The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01

that city, on the ground that if it is finished
according to the original plan it will be great
obstruction TO navigation.
Minnesota agricultural authorities calculate
that the wheat crop of the State will yield
surplus of 80, 600 900 bushels for export.
The St. Paul Dispatch correspondent de-
scribes the closing scenes in the Mahtopah
court, in the case of the Gordon kidnappers'
az very exciting. The prosecuting ofhcer'
Clark. inveighed bitterly against the prisoners,
the blackguards in brown cloth who abetted
them. aud the newspaper correspondents
Cornish his assistant, vulgarly abused
everything American, including our courts,
which he declared are influenced by
bribes. Finally, he threatened the Judge with
popular vengeance if he dared to admit the
prisoners to bail The Judge would not allow
council to threaten him, but would perform
his duty without reference to the counsels
opinion. ''Then," said Cornish, lit is your
duty to refuse bail. You dare not do other
wise" Judge-I shall do AZ think proper,
without dictation from you. Cornish-Of
course YOU will, but still l don't think you will
dare to do this Here Judge Betourney inter-
fereu ana OoiIisii, hhsihH ho Nao
bringing contempt on the Court by the manner
of his address to Judge McKeagney, notwith-
standing which, Cornish, who was evidently
intoxicated, was allowed to continue some
time longer in the same strain. Mr.. Royal
attempted to speak again for the prison
ers, but was denied permission by
the Attorney General, and an exchange of
10 follO~a1 I,,ot tba Ind xyoo
leaving the bench, Clark took from his mouth
a spit-ball that he was chewing, and threw it
into Royals face, with the remark, "You are a
dirty puppy" The latter, wiping his face
said he thanked the Attorney General. After
wards the latter apologzed to Royal, saying he
was half wild at the time. Soon after the adj
journment of court, hand-bill, of which the
following is copy, was circulated through the
town: Right or wrong Can the law be
enforced? To-day application for bail was
made for the kidnappers. Mr.. Cornish urges
upon the court that granting bail was only put
ting a price upon the crime of kidnapping.
The argument has closed. The presiding
Judge, McKeagney, WAS driven home by
Wilson, Of Minneapolis. This may mean
nothing but we shall see. Canadians! be on
the alert for the result God save the Queen!"
Gordon has openly expressed an opinion that
it would be safer for the prisoners to be kept
in confinement than liberated on bail.
The resources and liabilities of the Illinois
national banks are the same-S41, 116, 471.6S.
King Cholera slew 176 Cincinnatians during
his sojourn in that city, period of 36 days.
Nearly all the railroads centering at st.
Louis have abolished the free-pass system.
Charles A. Russell, the murderer of James
Crotty, was hanged at San Francisco on
July rs.
Gov. Austin, Of Minnesota, has gone to
Washington to lay before the State Depart
ment full statement of the Gordon kidnap-
ping affair. 1t is now claimed that the recap
ture of Gordon was effected on American soil.
The Iowa Capitol Commissioners have mott
fed the Quincy, H., contractors that they will
not wait any longer on them for stone for the
new capitol, and they have sent hands to Iowa
City to quarry stone for building, at the Quincy
contractors expense.
Sunday liquor-selling has been suppressed
in Cleveland.
The Indianapolis Sentinel of July az, says :
" 1t is settled beyond contingency that hops
in the State Of Indina, as whole, will be sat-
isfactory."
The steamer Jennie Howell was recently
sunk in the Ohio river. Three lives lost.
Two prominent citizens of Manitoba signed
the bond of Merriam, the only one Of the al
legged kidnappers whom the court admitted to
bail Immediately on his release he was ar
rested on civil process at the suit of lawyer
whom he had retained to conduct his Defense
The necessary security was given, and Mer-
riam was again released. Senator Ramsey, Of
Minnesota, has started for Washington, to
urge the State Department to intercede in be-
half Of the prisoners.
The complaint and afidavts in the case of
Ann Eliza Webb, seventeenth wife of Brigham
Young, have been filed in the Office of the
Clerk Of the Court, at Salt Lake. The cop
plainant sues for 100000 damages, alimony,
$50, 900 for counsel fees.
George Redwood formerly Colonel of the
" Louisiana Tigers" Of rebel renown, has
been sentenced, at Detroit, to two years in
the Michigan State Prison, for enlightenment.
At Rogersville, Ohio, during the trial of
man calling himself JEFF. Davis" for out
raging the person Of 9-year-old girl, the
lights in the room were put out, the prisoner
was dragged out of doors, shot twice with re-
volvers, dragged by his heels two squares, and
hanged to a tree till he was dead.
Iowa grain and cattle dealers are sending
their shipments Eastward by way of st. Louis,
instead of Chicago, since the Inauguration of
the Illinois railroad law.
A stage was stopped near Grass Valley, Cal,
on the night of the 9th ult., by highwaymen,
who blew open the Wells e. Fargo treasure
box and obtained $4,000.
The South.
Baltimore has been visited by a disastrous
conflagration, involving loss of upward of
81 ,000, 900. Ten blocks were burned over en-
bracng the district bounded by Mulberry,
Liberty, Lexington and Howard streets. The
number of houses burned is stated at 100, con-
sisting almost wholly Of dwellings and small
shops.
The liabilities of II. j. Kimball, formerly of
New England, who failed some time ago at AT
lanta, Ga, will amount to s5000,000.
The late Mai Ewings interest i'm the St.