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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-10-21
SOUTHERN.

Johnson's Bayou, La, was mum
dated by the waters of the Gulf during the re-
cent hurricane, and many houses swept away
Seven families persisted by drowning, and
several persons are reported missing.
William w. T. Coleman killed him
self with morphine in a cell at Tuscaloosa,
Ala, where he was imprisoned for carrying
concealed weapons and aiding prisoners to es-
cape. His father was once one of the richest
slave-owners..in Barbour County, Georgia On
Coleman's cell wall was written: "William W.
II Coleman, sentenced to HI for life" 1t is
thought he was insane.
The latest reports from Sabine Pass,
Texas, are that 10l persons peri-hed in the
storm. But two houses were left standing,
and the greatest distress prevails among the
survivors.
Henry Norris, who killed George
Elliott owing TO quarrel about a chew of
tobacco, was hanged at Buchanan, Ga. At the
first attempt the rope broke, and Norris was
dashed to the ground, but he was again placed
on the scaffold, and met death by strangus-
ton.
In quarrel at Somerset, KY, Ed
ward Logan, United States Commissioner and
Henry Boyle, Special United States Bailiff,
drew their revolvers and began firing at each
other, with the result that both are fatally
wounded
1t was decided by the Circuit Court
at Baltimore, Md, in the prosecution of a man
charged with counterfeiting the Union cigar
label, that the label is the property of the
Cigarmakers' Union, though the body may not
be incorporated nor exist IN the form of a
partnership.
The State Engineers of Louisiana
are at once to construct a levee at Plaquemine,
but the line upon which they insist will leave
outside three-ffths OF tho business houses
There is talk of building a municipal tempo
rary levee near the rivers edge by popular
subscriution
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The ocean steamer Anchoria arrived
safely at St Johns, n T., having been over
due'twelve days. Her machinery had broken
down when three days out from Liverpool,
and the remainder of the route was made un-
der sail. The passengers were we'll Two
births and two deaths occurred during the
voyage; and for some time, owing TO lack of
provisions, the passengers and crew had been
put upon az allowance of two meals a day.
An armed crew from the Canadian
cruiser Terror boarded the American schooner
Marion Grimes, held at Shelburne, n. s for
violation of the custom laws, and compelled
the Captain TO haul down the American flag,
which was waving frosf the masthead
While officiating at the altar in a
Polish Catholic Church at Pittsburgh an at
tempt was made TO assassinate the Rev. Father
Miskewitz, an unknown person firing at him
through window The bullet passed within
Fix inches of the priests body, and the affair
caused intense excitement among the congre.
CATION.
A water famine prevails in the Ma.
honing Valley, Pennsylvania, no rain having
fallen in nine weeks. II rain does not come
speedily the miners will be compelled to stop
work The people are reported to be greatly
alarmed.
The Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased the property Of the American and
Empire Refining Companies in the Pittsburgh
district, and the Raccoon Oil Company's land
at Shamokin, Pa The price paid by the
Standard Company aggregated 100000.
A Toronto physician certifes that
one of his patients has given birth to healthy
children at periods only five months apart
General Fairchild. Commander of
the Grand Army, has issued a circular calling
upon the various posts to suspend collections
for the Charleston sufferers. This is the result
of dispatch from Mayor Courtney, stating
that the committee in Charleston has received
sufficient funds 70 meet the wants of merito-
nous needy sufferers.
Business failures in the United States
aud Canada for the week number 179, against
100 last week
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POLITICAL.

