The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-01-19
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TOPEKA, Kansas. proposes to have
water works.
AN instruction of the Indians in
Southern Florida is anticipated.
GENERAL SPINNER has found that
women are more honest than men.
Mt. PLEASANT, Iowa, bred, fed, educa-
ted, and admitted the first female
lawyer in the United States.
A CUT-sToNE water-tank, 90 feet high,
to cost $4,000, is building at Ottumwa,
Iowa.
THE sale of Theodore Tilton's bio
graphy of Victoria Woodruff has been
prohibited in Germany.
IT is said that Washington negro is
negotiating for the purchase of the
Calhoun homestead in South Carolina.
DANIEL PRATT, "the Great American
Traveller" has been arrested in Manches-
ter, N. H., for vagrancy.
THREE hundred incipient topers have
signed the temperance pledge at Iowa
City.
TAYLoR's Falls, Mimi, ships three or
four tons of venison to New York each
week.
JOHN CoRNELIssE, grocer of Grand
Rapids, Mich, has absconded, leaving
debts to the amount of $4,000.
Iowa College, at Grinnell was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of Sun.
day, the Oath ult. The building was
insured for $4,000.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, is making an effort
to secure United States court and
postoffice building.
THE Topeka, Kansas, Record states
that 1000 tons of English iron have ar
rived in New Orleans for the use Of the
Atchison, Topeka, IL Santa Fe Railroad.
A CHILD was recently born in Sparta,
ILL.,, which, when one day old, weighed
seventeen pounds.
A KANSAS CITY, NO. man named
Tupman went out sleigh riding the
other day with pretty widow He was
pursued by Mrs. Tupman in hack,
overtaken, and horsewhipped soundly
by his irate and unappreciated better
half.
WoMAN's rights were fairly exempli-
fed at South Bend, Ind, few years
ago. A woman, who never heard of
Victoria Woodruff or Lucy Stone,
killed three hogs, hung them up and
dressed them without any help what
ever from any lord of creation.
THE Chicago and Alton Railroad
Company are shipping water from their
well in Bloomington to Miner, on the
Jacksonville Road, for their own use,
being unable to obtain any at that
point.
5. M. MOORE, married man of Wata-
ga, ILL.,, forged his fathers name to an
order for $50. last week, and then eloped
with the wife of NJ. S. Tompkins. De-
tectives are on track of the amatory
fugitives.
OK Thursday, Mary McKarroll, while
crossing the Lake Shore railroad at
Buffalo, with child in her arms, was
instantly killed by a passing train. The
child was thrown between the rails and
escaped unhurt.
Mrs. Colt, of Hartford, who is noted
for her muniticent and constant chart
ties, has determined to build school
for her workpeople's children, to cost
not less than 100000.
LIZZIE WALBRIDGE, noted courtesan
of Cairo, ILL.,, was found lying dead in a
hovel in that city on Thursday night
last. She died alone and unattended
her body had lain untouched day and
half; the very clothing had been
stolen from the bed on which the corpse
lay; and all the surroundings showed
the effects of the most desperate de-
pravity, misery and want.
A JACKSONVILLE Fla, pullet has as
tonished the natives by producing an
egg six inches and a quarter in circum-
ference and over seven inches long. She
challenges. the world. The Lay of the
Last Minstrel wasn't equal to hers.
A MEMBER of the Tennessee Legisla-
ture, named Swipes, had his Ijawbone
broken by recent smash-up on the
Nashville and Northwestern railroad.
If some of our Illinois legislators would
travel while on that railroad J. Chicago
Times.
SOME young Texan hunters, feeling
cold built fire in the woods. About
the time it got we'll under way they had
reason to believe that the fire was built
over their powder flask, for the only
one who was not hurt by the explosion
counted the others as they came down.
The Pressure Cure.
The Chicago Republican says: Mr..
Alexander Simpson, of Towanda, ILL.,. is
dead. He was bilious, Mr.. Alexander
Simpson was, and he saw the following
paragraph from the pen of DR.. Hall
If bilious man wants to get well,
and is in no special hurry, all that he
has to do is to lie down out of doors,
between two broad boards until he gets
ravenously hungry Mr. Simpson fol-
lowed this advice, and calmly fell asleep
with broad board on top of him. Un.
der ordinary circumstances there would
have been no trouble; but there was
Fat Mems ball in the lager-beer saloon
pavt door tbat dav and the two cham