The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-08-28


bed, and says as soon as he is able lac Will
prove his innocence. His statement however,
is not generally believed
A wonderful phenomenon has occurred In
Pulaski county, Ill. An acre of the earth's
surface. covered with forest trees and under
growth. near Cache river, has sunk ten feet
below the surrounding surface. 1t is not yet
known whether there were any visible signs OF
collision with any foreign body. The sides of
the break are clean cut and not ragged.
William Barlow, saloon-keeper, OF Naples,
ILL.,. was killed by g. p. Osborn last week, in
quarrel about pay for liquor ordered by the
latter The murderer escaped.
The Usage tribe OF Indians have declared
war on the Kansas, and depredations by them
have already been committed on the southern
border. Owing to the absence Of United
States troops in the Indian Territory, the
frontier settlements are exposed to great
danger. Gov. Osborne has applied for 2, 900
carbines and 100 900 cartridges.
The great Usage ceded-land case of Kansas
has been decided by the Circuit Court of the
United States at Davenport, Iowa. The land
in controversy was claimed by certain railroad
companies under grants from Congress. The
amount in dispute WAS about 1000, 600 acres,
and the disputed tract is 80 by 80 miles in
extent, embracing the counties Of Neosho and
Labette, and part of the counties of Bourbon,
Crawford, Allen, Wilson, and Montgomery, in
Kansas, and upon which, claiming adverse to
the railroad companies, are over thirty
thousand people. The court decid-
ed against the railroad companies,
holding that they have no title and
setting aside their patents issued by the In
terror Department. The Court de-
cides that when patent for
lands has been issued contrary to law, the
| United States may file bill in equity to
cancel it. 1t also decides that the lands in
question, having been reserved in treaty oc-
cupied by them at the date of the railroad
! grant Of public lands, were not public lands
of the United States within the meaning of
the granting clause, they were excepted out
of this grant by the words that the grant
served by the United States for any other use
or purpose.
part of the large manufacturing estab
lishment OF the Studebaker Brothers, at
South Bend, Ind. was destroyed by fire last
week. The damage is estimated at $500, 600.
Near Fort Brown, Wyoming Territory, a
! soldier named Green ran amuck last week,
and commenced an indiscriminate fire on five
comrades, killing one named Mahoney, and
severely wounding Ryan and another, name
unknown.
Tho South.
In a shooting ARRAY at Point Pleasant,
Tenn, Gen. Darnell was killed by Capt.
Albert Hail. and Capt. Cole and two brothers
named Coe were seriously wounded. Tho
shooting resulted from rivalry between Capts.
Hall and Cole who ran competing ferry
! boats.
Much excitement prevails in Edgefeld
county, S. c.. and war Of races is imminent.
In that event the whites of Georgia will in
terfere in behalf of their friends. Arms and
ammunition are being shipped from Augusta.
A New Orleans dispatch states that the re-
! ported duel in st. James Parish La. between
DR.. Charles Gray and Deputy Sheriff Rich
ards is confirmed. They fought with re-
volvers at distance of fifteen PAGES. Both
fell at the third fire and expired in few min
utes.
Great excitement prevails at the South,
owing to fear of trouble between whites and
blacks. In Chicot county Ark, &hite boy
was killed by negro, who was shot while en-
deavoring to conceal himself in the woods.
His body was found some days afterward by
negroes who threaten to kill six whites in re-
venge. Both parties were arming, and women
and children were leaving for safety. George
town, S. c., is still crowded with colored
militia, who are guarding the jail. A COM
pany had been summoned by Gov. Moses
from Charleston, but only twelve men re
sponded. At Augusta, the negroes are plead
ing for peace, and giving up their arms The
whites are still organizing, but do not intend
to provoke conflict, acting only on the de-
! fensive.
A gang Of tobacco-stamp counterfeiters are
iLtrenched in the mountains of South Caro-
! lima, and the Government is taking steps to
make a raid on their stronghold.
Three negroes who entered the house of Mrs.
Burnley and outraged her person, at Brook
haven, Miss, were taken from the Jail and
hung by the citizens about one thousand of
whom were present. They confessed their
guilt.
Anderson Perry, John Ross, Antoine Maur-
ice, James Williams, and James Robertson,
associates in the murder of Elisha Eastwood,
an old flat-boatman, on the 25th of April last,
were hung on the 21st of August, at Napoleon,
Assumption Parish, La.
A committee of the Shreveport DAD Board
OF Trade have arrived at New Orleans, to con-
fer with Maj. Howels, U. S. Engineer Corps,
upon the improvement of the Red river.
Washington.
Washington dispatch states that the At
torney-General is in daily receipt Of letters
from the Southern States complaining of the
unsettled condition of affairs in Arkansas,
Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and
South Carolina. The negroes, on one side,
complain Of their treatment by the whites.
The whites, on the other hand are dssatis-
fed with the conduct OF the negroes and Say
that they are completely organized through
out the South, and are liable to break out in
armed oppression to the whites at any hour
Both whites and blacks appeal to the Presi-
dent i'm tho most earnest terms for protection