Congressional nominations: Fifth
Massachusetts, District, +. ID. Hayden, Repub
lican; Seventh Massachusetts,, James II.
French, Democrat; Seventh Massachusetts,,
Rev. w. Spaulding Fusion; Seventh New
Jersey, Edwin J. Kerr, Democrat bolt from
the denomination of Congressman McAdoo.
William l.. Maginnis, of Ohio, was
appointed by the President to DO Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court of the Territory Of
Wyoming.
Congressional nominations: Third
Maryland District, H. w. Rusk, Democrat, for
short and long terms; 1hirty-f first New York,
J. G. Sawyer Republican; Fourth Maryland,
Isadore Raynor, Democrat; Seventh New Jer
sey, Siegfried Hammerschlag, Republican;
Second Connecticut T. C. Lewis, Re
publican; Fifteenth New York, Henry
Bacon, Democrat; Twentieth New York,
George West, Republican; Thirty-third New
York, James Jackson, Jr., Democrat; Second
Massachusetts,, Bushrod Morse, Democrat;
Eighth Massachusetts, Charles Halter, Repub
lican Second Connecticut, Carter French,
Democrat; Eighteenth Pennsylvania, Louis L.
Atkinson, Republican; Ninth Missouri, Nathan
Frank, Republican; Second Louisiana, Rich
ard Sims, Republican,; Third Kentucky, W.
G. Hunter, Republican; Sixth Massachusetts,,
Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican,; Eleventh
New York, James S. Ketchum, Republican;
Utah, John 7. Caine.
John r. Martin has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the
Seventh District of Missouri. Spencer o.
Fisher is the Democratic and Greenback
nominee in the Tenth District Of Michigan
Congressional nominations First
New York District, Perry Belmont Democrat;
Third Arkansas District, H. b. Holman, Re
publican; Twenty sixth New York, NJ H. De
laney, Republican, Seventeenth New York,
William Lounsberry, Democrat; Fifteenth
New York, Moses Stevens, Republican; Thirty
second New York, J. NJ Farquhar, Repub-
lican; Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania, u +.
Allen, Greenbacker; Fifth Pennsylvania, Ed
win Satterthwate Democrat; Fourth Penn
syrvania, Franklin Bound, Republican; Ninth
Massachusetts,, ID. E. Burnett, Democrat
Theodore Roosevelt has been nom
mated for Mayor by the Republicans of New
York City.
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FOREIGN.

The eminent Unitarian preacher, Rev.
Augustus stopford Brooke, of Dublin, has
been sont to an insane asylum
Since last June at least twenty exiles
have escaped from Siberia, among the num-
Der being De Gaieff, the Nihilist who planned
and assisted in the murder of Colonel Sudeikin,
the st Petersburg Chief of Police, December
~, 1888
The King of Abyssinia has ordered
his subjects to prepare for war.
Empress Augusta of Austria has
joined society for the promotion of annual
Wagner festivals at Beyreuth, and will donate
1000 marks yearly 10 the fund for that pur-
pose.
Canon Bianchini, while leaving st.
Marks Cathedral at Venice, was stabbed TO
the heart by q man who cried, Behold thy
victim The assassin was arrested aud
proved 10 be Sig vianelli. formerly deacon,
whose conversion 20 Professionalism caused q
fiutter among Catholics few years ago. On
examination vianell deposed that he came
10 Venice with the intention OF avenging him
self on Canon Bianohini, whose chicanery had
driven him TO apostasy and ruin.
Able Sabouret, OF Thionville, is be-
ing prosecuted in the Metz court for having
had patriotic French hymns sung in his church
The German prosecutor asks that the Able
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Some Further Excerpts from Parsons Six
Hours Harangue.

