The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-03
Current Items.

| CHATTANOOGA has been VISITED by very
severe hurricane.
PHILADELPHIA complains of having too
many dwelling-houses.
Born Knoxville and Memphis ars
| agitating u corn exchange.
I AT Newhallville, Ct, 800 girls are en-
ployed in making rifle cartridges. !
! WHAT IS called "a severe old.fash-
toned winter" prevails in England.
The police force of Tallahassee Flori-
Ga, is composed entirely of negroes.
CMLAo and the other Peruvian sea-
ports are to be connected by subma-
rine cable.
A MAN has been sent TO prison for nine
months in Vermont for sending threat
ening letters.
IT is rumored that a marble quarry
has been discovered in Wilson county,
| Tennessee.
CALFoRNIA's wool production last
year was 81 ,072,660 pounds "a large in
crease over 1869.
ONLY two citizens Of New Orleans pay
tax on over a quarter of a million dol
lars, worth of real estate.
THE owners of the different churches
in Calais, Maine, refuse to allow their
bells to be rung in case Of fire.
A BILL has been introduced into the
New York Legislature to incorporate
the "Montauk Tribe of Indians"
In Paris, Illinois, they expel boys
from the public schools for wearing their
pantaloons inside their boots.
| MEssRs. DEMAREsr & Co., harness
manufacturers at Newark, have received
$4,000 contract from the French
government.
WOLVES enter the churches in Duluth.
One weighing 100 lbs. was recently shot
in the Second Presbyterian Church.
THE University of Tubngen, IN Wurt-
emberg, has faculty Of ninetytwo
professors, and is ATTENDED by seven
! hundred and seven students.
A MAN in Lumpkin, Ga, dreamed that
| the devil was in town last week, and 1t
is thought that he dreamed with his
eyes open.
PINEAPPLEs grown in Cuba are canned
in Cedar Keys, They are then shipped
North and re-shipped to Florida, where
they are sold.
THE Boston Transcript thinks suicide
has long been a national vice among the
French, but never before now has it as
sumed national proportions.
IT was lately announced that blue
birds had returned to some parts of
| hut
bly, taken their leave for warmer chimes
without delay.
THE annual consumption Of sugar in
the United States now exceeds 100000
tons, or 1,000,000,000 pounds, with a
constant and steady increase.
THE Hartford physicians contemplate
good thing. They propose to open an
office for the treatment of poor people
who are unable to pay doctors BILL
A BALTIMORE physicians family of
eight persons was poisoned on Saturday,
it is thought maliciously, by a servant.
| No deaths resulted.
A SEALED can of oysters carelessly lett
on the embers in stove, in Owego, eX-
ploded with Tremendous force bursting
|
and severely injuring bystander.
A GENTLEMAN purchased a quantity Of
supposed milk at restaurant, few
days ago, and few hours aiterward
found his purchase had Settled" the
top being clear water and the bottom q
poor quality of flour.
FIVE winters ago the Boston and Al
bany Railroad paid 100000 to laborers
for shOveling snow in one month-De-
cember. This winter their total outlay
for that purpose has not reached 800.
They will now have a chance to dig ~
their hearts content.
THE South London Press of a recent
date stated that in Bermondsey the sup
ply of water was so scarce that it was
bought at three halfpence for four gal
Ions, and strange to relate, it was sup
piled by the milkmen.
THE poor exiles of Erin seem to be
much worse off in an American hotel
than i'm an English Jail. A furious mob
besieges their refuge day and night, and
il is rumored that a flank movement on
the Sandwich Islands Uia the Under
ground Railroad is in contemplation.
HERE is an instance of disinterested-
ness. 4 Boston merchant who gave
"a. 900 to an educational institution and
was instrumental in securing $4,000,
has never seen the inside of the socie-
| tvs building, which the money built,
and has never been invited to visit it.
Two NEWSPAPERS in Halifax, the
Chronicle and the Recorder, favor the
American side of the fishery question,
and fail to sec the justice of the protec-
| ton given to the Canadian fishermen
10y the Imperial and Dominion Govern
ments.
Reproductions Of simple and artistic
cabinet work, called "Old English Fur
niture," are having great run in Eng.