The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-11
The West.

The venerable Rev. Peter Cartwright, one
of the oldest warriors of the church militant
died recently at his residen ce in Sangamon
county. H., at the age of 50 years. He was
Frustrated by stroke of paralysis several
months since, and remained in an almost
helpless and speechless condition, though
with his mental faculties clear until death
came to his relief This venerable and won
derful man Of God was for more than sixty
years an incessant and most arduous aborer
in the cause of his Master and few divinos
of America were 70 widely known, and none
whose death will be more universally
mourned.
The Northern Ohio Insane Asylum, near
Cleveland, was destroyed by fire last week.
The institution contained about coo insane
persons, all Of whom escaped, and some of
them are at large. Loss about S350,000
a wonderful discovery is represented to
have been made recently, in Colorado, of an
enormous silver ledge or system of lodges so
locked and woven together as to be practical
ly one lode. 1t is said 20 measure sixty-three
feet in width and can be clearly traced over
five miles, carrying ore the entire distance
that assays from S75 to 81 900 per ton. 1t is
the sensation Of the whole mining region.
The barge Iron City, bound from Cleveland
for Buffalo, foundered and sunk recently,
near Sturgeon Bay. All on board, six per-
sons, it is thought, are lost.
Philip X. Smith, the Mormon ex-Bishop
who recently made the revelations concerning
the Mountain Meadow massacre, has signifed
his readiness to go to Utah and give testimony
in person relative to the horrid butchery.
More Indian murders are reported from
Utah.
Near Terre Haute, Ind. recently, Andrew
J. Miller murdered his father-in-law, over 80
years old. The weapon used was an axe.
Six Of the inmates Of the Northern Ohio In
sane Asylum lost their lives by the recent
burning Of that institution.
The crew Of the wrecked barge Iron CITY.
supposed to have been lost, have arrived
safely at Buffalo.
William Forester, the notorious burglar
and bank robber, and who was until recently
thought 10 bo implicated in the Nathan MUIR
der, at New York, has been safely Gagged in
the Joliet Qll) Penitentiary, to which insttu-
ton lie owes thirteen years penal servi-
tude.
Tower Grove Park, at st. Louis, contain
ing 200 acres, donated to the city by Henry
Shaw, proprietor of the famous Botanical
Gardens there has been formally thrown
open to the public.
III. c. Mitchell Republican, has been elect
ed United States Senator from Oregon.
San Francisco is justly indignant at the ac-
quittal and liberation of the notorious Mrs.
Laura d. Fair. 1t is stated that no such ex-
element has existed in that city since the
days Of the Vigilance Committees operations.
The feeling very naturally is that the jury
wss bribed and that justice has been out
ragged. The circumstances of this case are
well remembered. Mrs. Fair, who, it is al
legged was the mistress Of Hon. A. p. Critten-
den, met him in the presence of his own wife,
and deliberately shot him dead. She was
tried in the summer Of 1871, convicted, and
sentenced to be hanged. A new trial was
granted, the plea Of emotional insanity" set
up, aud she is now acquitted, and goes forth
to entrap some other man in her meshes.
The South.
Thirty miles Of the Alabama and Chatta-
uooga railroad have been seized by order Of
the Governor Of Georgia, the telegraph wires
cut down, and the road is beng operated by
TWO receivers, under decree of the United