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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-07
Manufactures of Cotton.

Cotton thread, yarn, warps, value not exceed
ing 40 cents per pound, 30 per cent. ad valorem (;
ad valorem. The present duties range from 10
cents on 2j-cent values to 30 per cent. ad val
orem on cotton valued at 81 per pound.
All cotton cloth. 40 per cent ad valorem, pro-
vided tarltans, mulls. and crinolines shall not
pay more than rs per cent ad valorem. The
present tariff divides cotton cloths into thirteen
classes, with duties ranging from 90 cents per
square yard for less than 1C0 threads to the
square inch to 40 per cent. ad valorem on col
ored cottons exceeding 200 threads to the square
inch.
Spool cotton, 40 per cent I'D vaiorem, now at
a minimum duty of per cent per twelve
spools. Ducks, linen, canvas. handkerchiefs,
lawns, or other manufactures OF fax jute, or
hemp not specially provided for. Is per cent
ad valorem, and linen collars, cuffs, and shirts,
80 per cent. ad valorem, now uniform ut 30 per
cent. ad valorem. Flax, hemp, and jute yarns.
rs per cent ad valorem, now 81 per cent. ad
Linen thread. Irvine, etc.. 95 per cent. ad va
lorem now 80.
Oilcloths, % per cent. ad valorem, now 40
Gunny cloth, % per cent. ad vaiorem, now
from to cents pcr pound bagging, Is per
cent. ad valorem, now Az; tarred cables and un-
tarred coTdage. - per cent t Id I'D valoren. now
ing, and unenumerated manufacture of hemp
and jute, IS per cent, now 80 to 35 per cent. ad
valorem.
Woods Placed on the Free List.
All woods. woels on the skins, shoddy, waste
etc., are placed on the free list after July /. ON
fannels, blankets WOODEN hats, knitted hoods
WOODEN or worsted yarns, and manufactures of
every description, composed wholly In part
OF worsted. 40 per cent ad valorem-the pres
ent section relating to this class Of goods ex-
cept such az are composed in part of wool.
Wooden and worsted cloths, shaw1s, and all
manufactures OF wool OF every description,
made wholly or in part Of wool or worsted, not
specially provided for 40 per cent. ad vx-@$-em
the present duties on hannels, etc range
from 10 cents per POUND and IS per cent. ad
valorem to IS cents per pound and 40 per cent.
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In Iowa.
burlington special.1


The strike has stopped all freight traffic
on the Burlington Railroad in Iowa, and
delayed passenger business. The officials
here say they are getting plenty Of good
men, and will soon have them at work.
Dispatches from other points in the State
show similar condition of things.
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some or the Reductions.

In addition to the free list the following are
some Of the most important changes proposed
by the bill China ornamented, as per cent. ad
vslorem. now 60 per cent. china. unornamsnt-
cd. and earthenware. 40 per cent ad valorem,
now about IS per cent: caustic tiles, 30 per
cent ad valorem. now rs per cent; green and
colored glass bottles. 81 cent per pound, now
cent; there Is also provision for adding the
value Of bottles when filled, to the value OF the
dutiable goods; flint aud lime glass bottles and
pressed glassware, 80 per cent. ad valorem, now
40 per cent. cylinder and crown glass. polished
and between "a by 80 and "a by 60 inches square.
10 cents per square foot; above that measure
ment, rs cents per square foot, now 20 and 40
cents unpublished cylinder crown and common
window glass. not exceeding 10 by Is inches,
cent per pound above that and not exceeding
10 by "a, Ia cents above that and not exceed
ing "a by 81. 1H cents; all above, Ia cents,
now rs, liz, 2ss, ga cents; porcelain and Boz
hemian glass, 40 per cent. I'd yalorem. now 40
per cent.
Iron in pigs. Kent ledge, So per ton, now $40
cent per pound iron railway bars Sill per ton.
now 7-10 cent per pound steel and part steel
railway bars and slabs and bllets of steel, Sill
per ton. now SIT per ton iron or steel rails Sl4
per ton, fat rails, SIS per ton. now 9-10 and $40
cents per pound, respectively; round iron. cent
per pound, now 2-1O cents per pound. On sheet
iron there is q uniform reduction of lilo cent
per pound, excepting taggers iron. On hoop,
band, or scroll iron less than three inches in
width there is reduction OF LILO cent per pound
on grades thinner than No. 10 wire gauge. Cast
iron pipe of every description. Clio cent per
pound, now i cent.
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Next week, -The Son Rejected Matt 81:
$40
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Nails and Manufactured Iron.

