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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-01
WESTERN.

In suit against the Illinois Central
road to recover damages for overcharges.
upon freight shipped from Iowa to Wiscon-
sin, Judge McCrary held that the Iowa tariff
hw could not apply TO through shipments
without being in violation of the Federal con-
stitution.
A mob beat and manned the ex-priest,
OConnor, at Berlin, Mich, for assailing
Catholicity in lecture. He only escaped
death by swearing never to deliver the lecture
again.
John n. Glidden, of Cleveland, Ohio.
admits that he owes $500, OOO but claims as
sets of an actual value of 100000 Three
quarters of the money was borrowed from
banks on collateral security.
A report is telegraphed from Tomb
stone, Arizona, that Mexican troops had
routed the Apachcs at the Swisshclm
mountains with great slaughter. A large
body of the defeated Indians were said TO be
making for the San Carlos reservation.
At Gardner, Colo, some Mexicans
murdered four men at dance. A band of
armed men captured one of the murdercrs,
placed a rope around his neck, made the other
and fast to n horse, and then frightened the
animal into run, the Mexican being drag
ged over the rocks until life was extinct.
The carriage factory of Hill &, Co., at
Waterloo, Iowa, has been closed on chattel
mortgages.
A stranger applied to James Craw-
iord, well-known farmer near Greencastle,
Ind, for food and lodging. After eating, he
struck Crawford repeatedly with knucklcs
and a slung-shot, seriously and perhaps
fatally injuring him. second man then
broke the door and came in. Crawford wife,
a confirmed invalid, attacked the strangers
with fire-shovel, when they turned and beat
her, fracturng her skull and breaking her
nose jaw and collar-bone. Her injuries will
prove fatal. Crawford, recovering con-
scousncss, fired at them. They thercupon
beat him again and then left taking three
three rcvolvcrs, shotgun and sl2 in cash.
It having been remarked that the
correspondence between san Francisco ana
the Flowery Kingdom was decreasing the
postal authorities set about discovering the
causes, and the other day arrested several
self-appointed Chinese mail-agents on an In
coming steamer from Hong Kong in whose
possession were found several thousand UNI
stamped letters addressed 10 the cunning
dcnizens of Chinatown.
Eddy, Harvey q Co., of Chicago,
heavy wholesale dealers I'm furs and bulk
goods. have made AN assignment for the
benefit OF their creditors.
Charles Lorentzin, farmer residing
near Elgin, ILL.,, died of CHAMBERS, having con-
tractcd the disease from his horse.
Judge Noonan, of st. Louis, in a case
between ltigating gamblers has decided that
poker is game of chance,
Jacob Sanger, of Grundy county, No,
whose mule became entangled in some sag
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-01
POLITICAL.

A large mass meeting of colored
people was held ut indianapolis 10 consider
the civi-rights decision. Addresses were
made by Senator Ben Harrison and other
prominent Republicans. There was II great
deal of feeling manifested, and as II rule,
tho resolutions were adopted unanimously,
one of which declares that 1--WE recog-
nizc i'm the decision II narrow and
partisan view, entirely at variance
with the great principles enunciated by
Lincoln, Sumner, Morton and other Repub
lican leaders, and of the $50 900 brave men
who purchased IL with their blood" A mass
meeting OF colored men at Washington was
addressed by Col. Ingersol and Fred Doug
lass. Col. Ingersoll praised Justice Harlan,
and placed the recent opinion OF the Supreme
court on par with the bred Scott and other
ante-war decisions. At similar meet
ing I'm Cincinnati resolutions acquicscin9
In the decision, and thanking Justice Harlan
for his fidelity to the race and for hs own
convictions, were passed. The negroes of
san Francisco, in public meeting assembled,
passed resolutions condemnlng the decision.
Baltimore had a very exciting mu-
nicipal election, =. c. Latrobe being chosen
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-01
SOUTHERN.

Annapolis, Md, has been the scene
ia disastrous fire. A young man entered one
of the burningbuildings TO arouse and rescue
his aunt. Both persisted. Ten residences
burned, and the State house and United
States naval buildings were in great danger.
The confagration has called attention TO the
feet that Annapolis possesses but one fire.
extinguishcr, IL hand-machine OF the pattern
in general use twenty-five years ago.
AS the result of difficulty growing
out OF game of ball the previous day, there
was bloody fight after church, Sunday, be-
tween Il number of farmers near Mclean
church, Burke county, Ga, in which Thomas
b. Syms was shot five times and killed, and
his two sons MORALLY wounded.
Editor Mccartney, of Flemingsburg,
KY, killed two men who assaulted him on a
public street OF the town.
Nearly 800 children in Guilford
county, N. c., have died from diphtheria.
Mrs. David Moses, nee Blanche Gray,
the fat girl, who weighed 5l7 pounds, died
suddenly in Baltimore. She was married II
few weeks ago in New York, and was Il
years old.
Mai. Burke, Director General of
n premium OF $1,000 for the best plan for II
building to embrace LOCO, 600 square feet and
cost $3.50, 600
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HERE AND THERE.

