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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05
How He Struck n Job.

On a Northwestern train was a sallow-
faced, red-haired man, with a pair of
spectacles on his nose and an annual pass
in his pocket. In the west seat was a
smooth faced young man who said he
was looking for job.
Il want young man to clerk in my
Office" said the sallow-faced man, "and
if you can fill the bill I'll take you. l
am an editor up in Wisconsin. Now,
s'pose was sitting at my desk and a
big man with his fists all doubled up
and wild look in his eyes should come
up the stairs and inquire for the editor.
What would you tell him?"
I'D tell him the editor wasn't in"
replied the young man; "but that if he'd
sit down and wait few minutes you'd
probably be back from the gun store
where you had gone to get new seven
shooter and knife thirteen inches
long to cut up rollers ard things with. "
Consider yourself engaged. Salary,
"a week and board with one-third of
all the big watermelons that come into
the Office. "-ChicdgO Herald.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

THEY have in California case which
is likely to be more celebrated than
that of the dynamiters in Chicago A
man charged with murder has been set
at liberty, and probably will never be
tried again, because every man in the
county has been summoned as a Juror
and found to be incompetent. 1t may
he doubted if there is parallel to this
strange experience in the history of any
other county in America. The prison
er, Prewett, was arrested for murder
ing DIR. Powers, a man whom the conf
munity thought should be lynched.
Prewett met the Doctor on the high
way and shot him dead. Then, fearing
trouble, and knowing the sentiment that
existed he raised mob for the pur-
pose of lynching the man who was al
ready dead. Swearing all the members
of the party to secrecy, Prewett led
them to the place where Powers body
lay, and told them what had happened.
He explained to them that they were
equally guilty because they had con-
spired with him, and that they ought
to be thankful for his forethought in e.
lieving them of an unpleasant duty.
To have the tragedy properly under
Stood however, he suggested that the
body be hanged to tree, so that there
would be no difference of opinion as to
the reason why the victim had been put
out of the way. This was agreed to-
and the crowd dispersed. In the course
of time one member of the lynching
party concluded to confess, and on his
complaint Prewett was arrested and
ultimately brought to trial. At the
first hearing the facts as here outlined
were very clearly brought out, but the
jury divided hopelessly and new trial
became necessary About half of the
men III the county had been summoned
before the first jury was obtained, and
on the second trial all that remained
were subpanaed without securing the
requisite number. The majority of the
people were fierce partisans either of
Powers or Erewett, and it was possible
to challenge them for cause. Finding
the poll list exhausted and only frac-
ton of jury secured, the Judge con-
cluded to admit the prisoner to bail,
and it is thought that this action will
end the case.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05
STARVED TO DEATH.
Two Thousand Five Hundred People
Perish on the Labrador
Coast.
Ist. Johns N. FL dispatch. :

The schooner Nancy Barrett, which has
just arrived here, brings the latest reports
from the Labrador coast. She came around
by way of the Gulf from the Straits of
Belle Isle, as the ice outside made naviga-
ton dangerous. For nearly two weeks she
was blockaded in York harbor by field
ice. Her captain brought with him five
families who had made their way to that
point from Sandwich Bay, more than one
hundred miles overland. They came on
sledges drawn by ponies, the last of their
live stock, and these they were forced to
subsist on after arriving at the harbor.
They burned their sledges for fuel.
York haibor is covered with fugitives
from the southern coast who know nothing
of their northern neighbors. Eastern Lab
rador was buried under three feet of snow
July 10 and all communications are cut off.
The population, Indians and all, of the
region north of Sandwich Bay is estimated
at between 10000 and $4,000. The snow
has cemented the ice together and closed
all the trails. The relief vessels will be
sent direct to York Bay to relieve those who
reached that point first.
A dispatch from White Bay says that
whalers report Hudson Bay Strait has
either been frozen over again or has become
choked with floating ice and is solid. About
a thousand arctic bears, driven south by
starvation, have crossed over from Penny
land, and are devastating the country.
What little is left of the stores at Cape
SIugford has been seized by these voracious
animals. The Indians in that locality are
eating their dead companions, and the
white settlers are burying their dead secret
ly to keep the Esquimaux from getting
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05
HORRIBLE STORY.
A Georgia Negress Feeds a Pic
mic Party on Stewed Baby
and Is Roasted in Turn.

