The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-08-11

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that the Mutuals are about to engage the
Actives, of Clinton, Iowa, to travel with
them and do their "heavy" playing -,s. Hon.
O. G. Gray, prominent citizen of Ottawa,
ILL.,, died at his residence in that city on the
LIST instant.... Mrs. N. j. SAVERS, of Carson,
New, arrived at stockton, Cal, recently, and
found her husband at a hotel stopping with
another woman. She went to their room
and shot the woman three times with re-
volver, nAicting mortal wounds...... Chief
Justice Chase, Bishop Lee and lady, of Iowa,
and other distinguished persons are at the
Bethesda Springs, Waukesha, Wis.
The south.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has offered a reward OF 5000 for the detec-
ton of the murderer of Assistant Assessor
Clinton Gilbert in the recent raid on the
Brooklyn distilleries. Land-grant bonds
of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company,
with the cupons of July l, 1871, attached,
Nos. 30l TO $50, inclusive, $500 each I; Nos.
$50 to 2S6, inclusive, $500 each; Nos. 45l to
500, inclusive, $3.50 each, were stolen from
the United States Express Company at
st. Louis on July %, 1871. The public are
cautioned against negotiating for the same.
.....N Ned Myers and Lewis Coppedge, ne
groes, were hanged at Wadesboro, Arson
county on Friday, for the murder Of James
w. Redford, white......Quite large number
of counterfeit notes are daily received at the
Redemption Division OF the Treasury De-
partment. The counterfeits are of legal
tender and fractional currency, and from
$500 to $3.50 of spurious stuff is daily branded
! in the division and returned.
GEN. J. F. BOYLE died suddenly, on Friday,
of apopexy, at his residence in Louisville
Ky.....A well known citizen Of ST. Louis,
named Munson Beach, was shot by his
brother-in-law, Joseph IL. Fore, on Friday
night. He will die from the wounds re-
ceived 900 W.. ii. Johnson and Richard
Green were hanged in Prince George county,
Va, on the 2Sth inst......The New Orleans
| Custom House officials assert that the re-
ceipts during the last month are greater
than during any preceding June for ten
years, while the expenses are nearly per
cent. less.
A VERY serious shooting affray occurred
in Benton county, Ark, on the Goth inst,
between two families named Reese and
Pierce. One of each family was killed out
right, and two or three injured ......A young
man from Kentucky, named G. w. Defevere,
was murdered on Tuesday last at Labade,
Franklin county, Mo. Cause-Woman....
Some days ago, while three men were charg-
ing blast on the Arkansas branch of the
Iron Mountain railroad, the powder prema-
turely exploded, and Thomas Hughes was
instantly killed. Two others were severely
injured. ".. The health of Mrs. f. G. Whar-
ton, now confined in the Baltimore Jail upon
the charge of poisoning Gen. Ketchum, has
undergone such marked changed within
the past few days that her family physician
and the physician to the jail, have addressed
a joint communication to the Board of Wis
itors of the Jail, representing that her ply
steal condition is such as absolutely TO re-
quire her removal to another apartments.
negro riot occurred at Goldsboro, n. c., on
the goth ult. Five thousand of them ar
rived there that day for the purpose of TAX
ing part in the coming election, and getting
full of whisky became bolsterous and at
tackled the police. One negro was killed,
two wounded, and three whites wounded.
JOHN KLEINs was killed by falling en-
bankment in st. Louis on Monday .....R B.
McGee, prominent citizen of Trenton,
Tenn. formerly President of the Branch
State Bank, was recently arrested, charged
with passing counterfeit money. Twelve
hundred dollars of the same was found in
his possession. He scaled the wall of the
Jail and escaped the same evening he was
incarcerated, and is now at large.
j. j. WoRsHAM, formerly proprietor of the
Worsham House, Memphis, Tenn, SD de-
gree Mason, died at Duvall's Bluff, Ark,
recently, of typhoid fever.
Washington.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has made the very important decision that
borrowed capital or deposits employed by
bankers in the transaction of ordinary
business, is exempt from taxation. 1t is es-
! timated that this will decrease the revenue
several millions of dollars, and involve the
Treasury in suits amounting to S5,0O0,0O0 or
SIC 900 ,000..".. The Secretary of the Treasury
! has notified the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to purchase 81 ,O0O,0 600 worth of bonds
on each Wednesday in August, or $4,000, 600
in all, and to sell 81 100000 in gold on the
first, third, and fifth Thursdays, and $4,000
600 on the second and fourth Thursdays of
August, or 81 900 900 in The Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue is having re-
! funded the cotton tax collected on rope and
bagging known as the "tare," which
amounts to from ID to 90 pounds on each
| bale. The amount of cotton tax collected
by the Cover ment is about $50, 900 600, and
of this amount about 3,000,0 900 is rope and
| bagging, or tare," the tax on which is now
being refunded under the 44th section of
the act of June so, 1864 ..... Felix r. Brunot,
of Pittsburgh, Pa, has been rendered the
appointment of Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, but it is thought he will not accept
the position .....G Geo. V. Hall, the General
Secretary of the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, has sent to the Treasurer of the
United States 81 800 forwarded through him
for credit to the conscience fund, by young
man greatly benefited by his present reli-
! gious experience.
SECRETARY BOUTWELL, has ordered thor
ough investigation of the cause of the recent
steamboat explosion in New York, with a
view to furnishing the Government Inspec-
tor, if he is in any way to blame.....It is es
timated that the forthcoming monthly debt
statement will show a further reduction Of
about So, 00O 600 in the national debt....Dur-
ing July, the number of applications at the
Patent Office were ,Sl2-2l more than in
the corresponding month of last year, and of
that number ,l3l patents and trade marks
were issued. The President has made the
following appointments: Marsh. Giddings,
of Michigan, Governor of New Mexico; VIM.
l.. Warning, Assessor of Internal revenue
for the Collection District of New Mexico.
1.-THE total internal revenue receipts for