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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17
WASHINGTON.

1t is intimated in diplomatic circles at
Washington that the United States may be
called upon to arbitrate between Spain and
Germany with reference to the Carolines.
Admiral Jouett has written a letter
to the Second Controller protesting against
the disallowance of $500 in his accounts for
contingent expenses incurred in the enter
tainment of certain digntaries at New Or
leans. He says il has always been the Gus
tom TO allow tho expenditures, and that ii
was certainly known to Congress that the
preparation was to cover expenses of this
sort. He protests most vigorously against
having the money deducted from lis pay as
an officer of the navy.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
made an agreement with an express COM
pany for the delivery at Washington of a
large amount OF gold and silver coin, which
is lying idle at distant points, and which may
be needed at commercial centers.
The statistics of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue show that during the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1885, go, l56, 902 gallons
of distilled spirits were placed on the home
market, and tax was paid on 10, 1885, 953 bar
rels of malt liquors. The people of the coun-
try in twelvemonth also consumed 20, $685.
34j gallons OF wine.
According to returns received by the
Department OF Agriculture the wheat crop
this year will be below, and the corn
crop above, the average. The harvest
in Great Britain will not vary mate
rally in yield from that of last year.
The September cotton report Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture shows the prevalence
of hot and dry weather during August, ex-
cept in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida.
The shedding of bols and the decrease of
vitality have resulted quite generally.
Drought has been serious in Texas and Ar
kansas, and quite general in Western
Tennessee, Southern Alabama, Georgia, and
the Carolinas. The caterpillar has caused
much damage in Southern Texas, Arkansas,
and in Central and Southern Alabama. It's
prevalen ce is noted throughout Central and
Southern Georgia, with small effect as yet.
The boil worm is causing much DAMAGE I'm
the black belt of Alabama and in Arkansas
and Texas. Condition has declined in every
State. The average is 81, against 96h in
August Last year IL was sc IN September
and 81 in August. The present is two points
above the September average of ten years.
The Second Comptroller of the Trea-
sury has made decision refusing to reopen
the accounts of the Baltimore and OHIO Rail-
way Company for transportation of soldiers
and supplies during the civil war.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record of the Week.
EASTERN.

Vice Chancellor George W. Clinton,
cemetery near Albany. He was rs years
old. and a man OF marked literary and scien-
tifc attachments.
The National Retail Druggists Asso-
citation convened In annual session ut Pitts
burgh, with q small attendance. The Presi-
dent reported slow progress the past year,
many of the members failing to pay their
dues.
The Hon. Edward A. Rollins, Presi-
dent of the Centennial Bank of Philadelphia,
and formerly Commissioner OF Internal Rev
enue, died at Hanover, N. II.
Increased activity is reported in the
iron and steel trade at Pittsburgh. Orders
are coming in freely, and prices generally
are advancing.
Sebastian Boughner, who fought at
Lundy's Lane and at the capture OF Fort
Erie, died at Sunbury, Pa. aged 90.
A rock which had fallen upon the
track overturned the locomotive, baggage,
and smoking cars of the Montreal Express
near Whitehall, N. Y, the engineer being
killed instantly, and Ave others severely in
jured.
Christian Cooper of the Town of Liv-
ingston, Columbia County, New York, died
last week aged Ill years, 10 months and Is
days.
Mr.. Anthony M. Kelley was for the
thirteenth time elected and installed as Pres
ident of the Catholic Union at New York.
The next convention of the association will
be held at Lancaster, Pa.
The inventory and schedules of Mar
tin & Co., who failed recently at Buffalo,
N. Y, show that the assets are worth about
$4,000, while the liabilities are over $500, coo.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17
SOUTHERN.