In Tattnall County, Georgia, last week, a
negro named Samuel Frck left his daugh-
ter, aged 4 years, with a negress named
Mary Hollenbeck to board during his abb
sence at his employment at turpentine
still in a neighboring county. Yesterday
Prick returned. and upon demanding his
child was met with so many evasive and
contradictory replies as to arouse a suspi-
cion that something was wrong. search
of the premises resulted in the finding of
half the childs body hidden in barrel
which had originally contained salt pork.
The pickle had not sufficed to prevent de-
composition, and the negro was attracted to
the barrel by the unnatural stencil arising
from 1t. BY this time other negroes
in the neighborhood had Joined in the
search, and when the discovery was made
there were fifteen or twenty blacks about the
premises. The irate father was on the
point OF Draining the woman with an AK,
when she fell on her knees and said she
would confess everything if he would spare
her life. II was decided to hear her story,
but, as the sequence proved, she would
have Jared better had she maintained her
placed in her care negro picnic was given
in the vicinity, and she was called on to
prepare the dinner. Having no meat, and
knowing that she would get no money I'M
less she served some, she determined to
kill the child and cook its flesh. Being
somewhat under the influence of liquor, the
tiendishness of the idea had no horrors for
her, and she deliberately Drained the child
with an AK, dismembered it, and boiled the
meat down into q stew with a hetero-
geneous collection of vegetables. When
it was served the negroes remarked
upon the peculiarly Of its flavor, but
nevertheless ate heartily. Several now al
lege that they were nauseated by the mess,
but none of them We're made seriously i'll.
At the conclusion of the narrative the fury
of the hearers was ungovernable, and it
was quickly decided to burn her alive at the
stake. She was taken into a field and
chained to post fixed in the ground in
the middle of a pile of infammable pine,
saturated with kerosene. When the match
was applied the flames leaped high in the
air, and the woman was soon ablaZe. In
fifteen minutes she fell among the blazing
knots and was burned to a crisp. Nothing
remained after the fire died out but a few
charred bones and a ring which she had
on one of her fingers. No attempt has
been made to arrest any of those implicated
in the affair, but an investigation by the
Coroner and Sheriff of Tattnall County
will probably be made.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

A REMARKABLE scene took place at
the funeral of young man named
Frank Peachy, at San Francisco, few
DAYS ago. The father of Frank, man
gray-bearded and bent with age, met
face to face with his former wife-the
mother-from whom he had been sep
arated twenty-five years. The father
resides at Los Angeles and the mother
at Oakland. They have married again
and have families. Their actions over
the body of their boy were sad to be-
hold. The father tenderly stroked the
hair of his son and the mother kissed
the lips. Both wept bitterly, but
neither recognized the other. At the
grave the old motker knelt down and
prayed while the earth was being
thrown over her son.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05
POISONED THROUGH A BLUNDER.
A Woman and Three Children Take Ar
senic Given by "A Druggist by Mistake
for Cream of Tartar.
lCleveland iOhiol telegram.

cleveland Ohio telegram.
When Andrew Bertali, a we'll to- do con-
tractor, returned to his home, No. 1892
Gaylord street, at noon to-day, he was hor-
riied by the sight of his wife and three
children writhing in agony upon the floor.
Physicians were hastily summoned and pro-
nounced the case one of arsenical poison
ing. Upon investigation it was discovered
that Mrs. Bertali had sent a young son to
the drug store of j. A. Bartlett for 10 cents
worth each of sugar of milk and cream
of tartar. Bartlett made a mistake and
gave arsenic instead of cream of tartar.
Mrs. Bartali mixed the drugs and admins
tered a dose to her three children--Louis,
aged u; Joseph aged 10, and Lena, aged
sand also to herself. All were soon
seized with severe gripping pains, and before
they could send for assistance fell into
commissions, and were on the verge of
death when the husband and father Glanced
to come home. Bartlett is crazed with re-
morse, and had to be carried home from the
store. The mother is dead, and all three
of the children are not expected to live.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

