The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-08-14

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Col. Richard Ten Brooke, the well-knowr
herse-owner was shot and reported seriously
wounded at Gilman's Station, KY. recently
by Walter Whitaker, a lawyer of Louisville.
Washington.
The Attorney General has received and ac-
cepted the designations OF j. Newton Temple,
the District Attorney for the Western District
Of Arkansas, and John A. Minis, the District
Attorney for the Northern District of Ala
bama.
The managers of the Freedmen's Bank are
II trouble. The returns from the various
branches come in but slowly, and the deposit
ors object to the funds being removed to
Washington, for fear they may be misappro-
priated.
Gen. o. o. Howard was banqueted by the
Young Mems Christian Association here on
the 4th inst, previous to his departure for his
new command on the Pacific coast.
Tom Scott, the railroad king, has come to
| the rescue Of the Postofiice Department in its
existing troubles with the Philadelphia and
Wilmington railroad, which refuses to carry
the mails from here to New York city without
additional compensation. Scott takes the
mails over his lines at the present rates, the
route being only ~ miles longer.
Gen. ID. D. Smith. of New York, who for the
past two years has held the position of Super
vising Inspector of Steamships, was on the
9Th inst. removed, by order Of Secretary
Bristow.
Cadet Smith (colord) is out in another two
column card in Fred Douglass paper detailing
the indignities heaped upon him by other
officers and cadets of West Point.
The proceedings of the Episcopal Conven-
ton in session near this city, were disturbed
on the 9th inst, by an old colored man, age
SO, and a colored woman, aged 10S years, who
had walked long distance to reach them to
get married, but did not have their desire
gratified because they had no license.
The expenditures of the Government for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1874, were S2S7,-
1885, 73. against 1920, 345, 255 in 1873, and
about 1862, 900 in 1872.
The limit to the appropriation for the new
Cincinnati Custom House is $500, 900.
Attorney-General Williams has decided
that where railway company or other cor
poration fails to comply with the law in build
ing the same within a specified time, the
grant, or SO much Of the land at remains I'M
sold, reverts back TO the Government.
Gen. o. o. Howard has left for Oregon to
take command Of the department until re-
Gently under command of Gen. Davis.
The President has directed the land Office
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sas to be located at Hayes City, and that of
the Arkansas Valley district at Larned.
The friends Of the Civil Rights bill, white
as we'll as black, are apprehensive, since the
election Of the past week, for the success Of
that measure.
The amount of national bank notes out
standing begins to show great increase, the
books showing now in circulation $3.50, 600, 600,
while only short time ago 534S, 900, 900 were
the figures.
The Department of Justice has received
long accounts of what purport to be Ku-Klux
outrages in Texas
Heretofore the Board of School Trustees for
white children and the Board of Trustees for
colored children have been separate; but on
| the 9Th inst, the Commissioners governing
the District of Columbia consolidated them
into one board, consisting of 10 white and 5
colored members.
The Secretary of the Treasury is preparing
a formal demand on the several Pacific rail-
roads embraced in the act of last June, re-
quiring the payment of per cent. of the net
earnings of the companies to the Govern
ment imposed by the act of July l, 1882.
Political.
The Democrats of the Ninth Indiana Con-
gressional District met at Crawfordsvile on
the Attn inst, and nominated Hon. Lander
Meeting for Congress. In the Fifth Indiana
District w. S. Holman was nominated by ac-
clsmation.
There is every prospect that Elder Cannon
will be returned as the delegate from Utah to
the Forty-fourth Congress. The last Con-
gress refused to expel Cannon for his polyga-
nous practices.
The Republicans of the Third Indiana Dis
trict met in Convention at North Vernon on
the 9Th, and nominated A w. Robinson for
Congress.
Milton S. Robinson was nominated by the
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ional District on the 5th inst.
The contest for the Republican nomination
in the Seventh Iowa Congressional District
was settled on the 9Th inst, by the nomination
of Kasson, present incumbent.
G. t. Granger received the Republican NOM
ination for Congress from the Republicans OF
the Third Iowa District.
The Independent Reform State Convention
of.Kansas met at Topeka on the 9Th INST, and
nominated Hon. Wilson Shannon for Gov
ernor.
A manifesto has been issued by the Execu-
tive Committee of the Wisconsin State Grange
warning Changers that an effort will be made
at the next session Of the Legislature to re-
peal the Railroad law and all reforms passed
by the Legislature in the interest of farmers.
The Louisiana Republican State Conven-
ton met at New Orleans on the 5th inst.
David Young, colored, was elected President
pro tenn.
Recent Congressional nominations: The
Prohibitionists Of the Eighth Illinois District
met in convention at Lincoln, and nominated
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