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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03
FOREIGN.

Cetewayo, the chief of the Zulus, was
killed In a recent battle.
The London Times says that the area
of wheat planted in the United Kingdom is
less than that of last year, and the yield will
be below the average. Recent heavy rains
have checked the progress of cereals.
A Cairo dispatch says the Sanitary
Commission there will establish three add
tional hospitals and organize an ambulance
corps The Khedive and his Ministers have
gone to the infected region. Eight hun
dred inhabitants of Bulak are in tents, sur
rounded by Gordon, and dying of famine
One death among the British troops is re-
ported
Misfortunes are showering upon poor
Egypt 1t is now reported that leprosy has
appeared few miles to the southwark Of
Damietta, and is spreading rapidly. Kinder
pest has also appeared among the cattle
herds, and is playing havoc among the bo-
vines
The English Government has dis
patched twelve physicians, who are experts
in cholera, to Egypt serious outbreak of
cholera is reported at Bombay, in India
Several cases of the disease are reported by
correspondents of New York papers to have
occurred in London, and the presence of the
pestilence is being suppressed by the British
authorities
In the House of Commons, Gladstone
announced he would not ask Parliament at
this session to sanction the Suez canal agree
10 nj
of the opposition cheered the announce
ment
Additional advices from Zululand
relative to the death of King Cetewayo at
the hands of the insurgents, say that all his
wives and many of his chiefs were also
killed
Harrington, Irish member of Parlia-
menc whose brother, an editor, wasrecently
sent to prison for his opinions, is hard at
work reviving the spirit of organization
which in the old Land League did so much
in beneficial way for the farmers of Ire
land Branches OF the new league will soon
exist in every hamlet of the Old Sod.
Cholera is reported at Rostov, Rus
STA, and several deaths have occurred
Official advices from India state ,161
deaths from cholera occurred in the Bonn
bay Presidency during the first week in
July.
In the famous trial of Hungarian
Hebrews for numbering Christian girl, the
public prosecutor states that there is no
ground for further criminal proceedings
Gen. Wallace, the American Minister
at Constantinople, has reiterated his de-
mand to the Porte for the prolongation of
the treaty of commerce between Turkey
and the United States, but agreeing to re-
vision of the tariff.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03
WASHINGTON.

Consular officers at London and
Liverpool have been ordered by Secretary
Folger to appoint sanitary inspectors to ex-
anime all vessels leaving for the United
States and cable information Of the discov-
cry of any disease on board
The Secretary of the Treasury re-
ceived a draft for 400 drawn by the
Exchange National Bank of Atchison, Kan.
on the First National Bank of Chicago, with
the following request: please place the
amount of the inclosed draft TO the credit
of the United States for the benefit of the
same.-UNKNowN DEBTOR" 1t was credited
to the conscience fund.
M. A. Dauphin, of the Louisiana
Lottery Company, has entered suit in the
District of Columbia courts, through his at
torneys against Walter Q. Gresham, Post
master General, for 100000 damages, sus-
tanned by his order forbidding the use of
the mails to them.
The distillers who have not been
able to escape the payment of tax by the
expectation of distilled spirits are under
stood TO be making another formidable
Congress to enact law extending the bond
ed period
The receipts from internal revenue
for the fiscal year just closed were sl44,-
So, 366 The customs duties aggregated
s214, 401 ,142
Secretary Folger has called in the
remainder of the 80 percent. bonds, the
amount being about s3l 100000 Interest
will cease Nov. next
Commissioner Evans has given Sec
rotary Folger his estimates of the effect of
recent national legislation on the internal
revenue of the country He believes that
the total receipts of the year ending June
80 next will show that Congress made
changes which cut down the internal income
of the administration s43, 000,O 600
The Treasury Department has re-
ceived remonstrance from the British
authorities against the return to England of
three alleged pauper emigrants who were
going TO friends in this country who had
promised TO take care of them, and which
emigrants had shown letters to that effect
ON their arrival in the United States The
matter is being inquired into
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

