The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-04-26

lie on the ootlonn ol the Afkansas
river.
POEM $500 feet long was sent to a
New Orleans paper with "a request to
publish it.
Mr.. RICE, of Marblehead, Mass, has
watch upward of hundred years old,
the case of which is composed of tor.
toise shell.
A GENTLEMAN in the suburbs of Mont
gomery, Ala, has recently Matched 900
chickens by steam, and has 1900 eggs
in progress of incubation.
AT recent ball in Cairo, H., gold.
headed cane was put up, 10 be given 10
the best dressed gentleman present.
The prize was carried off by a high-toned
negro.
A SUIT involving more than 81 900, 900
is pending against the Logansport Craw-
louisville and Southwestern Railway
Company in the supreme Court of Penn
sylvania.
CASTLE THUNDER, at Richmond, Va,
has been transformed into tobacco
factory. Hundreds of people visit il
every year, curious to behold the place
where so many persons were confined
during the war.
MATHEW STACEY, the present Treasu.
rer Of the city of Jacksonville, ILL.,, has
held that position thirty nine years.
He was the first Treasurer selected by
the city, and the first assessment roll
amounted TO $3.50.
The true harbingers of spring have
arrived at Niagara Falls. They are a
popularity of that place, and are recog-
nized by white wells, bran-new clothes,
squeaky boots, delicate mustaches, and
plenty of money and sweetness.
AN ingenious swindler at Buffalo has
enriched himself at the expense of the
| New York Central railroad by purchas.
ing large number of tickets from
Brockport to Albion, and altering them
so that they read from Lockport to
Albany.
TEXAS has copper and silver ore in
practically inexhaustible quantities, and
coal which rivals the best anthracite OF
Pennsylvania. These minerals are 10
be found in the region known as the
Staked Plains, III the northwestern and
other portions Of the State.
The engineers employed in taking
soundings for the proposed bridge
| across the st. Lawrence, between Pres.
colt and Ogdensburg, have completed
their labors. The bridge will be 5000
feet long, and the piers will have to be
sunk in eighty feet of water.
TIE ice men along the Illinois river
are not i'm cheerful frame of mind
Their ice barges, which generally &C
down the river in February, still repose
on the bottom of the Illinois, and will
not 60 out until rise occurs. Mean
time, the season IS not favorable for the
| preservation Of ice.
a LADY in Skowhegan, Me, lately
stepped upon a furnace-register for tht
purpose of warming her feet, when the
treacherous thing gave way and let heI
through the floor until she was caugh
by the arms. Her husband was luckily
at hand, and speedily relieved her from
her embarrassing position.
FoRT WAYNE, Ind, is frightened. 4
handsome and stylishly lady
walked into the opera house in that cit,
on Tuesday evening. Having neve
seen such person before, the audenc,
came to the immediate conclusion tina
the woman was Josie Mansfield, an,
there was a sensation. The mystery ha
not been solved yet.
An attempt has been made TO stool
Chatauqua lake, New York, with salmon
trout. Mr.. Green, the celebrated pisc
culturist, has successfully transferre,
some 10000 young fish, artificial
Matched, to the waters of the lake. an,
there seems 10 be good prospect tina
the experiment viii prove a complet
success in every respect.
AN English gentleman has leased
water lot in Pilatlla, Fla, for ten year:
with the design of putting up mos
and paper factory. The moss will b
manipulated into such things as hail
cloth, etc. The paper mill is intende
to manufacture paper out of the com
mon saw palmetto. Paper made of thi
material is now used by the Bank {
England for bank notes.
INDIANA has more ghosts than an
other State in the Union. This is tn
} latest narratives Several years ago
) child was sent out to hunt up some COW
in Ohio township, Crawford county, an
WAS never afterward seen. But its gho.
still haunts the locality, and during tn
recent snow storm its footprints WEI
found in a field, distinctly impressed i
the snow for a distance of fifty yards.