The total income of the charities OF London
last year was S2l, 552, 900.
A SOUTH CAROLINA rattlesnake recently
captured possessed thirty-three rattles.
THE tax rate of Philadelphia for the ensu-
ing year has been fixed at Sl.S5 on 500.
A CHILD was recently born in Port Orange,
Fla, with eight grown teeth in it's gums.
FOREIGN capitalists have bought track OF
land in Arkansas that contains 46O, 000, 600 feet
of timber.
THE Western and Atlantic railroad track,
near Dalton, Ca, Is haunued by phantom
locomotive.
A HORSE baked in Buffalo, and the patient
driver sat in the buggy nine hours before the
animal moved
BONANZA FLOOD has imported artists TO
decorate the interior of his princely palace in
San Francisco.
FLoRIDA's orange crop for this year is esti-
mated ut l02, 00O, 000 Last years crop was So
000, 900 oranges.
Eli BARNES, of Mendon, N. Y. become af-
ficted with blood poisoning recently from
sknning a dead horse.
A CANAL horse, hearing a locomotive
whistle in Albany, N. Y, recently, leaped in
the air and fell dead from fright.
THE st. Louis Republican, the leading Dem
ocratic paper OF Missouri, pronounces Fred
erick Douglass the ablest and wisest man Of
his race.
A PERMANENT exhibition building is to be
one of the attractive places of amusement in
Baltimore, Md. 1t is to be built of brick,
marble and iron, and is TO cost 100000.
THE Yokohama Gazette declares that all
efforts TO introduce Christianity into Japan
have been pitablc failures, and that the peo-
pie of that country regard foreign mission
aries with Jealous aversion.
THE bones of Guiteau have been removed
from the army medical museum TO the Sur
veyor Generals office, where their identity is
concealed except from few officials. The
reason is that the curiosity hunters took up
so much time of the officials of the medical
museum as TO interfere with the work.
AN attempt was made 70 smuggle opium
into San Francisco by hiding it in ordinary
blocks of wood followed out and covered with
n thick coat of oil and grease. The blocks
were placed under the gangway Of a steamer
as to support it and mislead the custom
house officers. A prOtruding screw exposed
the fraud and 81, 900 worth of the drug was
seized.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-01
NEWS CONDENSED
TelegPephic Summary
EASTERN.

An explosion in J. II. Smiths Ex-
celsior squib factory, at Kingston, Pa, blew
eight children out of the building, one falling
In the creek. Their ages were between IL
and 10, and all were horribly burned and
blackened by the powder.
The piano-stool factory of Parker g.
Young, ut Lisbon, N. H., valued ut S25, ZOO,
was burned recently.
Secret-service officers in q raid on a
counterfeiting den in the mountains OF Yer
mont discovered the existence OF an oath
bound conspiracy of crime with all tho para
phernaia of signs, passwords, mystic rec
ords, and blood-curdling oaths of secrecy.
An officer of the Secret service dis
covered near Brattleboro, VT, II gang of
twenty-three young countorfeiters who have
been at work since June In secret place in
the mountains.
The most violent northeast gale for
years ragged along the New England coast.
Many vessels were wrecked, and II number Of
lives lost.
DR.. G.. f. Taylor, of New York, has
secured Judgment for $4,000 against the
Metropolitan Elevated railway for running
trains past house which he had previously
rented for Il hospital.
Patrick r. Delaney, of New York,
claims to have invented appliances by means
of which six telegraph operators can send
messages simultaneously over one wire in
different directions if desired.
Capt. Finley, William Fowler, M.
Whalen and another seaman were drowned
by the capsizing of schooner Off Vineyard
Haven, Mass.
Thomas II. Murch, late Greenback
Congressman from Maine, has settled in Bos-
ton, and, it is said, will shortly open IA drink
ing-saloon in that city.
w. A. Kits, lumber broker of Os-
wego, n. Y, has failed his liabilities being
$4,000.
The Rev. Isaac w. Pembroke, the
oldest Congregational minister in New Hamp-
shire, died at Concord, aged 30.
A fire at Pittsburg destroyed Nun
derf's planng-mil five dwellings, and l, Co.,
300 feet of lumber, the loss aggregatlng s55,-
200.
w OtuhllS w., UOOI
manufacturers, ut New York, have assigned.
Tho liabilities are put At $4,000, and the
actual assets at So, 900.
For violating the neutrality of the
United States by furnishing arms and ammu-
milton TO the Haytian insurgents the Captain
and first officer of the steamer Tropic were
sentenced at Philadelphia to one years inn
prisonment and to paya fine of $500 and costs
In the trial of case against the Jer-
sey Central and Reading railroads, AT Tren-
ton, n. j., ex-senator Conkling became in
volved in a colloquy with President Gowen.
The epithets "backguard," blackmailer, -
climatic" and "dashed scoundrel" were
used on each side with facility and effect
A large audience stood up and yelled with
delight.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

