The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-02-17
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Fitz John Porter had long interview
With President Arthur the other day, and
invited him 10 "a careful . perusa OF the
records as Gen. Grant made before declaring
his belief In Porter's innocence.
A number of cotton brokers of New
Orleans, who had been operating in futures,
have gone to the wall.
Robert Ayres, q retired merchant OF
Louisville, who died the other day, was one Of
the four men in Jefferson county who voted
for Abraham Lincoln for President in 1860.
The Legislature of Virginia has passed
law by which commonwealth attorneys may
require seconds in a duel to testify which
vice shall exempt them from prosecution.
A rumor having come from Washing
ton that Mrs. Garfield bad written a letter to
President Arthur asking him to reprieve
Guiteau, a New York Herald reporter called
upon the lady to inquire into the truth Of the
report. We give the result OF the interview in
his own words Her face flushed with amingled
expression of surprise and indignation and
she replied promptly, and with emphasis
absurd. There is not word of truth in it.
i have not written to the President at oil upon
the subject" "How do you suppose the ru-
NOR originated 2" - cannot say. There is
no foundation whatever for it, 80 far as am
concerned. 1 have expressed no wish or
opinion in the matter, and shall not"
Aunt Judy Powell. colored. died in
Pittsburgh at the alleged age of 1l3 years.
She remembered leading events Of the Revolu-
tionary war, and saw Gen. Washington just
after the Yorktown surrender.
The citizens of Greenwood, Steuben
county, New York, resisted the sale of property
10 pay interest on railroad bonds, aud Gov.
Cornell declared the township in a state of in
surrection, and warned the people to desist
from unlawful acts.
The massacre of Jewish family of
three persons is the latest Russian atrocity.
Mr.. Lloyd, temporary Magistrate of
County Clare, and brother of Mr.. Clifford
Lloyd, Special Magistrate for the counties Of
Clare and Limerick, was fired at from behind q
wall near Bodyke. He escaped uuhurt, but q
policeman with him was severely woura.ti
Several arrests have been made of persons sus-
pected
Spring blowing has begun in many
parts of the Northwest.
Mr.. Emil Dreier, of Chicago, has been
appointed Consul for the Danish Government
III the Middle and Western States.
The treasury investigation has led to
the resignation Of Norton, clerk in the
Lighthouse Board, and Skeen foreman Of
the aborers in the Treasury Department. and
the removal of Hatch, the Storekeeper
A gang OF workmen were sent into
the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel at Baltimore
to repair the track. They had proceeded but a
few yards when they heard tho distant rum
bling of an approaching train. Hrdly had
they caught the sound of the one train APP
preaching whom the glare ola locomotive head
light was seen in the opposite direction. Tho
next instant the two trains came laundering
along. Terror-stricken and confused, the UNI
fortunate men jumped from one track to the
other only to step into the yawning jaws
of death. Several of them had the presence
OF mind to crouch up against the walls Of the
tunnel, a couple of feet outside the track and
thus made their escape, but five OF their COM
panions were struck by the locomotives, hurried
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torn and mutilated by the wheels of the cars.
Two of the poor fellows had their heads sew
cred from their bodies, and legs and arms were
scattered for City yards along the tracks.
The illustrious Italian tragedian Rossi,
who is making professional tour of the large
G ties, appears this week at MoVicker's Theater,
Chicago. Rossi is somewhat younger than Sal
better-known actor in the methods of his art as
in the range of his charactr Mere graceful
and more active, he essays variety of parts
TO which he finds himself adapted by natural
fitness, and presents a pleasing vision to the
eye while holding up to intelligence an interest
ing and fascinating study. His King Lear, cs-
pecially, is pronounced the finest witnessed i'll
this country since the death of Edwin Forrest.