The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-12-24
LATER NEWS IETMS.

Emigration from Germany during
the nine months ending Ost was &, 000 as
against 135, 900 for the same period in 1884.
The French Governmert has ordered
a suspension of hostlitles in Madagascar as a
preliminary to negotiations for a treaty of
peace.
The Liberal press in Russia is urging
an alliance with England as the best means of
settling the Eastern question and of furnishing
the perfidy of Germany and Austria
st. Petersburg dispatches state that
a terrible dynamite explosion occurred in the
Plerjuchin mine in Siberia. The accounts are
conflicting, some placing the number killed at
four hundred, and others as high as one thou
sand
Stephen Barker Guion, the we'll
known owner of steamships, died suddenly of
York in 1920
Milton Young, of Lexington, Ky,
sold twenty three thoroughbred horses, for
which he realized $50, 200.
A movement is now on foot in Balti-
more TO procure the passage by the Legislature
vi SuAiScHV INV abaiilSb INC opluhl JoIll'S III
that city.
G.. l.. Green & Co., in their annual
cotton crop circular, estimate the yield at s.,
900, 600 bales for the crop of 1856.
Mr.. Townshend of Illinois is of the
opinion that there is very even division of
sentiment in Congress on the question of sus-
pending silver coinage.
1t is believed that the Hoar Presi-
dential-succession bill, which has passed the
Senate, will meet with considerable opposition
in the House.
Jasper Z. Sweet, printer of Chi
cago, has been sentenced TO two years in the
penitentiary for fatally shooting DIR. Thomas
Waugh. On the first ballot seven jurors ia
vored acquittal One who insisted upon inn
prisonment for life succeeded in obtaining
compromise verdict Sweet expressed himself
as DESTROYS of fastening TO Joliet and states
that his wife and son will have home with his
mother-in-law, at La Porte, Ind
The hide and tallow warehouse of
Oberne, Hosick & Co., on the southwest corner
of La Sale avenue and Michigan street, Chi
cago, was destroyed by fire. The building was
valued at s35, 900, and the stock at $685., 600.
The same firm suffered a damage of $4,000
by fire caused by lightning last August
A Deming New Mexico) dispatch
says that snear White House, located north
west of Silver City, a company of the Eighth
United States Cavalry, under Lieut. Fountain
were ambushed by hostiles with disastrous re-
suits The following were killed in the fight
which ensued: Surgeon Maddox, Private Col
Inns, Private Gibson, Private Hutton, Private
McMillen, Lieut. Cahill Corporal Mcfarland
was slightly wounded The Indians numbered
twenty-one. After the fight they headed west
in the direction of Clifton This is the same
band with which Fountain had fight on the
9th inst No Indians are reported killed.
Edison, the inventor, has resumed
his work on the photograph, which he is conf
dent of perfecting to such an extent that it
will take the place of stenographers.
Smallpox has appeared at the lun-
attic asylum on BlackwelIs Island, New York
The disease also exists in New York City, where
twelve cases and one death were reported the
past week.
In the House Of Representatives at its session
on the 18th, Mr.. Morrison Of Illinois, from the
Committee on Rules. reported resolution for
the creation of the following select committees
On the election of President and Vice President
of the United States on reform in the civil
vice. on ship building and ship owning inter
ests, on alcoholic liquor traffic, and yentila-
tion and acoustics OF the House. The resolution
adopted Representative Lowering pre-
scented petition by Col. David T.. Hussey,
Third Massachusetts, Cavalry, and sixty
others, survivors Of the storming column known
the "Forlorn Hope" organized for assault