The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

Mexican Buchanan. a retired nav.
master of the United States navy. died
at the Boston Navy-YMd Sunday, aged
"A years.
Two more persons, a servant, Annie
Ryder, and Timothy Ahren, laborer,
were killed in New York Wednesday
by swallowing carbolic acid, by mistake
for brandy.
Judge Ellis Lewis, late Chief JUS
tice Of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania, died on the Goth, at West Phila.
delphia, aged "A. He was the first
Judge elected by the people.
The superintendent of general re-
cruiting in New York has orders TO for
ward 200 recruits from his depot to the
depot at Louisville, to be assigned to the
military division of the South.
-lnfanticide among the poor at New
York is growing alarmingly common.
The police say there are forty or fifty
cases of infanticide every week among
the tenement house population, but that
the crime cannot be detected.
Serious trouble is feared in Newark.
y. j., from the Roman Catholics. who
nave threatened TO mob the Baptist
church and its members, because their
clergyman has baptized girl of Catholic
parentage, who declines to return home
any more. The Catholics declare they
will have the girl anyhow, and the Bap-
lists are determined 10 defend her.
AT a session of the Fenian Brother
hood on the 22d, John Savage, the Chief
Executive, made long address. He
took occasion 10 rebulle the exiles re-
Gently arrived from Ireland for their
dictatorial course in seeking TO destroy
the Fenian organization in this country,
that they might establish Il secret di-
rectory composed of themselves, for the
custody of the funds of the organiza-
ton. The resolution not to yield the
name Fenian was enthusiastically
cheered.
Will Nandeveer. a member of the
Hook and Ladder Company. was arrest
ed in Ellenville, Ulster county, y. Y,
on the 22d, charged with originating the
recent heavy fires there. The proof
against him Is overwhelming, and the
people are much excited. 1t is stated
that his entire company was cogni2ant'
of his acts. and at his last fire all OF
them were in uniform in the middle Of
the night, ready to run.
The West.
Alex. Rodgers was killed Saturday
night, in Chillicothe, near the railroad
depot, by an unknown person.
Peter Mitchell one of the crew of
the schooner Spy, fell overheard and was
drowned in Milwaukee river Saturday
night.
Charles Koffe, laborer employed as
a section man by the Illinois Central
railroad, was run over and killed by the
passenger train Saturday between Ray.
mond and Waterloo.
A saloon-keeper at South Haven.
Mich, named Figgles, was shot and in
stantly killed, on the 18th inst. by a
Towdy named Smith, during a quarrel
over the price Of drinks. Smith was
arrested.
Some of the Western, members of
Congress have received memorials repre-
senting that drunkenness is the great evil
and parent OF most of the vices that are
distractions of our institutions, and
that the time has come when the
natiosal sentiment would be pleased
with pronounced and decided posi-
ton in favor of sobriety ; they therefore
ask Congress for such action as will sub
.iect all United States officials to impeach
ment and removal for voluntary drunk
ness.
"A singular bold robbery, committed
at the Wendell house, Cleveland
Tuesday morning, has just been
made public. J. J. Hirchtield, COM
mercial traveller for New York
manufacturer of meerschaum and amber
goods, put up at the Wendell on Sunday
He was given a room on the second
floor, whore he spread out his goods. On
Monday morning, while absent at break
fast from : TO s o'clock, his room was
entered by the transom window, and
$500 worth of goods were carried off,
The detectives are working up the case
and profess to be on the track of the
thieves.
AT Columbia, Mo-, on the DIST inst,
Maj. A. J. HARRISON shot and fatally
wounded man named /. 5. Garrett
The shooting was done in selfdefense.
HARRISON is an attorney.
Hon. f. w. Nisbet, former Judge of
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and a
member of the United States Congress
$3.50, and member Of the Confed.
crate Congress, died on Sunday, aged
6S years.
A Washington special says There
are 326 defaulting revenue collectors in
the United States, and the total amount
of their Indebtedness foots up over
S2O,OO0,000, six twentieths of which is
due from ten individuals.
The United States steamer Tennes-
see, with the San Domingo Commission
on board, arrived at Key West, Fla. on
the morning of the DIST, five days and
six hours from Kingston. The whole
party, including the officers and crew of
the ship, were in excellent health.
Mount Comfort, place three miles
north of Fayetteville, Ark, was the