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The Chinese Bill.

The bill to suspend Chinese immigration has
passed the United States Senate, and will in
all probability go through the House and Sc
cure the approving signature of the President.
The measure proposes to go right to the heart
OF the so-called evil Section suspends"
the coming Of Chinese laborers to the United
States for twenty years. Section 2 provides fine
and Imprisonment for the master Of vessel
who shall bring such laborers. Section 3 exempts
the Chinese already in the United States, and
section requires them to register il they de-
sire to leave the country at any time and re-
enter. Sections 8, 6 and establish u system Of
registration for privileged classes of Chinese en-
titled to travel IN this country. Sections and 10
regulate the lanGing of Chinese passengers
having passports. Section ii forfeits the yes
sci of master knowingly violating the provis-
ions Of the act. Other sections prescribe the
duties Of consular officers, fix the penalties OF
persons aiding in an unlawful landing of
Chinese, or the entry OF Chinese by land
route into the United States, and prohibit such
coming by land. Diplomatic officers of China
are excluded from the requirements of the act
concerning passports and the naturalization OF
all Cinnamon IL prohibited
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JUDGE BLATCHFORD.

The President NOminates Him for
Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court.
The President sent to the Senate, on the 18th
inst, the name Of Judge Samuel Blatchford,
of New York, to fill the vacancy on the Supreme
bench created by the retirement Of Justice
Hunt, and which had been SUCCESSFULLY de-
clined by Messrs. Conkling and Edmunds.
Judge Batchford was formerly law partner
of the late VIM. II. Seward, at Auburn, was
appointed by President Lincoln to be United
States District Judge OF New York,
and was subsequently promoted to be
United States Circuit Judge, which po
sition he now occupies. He has been Oh
the bench a number of years and is 65 years
old.
CoNKIISG's AND EDMUNDs' LETTERS OF DECIIN
ALTON.
The following letters in reference to the
vacant Associate Justiceship of the United
States Supreme Court have been made public
229 NASSAU STREET, N. Y, March 3.
Mr. PRESIDENT Absence prevented prompt
acknowledgment of your two esteemed letters
which were found here awaiting my return
from Utica The high and unexpected honor
you prefer by selecting me as an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court OF the United
States is greatly valued. IL will ever be mat
ter of pride and satisfaction that you and the
Senate have deemed me ut for 30 great and ex-
allied q trust. DuL IOr TeasOu you WOulu nOt
fail TO appreciate am constrained to decline.
Although urgent demands on my time just now
prevent my accepting your cordial invitation to
pass few days with you in Washington, let me
hold this as a pleasure deferred, but not lost.
have the honor TO be, sincerely, your obedient
servant. ROSCOE CoNKIING.
His Rxcellency the President.
EDMUNDs FIRST DECLINATIoN.
WASHINGTON ID. c.. March 6, 1882.
Mr. PRESIDENT l have received through
the secretary of State your very fattering offer
of appointment as Associate Justice Of the
Supreme Court. l thank you sincerely for
this highly-valued proof of your good
opinion, but feel, for reasons that l ought
not to accept. 1 shall cherish this mark Of
your kindness and good opinion-though did
not need this proof of it--as one OF tue most
pleasant of my life. / am, sir. very faithfully
yours. GEORGE +. EDMUNDs.
SECOND DECLINATIoN.
1411 MASSACHUSETTS, AVENUE, March IL.
Mr. PRESIDENT / am deeply touched at the
manifest consideration you have shown mo in
connection with the Associate Justiceship, but
further reflection has not enabled me to change
the views / expressed to Mr.. Frelinghuysen
With sincere hope that you have experience
no embarrassment from the delay your kind
ness has caused am faithfully yours,
GEO. +. EDMUNDa.
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LATER NEWS ITEMS.

