The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-02-08
MISCELLANEOUS aLEANINas.

The North Carolina coast has been the scene
Of another frightful ocean calamity. On the
evening of the 3lst ult the steamship Metrop-
oils, from Philadelphia to Para, Brazil, went
ashore on Currituck beach, three miles south
Of the lighthouse, during the prevalence Of a
| furious southeast gale. Great confusion pre-
vailed on board, and owing to the fury of the
gale and the roaring Of the surf the orders Of
the officers could not be heard. Many of
the passengers and crew were washed ashore.
About 100 are believed to be lost. 1t appears
that the vessel had encountered heavy gales
| from the southeast for twenty-four hours, and
when she struck she was heading about
south-southeast. The Metropolis had on
board 200 railroad laborers bound for Brazil,
nearly half Of whom found watery grave.
WILLIAM WIENERs was hanged at st. Louis
on Friday, the 1st inst, for the murder, in
January last, of A. V. Lawrence, a barkeeper
made to save the condemned man from the
gallows, but the Governor Of Missouri was
memorable. On the same day Joseph Woods
was hanged at Moline n. Y, and Philip Wat
son (colored) was similarly disposed of at Gin
cinnati. The crimes for which this trio OF
culprts suffered death we're all Of peculiarly
atrocious nature.
Business endorsements Althof, Bergman
& Co., toy importers, New York, liabilities
$3.50, 900; the Topeka Bank and Savings Insti-
tute, Topeka, Kan, deposits S14O,O nominal
assets $29O,O00; Eli Parsons hats and cloth
ing, Toledo, Ohio; Cooley, Palmer Il
Co., dry-goods jobbers, Dubuque. Iowa.
Merchants National Bank, Fort Scott, Kan. ;
First National Bank, Kansas City, Mo-; the
Commercial National Bank, Kansas City, Mo-; ;
James Watson, coal dealer, Pittsburgh, Pa, Ii
abilities 800, 900; George Park, manufacturer
Of edged tools, Buffalo, N. Y, liabilities $780,
600, assets Sl1, 900; Peoria Furniture Company,
Peoria, ILL.,. liabilities 1900; Young. Smith
& Co.. sugar importers, New York, liabilities
$3.50, 900; howard, Smelling d Co., coal
dealers, Boston, liabilities S130,00O; the
Easement Savings Bank. Union City, Pa, La
bities $40 900 James H. Batchelder, lumber
dealer, Middlebury, VT, liabilities 100000, as
sets s25,0 Henry McCulloch, stock dealer,
Wells county, Ind, liabilities 100000 DON
ovan, Williams a. Shannon, boots and shoes
Montreal, liabilities 5000, 1000; G. f. Seebold,
china and glassware, St. Louis the Provi-
idence County Savings Bank, Pawtucket, r. 1.
The members Of the Louisiana Returning
Board appealed to Judge Bradley, OF the United
States Supreme Court, to issue writ of certior-
oyi ordering transfer of the cases from the State
to the United States Court. Judge Bradley, in
decision of some length, refused the applica-
ton. The decision sets forth that The Return
ing Board makes application On the ground of
prejudice and inability to secure their rights.
and the fact that the Jury law of 1877 is
hostile to colored citizens. Justice Bradley
says the application raises three ques-
tons First, was the presentation of the petit
ton sufficient TO amend the jurisdiction Of the
State court, or had that court the right to ex-
anime into that sufficicncy? Second, il the
State court had the right to examine, had the
Circuit Court the right to re-examine and issue
a certiorari or other writs? Third if the Cir
cult Court had such rights, did the petition
show sufficient ground TO the first two ques-
tons? Justice Bradley answers that, in the
Jury law Of 1877, there is nothing open to con-
stitutionsl objections, and also the prejudice il
not such cause az warrants transfer. |
Neither the Fourteenth amendment nor the |
Civil-Rights bill was violated. There is no /
State legislation hostile to either.