The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-04-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.

YOUNG lady OF Newark is now dying
of cancer caused by bite on the lip by
a pet dog nearly two years since.
AN effort will be made by members
of both Houses to adjourn the session
to-day. Vice President Colfax and
family have left Washington for their
home in the West
The Secretary of the Interior has
appointed G. r. Marvin, of Ohio, Isaac
II. Wing, and M. Fl. McCord, of Wis
consip to appraise the Menomonee In
dian lands near Green Bay, Wis. These
lands are to be sold, but not under the
appraisement.
A WASHINGTON dispatch to the New
York Post says: "The British High
| Commissioners have received dispatch
rs from their Government approving
the treaty recently made by the High
Commissioners for the settlement of the
Alabama claims question.
The East.
THE legislature of New York has adj
journed.
New YORK telegram says The
downward tendency in rents and real
estate is very evident Fewer transfers
OF real estate have taken place during
the past month than during any SINH
lar period for several years, and the
actual number of such transfers has
been less than one half of the number
on record for the same month last year
Rents are lower than at any time since
the war.
HANNAH PERRY, of New York, sues
Henry Middlemass, of California, in
the United States District Court of
California, for S25, 900, for breach of
promise.
A TELEGRAM from Peoria, H., SAYS
fruit in that vicinity is not injured as
much as supposed. The more tender
buds were killed, but cherries and most
apples are uniniured.
VEsINA & Co., auctioneers in San
Francisco, have failed. Their liabili-
ties are reported at $3.50, 600, and assets
under 800, 1000. The Indebtedness is
mostly IN Eastern houses.
The south.
The Mississippi river is reported
within two inches of the high water
mark Of 1862 Uneasiness is felt at
New Orleans in regard to the levees.
Fires.
A FIRE at Bangor, Me-, on the 2lst,
destroyed seven building.
A NEW hotel at La COMA, N. H., was
burned on the DIST. Loss S35, 000-in-
surance $40, 900.
Obituary.
WIN. III. SMITH, well-known actor,
died in ST. Louis on the 21st.
GENERAL EDUMoNT, recently appoint
ed Governor of Idaho, died at Indian
apolis on the 10Th
Grimes ana Casualties.
The police of Chicago arrest parties
who play ball on the Sabbath, within
the city limits.
A MURDERoUs ARRAY between Jacob
A. Leist and his son Peter, aged II,
took place on the 15t /, four miles east
of Circleville. Ohio, in which the son
cut his father in the back with an ak,
severing the spinal cord.
On the 18th Deputy United States
! Marshals Burke and John Armstrong
, attempted to arrest two illicit distillers
, named Cimeroll, living near Sparta, in
White county, Tenn. They resisted,
disarmed the Marshals, and beat them
on the heads with their iron pivots, and
, fracturing Armstrong; skull in three
and Burke's in two places. Neither is
expected to survive.
A COLLISION at Weehawken, on the
Erie railroad, between an oil and cattle
, train, resulted in the destruction of the
engines, four oil cars, and three cattle
cars, entailing a loss of $25, 900. Michael
Hanlon, one of the engineers, was ter
| ribly scalded, and the fireman, in leap
ing from the train, fell and sustained
, severe injuries The accident occurred
on the 10th.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
) created at Small Point, Me-, by the
appearance of a stranger who recently
visited that place and desired the as
sistance of resident to disinter
large quantity of money, which, he
said, was buried there. The resident
: was not over-credulous, but at last
went with the man to certain point
marked out on chart, where, after
digging some two feet, large stone
was exposed TO view, under which was
a box containing $500 Peruvian coins,
oil of the same date. and which had
evidently been obtained direct from the
mint. The stranger taking the larger
amount of the money, departed from
Small Point
Foreign.
MARTIN CABRERA, ex-President of Mex
leo, is dead.
GEN. SANCHEZ OcHoA has been ap-
, pointed Minister to Washington from
Mexico
FIFTY-Two Mexican journals advocate
! the reelection of Juarez, forty favor
Diaz, and ten have pronounced for
Tejeda.
MENoTTI GARIBALDI has been elected
a member of the Commune. The cleo
tons were fdsco, but few persons
voting.
The Germans have occupied st.
Queen-sur-Seine, two kilometres south
, of st. Denis and seven kilometres from
Paris