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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-08-20

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Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

Detailed accounts are given in the
Berlin and Paris papers of monster
movable globe, made of copper, the
work of blind clockmaker, and ON
the construction of which seventeen
years were spent. The globe repre-
sents the earth, and, like it, turns on
its own axis by means of mechanism;
an artificial moon moves round the
globe in twenty-eight days and six
hours, while a movable metal band on
which the hours are marked, indicates
the meantime in the different parts of
the earth. Round the upper portion
of this immense globe, which weighs
ton and a half, and whose serface
measures 1876 feet in diameter spins a
railroad car capable of holding six per
sons, and which serves to give better
view of the regions of the north pole
The painting of the globe is done in
oil, and necessitated the employment
of two men during an entire year.
The sun is represented by an appara-
tus lighted by an intense Drummond
calcium light, which enables the spec
tator to watch intelligently the origin
and change of the different periods of
the day, the early dawn, the twilight
eclipses of the sun and moon, &c.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

Fitzhugh Lee and Frank Blair, repre-
senting the Bourbon and Republican
parties, spoke recently at Accomac
Court House, Va, to large crowds, but
Lee refused to discuss the issues with
Blair and thus injured his cause with
his hearers. His speech developed the
States rights doctrine of Bourbons and
is not regarded there as being of any
strength. The speech was read from
manuscript. Blair is most excellent
speaker and debator and the crowd
was in his favor. Both speakers ad
dressed their audiences at the same
time and were not far from each other
Lees first attempt was a failure.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

Mrs. Emma M. Marley, who was
credited with being the heaviest woman
in the country, was buried from her
home, 526 Lombard street, Philadel-
phia, on Friday. She was known to
the amusement public as Nine. Vic
toria. Her advertised weight was over
600 pounds, and her actual weight was
over $50 pounds. She was born in
Reading, Pa, about thirty three years
ago, and was slim and delicate through
her girlhood. At 10 she weighed 90
pounds, but from this age she began
to gain flesh. Between three and five
years ago, when she made application
for an insurance policy, she weighed
$50 pounds. Afterward her weight in
creased rapidly, until she gained the
distinction of being the fattest woman
in the country, if not in the world.
Nine. Victoria, whose maiden name
was Harring, was married about five
years ago, at which time she was not
an unusually large woman. During
the years that she exhibited herself
as monstrosity her husband acted as
her manager.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

The Paris GaulOis is authority for
the statement that a changable chart
has just been invented for the use of
railroads, which will do away COM
pletely with danger from collisions. 1t
consists of sheet of Opaque glass, in
which the rails are indicated by hori-
zontal lines, and the stations by verti-
cal lines numbered. Little arrows rep
resenting the trains move along the
horizontal lines and allow the operator
to see every movement on the section
he controls. If one train gets dan
gerously near another he can signal it
at once, and the engineer can take
whatever precautions are necessary.
The whole apparatus is worked by cleo
tricity, and the arrows put in motion
by the contact of metallic brushes at
tached to the locomotive with zinc
hands placed along the rails.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

In recent speech at Portsmouth,,
Ohio, Judge J. B. Foraker, Republi-
can candidate for Governor, made
some excellent points. In referring to
the Democracy the Judge made the
following significant remarks
Our Democratic friends have now
been in office about six months. They
have examined the books and they
have counted the money; and what is
the result? After a searching examina-
ton they have been compelled to GER
tify that they found the books all right.
They balanced to cent; not a single
entry can be even criticised. They
found also that according to these books
there ought to be between $780, 900. 600
and 5000, 900, 900 in the Treasury. They
have also been compelled to certify to
the country that they have counted
that money, and 1T is all there to a
cent. 1t may not be amiss to recall
here the fact that when the Republi-
can party came into power, in 1861, in
stead of finding the books in the CON
dition our Democratic friends find them
now, we found them inextricably en-
tangled and incapable of being bal
anced at all. And instead of finding
between 5000, 1000, 900 and 5000, 900, 900
in the Treasury, we found there, as q
cash balance on hand with which to
commence the gigantic War of the
Rebellion, only thirteen cents. 1t is
| proper, too, to remember in this con-
nectlOn that instead of a credit so bad
that a six per cent Government bond
was worth only eighty-eight cents on
the dollar, our credit is now so high,
notwithstanding the ravages of the War
and the tremendous debt with which
we are still burdened on account of it,
that three per cent. United States
Government bond sells readily at a
premium all around the world, and a
greenback or Il National bank note is
worth its face in gold in every CONNER
cial centre eff the earth"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10
NO. 1866
WHEN ADVERTISING IS WANTED

