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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-30
THE BUSINESS SITUATION.
From the Chicago Tribune. ]


The disappearance of the war cloud has
deprived the business world of the spec
tacular and speculative element that recent
ly caused SO much disturbance, and we
must now fall back on the real merits of
the situation and the slow, humdrum course
of ordinary trade events. Except the dam
age that has been done to the winter wheat
in the ground the extent of which nobody
knows, and which must therefore cause
considerable fuctuation in the price of
the commodity, there is nothing which
is likely to furnish the spectators much
material to work with.
The distribution of goods is now very
unsatisfactory to the sellers as to quantity
and still more SO as to price. While the cool
weather has something to do with this, the
main causes are the enforced economies of
consumers and the timidity of retailers, who
do not dare to lay in large stocks in antici-
patton OF better demand in the near flu
ture The iron men have resigned them
selves to the expectation of low prices for
a long time, and the dry goods people think
themselves fortunate if they save them
selves. There is considerable activity in
lumber. but profits are small. The reduce
tons in the dividends Of the carrying COM
panies attract good deal of attention, be-
cause their affairs are publicly known; but
their hardslips are not at all out of proper
ton TO those of other branches of business,
and there is more probability Of further re-
auctions than Of a return to the old divi-
dends soon.
The labor market is more quiet all over
the country than for some weeks.
There was so much slack rope in the
money market that the war excitement did
not produce any visible effect on IT, The
reserves of the bank are growing again, an6
rates are as low as ever There was an in
crease of nearly $27, 100000 in the gold
held by the national banks Of the country
between Dec 20 and March 10, and the
holdings are no doubt larger now. The
loans fen OF during that time, and have
certainly not increased much since, though
we are now in what is usually an active sea-
son of the year. The stock market is very
dull. and there is nothing in the legitimate
business field which promises any large
trading in stock for months.
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are known 20 have been drowned Men
who went out to give relief found men,
women and children clinging 10 trees with
nothing on but their nightclothes and
some without any clothing whatever. but
still alive. Their cries could be heard as
early as 4 o'clock in the morning. Three
attempts were made to rescue persons on the
opposite size OF the river, but each boat In
turn was swamped, and the occupants only
saved themselves by swimming TO trees. Six
bodies have so far been recovered. There
were eight movers wagons camping I'm the
bottoms, and one old man has recognized the
bodies of three OF his family his wife and
two children
The Coroner's jury at st. Louis re-
turned a verdict that c. Arthur Preller died
from the effects of chloroform administered
by Walter II. Lenox Maxwell.
Thirteen persons, among them beng
a postmaster and an ex-mcmber Of the Leg
islature, wero brought prisoners to Oshkosh,
Wis, the other day, for fishing with nets.
Some were fined $50 and costs, and others
had their cases continued.
The Mormon Bishop, Hiram j. Claw
son, was arrested at Salt Lake City for UNI
lawful cohabitation.
To settle personal quarrel, William
ID. Winter. OF the Bank of Commerce, and
Bernard p. Bogy, Secretary of the st. Louis
Wire Company, met in stable on the
grounds or the former Mt st. Louis, and
fought four rounds with bare knuckles, &C
cording TO Queensberry rules. At the begin
ming OF the fifth round the police raided the
place, but made no arrests. Pugilistic hon.
ors were about evenly divided.
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EASTERN.