A WASHINGTON letter says: "Gen.
Malone had on his summer suit. 1t
was composed of finely woven, broad
brimmed Panama hat, bleached to q
perfect Wilderness, and so delicate that
it was in no shape, being cooked up
high on one side and pulled down low
on the other. His shirt was linen
throughout, and his collar two-ply and
a portion of the garment. 1t stood up
in limp folds. His tie was black and
loosely put together. His coat was of
the lightest weight broadcloth, cut very
low in front; vest, black gros grain
silk, three buttons; pantaloons, fine
black and white stripes, puckered at
the waist like lady's bonnet, large
and baggy at the knees, and coming to
O point so small at the feet that they
would not slip over the heels of his
shoes. Gen. Mahone's hair is longer
than it ever has been, hanging in great
folds, almost white, across his shout
ders, while his beard has whitened in
the last few years of troublous excite
ment."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05
The Julian EmpprOrs.

The five emperors who re;gned in
Rome from 81 i. c. to 90 A. ID. are
sometimes spoken of as the five Julii,
or the Julian Emperors. The first of
these was Casar Octavianus Augustus,
who was the granddaughter and adopted
son of the great julius Caesar He had
no sons, and adopted two sons of his
daughter Julia as his successors. These,
however, died, and Augustus then
adopted Tiberius, the eldest son of his
third wife, Livia, by former husband,
who succeeded to the throne in the
year II A. ID. Tiberus was followed
at his death in the year 81 by Caligula,
the grandson of his brother Drusus,
and the son of Agrippina, and grand
daughter of the Emperor Augustus.
When this ruler was murdered in Al
his fathers younger brother, Claudius.
was proclaimed mperator. The mother
of Claudius had been a niece of Angus
tus. The second wife of Claudius was
Agrippina, sister of Caligula This
woman persuaded the Emperor to dis
inherit his eldest son and adopt as his
successor Nero, her son by former
husband. As he showed signs not long
after of repenting of this action, Agrip-
pima poisoned him, and Nero came into
power in the year "a, and reigned until
driven from the throne in '6S.-Inter-
Ocean.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

THERE is q movement in Atlanta to
do away with paid choirs. 1t is adj
mitted that good choir does aid in
drawing a congregation, and in that
may help to fill the collection plate
but the opinion of the majority of dea-
cons and others who have discussed the
subject is that choir does not succeed
in paying its own expenses, and that it,
therefore, must go. The same tinan-
.cial gauge was not applied to the occu-
pants of the pulpits; but as there is
no good reason for believing that a vol
unteer sermon is not just as effective as
music by volunteer" choir, this feat
ure of church economy will perhaps be
considered next.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

SARAH BERNHARDT's entry into Rio
de Janeiro was effected with more than
her wonted eccentricity. Elaborate
arrangements had been made for her
arrival. The Brazilians and the French
competed which should show her the
greater distinction. Both sent depu-
tations to welcome her. Carriages
we're to be at her disposal on landing,
and floral tributes were prepared in
astounding abundance. But the great
actress declined all these honors, and,
instead of taking one of the boats sent
to enable her to effect q more speedy
and dignified landing, she entered Bra
iii by the custom-house wharf. When
the other members of the company
disembarked there was much applause,
and an enthusiastic welcome was offered
to the supposed tragedienne. But
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05
The Illusions Of Childhood.

