The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-24

District of New York have nominated the Hon.
s. S. Cox for Congress.
The Democrats have majority in the Ohio
Legislature of l6 on joint ballot which in
sures the return of A. q. Thurman to the
United States Senate.
McKinstry, Peoples Independent candidate
for Supreme Judge in California, has been
elected by about 8, 900 majority.
1t il now no longer a matter OF doubt that
Allen, the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Ohio, is elected by about GOO majority
The Republicans have elected the rest OF the
State Ticket. Carpenters majority for Gov
ernor of Iowa will be in the neighborhood OF
90 900.
Gen. Butler predicts that there will be a
dozen bills to repeal the salary act introduced
within ten minutes after Congress assemblies
The st. Louis Times says b. Gratz Brown as
pires to Carl Schurz' seat in the Senate.
General.
President Grant has issued his annual
proclamation, appointing Thursday, November
81, as day Of National Thanksgiving.
Only 40 of 105 youths, who were examined
for admission to the Naval Academy, were
qualified In juno last A out of rs quail
| fed.
Senator Sumner, yielding to the advice of
his friends has renowned the lecture-field for
the present season.
Washington dispatch says: 1t is reported
that costly goods are being reshipped to Eu-
rope because there is no market for them in
fbia pt,v Of Sillxa eating yalvatg
laces, and ribbons are chief among these re-
shipments. No loss to the country in import
duties is occasioned, but owners lose heavily
in the cost of freight, insurance and handling.
The great storm of the Oath and 25th of
August, on the New Brunswick coast, was one
OF the most terrific and destructive cyclones
of which history furnishes any record. A
report Of the damage done by the gale has
been prepared and published by the Signal
Office at Washington. About 1882 vessels, of
which 425 were small fishing schooners, are
known to have been destroyed in the
neighborhood Of the Gulf of st. Lawrence
and the Atlantic shores of Nova Scotia, Cape
Breton, and Newfoundland. In addition to
this large number, over 80 vessels were de-
stroyed by the same storm in it's course be-
fore reaching Nova Scotia making total of
1, 1922 vessels destroyed within a few days.
Some 223 lives are definitely reported lost and
the most moderate estimate of numerous
cases in which whole crews are stated to have
been lost swells the number tc nearly 500
while if to this be added the loss Of life on
land and in the earlier history of the cyclone,
the grand total amounts to at least 600 lives.
Records also show that about 900 buildings
were injured or totally destroyed by the
storm.
Louis Riel, the Mantoban rebel has been
elected to the Canadian Parliament by accla-
nation, and has left for Ottawa, although he
is under indictment in Manitoba, jointly with
Lepine, one of his staff, during the rebellion,
for the murder OF Scott.
George Francis Train has again sailed for
Europe. He makes the gratifying announce
ment that he will never return to America
national convention of Fire Marshal- has
been in session in Baltimore during the past
week, discussing the various modes Of fighting
the fiery fiend.
The engineers designated by the War De-
partment to examine the bridge across the
Mississippi river at st. Louis have decided
that the bridge is a very serious obstruction to
navigation. AS the plan cannot now be
changed without enormous cost, it is proposed
to obviate the difficulty by cutting canal be-
hind the eastern abutment 125 feet wide and
800 feet long, with draw of the same width.
Recent fires Morgan Bros lumber mill,
at Oshkosh Wis; loss, S48, 900; insurance,
eli 600. . AT Topeka, Kansas; the Offices of
the Commonwealth, Kansas Evangelical and
Kansas Monitor newspapers burned with
other establishments loss, 800, 600; insured
for $50, 600. e. Colt & Posts planing-mill
Oswego, n. Y. loss, 100000; insurance,
S17, 900.
1t has been frequently decided by the State
courts that railroad company sustains the
same responsibility toward a passenger who
rides on pass as toward one who pays his
fare. The doctrine is now corroborated by the
Supreme Court of the United States which
has just given a decision affirming judgment
by the United States District Court for the
District of New York, in suit against the
Central railroad for damages suffered by
drover, who was travelling on dead-head
ticket