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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02
MULLIGAN, THE LETTER THIEF.
"A Fair and Impartial Opinion of the Man
Who Is Trying to Injure Blaine.
Richmond va. lAVhig.l

lIlCnHlOuu wa. ~ nlg.I
1t il evident that this whole Mulligan calumny
is az foul as It's source And what is that? Null
ligans malice A dishonorable man, IN some
dishonorable way, gets possession of private let
tiers, which, by the aid of partisan hate and pref
udice, he proposes to employ in dshonorabe
way 10 smirch the character of an eminent and
honorable gentleman, and IN pursuance of a
dishonorable plot, they were brought to the
front in the very nick OF time TO discredit the
gentemans claims to the highest honor his
party and countrymen could bestow upon him.
vile man, a vile plot, vile use or private COR
respondence, vile misconstruction of this COR
respondence-could anything be viler than the
whole dirty businesSl And do gentlemen wno
adopt Mulligan and his methods consider what
they do Are they sure thet they are not de-
grading themselves in their eager efforts TO
damage Mr.. Blainel OF course. the Mulligan
letters were only Part of the plot All sorts
OF lies and misrepresentation were brought TO
bolster the foul meaning which foul miscon-
struction had foisted upon Mr.. Baines private
letters. But these, in every instance brought to
scrutiny, were overwhelmingly refuted by the
highest evidence Even Mulligan supplemented
his original baseness in obtaining and using the
correspondence by inventing a dramatic fiction
in connection with Bl,ine's recovery of his let
tiers, OVERRIDING the matter, however, and max
ing his statement obviously and ridiculous
ly false by its absurd extravaganza. Mr..
Blaine promised him consulship, Mr..
Blaine threatened to kill himself, and all this
stuff, when Mulligan himself confesses that MIR.
Blaine, after once having the letters in his pos
session, and looking them over, returned them,
and that Mr.. Blaine only retained them, on
again having them In hand, when Mulligan
threatened to publish them before they went TO
the committee investigating the matter. The
sum OF the matter is, that the Mullgan calumny
not only fails of proof. but IS self-evident
falsehood upon its showing. H0rper''s Weekly,
the New York Times, and all the men and jour
nails now so insistent upon the charge against
Mr.. Blsine once declared he was guiltlcss and
unsmirched by the evidence. Even the Bour-
bons of Virginia. with all the testimony before
them, ignored the charge and Landed Mr. Blaine
TO the skies. The sum of the matter is that the
charge is now revamped and pressed only on
Mr.. Blaine. the stalwart representative OF Re-
pub1ican Drotection
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02
John IL. Cough Speaks for st. John.


Fellow citizens, am no politician, and am
not going TO make political speech. For forty
two years have been fighting this liquor trade
against the trade that robbed me of seven OF
the best years of my life. i have long voted the
Republican ticket, hoping always for help in my
contest in the Republican party But we have
been expecting something from that party in
vain. and now, when they have treated the most
respectful appeal from the most respectable men
in'this country with silent contempt, say IL is
time TO leave off trusting and 10 express our
opinion of the party. lApplause.l 1 do
not believe in compromises OF any
sort, have / believed in them at
any time in my career. i have fought
the drink traffic right straight through, and
want Frohibitionists to show an uncompromts-
ing front 10 that traffic. " Heart " Hearl'J
We are fighting n tremendous evil. and we
must make sacrifices IL they become necessary.
But there must be no compromise with the
enemy You must stand TO your principles.
Il hey talk about protect on, but We temperance
people have no protection whatever. lCheers.l
We want protection from the liquor traffic for
the widow and the orphan and the children.
[Applause.l That is why changed my politics,
and IL 1 live until the first TUESDAY in Novem-
Der i shall give my vote for the Prohibitory can
didate. lCheersl With political parties and
with demagogic methods OF argument and
abuse we have nothing TO do. 1 believe that
tree whisky in the United States and Benjamin
Buffers teachings would bring about bloody
revolution in this country in less than five
years and pray God TO give us good men to
rule over us. have defined my position, and
with Gods help will stick to IL the remainder
of my life Loud cheers.J
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02
What Mr.. Blaine Says.
from the New York Tribune.

