The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-01
Ihe True 9urthernrr.
PAW PAW. MICHIGAN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


20 be awaiting only the return of Mr.. Beecher
and the leading members Of his church from
their summer vacation to begin an investiga-
ton of the scandal connected with his name.
The,inquiry, it is said, will be secret.
Half dozen heavy failures have occurred
the tea trade of New York, for sums rising of
from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900. The house OF A.
A. Low a 90. have also lost million dollars.
The total losses Of the trade are stated at
sc, 600, 900.
1t is said that movement is on foot in New
York to remove all the Catholic children from
the public schools, avowedly to cripple them.
Similar movements are reported in Massachu-
sets and Connecticut.
The irrepressible DIR. Mary Walker was
arrested for the twentieth time in Baltimore,
the other day. for wearing male apparel, but
was released.
A wrestling match for 80, 900 and the cham
pionship of the world took place at Troy n.
", the other day, between John Mcmahon, of
Rutland, VT, and Thomas Copeland, of
Canada, and was won by the Vermonter.
Glone the Italian slave-driver of Now
Haven, has been held in 81 900 bail to answer
for his treatment of four little Italian boys
whom he held as slaves. They had been sold
to him for four years by their parents, who
were to receive $40 year, and we're bound
to pay all expenses for medical attention, and
were to forfeit all their earnings and $50 II
the children ran away. Glione was declared
by the little boys to have brutally maltrerted
them, and to have instructed them to steal if
they could not otherwise obtain the daily sum
he exacted from them.
The Warden of Sing Sing Prison Indignantly
denies the stories that Frank Walworth re-
ceived special favors at his hands. He receives
the same fare and treatment as other con-
victs.
report comes from New York that one
of the most powerful combinations ever formed
in Wall street, headed by the notorious Jay
Gould. has been organized for the purpose of
bulling the geld market. The capital repre-
scented by it's members is estimated at over
800, 100000, and they propose to put gold
above 20. They assert that the Treasury De-
partment, being short of gold, will be power
less to interfere. 1t is asserted, on the cons
trary, that Secretary Richardson, on being
informed of the schemes Of the clique, said If
they imagined the Treasury was not able to
protect itself, they would find themselves sad
ly mistaken.
The story concerning the great Wall street
gold-bull clique is denied.
meeting OF prominent Massachusetts, Re-
publicans opposed to the nomination OF Ben
Butler for Governor, was held in Boston the
other day. Judge Hoar, Congressman Dawes
and other men of note, were present, and
pledged themselves to do all in their power to
defeat the aspirations of the I" Essex states
man"
The guano dealers in New York city are
charged with selling an article 80 adulterated
as to contain only or per cent. of ammonia
the most valuable element of that fertilizer,
and about 60 per cent. of other matter, mainly
earth, and unknown in genuine guano. They
are said to have succeeded in swindling the
farmers into buying their spurious stuff by
counterfeiting the trademark of the Peruvian
Government and refilling old bags which bore
the real brand. Suits have been brought
against them by the agents of the Peruvian
Government. who ask for an injunction to
stop the fraud and claim heavy damages.
A New York telegram says: The managers
of trunk lines to the West have made the fol-
lowing reductions in freight charges on first
class merchandise, which include dry goods
boots and shoes, clothing, ETC.: From New
York to Chicago per cwt, 75c, formerly 81;
Cleveland, Acc, formerly Csc; Cincinnati, Zoe
formerly 92c; st. Louis 97c, formerly SIPS ;
Louisville, &c. formerly s1.23; Memphis,
S1.35, formerly $1.62. The following are the
rates from Lake Erie ports westward: To
Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit, 45c to Chica-
60 Milwaukee, and Green Bay Sic.
Several young and accomplished Russian
women, who were driven from Zurich by order
of the Gar, while pursuing their medical
studies, have arrived at New York nearly pen
niless.
The west.
Shippers by the Illinois Central, the Wabash
and Western and the Peoria and Jacksonville
railroads have brought charges of extortion
against these lines before the Illinois Board Of
Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners.
The indianapolis Exposition building is al
most completed. Cost, S75, 200.
The city of Detroit bought lot of stuff for
matchmaking, recently, and 1T turns out to
be largely composed of lead ore taken from
some Of the mines near the city.
Harry Mi1vard for rnanv vaaru ono of tbo