The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23

ton. Charles W. Angel, who has been Secre-
tary Of the Pullman Palaos Car Company since
IT'S organization, pocketed el2o, 600 q the com
pany's funds, and left for parts unAnown.
A big robbery was committed a the
Palmer House, in Chiosgo, few days ago.
Burglars entered the room Of Henry Freund, a
travelling jeweler from New York, during his
temporary absence, burst open trunk con-
tanning his goods, and rifed it of its contents,
consisting of about $500 worth Of valuable
jewelry. The robbery was committed in broad
daylight, aud was one of the boldest of the
many bold jobs recently executed by the
crooked men that infest the Garden City. The
plumber was subsequently recovered and one
of the burglars captured.
Seven young men, all Swedes. started,
one day last week, in a sail-boat from Moline,
ILL.,, for the purpose Of having good time at
what is known as Duck creek, ON the Iowa side
Of the Mississippi river. When nearly over, and
in the swift current, the boat capsized, and
four of them were drowned.
south.
A desperate ARRAY, growing out of an
old family feud, occurred in the streets Of
Edgefeld, 8. O., few days ago, resulting in
the killing of three men, the mortal wounding
of another, and the serious wounding Of two
others. All the parties engaged in the affair
were white men, and had assembled in town to
nothing to do with the affair.
The August returns to the Depart
ment of Agriculture show an average condi-
ton Of the cotton crop in the ten cotton States
of 95, a decline Of A.
There was a quadruple execution at
Donaldsonville, La, on the 18th Of August,
the victims being all colored men. The muir
der for which they were hanged was pecul-
iarly atrocious one.
A Columbia Is. O. dispatch says that
Gov. Hampton has forwarded to the Governor
Of Ohio requisition asking for the extradition
Of ex-Gov. A. X. Scott, who lives in Napoleon,
Ohio. He is charged with bribery and forgery.
The reports from the yellow-fever in
fected towns Of the South are truly distress
ing. The disease has become alarmingly cpl
demic at Memphis, and the citizens are fleeing
from the plague as fast as they can get away.
The Collector Of Internal Revenue and the
Postmaster have appealed to the Secretary of
War for tents and rations for the poor. Near
ly all the towns in all directions are quaran-
tined against the city. The ravages Of the
epidemic at Grenada have been truly appalling.
The acting Mayor of the town telegraphed
North last week that the town was almost COM
pletely discretionary 800 people left, and half
Of them down with the fever.
A startling sensation was furnished
st. Louis, few days ago, by Josiah +. Col
cord, who has been quite prominent there as a
lawyer and politician. Colcord shot his mis-
tress, a woman named Lille Gibbons, with va
rious aliases, and then committed suicide.
Colcord had given up wife, family reputation,
and everything for this woman, with whom he
was perfectly infatuated.
A New Orleans dispatch of Aug. 20,
says: "Forty deaths yesterday from yellow
fever, and 100 new cases reported. AT least
1000 people are now down with the fever. Nc
further hope entertained of averting terrible
epidemic, which cannot eliminate before the
middle of September" Reports from Mem
phis and Vicksburg, ON the 2Oth repre-
sent the fever as increasing IA Gren-
ada (Miss) dispatch gives a distressing
picture Of the state of affairs in that Inflated
town: 1.-THE town is not merely desoate. II
is so devastated that its condition is one OF
pitiful horror. No one is seen in the streets
except the undertakers, physicians and nurses
going on their hopeless and CHASTITY errands.
In every house, almost, body is waiting fol-
burial-not that there is any ceremony. A
man is taken with the fever, lies down ex-
hausted, falls into state Of collapse or delir-
ium, and in few hours is wrapped i'll the blan'
kets in which he died and hurried to the burial
place. The burial service is omitted, for the
living have no time to think of other services
than those to the sick"