The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-03


ley, OF Iowa Steward, A. J. Vaughn, of Mis-
sissippi Assistant Steward, Mortimer White
head, of New Jersey Chaplain, 8. ii. Ellis, of
Ohio Treasurer, +. NJ. Mcdowell Secretary,
O. ii. Kelley, of Kentucky Gatekeeper, o.
Dinwiddie of Indiana Ceres, Mrs. j. T.
Jones' or Arkansas.
Washington correspondent SAYS there is
much strong comment there oyeythe manner
in which the body Of the late Vice
President Wilson was cut up by va
rious surgeons who rushed to the
Capitol upon hearing of his death. He Was
scarcely cold before they had taken out his
brain and weighed it, and had other parts of the
body pretty generally distributed around the
Vice. Presidents chamber. Now there are
many questionings as TO the authority by which
this carving up OF the second officer of the ma
ton was done.
1t liz stated that Vice President Wilson was
engaged to be married to Mrs. John A. Jackson,
of Williamson County, Tenn. The vows were
TO be consummated OH the recovery of his
health. 1t was his object mainly to see her
that he visited Nashville last spring. They
met first at Washington, and had kept up a
constant correspondence since. Mrs. Jackson
is one of the most distinguished and highly
cultured ladies in the South.
A reunion Of Federal and Confederate sol
diers is proposed at Philadelphia next year.
The obsequies of the late Vice-Prcsident Will
son were begun at Washington on Friday morn
ing, Nov. &c and ended at Natick, Mass, his
native town, on Monday, the Goth. The remains
were conveyed from Washington to Philadel-
phia, where they were placed in state in indie
pendence Hall, and viewed by thousands of
people. On the arrival of the funeral cortege
at New York, it was met at the depot and es-
corted through the city by one of the most i'm
posing military and civic professions ever wit
messed in this country. From New York the
remains were taken direct to Boston, arriving
OH Sunday morning. They lay in state in Doric
Hall from noon of Sunday to noon of Monday
and were viewed by many thousands of people,
From thence the body was escorted by an inn
posing procession to Cottage Farm, where it
was delivered to the citizens of Natick. and by
them consigned to its native earth.
Secretary Bristow has written letter to the
District Attorney at st. Louis, in which he de-
nounees as absolutely and unqualifiedly false
the story started by the whisky-ring thieves
that he was interested in a distillery at Louis
vile. He adds; Il beg to repeat the request,
heretofore communicated to you, that these
frauds on the Government shall be probed to
the very bottom; that every ramifcation of the
ring shall be followed in every part from be-
ginning to end, and that no one having con-
nection with or guilty knowledge of its opera
tons shall be permitted to escape. So far as
this Department is concerned, ask that every
allegation against any officer of it, from its head
to its humblest employee, be thoroughly investi-
gated and vigorously prosecuted, if any ground
exists therefor. have read this to the Presi-
dent, who repeats his injunction, Let no
guilty man escape
The Commission appointed TO inquire into
the route for the proposed ship canal to con-
meet the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans report
that they are of the opinion, after full in
vestigaton that the Nicaragua route is best,
and estimate that the work from the harbor OF
Breto, on the Pacific, to Greytown, on the At
lantic, can be constructed at total cost not ex-
ceeding $66,OOO,OOO.
Gems. Pope and Schofeld in their reports
recommend that the Indian Bureau be trans
ferred to the War Department, and that troops
be stationed on each reservation to watch the
Indians and prevent them from going on raids
Recent fires At Bellville, Canada-loss
$15O,OOO; Oberlin, o., 100000; Wheeling, w
Va, $1,000; Ottawa, ILL.,, $12, 900; Melrose
Mass, go, OO0 Lowell, Mass, $4,000.
Foreign.
> | Tba have haH hot wit
the Kiptschaks in Khokand, Asia, achieving
} victory, the enemy fleeing and leaving g. 800 OF
: their dead on the field.
Advices from the seat of war in Bosnia rep
} resent that the insurgents have resolved tc
continue operations theoretically all through
, the winter. They have recently gained several
advantages. A convention of the people will
shortly be called to proclaim a National Govern.
ment.
The London organ of the Carlsts bombastic-
ally proclaims that Don Carlos has saved Cuba
and the honor of Spain, his recent offer OF
truce having caused the Americans to modify
their attitude.
Much distress has been caused in Liberia Oh
account Of the war with the natives.
1t is reported that England has bought
$40, 900, 900 interest in the Suez Canal.
Spain continues to send reinforcements Of
: troops to Cuba.
The French Government warns newspaper
, against reproducing Paul de Cassagnac's recent
Bonapartist speech. lie Pays, one of the lead
ing journals Of Paris, has already been seized
| for this offense.
movement is on foot in Savoy looking TO
separation from France and remuneration to
, Italy.
Madrid telegram says 1t has been ascer-
tanned from official sources that the negoti
atoms between Spain and the United States are
proceeding favorably. The rumors spread by
newspapers that difficulties have arisen are alb
solutely incorrect. The relations between the
two countries may be regarded ~ excellent.
telegram from Alexandria says that the
Abyssinians surprised and killed 1900 Egyp-
tians, including seventeen officers.
Accounts from This represent the Russian
losses as heavy in the recent rising at Kho-
kand. part of the garrison was inassacred
The French Assembly has carried through 1T
final passage the Electoral bill which has been
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