The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-09-10
NEWS OF THE week.
The East.

stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
There was heightened we lding at Newport,
r. l., last week. Charles Joseph Bonaparte'
grandson of Jerome Bonaparte, was married to
Miss Day, of Boston.
Sooy, the defaultng State Treasurer OF New
Jersey, has had preliminary trial. The ex-
act amount of his deficit is ascertained 70 be
S44,116. Tho Justice held him in $4,000.
No bail was offered, and he was fully COM
mitted.
There is now strong grounds for believing
that little Charlie Ross is alive and may yet be
restored to his parents. Mrs. Mosher, the wife
of Bill Mosher the abductor Of the child, viz
tually acknowledges that the child is living, but
does not know his present whereabouts.
The Pennsylvania State Normal School, at
Bloomsbury, has been destroyed by fire. Loss,
100000.
South Deerield, Mass. was visited last week
by disastrous conhagration. Property of the
estimated value of $500, 600 was destroyed
Tilton's woelen mill, at Cavsndish, Va, was
destroyed by fire, last week. Loss estimated at
$40 600; insurance 100000.
Three of the Schuylkill county pa. Com
missioners have been convicted of malfeasance
in Office and sentenced each to two years i'm
prisonment and $1,000 fine.
1t il announced that Tilton has abandoned
all hopes of a new trial in the Beecher case,
because he (Tilton) cannot raise the funds to
conduct the prosecution.
The population of Massachusetts, accord
ing to the census just completed, is l,64O' 900.
disease similar to the old epizootic has
broken out among the cattle near Avon, n. y.
Forty died within two weeks
Judge Gilbert, of Brooklyn, in the case of
colored man who applied for mandamus to
compel the Board of Education to admit his
son to a school set apart for white children, de-
cided that the system of common school educa-
ton was established for the public, and all
persons had access to it,. The Board of Educa-
ton had no power to exclude any.
The west.
George A. Smith, Brigham Youngs chief
lieutenant, IN dead. He was Second President
of the Mormon church.
Col. c. b. Wilkinson, editor of the st.
Joseph (Io.) Herald, and Internal Revenue
Collector, who was arrested some time ago and
placed under bonds of $15, 900 for embozzle-
and it is said he has fled to Canada or Europe.
Creditors have attached all his real estate.
The wheat crop i'll Minnesota Iowa and
Western Wisconsin was badly damaged by the
recent heavy rains.
An excursion train of six cars on the Atchi-
son and Nebraska railroad was thrown into the
ditch near Bremen Station Kan and three
persons killed, and eight or ten badly wounded.
The accident was caused by the spreading of
the track. The train was conveying persons to
Atchison to attend the bridge celebration.
Gordon, the Black Hills adventurer, has
backed out of the suit which he commenced
with so much flourish against the military
thorties at Omaha for false Imprisonment, and
paid the costs of the litigation.
A fire at Virginia City, Nevada last week,
destroyed $125,OOO worth of property.
The jury Of inquest in the case OF Ralston.
the San Francisco banker, returned verdict
of accidental death.
1t now transpires that the failure of the Bank
of California was not caused so much by con-
spiracy on the part of its enemies as by the ras-
cality Of the late President. The directors of
the institution authorize the statement that
Ralston's defalcation will amount to between
three and four millions of dollars, AID that
large overissue Of stock has also been discov-
ered The directors for mysterious reason,
decline to let the public know what particular
use was made of this large sum of money.
John n. Edwards, of tie st. Louis Times, and
Emory S. Foster, of the st. Louis Journal,
fought bloodless duel last week in Winnebago
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PAGES with navy revolvers, the bullets whistling
harmlessly in the air. Edwar Is demanded an
other shot, but Foster declined. After consid-
cradle parley the affair was amicably settled,
the belligerents shook hands, the genial Bour'
bon was produced and the agreeable termina-
ton of the trouble generously toasted. The
difficulty grew out of the JEFF Davis Winnebago
county controversy.
Another aeronaut has met with a tragic death.
A man calling himself Prof. Ariel, travelling
with circus, made an ascension in a hot-air
balloon at Jackson Mich, last week. On de-
scending, the balloon seemed in danger of
striking on the railroad bridge and the ocou-
pant to save himself, jumped into the water
and was drowned.
The pesky grasshopper has turned up again.
Millions of them have recently been seen
travelling over Central and Southern Illinois in
a southeasterly direction. Fortunately they
can do but little harm to the crops this season,
but damage is to be apprehended next year in
localities where they may alight at this time.
Mr.. Fisher, an Alderman of St Paul, was re-
Gently expelled from the City Council for ac-
cepting brides and appropriating to his own
use some property purchased by the city-the
property being seventy-fve bushels of oats.
The Commissioners appointed to treat
with the Sioux Indians for the purchase of
the Black Hills arrived at the Red Cloud
Agency on the 5th of September. About
10000 sayages had collected at the Agency.
The Commissioners were hopeful of being able
to make treaty.
A serious Indian outbreak is reported in East
ern Nevada and Western Utah. Gen. Schofeld
has sent troops to that region, and will himself
go to the scene of the disturbances.
The amount Of grain in store in Chicago on
the sth inst was GIL III bushels of wheat l.
5lI6S9 bushels Of corn 81, 1875 bushels of
oats 81, S45 bushels of rye. and 20 0sO b,,sbels