IRON the New YORK Tribune.
That Mr.. Blaine refused to join the Know
Nothing organization, though his associate in
the Kennebec Journal had done so. has been
established. The falsehood that he wrote
tices for that journal in support Of proscriptlve
ideas has been refuted ig the voluntary declara-
ton of the gentleman who did write them, and
at that time held those ideas. What Mr.. Blaine
did think of the Know Nothing movement, he
has told the whole world in his history, which
was written at n time when he had no expecta-
tion of becoming candidate Tor Office again, and
which has been highly honored in Europe and
in This country for its calm, impartial and can
did treatment of public questions In his first
volume, page H. MIR. Blaine said:
"Thenceforward new alliances were rapidly
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02
Hendricks at Hamilton.
Hamilton TO- telepram.I

lfaui1ltOQ tOD teleRTdU.I
The Democrats held one of the largest IN eet-
ings day and to- night ever held in this'coun-
ty. The crowd present was estimated at from
TWENTY-FIVE To forty thousand. large number
came from Indiana The chief interest was the
appearance OF Mr. Hendricks. The other speak
ers present were Allen q. Thurman. Gov. Hoad-
ly, and Durbin Ward. Letters OF regret were
sent by Gov. Cleveland and Senator Payne.
Mr.. Hendricks was introduced by ex-senator
Thurman, and commenced by saying that he
had before him an article written for the Com
niercidt Ga<ette, and copied very extensively
by Republican papers, TO the effect that in
1853 a club was formed at what was
called the Stone House. in st. Clair Township,
this county. by about seventy persons, who
were disloyal TO the Union, called the Vallandig-
ham Club, and that he lHendricks) was invited
and came TO st. Clair Township and helped
form the club Il wish To say Ire continued,
that never knew there was,a house called tho
Stone House, nor st. Clair Township, until
saw IL in this article. j only refer to this as an
example Of the multitude OF false statements
the Kepub lican press has put in circulation
about the Democratic candidates. A lie never
hurts man; IL is the truth that hurts"
first arguing that it was time for change in the
administration, even II there was no scandal In
the prese mt administration. He repeated his ar
gument on this point used In other addresses.
and in the main devoted his time TO the same
line followed in other places. The meeting was
very enthusiastic. and, by reason Of It's great
size, much enthusiasm existed at times, rem
derng it difficult to hear what was said.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02
Butler i'm Massachusetts.

lLOwell tMassD tclegram.J
The first ratification meeting under the aus
pices OF the peoples Party was held this even
Ing 1t was one Of the largest political gather
ings in this city for many years Gen. Butler
in his speech said: THE tariff, laid by the Re-
publican party. was laid during the war, and
has not been substantially changed since. That
is unfortunate. But when we do change 1t, we
want to sec to itthat 1t is changed in the way
indicate-that is best TO promote and foster
American labor.
Boston dispatchl
The Peoples party opened its campaign at
Lynn with a reception to Gen. Butler and two
immense rallies. The ex Governor and Senator
Grady spoke at the MusicpIiall. The former, in
the course of his remarks, said there were more
bad men in the Republican party than in the
Democratic The latter had only elected one
President in twenty years, and then he had not
the courage to take his seat. He advised his
hearers to vote with the People party for three
or four years, and IL that did them no good then
they could return to the old parties. Tho
General closed by saying that when he saw the
sorrow of the poor and lowiy at the funeral OF
Wendell Phillips he had said; What greater
dressed arAhudience at the Coliseum.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02
/ Boston dispatch.l
BcIford VIII Not Bolt.

[Denver tColI dispatchJ
There il no truth in the statement that Con-
gresham Belford intends to run as an fnde-
pendent candidate for Congress with the in
dorsenient of the Greenback party OF this State.
He did send to Washington for certain
Democratic documents, but his purpose was not
to use any material they might contain against
the Republican party.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02

HARPER's WEEKLY in an editorial of
May ID, 1876, after giving correct resume
of all the charges against Blaine, and dis
proving them from the record, closed the
matter as follows: IF nobody now appears
with new proof to Justify this accusation it
must be considered merely one of the reck-
less ISLANDERS to which every prominent man
is exposed; and no charge that may hereaf-
ter be made against Mr.. Blaine, unaccom-
panied by weighty testimony, will deserve
any attention whatever"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02
Jones Resigns.