Cut nails and spikes OF iron or steel, cent per
pound, now Il cut tacks, 81 per cent. nd valo-
rem, now about3 cents per pound railway fish
plates, $40 cent per pound, now i "a; wrought
iron and steel spikes. hors sshoes etc liz cents
Anvils and forgings for machinery, IL cents
per pound. now 2; rivets, iron and steel, l'e
cents per pound now go hammers, crowbars,
and track tools, 13 cents per pound, now 21a {;
iron and steel axles, 10 cents, now 90, horse
shoes, bob, and wire nails, 2 y cents, now cents
per pound boiler tubes, y cents per pound
now B chains, iron and steel, not less than "a
inch, III cents per pound less than 2-inch, 14
cents per pound less than a, cents-now "a,
2, and 21o cents respectively.
Saws 80 per cent ad valorem, now 40 per
cent ; files, 3, per cent ad vulorem, now ral
ing from 35 cents to $3.50 per dozen.
Steel ingots, blooms, die blocks, blanks. bars,
bands sheets. crank shaft, and pins, stamp
shapes, gun molds stool castings, etc, valued
at cent a pound, 4-lU cent per pound valued
ut more than cent and not more than cents,
As per cent ad valorem-now A. per cont on
all values less than cents per pound, and
from TO 3L cents per ound on higher grades |;
iron or steel beams, Iosts, columns, building
forms, and other structural shapes, $40 cent
per FOUND, now Ia cents; steel or partly steel
railway wheels and tires. or ingots for the
same 10 cents per pound, now % cents.
Wood screws, 30 per cent, al valorem, now
from to ~ cents per pound.
Iron and steel wire remain unchanged, with
provision that no duty shall exceed ~ per cent.
ad valorem.
Old copper and copper clippings for remanu-
facture. cent per pound, now cents ingots
and Chill bars. 2 cents per pound, now rolled
plates, sheets, rolled pipes, ETC., 30 per cent.
Lead ore ana dross q cent per pound. now
10; pigs, bars, otc., for remanufacture, J. "a,
now cents; sheet, pipes, and shot. "a, now
cents sheathing and yellow metal, 80 per
cent. ad valorem, now 80.
Nickel. ore or matte. 10 cents per pound. or
nickel contained therein now Is cents.
Zinc and spelter in pigs or for remanufac-
ture IL cents per pound in sheets cents per
pound, now q and 2l3 cents respectively
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Furniture, Cutlery, Sugar, and Tobacco


