The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-09-30
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Stanley, the African explorer, was
alive and well on the 4th Of July last.
1t is believed that the downfall of the
present French Ministry is near at hand.
Three Russian Bishops have just been
released from Jail, by order of the Gar, after
confinement of twenty-four years.
The young Queen of Spain is said to
be in an interesting condition"
A London society journal announces
that Queen Victoria desires to originate sub
scription to place a statue of the murdered
President in the Capitol at Washington. An
artist has been commissioned to complete a
bust.
Intelligence has been received in In
dia Of disastrous defeat inflicted by the troops
of the Ameer upon the forces Of Ayoob Khan
in Afghanistan
1t is reported from Washington that
there is hardly doubt that Secretary Hunt, of
the navy, will be superseded by some gentle
man more liked by President Arthur Ii is
stated that Secretary Hunt treated Gen.
Arthur with rather marked discourtesy on one
OCCASION and that he has done notklng since
to remove the bad impression which he then
created. Judge Thomas Settle, who was the
Republican candidate for Governor of North
Carolina in 1876, is mentioned as the most
probable successor to Secretary Hunt.
Senator Frye says the Republicans
will not filibuster against the election of James
A. Bayard to the Presidency pro TEN. of the
Senate.
Gen. Grant predicts that President
Arthur will have prosperous administration.
A tornado swept the city of Quincy,
ILL.,, with great violence. Joel Harris tobacco
factory was blown down and one man killed
and eight injured. The foundry of Bennett.
Duff q Co. was almost wholly demolished.
killing three men and wounding four. Many
buildings were unroofed or damaged and the
telegraph wires were badly wrecked.
A cyclone laid desolate the village of
Camden, Schuyler county, ILL.,, place of sew
eral hundred inhabitants. The wife of DR..
Watts was killed instantly by the falling walls
of her residence, being buried beneath the de-
bris. There were but two houses in the place
that escaped injury.
Recent advices from Arizona report
that the Indian troubles in that Territory are
ended and the hostile Indians are surrender
ing. Agent Tiffany, at San Carlos, telegraphs
that there are 1890 of his Indians on
the reservation, leaving only seventeen
in the White mountains Gen. Carr
did not encounter single hostile
Indian on his recent scout. He did find, how
ever, that the bodies of Capt. Hentig and his
Inflated companions who were slain on the 3Oth
of August had been disinterred and horribly
mutated by the red demons.
The new President is in no hurry to
reach the White House, and seems to be COM
fortably entertained under the roof Of Senator
Jones, of Nevada. This arrangement is the
more agreeable to him because, unfortunately,
he is widower. His wife, to whom he was
tenderly attached and whose loss he mourned
longer than the conventional time, was a sister
OF Lient. Herndon, of the navy, who acquired
fame as the explorer Of the Amazon, and
who met his death while in command of the
Central America, which was lost with all hands
on board. The President has two children, one
IL. He has three sisters, one of whom once
presided over his household after the death OF
his wife and may be induced, il is said, to as
sumo charge of the White House. The Presi-
dents only brother is Major and paymaster
in the regular army.
Nine carpenters, employed by the
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company,