The situation of the great telegraph
the Goth of July: The American Rapid Tel
egraph Company agreed with the Brother
hood of Telegraphers to advance salaries 10
per cent, make eight hours in the day
time or seven hours at night days
work, and pay extra for Sunday
service. The Board of Directors Of the
Merchants Exchange of St Louis passed
resolutions requesting the telegraph COM
panies to provide better facilities for the
transaction of business Emile Hertz, of
London, brought suit in Chicago against the
Western Union Company, claiming $4,000
damages for a refusal to accept
cable message without conditions as
to delay. The strikers at Boston re-
solved to ask the Executive Committee to
order out the operators employed by the
Associated Press At Philadelphia, c. E.
Fuller began five civil suits against the
Western Union Telegraph Company for re-
fusing TO transmit messages for him under
the ordinary printed conditions Similar
suits were brought in several cities against
the same company.
The new national bank of Mexico re-
ports profits of 10 per cent in the past
seven months
An aged lady, we'll dressed but des-
titute of money, appeared at police head
quarters and asked for aid in reaching Wash
ington City. She was a daughter of Vice
President King, of Pierce's administration,
and the wife of Gen. Hunter, Jackson's
Minister to ST Petersburg She had begged
her way to Wheeling from Memphis, and was
furnished aid TO complete her journey to
Washington.
The failures reported for the week
ending July % numbered 100, an increase Of
% The liabilities of the Ward Iron Com
pany, of Ohio, are probably 5000, COO Gilbert
Brothers & McFadden, lumber dealers, Of
Portland, Me-, have failed for sc, 600 Sadler
d Newman, wholesale clothiers of Philadel-
phia have made an assignment, and d. Sell
lers Co. shoe manufacturers in the same
city, ask compromise on debts of IS, 600.
The Hon. Montgomery Blair, of
Maryland, who was Postmaster General un-
der President Lincoln, died at Silver Springs,
Md, last week He was 20 years of age
A special train on the Matamoras and
Monterey road ran over man and two
women who had fallen asleep on the track
in a drunken stupor, and the Mexican au-
thorities placed all the train employees in
Jail
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03

cago Herald, sent out to New Mexico to in
terview Stephen W. Dorsey, telegraphs from
Chico Springs, that Dorsey denies that he
wrote or inspired the recent long statement
which appeared in the New York Sun, and
attributes the authorship Of the statement
to Dana's Washington correspondent Dor
sey told the correspondent that If he were
to expose the campaign Of 1880 something
more substanti than the allegations which
appeared In the Sun would be furnished the
public He avowed that Indiana was carried
by the lavish use of money, that Senator
Platt and Whitelaw Reid, know all about the
matter, and expressed the opinion that Gar
field was more the fool of his fears than the
knave of his desires
The Legislature of Massachusetts,
has adjourned sine die after a session Of 206
days, the longest on record
Allan Campbell, Comptroller of New
York city, has been compelled by Ill health
to resign.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, says
Mr.. Mcdonald is favorite Presidential can
didate In the South.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03
NEWS CONDENSED.
TelegPaphic Summary
EASTERN.

The ticket Office In the Baltimore &
Ohio depot at Pittsburgh was robbed of 81,
600, the thieves entering by lifting out the
window sash.
While repairing a blast furnace at
Syracuse, N. Y. eight workmen were crushed
to death by an immense weight of brick
and mortar, which fell upon them
The Hon. Ginery Twichell, ex-Con-
gresham, and prominent railroad man,
died at Brookline, Mass, aged ~ years
Prof. Marsh, of Yale College, has
been appointed member of the Munich
Academy of Sciences
When eleven rounds of prize-fight
had been finished at Nianticoke, Pa a crowd
Of women armed with knives and pistols
brokeinto the ring and stopped the mill
At Bridgeport, Ct, the works of the
Howe Sewing Machine Company were de-
stroyed by fire, with loss of s350,000
At the boat-race at Fulton, N. Y,
Lee third
Daniel b. Phillips, well-known
evangelist, of Boston, committed suicide by
hanging
The first frost of the season is re-
ported from the White mountains of New
Hampshire
In collision some years ago between
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company ferry
boat and the New York Transportation Com
pany steamer, John Ii. Martin received in
juries causing insanity He has just OBJ
tanned a verdict at New York against both
companies for $50, 600
Patrick Kelly, a seaman of the brig
Julia Blake, died of yellow fever at the
Philadelphia quarantine hospital, to which
place he had been removed from the vessel
The brig was detained at quarantine and
thoroughly fumigated
Joseph H. Wilkins, railroad agent
at the Buffalo stock-yards, has fed the city,
leaving his accounts $1,000 short.
The remains of Carl Meininger, of
Cincinnati, were reduced to ashes at the
lie Moyne Crematory, near Washington, Pa
Gov Butler refuses to grant par
don to s A Chace, of Fall River. who en-
bezzled s5OO,OOo
Henry Welsh and his wife, and Miss
Alice Swartz, of Mount JOY, Pa, while driv-
ing to market, were struck by fast express
on the Eastern Pennsylvania road, and
killed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03
SOUTHERN.