Hollow ware, 2H cents per pound, now 3.
Needles Of all kinds, 20 per cent. ad valorem,
now IS and 80. PenkniNes, razors, etc, 30 per
cent ad valorem, now 90 per cent. Pcns, IS per
cent ad valorem, now IL cents per gross. Type
metal, Is per cent I'D valorem, now 20. Manu-
factures and wares not specially enumerated,
composed wholly or in part OF copper. 30 per
cent. ad vulorem, now uniform at 40 I'D
valorem.
Cabinet or house furniture. wood, 30 per cent
ad vaiorem, now IS; manufactures OF hard
woods, 80 per cent. ad valorem, now 35 /; wood
manufactures unenumerated, 80 per cent ad
valorem, now 30.
Sugar. not above No. 16 d. s., is as follows
Tank bottoms, sirups. etc.. not above 70 de-
grees polnriscope, 15-l00 cents per pound, and
for every additional degree 3-l00 cents per
pound above 10 ID. g. and not above 20, 2 DO
100 cents per pound above ~ ID. 5. Ga cents
per pound. The present duties range from
40-10O cents per pound below Ii ID. S. to 30
lower grade OF molasses is unchanged, but that
testing above 40 degrees is reduced from to
cents per gallon; confectionery, 40 cents ad
valorem, now 10 cents per pound.
All Leaf tobacco manufactured is fixed at 80
cents per pound. and the present distinc ton
between Sumatra and ordinary wrapping to-
bacco is abolished.
cents per pound. Rice, cleaned, cents un-
cleaned, IA; now "a and IA, respectively.
Rico-meaI or -four which Will pass through q
No. 10 brass wire sieve, 70 PER cent. ad valorem
present duty is the same, but the condition is
not imposed. Paddy, Scent per pound, now
IA Raisins, 10 cents per pound, now cents.
Peanuts, 2-cent per pound now cent shelie cd,
bottles, ground or preserved, cents per pound,
now TO-
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Notes on the Lesson for March
IL" Christ Entering Je-
rusaIem."

from the Chicago Standard
The lesson for above date may be found In
the first sixteen verses Of the twenty first
chapter Of Matthew.
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LATER NEWS.

THREE vessels laden with salt, bound for
Gloucester, Mass, have been given up for
lost. They carried forty-five men. The non
arrival Of the vessels has caused salt
famine. just at the season when there is be-
ginning to be big demand by both fisher.
men and factories.
THE bill passed by the Massachusetts,
House emitting women to vote on the license
question was defeated in the Senate by vote
of ii to Is.
AT North Manchester, Conn.,, the boiler Of
O. locomotive exploded, killing the engineer
and fireman.
THREE men were killed and several
wounded by the explosion of boiler in saw
mill at Cookeville, Tenn.
The distress Of the people in China from
the Ho-Nau foods is appalling, two million
being utterly destitute. The nearest towns
hive been invaded by hordes Of naked and
starving refugees, who devour everything.
DISASTROUS storms occurred in Spain and
much damage was done to property.
A MOB of Constantinople women besieged
the Office Of the Turkish Minister of Finance
in an effort to get the arrears of pensions due
their husbands and he fed for his life. They
trampled to death woman who sought to
calm them.
THE loss by the floods in Germany is $780,
100000. Twenty-nine lives and 10000 head
of cattle have been lost, and $4,000 people
have been made homeless in the valley of
the Nistnla
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle states

JAY GOULD and family have returned tc
their home in New York City. Mr.. Gould is
greatly improved in health by his long
cruise.
TREASURER ROYCE, of the Willimantic
(Conn) Savings Institute, nisappropriated
$780, 900 of the banks funds, and it has been
compelled to suspend.
THE legal effort to break the wills Of two
. prominent people-Samuel j. Tilden and
Mrs. A. I. Stewart-is being made simuli
taneously in the Metropolis.
A FRIGHTFUL collision occurred between
passenger trains at Wampum, Penn, in
injured.
PaeZ, the Venezuelan patriot, were escorted
to the dock in New York city by an imposing
military escort and placed on board the
United States steamer Pensacola, which will
convey them to his native land for burial.
THE State Committee, has decided to
hold the New York Republican State Con-
vention in Buffalo on May l6.
JOSEPH W. DRExEL the eminent banker,
of the firm of Drexel Morgan g. Co., died at
his residence in New York city, after
lingering inness g
MISSES MARGARET and Annie OReilly,
sisters of a prominent politician, were run
over and killed on a railway crossing at
Woonsocket, R. I.
The funds for operating the Auburn tN.
" Prison have been exhausted, and 900 pris-
oners are locked in their cells in inforced
idleness
NEW HAMPSHIRE has been alarmed by two
distinct earthquake shocks
Ex-L1EuTENAHT-GovER DoRsHE1MER,
editor of the New York Star, died Of pneu.
monia at Savannah, Ga
AN explosion Of nitro-glycerine occurred
at the aqueduct powder works Of l.. D.
Stickney, near Ards!ey, Westehester county,
N. Y, blowing six buildings into atoms and
killing two laborers.
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AN APPALLING CALAMITY.
Numerous German Villages
Washed Away by Floods.
Thousands Of People Lose Their
Entire Possessions.

