The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-17
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE,
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The New York market is literally overstocked
with sugar, prices are declining, and disaster ID
predicted for some of the firms One of them.
we read in the Tribune is carrying 20, 900 hogs
heads, which, If sold at present market rates,
would be at loss of $4,000
West.
Leslie @. Hanks, Consul General for Guat.
emala, recently shot and killed a well-knowr
stock-broker named Daily, in the streets OF
San Francisco. Hanks was arrested and con.
fined in prison. The next morning he was
found dead in his cell, having shot himself
with rifle that had been carelessly left withir
his reach.
fire in San Francisco, last week, burned
two blocks of frame buildings occupied by
small retail establishments, boarding houses
saloons, etc. The loss is estimated at about
$3.50, 600.
John p. Schenck, Secretary and Treasurer OF
the German Laborers' Loan and Savings As
| 5000 of the banks funds.
Minnesota will, it is estimated, yield 100000
| 600 bushels Of wheat this autumn.
The failures in Chicago during July repre-
sent an indebtedness of $4,S59, 221.
desperate fight recently occurred at Yves
Los Animas, Col, between the adherents o.
two rival dance-houses. Knives and pistol
were freely used, about thirty shots being
fired. One man was killed and seven or eigh
others dangerously wounded, some Of whom
will die of their injuries.
Four men were drowned in the harbor O.
Chicago, last week, by the sinking of the yach
Pamlico
Senator Morton's left arm has become para
lyzed, and he is totally helpless, as hitherto he
has been able to walk only by the use of canes
Col. John A. Joyce, the only victim Of the
whisky ring who was not pardoned out Of the
penitentiary by President Grant, was released
the other day. by United States Judge Krekel
at Jefferson City, Mo. The case came up on 9
writ Of habeas corpus, the plea of Joyce being
that his sentence of three years and half was
cumulative; that he could not have been legally
sentenced to more than two years imprison
ment and that, having served that period he
was entitled to discharge. The Judge sus
tanned the plea, and ordered the release of the
prisoner.
south.
Deputy United States Marshals Harris an6
PEBBLES were sent by Gen. Patterson, Collector
of the Memphis district, to seize the tobacco
factory of John A. Burton in Henry county
Tenn. They had two men and driver Of a
wagon with them, and seized the factory, and
began loading the machinery on the wagon
when suddenly they were surrounded by
twenty-five armed men and ordered to unload
the wagon, some of the desperadoes insisting
on killing the officers who were forced to aban-
don the work AMI leave. They were glad to
get away with their lives
A band of fifteen Mexican greasers recently
crossed into Texas, entered Rio Grande City,
broke open the Jail, shot Judge Cox and
the jailer, and released two notorious
outlaws. The civil authorities called upon the
military for assistance, and Col. Price with 100
regulars and two Calling guns started in pursuit
of the Mexicans but failed to overtake them.
They recrossed the river and entered Mexico
seventy-seven miles below the Rio Grande.