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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

10 Senator Greusels bill for redistricting the
city Of Detroit, and for amending the Police
law Of Detroit.
FRIDAY, April 22.-sENArE.-The Committee
ON Railroads reported with amendments the
preamble and concurrent resolutions on the
subiect of transportation offered by Senator
patterson. As amended, the resolutions re-
quest the Michigan Senator'S and Representar
tiyes in Congress TO favor legislation regulating
the question OF railways, transportation and
storage. The resolutions were adopted. The
Senate bill increasing salaries OF Judges OF the
supreme Court TO $4,000 was reconsidered and
lost. The Committee on State Capitol reported
that an examination of the roof of the Capitol
had been made, and II appeared that the leak
age was from the glass skylights. the glass be-.
ing cracked and broken. The committee re,--
new and improved plan, the present system be
ing failure. Several bills OF purely local
nature were passed
HousE-Many petitions were received for
prohibition in 1882, also Q remonstrance Of the
brewers OF Bay City against the tax which dis
eliminates against the brewers Of this State TO-
the advantage Of foreign brewers. The follow
ing House bills passed: To punish persons
guilty of assault with intent to. do
great bodily harm; to amend section
$685. relative to the verdict Of juries
to amend section 723, relative to constables
security; to make appropriations for repairs,
renewals and additions needed at the Michigan
Asylum for the Insane two bills to make an
appropriation OF State swamp lands for the
construction Of State road in Presque Isle
and Alpena counties Senate bills to divide
Detroit into parallel wards making an appro-
priation of $S7, 300 for the State Public School
at Codwater detaching certain territory from
Quincy, in Houghton county, and attaching it
to Franklin.
SATURDAY, April 23.-SENArE.- The Senate
this morning passed Mr.. Fyfes bill 10 amend
the village charter Of st. Joseph, and adjourned
until next Monday evening.
HoUsE.-The Committee on Agriculture made
favorable report on the bill to encourage the
culture of sorghum and sugar-cane. The fol-
lowing House bills passed: Legalizing the ac-
ton Of the Congregational Society, Of Vernon
regulating the practice in actions against part
ners Of joint contractors amending act W OK
1879 relative to Justices of the Peace amend
ing act N6 OF 1879 relative 10 commencement Of
actions relating to real estate and for labor and
services; amending section 6,748 relative to
the action Of replevin.
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An ARRAY at Troy, N. Y, growing out
Of quarrel over last falls election, resulted in
the instant killing of one man, two others being
fatally shot.
Two explosions of nitro-glycerine at
the Dittman powder-works at Binghamton.
N Y, were followed by the ignition Of 10000
pounds OF sporting powder. NO lives were
lost. The shock was felt forty miles away, and
buildings were shattered aud trees uprooted in
wide circle.
-Four business houses and three dwell
ings in Shamokin, Pa. were destroyed by an
incendiary FIRE. The loss was 100000.
1t has been discovered that domestic
at Middlesex, Pa, named Hattie Meslcy, was
recently buried alive. The agony she endured
was plainly depicted on her face.
The Oriental Print Mills, at Provi-
dence, II. l., were damaged by fire TO the
amount of 1000.
One hundred and fifty Poles and Rus
slams, who arrived at New York on q steamer
infected with smallpox, resisted the quaran-
tine regulations and had to be vaccinated by
force.
Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, President of the
Ladies' Deposit Bank at Boston, has been con-
victed of the frauds with which she stood
charged.
James I. Fields, the well-known au-
thor and publisher, died suddenly in Boston Of
heart disease. He was 81 years old.
West.
The northern wing of the illinois
Southern Hospital for the Insane, located at
Anna, Ill, was destroyed by fire. One patient
persisted in the flames. The loss is estimated
at $500, ZOO.
Reports from every section in Kansas
indicate that the wheat crop promises exceed.
ingly well. Only very small proportion has
been winter killed.
E. r. Blakeslee, a postal clerk on the
New York and Chicago fast mail, was arrested
at Toledo with several packages of opened let
tiers in his possession, and at once confessed
his guilt. He was formerly a Lieutenant
Colonel in the regular army, and owns large
farm near St Johns, Mich.
Floods in the rivers of Illinois and
Wisconsin have caused great damage to prop
erty and some loss of life. part of tho Rock
river dam, at Beloit, Wis, was carried away,
and five men who attempted to cross the river
in q row-boat were drowned. bridge span
ming Rock river, at Rock Island, ILL.,,
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The Comptroller of the Currency up
tional banks finds that AIS banks ia thirty
States and Territories hold Is of 1881 to secure
circulating notes amounting in the aggregate to
$45, 275, $50. Bonds for continuing the out
standing Is Of 1881 at So per cent. are similar
to the original IS, except that they have an in
dorsement Of the conditions.
Friends of Attorney General MacVeagh
say that if William E. Chandler IL confirmed as
Solicitor General the former will decline to as
sign him any court business as he has author
ity to do and will confine Mr.. Chandler TO Office
work. 1t is evident that Mr. MacVeagh is de-
termined to prevent Chandler from becoming
Solicitor General
There is no opposition yet expressed
to Gen. Longstreet's confirmation as United
States Marshal Of Georgia, and it is generally
believed that he will be confirmed by practi-
cally unanimous vote.
Postmaster General James promises
to make his department self-sustaining within
two years.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood, the well-known
female lawyer, is an applicant for the position
Of Minister to Brazil.
An order has been issued making pos
tal-cards unavailable with anything but the di-
rection OH the address side.
President Garfield, who is an enthu-
siast on baseball, received call from the
Princeton nine, two Of whom are SONS of JUS
tice Harlan.
Within two years the annual pay on
ninety three star mail routes was raised from
s727, 119 to s2,sO2,214
1t is understood that the Brazilian
mission will be given to James Monroe, of
Of Illinois.
Rear Admiral Rodgers is to become
superintendent Of the Naval Academy in June,
and Rear Admiral Balch will go to San Fran
cisco and take command of the naval force OH
the Pacific station.
The statue of Admiral Farragut was
unveiled with imposing ceremonies on the 25th
OF April.
With reference to the projected in
vasion Of Indian Terrific y by the Freedmen's
Oklahoma Association, recently organized at
st. Louis, tho Commissioners of the Land Of
fee has made report to tho Secretary of the
Interior, in which he says there is not an
acre Of land in that Territory which is open
to settlement under the land laws Of this coun-
try.
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NEWS OF The WEEK.