A special dispatch from abroad to the New
York Herald gives the following details Of
appalling disasters resulting from foods in
Germany:
The Elbe, Nogat, vistula and Oder rivers
cover hundred miles wide in many dis
tricts.
Forty villages and hamlets have disap-
pearcd.
Miles of railways are practically atthe bot
tom of new lakes. Eight thousand persons
are homeless and ruined in circumstances
Much Of the area can never be drained
again, and even midsummer must find
thousands Of acres of farm land still sub
merged along the El6e. lcebergs
formed in the river dashing away
bridges, dikes and embankments-even over
leaping these-crushing houses as if they
were eggshells, drowning cattle and even
persons who were unable to escape the sud-
denness and velocity of the food.
Not only were the rivers overfown, but
melting snow from the land elevations added
new supplies Of merging waters. An en-
bankment on the Nogat River near where 1t
empties into the mouth of the Vistula, fine
piece Of engineering work, broke like a
thread, with the noise as of dozen krupp
guns exploding.
Berlin newspapers, which were recently
occupied in sympathizing with New York on
account of its snow calamity, are now wholly
absorbed contemplating the devastation at
home.
The floods also extended further south. A
whole district. that called Bodro2, in North
ern Hungary, was inundated, the rivers hav-
ing destroyed all dikes and swept away about
twenty villages.
pletely surrounded the town of Fehergyar-
,,,ot ,ybaro p,p,ornuc h0r1caS have fallen IN
| fifty villages of that district, which IS con-
yerted into henps of ruins. ani thousands OF
the inhabitants are left without shelter or
food.
The high waters from the Thesis and
| Szamos rivers, which have caused enormous
destruction of property on their way, have
now reached Szegedin, and the fat district
between Szegedin and Temesvar was threat
ened with submersion.
sent impossible to estimate, but it will
reach large proportions. Battalions
of engineers were despatched to points
along the Vistula and Elbe to rescue
| the inhabitants of towns and villages On
the Elbe fourteen soldiers were killed while
endeavoring to break an ice blockade by
blasting. ~.
The Warthe, a tributary of the Wis
tula, burst through its embankments
near the Russian frontier, and an ln!nda'
! ton ensued that laid a great part OF the
military city Of Posen under water. The
waters flooded the entire district Detach'
ments of soldiers were ordered to the lower
reaches of the river to blast the ice which
damned the floods.
The distress is very great and promises to
be more severe than was at first imagined 1t
coull be. Subscriptions to aid the sufferer:
have been opened by the Berlin newspapers
These papers also suggest that OIL De
laid before Parliament Immediately granting
| State assistance to the sufferers. many OF
whom have heen ruined by the unprecedent'
/ ed floods
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The Flowery Kingdoms Morals.

