The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-08-04
had a difficulty with Mai. Packard, when


as the Major was rushing toward him with
the evident intention Of disarming him,
Crawford fred, the ball taking effect in
Packard's abdomen. The wound was dressed
by the surgeon at Fort Randall. fackardis
very low and will undoubtedly die......A
man named Flynn was arrested in house
Of ill-fame in Council Bluffs, for the murder
Of Roger Mullen. at School Creek, Neb., on
Wednesday ...... The whole business portion
df the city of Truckee, CAL, on the Central
Pacific railroad, the great lumber depot OF
the Sierra Nevada, was destroyed by hre on
the 2lst inst. Loss immense......Be Bernard
his cellar at Quincy, H., on the 2lst inst.
Congestion of the heart was the cause.
ADvIcEs rom all parts of Michigan report
that the late wheat harvest has been un-
usually fine in all respects George W.
Grist, of Detroit, waile out hunting in Ham
tramck, was killed by the accidental dis
charge of his gun as he was putting it in his
wagon. He was a mason by trade, and but
l9 years of age..... Mr.. John Thomas, an
engineer on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and
st. Louis railroad, had his head almost
knocked off while crossing a bridge about
100 miles from Chicago He died before
reaching the city,. No rain has fallen in
the st. Joseph Mich fruit region for rs
days. The ground is parched to the depth
of two or more feet This has seriously
dried up the blackberry crop, which will
not ripen up more than half of its berries in
prime order.".A grand celebration took
place in Chicago on the 25th in commemora-
ton Of the completion of the Michigan and
Illinois canal, or, in other words, the cleans
ing of Chicago river.
In McMinn county, Tenn, few days ago,
Hezekiah Jackson shot and MORALLY
wounded Allen Detheridge, who had been
summoned by an officer TO assist in arrest
ing him. Jackson escaped. Detheridge
died next day George Weaver was way
laid and shot in Franklin county, Tenn, on
Wednesday, He had just been released
from Jail on a bond. He was charged with
the murder of man named Poe short
time since. 1t is thought he was killed by
some friend of the murdered man.
On Saturday, the northward bound freight
train on the Louisville and Nashv lille rail-
road ran off the track near Glasgow juno
ton. The accident was caused by a broken
rail. Eight cars ran down 20 feet of en-
bankment and were wrecked. John Noonan.
q IL,
from Sandusky, O....Prof. Webster made
an ascension from the horticultural garden
at Louisville, KY, with his balloon Hercules
at O'Clock on Saturday. After ascending
to an altitude of 5000 feet the balloon began
descend rapidly, and struck upon the top
of the smoke-stack of tho Nashville cotton
factory. Here the balloon collapsed and fell
to the ground, leaving Webster with his
wicker-wo~k basket on the stack. After sur
veying his position he cast the basket away,
and finally descended through the interior
of the stack, coming out stately, but black
with soot....A letter received at Washing
ton from the Bay Of SANTANA makes some
remarkable revelations, and shows quite
clearly by extracts from naval orders that
the project for the annexation of the Bay of
SANTANA has not yet been abandoned..".Th
forthcoming monthly report of the Agricul-
tural Bureau will show a falling off Of Is
per cent. in the tobacco crop. The wool crop
will fall per cent. below an average. The
apple crop shows falling off of % per cent.
The peach crop will run 10 per cent. above
an average. Potatoes, both sweet and Irish,
Is per cent. above. The hay and clover
crops show a falling off of % to so per cent.
1.-THE employees of the Treasury Depart
ment from the State of North Carolina have
all received the usual voting leave of alb
sence, and are departing for that State every
day for the purpose of participating in the
election of township officers, which comes
off on August 3. The election assumes an
additional Importance, as the call for State
Convention is TO be voted on....A jail de-
livery occurred at Chillicothe, No., on Fri
day night, and seven prisoners escaped, two
of when were indicted for murder."".New
Orleans is very healthy, cons idering the sea-
son. Yellow Jack. as yet, has not made his
appearance....Rev. DR.. Jacobs, for forty
years a Professor in Pennsylvania Col .ege,
died at Gettysburg, Nd, Saturday morning.
MADISON MILLER,a prominent citizen of
Liberty, Mo-, and the oldest Odd-Fellow in
the State, died on Monday ......John Combs,
an Englishman, was murdered at Chatta-
nooga, on Saturday night, by Hugh Tallety,
q policeman, who beat him with his mace,
and shot him twice. Tallety was arrested.
1.-THE somnambulist Mayor, who walked
out of a third story window at Louisville,
KY, on Monday, is dead ......T The total loss
by the explosion at the Washington arsenal
is 500 900. One of the results af the situa-
ton Of affairs between the Internal Reve-
nue. Office and the Treasury Department has
been the resignation of Mr.. Chesley, Chief OF
the Revenue Law Divison..... Gen. Dyer,
Chief Of the Ordnance Bureau, has just or
de ed that 10, 900 Remington rifles be made
at once for our army, at the Springfield ar
mory Supervisor Barker reports TO the
Internal Revenue office that in the First
Wisconsin District every tax assessed upon
the annual list for 1871, amounting in the
aggregate to $4,000, has been collected.
This, the Supervisor reports. is the first in
stance, to his knowledge, where every dollar
assessed upon the annual list had been
collected and paid into the .'reasury before
the middle Of July....The decision of So
licitor Banfield, announced on Saturday,
and accepted by Secretary Boutwell,, does
not, as published, exempt all cases included
in Pleasanton's original order as revised by
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. The Secretary limits
it TO the question referred, viz. the tax on
in crest on coupons. The collection OF tax
on dividends of gains will be enforced, as
well as on incomes.
A BOLD express robbery took place in St
Louis on Tuesday. An express delivery
wagon was robbed of $500 in money and
$S5 900 in railroad bends. The robbery j:
supposed to have been "put up job be-
tween the driver Of the wagon, me ssengei
and tie robbers violent storm passed
over portion of Pike county, Missouri
about week ago, and completely destroyed
all the corn and tobacco crops in its path
.."..A big row, resulting in the death of two
Indians and one colored man, took place