The struggle to prevent the lottery
robpers from using the United States mails
will be continued 10y Postmaster General
| Gresham.
1t is believed at Washington that
| Postmaster General Gresham will in his
forthcoming report favor the institution OF
"A postal telegraph.
The President has appointed Charles
T. Mccoy Register Of the Land Office at Aber-
deem, Oak
A heavy gale on Lake Ontario caused
| the loss of a barge named the John Marsh,
of Charlotte, N Y, with crew of five or six
men.
Upon the recommendation of the
Commissioners of Pensions, the Secretary of
the Interior has ordered the suspension OF
the followng-named pension attorneys: j.
II. Cilley, of Rockland, Me-; Francis REGISTER
and William II. Druen, OF Philadelphia Milo
Is. Stevens & Co., Of Cleveland, Washington,
Detroit and Chicago; William III. Wells & Co.,
of Washington, d. c., and James X. Russell
& Co., of Trenton,~N. J.
Among the cases recently docketed
in the United States Supreme court, is tho
City of New Orleans VS.. Myra Clark Gaines.
The record in the case is the largest ever sub
mitted to the Supreme court or probably any
other court. 1t is bound in one immense vol
ume, which weighs over 200 pounds and con-
tains 3, 1905 600 words. 1t takes two men TO
open and shut the book.
The Signal Service will no doubt
adopt the new time standard for railways.
Reports were telegraphed to London
and New York from Quebec that alleged
dynamiters in Canada wore ready to attack
Lansdowne, the new Governor General, upon
his arrival. Leading Irsbmen of Quebec
ridiculed the idea of any hostility.
The death-roll of the day includes
the names of Hon. Elisha Foote, OF st. Louis,
Commissioner of Patents under President
Johnson; the wife of John Russell Young,
Minister to China; DR.. David A. Wallace, for
twenty-five years President OF Monmouth
college, and Mrs. Gen. Arson Stager, OF
Chicago.
Jem Mace and his puglistic combina-
ton have sailed from New York for Liver
pool, under an engagement.of ten weeks.
Order has been restored at Port-au-
Prince, where 1900 lives were lost and s.. OOO,-
| 900 worth of property destroyed during the
recent massacre.
Snow fell in Vermont and New
Hampshire and as far south as st. Joseph,
Mo-, Oct. AS.
Statistics are given showing greatly
increased mails, the result of the cheaper
postage.
The National Association of Fire En-
gineers met in convention ut New Orleans,
being welcomed by Mayor Behan.
Little Plume, son of Blackfeet
chief, ran ten-mile race at Winnipeg for
$500 Il side, with George Irvine the cham
pion runner of Canada. The red man won
by five yards, but fell fainting
The business failures for the week
ending Oct. - numbered 200, exceeding the
previous weeks record by twcnty-nine, aud
being sevcnty-two more than i'm the cores
ponding period i'm lss2. Dun's report foI the
failures was less by twcuty-nine than during
week is very encouraging. With all the lack
of confidence in business circles, it thinks
that there is much money being made and
very little talk about IL.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-01

ging telegraph wires, causing internal In
juries to its rider, has obtained Judgment
against the Western Union company for
$4,000.
Late advices from the far South
west are TO tho effect that the Apache Chiefs
Geronimo, Juh, and their band of hostlles
have succeeded In eludIng the Mexican sol
diers, and, with 1000 head of stolen cattle,
are now making their way through Chihua-
hua to the American line. On the other hand,
troop OF seventy Chiricahuas have surren-
dered and will be taken TO Fort Bowie, in
Arizona.
Near Wauseon, Ohio, George w.
williams, farmer, was found in his barn
with his head almost cut OF; HIS wife was
discovered In the house with her skull split
open, and 6-weeks-old infant lay in a bed
nearly starved Williams had the previous
day sold a load OF clover seed, and it is sup
posed was murdered for the money.
Mr.. Denman Thompson, as the &C.
centric New England farmer, "Joshua Whit
comb" has been playing TO large audiences
at McVicker's theater Chicago, during the
week. His engagement continues for another
week. For period of seven years, Mr..
Thompson has adhered closely 10 this one
character, having appeared In no other
during that time. No other American play
has ever had such continuously long run.
It's success is one Of the phenomenons of the
modern stage.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-11-01

