The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-11


The price of live hogs in the Chicago market
reached tho highest figure of the season ca the
5th inst, S. 10 per 100 lbs,
terrible calamity occurred in Rcbinsons
Opera-House at Cincinnati on the afternoon of
Saturday. Feb. 8. The house was crowded al
most to suffocation, principally with women
and children, to witness the closing entertain
ment OF series Of allogorical tsbleaux by chill
dren Of the public schools foe the benefit Of
the Relief Union. The red light of the calcivm,
turned OH suddenly the certain was about to
rise, alarmed a child in the balcony, who cried
20 fire." About third or the vast, closely
packed audience, seized with alarm, rushed
for the exits, down ssairs from all parts'
There were two death-traps one was the angle
OF a stairway at the second story leading to the
gallery the other was the main front vesti-
bule, cloee to the sidewalk of Ninth street,
near Plum street. Children fell down the five
steps leading down to the m arble tiling of this
vestibule, and in minute the bodies of women
and children were three deep there, an awful
mass in a space sixteen feet square. Out Of
this place six dead and dying persons were
taken. AT the stairs angle in the second story
there was mass Of children six feet high.
Three dead bodies were taken out of this place
Eleven women and children were killed out
right, and several others so seriously injured
as to render their recovery doubtful
The dwelling house of George Heindle, re-
siding GEAR the village of Hollowayville, Blu
reau County, was destroyed by fire a few nghts
n. -
children persisted in the flames. The oldest
daughter, about 10 years OF age and sole sur
vivor Of the family, made her esease by leaping
from the roof of the house, but saved nothing
but the night-clothes she had en-.
Peter Myers, of Carthage, Mo-, recently
pocketed S60,0 600 belonging toconfding de-
positors and left for parts unknown.
Chief Justice White, of Utah, does not be-
/ leve in mincing matters when it comes to
dealing with that great moral cancer, polyga-
my. In his charge to the grand jury at Salt
Lake City, the other day. he used this pointed
and vigorous language
ave had better look it squagely in the face dis
taste1ul il may be to some and govern ourselves
by right reason and manly discretion in dealing
with it. Polygamy must be suppressed in this Ter
ritory. Mormonism may survive it, and, relieved
froEi it, would stand unshaclled and free as every
other creed or more of religious worship, shielded
and protected by the Constitution of our common
country but, if Mormonism cannot itself
from polygamy, it courts tie bridal of DEATH"
Evidently Judge White Is the right man in
the right place.
The trial OF Gen. OrTile L. Babcock for
conspiracy to defraud the Government began
at St. Louis on Monday, Feb. z, the accused
entering plea of not guilty. Ex-Attorney-
General Williams, Judge Porter, of New York,
T.. A. Storrs, of Chicago, and John NJ. and
Chester II. Krum, of st. Louis, appeared for
the defense. The prosecution is being con-
Quoted by District Attorney Dyer, James o.
Broadhead and Lucen Eaton.
San Francisco has haS an unpleasant sur
prlse-a snow-storm covering the ground.
Dubuque has packed 10000 fewer hogs this
year than last
A young LADY narrowly escaped being buried
alive at White Pigeon, Mich, the other day.
The funeral congregation had assembled, and
the sexton was about to close the casket for
ever, when symptom OF life appeared. 1t twas
found that, instead of being dead, she was in a
trance.
Sogysil.
Thirteen feet of water on the bar at the
south Pass of the Mississippi, below New Or
leans, is the net result of the Eads jetty job up
20 date. Seven feet more will entitle Capt.
Eads to the first payment by the terms Of the
1 Grant from COporaoS