmarry, Tenn.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-18
WESTERN.

Amasa Stone, the millionaire, of
Cleveland, Ohio shot himself through the
heart in his bathroom He had for some
time been troubled with insomnia, and be-
came Respondent, believing himself to be
incurably affected Recently he has COM
planned of pain in his head, and his friends
believe that at the moment OF his suicide he
was out of his mind He leavesa fortune of
several millions of dollars
A tornado Of formidable dimensions
struck Kansas City, and within few min
utes it had caused the destruction of $780,
600 worth of property Three lives are
known TO have been lost and many persons
were injured more or less severely. The
storm was n terrible one while it lasted
Hailstones as large as hens eggs fell in
great quantities The air was filed
with the flying debris of the buildings
which stood in the cyclones path. Men
and women, horses and buggies were
hurled through the air. The escapes in
many cases were miraculous The storm
left destruction and havoc in its path The
streets were strewn with matt esses, pieces
of lumber and household articles In many
places planks and pieces of lumber were
driven three or four feet into the ground
Wyandotte, near Kansas City, suffered
severely, and the little manufacturing suburb
of Argentine was completely wrecked
Block q Co.'s trunk factory at San
Francisco was, burned, involving loss Of
$4,000
The Jackson Iron Conlpany's furnace
at Fayette, Mich, burned, causing 500
coo loss, upon which there was no Insult
ance. Wesley Methodist Chapel, at Column
bus Ohio, was also destroyed by fire; loss,
$4,000.
1t is estimated that the hostile
Apaches in the Sierra Madre mountains
number about 300 warriors. They occupy
an area about as great as that Of the State
of Ohio, from which IL Will he extremely
difficult to dislodge them, as they will find
ample means of subsistence in the wild
game that abounds there.
Reports from correspondents Of a
Chicago commission house indicate that the
spring-wheat crop is in more favorable
condition ut present than it has been at
corresponding date in O number of years
past. Dispatches from along the line of
the Northern Pacific railroad in Dakota are
also favorable as regards spring wheat and
other small grains Corn is being planted
quite freely.
Fire destroyed the Anderson pressed
brick works in Chicago, causing loss of
$780, GOO
Flames reduced to ashes S175, 900
worth of property in the lumber district of
Cincinnati
Gov. Click, of Kansas, has notified
the Sheriff of Ford county that unless he ex
erts his official power to preserve order and
protect the property of citizens of Dodge
City he will be removed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

The National Temperance Society, at
its meeting in New York, elected Bishop
Hopkins, of Massachusetts,, Presidents, and
reelected John N. Stearns Secretary The
years expenses were 1900 above the re-
ceipts
Five legal executions occurred in the
United States on Friday, May II. Sylvester
X. Mackinson was hanged at Cambridge,
Henry county, H., for the murder of
Mrs. Maggie Copeland Aug. - 1882
Angelo Cornetu, who killed Daniel Cash, a
fellow-convict in Sing Sing prison Dec. 81,
1881, was hanged in the prison yard John
W. Jackson, the murderer of s L. Hull
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-18
KELLY TO Rang.
His Third Trial Results In a
Conviction.
The Prisoner Sentenced 10 Swing cu
the 9th OF June.

The British Government finally succeeded
I'm obtaining q jury that would convict In
the case of Timothy Kelly. one of those
accused of the Phoenix Park assassinations.
who upon his third trial the juries having
twice disagreed), WINS convicted and SEN
fenced TO be hanged June o The Jury de-
liberated one hour. Being removed, Kelly
exclaimed: Il am Innocent Thank YOU.
INV Lord He thanked his counsel for their
exertions in his behalf, and hoped they
might live long to defend the innocent.
On the first trial of Kelly, one juror is said
to have refused to agree upon a verdict Of
guilty out of pity for the youth of the pris-
oner, while ten, If not eleven, OF the jurors
were satisfied of his guilt The defense was
an alibi, not very well sust stained, but grow
ing stronger on The second trial, when new
testimony favorable to the prise ner was in
troduced There was, OF course, the evil
dence of the approvers, who were the chief
witnesses against Kelly, as they had been
against Brady and Curley The evidence OF
Carey, Farrell and Kavanagh clearly
placed Kelly with Brady and
Curley as one of the men in
the group in the park, and one OF the four
who were driven away on Kavanagh's car.
The prisoner counsel made very strong
appeal 10 tne jury Oh inc CudIacVSI OI Une
witnesses by Whose evidence "the boy in the
dock" was TO be condemned; but there was
no important point in which their testimony
was not confirmed by indeI endent evidence.
In the first trial Kelly was identified by
George Huxley the English gardener OF
Mr. Il. G. Guinness who had seen and
noticed him among the group by whom
the murders were committed, and his evil
dence remained mistaken. Mr.. Brown,
Kelly's employer who gave him an excellent
oh a acter, D owed that he was absent from
his work on the 9Th and 9Th OF May except
for the first quarter of each day. A halter
named George Motley saw Kelly minding
Kavanaoh's car, as Kavanagh had stated,
and had seen him on ayanagh's car sec
ond time on the 18th o. May. On the other
hand, Mr. Glynn, the builder, was called,
as he had been on all tie former
occasions to prove tat he saw
Carey sitting on the seal in the
position Carey had himself described This
confirmation OF Carey's statement he gave
as before, but it was elected, in cross exam
If he saw Kelly on the ground Mr. Glynn
answered No." but when pushed by the
counsel for the crown, admitted that
he had said on former occasion
that he had not taken particular
notice of the four men, of whom, according
to the theory of the prosecution and the
testimony of other witnesses, Kelly was one.
1t will be remembered that, after the
second failure to convict Kelly, Delaney and
Caffrey pleaded guilty, and Delaney (who
Tuesday had his sent ence committed to i'm
prisonment for Gfe declared that the in
former Carey had told the truth. OF course
this fact was got beforesthe Jury which tried
Kelly for the third time, and this sufiiced 10
secure a conviction.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-18
The Catholic KNIGHTS of America