It is stated in responsible quarter
that the letter written to ex-Secretary Chase by
Gen. Garfield touching Gen. Rosecrans, re-
Gently made public, was given out by Mr..
Jacob w. Schuckers. Mr.. Sohuckers now lives
in New York city. At the time Mr.. Chase
was Secretary of the Treasury he lived
In Ohio and was appointed from that
State by Secretary Chase to a 81, 900 clerkship.
Subsequently he became Mr.. Chases private
secretary. 1t is also said he has other letters,
bearing on the removal of Gen. Rosecrans,
written by ex-President Garfield, which will BIO
made public at an early day.
Mrs. Winnifred Lally died in Chicago,
the other day, at the ripe age Of 108 years.
She was born in County Galway, Ireland, III
l773, and settled IN Chicago in 1889.
A fire ut Winnipeg consumed eleven
frame stores, by which 100000 was swept
away.
The residence of William Stewart,
near Greensburg, Ind, was burned to the
ground, and Mrs. Mary McElroy, LOG years Of
age, persisted in the flames.
Samples of -four made from Hun
gary, were exhibited On the Chicago Board
of Trade, and the quality was pronounced gu
perb.
The nomination of John Russell
Young as Minister to China was made to please
Gen. Grant, who has been asking this appoint
ment for long time for his friend.
In Costa Rica, Central America, four
towns are reported to have boon destroyed by
an earthquake. Thousands of persons were
killed, and tho survivors are destitute and
homeless.
j. M. Davis, Deputy United States
Collector, who had made himself peculiarly oh,
noxious to manufacturers of crooked whisky
was ambushed and shot to death by moonshin-
ers near McMinnville, Tenn.
Two hotels at Biddeford, Me-, were
swept away by flames.
At sale of coins in New York Con-
were struck, brought 1870.
Mrs. Sarah E. Howe, of Boston, has
been sentenced to three years imprisonment in
the House of Correction for her swindling
operations in connection with the Ladies' De-
post Bank.
The sprightly little Lolita, whom the
late John Brougham characterized as a "dra-
matte cocktail is playing to immense business
at Mcvicker'S Theater, Chicago, the seats being
bought ahead for several days. She has new
play, called "Bob," in which she appears to
better advantage than in any character she has
hitherto essayed. She has q good company
supporting her. and tie performances are
thoroughly delightful
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANIN0s.

The unseemly quarrel among the
doctors in attendance upon the late President
Garfield has been reopened. DIR. Boynton has
written letter to DIR. Baxter, Medical Pur-
voyor Of the United States army in which he
asserts that Dr. Bliss was never placed in charge
Of the Presidents case by any member Of the
Presidents family, and that he was continued
entire case. Upon the back Of DIR. Boynton's
letter is an Endorsement by Mrs. Garfield Of the
truth of the statements therein made. DIR.
Baxter has circulated this letter among Sena-
tors and members of Congress in order to de-
feat Dr. Bliss bill, included in the report of the
committee charged with auditing the expenses
attendant upon Garfeld's illness.
The farmhouse of John Taylor, near
Meadowlea, Manitoba, took fire and was des-
troyed during o blizzard, and his wife and
three daughters were frozen TO death on the
bleak prairie.
Militia marksmen, who, in State con-
tests, SCORE 152 out Of q possible 2l0, will be
eligible to the Creedmoor team that will shoot
against the British rihemen.
The Union Pacific road held its an
nual meeting in New York. Sidney Dillon was
reelected President, and a quarterly dividend
of Ia per cent. was declared.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany last year reported a gross revenue Of
S16 1858, 396. Their expenses were SO, 4S9, 269,
and their net profits S7,379,l27.
James w. Scoville, counsel for Gui-
teau, declares that three or four days after
the shooting OF President Garfield secret ses-
sion OF the Cabinet was held, at which Col.
Corkhil his assistant, and officers Of the Secret
and Detective Service were present After a
general interchange OF views, the unanimous
opinion of the party was that the prisoner was
undoubtedly crazy, yet, after all, Mr.. Corkhill
persisted in the prosecution, although it was
evident from Mr.. Macvcaghs actions in the
matter that he did not take any stock in this
theory. The latter repeatedly stated his belief
that Guiteau was crazy. not responsible for his
act, and would not take any steps TO convict
him of murder
Capt. Mead, of the United States
steamer Vandalia, reports that the Panama
Canal Company has cleared the route Of trees
and underbrush for width Of 800 yards.
Sergeant Mason, who fired at Guiteau,
has been sentenced by court-martial to dis
honorable discharge from the army and to be
confined at hard labor for eight years in the
Albany penitentiary. Gen. Hancock has given
the verdict his approval.
The sentence of eight years to hard
labor imposed upon Sergeant Mason, while
Guiteau is not hung, does not meet with APP
proval in any quarter. Army officers chsrac-
terizo the sentence as unjustifed.
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FOREIGN NEWG

