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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29
A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
An American Divine and His Family MUIR
dered i'm Honduras.
Now York telegram.1

New York telegram.l
News has been received from Costa RIGA
of a terrible tragedy which occurred on the
island of Ruatan, which is off the north
coast of Honduras.
The Rev. Mr.. Hobbs, Baptist minister
from the United States, had been living
at Florus bay with his wife and his little
daughter He was preparing TO leave the
island and had sold his property, receiving
for it 500 in gold. Shortly before his in
tended departure a neighbor called to bid
him farewell. He knocked at the door,
and receiving answer entered the house,
the door being un ocked.
Finding no one i'm the hall or parlor he
called again. There was no response
Alarmed, he searched the house, and,
opening the bedroom door, a sickening
spectacle met his eyes Mr.. Hobbs, his
wife, and child were dead, with their
skulls smashed, their heads being nearly
severed, and their bodies covered with
wounds. They had evidently been muir
dered in their sleep. TIE bodies were
cold, the blood which was spattered about
the room was dry and clotted. The muir
der must have been committed two DAYS
before. The money had disappeared.
A shipwrecked sailor, a Jamaican named
Burrell who had been taken i'm out OF
charity and cared for by the family, elso
disappeared about the same time and was
arrested just as he was about leaving tho
Island on n fishing smack three days after
the discovery of the murder. He obsti-
nately declared his innocence, but a por-
ton of the missing coin was found upon
his person, aud he has been committed for
trial
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Glorious years, whose splendor brishtens the
kaleidoscope of timel
Still their specter hands have swayed US, reach
ing upward from the grave,
And they still shall guide The nation which they
gave their lives TO save,
For they did the deeds of Tilans, and from shin
ing sea 10
Left our starry banner floating DER n land re-
deemed and free;
And where'er their bones ace resting, tho their
name no mortal knows,
Liberty shrine is keeping where the fire Of
freedom glows.
But. alas the mounds grow thicker with each
swift returning year,
And they sleep who stood beside when the
last sweet May was here.
Soldiers Of the great Grand Army. You who
stood side by side
With the comrades who are sleeping meath tho
fag for which they died
You who marched through mailing bullets and
stood face To face with death,
Yet escaped from his embraces, though YOU felt
his fiery breath,
BY the love YOU bore the comrade who fell by
your side that day,
Who had shared with you the marches and the
foray or the fray,
Guard the memory of the fnllen-keep IL free
from every stain.
Let no envious tongue defame them, and no
traitorous heart arraign
Yours the triumph and rejoicing, and the vic
tors crown of bay
Theirs the suffering aud the silence, and the
low-arched roof OF clay;
Yours tho Joys OF use and labor but beneath
your marching feet
lie their manhoods pride ana valor, and their
hopes rs fair aud sweet
Hearts that beat with love and daring, hands
that held sacred trust
And fulfilled 1t nobly, grandly, now are only
heaps OF dust.
since you marched with them TO battle shared
their danger and their pain,
You are heirs Of all their glory-let them not
have died in vain
Soldiers If the Silent Army! You whose half
told DAYS shall shine
On the calendar OF ages with a.radiance divine
You whose memory IL the anchor of our coun-
try S stonn-tossed bark,
Binding her 10 truth aud freedom when the skies
yelled and dark
You whose sightless eyes behold us aud whose
shadowy forms are near,
Rouse your spirits from their slumbers aud our
heartfelt pledges hear.
BY the sky which arches DER you, bright with
summers loveliest blue,
BY the garlands that we bring you, smiling
through their tears OF dew,
BY each fond remembrance clinging 10 the
earthly forms you wore,
BY each heart that broke with anguish when
you fell TO rise more.
by each hope that faded with you from loves
shining morning sky,
BY each life whose JOY departed when you laid
you down 10 die,
BY the banner that you gave us, free from every
spot and ain,
Never, while the crimson eblood courses
swiftly through each vein,
Shall the land which you enfrauchsed bear a
tyrant a slave
While is soil supports footstep or it's depths
afford grave
NNETTE NJ. LowATER.
