The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-05
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PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.

PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
FRESH TOPICS.
An ingenious Vermonter has invente,
a lazy mans churn. The machine is ad
iusted to wagon, and all man has t,
do is TO drive down for the mail, an,
when he gets back the butter has come
MOODY and Sankey are making TIN,
dry bones of sin rattle in wicked Brook
lyn. Nearly all the prominent preach
~ers of the city attend the meetings,
Beecher being one of the few exceptions.
MURDER will out" A man named
Alexander, % years of age, blind and
infrm, has Just been convicted of muir
der in the first degree, for killing man
in Red River county, Ark, twenty-five
years ago.
HERBERT II. BANCROFT has just given
the finishing touches to his extensive
work, the Native Races of the Pacific
States, upon which he has been engaged
for fifteen years. 1t embraces five large
volumes, of about 1000 pages each.
DIR. II. q. WILLIAMS, while under the
influence of liquor at Bethany. La,
a few days ago, placed bottle upon his
head and insisted on one of his COM
panions shooting at it. Cicero Steph-
ems did so, and poor DIR. Williams
fell, remarking that it was a bad shot
and he was killed, but did not blame
anybody.
Ir is said that on various railroads, not
named, orders have been issued forbid
ding the assault and battery practiced by
train peddlers in discharging their wares
on passengers laps. The Pennsylvania
railroad issued orders of this kind some
time ago, and others which follow the
precedent viii earn the applause of a
much-abused travelling public.
Mr.. JOIN MACKEY, who is the head of
the famous California firm of Flood 81
O'Brien, and who receives three-fifths of
the profits, was ten years ago mining
laborer in Virginia City. His income at
present is about $3.50, 900 per month, or
more than $40, 900, 600 per annum. Mr..
Mackey is the most retiring and modest
of any OF California's millionaires.
w. PERKINS, an English pedestrian,
recently performed the extraordinary
and never before accomplished feat of
walking eight miles in SO minutes 5 sec
onds. His quickest mile was the first
one, in Gao, and the slowest, the sixth,
in 1852. The first four miles were ac-
complished in 2S minutes and SO seconds.
Perkins is young fellow of %, weigh
ing 1872 pounds, and 3! feet tall.
HERE is another aronaut who has mar
rowly escaped death while making an as
cension TO please the spectators at a
county fair. The affair happened at
Owensboro, Ky, and the eronauts name
is Prof. Atkinson. The balloon took
fire and was burned when several hun
dred feet high. Atkinson was precipi-
tated to the earth, and miraculously es-
capped death, though badly hurt.
Urn CAREUTH, the editor of the Vine
land On. J. Independent. who was shot
by Charles X. Lands, on the 10Th of
last March, and who has carried bullet
in his brain ever since, died the other
day. He had already accepted from
Lands a sum OF money in satisfaction
of any and al claims on account of the
shooting, but this fact will not operate
as bar to criminal prosecution.
A SINGULAR fatality has befallen the
.Congressmen-elect from the Fourth Dis
trict of Tennessee. In August of last
wear John W. Head was elected to rep
resent the district, and died before TAX
ing his seat s. M. Fite was chosen to
fill the vacancy, and now death has
marked him for his own. IL this rate
of Congressional mortality continues in
that district, the seat will soon go beg
ging for an occupant.
A BIG event is to happen in New York
on the centennial of American indepen
dence. For the past six years workmer
have been engaged in tunneling under
the distractions in the harbor known az
He'll Gate. with view of blowing then