DO you think, gentlemen OF the prosecution
that you will have settled the case when YOU
carrying my lifeless bones to the potter's
field2 DO you think that this trial will be set
tied by my strangulation and that of my col
leagues2 tell you that there is greater YER
diet yet To be he ard from. The American people
will yet have something TO say about this attempt
TO violate their right which they hold sacred.
1t ia proposed by the prosecution here TO take
me by force and strangle me upon the gallows
for these things have said, for these express
sions. Now, your Honor force Is the last esort
IL is the last resort OF tyrants IL is the last re-
sort OF despots, OF oppressors, and no who
would strangle another because that other does
not believe as he would have him, he who would
destroy another because that other will not do
as he says, that man is despot and a tyrant,
and unworthy to live. Now, your Honor, speak
plainly; speak as an anarchist i speak as n
socialist; speak as n wago slave, n working
man. Now, does il follow because hold these
views that L committed this act at the Hay
marketp
Ny own deliberate opinion concern ng this
Haymarket affair is that the death dealing
monopoly-the act of those who theui lives
charge us with the deed. am not alone M this
view OF this matter What are the real facts
OF that Haymarket tradgoy2 Mayor Har-
rison, of Chicago, has caused 20 DO pub
lished bis opinion, i'm which he saws: Il
ton on tho part OF Spies and those men to
have bombs thrown at The Havmarket" He
knows more about this thing than the Jury that
sat in this room, for he knows-I suspect that
the Mayor knows-of some OF the methods by
which some of this evidence and testimony
IL, your Honor, but possibly he has had some in
timaton OF IL, and IL no has he knows more
about this case and the merits Of this case than
did the jury who sat hero.
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II is claimed that a court Of inquiry

1t is claimed that court Of inquiry
viii yet be necessary to settle the status of
Geronimo's surrender, though General Miles
report is looked upon by his friends as
complete vindication of his course.
The State Department is informed
that the pulling down Of the American flag
on schooner seized at Shelbourne, Nova
Scotia was the result of a misunderstanding,
for which the Canadian officers have apollo
gized
The President has granted pardon
to Charles Thomas, colored man now sery-
ing life sentence in the West Virginia peni-
tertiary for a murder committed in Arkansas
ten years ago. The pardon was issued on the
accommodation of Judge Parker, of Arkan-
sas, before whom the case was tried, and be-
cause of mitigating circumstances surround
ing the crime
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-10-21
WESTERN.

De Reverb & Co., the New York
sugar merchants, who failed last July, have
filed their schedules The liabilities are near
ly 81 SOC, 600, with actual assets of but 1881.
At the annual meeting of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company Austin Corbin,
Henry b. Hyde, aud John G. Moore, were
elected as new directors, taking the place of
Harrison Durkee, deceased, Frank Work, and
Hugh J. Jewett
The steam-barge Selah Chamberlain
came into collision, six miles east of Sheboy-
gan, Wis, with the steamer John Pridgeon,
Jr The Chamberlain sunk, and the engineer,
fireman, three deck hands, and the second
engineer were drowned The Chamberlain
was valued at $4,000.
Harry Wildman, farmer near At
wood, Ill, who murdered his wife and at
tempted suicide, was taken from jail at
Monticello and hanged to tree by mob.
The wholesale house of Jacob Weller
4 Co.. Cincinnati, made an assignment caused
by the confidential clerk of the firm, r. M.
Doll, forging warehouse receipts to the extent
of many thousand dollars. A rough estimate
of the liabilities places them at 800, 000
Skaats, Edwards & Co. also made an assign
ment the firm holding about $4,000 of
Weler's paper. Their liabilities will prob
ably reach Go,000.
w. G.. Walker, 10 years of age, a
nephew of James g. Blaine, has entered the
order of the Jesuit fathers at Santa Clara,
California
The German Orphan Asylum at In
dianapolis was destroyed by fire early the
other morning, one of the boys perishing in
the flames. The boys were removed safely
from an upper story, by means of ladder,
by the matron aud her attendants.
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NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record of the Week.
EASTERN.

At thirteen different points along the
Hudson River, between Catskill and Marlbo-
rough, ripe strawberries were gathered last
week in the open field
Judge Wallace, of the United States
Circuit Court at New York, denied the petition
of thirty five banks for an injunction against
the collection of State taxes on the value of
their shares.
General G. p. Stone has been select
cd as grand marshal of the coming parade in
New York at the dedication of the Bartholdi
statue, Oct % The attendance is requested
of military or civic organizations from every
State and Territory.
A prisoner named McVicker, who
was being taken by the town marshal to FIRE.
mont, Ohio, leaped through window of a
coach on an express train, and died soon after
he was picked up.
Bayard Putnam, chief Of the Govern
ment Typographical Survey, hanged himself
to tree near his camp at North Adams, Mass.
Sarah Z. Howe has reopened her
womans Bank in Boston, after having served
term of three years for swindling depositors.
A lady in New York whose name Is
withheld from the public, sent her check for
$4,000 to the Tulane University at New Or
leans, toward the establishment of school
for the higher education of girls
The claimants to the Harlem Com
mons in New York are about to file bill in
the Federal Court for the recovery of proper
ty valued at $50 100000 They have selected
q citizen of Louisiana as the plaintiff About
fourteen hundred persons are interested in
the suit
The loss by the conhagration at
PASSPORT, Maine, is estimated by the fire de-
partment and insurance agents at $500, 600.
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WASHINGTON.