Whoever wished to correct the illu-
sions of childhood? All of us can look
back to time when we believed vivid
ly that our own parents were perfect,
and believed dimly that the whole
grown-up world was perfect. The
child knows indeed, that there are bad
people in the world, but they have
nothing to do with the world in which
he and his companions dwell, and when
he thinks about them, he is puzzled
how to find room for them. We have
heard of child so moderate that he
only produced two perfect men besides
his father to confute the doctrine of
original sin women evidently being
not included in its scope), but most of
us would have brought forward much
larger body of witnesses on his side.
Now, no one would say that you gave a
child truer view of his father and
mother if you made him understand
that they were two very faulty beings,
with as much to repent of as the
naughtiest of his playfellows. 1t is not
that truth had better be sacrificed to
love; we do sometimes feel that way of
these illusions i'll later life, and any
one who viii put the two states of mind
side by side will at once see their
difference. 1t is that the illusion is
actually truer feeling than any you
could substitute for it. 1t is the
natural, healthful condition of mind of
a child, the one which puts him into
his place with regard to his elders,
which enables them to do their part
toward him, and him to do his toward
them. 1t bears every test of truth, ex-
cept that of being independent of po-
sition. 1t is the truth for a particular
stage of development.-The Spectator.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

AT Yaquina Bay, Oregon, the fishing
is done by Indians from canoes. They
fish in about l25 feet of water, mile
and q half or so from shore. They use
no bait, but have the shanks OF their
hooks covered with block tin, the gilt
ter of which attracts the fish, and the
hook does not reach the bottom until
it is seized by fish. There are two
Indians to each canoe, and at present
five canoes are employed. The beauty
of this system to the tish-canning es-
Establishments is that there can be no
great loss. If an Indian or a canoe
goes down, all that is necessary is to go
to the reservation and get another
one.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

when the mistake was discovered the
modification was quite as great as the
enthusiasm, and as freely expressed.
The projected fete ended in riot, the
police were active and energetic, and
half dozen rioters were captured.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

WIGGINs, the weather prophet,
abates nothing of his claim that there
will occur in the fall storm compared
to which other storms are zephyrs.
The elements will begin amusing them
selves on the afternoon of September
30, and when the affair has ended this
country will look as if it had gone
through a neutrality-suspicious.. Atten-
ton is here called to. Mr.. Virgins
date, as it seems to have slipped the
mind of the giddy thousands, who go
along with their petty affairs as ii no
such shaking-up were in prospect.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05
The Trns 4urtherusr.
A LIVELY time was experienced by

A LIVELY time was experienced by
/, an apiarjst, one day last week, at Bruce
township, Ontario, when sixteen swarms
of his bees came off at the same time,
and besieged branch of tree, where
they formed huge roll several feet in
circumference and about five feet long.
He separated them, finding out each
of the sixteen queen bees, which he
put into hive, and gathered enough
bees to make a swarm, until he had the
whole sixteen quietly settled in new
hives.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05
That Looks Reasonable.

PhasT sius, Jr. lin hardware store)
PA, what does the lady want of that
step ladder she is buying?"
/ has sius-"I don't know, my son
unless she is q milliner and is going to
use it when trimming one of the new
style of hats"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

A CERTAIN physician SAYS that young
ladies may try all the antidotes in the
world for depressed spirits; but, till
they have recourse to a small dose OF
husband, they need not. hope for any
long-continued convalesccnca.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

MIR. SEwELL and Oliver Johnson are the
only two men living who launched the anti
slavery movement in Boston in 1892.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

HENRY NJ. STANLEY is at the Hotel de
Russo, Hamburg. taking the waters there.
He is much improved in health.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

EIGHT female physicians of Philadel-
phia have each ON annual practice of $780,
OOO
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

VERY warm, light blankets, and
feather-cloth are now made from the
waste feathers of domestic fowl and
game birds.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

Mrs. CLEVELAND has started a chill
drens country-week movement in WASH
inytQn
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

SAM JONES saws he has not "chawed to-
bacco" since he left Chicago.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

SAID old Jenkins: Il never knew q
woman that gave anybody piece CT
her mind that hadn't lots of pieces left. y
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

