The true northerner., 1872-08-02
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

barrels decrease from May. 523 barrels daily
stock on hand, July /, 976,364 decrease of
9,76S barrels. Shipments in June, 549,21
barrels.
The trial of VIM NJ Tweed commenced at
New York on July l6.
Stokes, Fisk's slayer will not be bailed. His
next trial will probably take place in Saratoga
county, n. y, III September.
Gratz Brown, who was attacked by cholera
morbus at New York, the other day, is again
on his legs.
Dr. Lanahan is TO be made Presiding Elder
of the Washington District Baltimore Con-
ference).
The West Point Board of Visitors have made
their annual report. They animadvert severely
upon the manner in which the affairs of the
institution have been conducted, and find fault
with the management of the cadets and their
department. The Board advise that more
milk be used in the diet of the coming heroes.
The great racers Longfellow and Harry
Bassett had another meeting at Saratoga on
the 10th OF July, and old john Harper's pride
is again humbled The course was "a miles,
and was won by Bassett by length, in 3:59-
the fastest time ever made in America. While
running the last mile, Longfelow twisted the
shoe of his right fore foot, cutting the leg
badly. A large amount of money was won and
lost on the race the New York sports being
badly scooped.
Mrs. Fredercks, wealthy and respected
lady of Hackensack, n. j., drowned herself
last week, from grief over the loss of
brother.
The official trial of the road steamer on the
Erie canal, on July II, proved a complete sue
cess. The engine drew three loaded boats at
double the speed of boats drawn by horses.
A Saratoga dispatch of July IS says; 81
paid visit to Harper's stables early this
morning, and there stood the wreck of Long
Branch racing greatness, in an undignifed
attitude, on three legs. He is gone forever.
The wound in his heel is nothing compared to
the breaking of tendon-a middle one, too:
and (to use the precise language of his train
CT, HID He will never more than walk-run
he couldn't"
There are nineteen prisoners in New York
city on the charge of murder one of whom il
under sentence-Foster, the car-hook muir
derer.
Albert S. Dusenbury. a New York lawyer,
committed suicide, July 10, by shooting HIM
self.
The effects of the defunct New York Stand
ard were sold at auction in New York July
10, and brought $1,000.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
purpose erecting a building on Broadway and
Dey streets, New York, to cost 81, 800 900.
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Pittsford, n. Y, on the 10Th of July, by which
three persons were killed, three mortally
wounded and several seriously injured Among
the killed was Mr.. +. b. Smith. well-known
bookseller of Detroit, and one of the leading
business men of that city.
Ex-Congressman Thatcher. the Oldest gradu-
ate Of Harvard, and the Oldest Mason of the
United States, died at Bangor, Me-, July 49,
aged Sc
The large paper mill of J. b. Sheffield at
Saugertes, n. Y vas destroyed by fire July
10. Loss, 100000; insurance. $685. 900.
AT a meeting of the directors of the Atlantic
and Pacific railroad, in New York, July 10. a
lease was effected of the Missouri Pacific and
Its branches, giving to the former company
some 500 additional miles of road
Three young ladies were drowned while
bathing in pond at Millbury Mass, on
July 20.
Excavation on Vanderbilt's great New York
underground railroad will begin in September,
and its completion is promised within two
years
Two Sing Sing convicts attempted to escape
from prison last week by slowing themselves
away in garbage barrels. They forced them
selves through the filth and covered them
selves up. When the driver stopped at the
dumping grounds to unload, one of the prison-
ers leaped out of his barrel pushed the terri
fed driver off his seat and whipped the horse
into run. The convict was too much excited
to notice which way lie had headed, and before
he was aware of it he was almost in the prison
yard again. The other convict rose up TO peep
out, and both Of the culprits were seized and
marched back to their cells in a sad plight.
There was slight frost in some parts OF
New York State on the night OF July o.
An effort is to be made to liberate Stokes on
bail.
Josephine Mansfield, the artful siren who
infatuated Jim Fisk, and ultimately compassed
ine uedtn OI tnat erratlc gentleman, went TO
Saratoga the other day to testify in the Bar
nard impeachment case. She was treated a.
an outcast, being refused admission to the
hotels, and when she took her seat in the
courtroom number Of ladies who had as
sembled to witness the judicial proceedings
immediately left.
The West.
shooting affray at Henryville, Ind, july
10. between Thomas and Samuel Knoyland
(uncle and nephew, resulted in the instant
killing of the former and the mortal woundinp
of the latter.
Col. VIM. I. Phillips, prominent citizen
of Kansas, has mysteriously disappeared.
Rich cinnabar mines have been discovered
in Oregon.
Johnson & Jones soap and candle manu-
factory, at Milwaukee. was burned July l6.
Loss $4,000.
sedalia, Mo, Rising Sun, Ind, and Piqua.
Ohio, each had $4,000 worth of fire on July 16
The man who started out to navigate the
Mississippi from its source to its mouth in a