The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-10-09
the Anchor, is being organized in Chicago.
The capital is to be 81, COG, 900.

their business from Chicago on the lst inst.
This includes all the Hartford companies, with
one exception. The city, however, is not left
altogether without insurance. There are
forty companies not in the National Board,
which will continue to take risks there. The
Chicago papers take cheerful view of tho
situation, and express the belief that no dis
turbance of trade will follow the withdrawal
Of the Board companies.
A considerable portion of the town OF
Chico, Col, WAS destroyed by fire, recently,
resulting in loss OF over $50, 900. Forty
five valuable horses were burned in the sta
bles of Shearer K Evans.
A well-known frontiersman writes letter
to the Omaha Herald in which he stoutly
maintains that there ia an abundance of gold
in the Black Hills. He concludes by stating
that it would be madness for parties to at
tempt to go to the new Eldorado this fall or
winter, on account Of the hostile Indians.
The venerable Judge Andrew G.. Miller died
suddenly, in milwaukee,, last week, having
just completed his seventy-third year. He
was born in Carlisle, Pa, in 1901, and received
the appointment of United States District
Judge Of Wisconsin in 1S45 On the 1st of
January last, under the law lately passed. he
retired from active service.
All the railroad companies operating lines
in Wisconsin are now complying with the Pot
ter law.
The great land case of B. f. Allen et al. Us.
The Sioux City Railroad Company and the
County Of Cerro Gordo, Iowa. has been de-
cided in favor Of the plaintiffs. 1t involved
the title to 80, 600 acres Of land, and has been
in the courts number Of years.
George NJ Baker Of Peoria, has brought
suit for damages against the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy Railroad Company he hay
ing been roughly handled by Of some the COM
pany's employees while endeavoring to board
a train without owing his ticket. The rail-
road company some time since adopted rule
to compel passengers to show their tickets
before getting on trains. This regulation was
for the purpose Of heading off certain parties
who we're in the habit of rendering money,
and thus testing the right Of the company to
charge more than the legal tariff. Mr.. Baker
had his ticket in his pocket at the time, and
on his refusal to exhibit it, was elected from
the platform, the train going on without him.
-. News was received lately from Sheridan
Station on the Kansas Pacific, that a family
had been massacred by Indians on the old
Smoky Hill trail. A party of men sent out
to investigate found the bodies Of three men
and one woman, all scalped. Nothing was
found to identify the murdered people except
family Bible with the following inscription
on the fly leaf German, Blue Ridge, Ga. "
49,. A dispatch from Silver City, Nevada, con-
veys tn. particulars Of a terrible tragedy at
that place. Two parties Of miners disputed
about the possession Of mine. fight en-
sued, in which five men were killed. all repre-
scented as most desperate characters.
The South
The following is the agreement Of the two
parties in Louisiana by which it is hoped to
secure fair election in that State:
1.-THE undersigned announce the following
as the result of the conference between the
committees of the two political parties Of the
State of Louisiana. The committee represent
ing the Conservative Peoples party pledge
themselves to cause all violence and intimi-
dalton, if any exists, to cease throughout the
State, and to assist the constituted authorities
in maintaining peace, and insuring strictly
fair and impartial registration and election ;
also to discountenance acts and threats Of per-
sonal violence and all improper Influences to
control the will of the elector, and to render
assistance and use every effort to subject to
the penalty Of the law all persons who may
commit acts Of violence, or intimidation, or
conspire to do the same.
In order to guarantee fair registration
and election there is hereby constituted and
established an Advisory Committee composed
of five members, namely Messrs. Albert
Voorhees, and L. S. Burke, selected by the
representatives Of the Conservative Peoples
party, and Messrs. S. b. Packard and b. j.
Joubert selected by the representatives Of
the Republican party and an umpire, namely:
DIR. M. F. Bopzano, who has been jointly
selected. This Advisory Committee is to
supervise and carry on the registration
throughout the State on behalf of all parties
to the full extent Of suggesting changes
in the registration officers and the
manner Of conducting and carrying on
the registration, Gov. Kellogg, in the in
terest of fair and impartial registration, of
his own accord, pledging himself to act upon
the advice and suggestions Of the advisory
committee, so long as such advice and sug-
gestions are in consonance with and permit
ted by the existing laws Of the State.
90 Third, 1t is agreed that two persons shall
be named by the representatives Of the Con-
servative Peoples party who shall be elected
according to law, to fill two vacancies which
shall be created by resignation in the return
ing board within twenty days.
(Signed) d. f. KEENER,
"For the Conservative Committee of Con-
ference.
(Signed) "a. A. ATocHA,
"For the Republican Committee OF Confer
ence."
Gov. Kellogg has issued an address to the
people Of the United States reviewing the
political and financial condition of Louisiana
since the war, and defending the course of
his administration.
A Washington dispatch Of the Goth ult
says "Four companies Of cavalry were to-
day ordered to Western Alabama, on account
Of the disturbed condition OF that section"
George +. Long. who was shot at Tuscun-