The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-03-19

A decision was rendered in the United
States Circuit Court ut Boston in the suits
against the stockholders OF the defunct Pa
cifc National Bank requiring the defendants
10 pay u second assessment of 100 per cent
on their stock The loss OF the stockholders
by this decision is 81, 900. 900.
Secretary Bayard, in resigning the
Senatorship from Delaware, gave the Legts-
lature to understand that his successor should
be Attorney General Gray. The Salisbury
family, however, are pushing Representative
Lore for the vacancy, and the struggle grows
in interest daily.
Drs. Sands and Shrody, consulting
physicians in Gen. Grants case. visited the
Generals residence and held consultation
with DIR. Douglass They fully Endorsed the
treatment of the patient adopted by Drs.
Barker and Douglass. The General was in a
comfortable coaditisn. The local disease is
believed, for the present, to be stationary.
Recent deaths: At Chelsea, Mass,
John Robbins, known throughout the United
states'as manufacturer of baggage-checks;
at Buffalo. N. ", G. w. McCune. proprietor
OF the Buffalo Courier; ut Washington, the
wife of Congressman Herbert, OF Alabama
1t was decided ut the meeting of the
Gordon Memorial Committee IN London that
the memorial should be great hospital and
sanitarum, to be erected at Port Said, open
to the people OF al nations. The Prince Of
Wales presided ut the meeting OF the COM
mittee, and among the members present
were Lord Granville and the Dukes of Cam
bridge and Edinburg. The Khedive has
already granted site for the proposed
hospital.
A through express train on the Texas
Pacific Road was wrecked on a bridge at Vii.
lage Creek, near Fort Worth. The fireman
was killed. the engineer was fatally injured,
and two postal clerks were seriously bruised
A large number of strikers at Marshall and
Dallas manned wrecking train and went
out to repair the bridge and truck.
Following is summary of the stu
alton in the Soudan, us teiegraphca by cable
from London: Gen. Grahams arrival at
Suakin was hailed witch joyful reclamation
by the troops, who have had anything hut an
easy time lately, owing to constant attacks
by the Arabs. Gen. Graham has ordered
radical changes in the lines of defense
on the land side Of the town. a gen.
be made Immediately. The FIRST objective
point will be Snkat where an intrenched
camp is TO DO established for the summer.
In the autumn the army will proceed TO Ber-
ter. incidentally to the march upon sinkat
Osman Diyma will have to be whipped os-
man, however, has issued u proclamation
promising 10 capture Suakin and TO destroy
the British.
The British Government has pre-
pared an extradition bill authorizing an
amendment TO all British treaties, with u
view to surrender persons charged with muir
der, malicious woundin2, or conspiracy 10
murder any ruler, sovereign, or member OF
any royal family, and also persons char ed
with the Illicit manufacture or storage o: ex-
plosives.
Orders have been given by Secre-
tary Lamar and Attorney General Garland
TO sell ut auction the horses and carriages
belonging to their departments, and cover
the proceeds into the Treasury. 1t appears
that seven clerks In the Interior Department
have heretofore been used as drivers.
Arizona citizens, without regard to
party, denouncc the venality and extrava-
gance Of their Legislature. which adjourned
after having appropriated 81, 900, 900 for very
questionable subsidies, and an effort is TO be
made to stop the payment of the corrupt
bills.
The Transcontinental Railway As
ISOLATION announce a reduced taniff on green
fruits from the Pacific coast to Eastern
points. The rate per 100 pounds by freight
train 10 Chicaoo will no e1 90