The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-07

Grne Nortberner.
FAw Paw, MICHIGAN, July I, 1871.
InraI department.
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BUCHAFAN.-We learn from the Record that
a collision occurred on the Central road at Bu-
,chanan last Friday, between the mali train
bound east and freight train
DEATH OF BIsHoP.-Blshop Lauers, of Fort
Wayne, Ind. died at Cleveland. OF appopexy.
on the morning OF the 10Th OF June. He ar
rived at that place on the previous Tuesday,
evening to confer orders on Roman Catholic
Seminary.
SUIcIpE.-Charles Kingsley, well-to-do
farmer living near Cassopolis, committed SUI
eide on the 26th OF June, by hanging himself
with q rope. No cause for the rash act has
been assigned 30 far as we learn.
At the Flint Races horse Was found who
actually made his mile in 24S and won the prize
offered for that time. The horse would have
done his mile in 2:30 il the distance bad not
been too great for that time.
STILL PERsIsTANT.-Judge Stuart, who de-
tended Foster, who murdered Putnam with
car-hook, is still persisting in his endeavors to
obtain stay Of proceedings and an arrest OF
judgment in the case, and thereby save the
neck OF the bully-rufian and shoulder-hitter
from the just and merted doom Of the halter
CLosED.-E. b. Talcott & Co.. OF Chicago
ILL.,, have closed a contract with the Continental
Improvement Company for the grading and
preparing for the iron, the road bed Of the
Grand Rapids and Indiana rail road from the
present terminus to the Manistee river. dis
lance Of some sixty miles. The work is to be
completed within one year.
The Northerner has several hundred pages Of
manuscript on hand and contemplates the
commencement Of the publication OF a series
OF first-cass novelettes (which will materially
improve our paper" We are pleased to hear
OF these improvements by one Of our most
worthy contemporaries. Haven Sentinel
RUN ovER.-Mr. George Ketchum, an aged
man. and one OF the earliest settlers OF Mar
shall, was run over by the Express train going
east, on Thursday afternoon. while attempting
to cross the track near PERKINS, mills. and both
his legs taken off. His injuries were Of such a
nature as to forbid much hope Of his recovery.
His residence fronts on the Il. K. track. where
for many years he has been IN the habit Of
crossing several times day, in the pursuit Of
his vocation as miller.
THE NORTHERN Michigan Agricultural and
Mechanical Society will hold its First Annual
Fair on the 18th, 18th, 14th and 18th days Of
September next, at Grand Rapids. This Asso-
citation is making arrangements for the ex-
tensive advertising of this meeting through the
papers of the state. The management appears
TO be In the hands of energetic men who Will
leave nothing undone that Will in any degree
help to make this first meeting success.
OFF THE TRAcK-Several days since, pass
enger train on the Michigan Lake shore rail
road running at the rate OF twenty-five miles
an hour, was thrown from the track near Hol-
land, the wheels passing over the ties and i'm
bedding them some six inches in the sand for
distance of some fifteen rods. An examina-
ton disclosed that some person or persons had
unstrapped the rails, separated the JOINT nd
driven IN wooden wedge to hold the track
apart, and then covered the track over with
leaves to conceal the break.
The New TEMPERANCE LAW applies the COM
mon sense doctrines OF responsibility and
nothing more. 1t declares that II one man
sells liquor to another and thus takes bread
from his chdren's mouths. and inticts injury
upon his family which can be proved to the
satisfaction OF a Jury Of twelve men. ne shall
pay such damages as the aforesaid jury OF
twelve men may think are just. Is there any
thing wrong IN this
Me-. ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS says. in an
nouncing his new editorship OF the Atlanta
sun, that he will sustain the principles pro-
claimed in the Democratic platform Of 1868,
which declared the amendments to the Consti-
tuition to be Revolutionary. null, and void y
and that ''any departure from the principles Of
that platform will be exceedingly dangerous, if
not fatal, to the liberties OF the whole country"
KuIED.-Last Friday man by the name OF
Snyder from st. Joseph attempted to get on
the gravel train, slowly moving past tbe station.
,at New Buffalo, and accidentIly fell under the
train which passed over his body, killing him
instantly. We could not learn further partic-
ulars.-Palladium.