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The world has reached an end. that mis-
horse came in behind. that his cashier has
skipped, that his consulship has been given
to another man. that his last great book
las been returned. that his play Is fail
ure. and that he wants TO die. OF course
hen we must be strong and firm, and full OF
heart and courage. That Is the time he Is
doing the clinging- vine business. and we
must be the oak. But when things go well.
we shall best please him. best hold him.
best be sure of him. by remembering how
much the man likes 10 have his chiefship.
his strength. his muscle, his manliness en-
phasized by dependence, curves, irou-frOuS
and iemninity in US. We will bring AN this
out in the pretty house gowns that have be-
come fashionable. won't We?
Shall / come right down 10 descriptions
OF tho sketches have made' Number one
has princess back fitting closely. and is
made OF richly heavy silk. with n pale
ground. and lowered in harmonizing pale
shades. kevers in front are of velvet, taking
the darkest shade found i'm this silk. and the
girdle also is OF velvet. The front Of the
gown is lace-the very daintiest. cobweb bi-
est lace-over plain silk OF either the shade
Of the ground OF the other silk, or. If you
want TO be very French, shade to match
some other delicate one found in the flow
ering. This color. you see, will CLEAN
through the lace. Now il YOU can afford il.
have the Towering of the la-e painte Tor
do the painting YOURSELF. using only such
shades as are found in the silk used for the
back Of the dress. II you don't like. or
can't afford painted lace, outline the design
in the lace with silk floss. using the colors
suggested, with now and then. 10 give char
acter 10 the design. "A shade To match the
velvet used in the costume. Is not the
idea pretty? Suppose your dominant
color be pale-green. That is the ground Of
the material used for the back. The color
under the lace should be palest pink found
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rugged pine alike. While Rus sia expends $780,
100000 annually on war and SIJ.OO).0lO on edu-
cation, America with nearly IN equal pOpula-
ton, devotes S450OOC0O 10 the support or the
military and 800 90 to instruct the ignorant.
It's 81 900 ante-War churches have grown 10 y 0O0
its - 900, 900 90 debt shrunk 10 nearly halt
and the mighty pathway OF steel that scales the
Rockies and intersects South. North and East.
tells OF the progress that has replaced the bullet
with the ballot, and made OF friend and foe "A
vast army OF peace, with hatred and bloodshed
unknown-merged under the lilies the roses,
the magnolias, the tears, the hopes, the tender
holiness OF a great national Decoration Day.
WELDON j. COBB.
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stacked their arms aud surrendered 10 The final
conqueror One Of the principal features OF
Vicksburg is this vast cemetery. The rough and
rugged hills which form part OF the Father OF
Waters have been IN shioned into place Of pro
foand beauty and inpressiyeness. Forty-seven
acres iuclosed, H. the Improvement Of which
the Gove-amefft has expended more than
500 COO Ten men. under charge of n SUI
peTintordcnt-a private soldier from Ohio-are
constantly employed Ia keeping fairgrounds i'm
order. On the most elevated point stands the
monument or what ia left of IL, originally
erected on the spot where Grant and PeIRbertOn
arranged for the surrender after the long and
terrible siege. Relic hunters had 30 deiaced IL
by chipping eft pieces that 10 save IL from utter
destruction Il was removed TO the cemetery aDd
a cannon substituted Below sweeps the ma
jestic river but since the siege IL avoids the
town aud strikes the bluff mile or 40 below the
old landing The former bed of the river Is now
lake, and where the great gunb as lay aud
belched Are and destruction into Ia devoted CT y
a. now a BANK OF sand covered with growth OF
coarse grnsses and underbrush All around the
city are signs OF combat.
ssuch war. such waste. sueh fiery tracks Of
dcartn."
Nature, however, "a busy repairing tho raw
ages OF man. With the magic use OF sunshine
and rain she is smoothing tho carthworks and
SLING mp the rife PTS
In this Vsek sburg city OF silence. with moro
fnhabi, ants than I'm the living city, there are
twelve thousand seven hundred and ten graves
marked with boadstones which bear numbers
only, the occupants being unknown. The bones
OF these unidentified sleepers were gathered
from battlshelds near aud remote, and brought
is p contract. price was givon for each, sud
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brave without caring for the color OF hts Jacket.
because ne was somebody's son. are to-day
t4-shing lessons OF beauty and love that ennobls
tfie rising generation, who perpetuate the valor
OF their predecessors as sons OF veterans.