New York telegram
George O. Jones has resigned the Chairman
ship of the Greenback State Committee Of New
York He says the campaign II intended to en-
trap honest workingmen Unto q scheme 70 de-
feat Cleveland. This leaves the Butler party
without organization In any Of the rural coun-
ties OF the State.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02

thereby rapidly become great and formidable,
so that 1t may even exceed the strength OF
Blaine.
1t would be great thing to beat Blaine here
in New York. Butler only can do It.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02

GEN. GEO. III. SHARPE, one of the lead
ing New York stalwarts. says there is no
truth in the stories circulated to the effect
that the stalwarts are lukewarm i'm their
support of the National Republican candi-
dates. They will heartily support Blaine,
who will. in Gen. Shapes opinion, carry
New York State by $4,000 plurality.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02
No Inquiry as to Cleveland's Opinions
from the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.

from the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
There seems to be some confusion among
Democratic editors as the style in which Mr.
Banes national attitude about local issue IL
TO be treated. There are two distinct and diverg-
ing lines of treatment noticeable. One Is to in
sst that Mr.. Blaine Is Prohibit iorsst and must
be treated accordingly The other that he Is not
a Prohibitionst and is therefore no better than
the ungodly and subject To pursuit by the
righteous. These things do not so IN to consist.
In the meantime IL may be noticed that Mr..
Cleveland Is 80 unimportant I'm the public esti-
nation. that there is no inquiry as to his opinion
upon any subject whatever-unless IL may be as
to several of the ten commandments.
AFTER Carl Schurz's Democratic expert
ence in 1872 he was publicly repentant, and
said in speech: only once have ] slept in
n side-room of the Democratic party, and
there / have heard enough not to vote n
Democratic ticket again i'm my life. Yes,
my hand shall wither before / do 80 again. "
1t is not so "withered' that it does not
grasp his $50 bonus with a good deal of
strength.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02

SPAIN has lost one Of its most popular
dramatic authors in Senior Garcia Gutierres,
who died ut Madrid. He wrote the play
from which Verdi drew al Trovatore
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-10-02

THE personal estate Of the late Bishop
Matthew Simpson is valued at $50. 083.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-04
BEFORE AND AFTER.


A Married Mans Opinion Of the French
Tar on Bachelors.
e I notice tina: they are going to tax
bachelors in France mnrmured Dora,
reading from the paper David had Just
laid down.
That ism right, frowned David
biting nervously at his after-supper
cigar: !. their lot is hard and unhappy
enough as it is. z
Dora got up and kissed David at this
suggestive remark. They had been
married only few months.
Time swept on in that calm and re-
lentless fashion for which time Ii cell
ebrated, and Dora Is the mother Of 81
six-weeks-old baby AT intervals, also,
David is reminded that he is joint pro-
prietor in this family acquisition, which
has a studied ambition for sitting up
nights in company with its father.
i was thinking, unused Dora softly
from her easy chair, II was thinking
about that item we were reading last
winter. ( wonder i they really % tar
81 don't know. returned David, Who
was warming some sort Of mixture irr
q little tin dish over spirit-lamp,
s.but, he added malevolently ~ ~
tipped the mixture over just - n 49,
warm, they ought TO make them PAT
somthing tor the luxury
And Dora sighed Is she asked 4 =
wasn't about time ~ mix the to0d -
Rockland Courier 6dzefte.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-04
FORCED TO RESIGN.

Attorney-General Miller, of Winnipeg Re-
quested to Resign by the Dominion Gov.
ernment-He Hits Back.
WINNIPEG, MAN, November 25
The pressure brought to bear on the
Government by indignation at the fog
ging of Prisoner Mccormack at the insti-
CATION of Acknowledgement Miller, has
been so great that the Government has
been compelled to demand his resigna-
ton. Miller will leave the Government
in about week. General appreciation is
felt at the action of the Government.
In the full court yesterday Attorney.
General Miller moved for rule call
ing upon the Hon. s. G. Biggs, T.
I'll. Preston, and G. w. Handscombe,
proprietor, editor, and reporter, respec-
lively, of the Winnipeg Daily Sun, to ap-
pear and show cause why they should
not be indicted for criminal libel, for
publishing an article in which Miller
is accused, while a Superior Court
Judge, of aiding a prisoner who
came from the same town as himself
to escape justice. The prisoner was ac-
cused of theft, and money was found on
him. The rule was granted, and the case
will come up in a few days.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-04
TEDDY's MANHOOD.

