The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-12-23

George Scoville gave lecture In
Washington to small but sympathetic audi
ence, who passed resolutions approving his
course. He pictured the desire for vengeance
permeating the country called attention to
she constant danger Of the assassination Of
Guiteau and declared that the question OF
capital punishment was itself on trial. He said
the prisoners mail was filed with threatening
letters. and that no Christian minister had
called upon him as q sane murderer to urge re-
pentance.
Mr.. Hatton, acting Postmaster Gen.
eral, has ruled that no supplements containing
advertisements win be admitted to second-class
rates unless the publisher swears that the adj
vertisers paid the same rates in the supplement
as wero charged in the main sheet.
Gen. u. S. Grant and Mrs. Grant will
be the guests of the President during the month
of January.
Postmaster General James has sent
his resignation to the President. He asks
that the resignation take effect about tho
LIST of January, and assigns important and
pressing private business as the reason for the
resignation.
The Secretary of the Interior decides
that the mere fling of declaratory statement
by an alleged pre-empter cannot be considered
as, of itself, sufficient to defeat an entry prior
to the settler who has failed to offer his final
proof within the statutory period, but who, in
all other respects, has complied With the re-
quirements of the law.
The Mississippi River Commission
has made public its annual report, telling in de-
tail the work accomplished this year. An APP
preparation of $4,000 for next year is recon-
mended.
The Senate Appropriations Commit
tee, in its investigation into the management Of
the Treasury Department by John Sherman,
took the testimony of Custodian Pitney last
week. He stated that $500 worth Of stationery
was taken from the department to furnish the
Sherman committee rooms in the last cam
paign, and that The lunch given at that time
was paid from the treasury funds on vouchers
for candles.
Gen. Reynolds, of Chicago, one of
the witnesses in the Guiteau case, says the
sassins memory was something remarkable.
He never knew but one man like him, and that
was r. G. Crawford, sergeant in his regiment
during tho war, who is now serving under the
banner OF the Crescent with the title of
"Pasha."
The subcommittee of the Senate
Committee on Appropriations having in charge
what is known as "the Sherman investigation"
has decided to make its inquiry with closed
doors.
The police of Washington have been
informed that James Uteiy left O'Neill City,
Neb., with the intention of killing George SEQ
vile, and that crank named Foster had armed
himself at Pittsburgh and set out to kill Gut
eau. package addressed to the assassin
was opened and found to contain q piece of
rope.
The Washington Monument Commits
sion will ask Congress for $500, 600 to complete
the work.
Guiteau was called upon at the jail in
Washington by his divorced wife and her hus-
band and little girl, to say good-by. Mrs. Dun
mire was affected to tears. Clark Mills and his
son induced Gulteau to have his beard re-
moved and to submit to the taking Of plaster
cast OF his head.