The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-01

quality. Wheat is considered entirely ont of
danger. Reports from heinteriorof Wisconsin
are very favorable ArNe
A run of four weeks in midsummer
is rare event for any play in Chicago Never
theless Engaged by Mr.. Gilbert, concludes
its fourth successive week at Mcvickers
Theater next Saturday, having drawn good
houses all the time. This shows what good
piece, well mounted and with first-rate actors,
will do, even in July, and should be proof to
managers that the public will patronize good
amusement at any time
South.
Joseph Standing, a Mormon preacher,
was recently shot and killed by mob of ten
men in Catoosa county, Ga.
Five new cases of fever and seven
deaths at Memphis on the 22d of July. The
exodus Of citizens was going on at rapid rate
Two colored military companies volunteered
their services to protect the property Of the
city.
At Memphis nineteen new cases of
yellow fever were reported to the Board Of
Health on the 23d of July. City very quiet,
and people leaving as fast as they could get
away. It was estimated that there were less
than 5000 people in the city liable to the fever,
and this number would be vastly reduced only
for the brutal conduct of the railroads in de-
manding full fare from all refugees. The en-
tire South is now quarantned against the ILL
starred city. .-
At Owenton, KY, the jury in the
Buford case, after being out eighteen hours,
brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree. and fixed his punishment at i'm
prisonmeut in the penitentiary for life.
Memphis had eighteen new cases of
fever and five deaths on July "a.
d. A. January, one of the oldest mer.
chants and most influential citizens of ST. Louis,
Mo-, is dead, aged 65.
The Directors of the st. Louis Mer-
chants Exchange have adopted resolution
according members of the Memphis Chamber
Of Commerce the privilege of transacting bust
ness on the floor of the st. Louis Exchange for
ninety days.
The number of new cases of yellow
fever reported to the Memphis Board of Health
on July rs was eleven; number of deaths, ten.
A telegram from Memphis of that date says:
The weather continues warm and fair and
there is little change in the deep gloom and
death like stiffness that has prevailed in this
community for the last day or two. With the
exception of the little hustle attending
the departing of steamers and the few
persons quietly making their way to the
nj Chor1o he
only outlet left open, there is but
little evidence of life are to be seen. The drug
clerks, doctors, telegraphers and undertakers
alone are kept busy. The fever, at first con-
fined to the Jones avenue and Clay street neigh
borhood, is now gradually spreading to all parts
of the city, and it is only question of material
to work upon for it to appear n any unex-
pected spot. OF 10000 people remaining in
that city, over 1900 are colored. The colored
people are not in favor of the proposed camp
scheme, not liking the idea of being removed
from the city," Cincinnati dispatch
says: Passengers on steamers from Memphis
speak of the quarantine along the route as the
most rigid ever heard of. The people are wild
in their determination to keep out Yellow Jack
AT Hickman, KY, passenger on the Vint
Shirkle, from Memphis, being forbidden to
land, gave the officers the slip and got ashore
The people spotted him out and chased him to
the woods with shot-guns." A St Louis tele-
gram says the Mayor of that city had "tele-
graphed the National Board of Health that
yellow-fever refugees from Memphis are ar
irving in such large numbers that the establish
ment of quarantine became necessary He
asks that tents and rations for 600 persons
for thirty days be forwarded at once"
At Memphis, on the 26th of July,
thirteen new cases Of yellow fever and three
deaths were reported to the Board of Health,
and on the 9th there we're fourteen new cases
and nine deaths. The President of the
Board of Health had gone so far as
to write proclamation declaring the fever
epidemic, but, at the solicitation of a
large number of business men, decided
not to issue II. A committee of safety
had been appointed to devise measures for the
good of the city. The health authorities of
Illinois and Missouri are considering the feast
bility OF maintaining floating quarantine for
refugees. There were three well-developed
cases Of fever in New Orleans on the 9th of
July, all Of them in the upper part of the city
Thirteen new cases of yellow fever
and one death from the disease, at Memphis,
on July 70 A census of the city, taken by
special policemen, showed the population to be
1910. Whites, 4,2s3; colored, IL 1927; adults,
1o,65l; children, $3.50 or the whole, 9,743
have had the fever, leaving 1867 susceptible to
the disease.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Defaar, an old
couple living in the country, not far from At
lanta, Ga, were recently murdered in their
bed by some unknown ASSASSIN, their heads
being almost severed by blows with an Ak.
Robert w. Johnson, Representa-
tive from Arkansas from 1s47 to 1853, and
Senator in Congress from that time to 1861,
died lately at his residence in Little Rock, after
a lingering illness of two weeks.
POLITICAL POINTS.