The Sultan of the Sooloo islands, In
the Indian ocean, is dead, and civil war haS
broken out over the election Of his successor.
Parnell maintains that the Land bill,
rs at present framed, will not provide the
slightest protection for small tenants, but will
rather tend to their destruction.
The International Monetary Confer
ence was opened at Paris by st. Hilaire, Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs. On motion Of Mr.
Evarts, NJ. Magnin, the French Finance Minis
ter. was chosen President.
A Nihilist manifesto, announcing the
approaching death OF Alexander Ill, has been
received by all the Russian Ministers and court
officials. The Gear still lives at the diminutive
chateau OF Gatchira, guarded by Blk cordons OF
soldiery. He is never seen outside Of the inner
circle.
With force of 10000 Turks, Der
visch Pasha attacked and defeated the Abani-
ans near Uskup.
According to advices from Vienna, the
Emperors Of Austria Germany and Russia Will
meet at Ems in the coming fall. Such meet
ing seems to be probable considering the pres
emit political situation.
Twenty-Five thousand emigrants sailed
from Hamburg for America during January,
February, ana March.
The importation of American pork has
been prohibited by Turkey, and the stock on
hand will be destroyed after an appraisal by
committee Of Americans.
The wooden trade in England is very
much depressed, and several manufacturers of
Bradford contemplate transporting their ma
chinerv to this country.
Five servants in the Imperial Palace
at Constantipople have confessed that they
suffocated Abdul Aziz, the late Sultan, and
opened veins in his arms to make it appear
that he killed himself Three officials are said
to be implicated.
Frohloff, the executioner of the Nj
hilists, has been given 100 lashes because in
the hanging of Michailon the rope bioke
twice.
Bismarck is said to be decidedly
favorable to the maintenance OF the gold
standard
The police of st Petersburg continue
10 seize pruning presses useu lor seultlOus pur-
poses and arrest the workmen.
A ferry-boat crossing the Dneister
river, in Austria, upset, and, according to orc
version, sixty-three persons drowned. Another
account says thirty drowned.
The announcement in the House of
Commons that Gladstone would move an APP
preparation to erect monument to the mcm-
DRY OF Beaconsfeld was received with loud
cheers.
The town of Buena Ventura, in Pana-
ma, was destroyed by fire. The loss was
$1,000,00 Three persons were burned to
death, aud 800 were left homeless and almost
starving.
Catherine Marshall, the 14-year- old
daughter Of railway laborer at Glasgow,
Scotland, has abstained from food since the
commencement Of the year. She drinks a lit
tie water daily, and is greatly emaciated.
John Mccullough made his first APP
pearance In London at the Drury Lane Theater,
in the tragedy Of "virginius," and was highly
successful. He was enthusiastically applauded
by house crowded in every part, and was re-
peatedly called before the curtain.
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The time of the Senate was mainly occupied on
nesdsy April 20, by disc ussion between Mszsrs
Dawes and Jonas 10 whether Massachusetts, or
LouisiAns was most free from crime; speech from
Senator Frye, in which he arraigned the Democrats
for knowingly acting contrary TO the constitution;
brief but excited discussion between Messrs Butler
and Burnside during which the latter repeatedly, ex
citedly and emphatically stated that Buffers
ton that there corrupt bargain between Malone
and the Republicans was false; and the usual spar
ring between Brown and Hoar. The Senate adjourned
without doing any business President Garfield
cent the following nominations to the Senate:
Richard A. Elmer, of New York, To be sec-
ond Assistant Postmaster General, vice Thomas
J. Brady, OF Indiana, resigned; W. A. NJ. Giier, of
Pennsylvania, Third Assistant Postmaster General,
vice A. ID. Hszen, appointed Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Of the Postoffice Department. and George b.
Everett Collector Of Internal Revenue Of the Fifth
district Of North Carolina, vice w. II. Wheeler.
There was the usual waste of time in the
Senate on the slst inst, and more than the average
number OF petty wrsngles Messrs. Dawes and
Cameron had dispute about question Of adjourn
ment; Dawes had discussion with Gall about the
freedom Of voters In Massachusetts,; Dawes had a
dispute with salisbury some trivial natter and
Wade Hampton and Jonas g.orifec their sections.
No business Of any kind was done.
There was another day Of heavy debate in
the Senate on Friday April %, and at its close an
adjournment. was taken until Tuesday, partly 10
enable Senators who live Washington to transact
necessary business, partly to permit the Republicans
to have private conference, and no-ninally to give
the Senate an opportunity to be present at the
ceremonies which will attend the unwilling of
the statue Of the late Admiral Farragut on Monday.
President Garfield sent for some Republican Sem
ators 10 urge them TO relieve his administration
from the embarrassment OF having so many of his
nominations unconfrmed so long. He advised that
the Republicans consent to go into executive session
at early day. Senators Sherman, IIawiey and
Hale are said to be actively urging the Presidents
via
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DOINGS IN CONGRESS.

