The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-09-12

Cruelty to Animals is the latest Chicago il
stitution.
The Fulton Elevator, in Chicago, was
burned last week. Loss, 100000.
The amount of the defalcation Of Col.
Harper, Collector of Internal Revenue for the
Eighth District of Illinois, is now fixed at
sllO,0
Half a million cattle were driven from
Texas into Kansas during the past season.
The st. Louis Democrat prints dispatch
from Sedalia, Mo-, which says: 1.-The Iowa
railroad-train robbers who have been Hitting
about in some OF the western counties OF this
State, are all together again except Mccoy,
and the detectives have information that ALI
other bank robbery is being planned by them,
and it will be carried out AZ soon AZ Mccoy
joins the gang All the banks in that part of
the State are being closely watched by special
officers, and efforts are constantly being made
to capture these desperadoes.
Cloud the Philadelphia oarsman, bound
for New Orleans, passed Cairo on tho
| Sth inst, having been out Sc days. He is
confident of winning the $4,000. He is as
hardy as pine-knot and ~ brown as a South
American. The skin on the back of his hands
is almost as tough as leather.
John Irving, of San Francisco, the self-ac-
cused murderer of Benjamin Nathan, of New
York, insists on the truth of his story and is
very indignant at the press and the public for
net crediting his statements.
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Northern and Central Illinois on the night Of
Sept. T.
The South.
Mexican cattle-thieves have recommended
operations on the Texas border.
Hon. David Ringo, one of the oldest citi-
zens of Arkansas, and the first Chief Justice
of the State, died recently at Little RCok,
aged rs.
Sixteen illicit whisky mills were recently
seized and destroyed in the Seventh Revenue
District of North Carolina.
Three negro children were last week burned
to death in cabin in Fayette county, Tenn.
Australian Kelley, the once noted prize
fighter, died recently, at Fulton, Ark
Christian Raselius, prominent citizen and
eminent jurist Of Louisiana is dead.
Washington.
Treasurer Spinner doubts whether covering
back pay into the Treasury, as repentant
members arc doing, places it legally beyond
their reach. The money is theirs by law, and,
as the transfer to the United States is with
out consideration, it is question whether any
legal defense could be made to the suit OF an
hair Of la. For g.
A Washington dispatch says the Manitoba
question will be brought before a British
tribunal in few days. Minister Thornton
says the British Government is firm in its con-
viction that the action of its officials was
strictly in accordance with law, and expresses
his conviction that the decision Of the court
will be adverse to the parties now in custody.
The court will be held at Fort Garry or VIM
nipeg. Meanwhile, the proposition to release
the American prisoners on bail is rejected.
1t is stated that the Secretary OF the Treas
ury il maturing plan by which banks may DO
detected and punished for aiding gold con-
sprators.
The Postmaster General states that the
revenue of his department has largely in
creased since the abolition of tho franklng
privilege, and thinks that it Will be ser-sus-
tanning at the close of the year
The Postof1ice Department has great trouble
with the contractors who supply the postal
cards. They have utterly failed to comply
with the conditions of their contract, and
furnish cards below tho standard
The contract calls for paper that costs the
makers % cents pound, but they furnish
paper that really costs them but Is cents a
pound. 1t is said the mill owners and con-
tractors are in collision in the fraud
1t is stated that the attempt will be renewed
in the next Congress to repeal the Bankrupt |
act, or to obtain such amendment to the same |
as shall render its operations moro favorable |
to commercial interests.
There is considerable talk in some of the
departments Of asking Congress to amend the
law passed last session abolshing the frank
ing privilege, so that letters on public bust
ness, addressed to Government officials NAV
go through the mails without prepayment Of
postage.
A Washington dispatch says "The police
are looking for the persons who mutilated the
body of Beau Hickman. When the under
taker went to the potter's-feld to remove the
body to the Congressional burial-grounds, he
found the legs disjointed at the hips the head
severed from the trunk and skinned, the
fiscera taken out and removed, with the eI-
'eption of the heart, which was found in the
pushes near by wrapped in n newspaper
What could be gathered was inferred in the
cemetery"
The Attorney-General most emphatically
ienies the published statement that the Gov
has determined to abandon the prose-
ution Of the Credit Mobilier suits.
The Supervising Inspector Of Steamboats,
las hit upon plan for more effectually
ringing to grief such owners OF steam vessels
Il fail to conform to the law for the protec-
ion of human life. The plan is, without pre-
ious notification or warning, to send special
gents Of the Bureau into the regular Inspec-
ion Districts 30 that not only the steamboat
ompanies shall be taken by surprise, but the
inspectors also.
Quartermaster General Meigs opened ,
ids last week for furnishing tombstones for
ne national cemeteries. There was a large at
enhance of bidders from different parts of the 1
ountry and the bids ranged from $500, 900 to
1 600, 600.
The secret agents sent abroad by the Treas