The Louisiana State Board of Health
ton close the waters of the State against
all points infected with contagious diseases
Richard Diver, q planter near New
Albany, Miss, and Sylvia Lambert his
housekeeper, are in Jail for an attempt to
poison Mrs Diver by cooking the head OF a
moccasin snake in her coffee. The wronged
wife discovered the plot before it was put
into practice
George Kane, Harry Suffer and
worthington Mccullough, while rowing on
| the Potomac at Cumberland, Md, capsized
their boat and were all drowned
Col. j. M. King sold a mammoth
ranch near San Antonio, Texas, to an associ-
alton of British capitalists for 100000
1t is stated that under q large tree in
Llama county, Texas, was recently found a
carriage with the skeletons of three adults
and two children. The belief prevails that
they were English tourists, and were struck
by lightning at least year ago.
Ex-Gov. Thomas Swami, of Mary
land, is dead
A fire on Shelby street, Memphis,
Tenn, among grocery and commission
houses. destroyed about $1,000 worth of
property.
Eight colored persons were drowned
at ClaremoHt, Va, while attempting to cross
the James river to attend experimenting.
Miss Walker and eight other young
ladies of Huntsville, Ala, challenged a male
nine to game of baseball and beat them
by 20 to H.
To the surprise of people at home
and abroad, the jury trying Polk, the de-
faulting State Treasurer of Tennessee found
him guilty and gave him the heaviest posi-
bic penalty-a term Of twenty years in the
penitentiary and fine equivalent to the
known extent of his theft-viz. $500, $40 10.
Polk took his sentence rs coolly as he took
the States money last New Years
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03
POLITICAL.

Gen. Buffers Presidential boom be-
gins in Maine, and is started IN a paper
owned and edited by ex-Gov. Plaisted
Senator Sabin, of Minnesota, is out
for Arthur and Harrison as a Presidential
ticket New York and Indiana appear TO
have the attention Of both parties
The Governor of Missouri, before
leaving for Utah, wrote to the St Louis
Police Board that the Sunday provision of
the High-License law must be enforced to
the letter
While in the East recently, Gov
Foster, of Ohio, was interviewed TO she
effect that Judge Hoadleys nomination for
Governor had cost him 500, 900, and on this
subject quite correspondence has
since been carried on Judge Hoadley adj
dressed a note to Gov Foster, asking
him to give his authority for the statement
Foster replied that he said it was alleged
that Hoadley had so admitted, half the sum
being paid during the convention Foster
added that the delegates from Cincinnati
openly sold their votes, and It would be well
for Hoadley to state what the nomination
cost him Hoadley then telegraphed TO
Foster: n repeat the statement is false in
all its parts Now produce your informant
and let me confront him"
A Boston dispatch says the Massa-
chusetts Senate accepted the majority re-
port of the Tewksbury Alm-hsouse Investi-
eating Committee, and refused to admit the
House bill to regulate the disposal of bodies
of paupers This ends the Tewksbury bust
ness as far as the Legislature is concerned
A special correspondent of the Chi
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03

The saloon-keepers of st. Louis, at q
meeting the other day, adopted a resolution
10 disregard the Sunday law and keep their
saloons open, on Sunday.
Rev. DIR. Thomas, of st. Paul, was
knocked down on Ninth street, In that city,
the other night, by footpads, who nearly
strangled him before rifiing his pockets
and then kicked him until he was thought
to be disabled from pursuit Two men
have been arrested on suspicion
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03

Prof. Putlitz (not Zuputlitz, as here
tofore given) who killed himself at Berlin
after drawing the death lot In o so-called
American duel, refused to fight duel in the
ordinary way because his antagonist was
short-dghted His death attracts serious
attention to the dueling mania
Spain has recalled her Minister from
Mexico on account of the debt question.
Mexico had recently been agreeing to pay
England. but had refused to bestow on
Spain even the airy financial satisfaction Of
q promise
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-03
SIOUX sun DANCE.
Disgusting Scenes Witnessed at
the Rosebud Indian Agency.
Shocking Torturing Endured by the
StOical Sayages.