The remains of Salmon p. Chase
were transferred TO new casket, for ship
ment from Washington to Cincinnati The
body having been embalmed, the features
were easily recognized
Col. o. b. Wilcox, Twelfth Infantry,
was appointed by the President to be Briga-
der General, vice Gen. J. IL Potter, retired
Gen Wilcox will assume command of the
Department Of the Missouri, with hesdquar-
tiers at Fort Ieavonwsrth.
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be imprisoned six months. Judgment was
deferred
The Swedish Government proposes
10 introduce IN Par lament a bill against the
socialists.
The German officers quartered at
Metz have boycotted several tradesmen be-
cause Of their hostile attitude toward the
Crown Prince on his recent visit
Henry Ward Beecher caused some
excitement in DR. Parkers City Temple, Lon
don, when, after delivering sermon, in an
swer to questions, he expressed his disbelief
in the doctrine of divine retribution-
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LATER NEWS ITEMS

Sickening details of the disaster
floods continue to be received by telegraph.
Out of population of |, 200 along Johnson's
Bayou, including the villages of Johnson's
Bayou and Bradford, the dead number S..
The deaths at Sabine Pass exceed 90. The
destruction of life and property is terrific in
extent, the number of deaths exceeding 200.
Over 5000 cattle in the valley of the bayou
have been drowned or are dying of thirst as
it is flooded with salt water
Abram S. Hewitt has accepted the
Democratic nomination for Mayor of New
York, and Theodore Roosevelt will stand az
the Republican candidate.
The Indiana Democratic Campaign
Committee claim that the Democrats will
have plurality of - 900 in that State. James
G. Blaine spoke at an immense mass meeting
at Philadelphia There was an enormous
crowd and great enthusiasm.
Mike McCoole. the pugilist, died in
a New Orleans hospital at the age of forty
nine years.
The owners of the sunken propeller
Selah Chamberlain have filed i'll the District
Court at Chicago a bill for s65, 600 against the
John Pridgeon, on which claim the latter was
seized by the marshal
Salisbury, Nd, was swept over by
fire which destroyed the business portion of
the village; damage over a million dollars.
A great hurricane has just passed
over England and Ireland, accompanied by
heavy rainstorm There have also been de-
structive floods in Wales The British ship
Teviotdale was wrecked in Bristol Channel
and seventeen persons drowned
Mr.. Leader, wife of butcher doing
business in Cam .erwell, n suburb of London,
after quarrel with her husband, left her
She went to the Thames River, at Fulham,
and threw herself and the five children into
the water All were drowned but one Of the
children
The Home Rule movement in Scot
land is spreading.
The German War Minister has or
dered the speedy building of two thousand
railway carriages.
Meyer Karl Rothschild, the head of
the famous European banking house, died
suddenly at Frankfort Germany, of heart
disease.
Civil Service Commissioner Edgerton
has written sharp letter to General Abner
Doubleday in reply to a criticism of the Gen
erals upon the removal of Scheibner from
the Chicago Custom House. General Double
day is told to go to the President with his
complaint
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"DoCToR," said patient II suffer
great deal with my eyes" The old gentle
man adjusted his spectacles, and. with n
Socratic air replied, al don't doubt it. my
friend; but then you ought not to forget
that you would suffer great deal more
without them"
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knights at work-Assemblies Arranged.

