The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-09-14

A Chicago dispatch Of the 10th inst.
In the corn belt make it positive that frost
has wrought great destruction. Michigan
seems to have Jared badly, nearly every
thing in the vegetable line having been
killed at Battle Creek and Saugatuck To-
bacco in Dane and Rock counties Wis
was ruined with the corn, and cranberries
at Sturgeon Bay got nipped Light frosts
are reported at Des Moines, Atlantic and
Burlington, Iowa, and ice at Dubuque.
Vegetables were injured at Elkhart and
Huntingdon, Ind Ice formed ut Ma
comb, Ill, and frost was quite general
throughout the central part of the State,
but the dry atmosphere saved corn at some
points. Reports from Northern Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Dakota and Ohio are to the effect
that the standing corn has been irreparably
damaged. In some sections on the lowlands
corn is ain ost entirely destroyed On higher
ground the frost was not so serious,
and less injury was inflicted" A
Des Moines dispatch says: @Reports from
different parts of the State tonight indicate
that the damage to the corn crop of Iowa
has been almost wholly confined to the low
lands and has been slight A dispatch
from Sioux Falls Dakota, reports: another
heavy frost last night has left no room to
doubt the ruin of the corn crop of this
section"
The completion of the Northern
Pacific railroad was formally effected forty
miles west of Helena, Montana on the sth of
| Jor t1,ax hat
and Henry Willard, the man that finished the
work, were accorded the honor of driving
the golden spike.
The Utah Commission has agreed to
recommend the enactment of marriage
law which will provide that all marriages in
the Territory shall be null and void unless
solemnized publicly before witnesses The
witnesses and those who ofliciate and the
contracting parties shall make affidavit in
every case that they are not polygamistS
Every marriage and the circumstances con-
nected with 1t, the names of witnesses, con-
tracing parties, etc. shall be made a matter
Of public record. A heavy penalty is pro-
posed for violators of this projected law.
Col Godfrey, of the Commission, is sanguine
as to the adoption of this law and as to its
efficacy after adoption
Tennyson took his medicine. The
bard of Balaklava has written u memorial
poem on John Brown, the gillie.
The Irish League has arranged the
platform of its campaign for the coming
autumn and winter. There are TO be sue
cessive demonstrations at all the centers,
| o,a1 Mr. hos !; tr;,, 30
! Colorado to attend the meeting at Tipperary
! The platform will insist on an extension Of
the Land act and salaries for Members of
Parliament The landlords and private in
! fiuences in Ireland are trying to induce the
Government TO forbid the league demonstra-
tions.
Col. d. p. Holloway, who was Com
missioner of Patents under President
Lincoln, died last week in Washington.
A register of the Interior Depart
ment at Washington has been prepared for
the blue book. There are S,0sl persons on
the rolls, of whom G21 are women, and POI
negroes Seventy-one clerks receive salaries
ranging from $40 to 81, 500, one lady from
Illinois drawing 81 600
Two serious railroad accidents ac-
CURED at Kenosha mountain, COL on the
South Park railroad, by which three men
were injured, it is feared, fatally, and four
others seriously. The accidents were
caused by heavy train getting the mastery
over the engine in descending the steep
grade.
The Democratic boilers of Cincinnati
hold q convention and nlaced n now ticke of
in the field, headed by Thomas Sherlock for
Treasurer The State platform and ticket
received hearty Endorsement.