The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-04-20
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

NETAwAKA, Kan; Charles &. Manly
Horse-Tree.
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEvRNs is bach
elor. Now, girls
KING GEORGE, of Samoa, is building a
palace to cost E3 900.
Two NEW English prisons have been
entirely built by convict labor.
JOHN E. OWENS ("Solon Shingle')
owns 81 900, 600 in real estate alone.
A BROTHER of Tom Hood is doing q
flourishing business as a florist in BerS
gen, n. j.
The Congregational churches in Bos-
ton raised $42, 142 for foreign missions
last year.
THE Governor of Missouri has signed
a Bounty bill, offering cents each for
rat-scalps.
Miss COLEMAN, daughter of the late
Robert Coleman, is the wealthiest woman
in Washington.
OAKEY HALL can claim that his last
appearance attracts great deal more at
tention than his first.
"DRY up" and "cheese it " are ex-
pressions used in the cultured Union
League Club of New York.
AS WILLIAM HALLETT, ST., of Athens,
Ohio, came out of the penitentiary, his
son, William Hallett, Jr., went in.
NELLIE GRANT SARToRIs' boy baby has
been named Jules, which is an adapta-
ton of his grandmOther's name of Julia.
DIR. DAMROsCH owns a violin more than
200 years old, and valued at 81, 800.
The treasure was made by Magini of
Prescia.
GEN ROBERT TooMBs says that he is
the owner of seven barrels of type-the
remains of the fortunes of twenty editors
of Atlanta.
A PARTY of fourteen New Workers, in
Guiding several ladies, talk of making a
voyage around the world in a 100-ton
schooner yacht.
Mr.. GORDON CUMMING, the Scotch lion
hunter, is to be married next month to
Washington belle. In this case he has
been the lion hunted.
The engineers who have been examin-
ing the Niagara suspension bridge have
reported that the structure is entirely
safe for the transit of railroad trains.
In Missouri there are 725, 72S school
children. The amount of money to be
appropriated by the State for the sup
port of the schools this year is 1868, 667.71,
or "a cents to each child.
The bronze statue of America, fe-
male figure thirteen feet high, which is
is surmount the soldiers monument on
Boston Common, has just been success
fully cast in Philadelphia.
Mr. JOHN RUsKIN, whose days are in
the yellow leaf, is reported to have re-
marked, the other day, 81 cannot look
with the old enjoyment upon the setting
sun, it seems to sink so fast. i"
The church of DIR. Hall, in New York,
has given over $50, 600 to charitable OBJ
jects during the year its collections for
foreign missions amounted to $34, 500,
and for domestic missions to $4,000
The history of the Second Zouaves,
one of the most distinguished regiments
in the French army, has been published.
1t states that during the nineteen years
of its existence no less than 200 of its
officers and 5000 privates have fallen in
battle.
A LAWYER and minister, both impe-
cunious, boarded with a certain widow
lady at the South End, Boston. Neither
could pay his board bill. The lawyer
married the lone woman, and the minis
ter performed the ceremony, thus squar-
ing accounts.
SENATOR GORDON, of Georgia, had a
young daughter born on the day the Cab
met decided to remove the troops from
, South Carolina. He intends to wait till
the troops are ordered from the Louis
lana State House, and will then have the
, infant christened Caroline Louise Cor
| don.
AT the Cincinnati reception Mrs. Grant
wore a gown of apricot brocade. with
satin petticoat, and train of wine-colored
embossed velvet. She also wore neck
lace of large pearls, with diamond clasp,
from which hung pear-shaped pearl,
diamond sprays for earrings, with soil
taire pear-pearl pendants.
THOMAS CAHILL is before the Massa-
, chusetts Legislature with a claim for
damages for his arrest and prosecution
some years ago on a charge of numbering
, Bridget Landegran. He was discharged
at the time and the murder forgotten,
until Piper, the slayer of Mabel Young,
confessed that he killed Bridget too, and
hence Cahill's claim for compensation
/ for his sufferings.
SECRETARY EvARTs proposes to reor-
2 ganize the Consular system, after the
plan adopted by Great Britain. In max
! ing appointments for Consuls it is pro-
! posed to select men familiar with com
merce and manufactures, selecting COM
mercial men for commercial districts, and
for manufacturing districts men acqaint-
9 ed with the special manufactures of the
districts to which they may be assigned.
/, THERE is newsboy in San Francisco,
James Handley by name, who is rapidly
! acquiring a fortune by the sale of papers.
. He is but IA years old, yet owns two
\ houses and several building lots on Tele-
. graph hill He recently built third
house there for 81 800 and sold it to his
. brother for 200. The brother, also a
newsboy, sold it again for 50, 100. jim
my aspires to a profession, and attends
the Lincoln school, where he stands high
8 in his class.
= SPRING HAS COME.
BY the bursting of the leaves,
y Lana tbonin If the