The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-08-07

a close on the S1st of July The operators Of
the corner realized heavily, and their JOY
knows no bound, while the grief Of the suf-
ferers is almost intolerable.
Dr. EARL, for producing death by abortion
on Rosetta Jackson, of Chicago, was on July
80 awarded one year in the penitentiary.
A fire occurred at Muskegon Mich, on the
LIST inst. destroying about 100 business houses
and 200 residences. The loss will be from
5000, 600 to $500, 900, on which the total in
surance will not be over one-third.
A dispatch from Salem, Ind, of the 1st
inst. to the Cincinnati Times, reports that a
destructive fire broke out in that town, de-
stroying property valued at 100000.
A dispatch from st. Paul says The grass
hoppers have crossed the Minnesota into the
southern part of lie Sueur county, where they
are killing the corn by eating off the silk end
of the cob, and also taking leaves from fruit
and other trees.
A fire at Manchester Mich, on the night
of the Sd inst. destroyed Reynolds II Under
kircher's paper and grist mill Loss, $4,000
insured for S2S, 900.
Staaden and Anderson, the alleged Chicago
incendiaries, have been held to the Criminal
Court in heavy bail.
The South.
Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, has returned to
the capital, and seconds the request Of his
Lieutenant for troops to be sent to Vicks-
burg.
In the Arkansas Constitutional Convention,
July 30, an ordinance was offered, and referred
to the appropriate committee abolishing the
offices of Lieutenant Governor Superintend-
ent Of Public Instruction, Superintendent Of
Public Works, Commissioner of immigration
and State Lands, Superintendent of the Peni-
Tertiary, the Pulaski Chancery Court, Phil
lips Criminal Court, and the four Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court
A Shreveport (La.) dispatch, July 30, says
the white taxpayers of Natchitoches parish,
numbering 700, met in convention on the 9th,
and demanded the designations of the District
and Parish Judges, Tax Collectors and Parish
Attorney. The two Judges left the parish,
and have not been heard from, but the others
complied with the request. All quiet no
violence apprehended.
The Governor of Louisiana has signed
in the murder of Elisha Eastwood, in April
last. One Of the condemned is white man,
two are mulattoes and two negroes.
Allen Harris was stabbed and killed at a
political meeting in New Orleans on the LIST
inst.
Washington.
Secretary Bristow has succeeded in placing
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can agents OF the Rothschilds and j. and W
Segman e Co. These parties made an abso-
lutte subscription for 545, 000 900, coupled with
the option of taking the remainder Of the loan
at any time within six months. The loan is
taken at par to be paid in coin or 500 bonds,
the parties to receive one-quarter Of one per
cent. commission.
The EUening Star prints very thin story
relative to the existence of a race Of albinos
in New Mexico. somewhere south of Santa
Fe. The story has been told before, but so
little credence was attached to it that no one
ever thought to explore the region in search
Of the phenomenal creatures.
Secretary Bristow in his negotiation of the
new fve-per-cent. loan, has taken measures
to prevent the lapse of interest on the ex-
change of bonds, by which the syndicate has
heretofore reaped so large a profit.
Four hundred and seventy-fve thousand
five hundred dollars in national bank currency
was received at the Treasury on the Goth day
of July, for redemption, making the total re-
ceipts 80, 359,0 30.
The National Grange has compiled
statistics showing the strength of the
oranges in the various States. 1t is estimated
that the aggregate number of oranges is not
much less than 100000 On the LIST day Of
June, Iowa had the largest number, being,
1891; Indiana had 1868; Missouri 1929 !;
Kansas. 1921 Illinois, 1,4S1, and Kentucky
1.10l. The Cotton and Gulf States aloneIhad
i,065 oranges. There are now oranges in all
the States. and about 80 in the Canadas.
Despite the action of the Government in
refusing to send the military to Vcksburg,
tine executive powers of the State still persist
in the statement that the public peace is en-
dongered. Gov Ames, who has been away
from his post, has returned. and on the 30th
of July he telegraphed to President Grant,
reiterating, in the main, apprehensions set
forth in the kilograms and mail advices pre-
viously forwarded by Lieut. Gov. Davis.
Smith, the coored cadet, who was dismissed
from West Point on the ground of his alleged
deficiency in philosophy, prints three
column card in Fred Douglass paper, in which
he says he has been harshly dealt with.
Col. A. II. Colt, President of the Illinois
Republican Association in Washington, has
been appointed Chief Clerk of the Internal
Revenue Office.
A Washington dispatch of July 81 says
Supervising Architect Mullett announces that
he expects to have the south wing of the new
State Department ready for occupancy by the
LIST OF October.
Only about 500 men are now employed at
the Norfolk Navy Yard, but it is stated that
400 more will be put at work early next
month.
1t is announced that the Treasury Depart
ment has now for the first time in many years,
the proper number of clerks authorized by
law, and the salary-list is not one dollar in
excess Of appropriations.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
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