The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-19
PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tho East

but the principle at issue was an important
one. The plaintiffs sent the following dis
patch to one of their statesmen travelling in
the South Atlantic =, twelve ID, twelve one
half off trade" In the course Of transmits
sion the ID was changed to A, and in conse-
quence, the salesman disposed of goods at
144 cents yard which were cents higher at
the time, involving loss to the firm of $500.
On the trial, the telegraph company set up
ar a defense that the dispatch, being i'm cy-
pher, should have been repeated, under the
conditions on the companys blanks, and that
the salesman himself was negligent in selling
at a price lower than had been known for
years. Notwithstanding the defense, the YER
dict was given against the telegraph company.
The West.
Gov. Carpenter, having been applied to by
the Iowa Changers as to his action relative to
the Railroad Tariff law, replies Should the
railroads attempt to overthrow it by appealing
to the courts, l shall not hesitate in the duty
which will then be upon me, to see to it that
all the authority possessed by the Executive
is invoked to secure its enforcement In the
performance of this duty, the law associates
with me the other members of the Executive
Council, each of whom is entirely in sympathy
with me in respect to the line Of our duty i'll
the case of resistance by the railroad COM
panies."
The places of the union miners at Nelson
vile, Ohio, who have been on strike for sew
eral weeks, are being supplied with negroes
from the South Several hundred arrived last
week. and more are engaged.
The police of Salt Lake City the other day
arrested a soldier and confined him in Jail.
Gen. Morrow demanded his surrender, which
being refused, he proceeded to break open
the Jail and release the man.
A dispatch from Dubuque, Iowa, says:
In ten or a dozen counties west Of Hum
boldt. and up the west branch of the Des
Moines river, the country is full Of locusts.
They have already eaten the growing crops on
the ground and left the fields as barren as
board Many of the homesteaders in despair
of a crop, have packed up and are moving out
of the country
The troubles in the Hooking Valley (Ohio)
mines wore serious aspect on the 18th.
dispatch of that date says lover 300 negroes
were brought here yesterday morning and
quartered at Longstreth's mines. During the
day the strikers have succeeded in persuadlng
about fifty negroes to desert and come over
to them, telling them they would furnish
money and send them home, and the negroes
believed all this and in the public square to-
night, where the union is holding a meeting,
several negroes have made speeches, telling
the miners to hold out if they have to wade
through blood to secure their rights"
The new Chicago City Directory, just is-
sued. contains 151, 91S names, an increase of
1855 over that of 1873. Making an estimate
of the entire population with the ratio three
and one-half, which has always been consid-
cred fair and just, and by which the popula-
ton Of Chicago has been arrived at during
the past five years, the result gives a grand
total Of 531, 70s souls in the city of Chicago.
The striking disturbances at Jacksonville,
Ohio, are ended, and the colored miners are
busily at work.
A strange freak of nature of the Siamese
twins order was brought to light in Chicago, a
few days ago. A young woman, who had
been married a little over a year, gave birth to
a singular malformaton being two girls of
the natural size and perfectly formed but
closely united, or rather grown together, from
the breast bone to the lower part of the abdo
men. The bodies were dead.
Des Moines, iowa, is excited over brutal
and mysterious murder. The victim was
man named Johnson a coat-maker, aged 80
years, who was found dead one morning. lying
in gutter face downward. Near the body
was found an envelope containing a piece of
paper on which was written: This is the
twenty-seventh man we have killed and we
will never be taken alive"
A San Francisco dispatch announces the
death in Arizona, on the 9th of June, of
Cochise, the famous Apache Indian Chief
The Chicago City Council has agreed to
sell the Lake Front property, about which
there has been good deal Of contention for
some time past
The Sioux Indians have at last commenced |
open hostlities. A dispatch from Bismarck,
D. T., dated June Is, says " -Four hundred
Sioux attacked Fort Berthold Indian Agency, |
Saturday, but were repulsed. Four Agency |
Indians were killed. Reinforcements were
sent at once from Fort Stevenson, and no
further danger is anticipated
Gen. Custer telegraphs from Fort Lincoln,
under date of June 16, that small party of
Sioux appeared on the river bank opposite |
Fort Berthold Agency the day before at
O'Clock a. m. and commenced firing into the |
village The Indians from the Agency at
once crossed the river and were met by about |
400 Sioux. A short fight took place, in which |
five Reese and one Gros Yentres were killed,
and one Mandan MORALLY wounded.
The notorious Younger brothers were re-
Gently seen and recognized at Malta Bend in
Missouri.
SIX union printers have been arrested at
Burlington, Iowa, and held in bonds of 5000
each, on charge of libel, for publishing as
rats - certain printers who do not belong to
the union.
Tho South.
The Southern Cotton Exchange has just had
an interesting and profitable two days session
at Atlanta, Ga. The convention effected
permanent organization of a National Cotton
Al.