Sad Experience of q Little Boy who Was
Impatient to Become Man.
He was six years old, and his name
was Teddy Whittier. Any relation to
our New England poet, do you askP
Not at all; at least, the relationship
must have been very distant, for Teddy
was the most prosaic little boy alive.
And though Mr.. Whittier, the poet, is
fond of children, I don't think he
would have been at all anxious to
claim relationship with Mr.. Teddy
Whittier. For he was inclined to be
naughty and self-willed, and even q
poet can scarcely find much that is adj
mirable in a naughty and self-willed
little boy.
Teddy lived in log cabin in the
woods of Michigan. His father and
his big brothers, Bob and Jack, were
bark-peelers and log-cutters. Sister
Sally, aged seventeen, was the house
keeper Teddy's mother was dead. II
this story makes him appear very
naughty indeed, please remember that.
The scenery around the little log cab
in would have seemed grand and pict-
uresque to the poet Whittier. The
solemn silence of the gloomy woods
only tended to depress the spirits of the
unromantic Whittiers I am telling you
about. The stern realities of Life" had
always pressed so heavily upon them
that their sensibility of the beautiful in
Gods world had become deadened.
The silence reminded them, unpleasantly
enough, that their nearest neighbors
lived many miles away.
Ever since he could remember, Teddy
had longed to be a man, so that he
could work in the saw-mill with his
brothersi Almost every day he would
measure himself on the door, to see
how fast he grew. He very much fear
ed, sometimes, he was destined to be
like the dWarfs Sally had read about
he grew SO very, very slowly.
When his sixth birthday came, bring
ing with it a pair Of red-topped boots
from Jack, an old iack-knife with
broken blade from Bob, an ulster with
huge pockets from pa, and pair of
warm red mites from Sally, Teddy
thought the momentous time had arriv-
ed He was a man at last.-but, sad to
say, dwarf.
Perhaps Sally was rather cross that
day; but 4 think she had reason to be,
II any one had. Sally was very girlish
and slender to keep house for three
rough, big men and one troublesome
little one.
She was baking, and felt hot and
tired. She needed wood for her fire,
/ q
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-04
WHERE MOTHERS ARE MASTERS.

The Curious Laws of Kinship Observed
by the Malays of Mid-Sumatra.
Although we have long since ceased
to accuse the dwellers on the opposite
side of the globe of walking about with
their heads downward, we do find
some of our most stable customs turned
topsy-turvey by our antipodes. Prof.
E. B. Tylor, in his address before the
British Association, mentions some
strange rules of relationship observed
by the Malays of Mid-Sumatra:
''Among these people not only kim
ship but habitation follows absolutely
the female line, so that the numerous
jewellers in one great house are all con-
nected by descent from one mother,
one generation above another, children,
then mothers and maternal uncles and
aunts, then grandmothers and ma
ternal great-uncles and great-aunts,
etc. There are in each district several
suku or mother-clans, between persons
born in which marriage is forbid
den. Here, then, appear the two
well-known rules of female
descent and exogamy, but now we come
into view of the remarkable state Of So
ciety, that, though marriage exists. it
does not form che household. The
woman remains in the maternal house
she was born in, and the man remains
in his; his position is that of an au-
thorized visitor; If he will, he may
come over and help her in the rice-field,
but he need not; over the children he
has no control whatever, and were he
to presume to order or chastise them,
their natural guardian the mothers
brother (mamak). would resent it as
an affront. The law of female descent
and its connected rules have as yet been
mostly studied among the native Amer
leans and Australians, where they have
evidently undergone much modifica-
ton. Thus, one hundred and fifty
years ago, Father Laftan mentions that
the husband and wife, while in fact
moving into one another's hut: or set
ting up a new one, still kept up the
mafriarchal idea by the fiction that
neither he nor she quilted their own
maternal house.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-04
Statue of q Noted Canadian,

TOKUNTU, UNI., SUFEIIUeT ..
The ceremony of unwilling the statue OF
Hon. George Brown was performed to-day
nv Hon. Alex, Mckenzie. Notwithstand-
ing the inclement weather, q large gather
ing witnessed the ceremony. After the
unwilling the party adjourned to the con-
vocation hall of the University, where
Hon. Oliver Mowat delivered an eulo-
CYSTIC address. He was followed by Sem
ator Allan, representing the Conserve
tives. who also eulogized the deceased
statesman. The statue was then formal
ly handed over to the city and accepted
BY Mayor Boswell in few appropriate
remarks.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-04
The value of a Foot.
BRooKLYN, N. Y, November %.