The nineteenth century, so nearly at It's end.
will 60 into history memorable for great deeds
OF war and peace alike-with the battle OF
Waterloo and that OF Gettysburg chronicled in
the same volume with the development OF cleo
tricity and steam for these are the military and
civil revolutions which have changed the
world. And yet, amid all this century
OF mighty deeds, the American conflict stands
pre-eminent for fts influence on mankind. IL
was not war for boundary or power, 10 es-
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fact should promote national unity and good.
feeling, in the yearly pilgrimage of the blue and
gray to the shrine OF those who were once
deadly enemies.
Peace hath its victories no less renowned
than war" and the three million colOnists OF
the Revolution. merged into the sixty millions
OF to-day, see new stars added to the glorious
banner that waves under tho magnolia and the
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its colrfs with those OF buds and blossoms. and
" monument OF Gods past goodness aud a
prophecy of His continued mercy.
On the twenty-frst Decoration Day OF history
tde roll OF the famous deal Includes Thomas.
Garfield, Hancock Grant, Logan. and Sheridan
But one o. the crea, l,adcrs. sherman, survives
and, however sadly his thoughts may 60 back
Dver the 6elds that trembled with he tread Of
marching millions, the glory and pride OF peace
accomplished must thrill his heart, coming
trc-n every hamlet and city. North South,
East or West, where blue and gray cross hands
rvef tho last battle III ld-the grays.
The occasion OF great ma ional centennial
has pre- AIRED the public to commemorate this
years Decoration Day in a more ma ked and in
telligent manner than over before Tho two oc-
easions are rife with historic aud pathetic
teminiscence aud he 30th Of April and the 30th
of May. 1889, will be long-remenbcrCd days in
the memory OF those Who may live u see the
last OF the veterans OF the great vnr follow
their leaders 20 the silent camping ground
The spirit and genius OF the commemOTatiOn
that Logan set apart ms n national annual event
become more vivid and sentient To arouse aud
thrill, as the slower step the winter head. the
rarer presence OF those who followed the flag to
victory tell that soon they, too, will slunber
under garlands OF tear ieweled flowers.
Decoration Day has become n ma ional yvary
pilgrimage. but, unlike that OF the devotee Of
Mahomet, or the knight of the cross the Jour-
ney rs peaceful one, aud lies through bea 1ti-
ful land. NO blood-siained ruins border it-no
weapons and nrmor beteck the traveller aud
there are no footsore penitents or ad I'll knights
at arms anieng the thrcng This pilgrimage IL
not one OF strife or fanaticism. but OF love aud
peace, while at its end stands the immortal
shrine OF liberty
Every succeeding Decoration Day has evil
denced the fact hat the survivors OF the var
have not consider ed their work n an end Wi n
the terminat ion OF hostiities They were on
listed for lie, and action and progress have
marked their purposes. whenever n worthy CON-
pauion in aims In sickness distress aud
sweet charity has shone forth lust GU :
beacon-lght OF bcnehcenee. Those angels OF
mercy, too. the lalies % the Relief Corrs who
telderly boand up the vesras of u Needing
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fault in feshing about the base Of the throat
and the collar bone may not be noticed
when the dress is cut in wide sweep from
shoulder 10 shoulder. The drawing. how
ever. betrays only that part Of the shout
ders at the rise of the throat. which. while
most dainty ana graceful If well curved and
plump, is most likely TO be not quite fault
less. The third gown is cut more safely.
Until we are used to this new fashion il
looks a little bare and unfinished. but Ii is
undeniable that n round white throat is
better barred than hidden under a stiff col
lar, and that often the spring of the head
from the back is graceful. When well dis
played it often lends dignity 10 the entire
poise. BY the way, woman with we'll
set head Is seldom an awkward woman. A
pretty variation of the gowns here given.
and one which adjusts them 10 the new
Empire craze. Is to let the girdle effect come
jHst under the breast line. This empha-
sizes the curve OF the bust without robbing
tho front OF the dress OF the long sweep OF
folds 10 the floor.
