The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-11-13


sl45, 600 with the condition that the bid shall
be ratified by Congress.
The Episcopal General Convention which
has been in session at New York the past two
or three weeks, has finally adjourned without
date.
The Rt. Rev. DIR. Bacon, Roman Catholic
Bishop OF the Diocese of Portland Me-,
died at New York last week. He had just
arrived home from Europe, whether he had
been for the benefit of his health.
William II. Wickham, the new Mayor elect
of New York city, is Sachem OF Tammany,
has always been Democrat, is descendant
of the original Knickerbockers, and is forty
two years of age.
The principal buildings in Marcellus Falls,
Onondaga county, N. Y, were burned recent
". The loss is $4,000.
A Philadelphia dispatch states that Rev.
J. w. Gerdemann, pastor of st. Boniface
German Oatholc) Church, has absconded, in
company with Miss Mary Wittig, the organist,
and $780, 900 of the church funds.
Joseph Rosenthsl, in a drunken quarrel
their residence in New York. killing her in
stantly. Tue murderer was arrested.
One hundred and ninety-three deaths from
diphtheria occurred in New York city during
the last two weeks of October.
The West.
A number Of prominent sporting gentlemen
of Indiana are taking steps to organize per-
manent Horse Trotting Association, such as
the ones at Rochester and Buffalo. 1t is in
tended to embrace the entire State, the meet
ings to be held in Indianapolis, where there is
SPLENDID mle-track.
The Illinois tax levy for 1874 has been COM
pleted by the Governor and Auditor. The
total equalized value of all property in the
State being 81, 1914, 456, 451, they have ordered
a lew of IA, 100 cents in the $100 of property
for re Senue purposes, and 96-100 cents on
each 800 for school purposes. The revenue
authorized to be raised for 1874 is 81, 500, 0O0
and the school fund is 81, 900, 900.
The total receipts of the Indiana State
Treasury for the year ending Nov. were
$3,072, 1896; disbursements, 81, S29, 99l. 2s {;
present balance, s242, 2O37S.
The trial of George @. Harding, editor Of
the Indianapolis Herald, on the charge of as
sault and battery upon Sol Maurtz, whom he
attempted to shoot last summer for the Sc
duction of his daughter, came up recently.
On the recommendation Of the prosecuting
attorney, MOLE proseqoi was entered and the
defendant discharged. The prosecuting wit
ness was not present.
The house of Allen Mouser, at New Hol-
land, Ohio, was burned last week. and $50 900
in greenbacks in his desk were consumed
with it.
The widow Of Gen. John A. Rawlins, for
merly Secretary of War, died at San Fran
cisco hotel recently.
The livery stable of o. C. Parmly, at Peoria,
H., was burned last week, with nearly 100
horses. Loss $40, 008.
Indian Agent Hoag, in his annual report,
says that Satanic and Big Tree, not with
standing they were entitled to unconditional
release in accordance with promise Of the
government, have remained peaceable and
loyal. No evidence has reached him of hos
tility on their part. They have voluntarily
surrendered themselves to the military and
he recommends official clemency in their
case.
A Detroit dispatch announces that the jury
March stabbed Miss Pridgeon, the woman he
loved, to the heart, found him not guilty be-
cause Of insanity.
Gen. Sheridan, in his annual report, efers
to the Black Hills expedition as "a success
full reconnaissance :" beyond this he is ex-
ceedingly cautious. "Some gold" he says,
"was found near Harneys Peak, but as to it's
abundance there is at present no reliable in
formation"
Isaac F. Hoyt, who has been for many years
the Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue for
the Chicago District, was yesterday appointed
to succeed s. A. Irwin, deceased, az Collector.
His appointment is in conformity with the
civil-service rules. 1t follows close upon the
notable promotion of the Principal Exam
liner in the Patent Office to be Commits
sioner
Seventy-seven per cent. of the books taken
from the chicago Public Library are works of
fiction.
At Milwaukee, recently, an insane woman
named Steren killed her son, boy IS years
old, by breaking his skull with an axe, and
then committed suicide by jumping into a
cistern.
Tho South
Near Franklin, Tenn, in private quarters
on election day, John Edmondson was shot
and killed by a man named Brown, and John
Owens was killed by party named Fly.
A fire at jefferson, Texas, last week. con-
sumed the block occupied by J. G. Kalster d.
Co., Biger d Walker, and f, A. Joachim. The
loss is estimated atS6O, 900; insurance, $40 600.
The FIRE is supposed to have been caused by
an incendiary.
The saw-min and lumber adjoining Of
Lively & Co., at Newport. KY, was destroyed
by fire last week. The loss is $50 600 insured
for $4,000 in Newport and Wheeling (W. Va. }
companies.
serious riot occurred at the polls, during
the progress Of the election at Eufaula, Ala,
on the Sd inst, in which three negroes were
killed outright, and thirty or forty wounded,
ten or fifteen mortally. One white was NOR
tally, one seriously, and three slightly,
wounded. Five or six hundred shots we're
fired.
special dispatch from New Orleans to the
Chcago Inter- Ocean claims that the Assoc