There's nothing on earth so mvsteri
ously funny as newspaper advertise
ment. The prime, first, last and all
the time object of an advertisement is
to draw custom. 1t is not, was not
and never will be designed for anv
other human purpose. So the mer-
chant waits till the busy season comes
and his store is so full of customers he
can't get his hat off and then he rusbes
TO the newspapers and puts in his ad-
vertisement. When the dull season
gets along and there is no trade. and
be wants to sell his goods so bad he
can't pay his rent, he takes out his ad-
vertisement. That is, some Of them
do; but occasionally alevel-headed mer-
chant puts in a bigger one and scoops
all the business, while his neighbors
are making mortgages to pay the gas
bill. There are times when you could
not stop people from buying everything
in the store if you planted cannon
behind the door, and that's the time
the advertisement is sent out on it's
holy mission. 1t makes light work for
the advertisement, for chalk sign on
the sidewalk could do all that was need
ed, and have half holiday six days in
the week, but who wants to favor an
advertisement? They are built to do
hard work, and should be sent out in
the dull days when the customer has to
be knocked down with hard facts and
kicked insensible with bankrupt re-
ductions and irresistible slaughter of
prices before he will spend a cent.
That's the aim and end of the adver-
tisement, and, if you ever open a store,
don't try and get them to come when
they are already blocking up the door
way and sticking out of the windows,
but give them your advertisement
right between the eyes in the dull sea-
son, and you will wax rich ON a fast
horse, and perhaps be able to smoke a
good cigar once or twice a year. Write
this down where you will fall over it
every day. The time to draw business
is when you want business, and not
when you have more business than you
can attend to already Jour-
nalist
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10
WONDERFUL INDEED.

A Lincoln, (Neb.,) correspondent
says: A most remarkable discovery has
recently developed in this city. 1t is
of such an astonishing nature that the
correspondent hesitates to give the
circumstances to the public on account
of being barred at present from giving
names, although there is no good rea-
son why it should not be done How
ever, the gentleman who has made the
discovery requests it.
This disclosure consists in proving
beyond the possibility of a doubt by
scientific means. the existence of the
human soul, laying bare the greatest
secret of nature, and proving the doc
trine of eternal faith, THAT the soul
of man doth live the disclosures and
proofs of which will shortly startle and
astonish the entire world
For the sake of convenience the gen
tleman alluded to will be called Mr..
Holland, a man of small stature. a
mild eye, and thoughtful countenance.
a devout Christian, possessing a pc
culiar belief that the soul of man is
a counterpart of the body itself; and
in this theory Of the dual man he sought
the key Of life and death. He reasoned
that within this body of bone and sine "
was yet another body existing in va
pory form which death alone should
free, and that by simple microscopic
device the dull sight Of human eyes
might penetrate the ninutest particu-
lars of the air we breathe and see the
soul take form and flight to the boun-
diaries of another world.
His attention was first attracted to
this, he says, by man lying on sofa
suffering with pain in his foot and
yet there was no foot there to suffer,
the leg having been amputated nearly
to the hip. For years." says Mr.
Holland, this incident ran through
my mind, until at last a resolved upon
an experiment. | procured the most
powerful lenses | could find, and COM
pleted an invention of my own, and
when l had my light arranged perfect
ly, so | could examine the microbes of
the air, l called upon friend who had
lost his arm, ana explained that :
wanted him to put his imaginary hand
where | directed
HE laughinglv accompanied me to
my rooms and did as l directed The
moment | adjusted the glass a world
of revelation broke upon me. The
dual hand lay beneath my glass [
asked him to make letters with his i'm
aginary finger. He did so, and to his
wonder and astonishment, | spelled
out the sentences he wrote. That was
conclusive evidence to me- continued
Mr.. Holland, ''and you know the rest
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

