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

by falling between two cars, and being cut
in two lengthwse.-An Irishman named
McNamee attempted to hang young lady
school teacher at Princeville, ILL.,, but was
prevented by couple of passers-by. He
was arrested and locked up, but subsequent
ly removed from the Jail and secreted, by
the officers, TO prevent the citizens from
lynching him.-The house of four brothers,
named Moody, near Orleans, Lawrence
county, Ind, was visited by gang of ruff
ans recently, who threw large torpedoes,
loaded with buckshot and jugs filled with
benzine into the house. The torpedoes ex-
ploded and set fire to the benzine, and the
building was soon in flames. AS the occu-
pants attempted TO escape they were fired
upon by the gang, and one of the Moodys
seriously injured. No cause is known for
the deed, and the citizens are making every
attempt TO capture the villains.
PATRICK McLAuGnLrS, Chief Engineer of
the Milwaukee Fire Department, died on the
18th inst. He was the best fireman Mil
waukee ever had, and his loss is almost ire
parable.-W. II. Palmur, employed in the
Illinois Central Yards, in Dubuque, Iowa,
was crushed to death while coupling cars,
on the 9th inst-Richard Holcomb, far
mer, was run over by freight train at
Louira, Wis, on the Milwaukee and st.
Paul railroad on Tuesday, and instantly
lled.-The wife of Mr.. S. o. Griswold, a
prominent lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio, was
found dead in bed at her elegant residence
on Euclid avenue on Tuesday morning.
The south.
New ORLEANS was again inundated on the
list inst, and families from the lower part
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their homes The levee was cut by half a
dozen or more miscreants, who evaded the
police while doing their outrageous work.
Jas. Campbell, a railroad agent at Browns
boro, Ky, was shot by an unknown party,
while trying to remove an obstruction from
the track near that place, on Wednesday
evening. He died of his wounds.-A col
lsion took place on the Missouri Pacific
railroad near Washington, Mo-, on the 2lst
inst, smashing the locomotives of two
tracks, and killing fireman instantly.
A COLLISION occurred on the ODD inst, on
the Nashville and Northwestern Railroad
near McEwen's Station, between a freight
and passenger train. Neither locomotive
was much damaged, but r. NJ. Vass, pas
senger standing on the platform, was killed
his head being cut in two and body man
John Bonner, brakeman, were badly wound
ed.-James Peterson, formerly of Pittsburgh,
one of the largest coal dealers in the South,
died on board the steamer W. S. Pike, near
New Orleans, on the 22d inst, of heart dis
ease.-Gertrude Engle, alleged to have pro-
duced an abortion on Emily Robinson, at
st. Louis, the girl said to have been de-
bauched by l.. ID. Cameron, was arrested on
the charge of manslaughter in the second
! / Ill l.
trial of Charles Earle and John Garvey for
numbering Mrs. Sallinger, aged IS years,
and robbing her house Of 81 600, on the night
of the 23d Of April, was concluded at New
Orleans on the ODD, with a verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree The jury was
composed entirely of c"lored men.
An express car on the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad was robbed of its safe last Sunday
morning. The thieves were subsequently
tracked to Mobile and arrested, and most of
the money recovered.-The cases pending
before the Department Of Justice in Wash
ington have all been disposed of, and that
| department is now entirely clear Of every
thing except routine business.-By the lst of
July Commissioner Pleasanton expects to
have reduced the force of assistant assessors
to minimum number. This will make the
total number 800.
ADvIcEs from the various foreign loan
agents received at the Treasury Department
at Washington, indicate that it will be quite
| impossible to sell dollar of the new per
cent. loan, owing to the fact that the market
! is gluttcd with first class American railway
securities The total number of physicians
| who paid taxes 10 the Government for the
year ending April 80, was 1878. OF these
there were regular or allopathic, 5000 !;
! homeopathic, 1861 ; hydropathic, 423 eclec-
tic, 1850; miscellaneous or not classified
| 4,770.-The wheat and corn prospects, ac-
cordng to the Department of Agriculture
are not fatierng for the country generally.
The acreage appears to have been somewhat
increased, but the crop will not increase in
| like proportion. owing to variety of causes,
! the chief of which is a dry spring in most
parts of the country. The largest increase
in the acreage of wheat is reported from
Kansas, where il is 80 per cent greater than
! last year. The report, on the whole, is not
specially discouraging, except as failing &c
show such an increase in this product over
other years as might be expected. George
Mack, formerly of Philadelphia, and lately
of the firm Of Hitzfeld & Co., Memphis
Tenn, died of sunstroke on Saturday.-The
first meeting of the Grand Lodge of colOred
! Masons of Tennessee was in session at Mem
phis, last week.
JACOB REIys, of Louisville, KY, W as shot
on Sunday night, by Valentine Rabbit, g
jealous rival, for the hand of a lady to whom
Reins was betrothed Reins died Monday
afternoon.-A young woman, aged about %
years, name unknown, was murdered on
Saturday morning, near Chase's Station
! Maryland, on the Philadelphia railroad, by
q party of men who claim to have mistaken
her for man dressed in womans clothes
who had been prowling about the neighbor-
| hood some time stealing poultry, etc.-ThC
Census Bureau has prepared sample NOR
tally tables for the printer, and the volume
will be ready as soon as the work of the
population volume, now printing, is finished
! The mortality tables will be the most com
plete and valuable every published in this
country. Each State will be given separate
ly, instead of dividing the country into sec
tons. The periods will be shorter; the
names of diseases grouped as scientifically a.
heretofore, and the per centage of unknown
causes of death will be greatly reduced
Major Andrew Jackson Donaldson died sud
denly at Memphis, Monday evening, o
cholera mOrbus, in the I'D wear of his age