The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-21

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Weber county, Utah.
THERE is great rejoicing among Chic river
steam boatmen over the reduction of the tolls
of the Louisville canal frsm fifty cents to
| five cents..... Peoria, H., and Burlington,
| Iowa, were visited by terrific transforms on
| the eth inst.-the heaviest witnessed Tor
years......T The Sioux Indians are again on
| the war path, and threaten to attack Fort
Berthold with 1000 Seth Paine,
we'll known Chicago philanthropist, as dead;
THE vicinity of Canton, H., was visited
| by an unprecedented rain-storm on the
| night of the 9th inst...... Houses, barns,
| fences, bridges, culverts, railroad tracks and
everything movable, were swept away by
the deluge, and large amount OF LIE STOCK
drowned....Iowa City, Iowa, was visited by
a severe tornado on the 18th inst......James
II. Stuff a student at Illinois College, Jack
sonville, was drowned on the 7th inst, while
bathing.
Work on the Northern Pacific railroad
goes bravely on. The road is completed
across Minnesota, and the first locomotive
crossed the bridge into Dakota on the Sth
inst.....John Barclay, for the murder of
Charles Garner, will hang at Colum bus,
Ohio, Oct The motion OF Mrs. Fair, the
San Francisco murderess, for a change of
venue, has been overruled, and ven.re of
200 Jurors has been ordered to try the case.
...... By the death Of exMayor Smith, of
BROOKLYN, " Y, Mrs. Hezekiah Clifford, of
Elgin, m, receives $4,000. She was the
first white woman who settled in Fox River
valley Another case of emotional in
sanity comes TO US from San Francisco. j.
II. Mansfield met Mary Helm on the street,
and, because she persisted in her deter
mination not TO marry him, shot the young
lady twice in the breast, and then served
himself the same way. Both will probably
de-. The shoemskers of Cincinnati have
ended a successful strike, having obtained
an advance Of 20 per cent. in their wages
The Buffalo printers have demanded an in
crease of wages. The other trades are ar
ranging to follow.
THE house of Michael Kenly, near MareR-
90, H., was burned on the night of
the sth inst. Mrs. Kenly and four
children were burned to death.....Joseph
Fraw committed suicide at Cleveland on the
10th inst......Ir Ira Lafriner, one of the oldest
shi p builders of Cleveland, is dead.."..The
wild man who has been frightening labor
ers on the Muscatine Western railroad, in
Iowa, was found dead in a slough, last week.
He turned out to be a mulatto, and is sup
posed to have been insane.
The South.
FIRE in Pulaski, Tenn, on June 5, de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property" ...Jemes
Parker was killed, and several others in
iured, by the explosion of locomotive
boiler, at sanderson, Fla, on the 5th inst.
TIE yellow fever has made its annual APP
pearance at New Orleans, and the United
States troops have been removed. CONNER
cial circles are very much depressed, as it is
the general experience that an early advent
Of the fever is an indication of an extended
epidemic. employees of the Texas
Central railroad are on a strike, and nearly
all the engines are disabled by the removal
of portions of the works....The Tennessee
editors were in conclave at Nashville last
week, and had jolly good time.
ATLANTA, Ca, has opened a cotton and
produce exchange......T The Richmond street
car employees are on a strike..... VIM. 7.
Varble, Louisville Falls pilot, has been
mulcted in $4,000 damages Tor the loss Of a
steamer which he was steering over the
falls.... Elk President Johnson has been
nominated for Congressman-at-large by the
Labor Reformers of Tennessee.
THE committee to investigate the case of
DR.. Huston, of Baltimore, has declared him
innocent of the charges preferred against
him Gov. Brown, of Missouri, has called
an extra session Of the Legislature, to re-
district the State.
AT Newport, Ky, on the 10th inst, Frank
Shields, aged Il, killed John Shuester, aged
10, by stabbing him TO the heart......T The st.
Louis workingmen are about forming an
eight-hour league.
Washington.
Tue Presidents proclamation, just issued
in accordance with the amnesty act, dis
misses all penal prosecutions against those
persons coming under its provisions, who, it
is alleged, held office in viola ton of the
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitu-
ton Of the United States..... Rumors that
Secretary Fish is about to resign are again
rife at the capital.
A WASHINGTON dispatch announces that
the Spanish Government has notified its
Minister to this country that the only con-
dition upon which DR.. Houard can be imme-
diately released is that the United States ask
for il as favor, and not on the grounds
that he is a citizen of the United
States .....A An effort is being made by the
state department ana the BRUSH Minister
TO make some arrangement to save the treaty
of Washington.....The President has signed
the Tax and Tariff bill..... The President
has vetoed another bill granting relief for
property destroyed by Federal troops during
the war, on the same grounds as those in
the Best case, namely: that it's payment
would invite the presentation of claims for
very large amounts, and that it is a matter
of bounty rather than of right.
IT is stated that official information has
been received from London, giving the as
sursnce that the English Government ac-
cepts the supplemental rule to the Treaty of |
Washington, as amended by the Senate, and |
the Geneva Arbitration will now proceed TO |
consider the cases presented by the two |
Governments..."The Civil Rights and Ku-
Klux bills were again defeated in the House,
on the 7th inst.
II is difficult to understand the precise
state of the negotiations affecting the Treaty
of Washington. The members of the Cabi-