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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30

700 familieo were rendered homeless, and prop
erty losses exceeded 81. 100000 Near Erie, Pa,
Mrs. Freider and her three daughters were
drowned while doing the family washing IN
creek the youngest fell into tho stream ana
the others were lost in the endeavor TO rescue
her. Forty lives were lost by an explosion IN
the Woodend colliery. Lancashire, England:
Two hundred lives were lost by the burning Oh
n steamer ON the River Volga, in Russia. On
the 2lst Texas visited by the most destruc-
tive storm ever known there; the wind at
tanned velocity Of 70 miles an hour'
and continued for eight hours; every town
along the western Gulf coast suffered severely
total loss was 80 lives. Sl,0 O,OOO TO crops,
shipping. San Francisco was visited by hre
which laid waste acres in the business district:
loss, Sl,0OO,0OO loss OF S5OOO.OIO was occa-
stoned at Mandalay, Burmah, by the bursting
of an embankment OF the Irrawaddy River oO,-
90 people were rendered homeless, while III
was estimated 900 lives were lost. The isles
Of Greece were visited by an earthquake when
destroyed the villages of Pyrgo and Phiiiatra,
on the west coast OF Morea, with the loss OF 300
lives every house in Zante, one OF the lonian
Islands, was damaged. An earthquake origin
ating in the southwestern part OF the united
States passed over wide expanse OF the coun-
try on the night OF Aug. 81, extending as far
north as Milwaukee and west TO San Francisco
theaters in Cleveland and Cincinnati ana at
hotels in St Louis and Indianapolis; Charles
ton, s. c., was nearly destroyed, sixty lives be-
ing lost, less than a hundred houses being left
intact; the money loss exceeded SlO,OOO,COO.
Fire losses in the United States and Canada
during August amounted to Sl3,OOO.OOO ~ per
cent above the usual August average.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
DECEMRER-

bill providing for trial by jury was pre-
sented in the Spanish Chamber Of Deputies.
The propretors of eight hotels or restaurants
in Hartford were arrested for using oleomarga-
rine on their tables without displaying the
plGcard required by the law of Connecticut.
The South experienced unusually severe winter
weather during the first week of December
snow fell continuously for over sixty hours in
North Carolina and Virginia; at Asheville, n.
c., the snow was twenty seven inches deep on IL
level. Under the DEGREES of the Plenary Coun-
Gil at Baltimore, the Catholic Arch
bishop of Philadelphia prohibited balls
for charitable purposes. The Alabama
Senate passed local-option law.
On the waters of Niagara River, Alphonso
King walked one hundred yards in huge pair
of tin shoes Of his own invention wager of
$1,000. A railway collision in Dayton, Ohio,
sent locomotive running wild through the
city at the rate Of a mile minute il passed
through the Union Depot at the highest known
rate OF speed, and exhausted itself ut "A point
on the track ten miles in the country. A quarry
of fine malachite, $50 feet in thickness, was dis
covered in Georgia. No moro large steamboats,
with costly cabins will be built for the Lower
Mis- sissippi trade.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
NOVEMBER.

Lawrence NJ. Donavan, Il New York pressman,
leaped from the new suspension bridge at Mag
ara on the 7th ; he descended 100 feet in four
seconds and escaped without injury save the
slight displacement OF rib. A meeting in
Glasgow, Scotland, resolved TO erect monu-
ment TO Burns Highland Mary on Castle Hill,
at Dunoon. Lieut.. Gen. Sheridans report
showed that the standing army OF the country
consists of 2, l02 officers and 1916 men. The
Vermont Legislature passed law requir-
ing oil hotels and restaurants using
oleomarCarino for butt n to pest up
large signs of notification TO that effect.
special train on the Canada Southern track,
carrying the Vanderbilt party to Chicago, COW
cred 107 miles in 93 minutes. The Austrian
Government issued order prohibiting the
playing OF poker in its army. George Hazlett
and Sadie Allen, - years old. went through the
Niagara whirlpool and rapids in torpedo
shaped barrel; they were in the rapids and
whirlpool five minutes, and were taken out of
the eddy on the Canadian side none the worse
for their perilous trip. The president of the
Marquette, Ontonagan and Portage Road was
credited with saving the lives of twenty-four
men shipwrecked off Marquette in n storm; he
ordered the railway track cleared OF trains, and
appealed TO the lfe-saving crew at Portage City
to travel 10 miles with special engine and
car, mt the greatest speed possible; the i'm
perled sailors were taken from the rocks in n
terrible gale. For the month of November tax
was paid on 4,430 III pounds of oleomargarine
in the United States by thirty-four manu-
factories.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
APRIL.

