The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-02-22
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

William Upham, woolen-goods manufacturer,
Spencer, Mass, has failed for $15O,O0O.
The Daniel Webster mansion, at Marshfeld,
Mass, has been swept away by fire.
The greatest restitution exists among the
respectable working people of Newark, N. j.,
on account Of the recent savings bank failures.
A disastrous fire occurred in West Twenty
third street, New York, few nights ago. The
loss is estimated at upward of 5000, 000
The difficulty between Thomas Lord, ST..
of New York, and his children, growing out Of
the marriage of that gentleman to Mrs. Hicks,
has been amicably settled. The property Of
the old gentleman, valued at $4,000, 900, is to
be placed in the hands Of a trustee, the chill
dren each to receive S12, 900 year from the
proceeds, and upon the death Of the father the
estate is to be divided equally among them.
Mrs. Lord surrenders all right of dover to the
estate and agrees to receive nothing from it
after the death of her husband, SHOULD she
survive him. Mrs. Lord possesses fortune of
over 100000.
West.
The city Of Chicago has been brought to a
serious financial crisis by a decision of the Su-
preme Court of Illinois. That decision is TO the
effect that the city cannot borrow money re-
payable out OF the general. tax fund. Neither
can it borrow money to pay the principal or in
terest Of money which has heretofore been
borrowed in that manner. Some $500, 900 bor-
rowed III this illegal manner is now outstand-
ing. How it is to be paid is what is puzzling
the fnanciers Of the Garden City, as well as
those who loane1 the money, and, if the city
cannot pay the interest on what it has already
borrowed, it can hardly expect to negotiate
any more loans.
manufacturing company at South Bend,
Ind. pays of their employees, numbering about
$50, in gold.
Three colored children were burned to death
at Ironton, Ohio, the other day. They were
left alone in the house, which was destroyed by
fire.
John W. Beavers was executed at Madison,
Ind, on the 18th Of February, for the murder
Of ]. W. Sewell. He made full confession Of
his crime. On the same day John Ables was
hanged at Carthage, NO., for the unprovoked
murder, in April 1874, Of John Lane.
south.
The charge is made that the Judge of the
court (Whittaker) in which Thomas G. Ander-
son was tried and convicted, at New Orleans,
is defaulter to tie Government in the sum of
5000, 000 Whitaker was Sub Treasurer at
New Orleans in 1867, and it is claimed
he lost this amount of the Govern
ment funds in gold speculations. He was
tried at the time ON the charge, the jury ac-
quitting him without leaving their seats.
The proposition in the Virginia Legislature
to repudiate portion Of the State debt has
been finally defeated.
The revenue officers are relentlessly pursuing
the Illicit distillers in the South. The extern
sive raid among the moonshiners in Southeast
Missouri resulted in the capture of large
number of stills and mash-tubs. In Jackson
county, Tenn, number Of crooked distilleries
have been seized, and in North Georgia several
successful raids have recently been made.
warehouse in which was stored 1000 bales
Of cotton, worth 1920, 200, was destroyed by
fire at Savannah, Ga, last week.
j. Madison Wells is out in an open
letter in regard to the Returning Board
prosecutions. II is written in Wells charac-
teristically vigorous style, and gives what
purports to be personal history Of
the men prominently engaged in The
prosecutions. He asserts that Maj. e. A. Burke,
one of the leaoing witnesses, is fugitive from
Illinois and villain that the Sheriff aud some
Of the other witnesses are murderers and viii |
lains that Judge Whitaker is defaultor and |
a drunkard that Attorney General Ogden is
a deacon in the church and villain; that |