The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-08
The South.

Inc SOuJus
A WOMAN named McManus, while walkin G
on platform at blast furnace, in Ben
wood, near Wheeling, w. Va, stepped on a
loose board and fell to the ground distance
of Is feet. She was carrying her little boy
in her arms at the time the accident oc-
Cured. The woman died soon after. The
boy had a leg badly fractured.....The suit of
Fred. Breitzman against the ST. Louis Packet
Company for false imprisonment and mali
cious prosecution in 1869, was decided In the
First Circuit Court at Memphis on Tuesday,
by awarding Breitzman $4,000.
A FAST train going west on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, while running at high
rate of speed, on Wednesday morning, ran
into n heavy fall of rock, sixty miles east
of Parkersburg, Va. The engine and bag
gage car were hurled down an embank-
ment, and several passenger cars were
thrown from the track. j. d. Dorsey, the
engineer, was instantly killed, and the fire.
man severely injured. The passengers es.
capped with slight injuries.
THE Alabama Legislature has passed a
bill to provide sinking fund for the re-
demption of the liabilities of the state......
J. H. Hackett, the confidential clerk of II.
G. & d. NJ. Lowenstine's dry goods estab-
lishment, Memphis, Tenn, was arrested on
Saturday night on charge of embezzlng
some $75 900 worth of Government bonds, a
large amount Of laces, silks, ETC., a consider
able portion of which was recovered from
the woman to whom he had made presents.
THE case of the State of Arkansas Us.
steam tug Nettie Jones, was decided by
Judge Caldwell, in the United States District
Court, at Little Rock, on Monday, in favor
of the claimants, Brown 4 Jones, the owners
of the tug. The State libelled the Nettie
Jones, claiming about $l2, 900 for arms taken
from the steamer Hesper, on the Mississippi
river, and thrown into the river by band
of disguised men, nearly four years ago. The
arms were being imported to arm the State
militia. The decision was based on the want
of completely between the officers and own
ers of the Nettie Jones and the persons
eeizing the arms.
Foreign.
IT is reported that Viscount Monck, who
was Governor General of Canada from 1861
to 1865, will be appointed viceroy of India
to fill the vacancy caused by the assassina-
ton OF Earl Mayo.."..Th The English court
circular announces that the Prince of Wales
The injuries to Nine. Ristori, the well-known
ragedlenne, by the recent railway accident
near Perugia, are more serious than at first
supposed. In addition to flesh bruises, Ris-
tori sustained fracture of the knee pan
winch Will render her unable to attend to
professional duties for a long time.....It is
reported that on Sunday last the Pope signed
a decree convoking the Ecumenical Council,
the place of meeting TO be either in the
Island OF Malta or in Tyrol, as shall be
hereafter determined, and that when the
council meets the Pope will leave Rome......
Baron Gerolt, late German Ambassador at
Washington, is given by the Emperor a
liberal pension and place in the Privy
Council, with the title of His Excellency.
......Gen. Won Moltke and Won Room have
been created life peers by royal decree, and
VIII take their seats in the upper chamber
OF the Prussian Diet.."There is much ex-
cltement in Paris and Versailles over the
alleged Bonapartist conspiracy. The police
force has been doubled, and troops have re-
ceived orders to remain at their barracks
ready for action...".The Austrian Reichs-
rath, by two thirds majority, has passed
the compulsory electoral bill, which makes
important changes in the political system of
the provinces, and is intended to bind them
closer to the Crown.
THE English Press Directory gives the
number of journals in Great Britain at ,456.
1.-THE yacht Enchantress will be sent to
Suez to receive the remains of Earl MAYO.
and convey them to England ... Three
assasslns Of Generals Lecomte and Thomas
were executed on Tuesday morning at
Satory, France. The Paris GauIois saws
y hlng Amadeus, of Spain. ia diaOusted with