The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-11-27


state of feeling calculated to do more mis-
chief than good.
The Legislative, Judicial, and Executive
Appropriation bill for the next fiscal year
is being framed on the basis OF reduce
tien from last years estimates OF b to 10 per
cent.
Mullett, the Supervising Architect Of the
Treasury, has rendered his resignation to the
Secretary of the Treasury on account of GER
tain disagreements between the two officials
Secretary Delano has requested the War
Department to remove the gold-seekers from
the Sioux reservation in the Black Hills, to
the end that all provocation to war on the
part OF the Indians may be avoided.
There is much interest manifested among
printers in the type-setting contest which is
to take place in Washington on the 9th of
December Two composing sticks one gold
and the other silver, are the prizes.
The Senate Committee on Transportation
in their report, just published, devote consid-
cradle space to the subject Of sleeping cars in
relation to the expenses of railroad companies.
Their conclusions are that the sleeping car
the railroads, and that the charges for the
berths are excessive. Mr.. Pullman, President
of the Palace Car Company, in a letter to the
committee, contends that the railroad COM
panies cannot manage the system of sleeping
and drawing-room coaches so satisfactorily as
a company that makes speciality, and that by
the adoption Of his system constant annoy
ance is saved to invalids, ladies and travelling
parties.
Political.
The President declines to interfere in the
Arkansas gubernatorial imbroglio.
Senator Chandler sends word TO a friend in
Washington that his re election is assured.
The Republican majority on joint ballot In
the Michigan Legislature is estimated at o.
A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Tf-ib-
une says: Some of the Republican Con-
gressmen who have arrived have started a
new political rumor. They state that the
ticket which is now favored by the President
for the succession in 1876 is; For President,
Elihu b. Washburne, OF Illinois, for Vice
President, Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut
subject, of course to such modification as
future exigencies may demand.
General.
Cincinnati police officers have recovered
about S21,00 from the late express robbery.
There has lately been enough lawlessness
in Williamson county, III. Gin the third tier Of
counties from the southern boundary, to
engage the attention of Gov. Beveridge.
band of fifty or sixty men is ordering citizens
to leave the county on pain Of death. The
Governor promises to put stop to it.
The strike of the New York longshorepaen
has been partially successful.
Judge Blatchford, in the United States
Court, at New York, last week, directed
verdict for the government for $50, 600 against
ex-Gov. Caleb Lyon, of Idaho, in suit on
his official bond. Lyons accounts were $46,-
535 short, OF which amount he claims to have
been robbed.
Foreign.
In the German Reichstag, President Forken-
beck resigned his position recently, because
action was taken contrary to his views. On
the same day the Bank bill was referred to
committee, which is considered equivalent to
a defeat of the government.
At large meeting of Roman Catholics in
London resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed declaring that the civil loyalty of Catholics
was in nowise affected by the decree of Papal
infallibility
Lersundi, formerly Captain General of
Cuba, died in Spain recently.
A bill has been introduced in the lower
house OF the Danish Reichstag to abolish the
rights of primogeniture and all titles OF no
bility.
The Paris correspondent Of the London
Times writes that bitter feeling appears to
be springing up between the governments of
France and Germany.
The new British polar expedition will start
next May.
A special from Calcutta to the Morning Post
announces that Yakub Khan Ameer Of
Cabul, has been treacherously arrested in his
own capital and imprisoned. The worst re-
suits are feared.
NJ. Rouher, leading Bonapartist, has gone
to Chiselhurst Eng, where the ex-Empress
lives to attend the council Of Imperialists
summoned in view of the approaching session
of the French Assembly.
Prince Alfonzo, after short sojourn in
France, has returned to the Carlist headquar-
tiers In Spain.
A letter from Havana, Cuba, says a rumor
is in circulation that Capt.-Gen Concha is
about resign or be superseded.
The object of the journey of English
Bishops to Rene is to obtain permission to
pursue an independent course in case the
British government should seek to restrict
the liberty of action of the Catholic clergy.
They will represent to the Pope that they
wish to respect the laws of England and can
not blindly accept such regulations as are i'm
posed on continental Bishops.
Sixteen vessels were driven ashore N the
West Indies, and wrecked or damaged by the
recent hurricane. From all the islands there
is news of the great destruction of property,
crops.
An alarming explosion occurred in chem
ical factory in st. Denis, near Paris, France,
last week. The building was destroyed and |
the railway station near it badly damaged. |
Three persons were killed and fifteen in
jured. Half the windows in the town were |
broken.
A boat belonging to her Britannia Majesty's |