The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-23
Current Items.


"TnE Pigs Ear Oil Company" is the
romantic style adopted by company
in Western Virginia. Itdepends on the
capacity of the well whether they will
make silk purse out of it or not.
On Wednesday last, in Pexin, ILL.,, q
woman named Clara Kirk committed
suicide by taking strychnine. She is
supposed to have been goaded to the
act by the prosecutions Of one Kennedy,
her divorced husband.
AT Louisville, on Thursday, in the
City Court, negro lawyer appeared for
a colored client, and examined witness
of the sane hue-an event hitherto un-
known in the annals Of Kentucky
jurisprudence.
In Dade county, Ga, recently, Mr..
John d. Ashers was married to Miss
Kate Ashers. The proper thing for the
photographers to say in this connection
is Ashers to Ashers.
A BosroN man has preserved all the
parodies upon the poem of "The
Heather Chinee" that he found in the
papers, and has 43 of the All Shine
productions.
A SURVEY of the country between
Lake Michigan and the Mississippi has
demonstrated that the highest land be-
tween the two is the spot on which the
State Normal School at Whitewater,
Wis.,, is located.
Mrs. G. NJ. PUTNAM, of Washington,
takes advantage of the lucrative posi-
ton of w. d. Davis, as Indian Agent,
and sues him for s. 900 for breach of
promise.
A HEART-BRoKEN maiden of Syracuse
did not apply to the law for balm for
her lacerated affections, but, watching
her opportunity, gave her tickle lover
good, sound thrashing.
Mr.. JOHN McPnILLIps, a blacksmith
of Montgomery, Miss, committed sui
eide last week by placing the stock of
loaded gun in his fire, taking the muz-
zle in his mouth, and blowing the fire
with the bellows till the gun went off.
New JERSEY has population as large
as that of New York city, but hangs
her murderers. The consequence is that
last year only six men were killed in
New Jersey as against one hundred and
forty-six killed in New York.
The Messaula (Montana) Pioneer, for
Dec 9, was printed on half sheet of
wrapping paper. The edition consumed
all that was left in town, and the editor
announced that the next issue would
be printed on gunny bags, unless it
stopped showing.
WIN. THOMPSON, formerly an Adjutant
under General jackson, and once the
wealthiest banker in New Orleans, was
found recently in Broadway, New
York, in small Office, sick and half
starved, and taken to the hospital by
the police.
HOWARD, the Rochester negro who
was so summarily dealt with for brutally
ravshing little girl, was recently in
porter. He still protests that he is
innocent, and says he entered the plea
of guilty to avoid being lynched. He
says he has no desire to regain his free
dom, inasmuch as he would again un-
doubtedly be seized by the mob.
AN Ohio man has had a dose Of
mother.in-law that should commend
him to the commiseration of sym.
| pathizing world. He has been married
IS years, and has had his motherinlaw
as a boarder during the whole time.
Although she is now los years old, there
seems to be no prospect of his immediate
relief
THE Page (Va.) Courier says Mrs. Isaac
Jenkins of that county, "on Tuesday
last had three live girl babies, one
weighing only four pounds, the other
two weighing six pounds each and
stranger still, one of them has six toes
on each foot. All three, together with
the mother, are doing as we'll as could
be expected.
The Hon. George Bancroft, United
States Minister at Berlin, has forwarded
to Harvard College the first instalment
Of permanent fund which he proposes
to establish, the income of which is to
defray the expenses Of travelling fell
lowship. The incumbent thereof is to
be selected from each graduating class,
and is to travel in foreign countries,
under instructions from the college, for
the term of one year.
A BRUTAL murder was committed at
Saltwater, Mimi, on Friday evening.
A quarrel occurred between Henry
Lachpell and Frank Johnson, the latter
striking the former with slung shot,
cracking his skull, from the effects OF
which he died on Saturday. johnson
left for the pineries on Saturday, but
was arrested and brought back to Still.
water,