A dispatch from Washington, Ark,
says that "a mob visited Pike County Jail
at Murfreesboro, and made an attempt TO
shoot the two Polk boys, but not being able
TO get within range the mob hauled a load of
wood to the jail, piled it around the iron
cell, saturated the wood with coal oil, and
roasted both prisoners alive, nothing stand
ing but the brick walls of the Jail. The
Folks murdered peddler last year, and
have had several trials. This was the third
effort by mobs TO kill the men,"
The cotton crop in the Memphis dis
trict has been seriously injured by drought.
but will probably exceed that of last year.
James B. Walton died at New Or
leans aged ~ years. He commanded the
Washington Artillery Battery of Louisiana
during the war with Mexico and also
through the entire period of the civil war.
serving on the Confederate side.
Great destruction was wrought in
the Sea Island cotton section by the recent
cyclone on the South Carolina coast.
John r. Shelton and Ida Maxwell
eloped at Atlanta, Ca, and when the girls
father and brother found them at Skeletons
mothers house a shooting bee followed, in
which the three men were wounded, young
Shelton and the elder Maxwell probably
fatally.
Ellen Johnson, a negress, who was
sold fifty years ago to New Orleans parties,
returned 10 her daughters home at Louis
vile last week, being now liz years old. The
daughter is 60 years of age, and the same
roof now shelters great-great-grandmo
great grandmother, grandmother, mother,
and children.
Dick Scales, Negro of bestial pro-
pensities, was taken from the jail at Bur-
lington, KY, by mob, and lynched. The
vigilantes were crazy with drink, and fought
with pistols among themselves, besides hay
ing a little brush with the Sherff's posse,
Several persons were wounded.
Near Bells Mill, Ca, William Whit
ley and Cain Bell were suitors for the same
woman. To settle the question they retired
TO n grove and clasped each other by the left
hand and fought terrible duel with knives
held in their right hands. Bell was disem-
bowled by his opponent and is dead. Whit
ley will also die.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17

Joel ID. Harvey has been suspended
as Collector of Internal Revenue for the
First Illinois District and ex-Alderman
Rensselaer, Stone, a wcllknown Chicago BUSH
ness man, appointed as his successor.
President Cleveland has appointed
Mrs. NJ. A. Mulligan to be Pension Agent at
Chicago, vice Miss Ada c. Sweet, resigned.
Mrs. Mulligan is the widow OF Col. James A.
Mulligan, VINO died of wounds received near
Winchester, Va, July 20, 1884. Col. Multi
gan was brevetted Brigadier General for
gallantry and bravery only three days before
HIS death. He commanded the Twenty-third
Illinois Regiment
@Ths National Anti-Monopoly party
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17

Hungarian delegation, has been killed by
Count Paul Festiiies in duel at Pesth.
Letters from China state that France
lost 1900 men in the Tonquin campaign,
while the Chinese loss was 100000.
Floods have destroyed the crops in
Bengal. Tho Calcutta district is submerged.
The report that Russia and England
had signed the protocol fixing the Russo
Afghan frontier is confirmed.
A terrific gale at Paris inflicted great
damage upon property and caused numerous
casualties.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17

Manager McVicker, of Chicago. has
secured some excellent attractions for his
fine theater during the Exposition season.
Following Mr.. Denman Thompson, who now
holds the boards with his delightful charac-
tcrization of Uncle Joshua whitcomb, the
honest old New England farmer. viii appear
In succession Lolita, Joseph Jefferson, c. w.
Couldock, and a number OF other brilliant
stars.
Muskegon, Mich, specials Clar-
ence and Herbert Morrison, of this city, went
TO South Haven in a small sailboat and lert
that place for home just before the recent big
storm set in. They were accompanied by
two other young men. Nothing has been
heard from them since. They wele UNI
doubtedly caught In the storm on Lake Mich
igan and lost"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17
A CURIOUS INCIDENT.
A Dove Visits n Preacher I'm Church and
Finally Alights on His Head.
New Haven Comm special

INeW haven ICOnn.I specfaI.I
curious incident occurred while serv-
ices were being held in the Congregational
Church in East Haven, village five miles
from this city, yesterday. As the pastor.
Rev. MIR. Clark, gave out his text dove,
which had made its way into the church
unperceived, flew down from its perch in
the gallery and alighted on the large Bible
from which the minister was reading. The
bird remained near the pulpit during the
rest of the service, and at its close fluttered
to the pastors head. 1t was afterward
discovered that the bird belonged to q
small boy, and for some reason or other
followed its owner to the church. The
preachers text was, Il saw the spirit de-
scending from above like dove and it
rested upon Him."
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17

