The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-11-27

A cablegram from Foo Chow chroni.
Giles the sudden death of Bishop J. w. Wiley,
of Cincinnati. while on an Official visit to the
Methodist missions in China.
1t is stated by an English journal
that after the passage of the franchise bill
GLADSTONE will accept peerage.
A special commission appointed to
invesu ate the cause of the great increase OF
drunkenness In Switzerland have reported.
They attribute the trouble entirely TO the
groa. cheapnoss OF French braniIess and
wines, and to remedy the evil recommend
the enact nent OF an almost unpre cedented
prohibitory Law. The ask that the duty on
brandy and wines be made so high as to abso-
lutey$bar them from the country. and that
the tax on domestic manufactures b. ra sed
so as TO make il practically impossible for
any but the very rich TO procure liquor in
any form.
Nineteen Cinnamon who were put on
board n sloop to be struggled into the United
States from Victoria, British Columbia, were
drowned by the capsizing of the craft.
Another effort is on foot in Washing
ton looking to extending the whisky bonded
period for two ears.
In the opinion of Senator Allison, of
Iowa, the current session Of Congress is not
likely to be an important one from polt-
ical standpoint. Clevelands administration,
he thinks, will be conservative rather than
aggressive.
Senator Edmunds is said to be pre-
pairing legislation relative to the Pacific rail
roads. The Senate judiciary Committee has
the funding act under consideration, and
strong influences are at work to secure ia
vorabe action on the House BILL
II. d. Money, Congressman from
Mississippi is named by Southern and Califor-
MIA leaders for the Postmaster Generalship.
He was offered $3.50 by the Mexican Gov
eminent to make compilation of our postal
laws. 1t is said that Judge Gresham pro-
nounced him the best informed as to the pos
tai service of any man in the country.
The total vote of California was
1913, 73s. Blaine received 100, sl6; Cleveland,
ss,301; st. John, 2.6io; Butler 1875. Blaine's
plurality IL II, 500
Official vote of Virginia: Cleveland.
lao, 10Y, bihlue, loo,fB. CleNeiiuu uuJoT-
ity, 7.715.
A Columbia dispatch says the State
Board of Canvassers have completed the
tabulation of the vote in South Carolina for
Presidential electors. The highest IDcmo-
cratic elector received so $40 votes, and the
lowest 90, 764. The highest Republican elector
received 81, 1873 votes, and the lowest 81, 551.
Blaine's plurality in Iowa is 19,S03.
st. John received only 1000 votes.
w. A. Pledger, Chairman, has issued
a call for NEE ting of the Colored National
Committee TO convene at New Orleans Dec.
II to consider the situation of tho colored
people under the Democratic party.
The Grand Opera-house, in Market
street, st. Louis. valued at $4,000, was de-
stroyed by fire.
The Rock Island plow-works which
have been closed for some time, have re-
sumed, glv.ny employment to about 400 men.
B. G. Winston & Co., Of st. Paul,
hardwood dealers have made an assignment
with liabilities placed at $50, 000
Articles of incorporation have been
filed at Indianapolis, in behalf of the Eastern
and Western Airline Railway, which is said
to have a capital stock Of So, 900 OOO and
which proposes 10 construct a continuous
line through Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
and Pennsylvania.
An ef1igy of John p. st. John was
the other morning found hanging in the
public square at Marion, Ind. The Prohibi-
ton candidate was also hanged in efiigy at
Lake Geneva, Wis.
The schools at Nashua, n. H., have
closed on account of the prevalence Of scar