The true northerner., 1873-11-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

two of which were occasioned by the victims
being out of money and employment.
Thomas Kinsella, the editor of the Brook
lyn Eagle, has been sued by Thomas w. Field
Superintendent of Public instruction in
Brooklyn for $780, 900 damages for debauching
his (Fields) wife.
The New England fishermen are bewailing
the most disastrous season for many years.
Twenty-four vessels and 152 lives have been
lost
John p. Hale, 80 long identified with the
anti-slavery cause of the country, and 30
prominently connected with our political his
tory, died, at Dover, N. H., on the 10th inst,
aged 6S.
The Eureka and Boatmen's Insurance Com
panies of Pittsburgh lose $3.50, 900 by the
irregularties' of Robert Finney, agent and
secretary of the institutions.
William M. Tweed, the champion New York
thief, goes to Blackwell's Island for twelve
years This is prison, or kind OF peniten-
tiary, to which the lowest and meanest crimi-
nails are sent. In addition, he was sentenced
to pay fine of S12, $50.
The first official bank report In New York
city since Sept. 20 was made on the 22d of
November, and shows decrease of $50, ,000,-
900 in deposits, s3O,OO00 900 in loans, and
S3 400, 600 in legal-tenders.
The west.
The recent storm on the lakes was very de-
structve to shipping and many disasters arc
reported The propellers City of Boston,
Alaska and Java and the schooners Orient
and Hamilton are among the vessels wrecked.
ba ofai nd Of Of 1rif a1
about in the lake for thirty-three hours with
out food, and were finally washed ashore at
South Haven, Mich. the whole party in O
senseless condition. Their sufferings are de-
scribed as terrible.
A fire in Buffalo, on the 18th inst, destroyed
5000 900 worth of property.
There is much suffering among the home
steaders Of Osceola county, Iowa. Twisted
hay and seed-grass is the only fuel that most
of the people have, while their food and
clothing are insufficient for the necessaries of
life.
Arizona is now in telegraphic communica-
tion with the rest of the world
The Alen-Hogan prize-fght at Pacific City,
Iowa, broke up in row during the third
round and the referee decided the affair to be
a draw.
Col John W. Young the money-order
forger, who is now serving a term in the Illi-
nois Penitentary at Joliet, corroborates the
story published few days ago, to the effect
that the Captain-General Of Cuba some time
ago made proposition to him to betray into
the hands of the Spanish authorities not less
than 100 Cuban refugees, all of whom were to
be slaughtered, and thus strike terror to the
hearts of the revolutonsts. Young pretended
te give his assent to the diabolcal scheme, and
was to receive $780, 900 for his part of the
bloody transaction.
Destructive prairie fires are reported in
Lancaster and adjoining counties of Nebraska
The merchants of Jacksonville, ILL.,, are i'm
porting potatoes from New York,
The st. Louis stock yards have been formal
ly opened. They have a capacity for 10000 |
cattle, $4,000 hogs, and 1000 sheep.
A number of railroad managers in Illinois
have formed combination to resist the pay
ment of taxes upon their capital stock.
Over 100000 hogs have been received at |
the Chicago stock yards since Sept. /.
The first prize in the billiard tournament at
Chicago was captured by Mons. GARNER, the |
second and third by Mons. Ubassy and Mons.
Cyrille Dion respectively. A decided French
victory.
Northern California and Oregon experienced |
a severe earthquake shock on Nov %.
The smallpox is making such fearful raw
ages in Cleveland that the Board of Health
has been compelled to adopt special precau-
tions to prevent its spread.
Washington.
The War and Navy Secretaries are receiving
kilograms and letters by the score from volun-
teer officers in the late war rendering their
services in case of hestlities Many of the
ex-Confederates have also written that they
would like to have chance to serve the Gov
ernment if difficulty should arise.
A Washington dispatch says the Secretary
of State has received unofficial information
from Madrid Of the determination of the
Spanish Government to concede, in the most
prompt and liberal manner consistent with an
official acquaintance with the facts, the ex-
tremest demands of the United States. Sec
retsry Fish, it is added, feels confident there
will be no war.
Internal revenue receipts for the year, s114,-
0O0, 900.
A Washington dispatch says: Secretary
Fish has persistently alleged that tho Govern
ment will not be prevaricated with by any
policy of procrastination which the Spanish,
after their style of diplomacy, may seek to
adopt.
Assurances have been received from the
Spanish Government that all reasonable de- I
mands frsm the United States Government
will be complied with
The Postoflice Department has concluded
a partial postal-card arrangement with Ger
many, to 60 into effect the last of De-
cember
The Washington Navy Yard, which has been
silent as the grave for long time past, has
now 200 men at work.
Washington advices give unexpected promi- !
nence to the unsettled claims against Spain {
on account of American estates confscated in I
Cuba. Secretary Fish has borne the procras-
unations Of the Spaniards until his patience I
has been exhausted, and he is understood to |
have informed them peremptorily that they J
mnst fulfill their promises of restoration by
Nov. 30, at the latest 8