The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-06-20

! The massacre of the Modocs is severely de-
nounced in official circles, and every possible
means will be used to capture and punish the
murderers.
The Postmaster General has decided not to
abrogate the postal-card contract, but give the
contractors time to obtain better paper and
continue the work
The proposition is seriously discussed in
Official circles of exiting the captured Modocs
to our American Siberia-Alaska.
Secretary Deano has decided that the filing
of maps of its general route, by the Northern
Pacific railroad, is constructive notice to pre-
emptors. All who settle after such filing on
lands covered by the maps have no rights al
against the company.
| Khivsn news to May IL reports the junction
of the two columns of the Russian force, and
the defeat of the Khiyans at Chaaot after a
severe fight, in which two Russian Colonels
were killed; and at the Amur Daria river
where $500 Khivans were routed without the
loss of single life by the Russians.
| 1t il probable that the German Parliament
will adopt resolution extending the provi-
sions of the Constitution to Alsace and Lor-
| raine.
The Spanish Cortes has at last succeeded IN
forming a Ministry, with Senior ri y Margsil at
| it's head The armed factions which threat
ened an outbreak in Madrid have dispersed,
and the excitement is subsiding.
regiment OF Spanish troops near Valencia
recently mutined and murdered their Lieut.
| enant-Colonel.
An Englshman named Thomas Fields, at
Hamilton, Ontario the other day, murdered
his wife and two children by chopping them to
pieces with all AK.
Three persons were drowned at Woodstock,
New Brunswick, last week, while trying to
board steamer.
Washington crop reports presage that the
cereal crop of 1878 will be the worst harvested
since the war. The severity of last winter
and the unpropitious spring have cut the
wheat crop of the whole lake region down
fully one-half, and have injured all other
farm produce more or less. Fruit will not
suffer so much.
The friends of the Japanese Minister, DIR.
Mort, in Washington place little faith in the
damaging reports circulated concerning him.
A Washington dispatch says: The most
important change in the rules recommended
by the Civil-Service Advisory Board is in rela-
ton to the examination Of candidates for
Offices in various parts of the country, and not
subject them to the expense CT travelling to
Washington. For this purpose it is recon-
mended that the country be divided into four
or more districts each to have Chief Exam
iner and to have associated with him certain
officials, or others qualified for the work. 1t
has leaked out that during the recent oxcur-
sion of the Examining Board Of tho Treasury
Department to the South Collector of Gus
toms was found who could neither read nor
write
Gen. Sherman stated to correspondent,
the other day. that there would be no diff
Guilty about disposing of the Modocs who are
under arrest. Those found guilty of murder
will be hanged or shot, and if it is proved that
there was an agreement for general uprising
among the tribes others will receive some pun
ishment warning to Indians. He re-
marked, however that it was a pity that the
guilty Modocs were not shot at first, and then
all this commission business and expense
would have been avoided.
Inc navy Will bnOILll Qls-
patch vessel in search of the missing Po-
laris.
Senator Summers condition has greatly i'm
proved of late, and he IL now on the high road
to health.
Washington dispatch says: The appro-
priation for Government printing has been ex-
haustcd, and, there being no fund from which
to draw, the business of the Government
printing Office has come to standstill and
most of the employees have been furloughed
until the LIST of July.
The important discovery has just been made
that all the secret archives of the War De-
partment, pertaining to what is known as the
confidential history Of the late war, have been
stolen. BY whom or when they were taken is
not known. Most of the documents were filed
and put away in boxes in 1865 and 1866, and
have not been referred to till recently, when
they could not be found. The Buell. court
martial records, it will be remembered disap-
peared in the same mysterious way several
years ago.
The commissioners appointed by our Gov
eminent to investigate the depredations on
the Rio Grande have finished their labors,
which have included the hearing of 400 wit
nesses and the collection of 1900 afidavits
The commissioners represent the amount OF
damages, direct and consequential, to those
who have suffered by these raids, at between
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