The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-11-21
xIsoELLANEoUs oLuANINQO.

Recent deaths: LII. LOVlck Trlce,
the father of Methodism in Georgia, aged 95;
Richard Schell, prominent financier and Dem
ocratic politician of New York city; William ID.
Blocher, for several years proprietor OF the
Little Rock Ark Gazette; Robert Davis, the
wealthiest man in Marshall county, Ill Rear
Admiral A. II. Kiltey, United States navy, aged
70; Mrs McCook, mother of the famous fight
ng McCooks, of Ohio.
A desperate fight is reported to have
taken place on the 10th inst at Candelaria
mountain, fifty miles south of Ell Paso, Texas,
n the State of chihuahua, Mexico, between
large band of Indians, about 200, and party
of fifty men from Cariza, New Mexico. Thir-
ty two of the latter were killed and eighteen
escaped, wounded. The Indians were the same
party that Maj. Morrow was after. The party
after them was ambushed by the Indians be-
hind rocks. The fight lasted all day.
The importation of meat" cattle
from Canada into the United States has been
officially prohibited by the authorities at Wash
ington, On account of the pleuro- pneumonia
now prevalent in Canadian herds.
The following is the condition of
wheat, tobacco and corn, as reported by the
Department Of Agriculture at Washington:
Wheat-Returns show an increase in the wheat
crop of 20, 600 600 bushels over lastyea This
great increase is the result of large yield in
all the States bordering on the OHIO river and
the Missouri. The Northwestern States show
little variation from last year. Kansas and
California both decline in yield. Texas of all
the Southern States, is the only one that falls
off in the yield this year. Tobacco-The indi-
Gated product for the entire country is ~ per
cent of that OF 1873. Corn-The crop prom
Uses an increase of over 200, 100000 bushels, or
nearly Is per cent. over last year. The Atlantic
and gulf coast States note some decrease, but
other sections of the Union have greatly in
creased their yield. The Southern inland
States increase nearly 80 per cent over other
sections; Mississippi valley nearly 20 The
Pacific States report about the same yield as
last year.
Advices from Cuba received in New
York by mail show that the insurrection in that
island is formidable one. The patriots have
defeated the Spaniards in one pitched battle,
and are gathering in force for an advance on
Puerto Principe 1t is expected by their lead
ers that thousands of slaves will Join them, and
that by the time reinforcements from Spain ar
rive the insurgents will be prepared to deal
with the augmented army of the Captain
General
Late advices from Havana indicate
that the Cuban instruction is more formidable
than the meager accounts hitherto have in
dicated. There have been several important
engagements, in which both sides claim to have
been victorious, but the weight of the testimony
is in favor of the insurgents, who are organic
ing in large numbers.
The United States Supreme Court
has just rendered decision declaring the
Federal law relating to trade marks to be I'M
constitutional This decision operates to
destroy the value of some 5000 trademarks
now registered in the United States Patent
Office and to throw out about 800 applications
for registry now pending.
A new ocean telegraph cable has just
been laid across the Atlantic, from Brest,
France to Cape Cod, Mass. This makes the
fifth Geographic cable connecting Europe and
America
Fires In the Auburn On. " prison,
loss $4,000; at Lake City, Mimi, loss ESQ, 600;
a tannery ut Darlington, Ohio loss $4,000.