Customs officers at Moscow found dy-
secret press was discovered at Odessa, and
several Nihilists were arrested.
A st. Petersburg dispatch to the Lon
don Times states that Skobcleff's famous
speech was put-up job between him and Gen.
Ignatieff for the benefit of the latter.
The Pope is about to create seven new
Cardinals, Rev. DIR. McCabe, of Ireland, the
anti-Land Lacquer, being one Of the number
Twelve hundred persons were present
at bimetallic meeting in London, seven coun-
tries being represented. The Governor of the
Bank Of England advocated the free coinage
OF silver.
Thirty Jews, with an aggregate CAPT
tai OF $4,000 rubes, have left Russia to become
farmers in Palestine.
A Constantinople dispatch to the Lon
don Times says it is feared in official circles
that war between Russia and Austria is newt
able. Tie question of calling out the reserve
is being seriously discussed.
Louis Falcon, of Antwerp, has sus-
pended payment, with liabilities between e.
600, 900 and G9, 100000
MacLean, the Queens assailant, was
committed for trial on charge of high treason.
On being arraigned. he said he would reserve
his defense. He declined to cross-examine
witnesses. His interests were watched by so
ictor. The evidence was merely q repetition
of what is already known concerning his at
tempt on the life of the Queen. 1t overwhelm-
ingly confirmed the statement that his pistol
was sufficiently elevated when he fred for the
bali to have struck her Majesty.
The Rev. Henry Highland Garrett,
United States Minister to Liberia, died at
Monrovia on the 18th Of February.
Cholera of violent type has already
made its appearance at Allahabad, ,.Hindoostan,
where the pilgrims usually gather, and it is at
this sacred spot that the plague usually starts
in its periodical marches around the world. We
may expect it in the United States in 1883, &C
cording to the seventeen-year theory.
Skobeleff is on the best of terms with
the Car and his Minister of War.
Gladstone has carried his point in the
House of Commons. His resolution against
the inquiry into the operations of the Land act
by the Tory committee Of the House OF Lords
was adopted by vote Of 800 to 235.
At meeting the Council of the Aus
trian and Hungarian Ministers at Vienna the
Minister of War gave assurances Of a speedy
termination of the trouble with Herzegovina.
Very grave complaints have been
made of late Of the fraudulent packing Of sand
in American cotton bales So much so that the
American Consul at Manchester has made per-
sonal investigation and reports the charges
proved.
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Wedding Pines.

The city of Gouda, so famed for the
old stained glass in the cathedral, and
more generally associated with the
manufacture of Dutch pipes, is about
fifteen miles from Rotterdam. Among
the variety of pipes made there is one
c;lSed the wedding pipe; it is three feet
three inches long in the stem; the bowl
is ornamented with coats-of-arms. INT
Dutch make festivals of the copper we'd
ding, the silver wedding, the golden
wedding and the diamond wedding. On
the occasion of the copper wedding the
stem of the pipe is ornamented with
copper leaves twining all the way up the
stem, and at each successive festival the
leaves are renewed according to the date
of the commemoration, which seldom
passes the golden. In Amsterdam once
saw a diamond-leaved pipe which had
been prepared for a seventy-fifth we'd
ding.-Good Words.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Attorney General Brewster believes
that evidence was at the command Of the Gov
ernment that would secure the conviction of
many If not all Of the star-route conspirators.
The Postmaster General has directed
that after July no allowance will be made TO
Postmasters for advertising dead letters, unless
authority is first obtained from the First Assist
ant Postmaster General
A Western delegation appeared before
he W avs and Means Committee last week and
made an argument against the bill which pro-
poses to impose a tax upon glucose They
claimed the only substantial opposition to glu-
cose proceeds from the sugar refners, and
maintained that the glucose industry is grow
ing one in the West; that it affords q large
market for the product Of the country, and
ought to be encouraged and not discouraged
Thomas j. Brady, ex-Assistant Post
master General, has been held by the Criminal
Court at Washington in $40 900 bail in the mat
ter OF the numerous indictments against him for
conspiracy to defraud the Government Bail was
demanded from his felow-conspirators in
amounts ranging from q, 900 TO $20,0 900.
One of the officers of the Navy De-
partment has received from friend at Santi-
ago, Chill, q number OF Gillian newspapers
with marked articles abusing the United States
in general terms, ridiculing Mr.. Blaine's pro-
posed American Congress, and lampooning the
United States navy in particular. One Of the
papers contains q large cartoon representing
the destruction of the United States navy by .
Gillian feet A large wash-tub, manned and
rugged in a most-ridculous fashion, is made TO
do duty in the picture as the United States
navy. Under the cartoon are the words: "The
Chlians can beat the Yankees every time"
The minority Of the committee on the
expenses incident TO Gen. Gar6eld's illness,
says . Washington dispatch, win oppose the
ertravagant allowance to the physiciAns made
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by the majority. They will not recommend
any specific amount, but viii oppose anything
Ike $4,000 for Bliss and others in proportion
1t appears that the committee has had a stormy
time over the consideration. At the last meet
ing Blackburn denounced the doctors and do
clared that II would be a burlesqne and an in
suit to the intelligence Of the century to pay
man $4,000 for treating pus cavity for two
months as gunshot wound, and never discov-
ering his mistake until the dissecting knife re-
yealed il after the victim was dead
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NEWS Of The WEEK.
AMERICAN ITEMS.