The report that the State Labor Con
gress recently in session at Camden,
had adopted pledge to be submitted
to every candidate for Legislative hon
ors in this State, proves untrue. The
subject was discussed at the Congress,
but it was deemed unwise to adopt
such a measure. This is well. Labor
will obtain more at the hands of mem
bers of the Legislature by an argu-
mentative statement of what is needed
for its protection, than it will by an at
tempt to compel candidates to take
obligations which might conflict with
their political relations.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

The slaughter of birds in the name
of fashion continues. At a single
dealers in London there were sold be-
tween December, 1884, and April, 1885,
no less than 6,S2S birds of paradise,
1874 lmpeyan pheasants, 404, AGA West
Indian and Brazilian birds, and 356, 3S9
East Indian birds of various kinds.
One woman of fashion purchased the
skins of thousand humming birds
for ball dress. Another had dress
trimmed with the skins of five hundred
canaries. The taste that demands
such adornments is savage one, akin
to that which revels in the spectacle of
bullfght.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10
Ex-Governor John p. st. Jo

Ex-Governor John p. st. John, of
Kansas, is to speak on the temperance
question in Bridgeton, September
25th. John P. ST. John is the individ-
ual who threw the Presidential cleo
tion into the hands of the Democrats
last year, and thus aided and abetted
the rum power. Since the election he
has declared that there is more moral
ity and temperance in the South than
there is in the North, and that the
Democratic party has done more for
the temperance cause than the Repub-
lican. Any man who makes such
statements as those is either an ignor-
anus or fraud, and we are inclined to
the opion that st. John is more of the
latter than the former.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10
BUNCO MEN IN CLOVER.

Charles Fields, the octogenarian,
who was fleeced by bunco men at At
lantic City, to the extent of 50. 500. is
looking for the check he SO innocentlv
endorsed on Saturday afternoon.
Another prominent Philadelphian
has come to grief in the person of
Beeson Crawford, seventy years of
age, who is cottager there. This
victim was out sightseeing on the
board walk Monday afternoon, when
he was approached by a confidential
gentleman, who introduced himself as
Charles Gelbach, son of George Gel
bach, President of the National Secur-
ity Bank, Seventh street and Girard
avenue. He worked the ''picturen
scheme again, tiresome as it is, and
found willing victim in the old man.
who was steered to a house on Pacific
avenue, where he watched Young
Gelbach play a game of chance. He
lost $15 and asked the loan of Mr..
Crawtord's check for the amount. He
subsequently took him in as partner
and they lost $3.50, which Mr.. Crawford
handed over in a self-indorsed check.
The alleged Mr. Gelbach told Mr..
Crawford as he accepted the check:
This is loan. You must come to the
bank tomorrow and ask for Charley;
they all know me, and | will give you
my fathers check for the amount -
Mr.. Crawford has notified the Cashier
of the National Security Bank that
the check had been obtained by fraud.
The most sensational phase of the
bunco racket was the roping in of a
prominent Philadelphia physician
who hasa a cottage on Delaware avenue.
The bunco man introduced himself as
a son of Mr.. Bailey. the senior member
of the firm of Bailey. Banks & Biddle,
of Philadelphia. He produced a pos
tai card on which was written the
statement that Mr.. Bailey had drawn
a picture in the lottery, and for him to
call at house on Virginia avenue,
where the physician was duped out of
800. A careless word dropped by the
steerer, made the physician suspicious,
and he at once devised little plan to
recoy T his money. BraUing his left
foot against the door, he said: Gen
tlemen, have you done much target
practicing? If you have not, 1 have,
and l am a devilish good shot, He
drew revolver and raised the hammer.
He demanded his money, and it is al
most useless to say that he got it.
The gang of bunco men who are now
working the place consists of eight
men and at least four women. They
are stopping singly at the different ho-
tells. The house in which most of the
victims have been fieeced is on Pacific
avenue, next to the German Reformed
Church. 1t is an apartment house,
and the landlady says she knows moth
ing about the business of her dodgers.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