Senator Blair offered q resolution in the
United States Senate on Tuesday, April 10, which
declares that the public interests require Congress
to be convened Immediately. In support of the
resolution, Mr. Blair stated that recent decision of
the United States Supreme Court meant the ruin of
the hosiery and knit goods industry of New England
unless amendatory protective legislation covering
that point IL adopted He also urged in favor Of his
resolution the necessity of Congressional action in
reference TO the DE Lesseps canal. The deadlock
continued throughout the day, with prospect Of
break. The President nominated Gen. James Long
street now Minister 10 Turkey 10 be United States
eociate Justice Of the Supreme Court OF Utah.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29

SINGLE cream is cream that has stood
on the milk twelve hours. 1t is the best
for tea and coffee. Double cream stands
ON its milk twenty four hours, and cream
for butter frequently stands forty-eight
hours. Cream that is too be whipped
should not be butter cream, lest in whip
ping it change to butter.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-04-29
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Hon. Daniel F. Beatty has been
reelected Mayor of Washington, N. ]. This
will b, his third term.
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was wounded. Gillhurst was killed one son
was fatally wounded, and another well filed
with buckshot.
Thomas De Jarnette, the young man
who murdered his sistr at Danville, Va, be-
cause she had entered upon q life Of shame
has been acquitted upon the ground of in
sanity.
A block of the principal business
houses in Sheridan, Miss, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $780, 900; insurance $4,000
The fire was the work of an iDcendiary.
Sheriff w. F. Beattie, of Crittenden
county, Ark, was killed and Deputy Sheriff
Maddox was dangerously wounded while at
tempting the arrest Of negro burglar.
A sachel of jewelry valued at 80, 900
was stolen from the room OF q travelling sales
man, in a hotel at Baltimore.
Fifteen men rode to the house of Mr.
McLauren, of Edwards county, Texas, and took
the lives of McLauren, his wife, and young
man named Lease, living with them. Nothing
in the house was disturbed. The whole affair
is shrouded in mystery so far.
Lucinda Fowlkes, Virginia negress
who killed her husband, enjoys the honor of
beiog the only women hanged in the Southern
States in twenty years. On the platform she
trembled violently.
The discovery of deliberate scheme
Of general escape in the South Carolina peni-
Tertiary at Columbia was the means of pre-
venting an extensive uprising among the con-
victs, who had provided themselves with axes,
knives, clubs and pieces Of chain, and with
The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1881-09-03

