The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-09-10

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master General Villas reached here this even
ing. and will remain day or two. q guest
of L. M. Villas, his brother. He is much inn
proved I'm health and I'm excellent spirits
since his trip to the Superior regions"
Little Rock Ark dispatch: Attorney GEN.
eral Garland arrived here rather unexpect-
eddy Sunday morning. He will return TO
Washington, September Is or thereabout.
He leaves for Horning Hill. his country
manor, eighteen or twenty miles from town,
tomorrow. The place is almost inaccessible,
the surrounding country being thinly set
tied aud hunting and fishing excellent Mr..
Garland has no opinion to express concern
ing politics"
According to the figures of the New
York Produce Exchange the visible supply
of wheat is 41,610, 459 bushels and OF corn
6,s2l. $3.50 bushels.
A new commercial treaty has been
States which will work numerous reforms in
the Cuban customs laws
Three hundred deaths from small
pox have occurred in Montreal during the
past fortnight The municipal health board
has applied to the provincial authorities for
assistance in fighting the epidemic, which is
attributed mainly to the filthy condition of
the French Canadian quarter CT the city.
Smallpox is prevailing in a violent form at
Valparaiso, Chin.
Before adjourning its convention at
Ann Arbor.' the American Association for
the Advancement of Science elected Prof.
f S. Morse, OF Salem, Mass, President for
the ensuing year, and chose Buffalo as the
place for holding the next annual meeting.
OF the 1882 Presidential postmasters
in the United States, ga have been appointed
since March 4, and of the 4s, 42l fourth-class
postmasters, 1903 have been appointed dur
ing the same period.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse r. Grant and
Mrs. sartoris have sailed for Europe.
The Allan Line mail steamer Han
overian went ashore off the Newfoundland
coast and is a total loss.
At its session in Baltimore the
National Masonic Lodge of Relief elected
Martin Collins, of st. Louis, President, and
decided to hold their next meeting in the
latter city. N. ]. Higgins of Wisconsin, was
elected a member OF the Advisory Board.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada during August are estimated at
Sc. 5cO,OJ
Claims for losses during the rebellion
in the Northwest Territory will exceed
81, 600. 600, and for the first eight months of
the year at Sos, 5Oo,0 900.
Pedro Prestan, the leader of the rev.
olutionists of Panama, who several months
ago fred and destroyed the city of Colon.
has been executed for the orense.
It is stated that large amounts of
money are lying idle in Canadian banks, and
that the Bank of Montreal alone has between
Sc, OOO, 900 and 10000, 600 which it finds diff
cult TO place.
A band of Indians from Sonora is
reported to be committing serious depre-
dations in the northern part of Chihuahua.
The Mexican troops stationed in that depart
ment are ragged and poorly armed, and re-
lance for protection is placed solely in scouts
employed by the United States.
There are 100 failures in the United
States during the week, against LAG in the
preceding week, and l7s. and 142, and 121 in
the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1888, ami
1872 respectively. About "a per cent. were
those of small traders whose capital was less
than 81, 900. Brdistreets Journal in Its weekly
commercial summary says: 1.-THE general
business situation as reported to Brddstrcet's
continues quite as favorable as reported last
week. The activity Is mainly confined, as
heretofore noted, to print cloths, bleached
cottons. wool, and boots and shoes, put the
feature OF the week is found In the improve
ment noted I'm Eastern iron markets. -