State Superintendent Chapman and
his assistants have been busy for some
time revising the compilation of State
laws affecting the schools. 1t is many
years since the old volume was issued,
and numerous laws of Importance have
since been passed. A special effort
will be made to accompany the volume
with'a complete and thorough index.
The State Board of Health will this
Fall send out queries to all the schools
concerning sanitary precautions at the
buildings.
The Philadelphia engineers, Messrs.
Murphy and Cassin, have presented
their report to the Woodbury. borough
council on the proposed water works
They recommend Mantua creek, on
Glassboro road, a distance of four
miles from Woodbury., as a source of
supply, and estimate the cost of the
plant at $66,4 They recommend the
construction of a lnillion-gallon reser-
voir on Roe's Hill, from which the
water will be conducted to the town
by specific gravity
The Gloucester county Freeholders
have increased the appropriation for
the new Court House at Woodbury.
$25, 900, making a total of S65, 900.
Thirteen bids from builders were re-
ceived, the lowest being that of Arthur
II. Williams, of Camden, for $50, $50.
The Building Committee was author
lied to enter into contract with Will
llams for S62, SCI; a number of extras. y
such as copper roof and enameled
brick ceilings, being included. The
architects percentage amounts to 81
900. The Board authorized the issuing
OF sixty-six $500, and thirty-two 81 900
Court House bonds, to run thirteen
years-$5, 900 to be paid annually. 1t
is said these bonds will be negotiated
at 81 per cent.
Charles F. Holtz, whose daughters
Gretchen and Ella, were killed bv
Druggist Amendes mistake in COM
pounding morphine for quinine, ap-
peared in Recorder McDonough's
Court, in Hoboken, on Thursday
evening, with DR.. Lowenthal, Gretch-
ems accepted suitor, and made formal
complaint against Amende. 1t had
been understood that neither would
pursue the druggist. Both expressed
their doubt that Amende had taken as
much poison as he said, on learning of
the fatal error, and Mr.. Holtz said he
would have forgiven Amende if he had
died. The druggist is not in condition
to be remanded, but he is kept under
surveillance. He does not seem to re-
alize the full extent of his awful error,
and occasionally inquiries after the
condition of the dead girls. His friends
fear that he will become insane, and
have not yet informed him of the
younger girls death.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

We acknowledge the receipt of a
work entitled Fifty Years among
Small Fruits" by VIM. Parry, of Parry
p. O., this State. 1t is an interesting
volume, and should be in the hands of
every small fruit grower in the State
The book is superbly printed. 1t is
the product of Sinnickson Chew, of
the Camden Press, one Of the very
best printers and publishers in New
JERSEY.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

Of the 1889 Presidential postmasters
in the United States. changes have
been made in 4S7 cases since the ad-
journment of the Senate. A list of
nominations for these offices is now
being made at the Post Office Depart
ment to receive the signature of the
President and to be transmitted to the
Senate upon the beginning of the next
session.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

A mouthpiece for pipes has been
patented. This invention provides for
a removable mouthpiece, covering an
inner one in such way that when one
inhales the smoke current of fresh
air will also be drawn in from the out
side, thus cooling the stem of the pipe.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

The first mackerel steamer ever fit
ted out in this country for exclusively
maclerel purposes is said to be the one
that made trial trip at Portland, Me-,
the other day, where she was supplied
with engines. The vessel is about 275
tons burden, and Was butt at Kenue-
bunk, Me
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

Never neglect a constipated condi-
ton Of the bowels, or serious results
surely follow, such us piles, impure
blood, and many chronic complaints.
BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10

Meteoric dust, according to DR.. Klei-
ber, a Russian scientist, adds about
twelve thousand tons every year to
the weight of the earth.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1885-09-10
!l|fe Pioneer.
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Published every Thursday morning at No go
East Commerce Street Cup stairs.)
New-York tribune., 1885-08-15
CANALBOAT REFORM.

