The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-02-24
Personalities.

Hon. A. II. STEPHENS weighs seventy
four.
Gov. ALcoRN's message was sixty feet
long.
CHARLOTTE CUsHMAN has taken resi-
dence at Newport, r. |.
GEN. McCLELLAN's salaries aggregate
So, 900.
The stockholders family free list has
| killed Brigham Young's theatre.
THE Cincinnati Commercial published
| the Grafton Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
under the head of Emerson's Pilgrim
Progress"
Mr.. THos. A. CAREw has a bas.reHef OF
Horace Mann on exhibition at Childs'
art 1tore in Boston.
-CARLorrA PATTI has lost greatly by
spurious tickets at Rio Janeiro. Seven
hundred dollars worth were taken in
one evening.
Mr.. w. T. SIMMs, Of Sumter county,
Alabama, recently lost three children
in one night, by cerebro spinal menin-
gifts.
b. X. SEAMAN, Of Iowa Falls, offers 81
to any young person who will spell $50
words correctly, according to the rules
of phonetics.
A CLERGYMAN at Oakland, Cal, was
caned recently, by the husband Of Il
woman he had slandered in that happy
land of canin'.
Ex-Gov. A. r. ALLEN, of Quincy, Flor,
| ida, has been arrested and carried 70
Jacksonville, charged with violating The
enforcement law.
The camp table of the King of Prus.
| STA is graced with the curious, thin, well
worn, old historical plates which the
Great Frederick took to the wars with
him.
FATHER HYAcINrHE contemplates an
other visit to the United States next au-
tumn, convinced that he did not see
half enough Of the country when he was
here before.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT's application
for delay in the hearing of the dividend
tax case of the New York Central Rail.
road before the Commissioner of Jnter-
nal Revenue has been granted.
A LETTER to Victor Emanuel congrat,i-
lating him on the thorough establish.
ment of Italian unity, signed by men
prominent in mercantile, social and
scholarly position, headed by Governo,
| Claflin, is soon TO be sent from Boston.
On Wednesday last, Hon. A. B. Bacon,
Of the editorial staff of the New Orleans
| Pic ,yune, died, after distinguished and
honorable career as journalist and law
yer in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG testified her
good opinion Of the Woman's Christian
Association in Cincinnati by sending
the young ladies belonging to that SO
ciety free tickets to the performance OF
the oratorio of the Messiah.
JACOB TREES and Sarah Trees, OF
Shelby county, Ind, for tifty-nine years
husband and wife, died within four
hours of each other about two weeks
ago. Both were attacked at the same
time and with the same disease.
JAMES A. RUSSELL, father of Adiutant
General Russell Of Pennsylvania, died
at Bedford, in that State, on the Doth
ult., at the age of eighty.five years. Mr..
Russell was reputable lawyer, and had
a successful practice for nearly sixty
years.
DR.. HOLMES says: Walking is q per.
petual falling, with perpetual self
recovery. 1t is a most complex, violent
and perilous operation, which we divest
of its extreme dinger only BY continual
practice from a very early period o.
life"
THE Atlanta Constitution says DR.. Nc.
Cowen, of Jonesboro', Ga, has brought }
"a monstrosity to that city TO have il
preserved in alcohol. 1t was an infant
whose face bore a striking resemblance
to the common screeching owl, the
brains being massed in the back part Of
the head.
To THE Missouri Historical Society has
been presented a letter written by Dan
lei Boone, which reads as follows: 81
certify that ] gave permission to Benja-
min Gardner to satel on a pies of vacant
land coal Little Purray, on the Missury,
some time in December, 1902 Given
under my hand this Odd day of Febury,
1906. DANIEL BOONE"
A CORRESPONDENT inquiries whether the
poem of Mr.. Bryant entitled "Thana-
topsis' has ever been translated into
| cltHer Uerlnan or Italian. III mas becn
translated into German half dozen
times, but we are not aware that there
Is any printed version of it in Italian.
SERGEANT RoBINsoN, who saved Secre-
tary Stewards life at the time of the as
sassination Of President Lincoln, has
received a favorable report upon the
petition for an appropriation of 5000.
| lie is unable to do heavy labor on &C.
count of his wound then received.
GEORGE FISH, of South Dover, Me-,
aged seventy.eight years, both of whose
hips are out of joint, so that he can only
get about on crutches, has collected at
farm houses in the surrounding country,
and brought into Bangor, with one
horse, the past season, $500 dozen eggs,
which he sold for 1927.