The true northerner., 1880-03-12
Us of
,b72. .792
5ssels In the
busheIs Of wheat,
IA 37,36S bushels Of
De Kalb county, Mo-,
prominent lawyer, became
int home and began abusinQ

Bnt home and began abusing
the son. aged 81. inteIfered
0llb6 to scare mis- father, he drew re-
volver and fred, tho load striking the father in
the heart. killing him instantly.
Miss Jessie Raymond has withdrawn
her suit for seduction against Senator Hill, of
Georgia, and signed a paper acknowledging
that she has no claim against that gentleman,
that he is entirely innocent, and that the suit
was begun by Miss Belva Lockwood, the
woman lawyer. withouther (Raymond's) knowl-
edge or consent.
The people of Western Missouri and
Eastern and Southern Kansas are greatly agi-
tated over the military preparations to prevent
incursions of settlers into the Indian Territory.
Indignation meetings are being held, at which
the Presidents course d vigorously denounced.
Chief Douglass, one of the Ute pris-
oners confined in Fort Leavenworth, escaped
| from the guard-house by jumping from sec
| ond-story window. He was pursued for half
| a mile, and recaptured after desperate strug-
| gle.
A bill to restore capital punishment
| in Wisconsin has been defeated by the Wiscon-
sin Legislature.
A violent wind-storm or series OF
storms swept over a wide section of the West
| on the night of the 4th inst, causing immense
destruction of property and considerable loss
of life. Indianapolis, Cleveland, Toledo, and
Louisville suffered severely by the blow
Charles Colby was hanged at Santa
Cruz, Cal, on Friday the 5th inst On the
same day two Missouri murderers paid the
penalty of their crimes-Walker Kilgore at
Mexico, AID Joseph Core at Lebanon.
Much of the fall-sown winter wheat
in Central Wisconsin has been ruined by the
alienation of freezing and thawing weather
the past winter.
A man died in Chicago, the other day,
of hydrophobia, communicated two months be-
fore by the bite of dog.
A 15-year-old son of Prof. Willard, of
Chicago, committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head with pistol.
The stockholders have reorganized
the Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Louisville
Railroad Company, and changed its name to the
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St Louis and Chicago
Railway Company.
A lad of 18, of Columbus, Ohio, has
become insane from the bite of dog received
over year ago.
Thomas W. Keene, who was the most
popular leading man ever in San Francisco, has
made himself exceedingly popular in Chicago
during several engagements in subordinate
capacity with combinations. He now has or
gsnized troupe for the production of new
play called The Two Mothers" playing the
principal part himself. This play he is pro-
ducing ar McVicker's this week to first-rate
houses. In substance the story recites the
well-known Tichborne case, varied sufficiently
to meet the requirements of good acting piece
and satisfactory one. During the present
Boston season "The Two Mothers" was
played, and the verdict was decidedly favor
able. A fine cast, and good scenery, of course.
The Chinese agitation in San Fran
cisco has been the source of considerable ex-
citement, and not little apprehension, among
the business men in that city. The armories
of the local militia regiments are closely guard
ed, and Gen. Mcdowell commanding the
Division of the Pacific, has been instructed by
the President to move all available Federal
troops in his district to that city at once. The
workingmen are considerably excited over
these movements, and many OF them
assert that the authorities are trying to
force quarrel on them. Mean
time the eastward exodus of the Cinnamon con-
tinues. Nearly every train carries away lot.
Most of them go to the manufacturing districts
of the Eastern States; few stop in Chicago,
St LOUIS, and other Western cities, while few
others are directing their steps to the cotton
fields Of the South
The Kansas Insane Asylum at Osa-
watomie has been destroyed by fire.
South
An appalling tragedy was enacted In
Newberry county, s. O., the other day.
farmer named Sherman, while laboring under
temporary fit of insanity, murdered his wife
and brother by cutting their throats with a
keen-edged knife, and then ended his own life
| in the same manner
Four men living near Careysville,
KY, opposite Shawneetown, Ill, were drowned
in the Ohio river, last week, by the capsizing
of a skif.
The sale of the New Orleans and Mo-
bile railroad has been ordered by the courts
Judge Hayes, of the United States
Courtfo the district of Kentucky, is dead.
Efforts are being made by Mississippi
planters to get Chinese to work on the plan
tations in place of the negroes, who are leav-
ing in hordes for Kansas and other States
North.