Taking into consideration the millionl
and millions of people who inhabit the
Flowely Kingdom, people often wonde1
why so few crimes are committed in thd
Empire, and why people live such quiet
neighborly lives. Petty thieving Is tho
most common offen:e, but the culprif
seldom repeats the crime if caught tho
first or second time.
Highway robbery is never repeated
the highwayman is caught, because, y
needs q head to plan such things, ano
once in the clutches of the Emperors
magistrate the bad mans head is taken|
away from him pretty quick. This i
what makes crime so unpopular N
China. So that the readers of the. World
NAV know how the various offenses, SO,
lightly punished in New York, ard
treated in China some of the more com;
mon crimes are given, together with the
penalty that follows discovery as surely
as the sun follows the moon.
For the first offense of petit larceny,
the culprit receives fifty lashes on the
bare back with a bamboo rod, five feet
long and five inches wide. For the
second offense he gets 100 lashes, and g
wooden collar weighing 100 pounds is
put around his neck. This ne must
wear ninety days and ninety nights
The wearer cannot seclude himself, but
must make calls upon his friends and
walk in the streets. This is compulsory
For all future offenses the penalty inI
croaees at the above rate. until the pris1
oner is reformed. /. 4
In simple assault and battery cases the
plaintiff must prove injury by showing
blood, otherwise he will be spanked
for making trivial complaints. For
breaking head the penaty is similar to
that for petit larceny, and for manning
it is life imprisonment. If the prisoner
is rich he can escape imprisonment BY
transferring as much Of his wealth to the
injured man as would secure him q ilfe
competence without work. In oil cases
bail is not accepted, except from men OF
great literary attainments, or degreed
Scholars of local or national reputation.
These men seldom give bail In criminal
cases, unless they are satisfied OF the
prisoners Innocence, and thenit is equal
to an honorable &C luittal. 3 -. /.
An appeal for pardon on behalf of any
criminal must be made through men OF
education holding diplomas from the
various colleges. In this way the wishes
of the people reach the throne.
For misunderstanding or blackmail the
offenders mouth is "spanked" so hard
that he cannot use it for some time.
Women arc principal recipients OF
this punishment. Any kind Of highway
robbery is punished by cutting of the
head of the offender, while forcible en-
trance with intent to do injury to. person
or property is punished by exile. y
Under no circumstances will the
scribes, or silent lawyers, of China allow
their names to be known in courts, the
duty of the judges being to find out for
themselves who is right and who 'ls
wrong. No matter if he is lawyer or
not, any man who aids another to evade
the law is guilty of treason. Ip all cases
plaintiffs and defendants plead their own
causes.-Mw York WJrld. ~
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south and West.

JAMES W. TATE, the absconding treasurer
of Kentucky, whose defalcation is now placed
at $3.50, 900, has been seen IN Canada. The
Legislature has decided to impeach him.
BALLARD BRoNsroN, son Of prominent
official, has killed the Sheriff of Madison
County, Ky.
THREE American rrospectors were killed
by Indians at Priest Lake, Washington
Territory.
MRS. JOSEPH PARKER, an insane woman
of Stewartstown, w. Va, saturated her
clothing with coal oil and set herself on fire.
Before her husband could come to the rescue
she met terrible death.
THOMAS BROWN, one of the men employed
to fill the places of the striking Burlington
engineers, was killed by unknown parties at
st. Joseph, Mo.
ALL tho switchmen and brakemen en-
ployed by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad have struck in aid Of the engineers.
recent killing Of six colored men, armed
whites have again murdered two negroes,
and Governor Ross has sent a troop Of
rangers there to suppress further out
breaks.
THE Georgia State Republican Convention
has met at SaunderSvile and elected delegates
to the National Convention, who are pledged
to support Senator Sherman for the Presi-
Dental nomination.
GOVERNOR Ross, of Texas, has promul-
gated call for an extra session of the Legls-
lature. This is made necessary to consider
the surplus in the State Treasury, which now
amounts to over sl0,0Oo,00O.
AT Frankfort, KY, Charles Merna, twenty
two years old, killed his aged father in a
trivial quarrel
WILLIAM McCHINE, of Timber Ridge, Va,
killed his wife during family dispute and
then committed suicide from remorse.
GREAT damage has been done to wheat and
fruits throughout illinois by heavy sleet-
THE charges Of gross cruelty and neglect
in the treatment of convicts made against
the warden Of the Arkansas State Peni-
tentiary have been sustained and his dis
charge and punishment recommended
THE Directors of the State National Bank
of Raleigh, N. c., have turned the institution
over to the United States authorities, because
the president and cashier have fled with the
funds.
The striking Burlington swtchmen were
80 turbulent and disorderly that Pinkerton
men were placed as q guard over the rail-
road property to prevent riot and deStruc-
ton.
JUDGE s. G. SHARP has been made Treas
urer of Kentucky to succeed absconding
Treasurer Tate.
The town of Reville, Dakota, was COM
pletely blocked in by snow drifts. The town
was absolutely without fuel, and people were
compelled to break up their furniture to burn
in their stoves.
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Mediterranean Spongcs.

