The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-22

The Farmers Harvest Home Picnic. AT Cnn-
ton, ILL.,, on the l4th inst, which was largely
attended. was addressed by Gov. Palmer and
Gen. ]. G. Black. Gov. Palmer took the
ground that the Dartmouth College decision
ia the law of the land, and cannot be upset
short of upsetting or amending the Constitu-
ton; that railroad charters are contracts be-
tween the corporators and the State, and can
not be amended in any material respect with
out the consent of the corporators; that
railroad companies are common carriers, and
are subject to the obligations imposed by the
common law that the common law is ample
in it's powers to correct all abuses of railroads
and other carriers, if enforced and finally
that we have more laws on the statute book,
additional to the common law, than we can ell
force.
Col. Babcock, Of the Fifth Cavalry, reports
another fight with Tonic Apaches in Arizona,
in which fourteen of the mobile" red men
were sent to the happy hunting-grounds."
At Tucson, Arizona, on Aug. 8, Pedro Ne
gras and wife, pawnbrokers were murdered.
Three men who were implicated in the muir
der were arrested, but were subsequently
taken from the Jail and hung by mob.
A man named Mahafrey met terrible death
in Seward county, Neb., recently. In at
tempting to run after his son through herd
of cattle, he was attacked by several of the
animals and literally tern and crushed to
pieces. After the cattle we're driven away
pieces of the flesh were picked up near the
body, to be carried away in bucket.
A stage was recently stopped by highway
men two miles from San Francisco. who rob-
bed the passengers Of $4,000, rifed Wells.
Fargo Il Co.'S treasure box, and destroyed
the mail, papers, ETC.
A letter from the Yellowstone expedition
says stir was created by the arrest of Gen.
Custer by Gen.. Stanley, and that Custer
marched in the rear of his command one
whole day before he was released. Clusters
men denounced his arrest as an act of tyranny.
Gen. Stanley also caused the destruction of
all the liquors in the camp of the infantry suit
tier, the latter losing six barrels, and the cav
airy sutler seven.
A policeman named Christian Jacobs was
murdered in Chicago, the other night, by
burglar whom he was attempting to arrest.
at Twin Spring, Linn county, Kansas. man
named Keller killed his wife, her sister, and
his two children, piled their bodies Oh the
floor covered them with straw, and then set
fire to the heap. When discovered there was
evidence that the deed had been done with
an AK.
The South.
A terrible tragedy was enacted last week in
Lauderdale county, Tenn. A man named
Austin went home drunk and began to abuse
his wife. His son Charlie, aged 49, coming
in, he turned upon the boy and commenced
abusing him. and, in answer to rough de-
mand, the boy returned sharp answer, Which
so enraged Austin that he drew revolver
and snapped three caps at his son, who, see
ing his danger, snatched shotgun from the
rack and fired upon his father, killing him al
most instantly.
most extraordinary jewelry robbery IL re-
ported from st Louis. About two months
ago John Schiller and Clarence Swayne left
the employ Of Eugene Jaccard & Co., the old
est jewelry firm in the city. and opened Il
wholesale jewelry store Immediately opposite
their late employers. Jaccard & Co. shortly
after missed large quantities of goods, and II
detective was employed to look into the mat
ter who soon found some $4,000 worth of
jewelry in a pawnbroker's shop, which was
identified by Jaccard & Co. az some of the
stolen property. The members of the now
firm were arrested and confessed their guilt.
In Fulton county, Mo-, last week, mob at
tackled a Sheriff's posse while conveying con-
victed horse-thief named Peter Kossler to the
Penitentiary MORALLY wounding the Sheriff,
seriously wounding the Prosecuting Attorney,
John CT. provinces, editor of the Fulton County
Press, John Watson, a merchant, and young
man named Dunbar. The prisoner was secured
by the mob and hung.
William Jackson (colored) was hung at
Alexandria, Va, oil Aug. Is. for the murder of
his wife.
Jefferson Davis recently addressed the
Southern Historical Convention, at White
Sulphur Springs, Va. In speaking of the late
war, he said 1--WE have been more cheated
than conquered by the declarations of the
Federal President, Congress-, and Generals,
for there never could have been surrender
had we anticipated what followed, and we
would to-day have been free" He still had
hope of the South, because whatever men
might be- he never yet had seen reconstructed
women, and, while men of this day are
mightier than the principles for which they
had struggled, he yet hoped the children who
succeed them would grow up to maintain and
perpetuate them, and redeem all that we had
lost.
A New York Herald correspondent has mys-
terously disappeared in the interior of Ken
lucky, and it is feared he has been muir
dered.
Washington.
A Washington dispatch says The Treasury
Department has private advices that United
States bonds are held in special favor in the
London market; that the 5-20s are now as
scarce there as they are here, and that our
general securities are rapidly displacing the
speculative securities of the unstable govern
ments of Europe and South America.
The report of the commission appointed to
investigate the charges against Gen. Van
Buren, and his associate commissioners of the
American department at the Vienna Exposi-
ton. has been received at Washington. In
substance, it finds the accused guilty on all
the counts of the indictment against them.