The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-03-01
Current Items.

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fHE great project of Kilbourne City,
Wiz, dam across the Wisconsin river,
is Iabout TO be accomplished.
KANKAKEE, Ill.,, has pupil in one of
her public schools who is So years old.
The infant is said to be wonderfully pre-
cocious.
A LAFAYETTE, Ind, Juvenile is deposit
ing his spare savings in bank in that
city to the credit of his little wife that
is to be.
ATLANTA, Ga, is bowling for a new
Jail, the old one being so full that the
prisoners legs are sticking out of the
windows.
The printers of Richmond, Va, are
making great preparations for the an
nual meeting of the international Typo
graphical Union.
AN undertaker's office in indianapolis
recently bore this cheerful inscription
on the front door, "Gone for dead
hanback, soon."
Mrs. PATRICK GoRMLY, of Columbus,
O., aged 65 years, lately fell down stairs
bursting a blood vessel in the brain, and
died in three hours.
WALKER RoDMAN, q well.to-do farmer
Of Salem, ILL.,, died on Thursday last
after brief illness. His wife died Of
grief on the following day.
ToEY SNYDER and his wife, the parties
to the child marriage which created
such sensation in Pittsburgh two years
since, are serving terms in the Work
house.
MAN at Waupun, Wis, who had
just been divorced from his wife, was
married there on the 9th ult. to the
daughter of his divorced wife by a
former husband.
PIECE of land at the corner of Broad
and Wall streets, New York, measuring
72l square feet, or less than one.third
Of an ordinary city lot, has been sold
for $250,000 in gold. This is at the rate
of about $l4 100000 per acre.
A YOUNG girl was practicing the Bat
tie of Prague" on a piano in Brooklyn
on Saturday last. After she had played
for two hours burglar shot at her
through the window, but, to the grief of
the neighborhood, missed her.
A DOG at Iowa Falls chased rabbit
into log recently, and then got stuck
in the hole himself. The dog, being
fast in the log, tasted for sixteen days,
and has now given up the rabbit bust
ness permanently.
Mrs. AMELIA JOHNSON, who shot her
drunken husband dead, at Southbury,
Conn.,, on the Dist ult., has been &C.
quilted, on the ground that the deed
was done in self-defense. The evidence
proved conclusively that Johnson was
dangerous man, and had on previous
occasions brutally beaten his wife.
WALL street has in four years invested
twenty four millions of dollars in
Colorado gold mines. Here is speci-
men Of the result: Consolidated Greg.
DRY worth in 1868 $50 "a share, sells for
80 cents; Black Hawk, once worth
500, sells for SO cents; Smith d Parma
lee, once worth $25, sells for Is cents.
PHILADELPHIA has banker who, in
credible as it would seem, writes worse
hand than DR.. Greeley. Having been
annoyed good deal by certain insur-
ance agent, the banker sent him note
warning him not to come again. The
agent presented the note at the bank.
and was unhesitatingly paid $4,000, the
installing it for check.
A PITTsFIELD feminine Sunday
teacher recently, while engaged in the
administration of her duties, lost her
Bible and didn't know where to fndit.
When she got home the book of books
was found wagging along on the hustle
behind her, where it had been placed
by member Of her class who had not
the fear of God before his eyes.
The occasional explosions of coal.oil
lamps from the attempts to extinguish
them by blowing down the chimney
give value to the following suggestion
Give sharp, but rather prolonged puff,
at right angles with the top of the
chimney. The draft thus produced
draws the flame away from the wick,
and the lamp goes out.
A Mrs. WATTS, wife of Justice Watts,
living near fort Smltn, ARK, discovered
a trespasser in the barnyard in the shape
of full. grown black bear, who was
making it lively for a pet hog. She
took her husbands fowling-piece, went
near enough to be sure of her aim, and
discharged both barrels. The fusillade
was effectual. The carcases of the beast
when dressed weighed 2S7 pounds.
The evident tendency of the Missis-
sippi river to cut through the peninsula
opposite Vicksburg, and thus remove its
to o distance of several miles
from that city, has caused the drawing
up and circulation of memorial for
signatures at Vicksburg and Jackson,
to be forwarded to Congress, calling the
attention of that body to the imperiled