The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-29
Current Items.

Current Items.
MEMPHIS has organized a cotton ex-
change.
A NUMBER of leading citizens of Fort
Wayne, Ind, are organizing party for
a European tour.
SIMON AVER, of New Haven, lunched
on his wifes cheek, which has moved
the press to call him ga nipping and an
eager Aver"
The Sultan of Turkey is a bad finan-
cier, and owes to tradesmen in Con-
stantinople, it is said, the sum of
$l50,000,000.
NJ. l.. SULLIvANT, the man who owns
the majority of Ford county, H., fin
ished husking his crop of 100000 bush
els of corn on the 29th ult.
YoKoHAhA, Japan, is TO be lighted
with gas. The company is of native
formation, and the works are to be sup
piled from Glasgow, Scotland.
A GENERAL impression prevails at the
West that very serious floods are
likely 10 visit the line of the Union
Pacific railroad when the warm weather
approaches.
A YOUNG physician in Sedalia, Mo-,
who had waited patiently three years
for a call, at last found the following
cheerful order on his slate: Doctor,
come to Jesus"
A NEW and ingenious advertising
dodge is toprint an advertisement upon
a strip of paper like telegraphic dis
patch, and inclose it in an envelope of
the Geographic pattern.
THEY have a new way of sinking wells
at Brownsville, Texas. A man named
Atcheson Wells, while wading in the
river, stepped into quicksand and
vanished from sight in a second.
A YOUNG lady of Lewiston, Me-, who
wants to be lawyer, and with the law
yers stand, is hunting for an attorney
who will take her into his office, and
put her through course of study.
A PECULIAR case of domestic infelicity
has occurred at Covington, KY, where
Volney Hutsell has instituted suit
against F. S. Watkins, his father.in-law,
for $40 600 damages, alleging that Wat
kns induced his daughter to abandon
her husband.
THE Speaker of the Lower House Of
the Mississippi Legislature is a colored
man named Lynch, only 81 years old.
He was born in Louisiana, but is we'll
educated and possessed of excellent
natural abilities. He is thorough par.
Humanitarian and skillful debater.
The Chicago Tribune of the Sth inst.
has the following marriage notice:
COLBY-In Liberty, Maine, on the llth
inst, Rufus Colby, aged 30, TO his
mother.in-law, aged 50. The bride is
widow of about two years, and the
bridegroo II a widower Of about ten
months.
A MICHIGAN newspaper Office has
curious visitor in the shape of tom
cat, which finds its way. outside of the
skylight every cold morning as soon as
the stove begins to warm the glass, and
then gravely slides down, repeating the
exercise for some time, with as much
composure as a little boy coasting.
A PENNSYLVANIA editor returns thanks
for a serenade, and says 50 In many
localities this might be thin way Of
expressing ones appreciation of favor
of this kind but here, where the wells
are nearly all dry, and the town is sur
rounded by prohibitory law two miles
wide, nothing better can be rendered"
AT Grass Lake, Mich, early on the
morning of the 9th, John Hammond
arose from his bed in the house of Will
liam Loker, his brother.in.l law, and
passed outside for few moments.
Loker heard noise, attributed it to
burglars, and prepared to shoot the
trespassers. When Hammond re entered,
Loker called out, and, not receiving an
immediate reply, shot Hammond dead.