The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-11-26

Salvini, the great hAlian tragedinn,
has arrived At New YORK, and is under engage
mens for 100 nights in the principal cities.
The Lotus Club, of New York, gave a
brilliant reception in honor of Gen. Grant.
WhitsIaw Reid presided, and asked why the
illustrious guest of the evening should not be
made Captain General Of the armies. Tho
his present position, and was not one of those
who charged republics with ingratitude.
The docks being constructed on the
South Boston fats rank next in size to tho VIC
toria docks at Liverpool. 1t Is said that the
Pennsylvania railroad has advanced the money
for this great enterprise.
West.
A vein OF good coal, over four feet
thick, has been struck at Ponca, Neb., SSS feet
from the surface.
Milwaukee has gotten up list OF 5, $50
male citizens, who, it is claimed, were omitted
in the census enumeration
A construction train on the Dallas and
Wichita road broke through temporary bridge
over Hickory creek. Thirteen workmen were
wounded, three of whom have since died.
The annual report of the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway Company shows an in
crease in net income over the previous year Of
81, 424, AL Five passengers were killed on the
road during the year thirty employees, and
forty others.
Ohio had 2,996657 acres in wheat
4l;. .,o.x .,a tta x;aId xvaa 10 200 7Qa bushala
or an average Of eighteen and three-fourths
bushels per acre. Last year the number Of
acres in wheat in the Buckeye State was ,S18,-
$50, and the yield was Al, 952, LOO bushels, or
average Of only seventeen and seven-tenths
bushels per acre.
Five persons lost their lives in q
shocking manner at Cleveland, Ohio. Daniel
Burr, rolling-mil laborer, bade his wife
goodnight, kissed his 3-year-old daughter, and
left home for his work in the evening. The
next morning he returned to find the little one
dead, and his wife and infant child and two
women visitors on the floor in comatose con-
dition. But one of them, it is ssid can re-
cover. The horrid tragedy was caused by the
escape of gases from base-burner stove.
While Corwin Call, miner at Logan,
Ohio was emptying quantity of blasting pow
der into sack which his wife was holding, the
powder exploded. Mrs. Call was burned to
death, and Call is not likely to live.
President-elect Garfield and his wife
attended the funeral of their late niece, Mrs.
Palmer, at Scion, Ohio, last week.
Rev. James B. Corrington, famous q
quarter of century age as oo-laborer Of
Peter Cartwright, passed away at st. Louis the
other day.
Mary Gilbert, widow Of the engineer
killed in the memorable collision at Jackson
Mich, last year, has sued the Michigan Central
road for $40, 900, and has been rendered $4,000
az a compromise.
The new census of st. Louis is CON-
pleted, and shows q population Of S6O,915.
The gain on the previous enumeration is Il, 900.
Three more unfortunates IN the st.
Peter asylum have died from the inhalation of
smoke, making thirteen fatalities. Ten others
are reported as burned fatally, and eight are
missing.
The Milwaukee Chamber Of Com
POoscopioh
stone structure erected for its use by Alexander
Mitchell, closing the ceremonies By banquet
Of rare attractions.
A nephew of John G. Calhoun, resid.
ing at Candalaria, New, has become insane
from wound received during the war;
The st. Louis refining and smelling
works have been destroyed by fire. Loss,
$50, 900 to S75, 900 insurance, $48, TOO.
The town of Jamison, Plumas coun-
ty, Cal, consisting of forty buildings, in
Guiding three stores and five hotels, has been
totally destroyed by fire.
James d. Williams, Governor of In
diana, died at Indianapolis on the goth of No
vember. His disease was inflammation of the
bladder, with which he had been afflicted for a
period Of about fifteen years Gov. Williams
was nearly rs years of age, and had been an
active politician since 1S4S. He was elect
cd for several successive terms to tho lower
house of the Indiana Legislature, and
in 1853 was electet 90 the State Senate, elected
to Congress in 1874, and Governor of Indiana
in 1876. He was q homespun sort OF man, and
was very popular because Of rs simple ways
and sterling integrity By his death Lieut.
Gov. Gray becomes Governor till the first Tues
day Of January next, when he viii be succeeded
by Governor-elect Porter.
Capt Payne has ordered general
movement from the six chief rendezvous into
Oklahoma, on Dec. 6. 1t is asserted along the
border that he can easily muster 5000 men.
Lord, Stoutenbug & Co.'s wholesale
drug house, on Wabash avenue, Chicago, has
been destroyed by FIRE. Loss estimated at
s9Oo, 900.
The people of Kansas, at the recent
election, adopted an amendment to the State
constitution prohibiting the manufacture OF
sale Of intoxicating liquors.
Oneof the four buildings of the Adrian
Nfich.) Methodist College has been burned
A companion structure was destroyed the same
way in 1889.
South.