The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


Col. Burr Porter, of Newark. New
Jersey, was killed in battle Dec. 9, while
serving with the troops in France under
Garibaldi.
A boat in which were four French
men was swept over Salmon Falls, near
Russell, on the 18th, and all the men
were drowned.
Thomas, the negro murderer, was
hanged at the Tombs ward i'm New
York on Friday. Twenty-eight persons
have been hanged in this yard in thirty
eight years.
The yacht Maria, engaged for years
in the West India fruit business, is sup
posed to have been lost in the storm of
October 6, as nothing has been heard
from her since September last, when
she sailed from st. Andrews for New
York. 1t is thought all on board
twenty-five or thirty, perhaps forty
persons-must have gone down with
her.
The New York Express says there
has been heavy reduction in railroad
freights to the West. The rate on first
class freight to Chicago is now 81 per
100 pounds, with a corresponding reduc-
ton on other classes to other points.
Present indications point to general
railroad war and much lower freights, as
there is already some cutting under on
the regular rate of 81 to Chicago.
The West.
The total number of hogs packed at
Cincinnati this season is 49S, 900, against
337 900 last year.
Alexander Thompson died at his
home in Terre Haute, ind, on the Sth,
from the effect of heavy blows inflicted
on his head with shovel, by man
named Tapscott, a few days previous.
"A rutfian named Pepper was shot
and killed in drunken brawl, at Tay-
lorville, H., on Friday. Morgan, the
killer, was arrested. He is a desperate
man, and has shot several persons with
IN the last two years.
William Folliott, the last of the
gang of five men who were engaged in
the murder and attempted robbery of
David Kinner at Cleveland, two years
and half ago, has been sentenced to
the penitentiary for twenty years.
Hon. Charles Chandler, one of the
most prominent citizens of Clinton,
Kewanoc county, Mich. died after fif
teen minutes illness, on the 10th. He
had been a resident there thirty-seven
years, and filled many important public
positions.
Two men were killed by trains on
the Cincinnati and indianapolis juno
ton Railroad recently, one near Liberty,
Ind, while crossing the railroad in a
wagon, and the other while walking
upon the track near Palestine.
A st. Paul dispatch says that in the
Red River country, few days ago, the
Canadian troops, finding Mr.. Andrew
Scott, formerly Riel supporter, chased
him far into Minnesota, and finally
catching him, kicked and stabbed him
with bayonets," and left him in a dying
condition.
Private letters from Lake Superior
report the prospects Of the early open
ing of navigation hattering. At Portage
River Light Station, Feb. 81, the weather
was very fine. There was a heavy rain
on the oath, with lightning, but no
within one mile of the station. Advices
to March | say that the ice was then
about two miles from Portage range
lights. There were that morning plenty
of ducks in sight, and everything looked
like spring.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
the counties of York and Chester, South
Carolina, and lively times are expected
there during the next two weeks.
A serious row occurred between
some negro soldiers and roustabouts at
Memphis, on Friday, in which one man
was killed and another seriously injured.
The Mississippi river is clear of ice
at Winona and Lake City, MINI. A
boat arrived at Winona from Reed
Lnding on the 10Th. 1t looks like an
early opening of navigation.
Chief Justice Chase arrived at
Washington on the Sth. Though much
better, his appearance surprises his
friends, who have not seen him for a
year past. He looks at least ten years
older.
George Rice, man Of wealth, re-
siding near Kirksville, Mo-, was arrested
recently, charged with abducting two
girls, IA and l6 years age, for the pur-
pose of prostitution. Rice is 43 years
old, and has heretofore borne an excel
lent reputation.
The message which it is announ ced
will be sent by the President, next week,
10 Congress, will be confined wholly,
there is reason to believe, to statement
of the disorders existing in the South,
which Congress will be urged to devise
some means of suppressing.
In a family quarrel, recently, at
Memphis, in a saloon, on Jefferson
street, between two Italians, Richard
Bucnanni and Lippi, the former shot
and instantly killed the latter, and then
surrendered.
7. Murray, of st. Louis, father of
one of the girls alleged to have been
enticed from her home by George Rice