A YOUNG lady and gentleman living
near the Red Sulphur Springs, Vir-
ginia, eloped from the house of the
lady's parent for the purpose of getting
married. The flying pair were in a
single buggy, and made good time un-
til Indian Creek was reached. The
creek was very high, but an attempt
was made to ford it, when midway OF
the stream the vehicle was washed
over and the occupants thrown into the
water. They lodged against broken
tree in the middle of the creek. The
young man caught the lady as the
rushing waters were carrying her
down and held her. Fortunately, just
at the root of the tree there was suf-
ficient foothold for the young man to
stand, so that the water only came up
to his armpits; but on either side of
him it was too deep and the current
too strong to venture to reach the
shore. He held the young lady in his
arms for two hours before they were
discovered. The position was made
more unpleasant by the sun pouring
its rays upon them. Fortunately,
when the buggy was overturned, an
umbrella was thrown in reach of the
young man, and he managed to open it
and hold it over the young lady. They
were discovered, and a young man, al
though the risk was great, swan a
strong horse to the place, and the i'm
periled couple hung to the animals tail
and were brought back safely. The
father caught up with the pair at the
creek, and the wedding did not take
nlnca
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05

Gov. FORAKER announces himself for
Sherman for President
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1886-05-21
HAVANA BAY.
A Grand aud Incompatible sight viewed
from Vessels Masthead.

All YOU who are able To travel 10
Cuba in luxury would arrive 10y steamer
from New York or Tampa. Fla. bc
hustled from the boat in TUG. and
gathered with your luggage in such
celebrity To your hotel that pcrforcc
YOU would never enjoy Havana Bay
As did. Bcng Il poor man of leisure.
from motives of necessary economy
which held pleasant compensatiouS,
our httlc schooner cabin, with its sea
smells and perennial meals of Gods
tongues and sounds, salt beef and dr.rd
apples, became for time my Cub an
home, and because of this. pcrcucd
comfortably at the masthead at all
hours of the day and i'm all moods of
the weather, | came to know the city.
bay and shores something as the man
IN Moro castle tower or the old bell
ringer up among the cathedral bells
must have known them all with "A
quiet fancy of clatcd rctiracv vet loving
SENSE of possession. From up aloft
there, the hundreds of vessels discharu-
my or receiving cargoc> and all the
| extraordinarily active maritime life OF
the bay seemed still and far, and the
| heights which cncirClc the harbor and
| city possessed a friendly ncarncS, Lay
your left hand upon your table, back
downward, your fingers pointing to
| the south, and If your thumb was twice
it, size and stood out square from vour
| hand YOU would almost duplicate the
shape of HaTana Bay, which must
| bP two miles long and qui as wide
| The city, rare sud, i'm Moorish, Sar-
| "cen and Doric architecture, and as
startling in its pink, yellow. red, Law
cndcr and blue colors and decorations,
| lies TO the west while ferries ply 20 the
villages, stations, steamer landings
and warehouse communities of the op-
positc shore. On the east side. where
| the harbor is narrow, and clambcring
| up the half-mountnin side where stands
| Moro Castle, in Casa Blanca, with its
| queer villas and structures, each one
| OF which when contemplated, separate
| lY standing out in this wonderful hpht
OF the tropics so clearly, distinctly.
and with such strange seeming OF
approaching and growing proportions
| mat, IN your sight. the houses indiVid-
ualIy become great pillarcd temples.
In and over and through this dreadful
| spot away up the side of the mount
ain. thread and run such indcscriba-
bic wealth OF vegetation that. us You
| look again and again, the clustered
homes seem like great white grapes
bursting through glorious wealth of
| prodigal vines and leaves On this
mountain side, with old Moro Castle
also IN picture, If you think with your
| travel and books behind your thought,
IN architecture, in scenery, i'm grouping.
in color, in that untcllable something
which TO countries is all that complex
| ion and eyes are To the revelation i'm
faces, you will see all that is Spanish
in Spain. Edgdr l.. Waterman, ul Chi-
| cdgO NCUS.