1t is asserted that Miss Mary Moor
head, of Pittsburgh, Pa, sufferer from a
painful disease of thirty years standing, has
been restored to health by faith and prayer.
Nine persons at Midway, Pa. have also, it is
claimed, been cured by faith, causing a mild
sensation I'm the district.
Near Greenwich, Conn.,, Barclay
Johnson, who was insane, while walking with
his mother and sister, killed them both, and
then blew out his brains. Mrs. johnson was
a sister OF the hon. william Walter Phelps.
In the second game of the balk-line
billiard tournament ut New York, Jacob
schaecer defeated Maurice Daly-5o0 to $40.
Nine. Patti witnessed the contest.
Forest fires are raging in Camden,
Atlantic. and Gloucester Counties, New
Jersey. to a degree which calls out oil able
bodied inhabitants for their suppression.
Frosts have killed the entire wheat
crop along the lake shore in Pennsylvania,
and farmers are blowing the land for other
crops.
Capt. O'Brien, of the steamer City
of Mexico, has been arrested in New York
the Colombian insurgents.
In Camden County, N. j., orchards,
buildings, and other property have been de-
vastated by forest fires, the loss approx
imating 100000. The fires are still blazing
in some sections. and trains in a few instan-
ces, run for miles through smoke and flame.
Overexertion on roller-skates caused
the death OF George Smithey, citizen OF
Pittsburgh.
The extensive boot and shoe factory
Of Bridges & Co., at South birmingham,
Mass, was damaged by Ere to the amount OF
100000.
Health officers from the sea-board
cities held q conference at New York, and de-
F, cided upon the establishment OF rigid rules
to prevent the introduction OF cholera. Rag
cargoes will be closely quarantined until they
are either boiled or steamed, the sulphur
process being voted failure.
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WASHINGTON.

Question has been raised at the War
Department as TO how long the military
guard stationed at the tomb Of Garfield Is to
be kept upon the present duty. There is no
probability, says q Washington telegram,
that the guard will be relieved until the
monument has been completed and the re-
mains of Garfield deposited In vault from
which their removal would be impossible.
The President is reported as saying
that he does not propose to remove Mr..
Bruce, the Register of the Treasury. or
James Hill, the colored Collector OF Internal
Revenue in Mississippi.
President Cleveland says he can not
be supposed to indorse the announcement
by Minnesota Democratic politicians that APP
plications for State Offices should be for
warded through their hands 10 receive atten-
ton at the White House.
Mr.. Wyman, Treasurer of the United
States, has rendered his resignation. He will
be succeeded by Mr.. c. N. Jordan, of New
York.
Secretary Whitney has directed the
Commander OF the Mare Island Navy Yard
10 ulscnarge lOrcmen concerned In cOercing
votes at several elections and has given no.
tice that such work will not be permitted in
the interest of any party.
1t is said that the committee selected
to count the cash in the Treasury will have a
task of great magnitude to accomplish.
A Washington dispatch says that
President Cleveland has refused to exercise
the power of executive clemency in regard
to the sentence OF Gen. ID. G. Swain, Judge
Advocate General of the Army. After the
sentence of the court-martial which recently
tried him was approved by President Arthur,
and after the now Chief Executive had as.
sumed the duties of his Office, Gen. Swain
appealed to the latter for pardon. on the
ground that he had not been allowed fair
trial
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FOREIGN.

Andrew Carnegie, the Pittsburg iron
man, now sojourning in England. has been
invited by a committee of Liberals to stand
for Parliamentary district OF Edinburgh
against George J. Goschen.
News has been recei ed from Cam
bodia, by way of Saigon, to the effect that
the insurgents have surprised a French post,
captured several guns, and massacred many
Europeans.
An explosion, supposed to have been
caused by dynamite. occurred in the Ad-
miralty Once at London, and for q while
created great excitement. Assistant Score
tary Swanson was seriously wounded. The
police regard the event as the result OF pri-
vate malice, as Mr.. Swanson was greatly
disliked by number of persons, including
several employees Of the Office. 1t is certain
bookcase Just over the spot where Mr..
swainson's head would be when sitting at
his desk.
The members of the English Gov
eminent maintain the strictest silence In re-
gard to the negotiations which are still
actively progressing between England and
Russia. The Car has twenty men-of-war I'm
commission to protect his capital and the
Baltic ports.
Gladstone answered an inquiry by
Laboucherc, I'm the House of Commons, on
the cath of April, by saying that the Govern
ment had decided to make no further dec
larations to Russia through Parliament. The
Armstrong works Mt Newcastle declined 10
oil an order from Russia for war material.
Russian naval officers retired on half-pay
have been ordered on the active list.
The Able Ganahut was executed by
the guillotine at Paris for the murder last
fall OF Nine. Ballerich.
A dispatch from Tangier states that
the special french mission, recently arrived
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year, ex-Congressmsn Rogers. OF Buffalo,
Public Printer. vice Mr.. Rounds. Mr..
Rogers, who is practical printer, was form
erly connected with the Bunalo Courier. was
brevetted BrigadIer General during the war,
and was Mayor of Buffalo in 1869. He was
n member OF the Forty-cighth Congress
Eben f. Pillsbury, of Maine, has been
appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for
the Eastern District OF Massachusetts,.
It is announced from Washington
that the administration has resolved 10 make
no more "helter-sksltcr' appointments. At
tention will In future be paid to geography
and the Democratic vote.
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poLyGAMYs DEATH-BLow.
The Supreme Court Renders a
Decision in the Case Of
Rudger Clawson-
In Carefully Prepared Opinion the Rul-
ing Is Against the Plaintiff on
Both Points Raised.
TWashincton dispatch.l


