The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

"Ny Va V"@ih serlous, amount TO 81; the
shooting and stabbing ARRAYS, principally
caused oy drunkenness, To %; while the
fights with tistsiand clubs were countless
......George Morreys, Thomas Cary, and VIM.
Olney, young men, were dfowned in Long
Island Sound by the upsettng Of a small
boat. They We're intoxicated when thew
went out, and TO that cause the accident is
ascribed....John w. Daverck. treasurer of
the Wadsworth Iron Works, and during the
war Colonel of the Twenty-first
New York regiment, while walking in the
street in Buffalo with his wife, on the even
ing OF the 4th, was accidentally shot and
killed by Mr.. Emory, sexton of the Presby-
terrain church. Mrs. Daverick has become
deranged by the sudden shock Emory had
been firing pistol on the street during the
entire day......The Lyon stables at Albany.
y. y, with seven horses, were burned on
the 5th inst. The body of a man, supposed
TO be Fonda Groesbeck, an old fellow who
lounged about the premises, was found
among the ruins, burned to a crisp. Dennis
Sullivan has been arrested on suspicion of
having fred the stables .....I is generally
thought in New York that the President will
allow Pleasonton to resign rather
than to lose Boutwell, from his Cabinet. and
those who best understand the true situation
OF affairs predict that the Presidents return
10 Washington will be followed by the i'm
A STAY of proceedings has been granted
in the case of Foster by Judge Pratt, of
Brooklyn. The writ of error is made re-
turnablc Nov. 6. Gov. Hoffman, on the APP
plication of Judge Stuart, has appointed
next Monday to hear the prayer and argu-
ment for the communication of Fosters sem
tence from that of death TO imprisonment
for life. In case the Governor decides to
commute Testers sentence, all further legal
proceedings will be at once suspended .....
Horace p. Robinson, son of Third street
banker, was severely wounded, on the 9th
inst, by pistol shot fred by his friend,
Harry w. Bartol. The two friends were
sleeping together at the residence of the
latter. Bartol having pistol by his side,
II is supposed that, dreaming of burglars, he
arose and fired the shot in his sleep...An
explosion occurred in the Union Hotel at
Cohoes, n. Y, on the 9Th inst, followed by q
fire which consumed four dwellings and the
hotel. The loss is 5000. The cause of the
explosion is unknown Mr.. Scully, the pro-
prietor of the hotel, was badly burned 49,.
The Orangemen have resolved to parade in
New York on the 18th, and while they wish
to preserve peace, they declare that, if at
tackled, they will defend themselves to the
last. 1t is understood they will be all armed
10 the teeth. At present there seems to be
brilliant prospect for terrible carnage.
THE horse plague has intertered seriously
with car travel in New York city. a num-
Der OF lines have been compelled to with
draw half of their cars, and the disease is on
the increase...... Cholera infantum is pre-
vailing to great extent in Brooklyn. The
weather has developed a new form of chole-
ra, resembling dysentery and yellow fever
in its symptoms. So far, three cases only
have occurred. The symptoms in all are
the same-purging, high fever, bloody dis
charge, indicative of virulent dysentery,
and black vomit, which accompanies yell
low fever.....Cyrus Wakefield has given
800 900 to Harvard college for the erection
of a recitation hall, with dormitories, to he
called Wakefield Hall.
a SAD railroad accident occurred near
Newark, n. j., on Saturday morning, which
was the result of misplaced switch. Two
passenger trains collided and both were
thrown from the track and down an en-
bankment The cars took fire in few mo-
ments after the calamity occurred, and a
scene of the widest terror and confusion en-
sued Five persons, all employees of the
road, were killed, and thirty wounded...".
4 cotton warehouse was burned in New
York on the Sth inst. Loss $40, 000......A po-
lice officer was shot dead in Chelsea, Mass,
last Friday night, by some unknown person.
...T The examination of Mrs sherman, at
Derby, Conn, charged with poisoning eleven
persons, points strongly to her as guilty of
the charge. Poison has been found in the
stomachs of three of the victims already.
1t is believed that the counsel for Mrs. Sher-
man will put in pl'a of insanity ..."A ter
rible tornado passed over Syracuse, n. y,
and vcnit, on Sunday. One man was
killed by lightning and an immense amount
of damage done by the storm.
IT is stated that Peter Cooper has recent
ly been seriously i'll that he has gone from
New York into the country, to remain until
autumn....T There is to be a large meeting
on the 18th inst, at Portland, Me-, of East
ern and Western merchants, Congressman
and railroad men, to secure the formation OF
the proposed railroad line from Portland to
ChicagO....The appeal to the Governor for
a Communication of the sentence of the muir
derer Foster has been postponed, pending
the result of the argument to be had before
the general term in October, on the excep-
tons taken by the prisoners counsel during
the progress of the tral..".Col Gardner
Banks, brother of Gen. Banks, died in
Waltham, Mass, on Monday, the 10th inst
Of quick consumption He arrived from
been for the past seven years in the Custom
House.
THE Scholarship Mercury, which has just
left New York on a cruise TO the Bermuda
Islands, had crew of $50 boys between II
and II years of age, who are to receive les
sons in practical navigation mar
named Patrick Barry, aged so years, butch
cred his wife at Pittsburgh, Pa, an the It'll
inst He struck her with an axe while she
was asleep, cutting the upper portion of hei
head completely off..."City Solicitor Nor
rell, Of Philadelphia, under instructions
from the Councils, is about to enter suits
against the clerks in the tax-receiver's oflc,
who are behindhand in their accounts. Tn,
deficits are said to amount to over 500 900
Much of this is owing by the clerks unde
the former administrations of the collec
tors Office.
The West.
A LARGE number of persons were seriousl,
injured in Chicago, on the 4th, by the acct
dental explosion of fireworks. Professo
Steiner made a balloon ascension from Mil