The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-27
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PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


keeper Of the importing and Wholesale fruit
firm OF Bodeau, Lockwood a. Co., New York,
that house has been obliged to suspend-at
least temporarily. The amount of the defal-
cation is stated to be 100000.
A number of conductors on the Erie Rail-
way have been arrested on suspicion OF de-
frauding the company
The steamship City Of Picking, just launch
ed at Chester, Pa, is the largest vessel ever
constructed in this country. She was built
for the Paciic.Ma Company, and is second
only in size to the Great Eastern. The dimen-
sions are as follows: Length over all, APO
feet; length on load line, 800 feet inches;
length of beam, nodded, AZ feet inches /;
tonnage, 5000 tons.
A convention was recently held in Pitts
burgh to forward the interests Of the great
Trans-Allegheny canal project. Resolutions
were passed asking the West to cooperate in
the enterprise, and urging upon Congress the
necessity of appropriating s25, 100000 to
complete the canal
James Sylvester a trapeze-performer, was
killed while performing in a New York theater
the other night.
Monthly, vigorously defends the crusade
against the rum-sellers and censures Arch
bishop Purcell of Cincinnati, for condemn
ing the praying mode of warfare. He says:
"What. in Gods dear name, was there left
them to do but just what they are doing and
what you condemn? The whole business has
been left to God and the women, and the
latter praying in the churches and in the
streets, and pushing on their divine and
peaceful crusade, because the men of America
have failed to do their duty. Shall Chris
tian man, in high station or low, lift his voice
against them? / tremble to think of the
stumbling block which you in your circular
have placed before the tempted and deceived.
There is not whisky mill in the Union
which does not stand firmer on its foun-
dation in consequence Of it. There is not
whisky-seler in the country who does not APP
prove of it, and feel easier in his business for
it. There is no clergyman who INDUCES in
wine to the destruction of his influence as
temperance man who does not see in it his
justification. There is no young man, just be-
ginning a course of dissipation, who does not
find his downward steps the easier for it. All
those who respect and revere the temperate
practices of your life are grieved by it. You
have made mistake which you can hardly
rectify in lifetime You have given strength
to the forces organized against the national
purity and morality
Two sons of the late Siamese twins arrived
in Philadelphia the other day and made ap-
plication for the bodies of their deceased
parents, which was complied with, and the
remains were taken back to North Carolina.
The Etna cutlery works, in New Britain,
Ct, were recently destroyed by fire. The loss
is stated at 100000 with All insurance Of
$3.50, 000
Justus w. Acuff, an insane patient at Kirk
bridges Hospital, Philadelphia, while in the
yard with other patients, the other day, want
ed them to box with him. whereupon his COM
panions all fell upon him and beat him to
death.
The Advisory Council of Congregational
Churches to settle the points at issue in
the controversy with Henry Ward Beecher's
church convened in New York last week and
was largely attended.
A fire in a ship-yard at Kensington, a suburb
of Philadelphia, destroyed $4,000 worth of
property the other day.
The Elmra House, the Union block and
nine other busine IS houses in Elmira n Y,
have been destroyed by fire. Loss, $500, 900.
Jayne, the informer, has had his day, and
now the merchants Of New York, whom he
has plundered and outraged, are to have
theirs. Rufus Storey & Co., from whom he
squeezed penalty of 800, 900, have sued him
for 5000 which they have discovered he
forgot to render to the Government. An
other New York firm, Plat, Boyd & Co., whom
Jayne has been trying in vain for nearly
year to make compromise, have sued him for
$50, 900 damages for trespass to seizing their
books and papers.
The West.
desperate conflict is reported to have oc-
CURED i'll st. Clair county, Mo-, between a
party of detectives and the Iowa railroad train
robbers, in which one of the latter and two
of the former were killed
A movement toward abolshng the free |
lunch system has been set on foot by the Chi !
cago saloon-keepers.
The news from the Indian Agencies is Of
peaceful nature, and all fears of an Indian
war have disappeared.
Cairo, ILL.,, was recently visited by severe
hurricane, which did considerable damage to
buildings.
The Michigan Legislature has decided to
submit to the people of the State the PROPOSE
ton to to amend the State Constitution a. IN |