That which constitutes the living por-
ton of the sponge is removed IN prepar-.
ing the sponge for market. The animal
proper covers the framework, and is OF
q ielly-like appearance like that OF other
low forms of animal life. Tasious open
inss and channels allow the passage Of
water through all parts of the mass, and
the gelatinous portion has microscopic
hairs which are capable of rapid notion
and by their means water is drawn into
and forced out of the sponge. When
divided, the living sponge seems to
suffer no Inconvenience, but each part
sets up on its own account, lives on as if
nothing had happened, and it becomes
two spongcs. -
1.-The best sponge of commerce, said;
q William street dealer to day, in speak,
inc to a reporter, sis found in the Medi-,
terranean, and is known as Turkey or
Smyrna sponge. This is obtained by,
divers, Iahama or West India SPONGE
is coarser, and is sold at much less
price. Much sponge is gathered off the
coast of southern lorida.
How arc they gathered" :
"Sponges, when seen on the bottom
attached to the rock, look like big
BLACK bunch. They are pulled OF their
natural beds by forked hooks which are
run down under the sponge, which is
formed like the head of a cabbage, and
the roots pulled from the rocks. When.
brought to the surface it is mass Of
soft, glutinous stuff, which to the touch
feels like soap or thick Jelly. When
small boatload is obtained they are taken
to the shore, where a crawl is built, in
which they arc placed to die, so that the
ielly substance will readily separate
from the firm fibre of the sponge. These
crawls are built by sticking pieces of
brush into the sand out of the water
large enough to contain the catch. 1t
takes from five to six days for the insect
to die, when the sponges are beaten
with small sticks, and the black glutin-
Gus substance falls off, leaving the
sponge, after thorough washing, ready
for market. Mail and Eepress. :,
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WORDS OF WISDOM.
Be ever saving.

Be ever saving.
Keep your temper.
Preserve self:possession, and do not
talked out of conviction.
Be punctual and methodical in bus
ness, and never procrastinate.
Be not forward to assign reasons
those who have no right to ask.
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, an
forgets the obligations of gratitude.
The easiest thing in the world to fin
is fault. Even blind man can fin
fault. .-'.,.-s =: ~ 4
Good qualities, though hidden, I'D
come unveiled and shine throughout th
world.
Ofttimes the blackness which we be
lieve we see in others is only our owl
, shadow. ....
According to the security you offe|
her, Fortune makes her loans easy q
ruinous. ..".
A lie has no legs and cannot stand
but it has strong wings and can fly tai
and wide.
The desire of more and more rises b
natural gradation to most, and afte1
that to all. &sG
1t ill corresponds with profession o]
friendship to refuse assistance to afriend
in the time of need.
If you do not ccnsure until you hay1
heard both sides, you will have much
less to regret, and your opinion will bi
worth more. ..gss,.
If we could read the secret history o1
our enemies we should find in each man'a
life sorrow and suffering enough to,disI
arm all hostility. IS
The harvest of useful labor is less exI
hausting in the long run than exciting
pleasures, as most of the devotees u
middle life sadly confess.
If good people would but make good.
ness agreeable and smile instead o.
frownlng in their virtue, many would
they gain to the good cause. t4,a