The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-03-14
DOMESTIC INTELLIaENoR.
East.

Eberhard Faber, the great lead-pencil
man, has just died in New York. He came to
This country from Germany, and in 1861
established the first lead-pench mandatory
IN America.
Rev. s. M. Stray, of Lake George, n.
Y, accidentally wounded his wife with re-
volver which 30 worked upon his mind that he
tErned the weapon upon himself and put bull
let in his head Though badly injured. both
viii probably recover.
Leon Hyneman, the veteran Mason,
author and editor, has just died in New York
Charles P. Stickney, defaulting Treas
urer of the Manufacturers Gas Company, Fall
River, Mass, has been sentenced to five years
in the State Prison, one day to be solitary con-
fnement
The contest over the Vanderbilt will
as been terminated by compromise Cornelius
j. Vanderbilt il to receive 81, 900 and his
expenses in the suit in the Supreme Court, and
Mrs In Bau, now Mrs Berger, like amount
and costs, the will of the late Commodore Van
derbilt to remain 5lncontested
New York papers report that the ele-
waited railroads are causing rapid growth of
population in the upper sections of that city, at
the expense of Brooklyn and the neighboring
cities of New jersey.
Died, at New Britain, CT. (the place
Of his BIRTH, on the 9th inst Elihu Burritt, the
distinguished linguist, scholar and reformer, in
the Goth year of his age. He was in early years
q blacksmith, and while working at his trade
mastered the principal ancient and modern
languages, from which fact he became known
as the learned blacksmith"
At North Berwick, Me-, the other day,
while town meeting was in session in Me-
chanios' Hall, the floor gave way, precipitating
some fifty people TO the floor below Fortu-
nately no one was killed. but many were badly
injured-some, it is feared, beyond the hope Of
recovery.
DIR. L. Dewitt Talmage is to be tried
by the Brooklyn Presbytery in the following
charges: Deceit and falsehood in statements re-
garding his withdrawal from the editor ship of
the Christian at Work In stating that the
sittings in the Tabernacle were free. In aocus-
ing j. w Hathaway of dishonest practices and
then denying 1T or falsehood in collecting
subscriptions for the payment of the church
debt OF deceit in the difficulty concerning the
organist of the Tabernacle, and of stating that
he was 10 be arraigned for heterodoxy, when he
knew that such was not the case
West.
Chicago is to have an elevated rail
road through the Yves; Division Of the city, and
thence to the suburbs of Austin and Oak Park.
A Chicago jury has decreed that John
Lamb shall be hanged by the neck until he is
dead The crime for which he is 10 suffer
death was the murder Of Police Officer Race, in
October last
BY the explosion of the boiler in
George Kepler's saw-mill, near Sullivan, Ill,
the head sawyer was blown TO atoms and two
ether men fatally injured
Columbus, Ohio, is infested by q
gang Of incendiaries who seem ben. upon de-
etroying the city. The citizens are greatly
alarmed, and are taking measures DO guard
against the fre-bugs. Eight houses were
simultaneously set OH fire one morning re-
Gently
@Fritz' continues to be drawing
card at Chicago theaters, Joseph Emmett the
creator of the character. hsvirg played it to