The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-07

'itilh ~ minutes
from the time the Emperor wa seized with the
fatal symptoms, ne having been unconscious
throughout, and of coJp" e. also insensible TO
pain, and spared from the pangs of death.
An unknown Br' sh vessel has been wrecked
near bordeaux, md all on board lost.
The New FORK Ht10lcrS correspondent has
been interviewing NJ. Gambetta. The French
s'atesp' says that the Republican cause
neye. looked brighter IN France. The two
Ffanches of the French Bourbons have united
their forces, in order to present but one candi-
date for the throne of France in case the mon
archy be restored.
Rev. Adam Sedgwick the distinguished En-
glish geologist il dead, aged IS.
The cable assures us, for the 999th time, that
the earliest instruction in Spain is completely
crushed
converts in Rome.
The yellow fever is raging in Rio Janeiro.
General.
The Greeley National Statue Committee re-
port that :l5, 900 have been subscribed for the
statue to Mr.. Greeleys memory They need
S40. 000 and will take no action until that sum
IL raised. Contributions of any amount are go
licited.
The English steamship Himalaya has not
been heard from. She left England for Hall
fax on the I'd Of January, and had on board
about 300 soldiers Of various English regi
men,A.
An absurd rumor was telegraphed over the
country, few days ago that President Grant
had been assassinated. 1t is scarcely neces-
sary to say that there was not even the shadow
of foundation for the report
\ Havana letter says the conviction has come
over all that slavery i'll its present form, will
be abolished, and not single step has been
taken to secure any other system.
The following criminals are under sentence
of death: Foster, the New York car-hook muir
derer. to be hung March 7; Charles 4. Russell,
for the murder of James Crafty to be hung at
San Francisco, March q John II. Johnson. of
New Haven, TO be hung for the murder of Jo-
hanna Hess.
a. Il. Stockwell, President of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company and the SANTANA Bay Com
pany. has been elected President of the Allan
tic and Pacific Railroad Company.
The Dowager Empress Of Brazil IL dead.
Competition between the three trunk lines
from Cincinnati TO the East has resulted in re-
ducing the fare from there to New York to SO
and return.
The additional evidence taken in the Greeley
will case, the other day, indicates that Mr..
Greeley was insane even before the election.
Recent deaths Robert b. Cranston an ex-
Congressman from Rhode Island: Z. w. Nor
r4, late member of Congress from the Third
Alabama District; Luther Tucker. editor of the
CuHirotor and Country Gentleman at Albany,
n Y.
The highest rate for Geographic dispatches
from any two points in the United States IS
hereafter to be $3.50 for ten words instead OF
-, as at present. This regulation mainly APP
plies to dispatches between the Atlantic and
Pacific cities. The rates between Western
cities and California have been reduced, bu
not in the same proportion.
The last rail on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad has been laid, thus completing the
line from Huntington, W. Va on the Ohio
river to the seaboard.
The competition between the three trunk
railroad lines, selling tickets between Cincin-
natl and New York and return, has ended 10y
compromise, whereby all resume the regular
ratrs Tickets for the round trip were sold AZ
low IA - before the compromise was effected
The Atlantic Mail Steamship Company
IIavana to New York; has collapsed, and it's
steamers and other effects are to be sold under
the hammer. Epitaph: Died of competition.
Fires.
JAN. 2l.-CObbs warehouse III Dey street,
New York; loss, $4,000
Jan 22-At Helena. Ark; loss, $1,000.
Toledo. o.; loss. $1,000.
JAN. 23-On Canal street. New York loss,
:25. 600. At Deyalls Bluff, Ark a large mum
Der of buildings destroyed heavy loss.
JAN. 2l.-At New York Hoffman q Mer-
He's Brewery. in East Fifty-iifth street; loss.
$50. O0O Tchnor's hat factory Staten Island
loss $4,000.
JAS. 25.-At Bunao-Jersey Street Metho-
dist Church, loss. SO 600. . Rochester, y. Y.
The Model FIGURING MILL loss, Sl2, 600.
Usage, Iowa-loss, $4,000
JAS. 26.-At Brooklyn, y. Y. Pratt's Castor
Oil Works. loss, 500, Philadelphia
MdIlli = NIcllltl tNA lDT0' '-pO''"o III
surance. $40. 900 Iilwaukee-Soulander d
Decker's store; loss, so, 600. illsboro, Ill.
-Gunsing's wagon factory; loss, $50, 600.
JAN. 27.-Union Springs, n. y. loss, 500
600; insurance, $4,000. 81. Cincinnati, o.;
loss, :35. 600. . Kingstree, s c.; loss $50, 600;
insurance, S13 900. Green Bay, Wiz. loss,
$4,000.
JAN. 2s.--At Springfield Ill.-The fine resi-
dence of r. +. Goodell, known a. the Matteson
mansion loss, about :l25, 900; insured for $40,
600 Madison, Wis.--Vaughn X Sons agri-
cultural implement warehouse loss, so, 900.
go Nashville, Tenn.-McCrea, Murray 4 Co. 3
iistillery loss $50, 600; insurance. s35, 900.
-. Washington City-Ihe National Theater
was totally destroyed, and the Imperial Hotel,
adjoining seriously damaged total loss, about
1000. 81. Dubuque, Iowa-LaBarge Bro. =
bakery: loss, 1000. &C.. Iowa Falls, Iowa-St
james Hotel loss, $4,000.
The Credit MObilier.
Ames' testimony on the 22d. fortified ar it
was by transcripts from his books created
more sensation than any incid, mt of Congress