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

A pearl worth $4,000. supposed to
be the largest ever found, has boon shipped
to London from Guaymas, Mexico.
clearinghouse exchanges last week
$685.. 773, 190--were S20e, ,0o5 greater than
the preceding week. AS compared with the
corresponding period in 1883, tho falling OF
is s262, ,240.
At joint conference OF the man.
ayers of the Missouri River and Pacific Coast
Railroads, 1t was resolved to reduce the
freight rates from Chicago to San Francisco
to an equitable basis with New York.
Tiffin Brothers, great wholesale
grocery house at Montreal, have failed, owing
$500, O0e.
The Baltimore and Ohio Road has
leased the Chic and Mississippi, the rumored
consideration being IS per cont OF lite gross
earnings. The Baltimore Company has also
secured a loan of S1O,000,Co0 ON It's Pitts
burgh and Ccnnellsvile line. The Pittsburgh
and Western Road is about to run fast
passene or trains between tho former city and
Chicago.
Neal McKeague, who escaped convic-
ton of the murder Of James L. Wilson and
wife, of winnetka. H., has been arrested at
Thorold, Ontario, for criminal assault on a
lady at a hotel.
The Agricultural Department at
Washing ton reports farm products as tend
ing lower in values. The average price Of
corn is 1914 cents, being highest in Florida
$50 cents), and lowest in Nebraska (1s cents).
Wheat averages GO cents, against 81 cents a
year ago; while the range for oats is 20
| cents, the lowest ever reported by the do
partment- The cotton average Is between 0
and 915 cents, and for potatoes the farm
price is 40 cents per hushel.
It is charged that Col. Ingersoll stole
his last lecture, (which wayr' from Hittell's
evidence Against Christianity"
The various glass workers unions
throughout the country have subscribed
$50, 600 to Aid the prescription glass blowers
now on a strike at Pittsburgh.
Commander s. Dana Greene, of the
Navy Yard at Portsmouth, committed
suicide last week. His mind is supposed to
have been unbalanced by literary work upon
|. which he was engaged.
III. j. Goodwin, New York dealer
In woolens, has made an assignment The
liabilities are about $780, Ooe, with 800, 600
preferences John c. Fares, halter at
Evansville, Ind, has failed with liabilities
estimated at $4,000.
George Cook was executed at Lara
mie City, Wyoming. for killing his brother
| in-law; AMI Warren Price was hanged at
wrghtsville, Ca, for taking the life of his
son-in-law.
Business failures for the week num-
bered 3l8, against 29s for the previous week,
and 249 in the corresponding period of 1883.
Special dispatches to Bradstreets New
York; from leading trade centers report
| 1.-THE holiday purchases are exhibiting con-
trast with the inactivity previously noted,
yet the volume of such sales Is almost
uniformly below the total for 1883.
| Aside from the continued hrmness in the
New England cotton goods markets, due to
| the recent firmness In the price Of raw cot
ton, and with the exception of a slightly Inn
proved distribution OF goods at Boston,
Memphis Wilmington, and Savannah gen.
eral trade ut all points is at as low an ebb as
| ever. A more conspicuous feature is found
in the long-continued and pronounced
dullness of mercantile collections. This is
| reported in almost all directions. Rates of
exchange on New York at interior points
| have declined In most instances. There is no
gain in the Industrial situation. In ali lines
| OF. manufacturing wages continue to go
lower, in a to 10 per cent. drops Actual
| stoppages of factories and mills are less fire.
quent, but conspicuous"