cold nights N suiumcf yesterday
at NJ, the thermometer mark
ed ~, Vt ann W., atl pm, NJ,
and At op mt0tl with The heavy
and almost continuous rain N ihc
mll and winter, would bc sufficient
reputation, even were v hot ptov
en- Us the number of dmg,slorcs,
patent medicines and sleek .look-
ing doctors Fcscfs, aaucs aud
diphthcdh and rheumatism afc
prevalent at nll seasons Typhoid
fever In a family is contagious and
almost as deadly 10 yellow fever,
The older citizens, many Of them
being the rough.and-rcady pio-
ncsrs, who dug gold and Tough,
Indians twenty and thirty ycars
ago. have no sickness, but The
younger ones and those who have
lately moved here from dryer or
warmer countries, have as much
sickness rs the same class in Miss
issippi, A gentleman living in
thi, county has lost -four sons with
in two years, and other families
two and three within less time.
But, Mr.. Editor, perhaps ! have
made this latter too long because
Of lack Of interesting items so
will close by advising my South
crn farming friends not to come TO
Oregon to follow the same ayoca-
ton, unless they wish to do more
hard work and for less money.
My best wishes Tor the STAR
and its readers. ]. w. ).
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Creie's Oldest Citizen Dead.

Crete has lost its oldest inhabi-
tant, Konstantinos Arios, a landed
proprietor, lately residing in the
neighborhood OF Rettimo, who died
about fortnight ago, at the nnu-
sually advanced age Of IIo. This
venerable gentleman in his early
youth followed the plow and herd
ed oxen for a wealthy miller, whose
only daughter fell in love with him
and insisted upon marrying him
before he completed his nineteenth
year. She brought him a goodly
| dowry in land and cattle, which
enabled him to commence farming
Ion his own account exactly CEN
mry ago. Since the year 1881 he
has lived upon bis small estate
| except when political troubles have
compelled him to seek safety in
fligh, from the wrath Of the
! Turkish authorities. or the ten
} Sultans under whose success
siye reigns he lived, he fought
. against six in Intellectual endeayo'
|, 10 achieve his native country's IN
'. dependence, and was four severa
times prescribed, banished an'
n pardoned. lie married an an,
: buried five wives, and survived al
Il his brothers and sisters, nephew
|. and nieces, and eleven OF his owl
children. His faculties were uil
= Impaired dawn to the very day
d his death, and only last year, hay
ing been elected mayor Of his "
laee, he fulfilled his mlnieipl
functions with unaba ed aetisi'
and intelligence. ltseems scare
at IL credible that, within the pa
X month, a man was living, hale ar
N hearty, who had been a stnrt
= s,riplinp when Frederic the Ore
ns sat upon the Prussian throne al
mt ,he British colonies 10 Nor
ch America declared their indepe
ke dcnee Of the mother country.
London Daily Telegraph.
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nn. t'aIilcld's Cone lion.

Washington special to the
F'on Star says: The announce
pit is made, upon official inior-
|ton furnished BY the Presidents
PLY physician, OF a fact which
b greatly intensity public inter-
IN the Presidents case and add
he sorowinl features OF it il he
aid die. The news related to
condition Of Mrs. Garfield.
elady, as the public already
'ws, has been very in since her
'enl at the White House. Her
knsss dates almost from inau-
saon day. AT the time the
Fadent was shot Mrs. Gar6eld's
dlsion was so critical that the
neians who attended her al
q Branch all but despaired Of
recovery. After her recall to
M.L-
salngton BY Guiteau's crime,
asrolc character Of the lady
as'o strongly appealed to, as
20 Itself, and from that tim,
aA apparently been much bet
asnow announced that it's ex'
lin N,vember next, sh,
ossome a mother again. Mrs
aeid was married to the Presi
|. N 1853 in her 11d year an
= '7'h. She is now in he
year. When il is stated tht
= GaFheld's case was cn,irel
understood up to the time
attempted assassination, an
''ly atthat time was its re
:. made known to her and Il
'snt, Guiteau's act seen
edep'orablc than ever. II
a' ! announcement will car
% the American people
va o. the patient herois
! = aas'inspired the noble for
..' q the illustr!bus sufferer
"l''e House and that Of
''d wife during the long a
weeks Of their .mparallel
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NOTES or The BAY.

