The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-30
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

John E. Leete, the Louisiana witness,
has been adjudged insane by commission OF
New York physicians, and sent to an asylum.
William Niblo, the founder of the
theater in New York known as Niblo's Garden,
is dead. Deceased was a native of Ireland,
and was SO years old He leaves large fort
une.
At trial of speed at Hartford, Ct,
the other day, the horse Rarus trotted the
three fastest consecutive mile heats on record,
viz: 215, 2:1911, 2:13sl.
A number of deaths have occurred at
Hyde Park, near Boston, within few days,
from working a lot OF Siberian curled hair,
sent from New York. 1t was in filthy condi-
ton when received, and was sent back. The
next lot contained some also in a bad condi-
tion and it was from this that ten people died.
West.
Chicago elevators contain 637, 239
bushels of wheat; 2,166,757 bushels of corn
526,777 bushels of oats; 1396SS bushels Of
rye, and 259 344 bushels of barley, making a
grand total of 1928, sos bushels, against q
1866 bushels at this period last year.
The President will be at the Wiscon-
sin State Fair, at Madison, Sept. TO-
Advices from Oregon report Indian
troubles on the Columbia river. Several peo-
pie have been killed by the Havages, and Gen.
Howard, with force of regulars, has been
sent to the scene of the threatened outbreak.
south.
Reports from the fever-scourged towns
of the South on Aug. % represent the disease
as on the increase. There were over 100 new
cases reported in New Orleans, and about 30
deaths. There was large increase in the
number of cases reported at Memphis and the
and suffering are increasing with the spread Of
the fever" A Grenada CIiss.) dispatch says
"Five per cent. of the whole population have
died. Seventy five negroes were taken down
to-day. The New Orleans doctors are dumb
founded at the malignity Of the disease. Our
efforts are paralyzed for want of proper rene
dies. We are short Of lemons, rice, beef, tea
and in fact all kinds of nourishment for the
sick" Vicksburg reports fifty new cases
of fever and twenty-four deaths. wild panic !
prevailed at Jackson, Miss. People were hee- |
ing from the pestilence in every direction |
deserted. Memphis, Grenada, and other places
have made pteous appeals for help, and the
cry is being literally responded to by Northern |
cities. New York, Philadelphia, Chicago Mil |
waukee, and other cities have forwarded liberal |
donations to the plague-infected districts.
Food for 10000 persons for one day
has been shipped from Chicago to Memphis |
for the relief of the we low-fever sufferers, by
order Of the Commissary General
Reports from the plague ridden Sec
tons Of the South up to Aug. "a show the fever |
to be still on the incr ease with no early pros
pect of abatement. New Orleans dispatch |
says "the disc ase is manifest in every portion |
of the city, though the Creole section in the |
old city is most exempt. One-quarter Of the
deaths are of the destitute in the public |
institutions. Destitute sick are hourly |
found by the police, and sent to
the Charity Hospital. The disease
Is spreading all over the southern section of
the State. Physicians have no hope Of stay
ing the disease, which must run its course.
There will be daily increase probably for
some weeks, except radically cold weather in
tervenes." At Vicksburg the situation is repre-
sented as truly appalling 1.-THE fever is rap
idly increasing, aud there is no telling where the
destruction Of life will end. There are at this
time full 600 persons down with il. The col
pred population are suffering terribly. Already
whole families have been swept away, leaving