The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-03

important evidence having been discovered.
The Treasury Department has declined to
transfer any more gold TO California, as it has
sent all it car spare. --t
]. M. Thatcher, Commissioner of Patents,
has resigned.
The government has paid the Elgee cotton
claim, amounting to $4,000
The South.
dispatch from Macon, Miss, reports riot
at New Hope church, in which eight ne
groes were killed and several wounded. The
cause Of the fiot was quarrel and fight be-
tween white man and negro, about drum
beating.
A duel was fought the other day at Waco,
Texas, between Charles Carrick and ]. M.
Turner, the result of trivial quarrel. 1t took
place in the dark-distance, four feet weapons,
six-shooters. Three shots were discharged,
and Turner was killed.
The Republican Banner and the Union and
american, Of Nashville, Tenn. the two Oldest
daily papers in the Southwest, have been con-
solidated.
General.
ridiculously absurd report was telegraphed
over the country day or two ago, to the effect
that Donaldson the balloonist, had been found
in the forests of Canada in dying condition,
and that Just before he breathed his last lie
made a confession that, in order TO save his
own life, he had thrown his companion, Grim
wood, overheard into the lake. or course it
was wicked and outrageous hoax.
The steamship Ohio which sailed from Liv-
erpool last week, took out 2 400 crates of Del
aware peaches. The steerage Of the ship was
turned into a refrigerator and provided with
fans for keeping up constant current Of cold
air. This is the first experiment ever made Of
shipping American fruit to Europe.
The Chicago papers publish detailed state
ment il reference to the fast mail train to be
run between Chicago and New York. A train
will leave Chicago at r. m, arriving in New
York about II o'clock at night of the next day.
There will also be another train leaving New
York at 4:15 a. M, of the same day, arriving
in Chicago at $3.50 the following morning, MAX
ing the trip in about twenty-six hours, gain
of fourteen hours over the previous running
time.
The suspension of the Bank of California
was brought about by fight between some of
the speculative managers and another set of
capitalists and mining spectators, who had
organized the Bank of Nevada, having cash
capital Of five million dollars in gold. The sub
ject of the fight was in regard to some of the
"big Bonanza" mines, which the Bank of Cali
fornia people had secured control of some time
ago, when prices we're very much higher than
now. The well-known speculative operations
of the Bank Of California managers, coupled
with the decline in mining stocks so impaired
confidence in the bank that depositors began a
run on the bank which compelledit to stop pay
ment Ralston, the President Of the nstitu-
ton, has lost &c, 00O 600 in mining speculations
within few months.
The assets of the suspended Bank of Cali
foInia are less than S6,000,000 while the LA
bilities are about Ga, 900, 900. No wonder the
magnificent" Ralston went and drowned him
self. The affairs of the bank have been put in
the hands of an executive committee, consist
ing of William Alyord and George II. Howard
Advices have been received at Washington
from prominent officers on the Rio Grande, to
the effect that cattle stealing and murders of
peaceable American citizens are still perpe-
trated by Mexican marauders, and in all proba-
bility they will continue in spite of Inc forces
our government can send there, unless they
can break up the bands Of assassins and thieves
on either side of the river, and as far in the
interior of Mexico as may be found necessary.
Our Canadian neighbors have not escaped
the effects Of the prevailing depression Of bust
ness and numerous failures are announced in
Montreal, Toronto and Quebec. A recent tele-
gram from the frst-named city says fourteen
dry goods firms had come tc an Arrangement
with their creditors within week.
A San Francisco telegram says it is probable
that the Bank of California will soon resume
business again. The stockholders of the insti-
tuition represent upward of $50, OOO 600.
The explorations of Prof. Hayden's survey
ing party in the far west, as detailed in his re-
port TO the Interior Department, show how
little even our best geographers know Of the
prominent features of the great territory living
nearly due westward of Chicago. A canon
some 5000 feet deep, through which mighty
river flowed, was discovered, and the remains
of an ancient civilization that were found arc
said to be truly remarkable. The records of
these surveys will no doubt prove highly inter
esting, not only to scientists, but to people at
large.
The reports of disasters on the great lakes
for the present season show that they already
outnumber the unusually disastrous season of
1874, and are largely in excess of the wrecks
reported on the ocean.
Political.
The greenback convention at Detroit was at
tended by about 1000 delegates. Thomas j.
Durant of Washington, presided.
The New York Liberal Republican State Con-
vention viii be held at Albany Sept. %.
The campaign in Ohio wakes warm.
Foreign.
Business is much depressed both in England
and on the Continent, on account Of apprehen-
sion of political complications.
Capt. Webb, the great swimmer, has accom-
plished the extraordinary feat of swimming
across the English channel from Dover to Calais
--twenty-six miles-without life-preserver or
other aiding appliances He did it in twenty
one hours and foity minutes. This exceeds any
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