The Catholic Knights of America
W. J. o'Neill, of Cincinnati, Supreme Prez-
dent of the order, in the chair
suffered at Jackson, Ohio; Jerry Blalock,
who killed Thomas Brandenburg, at Jack
sonport, Ark and Henry Revels, who muir
dered Henry Hyams, five years ego, at East
Pro idence. La, complete the list
The recalcitrant nun whose appeals
for release from the Hochlaga convent near
Montreal, have attracted general attention,
has been released from her vows by the
Pope
A Pittsburgh dispatch says that at a
meeting In that city of the association of
iron manufacturers OF the West, all the
mills of that section were represented A
lengthy discussion developed the fact that
the time intervening since the last confer
ence had wrought no change in the situa-
ton, and that the manufacturers, 10 q man,
were In favor of a general shut down, unless
the workmen should accept a reduction,
as the present condition of trade
would not justify the payment OF
the present wages The action of the COM
mittee, in refusing to sign the scale pre-
scented by the Amalgamated Association,
and In adjourning the conference sine die,
was unanimously indorsed
Thirteen small dwellings and por-
ton of Roots stove foundry were burned ut
Indianapolis Begg's distillery and stock
pens at Shelbyvil,e. Ind. were reduced to
ashes The business portion of Forney, Tex.
was destroyed by fire, creating a loss of $50, =
0O0 Fire -scorched walls fell at New Haven,
Conn, crushing nine fremen, two fatally
Seven business houses were burned
at Hamilton, Ont, and s. r Lennox per-
ished in the flames
The descendants of an English Colonel
of Hessians in the war of the Revolution,
who reside on a farm on Rideau lake, On
tario, claim to have title to $50 acres in the
heart of the city of Philadelphia which be-
longed to their ancestor, and which would
make each of the nine claimants millionaires
several times over lawyer has been found
to carry the claim into court
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending May II numbered 149,
an excess over the previous week of II and
81 more than in the corresponding period of
1882
A counterfeit So gold piece, purport-
ing to be coined in New Orleans in 1913, is in
circulation
Mr.. Charles Collins was Chief En-
gineer of the Lake Shore railroad. The
Ashtabula bridge, which went down with
horrible loss of life Dec. %, 1876, was built
from plans made by Amasa Stone, who was
President of the road, and was constructed
under the supervision of Mr.. Collins
Both men ended their lives by
tragic suicide. Mr.. Collins wrought
upon by the horrors of the Ashtabula dis
aster, shot himself Jan II, 1877. He thrust
a pistol into his mouth and fired shot
which killed him instantly. Six years later
Mr. Amasa Stone has committed suicide
Strangest coincidence of all, brother of
Charles Collins committed suicide, and a
brother of Amasa Stone committed suicide
The general talk is that the suicide
was in keeping with Mr.. Stones life-secret,
dark and thorough
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-18
SOUTHERN.

A young negro who made criminal
assault upon the wife of his employer near
Hanson, KY, was taken by mob the follow
ng day and hanged
The Florida Ship Canal Company
was organized at Washington by the election
of ex-Gov. Brown, of Tennessee, President,
and the Hon. William Window Vice Pres
ident II is estimated that the canal win
cost SO co., goo, and will be completed in
three years
Andy Taylor, one of the Taylor
brothers who last fall boarded train ON the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-05-18

The Pope has exacted q promise from
Archbishop Croke that in future, with regard
to political events in Ireland, he will follow
In the wake Of Cardinal McCabe. Animport-
ant document has been sent to all the Irish
Bishops
The Universal Fisheries Exhibitio n
at London was formally opened on the 14.h
inst, a vast concourse being In attendance.
The exhibits are by no means complete, and
several weeks must elapse before they win
be in proper condition. At Berlin the Inter
national Hygienio Exhibition was opened by
the Crown Prince OF Gem
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-22
Iona chInnmnn who Got In.

