The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-04-27
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

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In her latest walking feat, Miss Won
Hillern made her fiftieth mile in IL min
utes and ~ seconds.
ALEXANDER III. STEPHENS recently ex-
pressed the opinion that the free school
is the hope of the country.
ONE of Garibaldi's two sons is teach
er at Melbourne, Australia. The other
is bold Spectator at Rome.
VICTOR HUGO looks hale and strong,
and attributes his health to his love of
cold water and open windows
SoLDENE is in Boston, and the Harvard
boys have written home for more money
for spring clothes and charity.
Mr.. Ross WINANs, the well-known Bal
timore inventor, engineer and naval con-
tractor, died in that city, aged 81.
Z. A. CRoNIN, of Oregon, has won for
his clients a suit involving the title to
400, 900 acres of swamp land in Oregon.
The people of Portland, Me-, have de
cided literary tastes. They have stolen
1900 volumes from their public library.
For walking on the grass and smoking
in the squares of Philadelphia they
charge So. This tariff is affixed to the
trees.
The English papers announce the death
of Lady Scott, the daughter-in-law of
Sir Walter Scott, at her residence in
London.
CAROLINA and Louisiana are to be the
names of large number of fair babies
now on the point OF coming to life in the
Southern States.
THE husband of Miss Emma Abbott is
said to be the only man in this country
who manages his wife. And he is her
business manager.
DoN'T go to the Black Hills to get
rich. 1t is far easier to organize life
insurance company and pay yourself a
salary of $4,000 per year
On the 9Th of March, for the first
time, japanese lawyer appeared to
conduct case in the United States Con-
sular- General Court at Yokohama.
The Rev. Joseph Keebaugh, of Fay
cite, Mo-, has been sentenced to the
State prison for nineteen years for forg-
cry He was Methodist minister
OF the jury which acquitted Sullivan,
who killed Hanford, last fall, three have
been indicted for perjury, and two, fear
ing like trouble, have gone to Canada
WOMEN are getting their rights at
last. The Legislature of Minnesota
has just passed bill authorizing women
to practice law in all the courts of that
State.
VIRGINIA liquor dealers have raised q
fund to resist the introduction of the
gong punches provided for under the
new Whisky law, just enacted in that
State.
INSULTS" says modern philos-
opher, care like counterfeit money.
We cannot hinder their being offered,
but we are not compelled 30 take
them"
Miss CLARA TAYLOR, of Brooklyn, got
up a sidewalk Irritation with Walter
Wade, eloped with him to Philadelphia,
and married him. She is worth 500, 900
in her own right.
OLEARY, who recently defeated Wes-
ton in the walking match in England,
belongs to the Chicago family of that
name whose cow kicked over the lamp
and burned the city.
GEN. SHERMAN has moved hi ) family
from Washington to st. Louis. He will
from time to time visit the capital and
remain there as long as official duties re-
quire his presence.
JAMES BAXTER, of Baltimore, would.
be a good man to send to the Black
Hills. A pistol WAS fired at him in re-
cent fight, and the ball flattened on his
forehead without iniuring him.
GOLD Hull, New, is sinking, the
ground underneath having been mined
too much. The gas pipes on Main street
have severed their connection, and other
inconvenience have followed the de-
preston.
PHILADELPHIA claims to be the greatest
of American industrial centers, to have
81. 900 inhabitants, and only $73, 0O0,-
600 worth of debt. But, after all, per-
haps the city's greatest charm is its rail-
way to New York.
IT is evident that Mr.. James Gordon
Bennett contemplates protracted stay
in Paris. He has ordered over his horses,
carriages, and yacht, and has made ar
engagements to conduct the Herald by
clpneI ulophcCueo'
Mrs. KATE CHASE SPRAGUE has be-
gun to go into Washington society for
the first time since her fathers death.
At n recent reunion she wore dark vel
vet, and her hat had scarf of pale yell
low.
Cart. CAMERON, the African explorer,
gives very interesting account OF some
tribes addicted tofeeding on human Afri-
can flesh, and who preferred, for the most
part. their fellow beings when pretty far
gone. Not word is set down as to salt
and pepper.
WADE HAMPTON has been married
twice. and is a widower. He had three
children-two SONS and daughter. His
eldest son, Preston Hampton, was killed
at Gettysburg, and the second, Wade,
Jr., lives in Washington county, Miss.
His daughter, Margaret, in the wife of
Col John Hascall, of South Carolina.
GnN. GRANT doesn't intend to write an
autobiography, but his name will ap-
pear on the title page of volume deal
ing with his services in behalf of the