their personal status as free men because they
were not admitted to all the privileges enjoyed
by white citizens, or because they were sub
jected 10 determinations In the enjoyments OF
on account OF race or color were not regarded as
a badge OF slavery. II since that time the en-
joyment OF equal rights In all these respects
has become established by constitutional en-
actment, IL IL not by force OF the Thirteenth
amendment (which merely abolishes slavery,
but by force Of the. Fourteenth and Fifteenth
amendments.
On the whole, we are OF opinion that no
countenance OF authority for the passage OF the
law in question can be found in either the
Thirteenth or Fourteenth amendments TO the
Constitution and. no other ground OF authority
for its pas age being suggested, IL must
necessarily he declared void, at least so far as
its operation in the several States Ia concerned.
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again epidemic In Egypt, and worst whore It
gained the weakest foothold last summer.
The indemnity offered by France to
Missionary Shaw was e, 600, accompanied by
an expression Of regret.
Three Irish informers were shipped
from Melbourne to Calcutta as grooms on a
steamer taking horses for the army.
Should King Humbert place in the
Pantheon AT Rome a monument to Victor
Emanuel. 1t is said that the Pope will declare
it "a pagan temple.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-11-24

In the parish of st. John there
are many citizens who do not under
stand a word of English and conse-
quently it is extremely difficult to
get competent juries for the trial of
important cases. Tue other day a
juror told Judge Hahn, as reason
for being excused, that lie did not
understand English; and, on being
questioned further, stated neither
did he speak French, but onlyCreole.
Hence our judiciary have been com
PEELED TO recognize the existence in
our midst of language not found
in any OF the books yet published.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-11-24
LETTERS.

The following is a List Of Letters
remaining in the Hahnville Post
Office, for the week ending FRI.
DAY, November %, 1883.
j. L. Addison, Abram Alexander
Jules Asique, George Atkins,
Mrs. Mary A. Bailey, u. w. Cole,
George Bourgeois, Celestin Charles
Miss Mary Collins, Mary Grooms,
Mrs Whey Deranbo, Mrs. Quinn,
Miss Matild Fortier, MarshallGreen,
Mrs. G, Fern, Mrs. Mrs. NJ. GIooms,
Joshua Hammons, Henry jackson,
Mick Jacob, S Jones, Paul Jose,
Walter Jones, Mrs Louisa Kelly,
Miss Mary Killing, Il. Landry,
zeno Marshall, Malinda MAJ ers,
Fl. D. Nix, Miss Rockoner Nois,
Bazile Oilige, John Pacque, g. Poree,
George Preston, Miss @. Rushley,
Mr.. Rising, Mrs. CordillIa Morris,
Napoleon Richards, A. L. Reid,
Moses Skinner, Mrs. Q. V. Smith,
Miss Q. Stephen, Miss @. L. Scott,
Andrew Singleton, MIS-. II. Taylor,
Miss Sillean Taylor, Robert Taylor,
James Tyler, Henry Thompson,
w. Z. Thomas, K. Winter,
Alfred Willis, Leonard j. Wilson,
|. Washington, Celestine Williams,
Charley Watson.
If not called for within 80 days
from date, the above lett, rs. will be,
forwarded to the Dead Letter op~e
in Washington. 1.
In calling for the, ie''ers
please say "Adyertise9 c.nn
OOtoEl Postmastep
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-11-24
OUR ROCK TABLE.

