The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-10-06

Der of other places in the above named
States, as we'll as Louisiana, report from five
to Fl fifteen deaths in each town during the
past week from yellow fever...... Ex-Gov
Robt. Nj. Stewart, of Missouri, is dead.
TuE Secretary of the Treasury has re-
ceived a telegram from Austin, Texas, an
nouncing the murder of Mclaughlin,
Inspector of Customs, near San Antonio,
while causing the seizure of 200 mules SNUG
gled from Texas ....James Stewart, while
riding rapidly on the turnpike near Nash
vile, Tenn, on Sunday, was thrown from
his horse and instantly killed. Five
deaths from yellow fever in Charleston, s. c.,
on Monday.
Washington.
In accordance with the circular giving no.
tce that the principal and accrued interest
on certain $50 registered and coupon bonds
would be paid on and after the LIST day of
December next, and that the interest would
cease on that date, the holders of these bonds
are rapidly sending them in for redemp
tion....I 1t appears at the internal revenue
office that the distillers throughout the
country are opening up their fall business
in earnest. While there are not as many
distilleries in operation as in former years,
those that have commenced operations show
in their management healthier condition
of affairs, as many capitalists have invested
money in distilling operations.....The Com
missioner of Internal Revenue decides that
dealer in leaf tobacco purchasing for ex-
port trade, whether on his own account or
as a commission merchant, is not required
to return sales made in a foreign country.
... Two hundred recruits have been order
ed to Omaha to reinforce the I'd Cavalry.
..... Intelligence from Washington states
that the new German Minister has informed
the President of one of the Schutzenvereins
there that the Emperor William has sent
them a present of six stands of Chassepot
rifles, which have already left Berlin.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
decides that the interest on the new funded
loan bonds Of 1881 is not to be included in
the returns for taxation in computing the
Government tax of % per cent. on the net
earnings of the bonds....Thc Secretary of
the Treasury has written letter directing
| inspectors of steamboats, to have all steamers
provided with the equipments required
under the new steamboat act as soon as such
equipments can be provided by their owners.
The State Department has finished list
of the claims, and the amount of the same
on file there, for Indemnity for depradations
committed during the war by the Confeder-
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doah, Florida and Olustee, tor transmission
by Assistant Secretary of State Davis to the
Geneva Conference. The total amount of
the claims is 1925, 257. Most Of them are
from New England and New York. These
claims, of course, are only to be used as evil
dence before the Geneva Conference, where
the principle only of Englands liability in
the premises is to be determined..... The re-
cent order of the Navy Department retiring
60 Raar Animals WI n houa hoo
active duty at Washington, and placing
them on the half pay required by law,
causes good deal of feeling and harsh com
ment in naval circles, and is charged upon
ciqueism in the Department. AS an eco
nomical measure, it does not appear to be a
very great success, as it only saves to the
Department about $780, 900.
THE Chicago Base Ball Club was defeated
by the Rockfords, at Rockford, H., on Tues
day. The game stood II to 90. Mad dogs
are very plenty in Chicago. Accounts of
people being bitten by rabid dogs are pub
lished daily in that city, but the police
know nothing about it. Query-Can they
read ?.."..Chas. Belou, a young man, was
killed in Chicago, on Tuesday, by being rip
ped open with circular saw in a chair fac
tory...... The mill of the American Sheet
and Boiler Plate Company, at Newbergh,
Ohio, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday,
throwing 40 men out of employment, and
causing a loss of $1OO, OOO..... The railroad
eating house at Tomah, Wis, was destroyed
by fire Tuesday. man named Stafford
was run over and killed near Leetonia, O.,
on Tuesday night. Cause Whisky.
T Foreign.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Independence Belize
positively asserts that Napoleon has adj
vanced money TO bride French regiment to
arrest the leading members of the present
Government Of France. His lordship the
Bishop of Huron, Rt. Rev. BENZ. Coronyn,
d. D., is dead LIZA pamphlet has been
issued by the Catholic Bishop of Switzerland
upon the dogma of Papal infalliblity. The
Bishops must insist upon the validity of the
decisions adopted by the Ecumenical Coun-
Gil upon the infallibility of the Pope as the
supreme head of the Church.
: THE French wheat crop will fall short of
the average by S5,OOO,OOO hectrolitres, but
the yield of barley and minor crops is album
dant..... The Vendome column is to rise
again, but there has been some doubt as to
the replacing of the figure of Napoleon,
overthrown by the Communists. THEIRS has
now, it is said, decided to have the statue of
Napoleon in q cooked hat and grey coat
placed there, instead of the same Napoleon
in imperial robes.....The London Globe
says: The result of experiments in Chi
nese labor in America possess a double in
terest now, in view of the Newcastle strike
and other struggles between labor and
capital. We should not be at all surprised
in these days of excessive competition, rapid
locomotion, and Suez canals If before long
we saw John Chinaman and party hard at
; work over here" 49," Piccadilly,' the Lon
don correspondent of the n Y. World, re-
ports large deficiency in the wheat crop of
England. The question is how largo will
the deficiency be? He says: 81 sent you
an estimate the other day that it would be
SS,OO0,O0o of bushels, and | am obliged to
say that can see nothing TO show that this
is too large figure" There are fears that
the potato crop also will be partial failure.
English buyers of wheat are now making
contracts in Pesth Russia, Turkey, Rouma-
MIA, Egypt, Canada, Chill, and Australia,
, but France, Holland and Belgium are also
buyers in these markets. The competition
is lively, and prices seem to be inclined to
advance.
ANOTHER conspiracy for the restoration of
Napoleon has been discovered in Paris......