The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-12-17

The Democratic State Convention meets at
Galveston ON the 5th.
The Washington Eoening star considers it
certain that the next Republican National Con-
I yention will be held in Chicago.
General
Several of the leading coal mining companies
/ in the anthracite region OF Pennsylvania have
determined upon total or partial suspension OF
operations some of them for the winter, 9TH
ers for -four weeks, while in few instances OPP
erations will be reduced but not wholly sus-
pended. The reason assigned for this course,
which will throw out OF employment $4,000
miners is that the demand has fallen far short
of the production, and that the market is
gorged in consequence.
The Agricultural Report for November and
December says that the November returns in
dictate that the corn crop of 1875 WAS one OF
/ the largest ever grown in this country, probably
equaling the very large crops OF 1870 and 1872
! 1t il at least one fourth greater than the crop
OF 1874 and about one-third larger than the
crop of 1869. Every section Of the Union re-
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trsordinary in both product and quality.
The General Minutes of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church for the United States show for
| the fiscal year just closed. as follows Total
value of church property in the United States,
| $S1, OS4, 262; benevolent collections for the
year, 1878, 1893 number of travelling preachers,
10, 953 local preachers, 1851 total member
ship, including probationers and clergy, 1904
| $685.
CHASTITY and horrible relic OF the days of
| the Inquisition has been brought to light in
Lima Peru. Four or five thousand skeletons
were found in a solid mass by workmen engaged
in repairing hospital. The bodies had APP
parently been thrown, in common apparel
many remains OF which are still undecayed-
into an opening, between two walls. and the
closing of the gap has left the frghtful secret
undiscovered for probably two hundred years
Ex-senator James w. Nye, of Nevada, who
has been for some months al inmate of pri-
vate insane asylum near New York city, has
40 far recovered his mental faculties az TO be
returned to the care of his relatives.
The Changers have set on foot movement
looking to the erection of a building in Louis
vile, KY, by the order throughout the United
States to be used as the headquarters of the
National Grange.
At the annual meeting of the Massachusetts,
State Grange in Springfield, last week, reso-
lutions were passed denouncing the exemption
from taxation of $50, 900, 900 of property in the
State belonging to churches and so-called char
liable institutions, the evasion Of taxation by
those who make large deposits in savings banks,
and the wrong of taxation of money lent on
mortgaged property and that property also.
The resolutions declare emphatically for equal
taxation for all and exemption for none.
Foreign.
A Bombay telegram states that the Prince
of Wales, who is now at Colombo, Ceylon on
his homeward route, while returning from an
elephant-shooting excursion, met with an ac-
cdent which caused some alarm, but FORUM
ately without serious result The Princes
carriage was upset, and its royal occupant pre-
cpitated underneath. He was taken ont I'M
hurt.
Gen. Saballs, & Carlist officer, has been SEN
fenced by court martial to four years impris-
onment.
There were ia passengers on the Inflated
German steamship Deutschland, Sc of whom
were saved and SO are missing as also are
portion of the vessels crew.
The three Northern powers of Europe have
agreed upon the reforms to be instituted in the
Turkish provinces. They contemplate perfect
equality between Christians and Turks.
A singular and fiightfuly destructive ac-
cident is reported by cable from Bremen, Ger
many. The steamship Mosel was on the point
of sailing for America, when an explosion oc-
CURED on the crowded wharf, killing and
wounding large number Of people. For
some time the stunned and bewildered people
we're unable to form any idea Of the exact ma
ture, or even Of the locality Of the disaster. 1t
v as soon ascertaiDed, however, that the imme-
date agent in the calamity was a package of
dynamite, the most powerful known explosive,
which passenger had placed in his baggage.
Sixty-eight persons were killed and thirty-fve
wounded.
The weather in Spain is described as unusu-
ally severe, and several Carlist soldiers have
been frozen to death. The total Carlistforces
in the field are estimated at 80 600 men, with
1O5 guns.
The Havana papers are very bombastic in
their comments on Grants message. The Voce
de Cuba relieves itself thus "Gen. Grants
language seems to have been chosen to wound
the suscepdbilities of the Spaniards. He seems
to like playing with fire. He does not know the
It is announced that the Sultan of Turkey
will make an extraordinary levy OF 100 600 men
in the spring for the suppression of the insur-
rection in Herzegovina. Egypt will send him
in addition % 600, and Tunis 5000 men.
temperament Of the Spaniards any more than
Napoleon did" The Didrio, at the conclusion
Of two columns and a half OF criticism, says
I'VE believe Gen. Grant has Disguised the in
surgents, and has wounded Spanish pride in his
unfounded assertions"
The passenger who placed the dynamite in
his baggage that caused the explosion at Bre-
men has made confession. He says il was
his intention TO blow up the steamer Moeel for
the sake of an insurance which he had. He