The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-25
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PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
FRESH TOPICS.

FRESH TOPICS.
JEFF DAVIS has accepted the Presi-
dency of the Texas Mechanical and Agri-
cultural College, at salary of $4,000
year.
The census of 1870 shows that there
were 40,736 lawyers in this unhappy
country, and that of these 1913 belonged
to the State of New York.
The recently completed trans Atlantic
cable, extending from Rye Beach, New
Hampshire, to Ireland, is the fifth one
laid, and Is considered, in some respects,
superior to any that have preceded it.
CAPT. BoYToN, after swimming across
the English Channel, made the inevita-
BILE speech in which he said that his sole
object was humanity. Now that he has
shown what could be accomplished, there
was g not money enough in all England
to tempt him to do it again.
A ST. CHARLES La.) paper announces
the programme for the celebration in
that place of the approaching Fourth of
July, on Sunday. After naming some
half dozen orators, the reader of the
Declaration, etc., the paper adds: "There
will also be en- interesting horse-race and
performances by the dramatic a'socia-
ton"
Mrs. LINCOLN is declared by a cores
pendent to have always refused to see
the sister by whom she was charged in
the papers with having sent information
to the enemy. She said to this cores
pendent, 81 would not let her cross my
threshold, nor any one who was an enc
my of my country"
CARL SCHURz was given banquet in
Berlin, recently, which was attended by
eighty gentlemen, including about forty
Americans. DIR. Thompson presided,
and proposed toasts to the German En-
peror and President of the United States.
Mr.. Schurz toasted Germany and Amer
lea, and made speeches in German and
English. He was repeatedly cheered.
A CHICAGO man, David E. Bradley,
has perfected an invention for shielding
one building from fire in another. He
hangs from the roof on the exposed side
q curtain of galvanized ron plates, fur
nished with hooks SO rs to be easily at
tached to each other, and adjustable in
few minutes.
THE State Department at Washington
has received information that the North
German and Russian governments have
proclaimed an embargo against ships ar
irving at ports of those countries laden
with potatoes. The embargo hitherto
has been only placed hpon the potatoes
Vic HCW OLuCl ~ ID stloO
to comprehend the vessels.
GALVESTON, Texas, is greatly excited,
because of the decision of a United
States District Judge there, sustaining
the Civil Rights bill. and filming the
Opera-House manager $500 for refusing
seats to two negro women and, also,
for arresting the conductors of tho Gal
weston Ne,oS for contempt of court in
criticising the decision. A United States
Judge in Minnesota has also ruled in ia
vor OF the Civil Rights law.
The Commission to visit the Sioux
Indians and try to make some arrange
ment about the Black Hills country has
been announced. The following are the
names William B. Allison, Iowa
Bishop E. r. Ames, Maryland +. W.
Palmer, illinois Brig. Gen. ALI H.
Terry, United States Army the Hon.
Abram Conlingo, Missouri the Rev. S.
D. Human, Dakota G.. p Beauvois,
Missouri j. r. O'Brien, New York.
Joe W. Dwyer was appointed Secretary.
The salary to each will be So day, with
an allowance for their necessary expenses.
RECENT earthquakes in South America
appear to have been of almost unex-
ampled severity and destructiveness.
The City of Cucuta, better known as
Rosario, has been totally destroyed, and
six other towns, of less size, with an ag-
gregate of 1000 population, have been
wholly or partially laid in ruins. AS
usual, the shaking of the earth has been
accompanied by active volcanic action
a fire having been started in Cucuta from
a burning ball projected from one of
the volcanoes in that section of the
Andes. Some parts of Asia Minor were
also recently devastated by an earth
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