The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-13
NEWS OF THE Week.
The East.


The firm of Thomas Perkins & Co., of New
York, has been bankrupted by its dishones
clerks, who have for long time been speculat
ing with the funds of the establishment and
lost heavily. They have made full confess
sion.
Booth, the tragedian, has joined the grand
army Of bankrupts. His liabilities are but
down at 100000.
The Massachusetts Legislature has tabled,
by large vote, the resolutions relating to the
centennial celebration.
Three prominent Boston hotel-keepers were
arrested and taken before police court, the
other day, for violation of the iqror law.
One of them plead guilty and escaped with a
$50 fine. The other two plead not guilty, and
were sentenced each to three months impris-
onment at hard labor and fine of SIS. They
have appealed, and will carry the case through
the courts.
bill appropriating 800, 900 for the CEN
tennial celebration has passed the New Jersey
Senate.
The West.
serious accident occurred last week on the
Wisconsin division of the Chicago and North
western railroad. A train whas thrown from
the track by a broken rail, near Woodstock,
H., and all the cars burned. Fortunately
there was no loss of life, but number of per-
sons were more of less injured.
The grocery store of Chris. Mehr, at Evans
vile, Ind, was destroyed by fire on the morn
ing Of the 5th inst. Mrs. Mehr, her two
youngest Children, and a bartender named
George, persisted in the flames.
A negro who was arrested for numbering and
robbing a woman in Jackson county, in South
ern Illinois, was taken from the Jail at Muir
freysboro, the other day. and summary
hanged bya mob. Previous TO being strung
up he confessed his crime.
The ice crop in Indiana will prove total
failure this winter.
The women of Southern Ohio continue their
crusade against the whisky saloons, and are
meeting with encouraging success.
Elijah Smith, Richard Worthington and
Jesse Thatcher were recently killed near
Charlton, Mo-. by the explosion of a boiler in
a saw-mill.
Rev. Florence Mccarthy, Baptist preacher
of the sensational school, and pastor of one of
viz AOatALS ShulNhSb VI OHlCdSO, pttA
locked out of his church by the Trustees for
indecorous language in the pulpit, is creating
something of a sensation by going about the
city preaching in the streets, in saloons, bill
lard halls, etc.
The woman's whisky war in Ohio spreads
like wildfre, and is about breaking out in
Toledo, Columbus and Wheeling. At Har-
mony, Clark county, the last saloon in the
place has been closed. The crusade has
reached Cambridge, Ind, and the women
armed with prayer and hymn-books are in
yading the saloons Not single drop of
spirits is left in the town of Hooking, Logan
county, Ohio. At Manchester, Clinton coun-
ty the saloons have all been prayed out At
Pomeroy, the ladies, to the number of eighty, |
make daily visits to the sixty saloons, but are
not meeting with very great success. At
Syracuse they are also on the war-path. At |
Ripley, nearly every saloon-keeper captulated |
after weeks siege. At first it was the pre-
arranged plan that all saloons in that place |
should shut the ladies out. The weather was |
stormy and cold, and, as the ladies sung and |
prayed in the cold, public sentiment over
vetoed the cowardly eourse of the |
and they were glad to apollo
gize and open their doors. Van Pelt, the New |
Vienna saloon-keeper, whose conversion re-
CURED so many days of constant watching |
and praying, has joined hands with the cru
saders, and is delivering telling lectures to
his former companions in iniquity.
Advices from the West report that evidence
is daily accommodating that the Indians. being
on the reservations, contemplate an
uprising in the spring, and are even now
swarming the prairies prepared for war.
A dispatch from Cincinnati says of the wo-
mems whisky war " The temperance move
ment receives fresh impetus from repeated |
successes. In Washington G.. H., man |
named Passmore opened new saloon last |
week. Immediately the whole moral and re-
ligious power of the town turned upon him. |
Ladies prayed before the door all day and till |
half-past 10 at night during the snow storm. |
At the business mems prayer meeting mes
sage from Passmore announced that he had |
closed. An immense procession Immediately |
marched to Beck, who had enjoined the wo-
men from using tabernacle in front of his
place. Those enjoined remained in church to
pray. Beck, on seeing the procession, said he,
100, would stop. Only one remains. At
all the saloons are closed. At
Logan, the ladies likewise celebrate a com
Dlete victory. At Lancaster and Athens,
work is beginning. At Pomeroy society has
been organized on the principle that there is
enough moral and religious power in the city
10 exterminate the business of traflicking in
drink, and will resort to law only
when other means fail"
An Omaha dispatch says 1.-THE excitement
over the Indian news is becoming very great.
There is no doubt that in consequence of the
failure of agents to provide for them the In
iians are leaving their reservations for the
purpose of providing themselves at the ex-
pense of the settlers, herders and ranchmen"
The South.
Branch X. Bruce, colored Senator-elect from
Mississippi, was for several years steamboat
porter.
Joseph w. Davis and w. II. McCotter were
hung in Maryland on the 9th of February
the former at Westmoreland, the latter at
Cambridge.
The Trustees Of the Cincinnati Southern
railway have assigned the contract for making
The road bsd ready for tho rail exclusiva ~