The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-12-10

played the marvel grew greater and one could
not help feeling that the business community
had escaped from a great peril.
A disastrous panic in the New York
stock market has been to some degree averted
by the order of Secretary Sherman to purchase
bonds maturing this month. There was wild
excitement all day and general fall in prices
The public gifts made by Mrs. Valeria
G.. Stone, of Boston, out Of her late husbands
estate, amount TO abous $l,000,0O0. Among
these is $4,000 for the Chicago Theological
Seminary and $4,000 to the Missionary So
ciety for support of the freedmans schools.
A purse of 100000 has been raised
by wealthy Philadelphians for presentation to
Gen. Grant.
A syndicate of leading New York
bankers is ready to receive subscriptions to the
stock Of De Lesseps Panama Canal Company.
Philip, as writer, and Hart, Byrne and
Post, as publishers, of the Morey letter in the
Truth newspaper, have been indicted by the
Grand Jury at New York for criminal libel
Samuel s. Morey was indicted for perjury. The
penalty under the law is imprisonment in the
penitentary for one year and $3.50 fine.
Sara Bernhard acted twenty-four
times in New York city to crowded houses
The receipts were s9S,OOO, an average of $4,000
for each performance.
The Kearsarge cotton mill of Ports
mouth, N. H., running $4,000 spindles, and
giving employment to 800 people, has been
totally destroyed by fire, involving loss Of
! 10 oh
! here was an insurance of S411. 800.
West.
Simon O'Donnell, Chief of Police of
Chicago, has resigned and is succeeded by
Capt. McGarigle, an old member Of the force.
Mrs. Agnes Brown, a colored woman,
died at Bronson, Ohio, last week, at the ex-
traordinary age OF 120 years, and the funeral
sermon was preached by an old-time acquain-
lance from Xenia, Ohio, who is in his Tooth
year, and has been in the ministry Of the Cos
pei since 1902.
At Farmland, Ind, Burress, the keeper
of hotel walked into the sitting-room with a
double-bareled breech-loading gun, and aim
ing it at his wife, who was nursing her infant,
pulled the trigger and blew her brains out.
An Indianapolis Judge has decided
| that the tea prize-package business is lottery,
and fined the managers of such concern
$780,
MacKee & Edwards, dry-goods dealers
at Richmond, Ind, have suspended payment,
with liabilities Of over 100000.
Half the business portion of Nevada,
Iowa, has been destroyed by fire.
John Callahan was hanged ut Wooster,
Ohio, on the Sd inst, for the murder of John
Tornire.
The Beckwith House, at Oshkosh,
Wis, has been destroyed by fire. guest, a
Mrs. Page, porter and a servant girl persisted
in the flames. lady visiting at the hotel
escaped by jumping from fourth-story win
dow.
The jury in the case of B. f. Allen, on
trial at Chicago for making false reports of the
condition Of the Cook County National Bank
spent but ten minutes IN returning a verdict of
acqmttal.
Among the recent real-estate transac-
tons i'll Chicago are noted the sale of the Ash
land block, corner of Clark and Randolph
streets, for S400, 900 the Lakeside building,
corner of Clark and Adams streets, for $780,,
0G0, and vacant tract corner of Monroe and
Dearborn Streets 1S9 10y 100 feet for S325,0O0.
A coal-mine laborer at Beacon,
Iowa, while in drunken fit, assaulted Mrs.
John Stewart and o child which she had III her
arms with an AK, inflictlng fatal wounds.
The new Union Pacific depot at Sa-
lima, Kan. has been destroyed by fire, a large
amount of freight and express matter being
burned.
Policeman Walsh, of st. Louis, was
snot and killed by burglars in the streets Of
that city.
Lorenzo Ivey, a colored school-teach-
er at Danville, Va, punished pupil, lad of
To- At recess the boy and a brother attacked
the teacher with knives, and fatally stabbed
| him.
The Grand Jury at Memphis has
found n true bill against the water company
| for failing to furnish the supply necessary for
the city.
A fire at Durham, n. c., destroyed
dozen buildings, with stocks of goods, the loss
aggregating $4,000.
A planter residing near Greenville, S.
! g., named George Martin, attempted to ride
across the railroad track, twenty yards in adj
vance of lightning train. The horse was in
stantly thrown from the track, dead, and
after reaching the station the rider was found
on his saddle, corpse, astride the pilot of the
engine.
Diphtheria is ravaging Virginia to
such an extent that some families in Grayson
county have lost five or six members each.
1t is reported at Washington that one
member of Garfeld's Cabinet will probably be
selected from the Pacific coast.
81 think ought to be hung, for
shot and killed King. 1 am going right to
heaven. Will meet you all there. Take warning
by my fate and keep clear of bad company.
Let whisky alone" Such were the dying
words, spoken from tho scaffold, of Charles
Henderson (colored), who was hanged for muir
! der at Friar's Point, Miss.