In the case of Chew Fong Lee,
who applied for admission to this
country this week, on the grounds
that he was a student, the learned
Judge asked counsel for applicant
what art or profession Lee was stu
dying.
HE is, your Honor, conductinga
series of experiments and investi-
cations in the art of desiccating and
freeing from moisture the lOng-tail-
ed decapod crustaceans whice inhab-
il the waters of our beautiful bay !;
also in pulverizing the pal@mOn
vulgaris and utilizing the carapaX
OF macrOural and the cephalo tho
rax of the ana mOural species as an
article of food"
That sounds very good said his
Honor. Il wish they were all seiz-
ed with the same desire to benefit
science
Chew Fong Lee is now drying
shrimps and small crabs out at the
PotrerO, and says, my liar all same
welly smart man."
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-22
The County Court Must Go.
Trenton Globe


1t seems that Tennessee will have
to lose the taxes on about a million
and half acres of land this year.
The magistrates in nearly every in
stance have appointed themselves
taX-assessGrs and for some reason or
other they have failed to assess all
the land. County courts of late
days have become very Careless, in
this respect, and we would not be
surprised if it does become necessa-
ry, in the near future, to devise
some other plan of attending to
county affairs besides leaving them
to the care and management OF fifty
or sixty men elected every six
years and who hardly consider
themselves responsible to the peo-
pie for the manner in which they
discharge their duties.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-22

The New York Sun insists that
the position of the Democratic par
ty on the tariff question be squarely
and unequivocally set forth-wheth-
er we shall have a tariff for revenue
only. Says the Sun:
In other words shall uncOmprO-
missing free traders like Henry Wat
terson and William r. MorrowsOn
rule the Democracy, or shall it be
governed as of old, by protectionIsts
like Samuel Randall, and-as some
of his friends now assure us-John
q. Carlisle? Attempts to postpone
the decision for reasons of party adj
vantage, now come too late. Let
the question of tariff strictly and
exclusively for revenue, or tariff
with accidental protection, be fully
debated before the country and let
us have vote. Let US have vote
first in Congress, and then vote in
the Democratic party in the choice
of delegates to the National Con-
vention. And then, if the policy
of tariff for revenue only prevails
in the election of delegates to the
National Convention, let us have a
final vote in the Presidential cleo
ton.
Till the subject is thus disposed
of, there is little hope of again reas-
oning the vital principles of De-
mocracy or of restoring the govern
ment of the country to their guild
ance.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-22
The Merry, Merry Christmas Time.

The joyous Holiday season brings
to mind the elegant gifts presented
in the city of New Orleans on No
vember 18th, by the 162d Grand
Monthly Distribution of The Louis
lana State Lottery, under the sole
care and management of Gen'ls @.
L. Beauregard of La, and Jubal A.
Early of Va, when over $265, 600
were scattered broadcast. The same
thing will take place again Tuesday,
Jan. 10, 1884, the full particulars of
which can be had from NJ. A. Dau-
phin, New Orleans, La. Ticket No.
IS, $50 drew the capital prize $4,000
sold in tifths at 81 each-oue held by
NJ. A. Sacerdote, No. 80 st. Louis ST.,
New Orleans another by Mr.. N.
b. Phelps, a clerk in the City Treas
urer's office at New Orleans, La;
the others decline publication. No.
65,71S drew the second capital $25,
900 also sold in fifths at 81 each-one
collected through Bank of Madison,
at Jackson, Tent; another by a
party in Maiden, w. Va. The
third capital prize $4,000 was won
by No. 1920, sold in fifths also,
two of which were collected by the
n. o. National Bank. The fourth
capital prizes, of $4,000 each, were
won by tickets No. 1888, and 3d.
700, sold in fifths also, to Robert
Alexander, collected through Messrs.
Lockwood & Co., San Ant Onio,
Texas; c. @. FAINT, Madison c. H,
Va, collected through State Bank,
Richmond, Va, and so on to the
end of the interminable chapter,
among the many other participants
in the Pactolean stream OF wealth.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-22
Green Clouds.