A decision has been rendered by the Su-
preme Court "a the polygamy case of Rud-
ger Cawson against the United States.
brought here by writ of error from the Su-
preme Court of Utah. Ciawson, plaintiff
in error. was indicted for polygnmy at the
April term OF 1884 of the District Court of
Utah, and after trial found guilty and SEN
fenced to a fine of $500 and four years i'm
prisonment. He appeared to the Supreme
Court of the Territory, and that tribunal hav-
ing affirmed the judgment OF the District
Court, he brought his case here for review,
upon the ground that the grand and petit
juries by which he was indicted and tried
were illegally constituted. The alleged ille-
gality in the impaneling OF the grand jury
consisted in the exclusion upon challenge
of persons who believed man had right
to have more than one undivorced wife liv-
ing at the same time. and in the case of the
petit jury in the drawing of the jurors from
an "open venire," after the whole annual
jury list of 200 had been exhausted through
the exclusion of polygamists.
This court, in q carefully prepared opin-
ion by Justice Blatchford, decides against
the plaintiff in error upon both points
raised. Section Of the Edmunds act pro-
vides:
That in any prosecution for bigamy, polyga-
my. or unlawful coha bitation under any statute
OF the United States. IL shall be sufficient Gauss
of challenge to any person drawn or summoned
as juryman or talesman. that he believes 1t right
for man to have more than one living and un-
divorced wife at the same time.
This court holds that the proceedings to
impanel the Grand Jury which finds in
dictment for one of the offenses named I'M
der the statute of the United States against
person not before held to answer are part
of the prosecution. and that the indictment
is good, although persons drawn and sum
moned as Grand Jurors were excluded by
the court from serving on the Grand Jury.
and being challenged by the United States
for cause mentioned in the act, the chal-
lenges having been found true.
With respect to alleged illegality in the
case Of the petit jury the court holds that
where, under section four of the act Of
June 20, 1874 relating to courts and judi
cial officers in the Territory Of Utah, the
names in the jury-box of 200 jurors pro-
vided for by that section are exhausted, the
jury being only partly impaneled, the Dis
trct Court may issue venire to the United
States Marshal for the Territory to sum-
mon jurors from the body of the Judicial
District, and the jury may be completed
frop. persons thus summoned. 1t is held
that the record shows no error, and the
judgment Of the court below is accordingly
affirmed
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POLITICAL.

