The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-03-06

allow the women recently elected to take part
in it's sessions, notwithstanding the decision
Of the Supreme Court of the State that they
are as much entitled to seats on the Board as
males.
The West.
Dispatches from Cheyenne report that the
military preparations continue. Gen. Sheri-
dan has returned to Chicago, but Gen. For
syth will remain and accompany the expedition
against the Indians.
A fire destroying property to the amount Of
$500 occurred in South Bend, Ind, on the
Goth ult The Singer Sewing Machine Com
pany is the principal loser.
A dispatch from Saginaw Bay announces the
glad tidings that all the fishermen adrift on
the ice have safely reached the shore.
Cincinnati is enjoying little Tammany sem
saton of its own. 1t has been discovered that
Hon. William S. Groesbeck and Mr.. Burnett
gave each s12 800 to an Alderman to influence
the passage of the bill through the Council
authorizing the purchase by the city Of Bur-
nett Woods Park, owned jointly by the two
gentlemen named. The evidence was too
palpable to admit of denial, and Graesbeck
and Burnett both plead guilty but hold that
they gave the money with the understanding
that it was not to be used in an Improper
manner" Too thin.
Christopher Rafferty,, who murdered, Police
man O'Meara in Chicago, on the 5th of Au-
gust, 1872 suffered the extreme penalty of
the law at Waukegan, ILL.,, on Friday, the 9th
ult. Rafferty,, although poor laboring man,
rough character, and before the commission
of the crime for which he has suf-
fered an ignomnous death, apparently
almost friendless, had enlisted the sympathies
of q number offriends, who exerted almost SUI
peri;uman efforts and expended money with
out stint to save his neck from the halter. He
was thrice tried and thrice sentenced to death.
All attempts to secure a fourth trial
having failed, Gov. Beverage was besieged
by friends of the condemned criminal, armed
with petitions and letters, praying for com
mutation of the death sentence. They la
bored in vain. The Governor sternly refused
to interfere. being fully convinced that Raj
ferty deserved death for the awful crime
which he committed under such atrocious
circumstances.
The National Crop Reporter furnishes esti-
wheat crop, during the current crop year, in
the States Of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Kansas,
Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin,
according to which these States produced, in
1873 an approximate of 1853, 000, 900 bushels.
The average consumption is placed at 36l per
cent, or an equivalent of 81, 500 900 bushels.
Senator Chandler has sued the Detroit Free
Press for libel, claiming 500, 900 damages.
The alleged libel is in dispatch from Wash
ington charging Mr.. Chandler with drunken
ness and disgraceful conduct in the Senate.
Rev. r. NJ. Barnitz, President of the Amer
lean Bible Association, has sued the st. Louis
Democrat for libel, laying damages at $50, 900.
The Democrat charged that while guest at a
hotelin that city he permitted female boarder
to share his room with him.
number Of Chicago saloon-keepers adver-
tise their business by hiring women to visit
them, and pray and sing after the manner Of
the Ohio crusaders.
The annual report of the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy railroad has been published.
The gross earninns for the year 1873 were
S11, 5000; net earnings, 1870, 558; net
earnings over every liability, $500, Os2.5S, or
10 73-1OO per cent. on the capital stock. The
capital stock now amounts to S19, s97 900, and,
with that in the Burlington and Missouri
road, s26, 429, 562.75.
Elder Jacob Knapp, the well-known Baptist
pulpit orator and revivalist, died recently in
Rockford. ILL.,, aged "a.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. Morgan Bates, of Traverse
City, Mich, is dead. He was veteran jour
nalist and was foreman of the Neto Yorker,
edited by Horace Greeley, nearly forty years
ago.
Mr.. Royal Buck, of Red Willow, Eeb.
writes letter denying that he has been killed
by the Indians, as reported, and denouncing
the report Of Indian depredations in his SEQ
ton as base fabrications says no savages
have been seen or heard thereabouts for
months, and that all these scares are gotten
mp to turn emigration away.
Tho South.
bill has been introduced in the Mississippi
Legislature to regulate railroad fares, and
will, II passed, make reduction from 12i to
cents per mile.
Lieut. Turner, of the Tenth Cavalry, recent
ly encountered band Of hostile Indians on
the Double Fork OF the Brazos. in Texas, and
sent eleven OF them to the happy hunting
grounds.
The Galveston CTexas) census, just COM
pleted, shows population OF "a, $50. not in
Guiding the floating population,-an increase
of over 90, 600 in three years.
The Mississippi Supreme Court, in the case
of Dickinson us Brown, involving the ues-
ton of the legality of the marriage between
n white man and n negro woman has rendor.d
decision in favor of the colored heirs. A
large amount Of property was involved.
Washington.
The House Commerce Committee have pre-