The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-24

French statesman, denies the right of a
community or an individual to punish
crime, and urges that it be treated as a
disease.
DIR. GRAHAM, of Louisville, is 81
years of age, but he goes about on horse
back, hunting up curiosities for the mu
scum, as spry and blythe as he was sixty
or seventy years ago.
COMMODORE PERRY's flagship, the
Lawrence, sunk in Erie, Pa, harbor go
years ago, has been raised, and the bot
tom found to be in good state of pre-
servation. She is to be exhibited at the
Centennial.
LOOK out for bogus So bills Oh the
National Bank of Paxton, ILL.,, and
Traders National Bank of Chicago.
Large amounts of counterfeits on these
banks have been manufactured, and are
now in circulation.
HEzEKlAH Lizard, of Augusta, Me-,
lately deceased, was the latest man i'll
the State. His coffin was 30 inches
broad, 20 inches deep, and "A inches
ong. These figures are from the under
taker, and may be relied Oh.
THERE is little rebellion among the
school-boys of New Orleans. All of the
senior class of one of the high schools
have dropped their books and states and
refuse 10 attend because a negro has
been appointed professor of mathematics
in the school.
JESSE PcMERoY, the Massachusetts,
criminal moastrosity, owes his life thus
far to dead lock. Gov. CASTOR urges
communication, but the council refuses to
commute, and the Governor refuses to
sign the death warrant. So Jesse can
neither be hanged nor let off till they get
new administration.
JOHN MoRR1ssEY has been sick nigh un
to death with an ugly attack of cholera
morbus. The doctors gave him hypoder-
mic injections of morphine, and brought
him safely through. Monissey found
time, between gripes, to make will, in
which he devised half million dollars to
his wife and BON.
Six skunks got into a Pennsylvania
camp-meeting last week, and after stand
ing it as long az he could one of the
brethren arose and remarked IF you
all say so, beloved, and think you will,
well get out of this. The Arch Enemy
of mankind must be stirring up his fires,
for I'm sure smell the gas"
A. +. NORTON, editor of the Dallas
Tex Mteiligencer, is said to be an &c
centric gensls, and his claim to eccen-
tricity is proven by his fidelity to foolish
oath taken over thirty years ago, never
TO shave until Henry Clay should be
elected President. His beard is now
over yard in length, but otherwise he
is said to be a very agreeable gentle
man.
S. L. GORDON, prominent politician
of Minnesota, and nicknamed by oppo-
nents as laundering Gordon, recent
Iy had shooting affray with one of his
tenants at Monticello, Mimi, named
Tom Desmond, whose rent was overdue.
Four shots we've fired by each party, and
Desmond was hit twice, probably fatally.
Gordon was unhurt, and surrendered
himself to the authorities.
THIS is bnd-very bad A Decatur
'(Ala. dispatch, giving an account OF the
arrest of a gang of counterfeiters in that
part of the country, says {: Zone of
the number, named b. b. Bowers, was
foreman OF the last grand jury OF Green
county, Steward of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, and Superintendent of
Sabbath school. When arrested, Bowers
had on his person 800 in counterfeit
5O-cent fractional currency, and $500 in
counterfeit s. and $50 legal-tenders.
Bowers, socially andfinancially, is promi-
nent, and he gave bond for $4,000.
\ CHICAGO journal recommends rifle
shooting az "an exercise which tends to
the best development of the muscular
system" How man can get muscu-
lar development out of any feature of
fe-prac'ice, unless it be in the walk to
and from the range, is something, for
the life of us, we cannot comprehend.
And if it is the pedestrian exercise that
produces the muscular development,
we don't see why fellow cannot obtain
that just as well empty handed as NY
loading himself down with heavy gun.
Or, if one must needs carry ballast, why
not shoulder a fence-rail or railroad