knights at WOrk-AssemDlieS Arranged.
Considerable progress was made at the sos
sons of the General Assembly ut Richmond
on the 10th. Mr.. Powderly was not feeling we'll
and was absent from the convention, remaining
in his room the greater part of the day. In his
absence General Secretary Litchman presided
The new constitution was taken up and several
sections were acted upon. The duties of OFF,
GERS first passed and the important question
of whether the locals should be compelled to
form State Assemblies was also settled. There
was big fight on this matter. j. T.. Quinn,
Of New York, opposed the provision, and A. j.
Schafer, OF Michigan, led the delegates who
were in favor OF State Assemblies. First
the whole section was adopted. 1t provided
that the locals should form State assemblies
and be subject To the action of such This was
finally changed so as TO allow ten locals to form
n State assembly, but those who decline to go
into it will not be bound in any way by that
body Schafer declared that the whole section
having been adopted it could not be
declared that he was out of order. and
Schafer exclaimed: IL know that am right,
and you can't bamboozle me, as you have
others" Let him 60 on record" said the
Chairman to his clerks. The question of dis
tricts was settled 70 the satisfaction Of all.
Any twenty-five locals of one trade NAV form n
National district. Another important change
was that locals which are attached 70 tho Gen.
eral Assembly shall not have representation in
that body. Then the question of representa-
ton taken up and settled. There were a
score OF plans and twice as many amendments,
but out of the whole finally came the decision
that hereafter the representation shall be one
from each 5000
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-10-21

SUSAN SAYS the man who would have his
dead wife buried without her false teeth
because Of their gold filling ought to wear
them.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-10-21

THE old saying is, Throw physic TO the
dogs" but where will you find the dog that
will touch il?
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-04-01
The Mississippi Massacre.

We referred briefly last week to the
massacre OF thirteen colored men in Car
rolton, Miss, by an armed mob of white
men 1t seems that two colered men
named Brown had been charged with at
tempting to assassinate prominent citi-
zen named Linden. The accused were on
trial for the otfense and anumber of colored
people were present,as is generally the case
in such proceedings. Without warning a
mob of from fifty to one hundred masked
men appeared in the Court House and
commenced firing on the colored people
the result of which was seventeen colored
men were killed. They rushed from the
Court House pell nell and ran to the
woods and other places Of concealment, to
elude the vengeance of their pursuers. No
one of the mob was injured in the least.
and this fact refutes the statement that
the colored people were armed: No eff
forts were made to investigate the horri.
bic occurrence, or find out the perpetrators
of it. The Governor had taken no steps
to that end, stating that all was quiet at
Carrollton. A dispatch from Washington,
dated the 25th. referring to the subject,
says: Letters continue to be received
here. giving further details of the recent
slaughter of colored men while attending
court in Carrollton, Miss. The latest re-
port places the number of killed and those
who have died from wounds at seventeen.
The attention of the President has been
called to the matter by ex-senator Bruce
and ex-Congressman Lynch. They have
| received many letters from the scene of
the slaughter which represent that many
| colored people, paralyzed by fear at the
outrage, fled to the woods and that among
these were a numberaawho were wounded.
These letters state that it is not known
! how!many have died of their wounds, but
the number is much larger than was at
| first reported. The slaughter was COM
mitted near the home of Senator George,
and his son is said to have been one of the
Regulators.
| Mr.. Bruce and Mr.. Lynch, in their in
| terview with the President. directed his
| attention to the fact that the Governor OF
Mississippi had taken no official action in
the premises, and was represented as hay
ing intimated that no action could be Ia
ken, as it would trench upon the authority
of the county. The President listened
with attention to the recitals of Messrs
Bruce and Lynch and expressed himself
in decided terms against such blight to
| our civilization. He expressed himself
surprised that the State authorities, had
taken no steps to have the outrage inves
tigated and the guilty parties brought tt
| justice. He intimated that it had beer
talked about by the Attorney General an(
himself.