Floods in the Southern States were attended
by considerable loss of life % persons were
drowned in Alabama; in the vicinity of Mont
gomery the flood reached the highest mark ever
known. thousands OF cattle and hogs being car
ried away. A train on the Fitchburg Railroad
jumped the track near West Deerheld Mass,
the cars tumbling down an embankment 200
feet in height, some OF them falling into the
river: 20 persons were killed ana 30 injured.
The steamer TaorOa was wrecked of the coast
of New Zealand with the loss OF % lives. Por-
tons of Central Minnesota were laid waste by a
cyclone the lith that occasiOned the loss Of 100
lives, twice many injured and three times
that number of houses wrecked; OF wedding
party that assembled ut Rice Station, Mimi,
the groom. minister, and eleven others were in
stautlY killed; about seventy lives were lost at
Sank Rapids, St Cloud, and Rice station the
terrible power OF the storm was evidenced by
the fact that the sign Sank Rapids, "on the Mani
toba depot and casket OF books were found in
Rice Station, fifteen miles distant; Il suit Of
clothes was carried sixty miles and a tombstone
three miles The Galiciau town OF Stry was
almost totally DESTROYED bv fire, GOO houses be-
ing burned 6S charred bodies were taken from
the ruins and 20 invalds died in the fields after
being rescued from the flames-total number of
deaths resulting from the conhagration, l2S
The village Of East Lee, Mass, was inundated
by the giving way of n dam at Mountain Lake :,
eleven persons were drowned, and several fac
tories wrecked, including two paper mills. At
Montreal Z. 422 families, embracing $4,000 rer-
sons, were driven from their homes by the
flood some OF the streets that were covered by
water had not previously been indundatod for
sixty yoars.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
JULY.

Col. Geo b. Corkhil, who conducted tho pros
ecutiOn of Guiteau, passed away at Mt Pleasant,
Iowa, from hemorrhnge Of the stomach. Paul
II. Hayne, poet and litterateur, Mt Augusta, Ga.
Cardinal Guibert, Archbishop OF Paris. III. X.
Brown. the sculptes. died at Newburgh, ~ y.
he was seventy-two years old, and modelled tho
first bronze statue ever cast in this country.
Rear Admiral Worden, u. S. N, the hero of the
famous victory OF the ironclad Monitor over tho
rebel Merrimac in 1862, died at Newport. X. l..
aged 90 T. u. c. Judson. known TO the story
reading public as Ned Buntline," who had
earned $50, 900 per annum with his pen, died Of
heart disease ut Stamford, New York, in his
siXty-tfth year; he was a naval officer before
the war OF the rebellion. and carried twelve
wounds received in battle or in duols. Hon.
VIM. Hunter Second Assistant Secretary of
State died Mt Washington, of old age and gem
eral debility; he was 81 years old, and had
served continuously in the State Department
ffty-one years, having been appointed by Pres
ident Jackson. Hubert o. Thompson, n con-
spicuous leader of the New York County De-
mocracy, aged 81 years. Able Franz List the
celebrated pianist and composer, at Baireuth,
Germany, aged as.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
NEUROLOGY.
Men Renowned in Craftsmanship,
War, Literature, Mechanics, and
the Learned Professions Swell
the Death Roll.
JANUARY.

