The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-02-20
PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
The East.

man named Guss, who has for some year
been in charge of the Soldiers Orphans Hon,
at Cassville, Pa, is charged with the mos
beastly, horrible practices toward the innocen
creatures placed under his care. It appears
that he has in the last six years debauched
large number Of young girls in the Home il
many cases using force to accomplish his hell
ish ends. The wretch is under arrest.
Owing to the fact that the names of William
NJ. Tweed and Thomas G. Fields are on the
Commission to represent New York at the Cen.
tennal Exhibition to be held in Philadelphia
the Assembly of that State has abolished the
whole Commission.
Charles Kingsley, the English author, has
arrived at New York.
A terrible smash-up occurred few days
ago on the Lehigh and Susquehanna railroad
of Pennsylvania, at State Dam Station, re-
sulting in the death OF four Of the train
hands, and the serious injury of several
others.
Thomas and Simeon Sturtevant and Mary
Buckley we're murdered during the night by
some unknown persons, at their residence in
Halifax, Mass, last week.
One of the most daring forgeres for stock
jobbing purposes was sprung upon the New
York Stock Exchange the other day. The
Vice-President Of the Exchange receivedletters
purporting to be signed by the presidents of
the Toledo Wabash and Western railroad and
the Western Union Telegraph company, in
forming the board that ten millions of new
stock of the frst-named company and nine
millions of the latter had been issued. The
letters were read to the Exchange, and, as a
natural result, those stocks fell in price from a
half Of one per cent. to four per cent. in a few
moments. The panic was for short time
very great. Fortunately the news was con-
veyed to the headquarters of the companies,
where the letters were pronounced to be for
geries, and the brokers Immediately informed
of the fact.
Chang and Eng, the Samese twins, are
shown by the autopsy which has been con-
cluded ut Philadelphia to have been so vitality
united that death would surely have followed
any attempt to separate them during life. The
lungs, heart. pancreas, liver, spleen, and ali
mentary canal in each of these strange beings
were excellently developed, and differed in
no wise from those of ordinary mortals. The
lower portion of the ensiform cartilage, or
breast-bone, in each, by doubling or bending
out, made long union, on which the bodies
hinge freely. This joint is somewhat similar
to, but not so complicated as, that at the ell
bow. The band at the smaller part has cir
conference of nine inches, and when the
link was stretched and the twins were placed
as far apart as possible, there was space
of eight inches intervening. The
pertoneum, or membrancous lining Of the bel
ly IN each, was found to enter the band and
four pouches overlapped each other at the
centre of the band. The most marked feature
here was the presence Of two such pouches
from the body of the large brother, Chang,
and the upper one shorter than the lower, but
each tapping, one from above and the other
from below the single pouch of Eng. The
astounding and curious fact was developed
that a line passing down the centre of the
band would sever all three Of their prolonga-
tions, and open the peritonitial cavity of each
liver so that if the knife had been used in
life death would inevitably have resulted.