The true northerner., 1871-08-18

the Chenoa (Ill.) Times, died at his residence
in that city on August Sth of hemorrhage of
the lungs..... The French people of Ottawa,
H., propose TO celebrate the first anniver
sary of the declaration of independence of
France on the 4th of September next, that
being their 4th of July. American citizens
will join III the procession. French people
near and far are invited to participate in the
celebration ..... Mrs. Campbell has confessed
having murdered ler husband at Lendon,
Ont, on the l4th of July, duplicating Doyle
as an accessory.
The South.
j. j. WoRsHAS, formerly proprietor of the
Worsham House, Memphis, Tenn, 33d de-
gree Mason, died at Duvall's Bluff, Ark,
recently, of typhoid fever.
The wife of Dr. Carl Crosse, of Louisville,
was found dead in her house on the Sd inst,
The verdict of the coroner's jury was that
she came to her death by ill-treatment from
her husband, during confnement.....Da David
Victor, charged with the murder of Isaac
Lindsay, in StOddard county, Missouri, two
years ago, murder which created consider
able excitement for its cold -bloodedness, was
arrested at Ulin, H., on the Sd inst, by
Sheriff Irving, and taken to Missouri for
trial
Mrs. PFEIFFER, a respectable married
lady, while gather ng blackberries near
Frankfort, KY, on Tuesday, accompanied
by her daughter. aged IA, was attacked and
brutally outraged by negro. The fend
has been rrested, and it is with difficulty
that the authorities can prevent his being
lynched by the ctizens..""A woman named
Susan Kelly, employed as servant in the
e. u ~ a IA. Z.
at present in Europe, has been arrested on a
charge of strangling her new born child.
The body was found in a stove by some
neighbors who were intrusted with the
supervision Of the premises in the absence
of Guild. The woman confessed her crime.
The receipts at the New Orleans Custom
House one day last week were $67 $50, a
sum which has been but once before equaled
IL single day.
The first bale of the new crop Of Louisiana
cotton was received on Friday, the 4th inst.
1t was raised by Charles A. Pierson, near
the mouth Of Cane river, Natchitoches
parish. The cotton crop along the Red
river looks yetter than was expected after
the spring rains. 1t is believed that fair
crop will be made in the river parishes .....
The Louisiana and Missouri River road has
/ Dttu COiDB BItltu lIOll l-OulSldud westward Jc
Mexico, 81 miles, where it connects with the
North Missouri railroad
SERIOUS riots are reported to have taken
! place at Lexington, Frankfort, and Paris
KY, at the polls on Monday. Two white
men were killed and several negroes
wounded. The Democrats are reported to
have carried the State by 35 900 majority
...."Capt. John B. Weaver, for 25 years past
! prominently connected with steamboats, il
| st. Louis, and one of the lessees of the Lin
dell House when it burned, died on Monday
aged 57..... The boiler in the Union Touring
MILL at ST. Louis, exploded at about /.
O'Clock on Monday morning, instantly kill.
ing the engineer and fireman and blowing
out the east end of the mill....A negro boy
named johnson was murdered at Memphis
on the 7th inst, by an ex-policeman named
Reeves. Cause-a rival in the affections o
a debauched woman.
A NEGRO named Mcdowell, while beatins
his sister, living near the Mississippi anC
Tennessee Railroad Depot, at Memphis, wa
stabbed and instantly killed by her husband
Horace Whitley, who surrendered and wa
locked up."..A Louisville dispatch says
German lady of that city gave birth to thre,
daughters. The mother is not woman suf
gist..,.,Ab bout 8 o'clock on the morning o
August s, body of armed men, about $50 il
number, went TO the Frankfort, KY, Jail, de
manded the key from the jailor, and opened
the jail door, taking out the negro that com
| mitted the rape upon the person of Mrs
Pfeiffer, some few days ago, also negr,
by the name of Washington, who, it is sal,
was the first man that fired a pistol in tn,
riot Of the 7th inst, and hung them boil
about half mile from the iail
Washington.
IT is reported that by an order of tn,
commissioner of Pensions, Southern pens
toner's of the war of 1912, receive no relic
now from the pension office....The Post
office department has just completed al
arrangement for carrying the mails betweei
the United States and Norway, by means O
the Baltic-Lloyd's steamers, at a reduce
rate of letter postage. The rate is six cent
for each single half-ounce, prepaid, in al
cases.......The treasury department
promptly supplying all orders for whisk
and tobacco stamps of the old series.
An injunction was, on the 4tb inst, grant
ed by the Court of Equity, in Washington
restraining the Board of Public Works fror
issuing bonds under what is known as h
four million loan improvement bill.".It
! rumored that Pleasonton has reiterated tn
determination to fight Boutwell, under tn
tenure of office act, should the Presider
remove him.
, THE Commissioner Of Patents on the st
decided that no party is entitled. as of rieh