The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-12-29

sand dollars, and has fed to parts unknown.
All the New York theaters gave matinee per-
formances last Thursday for the benefit OF the
sufferers by the Brooklyn fire. The receipts
amounted to the snug sum of $4,000.
West. n
Petroleum has been discovered In Wyoming
Territory
Here is laudable bit o Journalistic enter
prise The morning newspapers Of Cincinnati
have chartered q train. which leaves that city
every morning at $3.50 o'clock and delivers the
papers In Indianapolis at 7:30.
The Chicago Tribune Of Dec. ~ says
The most remarkable meteor observed in
recent years passed over Kansas, Mis-
souri,, Illinois, and Indiana last night at
$50, going northeastward. At Bloomington
the aerolite presented disk three times the
apparent size OF the full moon. At all
places reported from, the roar caused by the
passage Of this great mass Of matter through
the dense atmosphere Of the earth was
alarmingly audible, and the tremendous fric.
ton to which the surface-parts were subjected
caused continuous superficial disintegration,
with accompanying explosions, filing the air
with muitifarious points Of light tinged with
every hue, and presenting a very beautiful
phenomenon. At Mendoza and Garrett, in
Illinois, the inhabitants were mystifed by
sudden illumination of the atmosphere, &C
companied, in the latter place, by defamation
louder and sharper than an ordinary cannon"
Three men were smothered to death in
mine at Georgetown, Col, a few days ago.
-Four freight teams, with five men, were bull
dozed by Indians on Indian Creek, COL, last
week. Two Of the men were killed and their
bodies frightfully mutilated. Over forty bull
lets were found in one wagon.
During the season Of navigation on our great
lakes, now closed $50 marine disasters we're
reported, involving total loss of property
estimated at LIB, 260. The total deaths of
seamen recorded were 1855. New craft were
set afioat having an aggregate tonnage Of 7,461,
falling off from last year.
south.
The House Louisiana Investigating Com
mittee, sitting at New Orleans in executive
session on Thursday, instructed Mr.. Morrison,
its Chairman, to report the members Of the
Returning Board to the House for contempt
in refusing to produce the records called for.
The committee has been divided up into
subcommittee and dispatched to diff
ferent portions Of the State for the
purpose Of investigating the charges of intim-
idation and bulldozing. Messrs. Morrison,
jerks and Townsend will remain in New Or
leans and continue the investigation of matters
OF a general nature relating to the late cleo
ton in sections not included in the districts
allotted to the subcommittee. The investi-
cation will probably not be concluded
before the 1st of February.
There is considerable apprehension. Of tronble
in New Orleans on the 9Th Of january, when
the Governor is TO be inaugurated. Both Pack
ard and Nichols will be inaugurated The Re-
publicans, it is said, will not oppose the inaugu-
ration of Nichols, but should he attempt to
exercise the functions Of the office he will in
all probability be resisted, and Gull will be
made for troops, LOO Of whom are now sta
toned in the city.
A Charleston Is. CO. dispatch Of the 22d
says: "At an immense meeting of con.
servative taxpayers last night, resolutions
were unanimously adopted recognizing Hamp-
ton and Simpson as lawfully elected, and
pledging them moral, financial, and material
aid"
Little Rock, Ark, had still another confa-
grafton on the night Of Dec. Fl. Loss about
800, 900. This makes three heavy fires in
that city within week-all incendiary-ent,,il-
ing a total loss o: s4O0, 600.
Both OF the South Carolina Legislatures
have adjourned sine die.
The Florida Supreme Court hss issued an
order directing a recount of the vote by the
State Canvassing Board, and declaration OF
the result as shown upon the face Of the re
turns.
fire at Homer, La, destroyed $3.50, 600
worth Of property.
There is talk in New Orleans Of a coalition
between Pinchback and Warmoth and the
Democrats, by which Nichols is to be made
Governor, and the two first named are to be
sent to the United States Senate.
A resolution was adopted by the House In
vestigating Committee, at New Orleans, on the
Goth, ordering that the refusal of President
Orton Of the Western Union Telegraph Com
psny, to appear and produce certain kilograms
be reported to the House, and that the House
be asked to proceed against him fer contempt.
The town Of Crockett, Houston county,
Texas has been almost totally destroyed by
fire.