The true northerner., 1871-08-18

The East.

York, on the Slst ult., will reach 100. The
investigation into the cause of the explo-
sion shows that the engineer was entirely
ignorant of his profession, he cannot write
at all, nor can he read print but very little.
The superintendent of the Ferry line, how
ever, testified that he had the utmost con-
fdence in the fidelity and ability of the
engineer who has been in the employ of the
company for upwards of ten years.. The
statement of the voting population of New
York city, according to the late census, has
been prepared at the census Office in Wash
ington. The totals are as follows Native
voters, IL ,S42 voters of foreign birth, 49,
266. OF the latter 5,447 are Irish, Al 1852
German, and 16,06S of other nationalities.
The total voting population of the city is
ls4,607...... Mrs. Burnside, daughter of SEN
ator Cameron, of Pa, died on the Sd inst,
in that city.......The Lyman school house,
in East Boston, was damaged by fire $40
900 worth on Thursday last.
ANOTHER death occurred in New York on
the 4th inst, of one of the victims of the
recent steamboat disaster. John Rourke,
wounded in the Catholic riot, also died on
the 4th..."A man named Thompson shot
and instantly killed another named Burns.
at Horse Heads, n. Y, Friday night, mis-
taking him tor paramour of his wife's, for
whom he was watching. All the parties are
colored MIR. John Delton, who was thrown
from the platform of a Second avenue car by
quarreling rufiians on Sunday night, and
who sus aimed serious injuries, died on Fri
day......The steamer Providence, on her way
to New York on Thursday from Newport,
during dense fog ran into three schooners
IN succession. In two ins ances the damage
was not great. In the third, the schooner
W. A. Cobb, of Bucksport, as we'll as the
Providence, was seriously injured. There
was much excitement among the passengers
on account of the succession of mshaps......
The N. Y. Erenjng Mail says Chas. Francis
Adams declines the position of United States
arbitrator to Geneva, and that Senator Ere
hnghuysen and other prominent New Jersey
politicians are urging William Walter
Phelps, of that State, for the place.
Two more bodies of victims of the West
field horror were found in the East river on
Sunday. Travel TO Staten Island has been
materially affected by the influence of the
recent disaster to the Westfield. ....T The cele
brated trotting mare Purity, while exercs-
ing on the driving park at Buffalo, on Sat
urday, dropped dead from heart disease.
She was entered for the 2:24 and 2;30 race,
$4,000 purse. AT the time of the accident
she had trotted over the track at 2:25, and
was on the second round on a 2:20 gait.
Goldsmith Maid made 2:19l Saturday, while
exercising ...... Broderick, one of the worst of
New York ruffians, and the captain of a gang
OF river thieves, was taken before Justice
Hogan on Saturday, on a charge of ielonious
assault, and held in default of Sl00 900 bail.
1t is expected that he will get % years in
the State Prison, and h. deserves it.
THE threatened approach of the cholera
in New York is being met by every precau-
ho g -, hoo IL,
authorities in the city and at quarantine.
The work of cleansing the streets with lime
and other disnfectants has commenced.
The quarantine officers state that up to the
present time no cholera has been detected
on the vessels entering that port. The au-
thorities of New York, Brooklyn, Staten
Island and New Jersey are to have an Off
clal inspection made Of the boilers on all
the steam ferry boats forthwith ...... Gov.
Hoffman positively refuses 10 commute the
sentence of Joseph Messner, who is under
sentence to be hanged at Rochester, n. Y,
on Friday next..... Edwin w. Corning, son
of Erastus Corning, died suddenly on Mon
day at st. GATHERINGS, c. w.. Early Sunday
forenoon, German girl, aged l6 years, in a
somnambulistic tit, waking, fell from the
attic of her residence, in East Broadway
and, striking the pavement, killed herself
The dry goods business in New York is
beginning to show activity. Large buyers
were reported in the city on the Sth making
their selections for fall business .. Seven
horses were killed by lightning in a Brook
lyn stable on the Sth inst.....The Health
Officer has placed an additional force of in
spectors at the wharves in South Brooklyn
in view of the fact that yellow fever has APP
peared at quarantine. Instructions have
e,tyy To he
all proprietors Of public places where thieves
and drunken men are harbored and fur
nished liquor. The first nstallment, fifty
cases, under the nuisance act, was brought
before the court on the Sth inst...... Rev
Father Cady, one of the priests attached tC
st. Paul's Cathedral, of Pittsburgh, Pa, was
buried on Tuesday from Mercy Hospital.
John W. Proud miner, was crushed, near
Pittsburgh, Pa, on Tuesday, into Jelly by a
falling mass of slate in the coal pit where
he was working.... Fannie Elsie, aged Ii
years, was shot dead at New York, on Tues
day, at her own door by the accidental dis
charge of a pistol in the hands of a boy
named Michael Quinn.
The West.
THE Buffenburg poisoning case is attract
ing considerable attention in Ohio. II il
destined to be one of the most prominen
trials for murder which has ever occurred
in the State of Ohio...." Mrs. Loonig anC
child were found dead near the town o
Lachine, Kan, recently. 1t has been ascer
tanned that the woman first killed her chilC
and then herself..... Dispatches from Oman;
state that the late storm in that vicinity
was much more destructive than at frs
anticipated. The damage in Otoe county
alone was Sl50,OO0, and in adjoining coun
ties nearly as large.....A tariff of % cent
per 100 pounds for grain and so cents pc
barrel for flour from all points on the Miss
issippi river to Milwaukee, Chicago, or Du
luth has been agreed upon by different Rail
road companies. This will make the rat
per bushel for various grains as follows
Wheat, Is cents corn, IA cents; oats, 81
cents barley, Ia cents rye, 124 cents.
CATHERINE HANSON, girl 19 years of age
who was only a short time ago respectabl
and virtuous, died at the County Hospital
in Chicago, on the 4th inst. She was seduce,
by young man named Emmons, and takel
to a den of infamy and left, where she fel
i'll and was subsequently, taken to the hos
pital.. Reports from Montana give ac
counts of serious Indian raids in Gallatil