The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-09-29

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The grand pageant OF the Odd Fellows at
Philadelphia, last week, was one Of the largest
and finest Itrades Of the Centennial year, and
was not able event in the history Of the order.
The procession was ten miles long, and con-
taiued about 20, 900 men. OratoDs were de-
iivered by William Ellison, Past rand Sire of
Massachusetts, representing the East Willmot
G. De Sanssure Past Grand Sire of South Car
DINA, representing the South Nathan Porter,
Grand Representative Of California, represent
ing the West John A. Jackson, Past Grand
Representative Of Minnesota, representing the
North.
The reef of rocks at He'll Gate, which has
heretofore formed serious obstruction to the
entrance Of New York harbor, was blown up
on Sunday morning, Sept. "a. There was con-
siderable apprehension in the city lest the ex-
plosion of the mine, consisting of 5000
pounds Of the most powerful explosive
known to science, would result in the de-
struotion of both life and property. All
such expectations however, were agreeably dis
appointed. slight tremor of the earth
Throughout. the city, and the upheaval of two
columns Of water, accompanied with consid-
erable'guantity of rock, which all fell into the
river, were the only evidences that the great
blast had been effected 1t was precisely o'clock
D. n that Gen. Newton sent the electric spark
into the line. This was followed by cloud of
black smoke, rocks, and lumber, and at the
same moment heavy shock ran through the
ground, and gave ono the impression of being
lifted about two inches. The sound of the
explosion was not loud, but low. rumbling, and
deep. A cloud of yellow smoke followed the
rocks, and in ten seconds, the water had be-
come level again, and no traces were left but a
large yellow space caused by mud and other
substances thrown up. At the works it was
found thai the coffer-dam which surrounded
the shaft was entirely gone. A small house
which stood close to the shaft was thrown a
distance Of ten feet, but other buildings were
just as before the explosion. The affair was
complete success and the whole reef was
blown up.
Eastern papers give the particulars Of ter
rible disaster that happened recently in Forest
county, Pa The mountain streams becoming
greatly swollen from the recent storm, the
waters flooded the partly. settled valleys near
Ralston, a newly-opened numbering hamlet.
Two cabling, occupied by George Parks and
Daniel Cooper, woodchoppers, were washed
down the mountain side into the stream at an
early hour in tho morning. The Parks family
consisted Of seven persons-father, mother,
and five children. There were nine men,
bers Of Cooper's faznily-Cooper, his wife, six
~;
Mrs. Cooper. The eixteen persons we're all
drowned, and their bodies carried away and
jammed between the boom of logs in Forest
creek. The houses we're completely wrecked.
Two persons we're drowned near Southport In
Tioga county three lives are known to have
been lost, and four persons were drowned at
Wllsport.
Trouble is brewing between white settlers
and the Nez Perces Indians in Oregon, which
threatens to eliminate in general Indian war
on that frontier. The trouble grows out Of
cor:zUversy regarding tho possession Of certain
fishery rights which the Indians claim were
guaranteed to them by the Government Gen.
o. o. Howard, commander Of the department,
the dificrlty.
The second trial of John ID. Lee, tho Noun
tain Meadow butcher, has been concluded at
Beaver, Utah, and resulted in a verdict Of muir
der in the first degree. Judge Foreman. in the
course Of his charge to the jury said: 1.-The
prisoner, John ID. Lee, stands before you |
charged with being participant in one Of the
azost atrocious n,sssacres Of human beings-of |
men, women and children, in the Mountain |
Meadows, in lSs7--1hat was ever known In any
civilized part OF tho world. The evidence
shows that the persons killed were emigrants.
For several days combination Of Indians and
white men had been planning an attack upon
'her enesnpment. The Indians and white
men We'd With each other in the fiendish work.
DESTROYING over 100 men. women and children.
IL has been alleged that he shot one woman
with gun. ons with pistol and cut the throat
OF another and told an Indian not to spare a