The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-20
VHE NEWS CONDENSED.
THE EAST,

An enormous copper lode has been discov-
cred at Milan. N. II. The Office of i. b.
rockingham, of Boston, was recently robbed
of a trunk containing $4,000 worth Of bonds.
A TERRIBLE boiler explosion occurred in an
ore mill near Allentown Pa, one day last week,
resulting in the killing of three men and the fatal
wounding of five, while three others received
serious INJURIES There was notable gath
ering of literary men in Boston, the other day,
to say good-by to James Russell Lowell, On
the occasion of his departure for his post OF
duty as Minister to Spain. Among those pres
ent were the poets Longfellow and Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the
President and professors of Harvard College,
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., and number OF
Massachusetts, Congressman.
LIGHTNING struck a shed during thunder
storm near North Bergen, N. j., the other day,
killing Mrs. Sandow and a babe 10 months old,
and Frederick Muller, a boy of ii years. Mrs.
Sandow and Muller had been wedding in
field and took shelter from the rain in the
shed. The extensive foundry aud machine
shops OF A. Hartupee, in Pittsburgh, Pa, have
been DESTROYED by fire., The total loss is esti-
mated at $500, 900. New York claims to have
had genuine case of Asiatlc cholera.
THE WEST.
THE Milwaukee Sentinel prints kilograms
from thirty points in Minnesota, Iowa and Da-
kota which report grasshoppers in large num-
beers flying with the wind. In Minnesota the
'hoppers are flying north, only few alghting
at the points heard from. In the main the
'hoppers are doing no damage. Farmers are
encouraged with the crop prospects.
FROM the scene of the Indian war in Idaho
Territory Gen. o. o. Howard telegraphs All ac-
count of battle with Chief Josephs band.
From the meager particulars furnished we
CLEAN that, after making forced march, lie
struck the enemy, 300 strong, at / o'clock on
the afternoon of July H. i'll deep canon, a
the mouth Of the Cottonwood opened fire at
once with howitZer, and succeeded in driving
the savages from their position. The fighting
then began in earnest, the troops firing from
behind rocks and barbados, and continued
till nightfall. The soldiers slept on their arms.
and, early on the morning on the 18th the at
tack was renewed and, after some Sc
we're fighting the Indians were driv-
en- from their position. The pursuit was
kept up for some time, and the retreat of
the hostiles was accelerated by a number Of
shells that were sent after them by the artil-
lery. Gen. Howard claims victory as the re-
suit of this engagement, but the casualties
show it to have been a dearly-purchased one,
il such it can be conceded. Thirteen Indians
were killed (the number Of wounded is not
given), while exactly the same number Of SOL
diers, by o singular coincidence, were slain, and
twenty-four wounded. Among the killed were
Capt. Bancroft and Lieut.. Williams. Another
ST. Louis bank, the Butchers and DroveIs has
closed its doors. . Reports of rich gold discov-
cries in the Big Horn country have produced
an immense excitement at Deacwood, from
which place large parties have set out in the
expectation of finding fortune in this latest
Dorado.
LIEUT.. Col. Nj. V. SHERIDAN returned to Chi
cago few days ago from the battle-ground
where the brave Custer and his troops were
slain. The bodies of some of the dead were
found to be decomposed beyond recognition.
The bodies of the privates which could be
identified were properly buried and the graves
marked. The remains OF twelve officers
were boxed and brought to Fort Lincoln.
TIE bones of the gallant Custer will be
taken TO West Point for interment. Those of
Col. Custer, Capt. Yates. and Lieuts Smith,
Calhoun and Mcintosh will be removed to the
National Cemetery at Leavenworth. The re-
mains of the other officers await the action of
their friends. Those of Lieut.. Crittenden were
given permanent burial on the spot where he
fell, in obedience to the FISHES of his father,
who objected to their removal.
The failure of the Second National and
Butchers and Drovers banks, in st. Louis,
caused quite run on the savings banks of
that city, and two or three of the weaker of
these institutions have suspended.
THE SOUTH.
A NEGRO named Wilson was hanged at Nash
vile, Team, last week, for the murder of a
policeman. Over 5000 witnessed the execution.
which was conducted in shockingly bungling
manner. The moose slipped, and the culprit
died slowly of strangulation, suffering intolera-
BILE agonies.
THE New Orleans School Board has decided
to establish separate schools for the two races.
The whole body of troops now stationed
in Southern States with the exception Of those
in Texas to operate against the Mexican
marauders, does not exceed 1000 or 1920 men.
WASHINGTON.
1T is announced at the Treasury Department
that gold that has lost in value from natural
abrasion in circulation will be received at the
treasury by weight. This would involve a loss
to depositors of not exceeding ten cents on
eagles or double eagles.
A MEETING of white and black citizens Of the
region in South Carolina known as the scene of
the Ellenton riot last fall has been held with a
view to restore peace and harmony. Resolu-
tons were unanimously adopted looking to a
cessation OF race trouble and TO q dropping OF
pending prosecutions in the State and Federal
courts
THE Secretary of the Navy has addressed q
letter to Capt. Howgate, the originator of the
plan to establish a colony for Arctic exploration
in the far north, declining TO detail a civil
officer to accompany the expedition. The Sec
Rotary does not consider himself authorized to
detail a civil officer for such service, and, for
the same reason, he regrets that he cannot
comply with the request for lean OF instru-
ments belonging to the n avy for the Use of the
expedition.
The Treasury Department has issued the
ffty-frst call for the redemption Of 500 bonds
OF 1865, consols of 1865 The call is for S10,-
000,0 Of which S7,OO0,0O0 are coupon and
$4,000, 600 registered bonds principal aud in
terest to be paid at the treasury on and after
the 10th OF October next, interest to cease ON
that day Tho Treasury Department las re
ceived from Barnstable, Mass, the Official re-
port OF the seizure of the whaling ship Rising
sun OF that port, bya Spanish armed vessel
on cuba. The Department has also been made
officially acquainted with the arrest and con-
hnement OF Capt. Durham, of the schooner
Ellen Bizpah. These matters will ia locked
into, and Spain held TO a strict accountability
for the OutraQes. -