The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


the Hon. Samuel Campbell, were sold at auc
ton for an aggregate sum of $780, 800. The
Eighth Duchess Of Geneva brought the start
ling price of $4,000. The Tenth Duchess OF
Geneva sold for S35, 900, and $50 600 was
given for the First Duchess of Oneida. The
average price paid for ten of the Duchess tribe
was S21, 700 each. This herd WAS beyond
question the most valuable ever got together
and it's sale attracted fancy stock breeders
from every part Of this country as well at
from Europe. The three highest prices were
paid by Englishmen.
An important female witness in the Stokes
case been arrested in New York. 1t it
claimed that she picked up and concealed
the pistol with which Fisk was trying to
shoot Stokes at the time the latter killed
him.
Butter and Cheese Exchange was formal
ly opened in New Nork city last week The
admission fee is s25.
William CT. Fargo has been elected rresi-
dent of the SANTANA Bay Company, vice Alden
b. Stockwell, resigned.
The Warehouse and Security Company, of
New York, has collapsed. The assets Of the
company amount to about $4,000, 900, and the
liabilities to 81 1900, 900. The Missouri, Kan
fas and Texas railway owed the company
$l,0O0OOO.
A despicable piece of vandalism was lately
perpetrated at Poughkeepsie n Y, by some
unknown miscreants. The vault containing
the remains of the late Chancellor Livingston
and others Of his family was broken open, the
collins destroyed, the bones of the dead scat
tered about, and the silver handles and plates
OF the collins stolen.
William Brnstead and benjamin T. Welsh
members Of the Board of Works Of Jersey
City, charged with corruption in Office, have
been tried and found guilty.
The balloon in which Prof Wise was to at
tempt an aerial voyage across the Atlantic has
collapsed, and with it the enterprise has suf-
fered like fate. A New York dispatch of the
10Th thus tells why and how the project came
to naught: "An immense crowd visited the
Capitoline Grounds, Brooklyn this afternoon,
TO witness the departure of the big balloon for
Europe. The process of imitation commenced
at an early hour this morning and continued
steadily until ten minutes past 4, when the
balloon suddenly swayed to the north ripped
half way around, with q great tearing noise,
and fell flat upon the ground. The immense
volume Of gas which had been pumped into
it, nearly 10000 feet, escaped at the same
moment, nearly suffocating those who stood
on the inside. Inspector Polk Mr.. Goodsell
and Police Commissioner Briggs had but the
instant before shifted their positions to the
eastward, and thus escaped being buried in
4ho nd l.
general rush over the ropes, with the inten-
ton of tearing up the canvas into small pieces
and carrying them off as mementoes. but
strong force of police on the ground charged
and drove them back. Mr.. Stiner who had
contracted to fill the balloon, said that it
would be all folly to attempt another infa-
ton, as the bag was not made of the proper
material. So the enterprise is abandoned for
the present"
Kenyon, Cox & Co., heavy Wall street oper-
ators, have suspended
Vice-President Wilson is almost entirely
restored to health.
Hon. John p. Hale is on his legs again.
A counterfeit of the new ffty-cent note is
in circulation, and is said to have made its
appearance two days after the genuine was
issued.
Prof. Wise publishes in the New York papers
card defending his theory of an eastorly air
current, and announcing his readiness to start
for Europe at any time in a gas-tight silk
balloon. 1t is announced that the Graphic
managers will Immediately have constructed
silk balloon, in which Prof. Donaldson will
attempt the Atlantic voyage.
1t is said sufficient evidence has beer found
to secure the indictment and conviction of the
ring that has been plundering Brooklyn.
Tho west.
The Pleasant Hill (Neb.) Jail WAS recently
set on fire by an incendiary, and the building,
together with four inmates were consumed.
The receipts of wheat at Milwaukee are
enormous. The amount received in one day
(Sept. 81 was 493, 709 bushels, being 16s,7O9
bushels greater than those of Chicago, and the
largest ever reported in the West
John w. Coon, well-known professional
billiard expert died last week, in Chicago, of
cerebro-spinal meningitis.
In match game of billiards, 1000 points
up. on carom five by ten table, played in
Chicago. last week, between George Slosson
and John BetsunBer, INC loIuleI TAU 'ho baiuo
out in fourteen innings, making the extraordi-
nary average of ~.
Satanta and Big Tree have arrived at Fort
Sill The meeting with their families is said
to have been quite affecting.
bold attempt was recently made to rob
Paymaster Brooks, of the United States Army
near River Bend, Col, while ell route to the
camp of the Sixth Cavalry to pay the troops
One of tho robbers was mortally wounded and
the others put to flight. Lieut.. Willnore and
Mrs. Roberts, who were in the ambulance with
Maj. Brooks, were slightly wounded. The
robber that was shot is an ex-army ofiicer-G
w. Graham-formerly a captain in the Tenth
Cavalry.
A young man named Mills was literally |
blown to atoms by an explosion OF nitro-gly-
cerine, at Negsunoe, Mich, few days ago.
At the celebration of Perry'a victory, at
Dayton, Ohio one Of the 12-pounders with |
which the veteran gunners were firing a salute |
was prematurely discharged, killing Peter
Glenner, late Of the Twentieth Ohio Volunteer
Battery, mortally wounding Elias Anderson,
Thrty-second Ohio Volunteer Battery, and |