[Rosebud Agency Dakota) Telegram to Chicago
Times.
The annual sun dance of the Sioux Indians
occurred this afternoon at the camp near
this agency, about ,000 Indians being pres
ent from all parts of the reservation and q
number of white visitors The sun dance is
very ancient custom among the Indians,
but which has been growing less severe
lately II an Indians child or relative be
sick during the year, or if he desires success
In some undertaking he may vow that IL the
child RECEIVERS or the scheme succeeds he
will dance or give some of his flesh TO the
Great Spirit at the next sun dance The
ceremony of cutting the pole for the center
of the dancing circle was performed Satur-
day afternoon, Herpipe, niece of Standing
Bear, welding the AK, and the charge on
the PROSTATE tree was made by over loo
young bucks on ponies On Saturday the
brush Enclosure was built, and that evening
ffteen Indians entered and commenced their
long dance, having been fasting four
days. This afternoon the voluntary
torture commenced, three men of
fering themselves The medicine-m man
performed the operation He made
two vertical incisions on each breast with q
sharp knife, and passing a stick under the
lifted flesh fastened the end to a rope de-
ending from the pole The dancers then
worked until they freed thems by vio-
lently breaking the flesh. Follow-a- Womsn
broke loose in five minutes Liyes-in-the-Air
after ten minutes exerton, but Poor-Dog
remained tied UP for half an hour before he
could tear out the thongs from both breasts.
They then all rejoined the dance. Several
bucks had small pieces of fesh cut from
their arms the amount often being lessened
by their squaws offering their arms fer part
of the loss The whole was n dr. ad-
full exhibition of physical endurance and
savage barbarity. At 3 o'clock the dance
ceased, the particips nts having jumped up
and down, blowing their whistles for fifty
hours. without food or water part of the
time, in the burning heat of the sun Some
were so completely exhausted as 10 dance
on with their eyes closed, their bodies in
spasn This is probably the last time these
cruelties will be permitted. as strong effort
is being made by the Government TO stop
the sun dance. Orders came TO Agents Nc
AMI Wright this year to prevent
its occurI ence, but 1t was inn ossible
A SNOW WHITE squirrel was killed nj Brazoe
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A sSow-wuTE squirrel was killed at Brazos
Bend Texas
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-19
rssE sAxpwICs nsLASDs.

The barkentine Klikitat. Capt. Out
NJ arrived in port here on the 18th
MT. twenty nine days from Port Town
NOD. She brings full cargo Of lum-
bsr.
On Thursday and Friday Of last week
~ Thermometer, In the shade. az noon,
m9tsesrsd 81 degrees, and in conse-
Qeenes thereof several of our solid citi-
sens quoted Hamlet.
Ql Of the consular fiaga were displayed
~ many American vessels In harbor
wang their cnaigns TO the breeze on
Ne Nth inst, In honor Of Queen Vic-
sosias birthday. Few business houses
vses closed.
Casper, the slayer Of the tvo men at
tllo, hes asked psrmiasiop, and been
nf1ssd, tho privilege of carrying con-
sAlsd weapons while in this city. he
~ discharged from the prison, where
= vas awaiting trial ON the I'D inst.
TAs United States frigate Hartford
suivsl at Hilo on Thursday afternoon,
Nv Ath, With the astronomical party
1ooArd, who went 10 Caroline Island
SotAs solar eciipse on the 9th oi
party Of ffSeen started for the
eaas sa Saturday morning.
III Lawn Of God" was Pastor Cru
s theme oo Sunday morning, and In
- eysaine hs preached . memorial
moo u oommem0eatiou Of DecorA-
- Day. Pose Geo. Dc Long, Grand
10y Of the Rspublio, attended at the
nine service Ia . body. Rassaitam
0esffs, kay 50.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-19
DEaTa OF A ROYAL paIxCRss
Hawaiian Gazette May 30.


