The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-08-04

The cotton mill of Alexander Abbott, at
Valatie, N. T., was destroyed by fire on the
2lst, together with its contents. Loss.
100000; insured for $4,000. The origin of
the fire is mystery.....Wm. H. Martin, Of
the firm of j. o. Davis & Co., New street
brokers, OF New York, fell overheard and
was drowned on Wednesday, while fishing
dear Rockaway beach. go. Branch No. |. Fa-
Their Mathew Society, the largest in New
York city, has voted to withdraw their dele
CATION from the Hibernia Hall Convention,
on account of its action in relation to the
recent riot. During the year ending June
80, 1871, lO7,ll4 passengers arrived at the
port of New York from foreign countries, of
which number l0,ll5 were actual immi.
grants. ....Some Orange Lodges have nearly
doubled their membership since the riot.
The same may be said of the Hibernian and
anti-Orange Societies, all of which are grow
ing rapidly in consequence of the recent ex-
citement....Sixty-six thousand baskets of
peaches arrived in New York on the 2lst.
The price ranges from 81 to $3.50 per bas-
ket.
THE French schooner Jenny, from Hull,
with petroleum oil, lying off the Jersey flats
ready for sea, caught fire Saturday evening
from an explosion of the cargo in her hold
ard was burned to the waters edge. The
crew were picked up by the revenue cutters
1.-The $4,000 in bonds stolen from a man
in sleeping car at the depot at Harrisburg
Pa, recently, has al been recovered. The
satchel containing the bonds was taken from
boy in the street. The boy escaped. The
man from whom the bonds were stolen be-
longs to the firm of Geo. Opdyke & Co., of
New York......Greenleaf White and Capt.
David Call, both of Hollowell, were drowned
near Salley's Island, at the mouth of the
river, on Saturday, by the capszing of
boat......A destructive fire occurred at North
boro, Mass, on Saturday evening which
consumed two large blocks, entailing a loss
OF over SAC, O00....Prof. John w. S. Howe
died at New York on Saturday....M Mrs.
Alexander Hamilton, niece of President
Monroe, died on Friday night, at her resi-
dence at New Brunswick, n. J.....Mrs. Jay
Cooke died at Philadelphia on Friday night.
Gov. Cooke and family have left Washington
to attend the funeral. .... Rev. William Rich
ards, formerly popular Baptist clergyman
IN New York, and late of Hudson, died in
Georgia, where he had gone for his health,
IN his 74th year.
THERE is much excitement at Patterson,
n. j., against some unknown scoundrels
who broke into the family vault of J. II.
silver plates from the collins, broke the
collins, and spilled the corpses and skeletons
upon the ground. The villains will doubt
less be lynched if discovered... The jury
in the investigation of the recent riots at
New York returned the following verdict on
Monday: We find that those parties came
TO their deaths on the 18th inst, by gun shot
wounds at the hands of parties to us un-
known" The jury, having signed the YER
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serious break occurred in the Harlem rail
road tunnel in New York on the oath inst.
1t is said that the tunnel will have to be en-
tirely rebuilt..".All goods intended for ex
hibition at the Buffalo International Indus
trial Exhibition which shall be prepaid to
Buffalo, will be returned at the close OF the
exhibition free of charge.
CHARLES DYKE, the engineer on robert
Fulton's first steamer to Albany, died at
New York on the 25th inst, aged So years.
Mr.. Dyke also engineered the first steamer
down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New
Orleans. Joseph Il. Turner, a member of
the bar from Titusville, Pa, convicted of
forging pension papers, has been sentenced
by Judge McCandless to pay a fine of
$4,000, and to fourteen years imprisonment
IN the Western Penitentiary ".. Much eX-
element prevails at Patterson, n. j., over
the case of a young colored woman, Mary
Brister, accused of having murdered several
children. The accused is daughter of Mrs.
Wesley Weisner, by a former husband. Mrs.
Wesner's children had been placed in her
charge while the the parents were employed
at daily labor. Four children have died
very mysteriously within the past three
years. The last one of the four died few
days ago, and physicians are of the opinion
that it was strangled. The workingmen
of New York have resolved to hold parade
and indignation mass-meeting some time in
September as a protest against the nom
enforcement of the eight-hour law 500. Henry
Langstaff, another Of the New York rioter
died on Tuesday, making the total number
of victims thus far 52.....An unsuccessful
attempt was made a few nights ago to burn
the Irish Protestant church in Williams
burg.
The West.
HENRY ScHAFFER was caught in the act OF
firing brick block at Hudson, Mimi, on
Friday night. He confessed that he fired
the Journal office, recently burned at that
Herbert F. Nourse, indicted for the
murder of VIM. Park and NJ. Leastwood
last December, was tried by the District
Court at Cheyenne, Saturday, and convicted.
49,. Henry Gorsage, of Wooster, o., youth
of half a century, reached Fort Wayne on
Saturday, in quest of his wife Deborah, his
junior by ten years, who had, few days
since, left his board and bed with !" hired
hand" lad of Is, named Henry Lifts. Cor
sage found the party registered at the
American House as Mr.. and Mrs. Lifts. He
procured a warrant and had them arrested
The young man was fined, mis- paramor pay
ing the same for him. and on the night train
the trio departed for their eastern home, all
parties apparently satisfied with the turn
things had taken.....The heaviest fire Of the
season occurred on Market street, near FIRE.
mont, San Francisco, among the lumber
planning mills, Saturday evening. The
flames, driven by the high winds, spread
with fearful rapidity. The total loss is over
$3.50 ,OOO.....A special to the Commercial and
Gazette says young Irishman, named Jas.
Mealey, was shot and killed Saturday after
noon, near North Lewisburg, Champaign
county, o., by John Murphy. An old
trouble was at the foundation of the affair.
IAN eronaut named Torres, connected
with Grady's circus, in descending with
balloon in Massillon, o., on Saturday, fell in
the canal basin and was drowned. "A
Cheyenne dispatch says that on the Sd inst.
two Cherokee Indians got into a difficulty
Both fred simultaneously and killed eacl