The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-07-28

were pulled out nearly dead before the cause
of the difficulty was discovered. The cistern
was but ten feet deep, and was in brewery.
......John Bohm's little daughter, aged three
years, was bitten by a rattl snake, on Friday
evening, near Denver. The snake inflicted
an ugly wound near the girls hip. Her life
was saved by her father vigorously sucking
the wound......A special dispatch from Dem
yer has the following: Elijah Williams,
colored, was shot and instantly killed, last
evening, by Jim Heel, colored, in a negro
billiard AID gambling saloon on Blake
street."
A coLoRED man, named Hammond, in
Darke county, Ohio, on Saturday, pursued
Miss Clay, who was passing to a neighbours,
and ravished her. He was arrested and
lodged in Jail. Since hen il has been dis
covered that he had made improper adj
vances to two girls near Union City, Is and
Is years old, respectively, while the latter
were gathering berries, and overpowering
the younger, was only prevented from car
rying out his designs by her youth. Intense
excitement prevails al Greenville, where he
is imprisoned and il is generally believed
the wretch will DE lynched. Funds are
being raised by the wife of the accused for a
third trial in the great Vanderpeol murder
case Of Michigan. Vanderpool is now in the
Hastings county jail. His attorneys-Van
Arman, of Chicago, and Hughes, OF Michi-
gan-decline serving again, unless their
fees are guaranteed them,....Two men
named Kenchard and Baird, residing about
eight miles below Terre Haute Ind, started
for town on the 18th inst, on loads ofwheat,
one driving four and the other two horses.
When about four miles south of the town,
shower came up, and they drove under
large tree for shelter. While waiting there,
the tree was struck by lightning. Kenchard
was injured beyond hope of recov cry. Baird
was knocked from his wagon across the
road, but was not very seriously injured.
The lead horse of one team and both
horses of the other We're instantly killed.
The south.
JUICE G. T. METcALFE, the late Chief Clerk
in the Interior Department, under Secretary
Cox, died at Washington on the 18th inst,
aged sixty-one."..The Presidents son Fred ,
1t is rumored, has been offered a position as
civil engineer on the Pacific railroad.....
The straw bids for postal service in the
Southwest have all been thrown over board
by the Postoffice Department, and it is now
announced that it has been decided by the
Postmaster General to advertise again for
proposals for carrying the mails in all the
Southern States, except Tennessee and Ken
lucky, for the year just commenced.
THE Grand Jury in the Criminal Court Of
Baltimore, on Saturday, the 18th inst,
brought two presentments against Mrs.
Wharton, a highly aristocratic and wealthy
lady of that city. The first is for numbering
Gen. VIM S. Ketcham, of the L. 5. army,
by administering poison, on or about June
2S, 1871. The second for attempting to muir
der Eugene Van Ness IN the same way and
at about the same time. Mrs. Wharton has
been committed To the " common" Jail. Her
plea will probably be the fashionable one,
+" insanity" 1.-THE Huntsville Mo- Citizen
says the family Of President Rodgers, in
Columbia, Mo-, were poisoned by some un-
known villain, who put arsenic in vessel
containing milk which was standing near
the we'll Nine members of the family
drank the milk and were Immediately pros
trated, and it was only by prompt medical
aid that they were saved from death....The
Fort Smith Era, of July Sd, learns from
Deputy United States Marshals McLennan
and Baer that Santanta and Big Tree, Kowa
chiefs, who were captured at Fort Sill, when
Gen. Sherman was there. and sent to Austin,
Texas, attempted to escape from prison and
actually released themselves from their
shackles by gnawing the flesh from their
hands and feet, but Were discovered and shot
dead Marshals McLennan and Baer report
that the people Of the Texas border are very
uneasy lest there be a general outbreak of
the reserve Indians on sett ements to take
vengeance for the ath of the chiefs.
THE storm on Sunday night did great
deal of damage on the line of the Louisville
end Nashville railroad in the vicinity of
Mumiordville, Ky, prostrating crops, des-
troying fences, etc. a freight train near
Mumfordville was blown from the switch on
the main track, causing a collision with a
passenger train, in which several freight
cars were smashed up"."Commander VIM.
Mitchell, who was placed on the retired list
of the navy four years ago, died at his resi-
dence in Washington on Sunday VIM.
Chorn, a boss herder, was murdered by a
Mexican hand 10 miles south of Abeline,
Kan, on last Wednesday. Chorn gave the
Mexican some orders which he did not like,
and watching his opportunity he stepped up
behind Chorn and shot him in the back.
"Curly" Walker, a notorious cattle thief and
desperate, was killed by Capt. Wemple, Of
Sand Spring, at Fort Dodge, some days ago.
Walker had stolen some cattle from Wemple,
was pursued and found at Fort Dodge, where
Wemple endeavored to arrest him. Both
drew pistols, and after twelve shots had
been fred, Walker was killed.
a HEAVY rain, accompanied by destructive
winds, has prevailed at Augusta, Ga, for
several days. The dams Of the Langley
cotton factory, on Horse creek, six miles
from Augusta, broke at 4 o'clock on the
morning of the 18th. The volume of water
struck the South Carolina railroad and swept
away the embankment and track for half a
mile. About 500 operatives in the mills
were thrown out of employment...."An
order was made on the 18th extending the
mail service on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad, from Chetopa, Kan, to Prior
Creek, Indian Territory, "a miles, from the
lst prox."..T There were four fatal cases of
sunstroke in Memphis on the 18th and six
on the 18th inst, among them VIM. Dean, a
we'll known grocer....The claims of Ken
lucky for reimbursement for equipping vol
unteers during the wlT, it is understood, was
taken up at the Treasury Department on the
18th, and the final decision is early expect
ed 1.-The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
is rapidly reducing the number OF assistant
assessors and other subordinate revenue
officials in the different States. Reductions
have been made in several Western districts
....A telegram says that on Thursday night
last, a large body of disguised men went tc
tho la hmm and Nh ruooa rail road nrd