There was another fantastic sun
set last evening, says Tuesdays
New York Sun, and the striking
adornment of the sky. with green
clouds noticed on Sunday was again
witnessed. Storm clouds hid the
earlier colors of the sunset, but at
O'Clock a blOod-red flame diffused
by the sun broke riffs through the
mass, and a dozen clouds of a deep
green hue massed near the crimson
horizon. When the clouds closed
over the riffs of red a pinkish hue
shot upward from behind them sud-
denly toward the zenith, as if red
fire had been lighted back of the
cloud bank. When the moon ap-
peared more of the green clouds sur-
rounded it. The green was of a
paler hue than that noticed in the
southwestern heavens, but more
lasting. 1t was fully half an hour
before the color finally faded and
the clouds assumed their ordinary
hue. The phenomenal colors lasted
until after o'clock.
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-22

When Harry Blake was first inn
prisoned. he bore stoutly up against
his fate. But stone walls and close,
| pent-up chambers, with their stiff
ling, stagnant air and their murky
twilight, are sure to mildew the
heart and break down strength and
hope.
In due time the day of trial ar
rived. The counsel for the prose-
cution dwelt briefly but clearly on
the facts already known. The quar-
rel, the threat, the ride home, the
discovery with the murdered man,
the footprints in the road. cores
ponding with the prisoners, the
testimony of Grayson that he saw
Blake stab Wicxliffe, was conclus-
i've and the jury-after the judges
charge-without leaving their seats,
returned verdict of guilty"
The day of the execution came.
/ Among the multitude collected to
witness the sight was Grayson. He
implored him to confess.
"No, / cannot, for l am inno-
cent"
These were Blake's last words,
and in a few moments his earthly
career was ended.
About three months after the eX-
ecution the judge who presided at
the trial received a note from a
prisoner under sentence of death,
requesting to see him without delay,
as the sentence was to be carried
into effect on the day following.
On his way thither, he overlook
Grayson going to the same place,
having received a like summons.
They were at loss to understand
it. Arrived, they entered the cell
together.
The prisoner was seated at a
wooden table. He was tall, gaunt,
with sunken eyes and hollow
cheeks.
"You," he said, turning to the
judge. presided at the trial of
young Harry Blake ?"
81 did"
"And you," turning to Grayson,
"swore you saw him stab Wick
life. On your testimony, princi-
pally, he was hung"
81 did. / saw him with my own
eyes"
The prisoner uttered low sneer-
ing laugh, and, turning to the judge
first, and then to the witness, said:
"You sentenced an innocent man;
and you swore to falsehOOd.
Harry Blake did not kill Wick
life, he was as innocent of the sin
of murder as you were-more so
than you are now. You have blood
and perjury on your soul, for I muir
dered William Wickliffe !"
And in few words he described
the scene, his hiding place, and all.
"God have mercy on me !" ex-
claimed Grayson, as he fell sense
less to the floor.
1t is needless to go into details of
the prisoners confession, which
was so fall and clear that it left no
doubt on the mind of the judge
that he was guilty of Wick
Iiffe's murder, and that Blake was
another of those who had gone to
swell the list of victims of cIrcum-
SrantiaI evidence,
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-22
When Men are at Their Best.
rI,n Ernrrf,,,, Iyarll

DIR. Beard states that from an an
alysis of the lives of thousand
representative men in all the
great branches of the human fam
lily, he made the discovery that the
golden decade was between 40 and
so; the brazen between 20 and 80 /;
the iron between 80 and so. The
superiority of youth and middle
life over old age in original work
appears all the greater when we
consider the fact that all the posi-
tions of honor and prestige, profess
sorships and public stations, are in
the hands of the old. Reputation,
like money and position, is mainly
confined to the old. Men are not
widely known until long after'they
have done their work that gives
them their fame. Portraits Ofgreat
men are delusiOns ; statues are lies
They are taken when men have be-
come famous which on the average
is twenty five years after they did
their work which gave them their
fame. Original work requires en-
thusiasm. If all the original work
done by men under 40 were annihi-
lated, they would be reduced to
barbarism. Men are at their best
when enthusiasm and experience
are almost evenly balanced. That
period on the average is from 80 to
40. After this the law is that ex-
perience increases but enthusiasm
decreases
Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-12-22
The Confederate Seal
Chicago Herald.

The original seal of the Confed-
crate States, which is of massive
silver, is still in the hands of an ex-
Confederate soldier, who treasures
it CAREFULLY. 1t consists of device
representing an equestarian por-
trait of Washington (after the stat
ne which surnounts his monument
in the Capitol square at Richmond)
surrounded by wreath composed
of the principal agricultural pro-
ducts of the Confederacy COTTON,
tobacco, sugar-cane, corn, wheat),
and having around it the words,
"The Confederate States of Amer
lea, Twenty-second February, Eigh-
teen Hundred and Sixty-two,"
with the following motto: "Deo
Vindice." The Confederate mon
ument at Magnolia cemetery to the
memory of the dead who fell in
defense of Charleston bears Cd one
Of its faces an enlarged representa-
ton of the great seal of the Confed-
crate States.