The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-31
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Mosr of the sailors who struck work
at Southampton, England, have re-
turned TO work.
A FEARFUL hailstorm occurred In Salt
Lake City, Tuesday afternoon, dong
great damage to the fruit blossoms.
TUE directory census of Grand Rapids,
Mich, completed, gives the city 1915
inhabitants.
The new directory census OF Kansas
City, Mo-, gives the population OF the
city at 40, Isl.
The tariff on luxuries at Paducah, KY,
is very moderate. The quotations Tor
wife-beating are $40.
DURING the past ~ months, Hudson
county, New Jersey, has paid 80, OOO Tor
post norton examinations OF suicides
The sum of S25OOO0 was realized last
year by the sponge CATERERS on the
lower gulf coast OF Florida.
Mr.. BRACE, of Pennington, Illinois,
has invented and is about patenting
machine to drive hens out OF garden.
CHEROKEE county, Alabama, has a
bearded negress. Her whiskers are
about three inches long, and quite
gray.
j. WIscuENDoRF accidentally fell from
train on the Jackson railroad, near
Amite, La, on Saturday night, and was
instantly killed.
IN the United States, during a period
of twelve years, 262 persons were killed
by lightning, and 400 more or less in
| jured.
UNDER the new license laws of South
Carolina, clergymen must take out
license before they are permitted to
preach.
FERDINAND SPANN, of Webster county,
Ca, hanged his wife the other night,
who had but one leg, and eloped with
girl that had an uninjured pair.
DEFINITE arrangements have been
made for developing the valuable beds
of slate near the head-waters of Huron
bay, in Houghton county, Mich.
AN alligator eighteen feet in length,
and weighing eight hundred pounds,
was recently killed near the mouth OF
the Ocklawaha river, Florida.
THE French Internationals of New
York have repudiated Woodruff and
the action of the Apollo Hall national
convention
IT is stated that thirteen children
were born on board the steamer Scandi-
navian on her recent voyage from Liver
pool to Quebec.
Mrs. MATILDA JONES, an elderly fe-
male, has appeared in an English police
court and pleaded that she was "chemi-
Called from sewer" not drunk. Five
shillings and costs.
THE man Wright, who was shot in
Detroit last week in a brothel by its
keeper, Elizabeth Gardner, died Thurs
day. The woman is IN Jail, and will be
tried for murder.
Mrs. WILLIAM G. RHODES, of Platts-
burg, y. Y, caught brook trout in
Cleazy lake, on the Sth inst, which
weighed % pounds. This is the largest
trout on record.
WIN. Nixon, agent for mining COM
pany, had a quarrel with a miner named
Harlow, at Little Cottonwood Utah, on
Monday, which resulted in Nixon shoot
ing Harlow through the heart.
JEREMIAH COLLINS, who killed his wifi
with a hoe in st. Louis, has been re-
spited until the 18th of July by Gov.
Brown. lie repudiates Executive Glenn
ency and is anxious to be hung.
The last expedition to Cocos Island
in search Of treasure, supposed TO have
been buried there by pirates, has failed,
and fourteen persons from the expe-
dition have returned to san Francisco.
The heirs of Robert Harper, of A lbany,
n. Y, have been compelled by court
of law to refund sos, being principal
and interest of bet OF 5000 which the
deceased won on the Presidential cleo.
ton of 1865.
AT noon Tuesday the fengine and
twelve cars Of an empty coal-train ran
off the track of the Erie railroad at
Walls Gait Junction, five miles from
Newburg. The conductor and fire.
man were slightly injured.
SOMEBODY at Albany selected another
mans yard as suitable place for dead
cat. The man thought his next neigh
Dor was responsible, and the conse-
quence is that Grimalkin travels across
the fence about seven times day.
DUNLOP says that in all European
literature there are not more than 800
distinct plots, and 80 of these are
earlier than Christianity. Almost all
the newspaper jokes have reached a
old age, and all the Irish bulls
are Greek.
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