The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

Congress, from Maine and elected 10 the next,
is dead.
Senator VIM. A. Buckingham, of Connecticut,
died at Norwich on the 4th inst. aged II.
1t ia reported from New York that one of the
jurors in the Hton-Beecher trial will soon pre-
sent physicians certificate to the effect that
the jurors lungs will no longer bear the atmos-
phere of the crowded courtroom, and that
death will certainly ensue upon further expos
ure. His forced withdrawal would of course,
permanently end the present proceedings.
An accident occurred near Norwood Station,
on the Hempstead branch of the Southern road,
caused by the washing away of part of the
track by tho heavy rains. Danger being re-
ported from that point, the conductor ordered
the train to be run over that part of the line
before the arrival of the o'clock express from
New York The train passed safely over, but
on the return the whole train WAS thrown down
the embankmeut, instantly killing Eli Thorpe,
road-master James Scott engineer Barney
Callahan, fireman Benjamin Cowan, brake
man and fatally wounding two others. The
men were all old employees of the road and
leave families.
Daniel Horey John Sweeney, and James
Drew are under arrest in New York, charged
with having been concerned in stealing safe
which il said to have contained over $500, 900 III
bonds and money from the Adams Express
Company. The company has been very reticent
about this huge robbery, but it is rumored that
considerable amount of the plumber has been
recovered.
Three hundred thousand dollars worth of
property was destroyed by fire in Buffalo Oh
Tuesday last.
The first train passed through the Hsosac
tunnel on the 9th inst.
The West.
The Episcopal Convention for the diocese of
Illinois, in session at Chicago last week, elected
Rev. DIR. James Dc Koven Warden of Racine
(Wis.) College, as Bishop of Illinois, to succeed
the late Bishop Whitehouse.
The people of Yankton, Dakota are very in
dignant because the Supreme Court granted
new trial to Wintermute the slayer of Gen. Nc
Cook.
Bishoprcs in the West go a-begging these
days. Rev. Leighton Coleman declines to serve
as Bishop of Wisconsin, to which office lie
recently elected.
The lower house of the Ohio Legislature has
refused, by vote of forty-four to forty-two, to
pass bill to abolish capital punishment.
San Francisco has just been enjoying one of
her periodical earthquake shocks.
The Indiana Legislature is going to regulate
baggage-smashing and smashers.
Chicago elevators, as per official returns con-
tanned on the 10th inst. $3.50, OO5 bushels of
wheat, 1,542,676 bushels of corn 537, l43
bushels of oats, 12,3G4 bushels of rye, and
2S4, 937 bushels of barley making grand total
of 1888, l25 bushels, against G, 1875, $40 bushels
at the same period last year.
The South.
John Ward, alias Hall. alias Bakely and
Henry Johnson, colored, two of the men i'm
plicated in the bold robbery of the express mes
senger at Memphis a few days ago. have been
arrested, and have divulged the names of their
associates
The Congressional committee has concluded
it's investigation at New Orleans and returned
to Washington.
Mardi Gras celebrated in Louisville, Mem
phis, Little Rock and many other Southern
cities. In New Orleans the day was passed over
i'll silence.
Washington.
The Senate Committee en- Territories have
agreed to report and recommend the passage of
bill to create the Territory Of Pembina out of
the northern half of Dakota.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is
urging upon the Ways and Means Committee an
increase of thirty cents on tho whisky, and four
cents OH the tobacco tax
The Select Committee on Arkansas Affairs
have submitted their report to Congress- The
majority report, signed by Poland, Sayler Scud-
der and Sloss, recommends that Congress take
no action in regard TO the government of Ar
kansas. 1t says
The new Constitution regard Republican in
form, and in many respects an improvement upon
that of 1868. The committee are satisfied that the
convention TO frame the Constitution, and the Con-
stitution itself voted for and satisfactory
TO the majority of the voters and people of the
State. The state officers were certainly elected by
a majority of the votes cast, and think by ma
jory Of the votes In the state The condition of the
State has been peaceful since the new govern
ment was inaugurvted il has ever been The
mass of people both sides are inclined TO peace
and good government, and TO allow all the enjoy
ment of their legal rights
The other member OF the committee
Ward Of Illinois-makes dissenting report,
in which he claims that the Garland govern
ment is fraud, and that every form of consti-
tutonal and statute law was violated in setting
it up. He concludes his report by proposing
a resolution recognizing Joseph Brooks as the
legal Governor Of Arkansas
An insane man was arrested on the grounds
of the Executive Mansion one night last week,
while attempting to stop the Presidents car
riage which was returning to the White House
with members Of the Presidents family.
= THE United States Senate has slaughtered
three railroad subsidy bills-the Washington,
Cincinnati and st. Louis narrow gauge line, the
proposed Dakota and Montana route, and the
contemplated road from Lake Erie to tho Mis-
souri, on the forty-frst parallel.
The House has refused to extend the Wheeler
x Wilson patent.
The system Of preparing postage on newspa-
pers does not bring in 80 large returns TO the
department AZ expected. There was