The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-09-11

ii. W. Header, for Lieutenant Governor.
The platform deprecates any further contrac-
ton of the national currency as detrimental
to the producing classes.
Judge Peck has been elected Governor of
Vermont by the customary Republican ma
jority.
The Nebraska Republican State Convention
was held at Omaha on the Sd inst. j. @. Nc
Bride was nominated for Treasurer, George
III. Roberts for Attorney General, and Patrick
O'Howes for Contingent Congressman. The
platform adopted declares in favor OF free
banking; counsels economy and reform in all
departments OF the public service, and a re-
ducton of the public debt as rapidly rs may
be without imposing burdens on the industries
Of the country; demands that railways be sub
servient to public good, and proclaims de-
termination to resist by lawful means all ex-
orbitant tolls; favors eaually-imposed taxa
ton, and demands that State and national
legislation compel the railroads to pay
in the same proportion as individuals:
recognizes the power Of the General
Government to regulate commerce be-
tween the States; recommends the establish
ment OF double-track railway between the
East and West: favors an amendment to the
! Constitution providing for the election eff
President by direct votes opposes third
Presidential term; declares the Quaker In
dian policy failure; and approves the
Civil Rights bill.
Alexander II. Stephens mas been renomi-
mated for reelection to Congress from Geor-
| gia.
Judge Poland has been defeated for Con-
gress n he Second Vermont District. The
vote is as follows, in all but ten precincts
Poland, 1926; Denison, 6,4sG; Mead, 547 !;
Davenport and scattering, 2,126; Denison
over Poland, 1,l91. Hence there is no choice
in the district, majority being required in
order to an election at the first trial. At the
next trial plurality will elect.
George +. Hoar, Of the Worcester (Mass.)
district, announces his Willingness to become
candidate for Congress.
The Democratic ticket has been elected in
Wyoming Territory. Steele has been re-
elected Delegate to Congress by from 500 to
600 majority.
A convention of Southern Republicans has
been called to meet at Atlanta, Ga, Oh the
18th of October, for the purpose, as stated
in the call. of setting forth to the nation the
true condition of the South"
General.
The Washington papers announce the dis
covery of gold in ledge of rock in Mont
gomery county, Md, about twelve miles from
Washington. Tho ledge is about six feet
thick and OF considerable extent.
Gn1I Mot troE
ting against time, beat her own previous rec
ord, and made her mile in the extraordinarily
fast time of 2:14.
Rev. Thomas A. Morris, the senior Bishop
of the Methodist Church North, died at his
residence in Springfield, Ohio, Sept. 2, aged
so years.
AT Harrisburg, Pa, last week, in the test
case brought by the Sunday League, Judge
Pierson decided that a transgressor Of Sunday
laws can be fined for each and every sale of
cigars or merchandise on Sunday.
The French barque Coromandel of Bor-
deaux, went ashore at Bagdad, Mexico. in a
gale, last week, and became a total wreck,
breaking up in less than two hours. The
captain, first mate, and three seamen were
rescued. Eleven of the crew are supposed to
have persisted.
San Antonio, Tex, has been made Cath
Ollie diocese with Vicar General Pellcer Of
Mobile, as its first Bishop diocese has
also been organized in the Rio Grande dis
trict headquarters at Brownsville, and Rev.
D. Nancy, Of Mobile, Bishop.
Foreign.
Russia has sent special agents to the Re
publican and Carlist general headquarters to
report on the military positions Of the con-
tending parties.
The Carlst Gems Tristany and Mora were
defeated by the Republicans near 10 de Urgel
on the Goth ult losing four hundred killed
ahd wounded.
The eruption from Mount Etna shows no
signs of abatement.
All Germany celebrated, with great en-
thusiasm the anniversary Of the battle of
Sedan Sept. 2.
The Marquis OF Ripon has resigned the
position Of Grand Master of the Free Masons
in England, and will be succeeded ad interim
by the Prince of Wales.
The civil guards over Bazaine. who were ar
rested at Ste. Marguerite on charge OF con-
niving at his escape, have been released.
The sale Of ten Bonapartist journals, all
published in the provinces, has been prohib-
tied by order Of the Minister Of the Interior.
Frederick Dockray, the American prisoner
in Cuba, has been sent TO Spain. He had
served for time in the chain gang.
BY the explosion Of the coal mine at Dour,
Belgium, recently seven lives were lost. Five
miners were rescued, badly injured.
There has been another Cabinet crisis in
SPAIN the Zaballa Ministry having resigned
in body. Sagasta Immediately formed
now Cabinet.
The Carists have abandoned the siege Of
Puycerda.
We have alvices from Yokohama, Japan, to
the 18th OF August. Negotiations between
China and Japan for the settlement of the
Formosa trouble were still in progress. but
fears were entertained that war between the
two powers would grow out Of the affair
Minister Bingham had demanded Of Japan the
indemnity claimed by our Government on ac-
count Of the Simonozh affair, and the
amount has been deposited to his credit.
Bazane has gone TO England.