Tn irving to recount what this Admlnstra-
ton has done we have neglected three import
ant reforms, and thereby have done injustice, as
it seems, to four departments OF the Govern
ment-the State, the Treasury, the Post oince
and the Navy Department 1t is proper TO
make haste to remedy this omission The Post
Office Department has effected great reform
in the mode of transporting the mails over
stormy seas. Instead of sending them by
ships. which are reckless things, disposed to 70
out in all weathers, ana therefore Liable 10 Ket
lost. the department has arranged to send the
foreign mails by old canal boats. This ar
angement, naturally, his been completed thus
far in only one important branch OF the foreign
service, but there is no longer to be danger to
the mails from the heavy seas between Amerl-
can ports and Cuba. The mails will not be
lost any longer because if there is n storm the
old canal boats will not start.
Then il was observed, in the recent justihca-
ton of Secretary Bayard for making so many
changes abroad, that many OF our foreign con-
suls were anot gentlemrn." This statement
was repeated again and again, as IL the
principal object Of the new Secretary was 10
sc cure in foreign service persons who appeared
to him to be thorough gentlemen. The South
ern a,istocrats in old days used to object to any
man who earned his own living, instead OF hav-
ing it earned for him by slaves. But Mr.. Lay
ard must have in mlnl some new idea, though
il is difficult to say what. 1t is apparently not
n question in the State Department any longer
whether foreign officials are competent or hon
est men still less is it a question whether they
are faithful or experienced in the discharge oil
their duties. We are to have great reform,
for our foreign service hereafter is to be con-
Quoted exclusively by gentlemen" Possibly
some of them may be @gentlemcn OF the
Meiere pattern. 1t will be interesting to see this
great reform worked out by the Secretary. AT
all events, let not the country doubt that 1t Is
a great reform.
The other reform requires the combined cx-
ertions of the Treasury and Navy Departments.
There Is too much silver at Ncw-Orcans, 1t
seems, though the Secretary is sending more oi
the same stuff in that direction "a fIst as he
can. In order to restore the equilibrium. the
Navy is invited to assist, and a ship of war Will
transport some tons of silver from New-Orleans
around to New-York. Od-fashioned people,
not inspired by reform principles, might Object
that the Secretary need not be sending silver at
public expense all the way to New. Orleans III
order to bring it back again at public expense.
But these people do not understand the true
nature of Democratic reform. Let 1t be re-
membered that this arrangement viii give the
Navy something 10 do, and will keep some oi
our idle ships busy in moving back and forth
between New York and other distant points, TO
which meanwhile the Secretary is assiduously
transporting silver free of cost by railroad or
express. Who can doubt that this reform will
prove of great public servicef
New-York tribune., 1885-08-15
PERSONAL.

Captain Chester 9. Cole, member Of the Republican
State Central Committee for steuben County, has re-
ceIyed letter from OK Ira Davenport who
travelling In Germany, In which Mr. Davenport says ne
has not been In better health for years.
Colonel Oliver II. Payne, formerly treasurer OF the
Standard Oil Company at Cleveland. Ohio and brother
inaw OF Secretary whitney, reported to have given
up citizenship in Ohio with the intention OF taking
mp his residence In New-York City. He was at Lenox
Mass the past week with his sister, Mrs. Secretary
whitney. and her family.
8. b. Ekins, who has been spending the summer with
his family at Deer Park, started Thursday night for
Santa Fe. EewMexco, to spend month before return
Ing to New-York City.
Senator German. Of Maryland, chairman OF the Demo-
cratic National Executive Committee will join the throng
OF politicians at Saratoga on Monday
Professor John NJ. Langston, ex-Minstcr TO Hayti.
who is a resident OF Washington. has decided to make
his future home in Virginia. where he was porn. His
father slaveowner named Quarles, who sent him
North for education
Jhe says Sir Moses Monehores health had been
slowly mperceptibly falling for nine months. His
real illness dated from Juy 15 when, without apparent
reason and with dstngGshable disease be suddenly
became weaker, but without fantness or any marked
symptom.