The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-12-18

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It was resolved by the Leaf Tobacco
Board of Trade at New York to protest
against tho ratification Of tho proposed
treaty with Spain.
All London was intensely alarmed
the other day by an attempt to blow up Lon
don bridge with dynamite. The attempt,
however, proved an utter failure, as far as
the design to Gem olish the structure was
glass was broken In the vicinity. The bridge
itself escaped without injury. strong
force of police was put on guard, and others
sent out to search for the parties who
planned the destruction of the bridge, but no
arr ests were made or clew discovered. Ow-
ing to the excitement and the fear of a
repetition of the explosion, traffic was sus-
pended for a time.
Hezekiah Brown, q colored school
teacher. was iynohed by masked men in
Howard County, Maryland for intimacy with
white girl named Fannie Shultz.
Indictments for willful murder have
been returned by the Grand Jury at New
Orleans against Recorder Thomas ]. Ford,
his brother, Patrick Ford, Court-Ofiicers w.
Z. Caulneld. Charles Baker, and w. II. Buck
ley, Police Officer John Murphy, and Baptste
]. Favelto. Recorder Ford and u gang Of
followers, including those named, set upon
Capt. A. II. Murphy in the street Dec. and
killed him.
Senator Bayard is said to prefer the
portfolio of the Treasury to tho Secretary
ship of State.
George d. Robinson has given q
score of ambitious Republican politicians
early notice that he will not run for Governor
of MASSACHUSETTS next year.
Elisha Hyatt, President of the late
banking house OF Hyatt Levings g. Co., of
Washington, Ind, has assigned. Assets,
SEQ, 600; liabilities, 100000.
An oil-refning firm of Cleveland has
obtained Judgment against the Lake Shore
Road for 81, 900 for discrimination in freights
and $1,000 for damages.
A Detroit dispatch says that 10000
men are out of employment in that city, and
the vases of a large number of those em-
p,oyed in the various industries have been
reduced.
The American Socialists of Chicago,
after listening to the statement of a miner
fresh from the Hooking Valley, passed reso-
lut!ons to arm themselves to resist the CAPT.
talistic class, and declaring the employment
of all means of warfare not only justiflabie
but necessary.
Boston capitalists have contracted
for 5000 tons of steel rails for the Arizona
Mineral Belt Railroad.
Lieut.. Greedy will be appointed AS
sistant Signal Officer, with the rank of
Colonel
A leakage in gas-pipe in Montreal
mansion was followed by an explosion which
injured three servants almost fatally and
nearly wrecked the building.
The recent suicide of Commander s.
Dana Green, of the United States navy. was
caused by his anxiety to combat the state
ments put forth by an officer of the Confeder-
ate iron clad Merripac, which was destroyed
by one of the earliest monitors, at Hampton
roads, Green being second in command of
the latter.
The Calumet sewer-pipe works, near
Toronto, Ohio, valued ut $4,000 were de-
stroyed by fire. The principal block at
Brookvie. Ind, was burned, the loss being
$50, 900. Twelve buildings at Belvidere, Ill;
the Barrey Opera House and hotel at
Corning, N. Y, and the opera-house and
several other buildings at Chippewa Falls,
Wis, fell prey to flames.
Gen. B. M. Prentiss, who recently
visited the battlefield of Shiloh, urges that
the bones OF the unknown Confederate dead
be removed to the National Cemetery and
their last resting place be properly marked.