The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-01
DOMESTIC rNTELLIaENCE.
East.

The freight depot of the Boston and
Maine railroad, in Boston, has been burned.
Loss estimated at $4,000.
The centennial anniversary of the
capture of Maj. Andre at Tarrytown, N. Y,
was celebrated at that place on the 23d Of Sep
TENDER. Thirty thousand strangers were pres
ent Ex-Gov. Tilden presided Orlando b. Pot
ter read an historical paper, and Chauncey M.
Depew delivered an Grafton.
Bristol, r. l., celebrated its 2O0th an
niversary Sept "a. with appropriate exercises.
Two boys in Reading, Pa, quarreled
recently over game of marbles; one of them
settled the dispute by killing the other with
stone
Pittsburgh is excited over the case of
a nun who was removed from the House of the
Good Shepherd to Dixmont Insane Asylum I'M
der suspicious circumstances. The Superin-
tendent Of the asylum has had charge of her
for three months and says she is perfectly
sane, and was when she was brought to the
asylum. The doctors who certified to her in
sanity admit that their examination lasted only
five minutes.
West
Jesse ID. Grant, third son of the Gen
eral, and Miss Lizzie Chapman, daughter of a
wealthy merchant, were married at San Fran
cisco, on the 21st of September.
Another combination has been formed
between American and Mexican troops on the
southwestern border for the purpose of annihi-
lating the Apache chief, Victoria.
Reports from Indian Territory show
that the Cheyennes have assumed a threaten
ing attitude Three hundred Of them recently
visited the agency and assaulted the Agent.
A train on the Northwestern railway
ran into herd of sheep and killed twenty-eight
of them, near Fort Atkinson, Wis.
Fire in Cincinnati destroyed Marmet
q Co.'s coal elevator and portion Of Lane &
Bodley's machine shop d.
The Supreme Court at Indiana has
overruled the petition for q rehearing in the
case involving the validity of the constitutional
amendments. Judges Riddle, Warren and
Howk were against reopening the case, and
Judges Niblack and Scott in favor. The State
election WILL therefore. be held in October.
A serious collision between passen-
ger and freight train occurred on the Vandalia
railroad, near Terre Haute by which the en-
gineer and fireman of the passenger train lost
their lives, and several other train men were
injured more or less seriously
The boiler in Loose a. Sons frlit-dry-
ing house, at Monroe Mich, exploded with ter
rihc violence, killing Henry OBren, engineer.
Leonard Martin cutter and boy named Cha
beraux, and wounding more or less seriously
nine others.
The ladies of Doniphan county, Kan,
bought all the booths on the fair ground, bid
ding much higher than the acknowledgment
whose bari could not compare in size with that
of their fair antagonists.
Clarence Gray, Republican candidate
for District Attorney, recently shot and NOR
tally wounded Theodore CLANCY, editor of the
Santa Barbara (Cal) Press.
It is estimated that the various rail-
roads centering in Chicago will expend $6,0OO-
900 in permanent improvements there this
year.
Three men were scalded fatally, and
two others painfully, by the explosion of the
steam-pipe of the packet Maggie Harper, on the
Ohio river.
A. Fl. Latham, of Albany, and Miss
Sarah J. Faris of Renneville, Ind, were mar
lied by telegraph the other day, Rev. Mr.. Par
rett, of Portland, Ind, officiating.
Douglass Williams, nephew of the
Governor Of Indiana, was murdered, o few
days ago, at vincennes, Ind, by Ed Hogan,
railroad man. The murderer made his escape.
Miss Sarah Vance, patient in st.
vincent's Insane Asylum, st. Louis, set fire to
her clothing, and was fatally burned.
William Sly, of Nicholasville. Cler-
mont county, Ohio, went to Cincinnati and ex-
changed 81, 500 4-per-cent bonds for gold, put
ting the gold in a valise. On the cars on his
way home ho found his valise exchanged for
one containing three bricks. No clew TO the
robber.
South
Five persons were drowned by the
sinking Of steamboat near Natchez Miss.
Peter Slack (coloredD has been hanged
at Lumberton, N. G., for the murder of Sam
Townsend, also oolored, m January, 1879.