Magnin, Guedin 4 Co., of Union
Square, New York, importers Of watches and
jewelry have made an assignment The habil-
tiles of the firm are stated at &170, oo0 and the
assets are s14O. 900.
The Grand Jury at New York has in
dicted Gen. N M. Curtis, Special Agent Of the
Treasury, for soliciting campaign funds from
Government officials.
Dr. Paacoast, the eminent Philadel-
phia physician, is dead.
At Pittsburgh dog show 600 CANNES
were on exhibition, some Of which were valued
As high as $4,000.
A steamship agent at New York esti-
mates the arrivals at Castle Garden from the
present time to January at Coz, 600.
Five men were drowned by the sink
ing Of dredge boat at Rice point, Mass.
Gen. "Bil" Wright, chief topograph-
ical engineer on Sherman's STAG during the war
was picked up in Philadelphia in q drunken
stupor. He died in polioe-station cell.
West.
The Ohio Supreme Court decides that
the railroads in that State purchased by Van
derbilt and consolidated under the name of the
grouping is declared illegal
A new paper has been started at Jack
son, Mich.
Two men charged with stealing cattle,
and imprisoned at Del Norte, Col, were taken
from the Jail by band of 100 men and shot
- sn,.a tall
wounded and the other kilIC1 outright
Two of Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers
passed away last week-Nicholas Kenny, at
Kirkville, Iowa, and Christian Schaefer, at
Mineral Point, Wis. Kenny was also soldier
OF the United States in the war of 1912, and in
the war of the Rebellion.
At Las Lunas, New Mexico, Charles
Shelton, John Redmond and Harry French
were taken from the Jail and hanged to the
nearest tree by masked men. All three had
been guilty Of one or more cold-blooded MUIR
ders. The mob also took two negroes from
Jail, beat them numerically, and turned them
loose
The Michigan Legislature has passed
bill appropriating s265,O0O for the further
relief of the sufferers by last falls fires.
Thurman Thomson, aged IA years, of
New Lisbon, Wis, was choked to death by
stomach worms which crawled mp into his
throat The post-mortem disclosed the fact
that the boy had been literally filed with mag
gots.
Chicago Tribune: From every part of
the Northwest the reports are to the effect that
winter wheat is in excellent condition. Indi-
cations are that the acreage of spring wheat
will be largely increased. From Minnesota the
reports in regard to wheat are especially
encouraging. There are now on nd &c, 000,-
600 bushels Of wheat, and it is expected that the
crop for next year will be one-fodrth larger than
last year.
The Virginia Legislature convened In
extra session March Z.
The bar of Louisville mourns the
death of Henry G. Plndell, veteran member.
Mary Sigman, a disreputable woman,
and her mother, Rhoda, were assassinated at
Mount Vernon, Ky.
Richard S. Fay, of Boston, an officer
in half dozen great corporations, committed
suicide at Fortress Monroe.
Journalistic circles in Knoxville. Tenn,
were enlivened the other day by a street fight
between the editors of rival papers, in the
course Of which two shots were fred but no
body killed.
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per, prints savage attack upon the late Presi-
dent Chaunoey l. Filley, OF St Louis, who was
delegate to the convention that nominated
Garfield, Ia said to be the writer. He charac-
terizes the deceased as "a treacherous
cowardly. hyrocritical man, selfish to the ex-
trene q professional office-seeker and pro-
fessional politician" The publication Of the
article created considerable feeling at the
national capital
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GEN. RosEcRANs is represented as feeling very
badly over the publication of the Garfield
Chase letter. He Is said to ha anxious to ex-
plore the whole subject to the very bottom, in
the hope rather of finding something TO justify
what looks to him now like the treachery Of a
trusted subaltern than to fix even more
clearly than now appears the blame on
his Chief Of STAFF. To his intimate friends,
however Gen. Rosecrans makes no secret
OF the belief, which circumstances have
forced upon him, that Gen. Garfield at one
time had set his heart on the command Of the
Army of the Cumberland and was intriguing
10 secure the disgrace and removal OF its COM
mander in order that he might raise himself to
the leadership. Among officers OF the regular
army the Chase letter is looked upon with
amazement. In their eyes it would be a court
martial and almost q hanging offense for
Chief Of STAFF to communicate with the author
tiles at Washington in such way about his
commanding officer.
The discussion of this matter prompts q
former General in the Union army to step for
vention of 1864. President Lincoln had been
renominated, and Gen. Garfield, q delegate from
Ohio. telegraphed Gen. Rosecrans that the
Vice Presidency was going begging, asking IL
he would accept Gen. Rosecrans sent an
affirmative answer, which is said to have been
suppressed by Secretary Stanton, and Andrew
johnson was selected. In card to the Chicago
Times, Mayor Harrison recalls the conversation
at an evening spent with Gen Garfield, in 1864,
In which the latter grew enthusiastic In claim
ing Gen. Resecrans ~ the ablest General In the
Union armies.
The Washington Post, stilson Hutchins pa
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POLITICAL POINTS.