Really. any woman who does not in these
days dress charmingly should be fined.
ANY woman who docs not dress daintily at
home should be treated with that figor
which was Of old accord 10 shrews. / am
old fashioned enou IN TO think woman
should meet her husband with smile"
when he comes home. i am OF the opinion
that a pretty house dress will materially
assist the smile. / have much faith in the
influence Of fnrbelows and femtninities over
men. or course, thu y like US to look de-
lightfully self and capable on
horseback. They fancy the amazonian sug-
cestiOns of tailor made gowns, tennis rigs.
fencing costumes, rowing get-upS, walking
outfits. shooting suits. and bath abbrevia.
tons: but they like TO find the Amazon re-
solved. upon occasion, into a slip of soft
surah and ioaming lace. looking like IA bub-
ble on bowl OF suds. or n pale tinted rib
bon t>Ssed over bunch OF roses. Houwill
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tablish the authority OF king, to set up new
government IL was TO establish principle. to
iX IA doctrine Of the people. To strengthen the
old regime, and the strife that ragged from Sum-
ter to Appomattox was IA holy cause, sacred TO
liberty, and consented TO freedom by the cere-
monies OF Decoration Day The plowshare now
fills the ruts or cannon wheels, and fields of
carnage have become fields OF harvest. The
tendency of the custom OF Decora ion Day is
wholly in the line OF peace and national brother
hood The people OF the country frater-
nized The originator OF the ceremony of Dec
Grafton Day was Confederate, it is said and this
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HIS verse. from n Con-
federa.e officers poem,
is cast in bronze aud set
up with other lines of
similar sentiment I'm
nation "a |
cemeteries. where sleep
those who died that "un-
der God. < government Of
the people. by the pee
pie. aud for the people
not perish from
the earth. The largest
cemetery maintained by
the Government Is here,
at the chief city Of the
Bnvou state. There are
10 COS headstoues In this
great assembly OF the
deals llliiers that have
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MATRIMONIAL SURPRISE
MRS. FOLSOM MARRIED. TO A Buzz
FALO MAN.

hrs. CIeveland's Mother a Bride-Ths Ell
Presidents Wife Attends the Ceremony
at jackson, Mich.-A Buffalo Merchsns
the Happy Groom.
jackson (Aiich.) telegram
Mrs. Oscar Folsom. the mother OF Mrs.
Grover Cleveland. was married here To
Henry T.. Perrine. Of Buffalo. N. Y. Mrs.
FOLSOM has been living In Jackson for some
time. coming here shortly after Mr.. Cieye-
hand retired from the White House. Mr..
Perrine had been a widower for two years.
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and Mrs. Folsom had
long been a friend OF
the Perrine house,
hold. Mrs. Cleveland
arrived on the after
noon train from the
East. and so quiet had
the matter been kept
tn at not thirty people
knew of her coming.
She stepped from the
train wearing % blue
Henrietta. with a
black cloth slashed
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N time OF trouble we
w o m en- m ust be
strong. IL Is always
so. w h o n j o h n
comes home Wild
eyed. his hair half
pulled out. and his
mustacho C o m IS d
up one side and
down the OF h err;
when no PAGES the
floor or fiops with
his head buried in
our lap. and says
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AT Baltimore, Nd, the passenger
steamer Johns Hopkins, OF the Merchants
and Miners Transportation Company.
was totally destroyed by FIRE The vessel
is valued at $3.50, 900. Loss ON cargo.
$50. 900.
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xroea scoured ths country FOR sheletons. M

negroes secured the country for skeletons 10
IL claimed that old negro graveyards were
robbed and their contents brought 20 this place
OF beauty, and laid side by side with the brave
boys OF the northland who died In the heat and
dust, in the cold and ram. with wounds and
with fever, and so far away from home. Peace
and pity for the soldier but what of the mer-
cenary who for his pieces of silver practiced
such wicked nposition2 or the stones stand
ing at the head OF each grave. only three thou
sand eight hundred and ninety-six contain i'm
scriptions, which include name, company and
regiment. and I'm case of officers the rank. The
headstones here and I'm most OF the cemeteries,
were furnished by kcokuk iowa firm, the i'm
scriptiOns being made by the sand blast process.
