The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-12-15

distinct and terrible features but the one
feature which pervaded the scene and lent to
1t distinctive and deeply touching Significance
was the manifestation of popular sympathy
and sorrow. A community had been afflicted,
and sadness was common. Many Of the pri-
vate and almost all of the public buildings
we're heavily draped. All hags were at half
mast and torn by the gale almost into
shreds, ~ II the great occasion had
right to al the service they could ever render.
Az the cortege passed through the gate the
bell in the tower tolled mournfully. On either
side along the pathways on the hillsides and
invading private plats there were large crowds
Of people. Turning TO the left the funeral
party proceeded directly TO Battle avenue,
where, about $50 yards from the entrance of
the cemetery, trench had been prepared for
the reception Of the dead. The great crowds
which we're met near and just within the Gem
etery were formed about the vast grave. The
site being ON the slope Of the Hill and CON-
pletely exposed, the cold was almost insuffer-
BILE, but still the people held their places.
There was no delay In removing the remains
from the hearses and wagons and depositing
them in the circular trench. Then the
services began. Rev. DIR. Noah II, Schenck
read the beautiful burial service Of the
Episcopal church, which was listened to at
tentively by those who were within reach of
his voice. There was inexpressible sadness
mingled with solemnity in the scene. Hun
dreds of people wept, the tears freezing on
their cheeks as they issaed from the eyes. AZ
ter the reading of the service, Rev. A. P. Put
nam, of the Unitarian Church Of Our Savior,
addressed the assemblage Rev. A. Stewart
Walsh, Baptist clergyman, offered fervent
prayer at the conclusion Of Mr.. Putnam's re-
marks, and the services were brought to close
with benediction by Rev. Joseph Odeu. Pre-
vious to the dismissal Of the assemblage the
choral societies sang Say, what Troubles
thee ?" and "Above the Tree top is Rest" The
people now departed and all was ended except
the enduring agony of the widow aud orphan.
All the poel-room keepers in New York city
have declared off all bets on the general re-
suit of the Presidential election, and will re-
fund the money put up.
1t is announced from New York that a COM
promise has been effected by which William
NJ. Tweed and his pals are to refund to the
city their stolen plumber, and to receive in re-
turn immunity from prosecution.
West.
The House Louisiana Investigating Commit
| tee left for New Orleans on the 9th INST.
Judge Lynde, of Wisconsin, declined to serve,
and Mr.. Beebe, of New York, took his place.
| The remains of human being, supposed to
be those of the lost aeronaut Donaldson, were
recently found by some hunters in the woods Of
Newaygo county, Mich
Tie murderer Of Wild Bill at Deadwood, last
summer-Jack Mccall, with several aliases
has been tried before jury Of his peers at
Yankton, Dakota Territory, and found guilty Of
murder in the first degree.
A most shocking tragedy is reported from
Valley county, Neb. A farmer named Edward
| +. Carr blotted from existence his entire fami-
| ly, consisting of wife and two children, and
then hung himself. 1t is supposed he was
| temporarily insane.
The corn yield OF Illinois, says the Chicago
Journal which, earlier in the season, was esti-
mated by the official reports at 162, 000 900
bushels, it is now estimated will fall short of
those figures by so, 600, 900 bushels. This is a
| falling Off of more than one-half as compared
with the crop Of the previous year.
A number OF steamers were sunk in the bar-
Dor of st. Louie, by floating ice, last week.
The loss will reach upward Of $500 900.
south.
d. II. Chamberlain was inaugurated Gov
ernor Of South Carolina at Columbia, ON the
7th inst. The inaugural ceremonies were very
quiet, and very few persons in the city knew
anything Of it until some time after it was over.
The Democratic Legislature met the same day,
and appointed a committee to ask Gen. Ruger
to remove the troops from the State House.
A Columbia Is. CO. dispatch of the 9th says
1.-THE Congressional investigating committee
has applied to the Office Of the Secretary of
State for all the returns bearing on the Con-
gressional and electoral vote OF the State, and
applied to the Supreme Court and the United
States Circuit Court for all documents touching
the legality Of the situation on both sides with
in the Jurisdiction of these courts and the
State and County Boards Of Csnvassers. STEM
ographers were placed at work at the Office OF
the Secretary Of State to copy the returns.
committee Of the Democratic House waited on
Gen. Ruger and demanded of him why that
body wss kept out of the Capitol by United
States soldiers. He made q verbal and after
ward written reply, in which he stated that
the soldiers were there by order of the Presi-
dent, who recognized Chamberlain as Govern
or, and that, il called on, they would resist
the entrance Of the Democratic House."
George A. Trenholm, formerly Secretary OF
the Treasury of the Confederate Government,
died last week in Charleston, y. g.
Four persons-three young ladies and one
young man-were recently drowned near Ohm
stead KY, while padding across a mill-pond
in a canoe, by the capsizing of the craft.
The South Carolina Legislature (Chamber-
lain) has deposed Chief Justice Moses from
| Office.
Judge Bond, of the United States Circuit Court,
has discharged the members of the South Caro-
lima Board of Csnvassers, and decided that the
State Supreme Court had no jurisdiction To
NEEDLE with the duties CT the Board while en-
gagged in the determination of the case OF the
Presidential electors.
The Committee of the National House OF