The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
The South.


Two entire business blocks in Jefferson.
Texas, were recently destroyed by fire. Loss,
$3.50, 900.
Serious disturbances have occurred in Au-
gusta, Ga, caused by determined attempt on
the part of the negroes to ride in the street
cars
While Carl Schurz was addressing a mass
meeting at Charlotte, N. c., the other day, a
scoundrelly negro set fire to house in the
town, for the purpose of breaking up the
meeting. The rascal was arrested.
The first two bales of new cotton were re-
ceived at Savannah, Ga, on the 3lst ult,
one from Florida and one from cambridge.
Ga.
The City Bank of Memphis has collapsed.
Liabilities $55, 900.
The street-car troubles in Augusta, Ga,
have ceased, and all is quiet again.
The troubles in Pope county, Ark. D., still con-
tinued at last accounts, and many people are
leaving the country. Armed bands of militia
are still at large, despite the Governors proc
lamation calling on them to disband. Gov.
Hadley threatens to put the county under
martial law.
The evidence taken before the Frontier
Commission authorized by Congress, and now
sitting at Brownsville, Texas, duplicates Gen.
Cortinas in assisting the thieves in running
off cattle from Texas into Mexico. 1t also es-
tablishes the fact that eighty miles of the
most fertile river frontier in Texas is unsettled
on account of the insecurity of life and prop
erty from these Mexican raids.
Advices from Charleston, s. c., state that
the drought is so excessive throughout the
State that the crops are almost parching up,
and that if rain does not fall soon there will
be nothing left for the caterpillars to eat. The
cotton crop in some sections Of the State will
be an entire failure.
Annie Gibson, of Nashville, commit ed sui
eide, the other day, by hanging herself
Tucker Ballard, Marshal of Crab Orchard.
Ky. shot Martin Delaney dead, last week,
while attempting to arrest him.
The Investigations being prosecuted by the
United States Commission at Brownsville,
Texas, reveal fearful record Of murder and
others have been murdered in and around
BrOWnsNllle Dy DaHus OF Mexican mafauuers,
and droves of cattle have been seized and
driven over the river within sight OF the city,
Stolen cattle are, on arrival on Mexican SOIL
rebranded by the thieves, and their recovery
il thus rendered impossible. The feeling
among the people is that they must protect
and war of races is looked upon
as inevitable.
Another outrage has been committed on the
Texas border. An officer OF the Mexican army,
at the head Of an armed force, recently crossed
the Rio Grande, seized the owner of a ranch,
and forcibly took him into Mexican territory,
together with portion Of his stock.
A young man named Thomas met with a
shocking death at Louisville, the other day.
He was caught in the machinery of paper
mill and his head literally torn from his body. |
Washington.
The new Mexican Minister stated in a con-
versation at the capital the other day. that he |
thought the new President, Lerdo de Tejeda, /
will be likely to pacify the country. Daz and |
Negrete, he said, were always making trouble. /
They will not be likely to do much hurt under
the new administration. The strongest rela-
tiops Of afnitv and Good foalipc, aro ,,ai,tai,ad