Mr.. Bookwaltcr, the Democratic
candidate for Governor OF Ohio,
went 10 a trades-union picnic at
Cleveland the other day and
danced with the girls.
Major Daniel, the Democratic
candidate for Governor oil Viz
pinia, on Tuesday sent to Gov.
3Iollilay his resignation as State
Senator from the Campbell and
Lynchburg district.
The Jewish Messenger comes
out in favor of removing the
women's gallery and letting wives
sit with their husbands in the
synagogue, and also for abolish.
inp ali restrictions upon their hold
ing religious offices.
/ A British taxpayer, in an article
published in the London Echo
estimates Queen Victoria's sortun'
Al $4,000, 600. Her annual in
: come from the government an
from the profits Of her invests
capital amounts to about S3,a5o'
I, Geo, over half Of which she saves
Y There Is great excitement !
; Long Branch over the death
J. Mrs. Kate Griggs, the wife of {
d X. Criggs, the contractor an
y lessee oi The Wheeling and LaI
It Erie railroad. from blood poisol
d ing. alleged to have been cause :.
h hy using an anti-fal mcdicin
4 She confessed TO have taken
: bottles Of the anti-iat medicine
ten months.
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P A 7 ( N 7 s

Outlined for new Inventions OF improvements IN cid
ones. Caveats inlrngments, Itade-Alarka aHd all
psient business promptly attended 10.
tnvsntlan. thai have been .IFlsgtsd say still 10
m,-i taats patented hy us, Being opposiiethe u.
=. Patent Ofle, aui engaged In patent business ca
rlualEalT wv can secure patents w less TINE than
those xha are remots from Washington,
when inventors .sni model ~ ,knich, W. make
search In the iicni once and adi,ss a. 10 IT. rai
sntsbllity free of charge Correspondents cynhdsn.
tsl Ices reasonable aud M charge un!rss patent
ohiiirrd wstefrr By Permission 10 the tlty post.
master aud ~ the superintendent Of the post Vlcs
money order division IN Washington. For spseis
rsisfsgts eifeulsfi, slrlsc, terms. as., AddIes.-
e. A. SNOW AGO.
OpDaslis Palsnt Oftts. Washington. u. q.
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mllfmfns MNAl

N migneala spring haa bron Me
gcm Hawthorn, Fla
Nashville has d drst.eIass boy
numbering my mcmbcrs
a Boston company will start an
immense iannery At Dalton, Ga
A slS.footcd pig "A the rcigning
curiosity In CollcIon county, n. G.
The first bale Of cotton brought
to Fort Smith, Ark, sold for only
5000.
"A new grain elevator In Rich.
mond, Va. will have a 10000
bushcl capacity.
In some parts Of Tennessee not
enough grain will be preserved for
seed next year.
Colorcd pupils will not be adj
mitled to the University Of Ten
nessce at Knoxville.
For nearly month the county
Jail at Greenwood, Miss, held not
single prisoner
A large amount Of lumber is
shipped from Wilmington, North
Carolina, to iiayd.
The present drouth in sections
Of Kentucky has not been cqualed
for seven years.
There are 900 Baptist churches
for white people in Mississippi
with 10000 members.
Vicksburg expects a better bus,
mess season this year than she ha'
had for twenty years.
Property in Montgomery coun
ty, Ala, has increased in assess
ment nearly halt a million dollars
The Spanish government ha.
contracted for $500 hogsheads o
Kentucky and Virginia tobacco.
a series Of lectures will proba
bly, be delivered during the Allan
ia Exposition by prominent men.
At the recent Prohibition con
vcn,ion at Jackson, Miss, fort
counties were represented BY .S
delegates.
The mines Of North Carolin
have in the past five years adde
; one million dollars TO the wealth
the nation.
Irish potatoes sold last week
Hot Springs, Ark, at four dolla
a bushel and cabbage at one do
lar a piece.
: There Is some talk Of a Nor
$ Carolina colony where there "
h be no beer saloons, churches, mi
: isters or lawyers.
The cotton crop in South Car
lima promises threc-fourths OF
' crop, corn one-half and sorghu
= ,wo-thirds Of crop.
n Henry Chambers, a seventies
n year old farmer, was the first
i send a new bale OF cotton into t
C market at Enterprise, Miss.
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HUNTSVILLE FEMALE COLLEGE,
HUNTSVILLE. ALABAMA.

The ihirty.second year begins AuEis,
~, A mosr healthy location cannot he
sand. The College was never ~ more
,sasne,oas condition. A full Faculty Of
sho,nsgh teachers. splendid baildlHgs, ard
s.d ! eouple,e o-,ht for all departments,
,;,e,s,r. M x,ussc; languages and art. Ohsfs
tbs hirhss, advantages. a delightful Home
for prrlss Prices r<d"eed 70 ~" ne
,ime-. Special Inducements offered. fos
Terms and New Cassiouxss. sddrvss
Res, a y. Iosss A. ". Pre-.
1uiy ,.tn