The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-20
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Rev. Mr.. Black, an evangelist,
in sermon at Clinton, Ill f., prophesed the
conversion of the Jews in 1917 and the ar
rival Of the millennium in 1881
The death is announced of Hon.
Chas. b. Lawrence, distinguished jurist
and ex-Judge of the Illinois Supreme Court
He died in Alabama, while travelling for
health and pleasure.
Persons at Montreal, who claim to
have knowledge not heretofore made pub
lie concerning the murder of Thomas
Darcy MCGEE, in 1868, offer TO impart the
facts to the authorities, on condition that
the information be not used to their injury.
The National Department of Agricult-
ure at Washington reports that the condi-
ton Of the winter grain crop April l in all
the States was: In Michigan and the other
northern territory the wheat was still COW
cred with snow In the Ohio valley the win
ter protection had been partial for term
locally varying from three to ten weeks,
after which the loss from freezing was quite
general The average depreciation is greater
in the upper part of the Ohio valley and in
Kansas than elsewhere East of the Allie
ghanes the condition is good in the northern
belt, declining slightly in the lower ATTITUDES.
1t is not up to the average in any part of the
South. The average for the crop is eighty,
while last April it was 104, and in 1881,
eighty-fve A careful examination of the
roots in many cases showed that they were
healthy, while the plants were brown
There is good reason for believing that the
real condition of the wheat is, therefore, less
unpromising than it seems
A 5 per cent. semi-annual dividend has
been declared by the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad
A shipment of /, 600 barrels of whisky
was made from New York to Bermuda last
week, in order to evade the payment of in
ternal revenue tax. Other shipments will
follow, dstillers considering it more profita-
bic to pay freight charges on the overpro-
duction than TO pay the taxes When
market is found for the liquor it will be
brought back to this country and the taxes
paid.
Serious damage has been caused by
floods in the rivers Of Canada and some of
the New England States.
There were 1S9 business failures in
the country for the seven days ending April
13 as against 1917 for the preceding week.
Canadian detectives allege that con-
siderable quantities of explosives have been
shipped from the United States to the Do
minion by way of Grand Island, to be used
for the destruction of public buildings in
Canada The United States authorities have
been requested TO take measures TO prevent
such shipments.
Crop reports New Philadelphia, Ohio:
@The prospects for wheat in this section of
Ohio are far better than were ut first sup
posed" itcbfeld, Ill: Wheat and oats
in this section of Illinois have improved
wonderfully under the influence of warm
rains, and, with anything like favorable
weather from this forward, q good yield is
expected Seeding is going forward &C
lively in Minnesota and Dakota; the area
sown in wheat will be much larger than ever
before. The fruit prospect in Tennessee
and Georgia is said to have never looked bet
ter than at present The Atchison Daily
Price Current reports the condition of the
growing crop in Kansas as mainly favorable.
The building in Broadway New York,
occupied by the Remington Manufacturing
Company, the Bradstreet Company and the
Hall Safe and Lock Company was burned,
the total loss being $3.50 o; fire also de-
stroyed furniture factory at st. Louis, the
loss upon which is s45, 600; several stores at
Crisfeld, Nd, causing a loss Of s1U0000;
warehouse at Menominee, Wis, valued,
with contents, at $50, GOO; and Butchards
block, at Owen Sound, Ont, involving loss
Of $4,000
Egan, Dewey and Mooney, speaking
to large assemblage ut Rochester, N Y,
denied that the Land League countenanced
assassination