BEOOKLYN, n. L, NOYemuef 70.
John Coonther brought action in the
Kings County Court against George f.
Harris to recover $4,000 damages for in
iuries which he sustained while working
on the West Shore Railroad. The de-
PENDANT was q railroad contractor, and
employed plaintiff to work on section
between Cornwall and Kingston. He
went up just above Newburgh with a
gravel train, and while helping load
cars a bank cayed in crushed his foot
SO badly that it had to be amputated.
The Jury gave the plaintiff $4,000.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-04
READING FOR THE YOUNG.


AHtA It1INtT sHvtK sIsk4 HI YQyHiM(f
-
II q
so TflE Sil " fepfasxv
s. :. = - - '-'' s. 81 :
fvnreifsa.1 f,.,,,, F..n,,se q. ,,a<.
8 '1.'s.1 :. - z1sssl, 8 4 DE.
a crow sat on the limb Of . tree
s. 1 nelgn-nos me ga naack Crow
0n the t0pnnO81 D0uGd n extremity HID
ne1gn-nos helgn-hos
For underneath, II The sweet. wsr1n -.
hustled the thick-hung leaves OF oak
With hum OF gossip ana crack Of Joke;
They had tales to tell Of AcOrns growing,
81 sights in wood, On river 81 hfli,
And were never st1H--nAy, never still
4Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, = S
Whistled the Crow.
Sp sin ms heiah.h 3. tie Jealous CO
The blue-bird's twitter, or the robins song,
She had nothing to do but sit and gaze
10 watch that no ut-colored lout
Strolling the farmers fields about
Should chance too near that patch Of corn, 9
Where her friends had HOcked since early
morn.
And were Juggling now with might and main
- - ''', = mucina and tniiinr. 1 -
1ss1'ns A1u spon'1s'
Sing heirh-ho. the sentry Crow.
TO call to them. shout to them. sscaw csw cav
Ha-ha, hobo! r.
Into the hiding of the oak
The whole black family would fly
To wait till the danger had passed by.
Yet here to q lonely tWir Tn tied
A bird with FURNISHED back like mine.
ri run away
Sing heiph-ho. the ynrranf Crow.
Only to leave that lonely spot,
Heigh-ho, heieh-ho!
To skim like swallow after fly;
To bubble q song like bobolink;
TO TO hep hop in abe hedge i Ike chswlna;
As the thrush hides hers, the shy. brown
thrush;
But anything except Crowl
And anywhere
10 live, but therei
Like 1eaden plunmet into the sea-
Sing heigh.ho. the wayward Crow.
Down she dropped from the sentinel tree,
Heirh-ho heivh no!
Like dried leaf hitler and thither blown;
Nor stopped, nor staid to rest, until
Pierce the blue air with its bluer spire,
Sne cfrcIed toward It, half aloof,
And settled at last on the dairy-roof.
indeed, she cried,
me world Is W1det'
Borne about her upon the breeze,
Sing heigh-ho. the hungry Crow,
Was q savory smell-the smell of cheese,
Cream-cheese, heigh-hol
The door was ajar tiny crack,
And crept inside the cool dark room
Inat was secured with sand and scrubbed
with broom
Inere were rows OF cneeses, ana on snen
0 en,. cut; ana she said; ~ help myself!
twas way sne nad-to take Tor granted
oneo right 10 everything she Wantedl
so she took of the cheese
A great fine piece.
HOW she escaped she scarcely knew,
Sing heigh-ho, the thieving Grow
but away to a nefghborIng bough she dew,
Hefgh-ho, hegh-ho!
How heavy her flight was, slow her wing,
And he caught Whit even where he stood
Or the stolen goody and thought 1T good.
80 with careless air ne sauntered out,
q Hummlng q hght STRAIN, gazing about,
WHy purpose were N MS running,
ME Ine crow from ner nmD
Looked down at n1m.
=.
"W hat stranger is this?" he suddenly cried,
Sing heigh-ho, the beautiful Crow,
"Such eyes, such feathers, such beak!' he
sighed,
s'Heigh-ho, heigh-ho!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-04

There is fireman who, except q
short time. has been continuously en-
ployed at the Executive Mansion since
he first went there in Fllmore's adj
ministration. Washington Star.