Both Houses of the Iowa Legislature
have agreed to the amendment to strike from
the constitution the word "male"
A lively contest over the Chicago
Pension Agency is going on at Washington.
The leading candidates are Miss Ada Sweet,
daughter of the late Gen. B. ]. Sweet, and
present incumbent Mrs. Mullgan, widow Of
the late Gen. Mullgan and Jonathan N. Hyde,
q legless ex-soldier, of Dixon, Ill.
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several OF the assaiIants were severely wounded
by bayonets. One OF the wounded. named
q. p. Armstrong. formerly machinist, who
was wounded In the breast and taken into the
guard-house, supposed to be slightly hurt has
died from the wound. He had been slightly
under the influence of liquor, and was
abusing the soldiers. He was noffensive when
aohar
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Serious Labor Riot at Omaha.
OMAHA, March

OMAHA, March Is.
The militia in the city TO protect the nom
striking laborers were annoyed last evening by
. gathering Of men and boys, who threw brick
bats at the officers and hit several Asquad Of
soldiers charged on the crowd TO drive
them back from the militia quarters. and
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-03-17

A FIRST CLASS printing office, like a
motion to adjourn. is always in order.
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DEspIsE the man who is willing to
trust you. Hes the fellow who gets you
into debt.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-19
WHAT
The Paper Published for the Pe0-
pie Now on Earth Would
Like to Know.

Who can beat Max Rosenthal telling
big stories?
Which one of the Big is in the mil
linery business?
The name of the young clerk the girls
call 'horsepistol ?"
Why Frank Rose has quit eating
buckwheat cakes
Ii jack Shook is still superintendent
of the car department!
When the saloons will take out license
for the county and state
How much Charley Parker got for
blackiDg Vic. Shsw's boots?
Why Squire shepherd, at Lewis sta.
ton, did not report the Wedding, las,
night?
How many billiards Bozman can make
while Bridges, the Warsaw drummer,
scores 1862
What made Johnny Barnet blush 50
when he helped the yonng lady into a
wagon, at the Clinton Cooperative store, on
Friday?
The name of the young lady who in
tends sending her stocking TO Frank Dono-
hoe, to BE filled, Christmas morning, with
caramels?
What Jim Simpson, of Clinton, want.
ed with Charities Keys, and why he was so
hard to wake when Charlie wanted to get
them to close upf