The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-19

Eight persons were recently killed, and sew
eral injured, by falling wall, in the town of
Stonehouse, Devonshire, England
A number of emgrants who left England
for Brazil have returned, bringing doleful ac-
counts Of their treatment.
fire In Auckland, New Zealand, lately
burned forty-eght houses.
Political.
The San Francisco Bulletin gives the compo-
sition of the newly elected California Legisla-
ture ar follows: Republicans, A Indepen-
dents, 80 Democrats, 40. Sixty-one votes will
Q required to elect Senator. The hdepen-
dents and Republicans together would cast 80
votes. Assuming that some hold-over Repub-
lcans vote for Booth, his strength at tho out
get would be greater than any other candi-
date"
The Massachusetts, Republican State Con-
vention, at Worcester, nominated Washburn
for Governor by acclamstion-Butler, recog-
nizing the hopelessness of the contest, having
very sensibly Withdrawn his name. The bal
ance Of the ticket is composed as follows I:
| Lieutenant Governor, Thomas Talbot; Attor.
ney-General, Charles II. Train Secretary of
State, Oliver Warner Auditor, Charles Endi-
cott Treasurer, Charles Adams, Jr. The
resolutions condemn the salary-grab, depre-
cate the practice of interference in State cleo
tions on the part of Federal officers, and favor
cheap transportation and temperance laws.
The Liberal Republicans of New York will
meet in State convention at Elmira on Oct. s.
N 90 NJ
land, in session at Frederick, last week, NOM
mated Hon. Henry III. Goldsborough, of Tai
bot county, for Comptroller, and John +. Price.
of Hartford, for Clerk of the Court Of Appeals.
The Oregon Republicans have nominated
Hiram Smith for Congress.
Dingley's (Rep.) majority for Governor of
Maine is about IL 900.
The negroes in the Indian Territory are
moving for a Territorial Government
General.
The completion Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railway extension to Chicago is promised at an
early day.
Missouri now claims to rank second in the
farmers movement, as regards the number of
oranges and their influence.
the recent conference at South Bend Ind,
placed himself squarely on the record in favor
of woman suffrage Said the Bishop: "Par-
don depression. l want the day to come
when woman will vote. Without their vote l
fear we will never be able to put down the
houses of infamy and iquor-saloons of our
country. Nothing is so ruinous TO the coun-
try, it is true, and it is my opinion that we
can't get along without the women voting. 1t
is not good for man to be alone"
News has been received of the effects of the
recent storm on the coast of Labrador. AT
Indian Tickle, six persons were killed by fall
ing buildings, and six square-rigged vessels
were wrecked off tho harbor, all their crews
being lost The loss of life no land, as far as
could be ascertained, was twenty-three women,
fourteen men, and many children. The num-
Der of lives lost in skffs and in boats near the
shore could not be calculated Disconsolate
women were rushing in all directions on the
morning after the gale, seeking news of their
husbands fathers, and brothers. Their cries
were heartrending and nearly all of them
were left without food, shelter, or change of
clothing.
A st. John ca. F.) dispatch says grave
doubts are entertained for the safety of the
missing crew of the Polaris. Nearly three
months have elapsed since they left their
camp.
"Who burned Columbia" is question on
the answer to which many million dollars
worth Of cotton claims depend. The testi-
mony hitherto has been of a pulling con-
flcting nature. Gen. Wade Hampton swearing
positively that it was done by Northern
troops, and the Union soldiers and officers
who were witnesses before the Cotton Claims
Commission averring as positively that the
cotton was burning when they reached CO.
lumbia. Gen. Sherman has just made public
some additional evidence in the case. 1t is
the testimony of an irregular detachment of
the Seventeenth Corps, who entered Column
bia three-quarters of an hour before the regu-
saw the Southern soldiers setting fire to the
bales of cotton in the streets, and this testi-
mony, says Gen. Sherman, is conclusive |
enough to warrant him in reiterating his
former statement, that the destruction of the |
cotton was the work of the Southern army.
On the recent voyage to New York of the
steamship City of Brooklyn, woman who was
a steerage passenger, insane from sickness,
threw her little boy, years of age, overheard,
and then with her babe III her arms jumped
into the sea She was rescued, but the chill
1ren we're drowned.