The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-06-13
CURRENT CURIOSITIES.

A PARTY of curiosity hunters opened
an Indian mound near Albany, the
other day, and found variety of hui
man bones, skulls, ETC., one mound dis
closing sort of sarcophagus, with lay
ers of charcoal, clam shells and other
peculiar burial accomplishments.
A VERMONT paper says that few
Sundays ago, while Mrs. Mary Fulford,
of Peacham, was playing the organ in
church, she was taken with a partial
paralytic shock, and was unable to take
her hands from the keyboard. keeping
one chord going until the choir was
compelled to stop. In an hour after
the service she seemed to be as well as
ever.
A LADY in Madrid, Me-, was in
house which was struck by lightning.
A valuable gold watch she wore stopped
at the time, and, although jewellers have
repeatedly examined it and pronounced
it perfect in every particular, it cannot
be made to move. 1t is so charged
with electricity that watch-makers say
no part of it can ever be made to do
duty if taken out and put into another
set of works.
JOHN G.. McCABE was drowned in
Philadelphia several months ago. Ee
wore an Oilskin coat and high-top boots.
A mans body similarly attired was sub
sequently found floating off Woodbury.,
and Mrs. McCabe, identifying it as that
of her husband, had it brought to Phil
adelphia and buried. The other day
another body in an oilskin coat and
high-top boots was taken out of the
water at Wilmington, and Mrs. McCabe,
believing it to be her husbands, has
buried it beside the first one.
CoRBIN KENDRICK and some other
freedmen found, near Buena Vista, GA,
hawk lying on its back near the road.
The ground for several feet around
showed signs of a desperate struggle.
A snake was coiled around the hawk,
and was holding it perfectly still and
apparently in the agonies of death.
Kendrick tried to kill both snake and
hawk by shooting them, but the shot
broke only one wing of the hawk. The
snake was then struck with stick. AS
soon as its coil was broken the serpent
sprung at the man who had struck it,
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hawk arose and seized the snake by
the head, and the negroes killed the
serpent.
For several weeks a great revival has
been in progress at several Of the col
ored churches in Petersburg, Va, re-
sulting in the conversion of several
hundred persons. On last Sunday af-
ternoon fiftyfour of the converts were
baptized in the canal. Among the
candidates for immersion were Burwell
Lancaster, about Fl years of age, who
from his birth had been deaf and
dumb. Before taking him into the
water the officiating minister wrote the
baptismal VOW on slate, which the
mute read. Then he was immersed.
On reaching the shore the mute, to the
establishment of all present, cried out
Thank God!" and then became mute
again. The incident is a most remark
able one, and has made a great impression
on the negroes, who are very much ex-
cited and concerned over such sud-
den and brief cure.
WE clip the following curious dog
story from the Bridgeport (CtD Farm
en-: Engineer Bronson, of the Housa-
tonic railroad, says that his experience
one day last week gave him the impress
sion that the dog-days were coming on
this year ahead of time. Between
Brookfeld and New Milford, on the up
trip, the engine struck large dog, and,
as Bronson at first supposed, left his
fragments strewn along the track; but,
on reaching the next station, it was
found that the dog had, in some mys-
terious way, been landed on the loco
motive trucks, and was then perched
there alive. When the train stopped at
Falls Village the animal was hauled out,
and then there was disclosed the aston
ishing fact that he had not received
even scratch. 1t was a large dog
weighing about seventy-five pounds,
and was at once adopted by the station
agent, who already prizes the beast
very highly.
RECENTLY, the head of Frank Tolles,
the leader of band of highwaymen,
was borne into Cheyenne, Wy. T., and
exhibited to a jubilant crowd. When
the people had taken a good look at it,
it was buried in prairie in the out
skirts of the town. In passing over the
prairie few evenings ago, q. P. Clark
saw the skull dancing along and bob
bling up and down among the cactus
bushes. Cold chills struck him. When
he reached Cheyenne lie was as white
as sheet. Everybody scoffed at his
story; but few men were induced to
go out and take look. They, too, saw
the skull fitting hither and thither.
The next morning large crowd went
out to investigate. There again was
the moving skull. The boldest in the
party approached. All at once a little
prairie-dog bounded from the skull and
shot away into his hole near by. 1t
had appropriated the highwayman's head
for resting place.
THE most remarkable case which has
come before the Chicago courts for years
was disposed of in few minutes in the
Criminal Court. 1t was that of man
who had been for several years employed
as bookkeeper for mercantile firm in
the city, and who plundered his employ
ers so ingeniously and persistently that
thew were cOmpelled To retire from busi-