The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-03

Mosby and Col. Hughes, Republican candi-
date for Governor of Virginia.
The Attorney General of Mississippi has de-
cided that no election for State officers in that
State can be held for two years. This will
put an end to the canvass which has already
begun, and which has been 80 far prosecuted
with great bitterness.
Revenue Collector Wediner, of the Second
| montgomery District of Alabama, is de-
faulter to the extent of $4,000.
The yellow fever il spreading in the rural
districts of the South.
The yellow fever is on the increase in Mem
phis There we're twenty-five deaths from the
disease on Thursday.
New Orleans dispatch says: "Dr. Burns
telegraphs as follows from Shreveport: We
arrived yesterday and held meeting of phvsi-
clans at night. The disease is yellow fever,
a true hom9gastric pestilence. Its origin is
| still obscure. and it's character malignant The
deaths are between so and GO per cent. About
400 deaths 30 far. More than half the popula-
ton have fed. Every one is working
bravely.'"
Montgomery Parker, farmer Of Fayette
county. KY, the other day quarreled with a
boy in his employ, discharged him, and then
followed and shot the lad down in the high
way, while begging for mercy. The miscreant
escaped.
Murfreesboro, Tenn, has just had $780,
900 blaze.
A fire recently burned two squares and ahalf
of buildings in Brennan, Texas.
The population of Shreveport. La, has been
fearfully thinned out by the yellow fever pes
thence. The town has been compelled,
through the Howard Association, to make an
appeal for aid The Times of the LIST inst, says:
We no longer have funerals. The hearses,
followed by one or two carriages dash through
the streets like section of artillery in bat
tie, seeking position. A few more are drummed
up the collins put into the hearse, and
driven rapidly to the cemetery This is the
case even with the most prominent citizens"
Washington.
Washington dispatch says: The Mixed
Commission on British and American claims,
sitting at Newport, r. L., made hnal awards
and concluded its business one day in advance
of the time fixed by the treaty. In brief, the
result of the inquiry is, that the United States
Government pays to the English sufferers by
our late war two per cent. of their claims
amounting to II, 929,S19 while American
claims against England are all disallowed.
The President has signed postal conven-
ton between the United States and the Gov
eminent of Newfoundland for the exchange of
postal cards, by the addition of one cent post
age.
Washington telegram says the President
has rendered the Office of Chief Justice to
Senator Conkling, and that the Senator will
accept.
President Grant asserts most positively that
he does not intend to make any change in the
Government Agency at London, adding that
the suspension of Clews & Co., which involv-
ed the suspension of the London house of
Clews, Habicht d Co., the result of UNI
avoidable misfortune and that no dishonora-
bic faint attaches to them on account of it.
The news since received that Clews Co.
will soon resume shows that the Presidents
confidence in the house has not been mis-
placed
Over S12,0OOO00 worth of bonds having
been purchased by the Treasury Department
since the commencement of the panic, the
annual saving Of interest to the Government
will be about $3.50, 900 in gold.
The September report of the Department of
Agriculture indicates that the yield of maize
will be somewhat lower than that of last year.
In response to an inquiry whether a person
who sells brandy peaches, brandy cherries,
ETC., is liable to a special tax as a liquor dealer,
the Commissioner of Internal Revenue replies
that unless said articles are bona tide sold as
such, and contain only the necessary quantity
Of brandy to preserve the fruit, the dealer
must pay special tax for selling brandy.
Two roughs who while partially drunk,
called out to President Grant in a rude and
Doisterous manner as he was riding to church
with his family last Sunday, were arrested and
fined So for disorderly conduct.
Foreign.
The deaths are announced of Sebastiano
Olazaga, the well-known Spanish statesman
Jean Chacornac, the eminent French astron-
omer; and James Clay, member of Parliament
Tor Hull, England.
Discussions in the ranks Of the Carlists in
Spain continue, and they are growing dis
leartened Money, artillery and ammunition
ire growing uncomfortably scarce.
A Paris telegram says: Members of the
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