The Postmaster General, in letter
to John II. oberly, promises to give his ut
tention, at date as early as is convenient,
TO the charges or active and offensive parti-
sanship brought against o. ID. Knicker-
booker, Postmaster at Aurora, Ill.
Gen. A. r. Lawton, of Georgia, has
declined to accept the Russian mission.
Washington dispatch: "The revela-
ton concerning James NJ. Morgan, Of South
Carolina, who was appointed Consul eneral
ut British Australia the other day, was q
surprise to administration circles. Morgan
was an ardent Blaine man, and published q
pamphlet in New York during the cam
paien advocating Blaine on account of his
foreign policy. Nothing was known of this
when the appointment was made. The up
pointment was made at the instance OF Mr..
Dawson, proprietor of the Charleston Ncips
and Court<r, who asked 1t asa special favor,
and said IL was the only thing he had to ask
OF the administration. Besides this, Mr.
Morgan's papers were signed by Senators
Butler and Hampton. of South Carolina, and
German. OF Maryland, Hon. r.. T. Merrick,
and other prominent Democrats. Senator
Butler said that he had always known Nor.
gan as Democrat, and was greatly surpris
ed TO find that ho had writtcn in favor oil
Blaine"
The Illinois Legislature, as body,
declined the invitation of the Illinois Cen
trail Road to make an excursion to New Or.
leans. but there are indications that many
Senators and members will personally accept
the offer.
Arumor comes from Washington that
the President has concluded to appoint, al
the commencement OF the ensuing 1sca
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there, win soon start for Fez to present the
Sultan of Morocco with six field guns and .
number OF other valuable gifts.
The Joy plan for the reorganization
of the wabash Road. which provides for as
sessments Of 50 per share on the preferred
stock and 30 on the common, has been ac-
cepted by the British interest
M. Barrere, the French Charge
d'Anaires at Cairo. has received instructions
TO suspend oiiicial relations with Egypt. 1t
Is said that the Egyptians oner to make
partial apology 20 settle the dispute about
the suppression of the French newspaper.
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Samuel s. Cox, the newly appointed Min
lister to Turkey, was born at GAINESVILLE, O.,
in 1924, graduated at Brown University ia
1916, studied law, was admitted to the bar,
and practiced in the Ohio courts. In 1858
he edited the Ohio Statesman, and two
years later went as Secretary of Legation to
Peru. In 1858 he was elected to Congress
from the Columbus district, and served
three successive terms. He suffered defeat
in 1864, after which he removed to New
York, and spent good portion of three or
amusing books about those travels. In 1868
he ran for Congress in New York, was
elected, asd has been continuously in Con-
gress ever since.
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THE States of Maryland, Alabama. Ar
kansas, Delaware, Georgia, Maine, New
Hampshire. New Jersey, Oregon, and West
Virginia have never had Lieutenant Gov
ernors.
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babe his drinking any more liquor, is taper
ing of on distilled water.
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AT the soldiers carnival in Boston n COM
mon card photograph. Of the President, with
his autograph, was sold at auction and
brought $3.50.
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Ex- Gov. MOVES, Of Ohio (also ex-Aiin-
lister to Francc), will present life sized
portrait of himself to Dartmouth College.
where he was graduated in 1857.
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THE Seventh Day Adventsts seem to be
gaining in strength in New York. They
have recently established missions in New
York, Buffalo, Albany, and Symcuse.
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United states Minister to Mexico.

Gen. Henry r. jackson, whom Presidenr
Cleveland has appointed Minister to Mex
leo, was born at Savannah, Ca, in 1920,
graduated from Yale College in 1889, stud
led law, and was admitted to the bar at
Columbus, Ga, in 1910. Shortly afterward
he was appointed United States District At
torney. He commanded Georgia regi-
ment in the Mexican war. In 1849 he was
appointed Judge of the Supreme Court for
was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court
of Georgia. He was a Confederate Gen.
eral in the war; was captured in the fall of
1864, and imprisoned for several months at
Fort Warren
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ALTHOUGH Bismarck is so devoted to
the home industries of Germany, il is said
that for twelve years he has had all his
clothes made In Vienna.
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.STRArFoRD. Conn, has lively sensation
in The shape Of haunted house.
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A CLEVELAND man has invented
process for extracting aluminium from
kolin (clayl. A cheap production Of alu-
minimum will work q revolution in the metal
world
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Consul GENERAL WALLER viii sail for
England HAY z
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GOLD AND SILVER.