Contributions to the neurology of the initial
month OF 1886 were j. b. Lippincott, the vet
eran Philadelphia publisher. DIR. Robert
Ramsay, Il famous Masonic writer i'm Toronto
hospital, aged a. Gen. Hiram billiard, once
Adiutant General of Illinois. ~ NJ. Ludlow,
the Oldest actor in the country, and for many
years associated with Sol Smith (deceasedl in
theatrical ventures at his home in st. Louis,
aged 81. Nahum Capon, LID who was Post
master at Boston under buchanan, and who
began the free delivery system. Hon. Benz.
Comfy, Ex-Governor of Georgia Col. Edward
richardson, President of the late Worlds tx
position at New Orleans. Lottie Griffin (co-
oredl, who claimed to be over 100 years, died Mt
Hannibal, Mo-, leaving daughter. aged 80.
Geo II. Pomeroy, founder of the express system
in the United States at Toledo, Ohio, aged ~.
James Cutshaw, last of the old-time stage
drivers in Ohio; at Lancaster, aged 81. Miss
Kate Bayard, eldest daughter of the Secretary
of State found dead in bed at Washington :
her existence OF l25 years at New Orleans. Rev.
Henry Norman Hudson. eminent Shakspearean
scholar, at Cambridge, Mass. At London,
Joseph Mays, celebrated tenor opera singer.
DIR. Thomas w. keene, member OF the Virginia
House Of Delegates, fell dead in his seat after
making speech. Mrs. Anna Maria Greene,
daughter-in-law Of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of
Revolutionary fame. breathed her last at New
port, X. L., aged 10l. Ex-U s. Senator james
II. Farley. OF California. Congressman Jos. G.
Rankin, Fifth Wisconsin District Col Ashbel
Smith, n veteran OF the Texas war OF indepen-
dence, was buried with military honors at
Austin, and his remains placed beside those OF
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. Coleman Free
man, born slave In Virginia ut Windsor, Ont.
aged 12l. Ex-senator David X. Atchison, OF
Missouri, who in 1875 was Acting President OF
tho United States for one day. Mrs Bayard
wife of the Secretary Of State. aged 81. Ex-
Governor Neil S Brown, Of Tennessee, u. S.
Minister To Russia in 1850, aged -.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
SEPTEMBER.

BY q collision of two trains at Silver Creek,
n Y. n score OF lives were lost Japan advices
reported $4,000 cholera cases in that country, OF
which $1,000 ended fatally Hailstones six
inches in circumference fell ut Madison, Wis,
on tho 23d, breaking 10000 panes of glass. and
denuding trees OF leaves and twigs: in some
instances iron roofs We're riddled. Between
Sept. 10 and 26 there were $500 new cases Of
CURED. Forty-fve persons were killed and six
teen injured by an explosion Of fire-damp near
Schalke Germany. Between Aug. % and Sept
5, inclusive, 1888 new cases Of cholera were
reported in Japan, the deaths numbering S,472 !;
over 60 per cent OF those attacked died the
wells of Toxic were examined. and 740 out OF
l 1T were condemned as unfit for drinking pur-
poses The September fire loss in the United
States and Canada was 81, 100000, slight de-
crease from the average September less OF pre-
vious year In the last year twenty seven yes
sells belonging to the Gloucester fishing fleet
were wrecked and 1l6 lives were lost.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
A GeOrgla School Teacher.

