The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-03

Gen. John A. Logan and wife and
Mr.. and Mrs. q. b. Marsh, who are summer
ing among the Thousand Islands, while pos
ing In a boat for the benefit of an itinerant
photographer, were capsized, but escaped
with no other damage than thorough wet
ting. Euriously the negative of the sitters
was secured at the precise instant when they
took a header" and when the victims OF
the accident had ''bobbed up serenely" and
secured footing on dry land, they loaded the
lucky artist down with orders for photo
graphic mementos of the affair.
An armed party is reported to have
sailed from Cuba for tho Florida Keys for the
purpose of organizing fibustering ex-
petition TO overthrow the Cuban Govern
ment
Memorial services in honor of Gen.
Grant were held in the hall of Congress at
the City OF Mexico on the 27th of August,
under the auspices of the municipal govern
ment. and were attended by all the leading
dignitaries and society people.
The captain and twenty-one of the
crew OF the American whaling brig Isabella,
which was lost in the ice in Hudson Straits
In July, 1884, have arrived at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, on n steamer from Liverpool. They
were found last September at a settlement
called Acalier by the whaler Ezra, and taken
on board.
John Waizman was executed at Du-
luth, Mimi, for the murder, In November
last, of a saloonkeepor named Joseph Far
ley. AS the culprit mounted the scaffold a
slight pallor was on his face, but other wise he
showed no signs OF the mental torture he
must have suffered. Charles Townsend, col
ored was hanged at Huntsville, Ala, for the
murder of Nathaniel Freeman. The con-
demncd man met death without the
slightest emotion. On the scanold, when
asked IL he had anything to say,
he replied: 81 am going to leave this
country. My soul goes into the hands of the
Lord and my body into the hands of my peo-
pie" samucl w. Collins was hanged at
Bowling Green, NO., for the murder Of Owen
Utterback. The widow of the murdered
man, with her two sons, aged and years,
respectively, was present at the execution.
The execution passed of quietly in the pres
ence of an immense crowd. Shelly Mont
gomery was hanged in Talladega, Ala, for
the murder of Johnson Green on the eth OF
last December.
Business failures occurring through
out the country for the week were 165 in the
United States and "a In Canada, a total of
1s9, against III for the preceding week. In
regard to the general trade situation, Brad
streets says:
In addition TO an improvement in textile lines
the demand for pig-iron at Philadelphia and
generally west OF the Aleghenies, except at
Cleveland. has shown SOME gain. In the East
this is not the case, and while there may have
been some improvement In the inquiry there is
none in price or demand. Dealers in Eastern
mar kets are in lined TO the opinion that unless
the competing Southern furnaces are cut of by
finding ample markets nearer home, or by high
er freight rates. Eastern pig-irons not likely
to advance much in the near future. Steel rails
are stronger, but not so much higher as ire
sponslble reports have mentioned. The mill
owners have avowet their int ntion Of putting
rails mp TO $50 per ton. Wool sales continue
large as compared with last year. Dealers
still in their views. which tends to check opera
tons. Some manufacturers are inclined to look
for reaction, but there are no special reasons
apparent for Ii. Notwithstanding the continued
strength in the Eastern dry-goods market and
the upward tendency OF prices, some manu-
facturers continue to curtail production. There
are others making preparations TO enlarge their
OUTPUT The strength Of prices In leading lines
continues.