The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-09-10

between him and his neighbors for some time,
and they adopted this summary method OF set
Ting the matter.
Bishop Chatard, of Indianapolis, has
suspended for two months most OF the men,
bers of the Ancient Order OF Hibernians for
disobeying the order prohibiting dancing at the
picnic recently given by the society.
During heavy storm at Grand Rap
ids. Mich, the reservoir on the hill broke, lib
Grating several million gallons Of water, which
damaged adjacent property to the amount OF
$4,000. Fifteen or twenty dwelling houses
were wrecked, and many streets and gardens
were either scooped out or DISTRACTED by gravel
and powders.
President Hayes and party, including
Gen. and Mrs. Sherman and about a dozen
other distinguished people, passed through
Chicago last week, en- route to the Pacific
coast.
The organ factory of A. b. Chase, at
Norwalk, Ohio, has been burned. Loss,
$4,000.
A warehouse at Washington Corners,
Alameda county, Cal, containing 10000 sacks
of wheat and barley, has been destroyed by fire.
The loss is 100000.
A race to test the comparative speed
and endurance of horses and men came off in
Chicago last week. The contest grew out of a
wager that horse could cover thirty miles in
less time than three men could go the same
distance, each man going ten miles, The horse
came in ahead, making the distance in hours,
minutes and SO seconds. The three men
made the total distance in hours, % minutes
and seconds.
Gen. Grant visited the Wisconsin
State Fair at Madison, as the special guest of
the managers.
South.
The city of Richmond, Va, has been
visited by tremendous rain-storm, damaging
property to the extent of thousands of dollars.
Nearly three and half inches of water fell
within period of two hours.
Three murderers-all colored-were
executed in the South on the Sd inst, namely ::
Stephen Richardson, at Wilmington, n. c., and
Villiers Powell and Achille Thomas, at New Or
leans. All three confessed their crimes.
Dispatches from Louisville state that
"two stages which run between that town and
the Mammoth Cave, were stopped by highway
men, and all the passengers robbed. The
stage to the cave was first attacked about four
miles east of Cave City, and the one passenger
on board was rifed. The other coach, coming
the other way, was shortly afterward met by two
men on horseback heavily armed, who ordered
the driver to stop. They then compelled all the
passengers to get out and stand in line, and or
dered them, at the pistols point, to give up all
their property. The travellers were unable to
resist successfully so they had to shell out.
The robbers took possession of all their money,
jewelry, and valuables, aggregating in value
about $1,000. After the exploit, they made the
victims take drink of whisky with them, and
rode Off"
A fire at Mobile destroyed several
stores in the business quarter of the city, in
volving a loss of about $4,000.
Newberry county, S. c., furnishes
story of horrible and mysterious murder.
While an old man, named Henry Grier, was
fishing in Little river, the other day. he dis
covered the corpse of man in the water. He
gave the alarm, and people came and dragged
the place, recovering two bodies, both victims
being the sons of old man Grier. The young
men had been shot to death, and their remains
were afterward sunk by means of stones tied to
their limbs.
A Jacksonville (Fla.) dispatch says ::
"Twelve wrecks by the same cyclone that
struck the Vera Cruz have been reported-two
steamers and ten sailing vessels-among them
the schooner Ada j. Simonton, from Pensacola
for Boston, laden with lumber. The crew was
saved. Twelve of the crew of Norwegian
bark got ashore near st. Johns bay. The
coast for 100 miles is strewn with goods of all
descriptions from the wrecks"
A negro murderer, named Wash Tall
feTo, disappeared from n convict camp Mt
AIillican, Tex, in company of an armed mob,
who took him to the woods and hung him.