The public school system of Georgia
is an impoverished institution. 1t con-
tracts with its teachers for term of
sixty-fve days at five cents per day per
capita, and settles with them at about
sixty-five cents on the dollar. The
teacher must accept this or persuade
the kind-hearted patron to pay the re-
mainder. my one enjoying the ludi-
crous can spend healthful half-hour
at certain of these examinations, es
pecially when the commissioner, AS in
this case, possesses natural vein of
humor The applicant was a man of
about forty, with cheap cast of feat
ures and body half as broad as long.
He said he didn't claim to know all
wasn't q graduate, etc.-but he did
know enough to teach them heather
down at Shake Rag, cause he'd teached
thar four years, and they didn't know
nuthin yit. The official said he'd ask
few primary questions, and began with:
What is letter."
"A thing crooked sometimes and
sometimes faint"
"What is a syllable?"
"Hit's word split in two"
"How many parts of speech?"
"Three- coarse, fine, and superfine.
"What is verb?"
"Hit's suthin' that tackles onto suth-
in, or shows that suthin' tackles onto
hit.
"What is reading?"
"Hit's talking from a book"
How do you teach reading?"
Sometimes by coaxin' and some
finnaa hv a hoard -
"What is geography
"Hain't no classes in that"
"But you might have. How would
you teach it?
"By askin' 'em questions"
"What are the fundamental rules of
arithmetic?"
"Funda what?"
Fundamental rules"
"Don't know him."
IL had no reference to an individual.
I meant the principal rules of arith-
metic."
"You mean the way how?"
"Yes."
Cant jis' remember"
This, of course, is an exceptional
subject of ignorance, but the public
school teachers in the Georgia back
woods are not proverbial for their
much learning. There are some good
schools, however, and this county has
two or three of higher grade
Charleston Ne,cs and Courier.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
0CTORER.

Snow fell at Cheboygan, Mich, on the 1st
nippng weather throughout the North
west was reported. The steamer Almeda made
the run from sydney TO San Francisco in % days
hours 50 mnutes-the best recorded time.
Gov. Pattison, OF Pennsylvania, addressed a
letter TO Attorney General Cassidy on the ac-
ton OF the anthracite pool in advancing tine
price of coal, and requesting him to move
against it in court. Numerous letters received
during tke month by the photographic Office Mt
Washington from the officers of steam and sail
ing vessels bore testimony to the efficacy of
pouring oil on the waters in storms.
the pillows being speedily reduced to long
and heavy but harmless swells. The mercury
rose to 50 degrees in the shade in London on the
5th, temperature unknown in October for
nearly half century. j. Juvenet of New Or
leans, sent bale of ramie to the Cotton Ex-
change and bale OF jute to the Produce Ex-
change with letters stating that they were the
first bales of these products ever grown in the
United States. constant rainfall from q
cloudless sky was reported from Dawson, Ga.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
AUGuST.

Snow fell In New York and New Hampshire
on the 3D. Rioting was epidemic in Belfast,
Ireland, and in the pitched battles that ensued
between the Orangemen and the Catholics the
killed numbered scores ana the wounded hun
dreds. A Boston surgeon opened the abdomen
of a patient, drew up and cut open his stomach
took therefrom n set OF teeth which had lain
there for year, and sewed up the aperture with
fine silk, tho operation being completed in forty
to achieve fame by swimming the whirlpool
rapids OF niagara attired in suit of cork he
made n moist. unpleasant corpse" of himself
instead. On the I'D Mrs. Cleveland, stopping
at the Saranac Inn, among the Adirondaeks
touched the electric button that set the ma
chinery in motion ut the Minneapolis Industrial
Exposition. A foot-race at London, England,
distance ono mile, resulted in victory for
George over Cummings, in l22f, the fastest
time on record. Gov Gray, of Indiana, offered
a reward Of 81 900 for the conviction of any per-
son engaged in lynching in that State.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
APRIL.

Donald Mcclellan, whose grandfather was n
follower OF the famous Rob Roy, passed away at
Detroit in INDECENT circumstances, aged 106
Rt, Hon. W. T.. Forster, ex-Chief Secretary for
Ireland, aged 60. Hon. John Welch, Minister TO
England under President Hayes administration
Elbridge Gerry member OF Congress in 1913 and
prominent anti-slavery agitator; at Portland
Me, aged 70. Thaddeus Fairbanks, the scale
inventor, who was knighted by the Emperor of
Austria at St Johnsbury w. aged 90. John ii
home in Niagara Falls born in 1911, and was n
cousin of eX-President Hayes. Charles Mitchell
father of Maggie Mitchell, the actress, at Troy
n. Y, aged So Mrs. Ella Hart, pioneer Of
Sandusky, o., aged 103 Father Abram j. Ryan,
the "poet-prest of the South passed away at
Louisville native OF Virginia, aged As. The
widow of Wendell Phillips, who had been an in
valid ever since her marriage, half n century
ago. died in Boston. At Boston, II. II. Richard
son, famous architect.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
4 Hard Case.

