The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-17

The East.

Eight inches of snow fell in Delaware county,
N Y, on the 7th inst.
Another bank defalcation is reported-that
OF John w. Pierce Cashier of the Merchants
National, of Lowell, Mass, whose "irregu-
and fast living, of course.
Charlestown, Brookline, Brighton and West
Roxbury have voted in favor of annexation TO
Boston. BY these acquisitions that city gains
$4,000 population.
Pittsburgh manufacturers have agreed to
pay their employees half their weekly wages,
and credit them with the remainder until
financial matters look up, instead of discharg-
ing one-half of their hands
The trial of Stokes, for the murder of Fisk,
commenced at New York on the 9th inst.
The debt of New York city and county, which
arc practically the same is S13G, 20S 961.55, on
which 1864, OO9.17 is payable in interest
Vice-President Wilson's health is almost
completely restored
number of Pennsylvania iron mills have
been compelled to suspend operations for the
present.
The workmen in the collieries in the vicinity
of Mount Carmel, Pa, are now paid in gold
press shooting-match came off last week at
the Creedmoor grounds, New York, in which
there were twenty-three entries. Gen. j. Il.
Hawley, of Hartford, won the first prize W. II.
Clark. of the New York Netcs, the second; L.
c. Bruce, of the Turf, Fold and Farm, the
third Thomas Lloyd, of Hdrpers Weekly, the
fourth Charles G. shanks, of the New York
Tribune, the fifth and j. X. Mcintyre, Of the
Brooklyn Eagle the sixth prize.
In New York, on the 10th inst, gold was
quoted at 1851, and silver 104 to 10s.
Ex-City Treasurer Sprague. of Brooklyn,
who has been indicted for embezzlement, de-
MES having defrauded the city out of a cent.
He holds Rodman, his deputy, responsible for
all the stealings.
A. E. Phillips formerly Consul to Santiago,
committed suicide in New York, last week, by
cutting his throat.
Eighty-six horses were burned to death in
Boston, last week, by the burning of Martin
Hays livery-stable.
A young son of Hon. NJ. D. Leggett, Com
missioner of Patents, was recently killed by
falling from cliff near Ithaca, n. Y.
The west.
The Third National Bank Of Chicago, which
suspended during the late financial unpleas-
antness, has resumed business.
The survivors of Capt. Jacks tribe have
been sent to Fort Russell, Wyoming Terri
tory.
Ex-Congressman John Law of Evansville,
Ind, is dead, aged H.
Mrs. Horton, of Van Vert, o., the other
day left her infant in cradle near the fire.
place and went out to witness a circus pro-
cession. When she returned her child was
burned to a crisp.
The Union National Bank Of st. Louis has
gone into liquidation.
A farmer named William H. Brown, while
eating his dinner at Fort Wayne hotel the
other day, was choked to death by piece of
meat which lodged in his throat.
The Constitutional Convention of Michigan
has declined to admit the eligibility Of women
to any public office whatever, excluding them
even from the school boards.
Wisconsin has 225 Oranges.
A colored man named Price has sued the
school directors of district in Morgan county.
ILL.,, for $40, 900 damages, because they refused
to admit his children into the school,
l. :
for September, 1,00S.
The assessments made by the State Board
of Equalization on the capital stock of Illinois
corporations foot up as follows: Railroads
S62 COS, TAI telegraph companies, 81, 1885, 394
all other corporations $40 65S O6s total, sS3,-
sos, 209. The railroads of the State have been
assessed in all, $131, 765,727 The aggregate
assessment of the property in the State, real
and personal, railroads, capital stock and
everything, amounts to 81, 339, $50, 251.
Nearly $4,000 people visited the Chicago
Exposition on the 9th inst
Miss Reeves, young seamstress Of Inde-
pendence, Iowa, took dose of cold poison
the other day, and now sleeps beneath the
cold sod.
The School Board of Springfield, H.. has
decided that white and colored children shall
be admitted to the public schools on equal
terms.
The conference at Fort Sill has resulted in
releasing Satanic and Big Tree, on condition
that the savages represented would agree to
abstain from numbering and robbing white
settlers.
The Michigan Constitutional Convention has |
make women eligible to school offices. 1t has |
also stricken from the draft Of the new Consti- |
tuition the prohibitions upon fictitious or
watered stock by corporations.
Advicss from Washington Territory state |
that there is very little activity on the line of
the Northern Pacific. The surveying and |
grading on the town site of Tacoma have been
suspended, and all employees, except those in
dispensably required, have been discharged.
Two passengers on the Mississippi steamer
Muscatine engaged in savage fight, recently,
and in the struggle both went overheard and
were drowned.
A young son of Isaac Dtman, of Auburn,
Ind, while out nutting, few days ago, fell
from tree and was instantly killed.
The National Crop Reporter says reports
from Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Missouri, Kansas, and Ohio confirm the esti-
mated falling-off in the Irish potato crop in
the States named, which, in 1870 produced
over 100000 bushels. The loss at the
given rate would aggregate over 16, 600 600
bushels