Her Highness Ruth KeeIikolaui, direct
dsscsudant Of Kamehameha the Great,
Iaat representative OF the Kekuanaoa
beannh of the family, il dead: and by
hsr death link with the past is broken
Her Highness was born in Honolulu on
February 9Th. 1876. in that part Of the
palace yard known ~ Pahukiana, which
/ vss added TO the Palace grounds after
tts dsath Of Lunalilo. Her parents
vses Governor Kekuana0a and Pauahi:
~ VA half sister 70 two kings, Kane
hafneha Nv. and v. Her mother was
ths daughter Of Kaoleioku (k) and
Ksous lw), the former OF whom was
son Of Kamehameha the Great by Kane
kapslsi, the wife OF kalaniopuu, King
Of Hawaii. in the days when Capt Cook
visited the Islands. Il is a current ira
dition that ksoleioku and his brother
KsoaA we're given 10 Captain Cook az
hostages at the commencement Of the
trouble between the great navigator and
KaIsniopuu.
Though OF high rank and possessing
considerable ability aud an indomitable
viii, she never occupied any prominent
0fseial position save that Of Governess
Of Hawaii, to which she was appointed
by kamshAmeha Nv. shortly After his
accession.
Her Highness was twice married, first
70 Leleiohoku, son Of the Great Prime
Minister kalaimoku, q chief OF high
lineage; bJ this marriage she had two
children, ono OF whom died IN Infancy,
and the other, Kinau, lived only TO the
AGE Of twenty; no was very promising
young man, and great hopes of his fu-
nntarfainA6 t.u Aha
chiefs. Secondly, she was married to
Isaao Davis; from whom she was sepa-
rated after two or three years. BY this
marriage she had one child, adopted by
Mrs. q. X. Bishop, but which died In
infancy. Davis died in Hawaii during
the summer of last year. Her Highness
adopted rs her son William Pitt Kala-
hooiewa, brother OF the present mon
arch; she gave him the nArne of Lcleio-
hoku In memory of her first husband.
This youth she had most carefully edu-
ealed and took the greatest pride in. bat
death again robbed her, even Of her
adopted child and most bitterly did she
mourn his untimely eud.
The Princess Ruth never acquired the
fluent use Of English, bat she under
stood the language and could on occs-
GOu express herself in il. She did not
however mix much In foreign society.
Whenever she did she was always
marked by tho dignity Of her demeanor.
Hhs could entertain right royalty, as
many will remember who attended the
fsl)ivities OF the opening Of her mansion
c1i Emma street. She vas certainly
lyfe or the old chiefess, and Hawaiians
md foreigners alike admired the man
her in which she oomported herself. In
her character Of o mother, the writer of
this notice knew from personal expert
snee how devoted she was TO her adopt
sdsou, how thorough her love was for
him. And not only do Hawaiians
monrn, but large number Of foreign
ess whose privilege II has been TO know
hsr, will join Ia truly mourning one who
vas, aside from rank and station, an
sninently kind and good hearted
woman, than which no better opitaph Is
leeded for princess or peasant.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-19

Strawberries are selling at from Is
TO 20 cents a box; eggs, 30 cents a
dozen; fresh salmon, IL TO Is cents a
pound.
New Tacoma street improvement
bills during May, ordered paid BY the
city council, amount to e257. Is, and the
sidewalk improvements to $6298.
Some parties kindled a fire in the
timber. between Burns addition and
Carson's sawmill, last Tuesday. The
fire spread 10 a lot of wood bslonging 10
q. i. Orchard. and c0nsun,sd about 60
cords Of II on Tuesday night.
II has been decided by Mr.. Bogue.
superintendent Of construction Northern
Pacific Railroad, not to roof tho new
coal bunkers, as q roof might interfere
with the approach aud loading Of yes
sells. The exposed portions Of the up-
per floor will be covered with sheet-iro
as far as possible for protection against
the weather. 4
The grading of several blocks in the
north division Of Neu Tacoma, by Gen.
Sprague and I. w. Anderson, has greatly
improved the appearance of that part
of the city. Gen. Buckley, railroad su.
perintendent, contemplates clearing his
lots adjoining Gen. Sprague's on the
north at an early day.
Real estate was of during May, the
number Of transactions recorded at the
auditors office of Pierce county having
been 81, the total consideration Of which
was $S5, ,92a, averaging $923 each. The
number Of transactions for the first Ave
months of the present year was 5l2, in
volvinH q total consideration Of $556, ,666,
and an average consideration for each
investment Of 81 ,009.
The trustees Of school district No. 10,
embracing Tacoma, have received sew
eral Offers for their present school build
ing and lot, and having been authorized
by the taxpayers 10 dispose Of IL and
build new school house. propose 10 do
20 whenever they can obtain the sum Of
t260O for the property. The present
building In not vell adapted for school
purposes, and Il Is proposed 10 purchase
an elegible lot and crest ncw school
house at cost mot exceeding tf50o.
There are some 20 children Of the school
age In this district, and the accumulat-
cd school fund 10 the credit of the dis
trict amounts to some 3i4W.-Necs.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-19

DEING THOROUGHLY ACQUAINT-
ID ed with good farming lands in Kitsap
county which belong TO the Government
and are open 10 entry. offer my services
to actual settlers In showing these lands.
at reasonable rates. Appls By letter 10
Port Blakely. to me personally. al Rich
Passage. or st the Wisconsin House. In
Seattle. A. A. HOLT.
June lst. I'm