The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-03

$4,000, mostly falling on persons of small
means.
In fight among party of sicilians at
New Orleans on Saturday Joseph Angelo
was shot and instantly killed. During the
row custom inspector named Joseph s.
Souders was accidentally shot and has since
died, and a Jung boy named Edward
Nixon was slightly wounded
Washington.
MAJ. j. w. POWELL was before the House
Committee on Appropriations on Tuesday,
asking for an additional appropriation to
continue the exploration Of the Colorado
river. The committee after hearing state
ment relative to the value OF these re-
scare hes, agreed to allow $4,000 for this
summers Senators Chandler and
Terry appeared before Secretary Boutwell,
on Tuesday thoroughly demoralized over
the report that the Chicago Relief bill adj
mitted manufac tured lumber. such as doors,
blinds, etc, free of duty, and only excluded
raw lumber. The Secretary informed them
that the question was without precedent,
but such was his opinion, that articles
which entered into buildings and were not
known as raw lumber could be admitted
free. Still, as the question was new and
important one. he was willing to hear argu-
ment before finally deciding. So there is 10
be an argument."..Se Secretary Fish has in
structed our Consul at Bucharest to remon-
strate against the outrages committed on
Israelites in Roumania......On Saturday last,
the District Court rendered verdict of
$40 900 against the Ohio and Baltimore
Railroad Company, and in favor of James
Starkweather, of Romeo, Mich. This suit
was for damages for negligence on the
part of the employees Of the road, whereby
the wife Of Mr.. Starkweather was killed,
Nov. Is, 1865.
THE House Military Committee have
agreed to report in favor of an appropriation
for sinking artesan wells within the linn
its of the D. A. Russell reservation in Wyo-
ming territory. This experiment. is to bo
tried with the view of developing the prac-
ticability of securing artificial irrigation by
this means for the barren land in that
country......T The House Committee on Public
Buildings have reported bills authorizing
the erection of public buildings in the fol-
lowing places and appropriating money for
the same: Philadelphia, II 500 900 Nash
Vile, Tenn, $3.50, 900; Memphis, 100000.
The following PLACES are to furnish the site :
Covington, Ky, 100000; Montgomery,
Ala, $75 200; Austin, Tex, SlOO, 900; Lynch
burgh, Va, $4,000; Dunkirk, y. Y,
$50 900.
AUTHENTIC information has been received
at Washington from st. Petersburg, to the
effect that Catacazy's justification of him
self had been considered attentvely in the
Council of the Empire. He is utterly dis
graced, and has left ST. Petersburg for
Paris, with pension of 5000 rubles per an
mum. This pension is so settled that it will
be withdrawn if Catacazy makes any publ
cation, O gives new cause of Offense.....The
House Committee on Appropriations has
voted to recommend S726,OOO for the coast
survey, the entire amount asked for.
GEN. BANKS called on Secretary Fish on
Friday, in behalf of the Committee on For
egn Affairs, to inquire whether the depart
ment desired any action by Congress in regard
TO Withdrawing the claims for indirect dam
ages. The Secretary informed General
Banks that neither the President nor any
member of the Cabinet desired to have this
part OF the case withdrawn, and, further,
the Cabinet held that this Government,
having once submitted these indirect claims
as a part of its case TO the Conference at
Geneva, had no power 10 withdraw them,
even if il wished to do so but there was
neither wish nor intention to recede from
the position, and no action on the part of
of Congress was desired by the department,
and, in the Secretary's opinion, could do no
good.
The President has nominated John Jay
Knox Comptroller of the Currency.
Foreign.
A SHOEMAKER named Nichols, who resided
with his family on Maiden Hill, suburb
of London, on Monday night murdered all
1, i IL IN, kar -.
committed suicide. 1t is not known what
prompted the man to commit this terrible
act, though it is believed he was insane......
Theirs has written to King Amadeus declar-
ing that no power, not excepting Italy, is
more interested than France in the CON
solidation of the dynastic institutions of
Spain.
SPECIAL from London, dated the 10th,
says: "The arbitration at Geneva is at
,tandstill until the reply is re-
ceived from Washington to the English
protest. The nature of the protest inspires
little hope Of the success of future negotia-
tons" ..... The Court Of the Queens Bench |
has granted a rule requiring the Attorney
General, Sir John Duke Coleridge, to show
why the claimant of the Tichborne estates |
has not been admitted to bail.... Chas. |
Readc the we'll known author and drama
list, has annOun ced MS intention 10 prose- |
cute FIVE journals for a libel which he al
leges was EN- bodied in several unfavorable |
criticisms upon his play entitled Shelley !
Shelley" ......A band of marauders lately |
entered the village of Mancha, Spain, and !
seized 5000 reals belonging to the munich
pal funds. The commander of the band
gave the town authorities receipt for the
money, to which he signed his name as
70 con. mander in chief of the federal armies
Of Don Carlos"
The first japanese fair, under the direc-
ton of the Government, will take place at
the sacred city Of Kiotto, on the 10th of
April, lasting so days. Foreigners are al
lowed to visit the city and suburbs for a
period Of Ga days, enabling them to show
their manufactures. This is considered the
virtual abandonment of their exclusive poll
icy, and one of the result from the visit of
Iwakura to America. General Sherman,
Colonel Audenred, and Lieutenant Grant |
have started from Constantinople for tour
through Russia.
A TELEGRAPBIc dispatch from Bombay |
has been received at London, announcing |
that the ship Maria, which left that port on |
March Is, for Liverpool, was wrecked, and !
Lhirty-ivc persons lost their lives......In the
English House of Commons, Friday even