Mr. Burchard. Director Of the Mint. In
his special annual report on the production
of gold and silver in the United States for
the calendar year 1884, estimates the pro-
duction of the country to have been:
S S cr,nr;:d a. the silver dollar
coming rate. &osoVsoV0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-19

half of tbe Bulgarians. The Powers Will pay
"a little heed TO Prince Alexander's diplomatic
note II * true. rs he asserts, that Servia mas
not acted in conformity either with lnterna-
tiop,I law or with the Treaty of Berlin. Inc
nrincinles which Europe has vigorously applied
to tbo RuIearian question have been set al
uoucbt bv King Milan in his wanton Invasion
of Turkish territory. But valid az Is tue
Princes logic in this remonstrance, IL wiz NC
Ineffective. France has ceased To nave olp'o-
matte influence in the Eastern question: Eng
land is engrossed in an electoral contest; ltaiS
prefers to be on the winning SIDE ; Austii'
stands back of Seryia Germany cannot Sepa-
rate itself from Austria and Russia Whle pre-
pared TO return in force to the Danube, Is Deht
upon getting rid of Prince Alexander III INC
outset. Bulgaria stands alone. dependent upon
its own valor and menaced with defeat.
Mr. Gladstone in his speech at West Calder
describes the Balkan situation as most
nouruful spectacle, since Servia, released from
| Europran intervention, is carrying Dloodsheu
among people united by centuries OF common
suffering" De2lorable as he considers the out
look he has no complaint to make OF the lOry
foreign policy, which he says is regulated on
sound principles and deserves support. ME-
Gladstone is highly favored if he knows what
the English policy in the Balkan is. Probably
if implies inacion and helplessnesS in foreign
onairs-two principles which have entered
largely into the Liberal diplomacy of recent
wears. After the elections there may be Gov
eminent of the day possessing sufficient S'aDh-
itv to exert a powerful influence in Balkan
affairs. At present Austria and Russia are free
to have their own way-so free that they may
quarrel with each other before the end Is
| reached
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ERSfJN.iL.
E1eunt Danes.

Senator Hale wnen absent from Washington devotes
his time TO improving the grounds about the fine new
house he has built nigh bil at EsAorth, Ne Ii Is
the finest private dwelling IN Maine The foundation Il
blasted out oil tine solid rock. 'fee7 ana wax. oraut
formerly a barren ma. lie SIT. DcscTt
Mountains d cons pcuOus irum h> front door,
Thu Mlrqui, OF Lorne has applied tor patent on an
improved bicycle.
Dbuicep SINGH not having sold Elvedcn, VIII let the
l. 900 ocrrs 81 shooting dsnantlc the Hail. and sail
fog India December 10
Mr T. II. = Escott l. seriously III.
John Erigh; has disc oycred. after lifetime of search
,ua one Tory who "acts from honest motives" -only
one, and that Is Mr. Tracy Iurn'rrlll.
Word now comes that the ex-EmpIess Carlotta Is
rapidly failing both mind and body aud will probably
not 1--we through the winter
The death "a, announced of the Rev. j. T. Nursell. the
eminent Baptist clergyman who, With the late Robert
Mail founded the Liberation Society. lie lived IN
Leicester, England, and WA, eighty years OLD.
Mr. Val Prnscp has boeu seriously III with typhoid
fever at Venice.
The English Radicals hing their campaign with
sweetness and light at prodig pace. For example.
they recently forth that ID Lord Salisbury, Sir Michael
Hicks Beic and Mr.. Parne had held an iniqutOus con-
fercuco ~ the smoking room of the House Of Com
mons hal % smoked their 81 CARS aud guAze their grOg
together them VITA dulled with nicotine and
i.sions ind 4meI with alcohol hai Cd made diahOcal
compact for the dropping Of the Crimes Act and the
turning the Irish vote To the enemies or the
Grand Ola Man. The story II Will he seen. was a. cir
cnst any told by sir Benjamin Backbite.
and made Impression when r"cited IN tragic
and without coupled reference 10 klnainiain
or spoken To or knowingly seen Mt farueI nor 90
insi is tho House OF COmm"ns smoking room. nor
CN does no ever smoke at all nor ~ |,s auy sIth com
pact male Ent. oh. the pity OF 1t! to spoil such
pretty story With the bruta, truthl