The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
Personal.
AUGUST BELMONT made only S2,0O0,OOO


AUGUST BELMONT made only $4,000
last year.
AN Illinois woman offers TO plow
against any man in the State for wager
of 500.
Mr.. JAMES ANTHONY FRoUDE pro.
nounces his name to rhyme with
cloud"
The women vote in Kansas at school
meetings, and it is reported that the
men vote as their wives do.
EDMUND WINSTON HENRY, the youn ger
and last of the sons of Patrick Henry,
died recently in Charlotte, Va, aged 10.
FREDERICK HUDSON was offered $4,000
per annum TO go back and conduct the
editorial department of the New York
Herald.
-MRs. ELIZABETH HILL, of Geneva, n.
Y, died recently from congestion of the
stomach, produced by a piece Of cloth
four inches square she had swallowed.
c. L. DELANEY, clerk in the naval ser.
vice at Kittery, Me-, lately dead, had no
hands, but he wrote rapidly, holding
the pen between his wrists.
The only paper in the country which
is devoted almost entirely to the in
struction, information and delectation
of the females is, oddly enough, the
New York Nal.
The Washington Chronicle announces
that Gen. Sheridan has at last been cap
tured, not by the Indians, but by the
accomplished Miss Morgan, a niece of
ex-senator Morgan.
A YOUNG lady in New York recently
paid $3.50 for having single dress made.
The careworn look Of her intended since
he heard of it has caused the deepest
anxiety among his friends.
GEORGE w. CAss and other officers Of
the Northern Pacific railroad made the
trip from San Francisco to st. Paul. via
Omaha and Sioux City, recently, in five
and half days.
Col. a. A. C. ROGERS, formerly of Gil.
cago, and late member of Congress from
Arkansas, has purchased fine resi-
dence two miles out from Memphis,
and will henceforth be citizen of Ten
nessee.
JOE HARDIN is promising Texas des-
perado, twenty-one years old. The son
OF Methodist preacher, he began his
career when fifteen years Of age, and has
since killed twenty.four men in Texas
and four in Kansas.
MEssRs. \. d w. SPRAGUE, of Provi.
dence, r. l., nave recently purchased
10000 acres of timber lands in Maine,
paying therefor S3 per acre, or 81 $780,
600 for the whole. They paid down
S350,000 to bind the bargain. This is
one of the largest transactions in real
estate on record.
OLIVE LOGAN, in her new lecture,
speaks of the poor rewards of literary
labor, and says: Half the labor | have
put into book, for which l have been
most numerically criticised, would
have secured me fortune in the milli-
merry line" We don't see that it is yet
too late for Olive to go into the MILL.
merry business.
Miss SARAH G. LEWIS, Of Braintree,
Mass, loved her cat first and her church
next. She bequeathed at her death the
ihNOAhS VI llCl MUSE anu u week W
be applied to the care of her favorite
tortoise.shell. This novel bequest has
been carried out until Monday, when
the cat died, and the Universalist Church
succeeded to the entire property.
RICH mems daughters who marry
coachmen are not of necessity unhappy.
The story of Miss Boxer of New York,
daughter of the millionaire who made
" Boxers Bitters," is again revived.
She convulsed the fashionables by mar.
rying John Dean, her fathers coach.
man, and so dissolying her old family
and social relations. But John, it ap.
pears, turned out successful business
man, and the two live comfortably and
happily.
WHETHER his eccentricity amounted
to insanity or not, is the conundrum
which the family of man who died in
Columbus, KY, recently, would be hap
py to solve. The Columbus gentleman
made provision in his will for the estab
lishment of a "cat infirmary." The
"infirmary" is 10 have rat.holes, to be
kept supplied with rats, to be furnished
with exercise grounds, with sheds where
on fierce Grimalkins may wage war at
will, and, in short, with whatever can
render feline existence pleasant and
comfortable. The mans relations will
dispute with the cats the possession Of
his property.