The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-12-18

clined the election to the Episcopate OF Iowa,
and the Office has been rendered to the Rev.
W. r. Huntington of Worcester, Mass.
DIR. James v. Y. Blaney, Professor of An
alytical Chemistry in Rush Medical College,
Chicago, and one OF the most eminent physi-
clans and chemists in the West, is dead.
A shocking story comes from st. Paul. A
Sunday school teacher of that city has been
arrested for the seduction of number of his
pupils, mere children! The wretch has made
a confession, in which he admits having de-
bauched six little girls ranging from 8 to 10
years of age.
A Mr.. ]. W. Bense Of Minnesota, has
lately arrived at Sioux City from the Black
Hills. He confirms the previous reports that
mining parties were at work in the Hills, and
says that they are getting out gold in paying
quantities.
The smallpox is almost epidemic inst.
Louis, and the report of the Board Of Health
shows thirty-one deaths from this disease in
one week.
Three indictments against W. f. Storey, Of
the Chicago Times, for libel have been re-
turned by the Grand Jury Of Cook county,
Illinois.
The South.
There is dead lock in the business of the
New Orleans City Attorneys Office, through a
conflict of opinion between the City Council
and Gov. Kellogg as to whether Walshe or
Jonas is entitled to the office. The city au-
thorities will not allow Walshe to exercise the
duties, and the courts will not recognize
Jonas 30 it makes a nice muddle.
A bold ana daring robbery is reported
from Corinth, Miss. Four mounted men
rode up to the Tishomingo Savings Bank in
broad daylight. Two Of them entered the
building and compelled the President Of the
bank to surrender the keys of the safe, from
which they took about $4,000 in currency
and diamonds, mounted their horses and es-
capped in safety.
Dispatches received in Washington from
Louisiana foreshadow trouble and proba-
bly, bloodshed in that State. II is intimated
that il the Returning Board counts in a Kel
logg Legislature the most disastrous results
may be anticipated.
Col. Samuel b. Thomas one OF the richest
men in Kentucky, died in Louisville last week.
The grand jury at Frankfort, KY, has
found an indictment against Thomas S. Jones,
the present Clerk of the Court of Appeals,
charging him with usurping Office estab-
lished by the Constitution by being ineligible,
from the fact that he accepted a challeng to
fight duel.
} In an interview with Representative Sheldon
recently, the President said, in talking OF
Louisiana affairs, that he did not deem it adj
visable to take any further precautionary steps
to pro cent an outbreak against Kellogg, but
that if violence was again attempted he would
resort to exreme measures and subject the
ringleaders to severe punishment.
Alarge number of citizens Of Vicksburg have
issued an address giving a statement of the
troubles there. They charge vast amount OF
official corruption, and accuse Gov. Ames OF
, being chiefly instrumental in fomenting the
strife.
, The Congressional committee appointed tc
investigate affairs in Arkansas will it il
thought, report against the claims of botl
Baxter and Garland. This will involve the
/ overthrow Of the existing constitution ant
the restoration to power of Joseph Brooks.
The cotton crop Of 1874 as estimated by
t the cotton-growers in their returns to the
: Department of Agriculture, somewhat ex
ceeds $500, 900 bales. The yield per acre il
reported less than in 1873. In most of the
States the weather for ripening and gather
ing the top crop has been very favorable
= Reports are nearly unanimous in stating
] that the proportion Of lint to seeds is large.
A little school rumpus has been created il
: New Orleans by the introduction Of half
0 dozen colored girls as pupils into one OF til,
Q female high schools, Over fifty of tn,
{ graduating class withdrew upon the entranc,
e OF the negroes.
Washington.
Secretary Fish has received an importan
: dispatch from Minister Gushing, at Madrid
4 announcing that he had received an officia
communication from the Minister Of Foreign
Affairs, in which indemnfcation for thu
: American citizens captured on the virginiu
was virtually conceded.