The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-24
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| current Items.
THERE is a silver cannon at Gibraltar
weighing 225 pounds.
The Missouri river is rapidly wearing
away the Kansas shore at Wathena.
UNITED STATES currency Of all kinds
outstanding at this date is $40l, $685.
CONGRESSMAN PLATT, of Virginia, is
going to run a sassafras-mill in Peters
| burg.
An Indiana matron is doing as we'll
as could be expected at the age Of -
It's girl.
ALEXANDER BoRGIA, Grand Comman.
der of the Knights of st. John, died in
Rome recently.
One of the Tichborne bonds of the
denomination of el00 has found its way
to Atlanta, Georgia.
The State Historical Society of Min.
nesota is collecting the biographies and
"reminiscences of early residents.
PEACE has been re established in
Hayti, and the country is ow quiet.
CAPTAIN LANGwoRTHY, Chairman of the
Wisconsin Relief Committee for the
burned district, calls for donations of
seed potatoes.
RUSSIA, Austria, Italy, France, Spain,
and the United States, six of the eight
foremost nations in the world, have q
legaltender paper money.
LAST week, at an uptown funeral in
New York, three OF the pail. bearers,
while carrying the coffin from the house
to the hcarse, were robbed Of their
watches.
MARYLAND Jews are obliged to leave
that State in order TO marry, as mar
riages are not valid there unless per-
for,ued by minister of the Gospel"
RETURNS of the Massachusetts, Bureau
Of Labor Statistics show that the cash
value of farms in that State has de
creased nearly 100000 within the past
ten years.
THOMAS NJ. Tying, son of the celebrated
New York divine, has lately married
Mrs. Emma Louisa Moffett, the au-
thoress, of Columbus, Ga.
TOW O'CoNNoR, an unassuming Irish
man. is said 10 be the largest cattle
owner in Texas. He does not know eX-
actly how many he has, but the total
will not vary much from 10000.
A Missouri farmer attempted to
smoke out "a rabbit, and burned up half
a mile of fence and over a hundred
apple trees. He caught the rabbit
A BosroN printer has invented, and
the Boston and Maine railroad is to
make a trial of, an entirely new signal
for insuring safety upon railroads.
DORA, the seventeen year old daugh.
ter of J. +. Woodwork, a rich farmer
living near Hlllsdale, Mich, eloped with
a barber the other night, and the two
were married before the father overlook
them.
CANADIAN papers say that the emigra-
ton of French Canadians TO the United
States from the townships is assuming
larger proportions than ever.
A COLLECTION of 275 specimens of post
age stamps was lately sold in London,
realizing f252 is Cd. A five-cent Con
federate stamp, unused, and very
scarce, brought e5 and twocent Mem
phis stamp the same price.
THOMAS BUCHANAN READ, the poet
painter, is dangerously i'll with pleuro.
pneumonia, at the Aston House, New |
York.
PIsToLIcIDE and INFLAMMATION are
the latest sorts of obituary coined by the
genial photographers.
A JOLLY and reckless young fellow |
named Tomlin-now in the spring-time |
of his 10Th year-eloped from Greenup,
KY, on the 29th ult., with the wife of |
Shelton Keeton and $50 in money.
GAs-rITTERs who carry an open lamp
into a room filled with gas to look for
the leak usually find it. One tried il in
New York, last Friday, and confirms the
general rule. Damage 81 200, mostly
TO the plate-glass front.
IT may perhaps afford some consola-
ton to the American ship.building in
terest to learn that NJ. Adhemar pre-.
diets another universal deluge for the
year 7253.-NeO York World.
The Savings Banks of the United
States contain deposits of 81 100000, 900
mainly the surplus earnings of mechan-
les and laboring men. or this amount
over Sl63, 600 are deposited in the
Savings Banks of Massachuf etts, $780,.
100000 in the rest of New England, and
nearly $300,000,000 in New York.
The steamers of the Inman line are
FAMED after cities, the White Star line
Ifter oceans and seas, the National line
liter nations, the Williams & Guion
Ifter American States, the Cunard
.fter islands and colonies, and the I
french line after eminent men. I