Il was standin' on me bate at the
corner, yer honor"
"Chestnuts"
"And this lad, the prisoner, onsoolt-
ed me-"
"Ratsl"
"Those were his wurruds, yer honor.
livery tonne | addressed a remark to a
fellow-oflicer, this young reprobate in
throjuiced his slang, making me new
green necktie and white regulation
gloves subject of unpleasant re-
mark"
"Oh, cheese it, Gully! Yer givin'
taffy to der big wig. See here, your
honor, his jags--"
"Jags" gasped the Judge, "what
language is this?"
"His nibs, his giblets was drownedp
Drowned
Drowned; drunk. He'd bin lush
ing in de Blazing Rag saloon, and
couldn't navigate his pins. He tonight
he'd make de gang trob and trill wild
sense OF his autority, and we did him
up In thorough manner. He tried to
trow his club at us, and got thrun TO
der sidewalk, and run me in because 1
happened TO be near him."
It's a prevarication, your honor.
The law was onsoolted. He's harrud
CASE"
"Ten days in the house of correc-
tion."
What? See here, old snooze. dere
amt no justice in dat. 1 wasn't doing
nawthin, aid his outlets knows it. Ho
hain't got no authority to make no trets
agin me, nav he hain't, and trust mo
inter no dungeon. I've got political
influence, / have, and I'll have bot of
of you discharged. Who'll take a note
to de Mayor to come down here and
see about dis affair? What's de bank
going to do widout me? Ten daysl
I'll fix you, Mulcahy. when 1 get out
again l"-Chicago Ledger.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
MARCH.

On the 1st inst, President Cleveland sent to
the Senate special message declining to fur
nish unofficial documents relating to sSspen-
sions from Office, and claiming the right 70 de-
stroy them. Owing to threatened boycott, a
St Louis street-car line advanced wages of ON
ployes and reduced hours of labor. Owing TO a
strike Of employees on Goulds Southwest lines
of railroad, not single car of freight crossed
the st. Louis bridge for week The Iowa SEN
ate passed a bill making drunkenness mis-
demeanor punishable with severe penalties
Employees of the Gould system Of railroads in
the Southwest engaged in Il strike which re-
suited in bloodshed at East st Louis, Ill, six
persons being killed by Deputy Sheriffs who
were protecting railroad property: usual,
innocent parties suffered, one Of the slain be-
ing n woman returning from shopping expe-
dition. The King OF Corea abolished slavery in
his kingdom, where one-half the people had
hitherto been held in bondage
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
A Brief Synopsis of the Most No
table Political, Social, and
Financial Happenings.
Neurology of l8S6-Death's Busy Work
in the Ranks of the Worlds
Distinguished People.
The Casualty Record-A Catalogue of
Accidents Involving Loss of
Human Life.
CHRONOLOGY.
The Worlds noteworthy Social and
Political Happenings in 1886.
JANUARY.

