The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

Hon. Lee Clalin, father of Gov.
Clahin, died in Boston, on the Odd, aged
70 years.
SURVEYS have been made at POUCH.
keepsie with view to erecting bridge
across the Hudson.
Another railroad accident occurred
near Willamsport, Pa, in which one
man was killed and seventeen more or
less injured.
The Onondaga Salt Company, of
Syracuse, has recovered $685. 66 from
the Morris Run Coal Company, for over
charges for coal.
Henry Samuels, the paying teller of
the First National Bank Of Camden, n.
j., is charged with using 81 600 of the
banks money.
Col. Thos. f. Burke, one Of the re-
Gently arrived Fenian exiles, lectured
in New York, on Monday, for the ben
eft of the poor. Three thousand peo-
pie were present.
The West.
Expenditures of Cincinnati on i'm
provements for the year ending the
9th, were $2,936,270.
The Missouri river at Omaha is
open, but the water is very low. At
Yankton and Sioux City the ice is soft
and must soon give way.
The south.
w. II. Hunt, formerly a well-to do
merchant, blew out his brains at Mem
phis, on Monday night
"A hundred distilleries have been
opened during the last quarter, chiefly
in the West and Kentucky.
A San Francisco dispatch says: The
recent storm was very severe along the
coast, and several coasters were wrecked,
and many damaged. Horatio Butler,
the second officer of the schooner VIM.
Ireland, was washed overheard off Punta
felt for the safety of the steamer Idaho,
four days overdue from the mouth OF
the Columbia. The steamers Orizaba
and VIM Taber, from San Diego, are
also somewhat overdue. The lines to
Oregon and Southern California are
down.
Foreign.
Nathaniel Hawthorne is dead.
On Monday, Emperor William tele-
graphed from Versailles. to Empress
Augusta, as follows:
with a deeply moved heart in gratitude
to God, inform you that prelimnaries have
been signed. The Bordeaux Assent bly, must
yet ratify them. WILHELM"
A letter from Nesse, in Prussan
Silesia, states that the French prisoners
have been compelled, during the cold
weather, to sleep in the country under
small canvas tents, and that the suffer
ings caused thereby have been intense.
1t appears from the writer's statement
| that over 500 Of the unfortunate men
were recently frozen to death in single
night.
Foreign mails give an account of
an elopement from Odessa of priest of
the Greek Church, with the wife of q
prominent official there, and some
10000 to $4,000 rubles belonging to the
husband. The wife occupied high
social position, and the flight has caused
! intense excitement. 1t is said to be the
first instance Of such conduct on the
part Of a priest ever known in the
town.
- he UOUTTUt les DtOtttS COIllllltHlS OH
the cruel terms of peace imposed on
France, and says Theirs and Favre were
several times on the point Of breaking
off the negotiations at the risk of re-
sumption of hostilities, and yielding
only to dire necessity. Bismarck at first
demanded an indemnity of 10000, 000,-
600 francs, and it was reduced to the
sum finally agreed upon only by the
most strenuous exertions. Sunday be-
ing the anniversary of the proclamation
of the republic of l84S, the reds held a
mass-meeting in Place de la Bastille
The demonstration was disorderly, and
terminated in scene of revolving afro.
city. A police agent who attempted to
interfere for the preservation of peace
was seized by the enraged crowd, fas
tened to plank, and thrown into the
Seine, where, after struggling for some
time, he was drowned. As long as he
could be seen above the surface he was
pelted with stones by the crowd on the
quay. A magistrate who attempted tc
save the unfortunate man was threaten
adj with similar treatment, and was fin.
ally obliged to fly for his life.