The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-10
Current items.

hemian was fatally stabbed by William
Manly.
COLUMBIA, S. c., is TO build an opera
house and city hall at an expense OF
$4,000.
DIR. A. p. MILLER has sold IA three
eighths interest in the Toledo Blade for
$4,000.
LEAD ore smelling establishment is
building in the town OF Paris, Grant
county, Mo.
A DOCTOR at Sterling, H., has had 10
pay a patient 81 AS for malpractice III
setting broken wrist.
A CITIZEN Of Albany, recently de-
ceased, left $4,000 to be used in trans
lating the Bible into Japanese.
THHRE are seventeen pneumatic tube
lines in operation in London varying IN
length from $50 yards to 20 yards.
An American firm is TO build mailea-
BILE iron works at Oshawa, Ont, on a
large scale-the town giving site and
liberal bonus.
Two women passed through Terre
Haute, Ind, on Monday evening last,
on foot, who were walking from Jetfer-
son City, No, to Washington.
The court house of Dunklin county,
at Kennett, Mo-, was burned on the
morning of the 10th inst. 1t had just
been completed at a cost Of $4,000.
SENATOR THURMAN has rented his
house in Columbus, Ohio, sold his fur
niture, and will reside in Washington
during the remainder of his term.
NEAR Knoxville, Tenn, is spot stu
ated between the mountains, and apty
called Happy Valley, in which only
one death has occurred In twelve years.
ANOTHER foolhardy voyage across the
Atlantic is contemplated. A boat
twelve feet long, rugged as a schooner,
is to sail shortly for Europe, carrying
crew of one man.
The Marseilles quilt factory at Rock
Island H., has got fairly under way,
and has just turned out its first counter
panes. 1t is intended to manufacture
$50 quilts per day.
Mrs. ARTnENAY, a wealthy Massachu-
sets lady, raised by hand fine trotting
colt, now two years old, for which she
was offered last week, by Boston
gentleman, 5000. The offer was de-
clined.
OVER forty trees have been struck by
lightning on Timber Ridge, two miles
south Of Fairfield, Va, in the last ten
years. 1t is said that lightning has
struck in this locality in every storm for
a century.
A CARGO of twenty five old cannon
cast for the Southern Confederacy at
Richmond but never used, have been
landed at Bridgeport, Conn.,, whence
they are to be taken to Ansonia to be
broken up.
AN English gentleman has purchased
land at Palatka, Florida, on which he
is erecting a paper mill, in which paper
will be manufactured from Palmetto
wood, on which the notes of the Bank
of England are 10 be printed.
GEORGE c. MAHAN, of Memphis, in
company with Mr.. Emerson, has just
invented a steam canalboat, the model
OF which cost $4,000. They are candi-
dates for a 100000 prize offered by
New York State for boat of that kind.
The tunnel under the Niagara river
at Buffalo to supply the city with water
has been completed for 700 feet, and an
extension Of 800 feet has been ordered.
The pier will be located in the rapids.
The entire work is to be finished by
Jan. |.
JAMES GORDON BENEFITS income from
his real estate and newspaper is $225,000
per year, and that of his son $4,000.
The advertising receipts from the paper
range from $500 to $1,000 per day, ac-
eording to the changes III the business
season Of the year.
PROF. YOUNG, OF Dartmouth, will next
summer take his telescope and spectre
scope TO Sherman, on the Pacific rail
road and see what advantages can be
gained by observations in the light air,
5000 feet above the sea. The expedi-
ton is un Ter the charge Of the United
States Coast Survey, and the Govern
ment pays the expenses.
MORRIS Powers, young man lately
| employed in the pineries on the Poke
CANA river, Mimi, went on the 9TH
inst. to visit some wigwams near the
camp. While there he was attacked by
two squaws, who beat his brains out.
! The body was then cut to pieces and
thrown into lake about four miles dis
tant. The lumbermen in that section
have banded themselves together and
, swear they will kill all the Indians they
: meet on the Pokegama river at sight.
, Why Some People Remain Poor.
, Cream is allowed to mold and spoil.
Silver spoons are used to scrape
/ kettles.
The scrubbing-brush is left in the
, water.
Bones are burned that would make
soup.
Nice-handled knives are thrown into
hot water and spoiled.
, Dish-cloths are thrown where mice