The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-01-12


cluded two persons dangerously stabbed anC
two dangerously shot; five accidentally
shot; nine boys severely injured by gun
powder explosions, two dangerously, anC
one suicide. The police made 1872 arrests
......A FIRE at Macon, Ca, on Christmas eve
destroyed four stores. Loss about $50 900
.....Jesse r. Grant, father of President
Grant, does not improve. He fails to re-
cognze his friends, and his recovery il
doubtful.
DISPATCHES from Galveston, Texas, stat,
that the ship Orion, having one thousand
bales of cotton on board, was burned or
Sunday, outside Of the bar, and sunk in four
fathoms of water The death Of ex-Gov.
ernor John A. Winston, of Alabama, is an
nounced at Mobile. Mrs. Sturdevant, wife
of the Superintendent of the Institute foi
the Blind, at Nashville, Tenn, lost her life
Tuesday night by the explosion of a coal-oil
lamp..... The steamship Florida, from New
Orleans for Apalachicola, sprung leak and
sunk in the Gulf of Mexico on Dec. %. The
officers and crew took to the boats, and land
ed twenty miles east of Mobile Point. John
Reed, colored, was drowned by the swamp
ing of the boat in the surf. Value of the
vessel. $4,000; no insurance.
FURTHER advices from Sedalia, Mo-, con-
firm the previous accounts of the killing of
negroes in Saline county. 1t is said that
great excitement exists there; that the ne
groes are panic stricken, and that efforts are
being made to suppress facts in the case... {.
The inquest on the body of Mrs. Lorner,
killed with Ratchet by her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Wisert, in Louisville, last Satur-
day, revealed the pr liability that the muir
deress is deranged on the subject of crime,
from reading cheap novels and tlashy liter
ature of the day. Numerous such books and
papers were found in her room, and it was
proved that she had been in the habit of
porting over them necessarily.
On Frid ay night man named Browning,
accompanied by others, went to the house of
Geo. Duncan, a colored man, in Bracken
county, Kentucky, it is said, to whip the
latter or eject him from the house. duncan
showed fight, and on the door being broken
down by his assailants, fired into the crowd,
killing Browning. Duncan was captured and
taken TO Brockville jail, and on Sunday
night mob of disguised and armed men
took him from the Jail and hung him..""An
old man named David Grove was mortally
wounded by his son-in-law, David Musso,
on Saturday evening, at Memphis, Tenn
Musso also shot his wife and mother-in-law,
though not seriously. The shooting was
caused by domestic nfelicity .....The boiler
in the steam mill Of Harrington Brothers,
at Baltimore, exploded on Saturday morn
ing. One of the Harrington brothers was
killed, and several persons were severely in
jured. The building is complete wreck
I'm the United States Court, at Columbia,
S. c., on Saturday, five Ku-Klux prisoners
pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to eight
4. CI
Geo. p. Caron, Parish Judge of st. Johns
nois, Miss, in fiji of temporary insanity.
He was native of Illinois.
A SPECIAL from San Antonio, Texas, says
Col. Sawyer and Capt. Travis, just from the
frontier, report that ten men were killed by
Indians at Salt Creek on the 27th inst......
On the Goth inst. three citizens of San An
tonic, named Their, Wagner, and Borchus,
were murdered near Hillsboro. They were
dro~ers returning home from Kansas with
the proceeds of their sales......A fire at New
Orleans on Sunday night destroyed sixty
buildings. Loss estimated at 100000; in
surance, 100000.
Warrington.
THE pressure for appointments to positions
in the Government service has been much
greater since the adoption by the President
of the rules prepared by the civil service
service commission than at any time within
the memory OF men now living. Nearly
every member of Congress has q candidate
on hand for some office....There is due to
this Government by that Of Columbia
$lO 900, being the balance of the awards
under the Convention of 1857 and 1864. No
payment has been made since 1868. The
Columbian Minister wants an extension of
four years, as his Government is bankrupt.
.....John L. Glen, the drummer boy Of
Shiloh, has been appointed to a second
lieutenancy in the Twenty-fourth infantry.
GEN. SWEET, of Illinois, has entered upon
his duties as First Deputy Commissioner of
Internal Revenue. The Secretary of the
Treasury on Wednesday commenced the pay
ment without rebate of the interest due the
LIST of January on United States bonds.
THE Chronicle announces that Mr.. Acker-
mans successor will not be less jealous in
the Ku-Klux, and that there
will be no abatement of energy on the part
Of the Governmen mt in the matter ...... Copies
Of Gen. Walkers report on the ninth census,
intended to preface the first or population
volume Of statistics, have been mailed to
many of the prominent newspapers Of the
AS the reports Of the census will
be published in three large octave volumes,
the superintendent recommends that com
pendulum of the census in octave form be
for popular distribution.
TREASURER SPINNER says he has no iufor-
nation of counterfeits of the fity-dollar
new issue, as reported.....N. r. Hawley, Of
illinois, has been appointed special agent of
The Post Office Department.....Th The Treasury
DEPARTING nt has decided to allow the use by
steam vessels hereafter of all cork life pre-
servers adjustable to the body Of a person,
by whomsoever manufactured, when such
Dreservers are so constructed as to meet the
requirements of the rules adopted by the
board of supervising inspectors On Fri
lay afternoon Officer Doyle attempted to ar
rest a Mrs. Shea in her house. She resisted
md shot Doyle, the ball taking effect in the
mouth, from which wound he shortly after
lied.
Foreign.
THEIRS delivered a powerful speech to
he French National Assembly on Tuesday, |
n opposition to levying an income taxi.
The Germans have seized prominent citi- |
ZEN of the town of Revin, in the department |
If the Ardennes, because of the troubles be-
ween the Bavarian troops quartered there |
md the French people..."It is announced |
hat the Germans are making a census of