JOHN b. COUGH. being asked the other
day if he noted any Improvement in man
kind in the matter of intemperance, re-
Piled: why, yes; every way; things are
nothing like SO bad as they were when
was boy, and they are going to be better
yet
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17

COLONEL MosBY says that he intends to
make his home not in Virginia. as of yore.
but on the Pacific Slope. He is TO open q
law Office in San Francisco
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17

INSIDE of Garields tomb fresh flowers
are always to be seen, and il is said that a
florist has regular contract with the Gar
field family to daily supply them with these
tributes
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17

THERE is peanut boom progressing on
Long Island. The soil has been found
peculiarly well adapted for their culture.
and there is promise for a large crop.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17

Ex-VIcE PRESIDENT WHEELER has re-
turned to his home at Malone. N. Y, fully
restored in health.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17

Ex-Governor PORTER, of Indiana, is
bid to be writing history of his State.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17

VICTOR Huco's property is found to be
worth 81, 900, 900.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-17

worth of the fraudulent Indiana township
bonds are held in Washington. Civil Ser
vice Commissioner Thoman, who placed
large lots of them, is held to be bameless,
as Vice President Hendricks and Senator
Voorhees, both vouched for the legitimate
character of the securities. Mr.. A. +.
Davis, of Chicago, guarantees the full value
of every bond disposed of by him in Wash
inRton.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-10-15
Attorney.General Garland,

WASHINGTON, October 9.-Attorney.
General Garland has written a letter to
the President concerning his connection
with the Pan Electric Telephone Com.
pany, and the suit brought in his absence
by the solicitor. general in the name of
the United States to test the validity of
the Bell Telephone patent. BE says that
long before he was made Attorney. Gen.
eral he became one of the organizers of
and attorney for the Pan.Electric Tele.
phone Company. After he entered the
Cabinet he was approached by several
gentlemen who informed him that they
desired to make application in the name
of his company for the use of the name
of the United States to test the validity
of the Bell patent. He refused to have
anything to do with the matter, and
heard nothing more concerning it until
the publication of the fact that suit had
been brought. In his opinion it would
have been proper, and following prece-
cedent to have referred the matter to the
interior department for information be-
fore instituting suit. The President
enclosed this letter to Solicitor, General
Goode, with the query whether it would
not have been better to have followed the
precedents and made inquiry of the in
terror department before bringing suit in
the name of the United States, and
whether action to preserve and protect
such precedent could not still be taken.
To this the Solicitor General replied that
he concurred in the Presidents view Of
the case and had accordingly directed a
discontinuance of tho suit brought in the
name of the Government for the purpose
of vacating the letters patent issued to
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-10-15
The Theological Seminary.

The board of directors of the Presby-
terian Theological Seminary met here
to day and had several sessions, adjourn
ing finally tonight. Ten of the thirteen
members were present. The condition
of the Seminary received long and care
full attention. The conyulsion in the
Church consequent upon the expulsion
of DR.. Woodrow seems to have affected
the institution very unfavorably, as only
twenty students are now in attendance,
against forty at the same time last year.
Two or three more are, however, still
expected to attend. The board received
no definite information from Drs. Hers.
man and Vaughan regarding their ac.
ceptance of the pfofessorships to which
they were recently elected.
The Rev. DR.. Girardeau rendered his
resignation of the chair Of didactic and
polemic theology, which he has occu.
pied since 1876. The board urged him
to withdraw his resignation, which is to
take effect at the close of the term, but
be declined to do 80. No action was
taken as to the acceptance of it. The
board engaged the Rev. DR.. Patton, of
the South Carolina College, to give tenn.
porary instruction in Greek and Hebrew.
DR.. Tadlock, the new professor of church
government and history, has entered
upon the discharge of his duties. DR..
Girardeau and himself now constitute
the whole of the active. permanent
faculty. Other business uuimportant to
the public was dispatched before the ad.
jouroment of the board.-Cohsmbia Cor
respondence to News and Courier.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-10-15
A Celebrated Calf Case.