At Chalmette Cemetery, just below New Or
leans, there are IL. 25l graves with 1914 un-
known occupants. The hospitals contributed q
full share To the known dead OF Chalmette.
This cemetery covers ffteen and half acres,
and is a part OF the site OF the battlefield on
which Jackson repulsed Pakenham's men and
snved Now Orleans during the war OF l6l2-14.
which event is duly commemonted ON the eth
OF January every year by the people OF the
Crescent City. The cemetery wall crosses the
line of earthworks thrown up by the Ameri-
cans, and on which the cotton bales were placed
10 give additional protection from the bullets OF
the invaders. The location Is greatly unlike
that at Vicksburg. Here the ground is as level
as door, with the surface OF the river above.
the water kept from submerging IL and the sur
rounding country and city only by mere wall OF
earth there the white headstones are scattered
over hills high above the swelling floods here
the eye sweeps up and down long rows, twenty
four in number, each half mile in length, in
all twelve miles OF graves in both shell roads
and walks, and flower beds and evergreens
tstically arranged. The roses and trees are
fragrant and the heavy foliage droops IL In
everlasting sorrow the thick -leaved ambrosial
live oaks, the heavy trailing creepers OF the
vines, the magnOlias and myrtles, the light
swaying banners OF the moss, all bending low as
IL in funeral mourning Near by the Chalmette
cemetery is the tall shaft built in 1885 by Con-
gress In honor OF Jackson's victory. 1t shows
the effects OF time, the brick foundation Is mol
dering away the interior stairway broken and
dangerous under foot and year or two ago the
top OF the marble pile was knocked of by light
ming. The neglected monument stands in rice
field, inaccessible during the growing season,
owing TO the water, and from sight seekers
mutely
~Implores the passing tribute OF sigh"
The total number OF interments in the vari-
Gus national cemeteries reaches the great figures
of 30S ,33l, OF which there 152 2l7 known
whites and 1885 unknown; colored known,
l3OO5; and 20,505 unknown; and Confederate
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Mrs. YoUNGwIFR-W What is this cloth
thing, George, that looks like the leg
of a shrunken pair of trousers? Mr..
Youngwife-Why, that's my gun-case.
Mrs. Youngwife-O, yesl One of those
things they call gun-breeches.
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war arc not Nil gathered I'm ma iona Cemeteries
none but those OF the victors There are many
o,her graves I'm the south which enfold soldiers
"a vaiorous those from he North.
sad chance OF vari Now destitute Of aid.
Falls undistinguished 10y the victor sp de-
Nature deco rases the graves Of the undiscov-
cred dead, scattering Wild Gov ers with gentle
h1nd alike upon tho resting places OF both tho
.ictors aud the yanGaished.
MOSES 10, soN
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OUR FASHION LETTER.
DAISY DARTS DISSERTATION ON
DRESS.

The Homo Mannerisms of stylish Women
Some Pretty Feminine Costumes-Use-
ful suggestions To the Fair Sex About
Dressing.
NEW YORK coRRFsPoNDENCE.l
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THE fifteenth annual convention OF
the National Journeymen Horseshoers'
Association met ut St Paul, Mimi, forty
of the sixty-four subordinate organiza-
lions being represented.
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THE immense plant of the Port Evant
and Fayre Lumber Company NJ Pc ring
ten, Miss, was destroyed by FIRE, entail
ing loss ot Sis 100.
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Memorial Day.
r. f. PRETLow.

ME- uEhln lllC NAihil
ing seasons bring tho
nation s sacred day,
When our gifts Of tears
and Garlands on our
heroes graves we lay ;
Field and garden yield
their treasure masses
fair of beauteous
bloom,
Each n message OF re-
nembranco bearing
10 the lowly tomb.
Imblems are they OF
the fallen, whom the
springing gras e $
hide,
If their hopes, so fair
and glowing, stricken
in their MONDAY
pride;
4ong their sleep and
deep their slumber
through tho years of
49,.
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PETER GIEFER, while assisting in
turning nm engine on the turn-table at
Huron. ID. T., was struck on the head by
the turn-table crank and instantly killed.