The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

CONSIDERABLE of a breeze has been started
in the revenue department by the completely
of Clifford Thompson in certain New York
stockjobbing operations. Thompson has re-
signed, and il is rumored that Pleasanton
will resign.-There was wild scene in Wall
street New York ,on Wednesday, caused by
corner in stocks, and the failure of large
number of brokers.-The following is from
the New York papers of June 2lst: Mon
da morning, about 10 o'cocs the driver of
canal boat, while crossing the seven mile
level between New Village and Broadway,
in Morris county, New Jersey, heard an un
usual rumbling noise like that of nufiled
thunder, and noticed that the waters of the
canal were disappearing rapidly In short
space of tir c his boat was left high and dry
on the empty bed of the canal The water
in the canal for the distance of mile and
half had disappeared in cavity forty by
fifty feet in width. Ne outlet for the water
has been discovered. 1t will probably cost
the coal company $4,000 to defray the
expenses of this interruption TO their bust
ness.
THE Secretary of the Treasury states that
he has received proposition to sell the
Trinity church property, in New York, for
S25,OO0,00O. The proposal comes from par
ties claiming that the estate belongs to the
of peace of l7S3.-John s. Ambell, a Califor-
nian, los 81 800 al a Mercer street, y. Y,
panel house recently.
The failure of Samuel B. Locke, of Boston,
dealer in iron and metals, is announced,
with liabilities at S24S,OOOO, and assets at
$50 ,OOO.-Edward Nevins, recently convicted
of forging tickets on the Erie Railway. was
sentenced to five years in the State Prison at
orb an riI 81,
wife murderer, was, on the 23d inst, sem
fenced To be hanged on the 1Ith of August
next, at Rochester, y. I.
The monument to the memory of William
B. Schnider. late Grand Tyler of the Grand
Lodge of Pennsylvania in Mount Moriah
Cemetery, was unveiled and dedicated Sat
urday mording. with appropriate Masonic
eremonies.-Duridg the storm Saturday
night, the roof of the United Presbyterian
church. at Mount Lebanon, Pa, was blown
off and carried 100 yards. The structure
is almost a complete wreck.-A fire
Saturday night destroyed the paint, paper
hanging and upholstery establishment Of J.
Stanley & Co., and badly damaged the paint
and paper-hangng store of Gilman ~ Ward.
The loss is 100000.
JUpGE CARDozo has denied both the mo-
tons for a writ of error and a stay of pro-
ceedings in the case of VIM. Foster, the
murderer of Avery D. Putnam. Ex-Judge
Stuart does not yet cease his efforts, and will
employ the eighteen days yet left Foster in
an effort to obtain from some Judge stay
till at least the propriety Of Judge Cardozo's
denial can be passed on.-Fort Richmond,
near the lighthouse entrance of the Mar
rows in New York harbor, which has been
under construction for the last fifteen wears,
q cnct If
pleted. 1t is said that it will be condemned
by the Board of Examiners as utterly useless
except as quarters for soldiers.-Another one
cent daily paper, called the Witness, is to be
started in New York next week
C. ?. KmDALL was nominated for Cover
nor by the Democrats of Maine, on the 9th
inst.-Reports from New York, dated June
2Sth. say there is little doubt but that Fos-
ter will be hung.-It is reported that Jay
Gould, in behelf of Erie and Tammany, re-
Gently offered SS0S 900 for fifty-one shares Of
the Times, and that the sums being peremp-
torily declined, he vainly offered Sl,000,00
for the same number of shares, because they
would constitute a controlling interest, and
Tammany is sadly in need Of an organ iden-
tilted with the Republican party. Their at
tempts to possession Of the Times are no
doubt the basis OF the frequently reported
sales of the paper
The West.
THE Elgn watch factory now employs 525
hands.-Willam Bentley, formerly saloon
keeper at Elgin, H., has struck $40, 600
gold mine near Salt Lake City.-The II pub
licans of Ohio, on the DIST inst, nominated
Gen. T F. Noyes, of Cincinnati for Cover
nor, and on the same day, Col. Carpenter
was nominated for Governor of Iowa, by the
Republicans of that State.-The jury in the
case of Mcclellan, on trial for murder, at
Lebanon, Ohio, failed to agree, and were
discharged. This is the case in which VAL
landigham was interested when he shot him
self.
Two MAILS from Tucson, Arizona, for Fort
Yuma, are supposed to have been captured
by the Apaches.-A mineralogist of San
Francisco claims to have discovered pro-
cess for amalgamating iron and copper and
producing a compound harder than steel. y
company is forming to test the process.--The
steamer Moses Taylor burst fue when 50
miles off San Francisco, on May 81 outward
bound, by which Thomas Harrison, eng-
neer Nicholas Pendergast, II Mooney, fire
men; Paul Ncolson and William Young,
coal passers, and Oliver Hays, were killed.
survey being held, it decided to keep
the steamer on her course, and she made the
entire trip with one boiler The dead were
buried at sea.-Rev DR.. Bernard Illowy, the
well-known Jewish rabbi who has officiated
in Baltimore, Rochester, st. Louis, New Or
leans and Cincinnati, was thrown from his
buggy on the ODD inst, his way from
Lebanon to Fosters Crossing, o., where he
resided, and SO injured his spine that he died
that evening
THE steamer Ida Rees No. 2, of the North
western Transportation Company, struck a
sand bar at the mouth of White River, Da-
kota, on the goth inst, and unshipped her
rudder, became unmanageable, and sunk in
feet of water. The boat and cargo are a
total oss.-Lieut. Morton, with % soldiers
and Is citizens, have returned to Camp Me-
Donnei, Arizona, having killed Sc Apaches
and recovered a large amount of stock
Capt. Mills, with large party, is now on
their tradition. Rees Smith was murdered
near Ithodes' rancho, Arizona, by the Indi-
ans-The Liberty Mo- Democrat has a let
ter saying that y. S. Long, John Mullens