WATERLOO, Iowa, October THE
lawsuit known as the "Jones County calf
case' has been concluded in the City
Court of this city. 1t vas an action
brought by Robert johnson against E.
V. Miller and six other defendants for
$4,000 for malicious prosecution.
Eleven years ago John Foreman, of
Jones County, Iowa, had four calves
stolent, and about the same time Robert
johnson, a neighboring farmer, bought
some calves from S. d. Potter, of Green
County. These calves proved to be the
ones stolen from Foreman. Soon after
wards johnson was prosecuted by the
Anti Horse Thief Association, of Jones
County, for the theft of the calves. He
was tried twice and acquitted, and in
1877 brought suit against seven members
of the association for malicious prosecu-
ton, allegi that they did not have
probable cause for commencing the
action. The case has been before the
Courts ever since, and has been tried
five times, and each time except one the
plaintiff received verdict ranging from
$4,000 to $1,000, but each time the YER
dict has been set aside. The jury to day
awarded $1,000. The costs, attorneys
fees and expenses entailed upon all the
parties to the litigation are estimated at
over $4,000. and several prosperous
farmers have been rendered bankrupt,
while the calves in the first place were
not worth $50.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-10-15
Judge Thurman on South Carolina.

Judge Thurman is on the stump in
Ohio aud made his 6rst big apeech on
Monday night. he confined himself to
answering the bloody shirt howls of
Sherman and Foraker. He quoted at
length from the tenth census of 1880
statistics in proof of the assertion which
he had made, the principal point being
that the colored people are in majority
iu Tut two of the Southern States, South
Carolina and Mississippi, and he con.
fined his argument to the census of these
two States. Tho object of these figures
is to show the depression in all values in
periods favored by Republican rule and
the advance of all material interests
made under the Democratic government.
After disposing of wilderness of figures
in regard to the condition of South
Carolina, the speaker summed up by
saying: In short, everything that feeds
or clothes the negro in that State is
within his reach to a degree that he
never knew before now. Once more, l
put it to you: "Could this be the case
if South Carolina is in the lawless con-
dition that the Radical speakers repre-
sent it to be-? Not much, fellow citizens.
This continued stream of prosperity
under Democratic rule proves that the
rule is bene6cent, and the quiet that pre-
walls in that State proves that the peo.
pie of all classes there are contented
under their government" Judge Thur.
man denied the assumption of Senator
Sherman that the colored voters in the
South are Republicans, and would vote
that ticket if not terrorized. He said
"If it were true, it would be serious
question whether a people so servile and
cowardly are tit to exercise the elective
franchise. But for one, do not believe
that they are so utterly debased."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-10-15
'Twixt the Cup and the Lip.

ATLANTA, October IA sensational
wedding took place in Yaldosta, Ga, this
morning. Miss Lille Bass, beautiful
girl of II, was to marry Jacob Wither-
ington, aged 66, at 10 o'clock. The mar.
riage had been arranged by the girls
parents and all the preparations were
made for an elegant banquet. About an
hour before the ceremony was to have
taken place Miss Lille fed from home,
arrayed in her bridal robes, and at q
neighbours house met Jesse Hardee, aged
%, who had been her sweetheart before
her engagement to Witherington. Har-
dee and Miss Bass got in close carriage
and drove to the house of a justice of
the peace, 1. n. Cook, where they we're
married. They returned to the BRIDES
home in time to meet the wedding guests
Who had assembled. Mr.. Witherington,
who is a widower, took matters coolly, but
declined to stay to the feast. The girls
parents forgave her and everything is
now lovely.-Dispatch to the Neacs and
Gour;sr
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-10-15
Wiggins Wants a Delnge.