In gymnasium at Binghamton, n. Y, VIM.
Dale swung lib Indian clubs hours so minutes.
In n bicycle contest at Minneapolis Woodside
covered 266 miles in 26 hours. Six hundred
Arabs slain in battle with British forces near
Kosheh. The twenty-ffth anniversary of En-
peror Williams accession 70 the throne OF
Prussia was fifty commomorated ut Berlin on
the sd. 1t was estimated that 900 coal miners
of the Pittsburgh district who had been on
four months strike, lost in wages nearly s2,OOO,-
600 operators suffered to n large amount by the
prolonged suspension. Miss Sarah Althea Hill,
of Sharon divorce notoriety, was married at
Stockton. Cal, to Judge David S. Terry, who
killed Senator Frederick in a duel IN 1899.
Austria spent S30,000,000 in arming her
infantry with new repeating rite,
the invention of n railway engineer.
Prince Charles of Monaco expelled the Jesuits
from his petty domain because they printed
list of suicidesat the Monte Carlo ganing-ta-
bles. blizzard swept over the Eastern States
on the 10th that was particularly severe; eight
vessels were driven ashore at Provncetown
and Truro, Mass. snow fell TO the depth of five
feet in many places in Maine and Vermont, the
tide along Cape Cod was the highest known for
years and it was estimated that more damage
was done on that part OF the coast in forty
eight hours than for the previous decade. The
Massachusetts Supreme Court decided that the
authorities could prohibit preaching on Boston
Common. Six inches of snow fell at Galveston,
Texas, on the 18th, the greatest that had been
Witnessed in that vicinity since the foundation
Moretown VT, fell to 40 degrees be-
low zero. Charles Bradlaugh, the atheist,
was permitted 70 take the oath and qualify as II
member of tho British Parliament at its open
ing on the 18th -Four children who we're sent
TO Paris from Newark, n. j. TO be treated for
hydrophobia by NJ. Pasteur reached home
safely and in good health. A Russian ukase
ordered the expulsion from that country of all
persons not naturalized, numbering 100 900.
Gold mine, yielding from 500 to $500 a ton dis
covered at Leaky, Texas. The tunnel between
Liverpool and Birkenhead, under the Mersey,
1890 yards long, and costing 100000. was
formally opened by the Prince OF Wales on the
Goth. Cincinnati theater name gers agreed 70
give no more Sunday performances. The Mis-
sissippi River was gorged with ice seventeen
inches in thickness, from the mouth of tire I'LL
nois to Ste Geneveve-a distance of sixty-hve
veafIn
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
DEIENIIiirR.

The ancient Church Of ST Mary Magdalen in
London with four warehouses on the same
street was destroyed 10y fire loss, $500. 600.
Thirty men were killed in n coal-mine explosion
in Durham, England During cyclone near
Algicrs, the French Steamer Chandernagore,
with l., 200 troops on bCa'd. foundercd and all
hands W, re lost. Forty-tWO lives we're lost by a
collision between two steamers i'm Australian
waters. by the loss of Al life-i oRt while endeHv-
orng TO relieve distressed vessel at southport,
England, thin teen men persisted. Great loss Of
life and property by floods was reported from
India. The Mississippi River steamboat J. NJ.
W hito, running between Nicksburg and New
Orleans, was DESTROYED by FIRE ar Bayou Sara,
La and between fifty and sixty lives lost. prin-
cipally W, men and children The Whaling bark
Atlantic was wrecked near san Francisco, and
twenty seven lives were lost.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-12-30
DECEMBER.

Among distinguished people who passed from
the stage OF life during December were: Con-
gresham VIM Il. Price. of the Eighth Wiscon-
sin District John Il. owens the veteran COM
edian, at his home in Baltimore native OF
England, aged 63. Isaac Lea distinguished
American naturalist; Philadelphia, aged 95
Representative Abraham Dowdney. OF New
York. whose taking off swelled the death-list of
the Forty Congress TO twelve. EX-Gov
Chas. NJ Croswell OF Michigan. Gen. VIM. G.
Harding, afamous turfman OF Tennessee, aged
49, Hon Marshall Il. Wilder, one OF the fore
most pomologsts OF the United States Rox-
bury, Mass, aged SO. james ID. Warren, pro-
prietor OF the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser,
and a leader OF the Republican party OF the
State OF New York Il t-Gov. Pitkin, OF Colo
RADIO. In Indian Territory, Mrs. Susanna War
rem. born n slave at st. Augustine in 1870. Alden
Goldsmith, famous trotting- horse breeder and
trainer; Blooming Grove, n. Y, aged 60.