The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-09

manner thus far pursued. No scouting had
been done. Nothing had been heard from
Cranston and the missing men, who have
probably been burned. Eight bodies are
known to still be on the field of battle.
Lieuts Harris and Egan, and Surgeon semig,
wounded in the last fight at the lava beds,
are getting along well, and will probably re-
cover.
President Grant received a ilattering recep-
ton on the occasion of his recent visit TO
Galena. The reception was entirely void Oh
party manipulation, all his old neighbors ana
friends, without distinction of party, joining
to do honor to an old neighbor and the high
Office he holds.
An excursion train on the New Albany and
Chicago railroad jumped the track near Mount
Carmel, ILL.,, last week, and, plunging over an
embankment, the cars were turned bottom
upward Some thirty or forty passengers were
injured, some of them very seriously
The New York Herdlds correspondent at
tributes the great loss of life in the fight with
the Modocs of the Goth of April to the deser-
ton of Company l, of the Twelfth Infantry,
and some few of the artillery, who, when
ordered by Capt Thomas to fall back and hold
bluff in the rear Of the troops to cover the
retreat, continued to fall back until they
reached the camp. The Modocs meantime,
secured the position they were to hold. 1t is
said that only twenty-three Modocs were ell
gagged, and that only two were killed and two
badly wounded
A railroad bridge in process of erection near
Sedalia, Mo-, gave way the other day, pre-
cipitating twelve workmen into the stream,
instantly killing three and wounding eight
others, two of whom are not expected to re-
cover.
theatrical actor named Vance recently
made an attempt on the life of George G.
Harding, editor of the Indianapolis Sunday
Herald, firing two Intellectual shots at him.
James Ray, young man of Platteville Wis.,
being suddenly seized with fit of frenzy, at
tackled two friends in whose company he was
and, before he could be captured, wounded
them fatally by stabbing in the breast.
The South.
The business part of Como, Miss, has been
destroyed by fire. Loss, s75, 900.
John White recently murdered his brother,
Daniel White near Senatosia, Miss. by shoot
ing him with pistol.
A negro mob at Harrodsburg Ky, recently
took colored boy out of Jail and hung him
to tree His offense was an attempted rape
on young negress.
Miss Susan Eberhart, an accomplice of
Spawn in the murder of his wife, was hung on
the I'd inst, at Preston, Ga. Her last words
were: 80 am ready and willing" She was
perfectly unmoved and had no dread of death.
Brown Brewer colored, was hung at Searcy,
Ark, on Friday, May 2, for the murder of an
other negro some months ago.
Washington.
The revenue from manufactured tobacco in
the ten months of the current fiscal year is
said to be only $500, 900 less than the entire
receipts of the previous year, notwithstanding
the reduced tax.
Five million postal cards were issued on the
LIST of May. There were applications for
II, 100000 The company supplying the cards
say they can turn out 100000 of them each
day.
The Third Assistant Postmaster General de- |
cides that postal cards that have been once
properly transmitted through the mail. and
the stamp thereon Cancelled, can, after their
being returned to the sender in sealed ell
velope, with a remittance, be retransmitted to
the person originally addressed, with the word |
- Paid stamped or Endorsed thereon, by
placing upon the card one-cent adhesive |
postage stamp.
The public debt was reduced two and a
quarter millions of dollars during the month |
of April, according to the official statement,
hereto appended:
Six per cent bonds .............sl 81, $685. 73s, $50
Five per cent. bonds. 414567,300
Total coin bonds ........ 81 ,748 1905, $50
Lawful money debt Observation-Disclosures 14S93,000
NIatured debt NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2524,550 !
Legal tender notes ................. 357 23l, 5S4
of deposit. 25l20,0O0
FRACTIONAL currency ,.......... 456e4,62o !
Coin certificates. Observation-Disclosures. 247S7, 400
Total without interest. ...........S 452 8O3,G10 |
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