The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-14

bouncing boy.
Theirs refuses to accept the constitutional
project submitted to him by the Committee of
Thirty Of the Assembly
over 100 Internationalists have been arrested
in Montmartre, a suburb Of Paris.
Ex-Empress Carlotta widow of Macmillan,
is reported in dying condition at Dresden.
Randolph Rogers, the American sculptor,
has been made a member of the Roman
Academy of st. Luke, the first citizen of the
United States who has received this honor
Rustichuk, fortified city OF Bulgaria, has
been the scene of fierce street riot, in which
Is Bulgarisns and 10 Greeks were slaughtered
1t was the Spanish steamer Murillo, IA was
surmised from the first, that ran down the
Northheet in the English Channel, the other
day. She was not damaged in the least by the
collision, and has arrived at Cadiz i'll perfect
condition. Lisbon was her real destination
but AZ her officers and crew on landing there
would have been Immediately arrested under
the extradition law between Great Britain and
Portugal, she carried her cargo to a Spanish
port. This may enable her officers to escape
all punishment for an act Of cold-blooded in
humanity equal to the worst of those that rem
dered infamous the Spanish buccaneers of 800
years ago.
The Spanish Government has officially mott
fled Minister Sickles that no steps will be
taken to abolish slavery i'll Cuba until the in
surrection in that island has been suppressed.
There are, according to the recent census re-
turns, 2G9 900 slaves in the island.
The great Vienna Exposition building is
completed.
An incipient revolution in Hayti has been
discovered and suppressed, and five of the
plotters executed.
Astrke among the engineers and firemen Of
the Portuguese railways has been ended by the
interference of the Government, and the strik-
ing workmcn forced, at the point of the bayo-
net, to resume their places.
The British isles have been visited by
storm of extraordinary violence. In London,
snow fell to great depth, and travel was al
most wholly suspended. The gale ragged with
great fury all around the English and Irish
coasts. Many wrecks have already been re-
ported, and there has been a fearful loss of
life. especially off Torquay and around the
Sicily Islands
President Theirs attended the sitting of
the Committee of Thirty, the other day, and
presented his views on the constitutional pro-
ject submitted to him. He agreed to accept
the scheme if certain amendments which he
declared indispensable were adopted. After a
searching criticism of the project III detail,
he urged the necessity of being free to address
the Assembly on questions Of general policy,
and concluded az follows: You humiliate
me- l accept humiliation, but l will not be-
come political mannilin. | am only little
bourgeois, but the power your conditions leave
me would be contemplate
News comes from San Domingo of new
movement of the insurgents, which may prove
serious to the infant colony of SANTANA Bay
Prince Lunalilo has been inaugurated King
of the Sandwich Islands.
Over IS, 900 iron-workers in Wales are on a
strike.
Lehree. town i'll India of 5000 inhabitants,
has been overwhelmed by an earthquake and
500 people killed.
There has been another rise in the price of
coal in London. 1t is now selling for 80 shi
lngs per ton.
The British isles have been experiencing in
tensely cold weather. One hundred persons
froze to death i'll England within two days.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee have
agreed to recommend the passage of the bill
the American, China and Japan
Telegraph Company, with capital of
$40, 900, 600.
Congress is being flooded with petitions in
opposition to the proposed repeal of the Bank
rupt act.
President Grant, Immediately after the close
of the present session Of Congress, will. in
with members of the Cabinet make |
an extended Southern tour, visiting New Or
leans Cvia Richmond, Raleigh, Columbia,
Charleston, Mobile, and other places.
General.
1t il proposed to tunnel the Ohio and Missis-
sppi rivers near their junction. i'll order to
facilitate railway movements. A company for |
that purpose has been formed, with capital !
of 100000 0O and has applied to Congress for
an act of Incorporation
Preparations for the celebration of the CEN
tennial anniversary of American Independence |
at Philadelphia have been intrusted to COM
mittee of 800 leading citizens. At a meeting .
of this committee. the other day, $3.50, 600 |
were subscribed, making 100000 promised by |
for the celebration. The City
Council is asked to appropriate $1,000, 600 from
the city funds, and subscriptions are invited
from every citizen Of the United States
There is All increase in the public debt for
the month of January of S406, 243
Aspinwall was visited by terrific hurricane
on the 18th ult, causing the destruction of
nearly Fl, 900, 600 worth of property.
The sewing machine patents are about to ex-
pire, and, according to the New York Bulletin,
there is formidable combination of interests
to lobby their extension through Congress.
The royalty alone has yielded several million
dollars, which were divided among companies
whose patents cover the essential points of
the machine. These companies charge the
American people one-half more for the ma
chimes than the rates at which precisely the
the same articles are sold in Europe. The
Bulletin tells that for series of years the
public has paid from $50 to $50 apiece for ma
chimes, which never cost more than from 50 to
20 each, and which could be sold for S15 to
$50 EACH and leave handsome profit
There was ali epidemic OF railroad accidents
On Tuesday, the ith of February train was
thrown from the track near Russellvile. KY,
and two coaches tumbled down n high en-