The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-02-09
The South.

Wharton was acquitted of the charge of
poisoning Gen. Ketchum...".At Louisville,
on Wednesday, a German blacksmith named
Conrad Weber fell out of a window in fit,
and broke his neck. He died in about five
minutes. Snow fell at New Orleans on
Wednesday for the first time in several
years.
A WILMINGTON, IN. c. dispatch says that
the Lowry gang is committing fresh out
RACES. Among tho last attacked was plan
ter named O'Neil, whose daughter and wife
wero seriously wounded......G Gen. r. s. Ewell
died at his residence in Maury county, Tenn,
on Thursday morning, between two and
three o'clock. In giving directions touching
his tombstone, he laid particular stress upon
the fact that he did not desire any word TO
be employed in the inscription that could
reflect in any way upon the Government OF
the United States.
AT Tullahoma, Tenn, on Thursday, An
drew Martin, quiet and respected citizen,
was shot and killed by Mat Darwin, noto-
rious desperate, who escaped.
A FIRE at Nashville, Tenn, on Saturday,
destroyed property to the amount of $780,
000......A Raleigh special says the North
Carolina Legislature has authorized a reward
of 900 for the arrest of Henry b. Low
ray, and SIS 900 for each of his gang of out
laws, or $500 900 in all......A fire at st. Louis
on Sunday morning destroyed the works OF
the St. Louis Brass and Hardware Manufac-
turing Company, the commission house of
M. d. Hettzell & Co., and the tobacco fac
tory of Moran & Powell. Total loss 81 so 900
insurance $4,000.
The Congressional Investigating Commit
tee commenced its session on Monday at
New Orleans. The committee is besieged by
both parties, anxious to give their testimony
IA fire in jefferson, Texas, on Monday
destroyed a square of buildings on the south
side of Dallas street, next to the steamboat
landing. The Office of the Jefferson Times
was also destroyed. Loss, 100000; insur-
ance, $40 900 ......On Summary morning three
prisoners escaped from the Covington, (Ky.)
jail, by means of q key taken from the
turnkey.
Washington.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has di-
rected the Assistant Treasurer at New York
to purchase 81 200 900 of bonds on the first,
third and fifth Thursdays of February, or
So 900, 900 in all, and sell 81 900 900 of gold
on the second and fourth Thursdays, or
$4,000 900 in all.
Foreign.
THE steamship Made, on her voyage to
Alexandria, Egypt, encountered a heavy
gale. The steamer was crowded with ma
tives, many of whom were on deck. During
the heaviest of the storm, sea swept the
deck from stem TO stern, and thirty five of
the native passengers were carried overheard
and drowned.
The Emperor of Germany has knighted
and conferred the Order of Merit on the dis
tinguished English painter, Edward Land
The census of Rome has been COM
pleted. The total population is 100000.
LADY FRANKLIN has offered a reward of
$4,000 for the recovery of the records of the
Erebus and Terror, supposed to have been
deposited in King Williams Land .A dis
patch from Nice, France, reports terrible
railroad accident near that city. While a
train from Cannes was crossing a bridge over
the Paglione River, the structure gave way,
and the cars were precipitated into the
water. Fourteen persons were killed and
wounded......The Pope's advisers are urging
him to quit Rome.
THE steamer America, plying between
Buenos Ayres and Montevideo, burned on
the night of December %. A large number
of passengers were on board, of whom 81
lost their lives, being either burned to death
or drowned.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Nice states tn at
Minister Washburne gave grand banquet
to Gen. Sherman on the evening of his de
parture for Italy......The Trustees of the
Peabody fund have let out 500 houses, with
planted grounds attached, at Bristol, Eng
land, to small families, in accordance with
the directions of the late George Peabody
....A new religious journal has been estab-
lshed at Rome, which will oppose the
dogma of infallibility. Pere Hyacinthe is
to be one of the contributors
ScHAMAcHr, town of Asiatic Russia, has
been totally destroyed by an earthquake
Many lives are reported lost...It is report
ed that the ship Almora, of st. Johns, n.
b., was destroyed by fire at sea and that
all on board persisted.