The true northerner., 1873-01-10

Ii is stated that the Government Will decide
in favor of Council Bluffs as the terminus OF
the Union Pacific railroad.
1t is believed there is no hope for the ad-
mission of Colorado as State during the pres
ent session of Congress.
The Washington Republican says project
will shortly he brought forward in the House for
the annexation of San Domingo.
Gen. Francis A. Walker has resigned the
Commissionership of Indian Affairs
Andrew Strong, one OF the notorious Lowrey
gang of outlaws, was recently killed near scuf-
fetown, n. c. The only villain of the band
now alive is Steve Lowrey.
Ten thousand Cinnamon are at work on the
Texas Pacific railroad, in Upshur county,
Texas.
Foreign.
By the terms of the bill introduced into the
Spanish Cortes for the emancipation OF slavery
in Porto Rico, all slaves are to be free within
four months from the passage of the measure,
and their owners are to be remunerated for the
human property thus confiscated.
The King of the Sandwich Islands died
Dec II.
The horse-disease which has Of late been
ravaging the United States with such havoc,
has now reached the West Indies, and made
its appearance recently in Havana. Corre-
spondents writing from that city state that the
mortality is much greater there than in the
United States, owing to the miserable stables,
even the wealthest residents having but yery
poorly ventilated places for the keeping Of
horses.
The cable announces that hostilities have
commenced between Russia and Khva, and
that 1900 Khvese troops are besieging the
Russian forts on the Euerba river. Another
force of 10000 Khivese are depredating on the
Russian fisheries at the mouth of the Euerba.
Diplomatic relations between the Swiss Gov
ernment and the Vatican have been broken of.
France will pay Germany 300 ,000, 900 francs
of her war indemnity on the 10Th of January,
and will continue to pay the same amount un-
| til May next,
During the counting of the votes for mu-
nicipal officers at Tampico, Mexico, recently, a
row occurred, resulting in the killing OF five or
six persons
The French Minister to the Papal Court has
resigned.
The Austrian, French, and Prussan newspa-
pers are engaged in a lively controversy over
the disclosures made by Duke de Grammont i'll
regard to the origin of the late war. The
Duke brings documentary evidence to support
the truth of his assertion that Austria promised
to assist France in case OF war with Prussia.
He publishes an Austrian dispatch to the
French Government, in which pledge is
F,11.
ours We will contribute to the success OF the
French arms"
General.
Christmas week was unusually prolific OF
railroad smashups and the slaughter of human
! life. 4 train on the Buffalo, Cory and Pitts
burgh railroad was thrown down an embank-
ment. The cars falling upside down, they inn
mediately took fire, and, there being no means
! OF egress, twenty-one persons were literally
roasted TO death. Many others were seriously
wounded. A train on the indianapolis, Peru
and Chicago railroad was thrown from the
track by a broken rail and twenty persons in
! jured. of which at least three will die. A
similar accident occurred to passenger train
near Cincinnati, resulting in the death Of sew
eral persons. At Newton, Kansas, train inn
! bedded in snow-drift was run into by freight
! train, 10y which two lives were lost. BY all ac-
cdent to the through train from Washington
! to Philadelphia, near Baltimore. many persons
were injured, two Of them fatally. Men and
animals were frozen TO death on train
blocked up in Indiana by a lack OF water,
which had CONCEALED all along the line OF the
road. Still other trains were frozen up else
where, and steamers were damaged by the rise
| Of the water in the Ohio river. Many cases of
death by exposure were reported. and from all
parts of the country come the intelligence of
misfortunes constituting altogether the most
unwelcome Christmas present within the mem
DRY of man.
Joe Jeffersons eye-sight is permanently re-
stored.
Minister Washburne has sailed for France.
A. II. Stephens has been made the hero of q
Southern novel.
The words Founded by Horace Greeley
in black, extended letter, now appear perma-
nently at the head of the New York Tribune,
editorial columns.
Ezra Comfort. aged So married Eliza Carr
aged 16, at Chester Pa, last week, and now
thinks there is nothing like a sleeping Carr FOL
Comfort.
The only change which will take place in the
New York Tribune office, after all, will be
complete renovation and substitution of the
Office furniture.
Two more cadets have been dismissed from
the Naval Academy, at Annapolis, for bc!ns
concerned in the hazing of the colored cadet
One was from Michigan, the other wa' from
Massachusetts.
Two more cadets have been dismissed from
the naval academy at Annapolis, for being
concerned in the hazing OF the colorcd cadet
One was from Michigan, the other was from
Massachusetts.
James Anthony Froude, the English his
torian, has sailed for home
Ten more Ku-Kux from the South arrived
at the Albany Penitentiary last week-amonl
them Baptist clergyman from South Carolina
The epzootic has broken out among the
cattle in some parts Of the Island of Cuba.
Burning of the New York Newspaper