Uhderwood's Bank and Counterfeit
Reporter, of New York for November
IL. 1888, has reached us.
The Ladies' Floral Cabinet, for
November,publ at No.22 Vesey
street, New York, is ohce more a
visitor.
The Scientific american, from
Mum 81 Co., N. Y, has arrived,
filled, as usual, with new and useful
improvements of mechanical nature.
Vol. 4, No. IL, of Breeder8'J OuYnaI,
published by T.L.Miller,at Beecher,
Illinois, is at hand, and contains
useful suggestions and information
to breeders of fancy cattle.
The Illustrated World, of Phila
delphia, Penn, has again reached
usafter an absence of several weeks,
and contains, as usual, a choice lot
OF Illustrations and reading.
The Artistic almanac for 1884,
and Christmas and Neeo Years Bells,
Tor 1SS3-o4, published by j. a. q
r. A. Reid, of No. "a Customhouse
Street. Providence, Rhode Island.
They contain q lot of neat and in
teresting engravings and are credit
to their compilers.
We are indebted to DR.. Joseph
Jones, President of the Board of
Health State of Louisiana, for a
pamphlet entitled, Small PoG, and
Measures instituted by the Board
OF Health of the State of Louisiana
for the arrest of small pox in New
Orleans, La, during the years 1880,
1881, 1882, and 1888.
We have received from Louis
Grunewald's musical emporium OF
New Orleans, the GrunewaIds Nh
SicGt Journal, Vol. 5, No. 10, for Nov.
1888. This is chance to secure a
fair selection of-music, as each Jour
nal contains several pieces of music
at the low prices of sixty cents per
annum.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-11-24

- Communications handed in later than
"wednesday evening, will lay ovcr until the
70 All communications must be wilton on
one side Of the paper.
~ Inc full name and address of tile wri-
Ter must accompany each communication NOT
Tor publication, but as "a matter of good faith.
AB gommunications of a personal charao.
ter VIII not be recognized, unless from res
ponsible parties. In such cases a charge of
w ~ SQUARE will be made.
II We cordially NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. from
oil parts Of this and neighboring parishes.
T EI~N News and interesting local items res
pectfully solicited
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-11-24
NEWS TTEMs.

-O-1)-o-
Nervousness. debility and exhausted vitality
cqfed by using Browns Iron Bitters.
Itis-a fact that Kendalrs Spawn Cure is all
= is claimed to be. See advertisement.
A leading opera singer in New
York paid 1886 to a first class hotel
for eight days entertainment.
A New York lawyer was greatly
surprised the other day to ind out
that there was man named Tom
Ochiltree. He thought the name
belonged to horse.
The proprietary firm Of Lambert.
Leake q Co., has been dissolved;
Mr. Hunter q. Leake becoming sole
proprietor of the WEST Feliciana
sentinel and continuing its editor.
On Oct. thirty.first, three nuns of
the st. Vincent do Paul Order. con.
nected with a charity hospital in
Cincinnati, decamped for parts un.
known with some $50, 900 belonging
70 their order.
Boston's City Clerk, removed by
Gen. Butler in favor ola Democrat.
had,as had his father before him.
held the post thirty years. His
friends have presented him with
S12,50O.
For first class photographs
crayon pictures and oil paintings
In superior style of art, and at
moderate prices, call on John Ell.
Clarke, artist, 151 Canal ST., N. o.
It is reported that the Pope
intends to declare the Pantheon a
pagan temple ifthe statue of Victor
Emanuel is placed therein. He will
undoubtedly be given opportunity to
carry out his threat.
A newly married lady was telling
another how nicely her husband
could write. ooh, you should Just
see some of his love letters.n "Yes,
know" was the freezing reply;
"l've got bushel of 'em in my
trunk" acknowledging Inter
Ocean.
Who would suffer with the tooth,
ache and decayed teeth when they
can obtain relief by calling on
Prof. Geo. P.P.David, Surgeon Den
fist, located one mile above Hahn
vile. La. See advertisement.
The Convention of the National
Cotton Planters Association was
called to order in Yicksburg, Miss,
Nov. twenty.iirst, by President
Morehead, Delegates from twelve
States were present, embracing the
largest planters in the cotton States
and prominent men identified with
other Industries,
The POstofice Department has
issued an order to the effect that
railroad companies are required to
take mails from aud deliver to term
inal postofiices, no matter what
distance the postofice be from the
station. Atintermediate Offices, not
over so rods from the station, the
railroads are also required to take
and deliver mail matter, and to slack |
tho speed of trains sufficiently to
receive and put off mails with safety
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on THIRTY DAYS TRIAL,

THE VoLTAIC BFLr Co., Marshall, Mich, will
send DrDye's CelebratedEleetro-V oltaic Belts
and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty DAYS
TO men lyoung or old who are afflicted with
nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred
troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete
restoration of health and manly vigor. Adj
dress as above.-N B.-Nc risk is incurred. as
thirty days trial is allowed
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1883-11-24
PECAN AND ORANGE TREES
WANTED.
PARISH OF ST. CHARLES, La.

Any person willing to furnish and
set out 100 Pecan trees not less than
two inches in diameter or six feet
in height and guarantee them to live,
can make bargain by applying to
the editor Of this paper. A similar
contract Will be made for 100 OF 300
young Orange Trees,