The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-15
WEEKLY BUDGET.
TIE EASTERN STATES.

A New YORK dispatch says that a Herald
reporter interviewed General Sherman in re-
gard to the long article by Senator Wade
Hampton on the burning of Columbia, s. G.
The Senator's story of that event filled eleven
columns of the Charleston Nees and Courier
The Herald says:
The article from beginning to end of it's
eleven columns is a bitter attack upon Gen.
Sherman, and brisJes with such phrases ms
"Gen. Shermnns reckless disregard OF TRUTH,
utterly unworthy OF credit me shall be dealt
with as all defamers deserve" base and cow
ardly assaults" sherman is convicted Ivy his
own statements OF elaring Inaccuracies, not to
use a barsher word, etc. etc. The closing
paragraph of Hampton's story begins: There
seems to be here the usual discrepancy be-
tween the statements of Sherman and those OF
truthful persons. Gen. Sherman read the article
and then said why, bless your soul have no
answer to make to this stuff. Lord bless you
1t isn't worth the trouble. It's such an old, old
story Wade Hampton knows we'll as do
that didn't burn Columbia, but that he did. L
have told the story in my memoirs. The
whole question to who burned Columbus was
sifted by the international commission, a not
overfriendly body, before whom the British
owners or some OF the cotton destroyed brought
their claims. IL they could possibly have
shown that the United States burned that cot
ton they would have done so. And they failed.
And that settled it.
CLEMENT ARTHUR DAY was executed ct Uti-
ca, N. Y, on Thursday. The culprit clapped
his hands after the death-warrant was read
He smiled as the cap was being drawn over
his face, and when the body was cut down
tho smile was still there. The crime for
which Day was hanged was the brutal muir
der of loose woman, Johanna Rosa Cross
Day was jealous of the woman, with whom
he had been living fer some time and feared
she would leave him.
A fba I'm
pont Powder Works, at Wapwallopen, near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, by which four men were
killed. many injured, and great deal of dam
age DONE The new Methodist Church, 800
feet away, was completely wrecked. There
were two tons of powder in the building.
There is no trace of the packing house left
not even the foundation. Rocks weighing
over hundred pounds were blown to the top
of mountain quarter of mile away.
AT the February meeting of the Board Of
Trustees of Princeton College the resignation
of President McCosh was accepted, to take
effect at the end of the present school term.
minute was adopted making provision for
his future relations with the college. He will
remain at the head of the School Of Philos-
ophy, and an honorarium was established for
his benefit of So 800 year. The board then
received the report of its committee on the
selection of successor to DR.. McCosh The
committee unanimously nominated Prof
Francis L. Patton, ID. d., IL. D., for Presi-
dent The board elected him unanimously
on the first ballot, there being no other NOM
ination made. DR.. Patton was formerly
resident of Chicago, was for several years
editor of the Interior, aud was the instigator
and chief conductor of the famous prosecu-
ton against Prof David Swing, which eventu-
ally resulted in the latter's withdrawal from
the Presbyterian Church.