The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-01-19

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gang plank to the ice, receiving such inju-
ries that she died on Friday evening ...... Ex-
Gov. Matteson, of Illinois, was thrown from
a sleigh at Springfield on Monday, receiving
probably fatal injuries......A few days since
the skeleton of Chinaman was found on
Goodyear creek, Sierra county, Nevada, the
head being suspended by two ropes attached
to a tree, the rest lying on the ground. He
had been missing for about year......C. G.
Ball, of Flint, Mich, discovered broken
rail on the Flint and Pere Marquette rail
road, the other day, and stopped APP
preaching train. For this the company re-
warded him by granting him "a perpetual
free pass..... Mrs. Warren Thayer, of Clin-
ton, Wis, took cyanide of potassa in mis-
take for medicine, on Wednesday last, and
died in few hours.
The South.
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 Crock on the 9th inst......
| On the Goth inst. three citizens of San An
tonic, named Their, Wagner, and Bsrchus,
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.
A LITTLE girl of years, daughter of Will
liam David Cromwell, of Ohio county, KY,
was instantly killed by lightning in her ia
theirs house on Sunday. The electricity
came down the chimney. The fash struck
| the left side of the head burning off the hair,
and peeling the skin in crisps from many
places on the face, neck, chest end lower
limbs, leaving the flesh of a blush, livid
color. A little dog lying at the girls feet
was killed by the same flash. The mother
and two other children were knocked sense
less by the shock. The mantel over the fire
was torn in splinters, but the chimney was
uninjured. lin the United States Court at
Columbia, S. c., ten more prisoners from
Spartansburg county pleaded guilty, and
told the story Of their crimes in open court.
"...A fire in Somerset, Pulaski county, KY,
last Sunday, burned twelve of the best
houses in the village, including the Court
House. Loss, $75 900.
A FRANKFoRT (Ky.) special says that a
band of fifteen or twenty Ku-Klux made a
raid upon some negroes near Bridgeport, in
that county, on the night of the Cd, whip
ping one and ordering others to leave the
vicinity on pain of death. One farmer was
ordered to employ none but white laborers.
It is the declared purpose of the outlaws to
drive the negroes out of the country
LIBBY GARRABRANDr, mistress of Bur-
roughs, the brothel keeper whom the Pater-
son constable found dead in his chair, has
confessed that her dssolute lover Van
Wrinkle Bogert poisoned Burroughs. The
girls devotion to her lover had led her to
take the risk Of the gallows rather than ex-
pose him, but when she clearly
saw his perfdy in actually striv-
ing to fasten the crime upon her, she re-
Tented and told the truth to the
Mayor of Patterson...In the Wharton
murder trial at Annapolis, Md, on Monday,
DR.. Harry L. Byrn testified that General
Ketchum died from natural causes, proba-
bly, from cerebro-s spinal meningitis. Dr.
Peter GOODRICH testified his belief that
Ketchum was not poisoned by tartar emetic,
and Dr.. John r. McClurg, Of Westchester,
Pa, testified that the death Of Ketchum was
the result of purely natural causes.
Washington.
The residence of the Russian Minister
was entered by burglars on Tuesday night |
and robbed of a considerable amount Of sill |
verware 49, The Commissioner of Patents |
has extended the patent of Henry Fisher,
Of Canton, o., for moving machines....The |
Treasury Department has issued circular |
allowing towing boats and steamboats,, used |
exclusively in transporting freight upon the |
Mississippi and its tributaries, to carry a |
standard pressure upon their boilers of one |
hundred and fifty pounds to the square inch, |
instead of one hundred and ten pounds, the |
limit heretofore allowed. The United |
States Patent Office has commenced the pub
LEGATION of a weekly official gazette, which |
will embrace all the various matters author
lied to be published by Section 20 of the Pa
tent act of 1870, with the exception of |
specifications and drawings, which will con-
tinue to be published in a separate form.
THE Civil Service Commission reassem-
bled on Thursday to perfect the in
auguration of the civil service reform rules.
The board seem to think these rules were
placed in force somewhat earlier than was
necessary. Members of Congress are most
nonplussed by the new order of things, and
grow very indignant when heads Of depart
ments and bureaus refer them and all their
applications for appointments to the compe-
titive boards selected and to be selected to
pass candidates for ofiice"...The British
case, as presented at the Geneva Conference,
has been received at the State Department
from our agent at Geneva, Bancroft Davis.
1t makes five volumes, and does not read as
though the positions assumed in the case by
the United States had been learned by the
British authorities in advance, as alleged.
GEN. BABcocK, of the Presidents staff, has
written letter to the Retrenchment Com
mittee, asking that they make a most rigid
irves tigation into the charges made against
him of participating in the profits of the
general order business of the New York |
Custom House, and he takes the liberty to
suggest that the witnesses be examined ex-
clusively by the Democratic members of
the committee......D DIR. Ryland I. Brown, an
agricultural chemist of indianapolis, Ind,
has accepted the position of chemist of the
Agricultural Department rendered him by
Commissioner Watts.
Foreign.
AT the installation of the Conservative
Mayor of Limerick, on Tuesday, tumultu-
Gus mob alternately Kissed at the name of
the Prince of Wales and cheered for home
rule" The King of Italy sent special
ambassador to the Vatican or New Years
day to tender His Majesty's congratulations
to the Holy Father The ambassador was