The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-14

and to his services, abiding with graceful dig
nifty to the impeachment trial, and asking for
the dead that his faults be buried and his use-
fulness only remembered.
Tho South.
Southern papers announce the death OF A.
NJ. Halbrook, for nearly thirty years one Of the
editors of the New Orleans Picdy,1ae. He was
years old, and native of Vermont.
Friday, the 7th inst, was a good day for
hanging in Tennessee, and four murderers
were swung into eternity-Bill Williams, col
ored, at Bartlett Frank Scott, colored, at Men,
phis, and Milton Mclean, white, at Jackson.
The City Administrator of New Orleans re-
ports the debt Of that city over s21. 100000.
Political.
The Republican State Convention Of New
Hampshire me. at Concord last week. and
nominated P. C. Cheney, of Manchester, for
Governor, and William A. Pierce, of Ports
mouth, for Railroad Commissioner. A plat
form was adopted favoring a resumption Of
specie payments, opposing third term, and
advocating the adoption Of Mr.. Blaine's nom
sectarian constitutional amendment
The President has sent the following nomi-
nations to the Senate Cyrus C. Carpenter, Of
Iowa, Second Comptroller of the Treasury ;
Reuben Williams, Of Indiana, Deputy Second
Comptroller. Indian Agents-John Young,
New York, Fort Peck, Montana S. w. Marston,
of Missouri for the Consolidated Indian Agen-
cies, Indian Territory George l.. Belts, OF
Michigan, for the Michigan Agency in Michi-
gan. Receivers of Public Money-D. L. Guam,
Wausau, Wis; G. M. Ballard, Indianapolis,
Ind. Registers Of Land Ofices-S. ii. Allan
Wausau, Wis.,; Edmund Brown, Indianapolis,
Ind.
The Democrats Of Louisiana held their
State Convention at New Orleans last week,
and adopted platform which, in brief,
declares eternal war upon the Kellogg govern
ment OF all the ills that Commonwealth is
heir to, they consider the present Governor the
chiefest, and the one for the eradication Of
which they will devote all their energies. They
also adopted memorial to Congress, praying
for the removal of Kellogg, and the seating Of
John McEnery in the gubernatorial chair.
l.. @. c.. Lamar has been elected United States
Senator from Mississippi. In the Democratic
caucus he was nominated by reclamation. all the
other aspirants having withdrawn.
The Democrats OF Texas have nominated
Richard Coke and r. b. Hubbard, present in
cumbents, for Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
Gen. Jasper Packard, Of Indiana, has been
appointed all Internal Revenue Agent.
Washington correspondent says the friends
l. ii, l.,
ing his chances for the Presidency and that in
the event of the nomination by the regular par
ties of men who cannot control the full party
vote, the Massachusetts statesman Will be
trotted out as a third candidate.
The Washington correspondent Of the Chi
cago Tribune says: "A strong movement has
been commenced within the Democratic party
to defeat Bayard and secure the success Of
Thurman for the Presidential nomination"
The Louisiana Legislature has elected j. b.
Eustus United States Senator. There are now
three claimants to one Senatorial seat from
that State, namely Pinchback, MARI and
Eustus.
Washington dispatch says 1.-The Repub-
lican Senator'S held caucus tonight to con-
slider Mr.. Morton's bill TO provide for and regu-
late the counting of votes for President and
Vice President. The caucus, after the subject
had been dismissed, agreed to abolish the
twenty-second joint rule, and support Morton's
bill in lieu of it.
General.
]. A. Martin, member Of the Canadian Par
lament, has been arrested at Ottawa for hav-
ing outraged little girl of nine years.
The Commissioner of Agriculture in his last
monthly report, figures the cotton crop at a
minimum Of 1850, 900 bales.
Advices from the City of Mexico report that
Cortina, the notorious Rio Grande bandit, has
been released by the Mexican authorities. Now
look out for a renewal of the cattle raids.
James Hammill, the we'll known oarsmail, is
dead.
The tariff for first-class railroad freight
from Boston to Chicago has been advanced by
all lines from 80 to 70 cents, the Grand Trunk
being party to the new consolidation.
Announcements are made of the death of
Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, the Hon. John
Wilson, formerly Commissioner of the United
States General Land Office, and the Hon Wm
Butler, ex-Treasurer of the State OF illinois.
Foreign.
cable dispatch from London says Gan in
formation confirms the opinion that not only in
Austria is the occupation of the insurrectonary
provinces determined upon. but that some for
eign occupation is absolutely necessary as a
precaution against the massacre Of Christians
wherever they are unarmed and helpless"
A Berlin dispatch says the Prussian War
Office have a machine similar to that used by
Thomassen. 1t was offered them by man
from New York in 1870 for the destruction of
the French fleet. The offer was declined The
maker appears to have been an associate of
| Thomassen.
A colossal bronze statue of Grattan was. un.
yelled at Dublin, Ireland, on the 9th inst,
amid much pomp and ceremony.
The cable furnishes intelligence of terrible
landslide in the Isle Reunion. Sixty-two per-
sons were killed and many wounded. Buildings
and plantations were destroyed.
A force of $500 Herzegovinian insurgents
made an attack upon the fortified town OF Mos
tar but were defeated and almost totally ami
hilated by the Turkish troops.
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