The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-07-20


hausted TO eradicate the traffic In alcoholic
beverages, and the abatement Of the evil Of in
temperance; the reduction Of officers and sal
aries, to the end that there may be less taxes
opposing all subsidies by the State or general
Government; indorsing the principle OF rail-
road Legislative controls and commencing every
honest effort for the furtherance OF civil-ser-
vice reform.
THE convention called in Georgia to revive
the State Convention met at Atlanta last
week Ex-Presdent Grant aud Ben Wade are
put down "by authority" as indorsing the
Presidents policy.
The Mississippi Republican State Committee
announce that, in their belief, II is inexpedient
to hold State convention and nominate Re
publican State ticket this year.
The President has decided that, inasmuch as
the National Republican Committee will have
no political duty to perform for some three
years. the members of 1t do not come within
the scope OF the recent order forbidding Off
Gals to take an active part in pcss." =, and con-
sequently there is no objection to Federal Off
Gals retaining their membership on the COM
mittee.
BEN. WADE. of Ohio, has written letter
denying the published report thst he had be-
come reconciled to the Presidents Southern
policy. He fears that this policy sis but an
ignominious surrender Of the principles of
nationality for which our armies fought, and
for which thousands upon thousands OF brave
men died, ana without which the war was q
failure, and our boasted Government myth"
The question recently raised by members OF
the National Republican Committee touching
the application of the Presidents late civil
service order to their cases was discussed at
much length in Cabinet meeting at Washing
ton last week. 1t seems that the opinion pre-
yiously reported as having been given by the
President, that it would not be necessary for
members of this committee to consider that or
der az applying to their cases, was given a.
his first impression in the matter. A
further and more careful consideration of
the subject has convinced the President
and the members of his Cabinet that it is best
to make no exception to the rule, and com
plete understanding was arrived at, that men,
bers of the National Republican Committee
who hold Federal offices will be required at no
distant day to choose which they will relin-
quish.
FATAL accidents Mrs. Eliza O'Connel wife
OF Charles O'Connell, with her child, and Mrs.
Mary NJ. O'Connor, wife Of Thomas b. O'Con-
nor, and her two children, were drowned at
Baton Rouge, La, while attempting to cross
the river in skiff -. "A 16-year-old daughter
d. VI. W,
missed by her parents. After several hours
hunt the girl was found wandering about in a
crazy condition, and, on examination, it was
discovered that she had been badly bitten in
several places by rattlesnake. She died in a
short time in great agony Five persons-Ira
Davis, Mrs. Jonah Davis, Mrs. Ira Wakefield,
Mrs. Eugene Brown and Miss Nellie
Lacy-were killed near Greenfield, Mass,
by locomotive, while attempting to
drive across the track in carriage. Miss
Kate Kelley, an estimable young lady OF Deca-
tur H., was stung in the mouth by bee, and
10 rapidly did the poison take effect that she
was dead in eight minutes A heartrending
catastrophe occurred in a coal mine near Wheat
land, Pa, last week. The miners had been
hauling the coal out by locomotive using soft
coal. On the day of the accident anthracite
coal was ordered to be burned in the engine.
The result was most disastrous. The mine was
soon filed with the gas escaping from the hard
coal, and six OF eight men were smothered to
death. Many others were rescued in half
dead condition.
Ii is reported that the insurance money will
and that the sufferers have been amply provi-
ded for by the donations OF other cities.
The city of Montreal, Canada, was the scene
of a most disgraceful riot on the 10Th inst, the
anniversary OF the battle of the Boyne. A
lily, and young man interfered to protect her.
The latter was set upon by a crowd and roughly
handled. He fled from his assailants, and while
attempting to escape into building was
shot down, pierced by three or four bullets.
During the melee upward of twenty shots
we're fired, and, in addition to the killing OF
the man noted, four other men and one woman
were wounded. The widest excitement pre-
vailed i'll the city, and the wonder is that the
riot did not assume more formidable proper
tons, for the police were utterly impotent, aud
did nothing toward suppressing the emeute.
In the other cities and towns OF Canada and
throughout the United States the day was cele-
brated by the Orangemen without serious dis
turbance; there we're also extensive celebrations
throughout Ireland, unattended by violence or
disorder.
THE Washington authorities having become
satisfied that the military force now operating
against the Nez Perces Indians in Idaho and
Oregon is totally inadequate for an offensive
campaign, it was decided, at a Cabinet meeting
the other day, to authorize the Governor OF
Washington Territory to enlist and equip 500
volunteers and dispatch them to the front as
speedily as possible. A skeleton regiment re-
Gently stationed at Atlanta, Ca, has also been
sent to reinforce Gen. Howard command. Gen.
Mcdowell, the commander of the Department
Of the Pacific in his dispatches to the War
Department, represents the situation as exceed
ingly grave. The Mexican President Diaz
has instructed his commanding officer on the
Rio Grande to cooperate with the American
troops in mppressing thieving incursions into
Texas, and III apprehending the brigands
AT Martinsburg, w. Va, last week, striking
firemen and brakemen OH the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad came in collision with body of
seventy-ive militia. The strikers fired upon
and wounded one Of the soldiers. The latter
returned the fire, and one rioter was instantly
killed and several wounded. For several days
the road was almost entirely blockaded, the
strikers to the number of 1000, keeping strict
watch on the seventy freight trains detained at
Martinsburg and threatening death to any en-
gineer who essayed to run train out.
THE TURKO-RUSSIAN WAR.
THE abandonment of the line Of the Jantra
by the Turks causes some surprise in European
military circles The war correspondent of the
London Times says lit shows either utter
helplessness or else very deep-laid plan. that
they should have neglected the brilliant oppor-
tunities afforded them of meeting the Russians
to advantage" The Russian Twelfth and
Thirteenth army corps have been constituted
the army Of Rustchuk, and are destined for
the siege of that fortress, with the Czarowitch
as CommGnderIn-Chief.
SHIPS filed with stones have been sunk by