Our earth is much further from the
solar orb now than she was at the glacial
age, or when our visible satellite first ap
peared in the Silurian eras, and Saturn
is much more distant than when he car.
ried but single moon in his then small.
er race course around the sun. Then as
the four great planets just mentioned are
30 near to US their attraction forces our
satellites nearer our primary, thus in.
creasing the attraction on our earth's
surface, and as a result densitying our
atmosphere.
1t was for this reason that predicted,
in the New York Insurance Times, three
years ago, that the winters and summers
of 1884 and 1885 would be remarkable
for their coldness, for the depth of snow
in winter and the rainfall in summer;
and how exactly this prediction has been
fulfilled AS the same conditions Will,
to certain degree exist, it is impossible
that the winter of 1886 can be otherwise
than cold and stormy. This unusual at
mospheric density is the primary cause
of the cholera in Europe; for these
noxious gases, consisting of the poison
Gus compounds OF carbon, are more
quickly generated and rise to a higher
atmospheric level than usual, especially
in low countries and cities badly drained
and ventilated.
1 have made no predictions as to
storms or temperature, except the fol-
lowing storms, which | published on
May 10, 1884, VIZ: September 29 and
80, 1886; March 26, 90, 1887, and Sep.
tember l9, 1887. The last named will
be the greatest storm at Halifax Quebec
and Boston that will occur for the re-
mainder of the century. 1t is the great
storm of October, 1869, known ss the
Saxby storm. which Is attended by a
tidal wave and comm. Led sad havoc on
the eastern coast of North America. On
the 18th and 18th perfect calm will pre-
vail over the greater part of the CONT,
nent, the air current at Halifax, what
little there may be, moving from the
west.
Ala O'Clock on the afternoon of Sep.
tember 10, 1887, it will suddenly shift
from the southeast. No one unless told
would imagine that this quiet shifting of
the flag on the mast and the smoke from
the chimney top indicates the beginning
of storm which in four hours will be-
come one of the greatest storms of the
century, and one that will be spoken of
by other generations. The New York
Maritime Register stated in 1881 that my
prediction of the storm of September IA,
of that year-the one in which the Asia
was lost on Lake Huron, with 100 souls
on board-saved SS,000,0G0 worth of
United States shipping; but this will be
heavier one, and much more danger.
Gus, on account of its Atlantic tidal
,pot,o
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-10-15
Twenty-Five Conylcts Shot.

A dispatch from Rusk, Texas, says !:
Yesterday, at the terminus of the Kan.
sas and Gulf Shore line, near Lufkin, in
Angelina County, Texas, sixty convicts
made desperate break for liberty. The
n,ea were being worked on the railroad.
The revolt occurred at o'clock, jus, as
the prisoners had finished their supper.
With deafenipg yells they started up in
a body and rushed for the neigbboring
woods. The guards opened fire on the
fleeing convicts with deadly effect. The
latest report says that twenty. five of the
prisoners ran in body and the guards
simply emptied their repeating rifles and
small arms into the fleeing mass. Ru.
mora of an intended mutiny in the camp
have been rife for some weeks. These
rumors were strengthened by the fact
that many of the convicts were serving
life se' snces and were known to be des-
perate characters. Extra precautions
were being taken to avoid an uprising.
Every means possible is being used to
recapture the thirty five convic,s who
succeeded in eluding the rifles of the
guards. All averres of escape are being
guarded and posses. are being organized
to scour the country. The scene of the
outbreak is some miles from telegraph
Office.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-10-15
Cleveland Wouldn't Kiss Her.

Rather an amusing incident occurred
during the public reception in the East
room this afternoon. Among those who
waited in the East room for a long time
for the privilege of shaking the hand Of
the President WAS a rather pleasant.
looking and fashionably dressed lady,
who held by the hand little girl proba.
bly, three years Of age. The little girl
was hardly as pleasant looking as her
mother. AS they advanced toward the
President the fond mother picked up her
little girl and lifting her to the President
said, "Won't you kiss herr" as if it was
part of the Presidents duty to kiss all
the children who called on him. The
President made some reply, but it was
not heard by those standing about. The
President, however, did not kiss the girl.
He shook her hand and then shook the
hand of the mother, who walked off very
much disappointed. Every one except
the mother enjoyed the incident. She
was very mad Washington Letter in the
New York Herald.