The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-12-05
Oh Grue Aorthrrner.
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

IngerSOu ana harrington, cOnleuerates o.
Tweed in the Tammany frauds, have beer
sentenced to the Penitentiary the former re
ceiving five years and the latter eighteen
months.
William NJ. Tweed is at last hid from public
view. On Saturday, Nov 20, he was taken tC
Blackwelrs Island, arrayed in striped uniform
his head shaved, and was consigned to felon''
cell. Tweed was asked the usual questions by
the recording clerk, to which he answered that
he was aged 62 occupation statesman" no
religion.
The west.
Walter Grayson, a cattle-dealer from the
Creek Nation, was recently robbed at Kansas
City of $50, 600.
A haunted house is the sensation of Osh-
kosh, Wis.
George Coleman, of La Sale H., the
other day killed wild turkey of the extraordl-
nary weight of % pounds.
There is a great rush of gold-seekers to the
new diggings in Southwestern Colorado.
Ex-senator Richard Yates, of Illinois, died
suddenly at st. Louis on the 9th nit.
Chris. Rafferty,, of Chicago has been tried
for the third time, and again convicted of
murder in the first degree.
fire in East st. Louis, last week. de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property.
The house of George W. Elliott, in Tuscola
county, Mich, was burned on Thanksgiving
Day, together with his wife and child.
Four persons lost their lives by the burning
Of hotel in Warrensburg Mo-, last week.
The South.
At a mass meeting of the farmers and Pat
rons of Husbandry at Atlanta, Ga, last week,
it was resolved to plant only one-third of their
crop next year in cotton, to favor cash pay
ments, and declare their right to control the
price of cotton.
Harrodsburg. Ky. was recently the scene Of
q terrible shooting ARRAY between the male
members of two families named Thompson
and Davis, in which three of the latter, father
and two sons, were killed.
State Grange has been organized in Ala
bama.
4 portion Of the Cairo and Fulton railroad
bridge across Red river, at Fulton, Ark, has
been washed away by freshet in that stream.
Washington.
The Secretary of the Treasury announces
that hereafter silver coin will be paid only for
the fractional parts of dollar instead of in
sums not exceeding So.
It is stated that a strong effort will be made
by Congress to increase the tax on spirits and
tobacco.
Senator Sumner will, it is said, press his
specie resumption scheme in the Senate.
The November report of the Department OF
Agriculture estimates the corn product at
S58, 0O0 600 bushels. The cotton yield is osti-
mated at g. 7OO,O 600 bales.
1t is stated that there is an almost unani-
nous agreement among the Eastern and
Southern Congressman to make grand effort
to secure an increase of the currency.
Senator Ferry, Of Michigan. has scheme
for the financial troubles, which he will pro-
pose to Congress. 1t is to issue $500, 900, 600
currency. and offer convertible bonds, exempt
from taxation.
Secretary Robson is convinced from a close
examination of the survivors of the Polaris
that Capt. Hall came to his death from purely
natural causes, and that he was treated skill
fully and tendery during his illness.
The mama of Attorney General Williams was
on the LIST inst. submitted to the Cabinet as
the appointee of the President to the vacant
Chief Justiceship on the Supreme Bench. The
Attorney-G General is to be succeeded by Col.
Brstow, of Kentucky.
The public debt statement shows an increase
Of $4,000, 900 during November.