The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-12-20
Current Items.

ST. PAUL estimates her size at 80 900.
The 81 gold pieces are to be with
drawn from circulation.
CHICAGO will give 5000 for the best
plan OF new court house.
The new Episcopal cathedral in New
York city will cost $4,000 600.
For the last 40 murders committed
in New York city, only two men have
been hung.
FERMENTATION of cider may be arrest
at any stage by putting in tlax-seed at
the rate of halt a pint to apint. per
barrel.
THE Baptist churches of Illinois have
total membership of very nearly CO..
600. They are divided into $40 churches
and 40 associations.
A BANK of excellent meerschaum clay
has been discovered IN Southern Cali
fornia, and workmen are TO be imported
from Europe TO manufacture it into
pipes.
AN en!erprising Washington news
| dealer, in the absence of laws against
obscene literature, has republished the
| libelous paper OF Woodruff ~ Clatiin
in pamphlet form.
The valuation of property in Iowa,
! for taxation in 1869, was S42 900, COO; in
1870 it was S53,000000, showing an in
crease of % per cent. in twelve months.
1t has no public debt
Ten American locomotives have al.
ready been forwarded to fill orders from
Russia, and the Baldwin factory has
Just received a contract for nine more
to be put on railway in Finland.
An interesting feature of the Boston
public library are upwards of 1000
newspapers of America and England
containing accounts of the assassination
of President Lincoln, with comments
thereon.
The History Of the Devil" little
volume, seventy years old, was recently
sold at Washington, ID. c., bringing a
good price. 1t is said that there was
quite competition among buyers TO see
who would become possessed of the
| deUiL.
THERE is now in course of construction
in Washington City sewer OF nine feet
interior diameter, through which a six
mule team can be easily driven. Seven
| hundred bricks and two barrels Of &C.
ment are required for each foot Of ad-
vance made.
JUDGE MILLER, Of the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of
! Wisconsin, has decided that a bankrupt
cannot sell his homestead and claim his
store as a residence by moving into it,
and orders that the store and lot be de-
livered to the bankrupt's creditors.
TUE Nashville Tenn Union says
"The lady members OF the First Baptist
Church in this city have cgreed that
they will dispense with all fnery on
Sunday-wearing no jewels but consist
ency, and hereafter appear at church in
plain calico dresses"
The Union Pacific railroad is having
constructed at its shops in Omaha a
monster snow.p pillow, which when com
pleted will be the largest in the world.
The trucks were cast especially for it.
and are very heavy and strong. The
platform IN the trucks is % feet long
and 10 feet and inches wide, composed
of solid oak timbers Sxl6 inches, held
together by large iron bolts running
crosswise. This solid bed is fastened tc
the transom beams by 40 bolts, % over
each truck. The monster will weigh
80 tons, and will be operated by three
of the heaviest engines on the road. The
cost will be over $1,000.
A MOST extraordinary female invalid i.
reported to be at Denver, Col, to which
place she went from Chicago, for hei
health. The popularity of the case o
Mrs. Clara Faircloth for such is he
name) is, that she has not slept fifteer
hours in nearly seven weeks. She moves
about the city like an invalid, at time
has spasms, and continually begs 70
, morphine. There is, Of course, diseased
action of the brain. There is also
great crowd of consumptives throngini
TO Denver, some Of whom die and SOM
do not.
THE cossips arc already arranging 70
, President Grants inauguration ball. Tn
= question is, where TO hold il. Presiden
2 1IaIrison's inauguration ball was held il
= the old National Hotel, President Polk
: in the National Theater, President Tay
a lor's in "a temporary building erected 70
8 the purpose in Judiciary square, wher
j. the ball in honor of the Inauguration c
!, President Buchanan, and afterward c
!. President Lincoln, took place. TIL
r ball at President Grants first inaugu
!. ration was given in the north wing {
f the Treasury Department. The suggei
j. ton is that the inauguration Tor tn
}. second term take place in the new Stat
n Department, which will be nearly con-