The true northerner., 1875-03-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.


France to ST. Pierre laden with salt and sugar,
was abandoned in the ice in st. Mary's bay.
The captain and crew were saved People from
the shore then went to save the ship, but
northeast gale scattered the ice, and twenty of
them were lost and twenty-five others are still
missing"
The Italian bark Giovanna was recently
wrecked off Cape Cod and all on board, with
the exception of the steward (hftoen persons)
perished
The Newbury Mass silver mines are yield
ing at the rate of 200 ounces of silver to the
ton.
The English steamship lines running to New
York have agreed TO an advance of 50 ON
steerage rates. The advance will affect those
taking passage to or from this county.
The Governor of little Rhode Island is highly
indignant because United States Marshal in
terfered with the State Constabulary for the
seizure of some liquors, and says if such things
are to be tolerated the State Judiciary and
Executive may as we'll resign their offices and
leave the control and direction of State affairs
to subordinates of the United States govern
ment.'
A shocking tragedy is reported from Sey-
mour, Connecticut. A Mrs. Evans cut the
throats of her two children, aged three and six
wears, and then cut her own throat.
The West.
A stage company is being formed at Sioux
CITY to run a line of conveyances from that
place into the Black Kills.
compulsory education bill has been defeated
in the Minnesota Legislature.
The Indiana Legislature has passed a bill es-
tablishing a system Of public warehousing and
inspection Of grain.
The tide Of emigration to the West and
Southwest has commenced early this season.
A recent dispatch from Sedalia, Mo-, says
'Col. Thomas Doryin General Passenger
Agent of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas rail
road brought special train of thirteen cars of
freight and eighty-five passengers from Han
nibal Mo-, en- route to Southern Kansas, where
they will settle. They are from Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and other States, and were provided
with stock, farming implements, etc"
Live hogs ere selling for $S per hundred
pounds in Chicago.
The Indiana Legislature has passed bill
making railway ticketscalping illegal.
Theater-goers having had surfeit of opera
boufe, leg drama, and such, are now to be
treated TO some Of the legitimate for change
A new star in the dramatic armament, Mrs
Rousby-a popular actress combining great per-
sonal beauty with dramatic talent of a high or
dcr-has been induced to come West, and isnow
playing at McYicker's Chicago Theater in
''Twixt Axe and Crown" by Tom Taylor, the
eminent London dramatist author of "Speed
the Plow." 'Old Heads and Young Hearts,
etc. In this play is depicted all that was lovely
and generous in the daughter of Henry VIII.
and Anne Boleyn, the future good Queen Bess
famed in history for her masculine intellect,
iron will, and despotic temper. According TO
Eastern critics, the part assigned to Mrs. Rous-
by Chat of Princess Elizabeth) is one which
severely taxes the ladys powers of endurance
as for four hours she is seldom more than a
few minutes from the stage
A lawyer of Ironton o.. has discovered o
specimen of ore, which proved to be an ag-
glomeration of pure diamonds, weighing twenty
ounces net, and worth about S4OO, 900.
A woful tale of Indian barbarity comes from
the West. The 1,600 Indians headed by Stone
Calf who recently surrendered at the Chey-
enne Agency were accompanied by Ella and
Lizzie German, survivors of the Smoky Hill
massacre where their parents and sister
were killed by the Indians. They tell pitiable
tale of suffering and terrible treatment. Gray
Beard took Ella, aged II, and Stone Calf had
Lizzie aged II. Ella, who is enciente saws
she can identify all who took part in the killing.
They we're dressed in Indian costume, and were
nearly starved.
The amount Of wheat remaining unshipped
in Minnesota is stated at 2344, 7iO bushels
against 5, 5,053 779 bushels at this time in 1874.
Chicago elevators contained on the 10th inst
1882, 5G9 bushels of wheat, l, 1854 bushels
of corn, 539 096 bushels of oats, 14,314 bush
els of rye and 215, 763 bushels of barley maxi
ing grand total of SAT-, $50 bushels, against
7,44S, 738 bushels at the same period last year.
Buell., the correspondent who was arrested at
st. LOUIS under the Poland gag-law" for
libeling Senator Chandler, has been discharged
on account of defect in the Indictment
The South.
Over million dollars worth of property has
been swept away by the flood in the Tennessee
river
There was great rejoicing in Arkansas over
the action of Congress in adopting the Poland
non-intervention resolution. Guns were fired
at Pine Bluff and other prominent points
Joint resolutions passed both houses of the
Legislature, thankin the members of Con-
gress who voted 70 the Poland report,
and pledging the Sta to government to zee
that equal and exact justice is done to all
men. Senator Hancock, Republican, intro
duced in the Senate resolution requesting
the Governor 10 disband the militia, and recit-
ing that the Republicans accept the situation as
il is.
The recent snow-storm in st. Lonis was the
heaviest she has ha in twenty years.
A Memphis dis ch of tho Sd inst says
- The first result Of the effect Of the passage
of the Civil Rights bill occurred at the new
Memphis theater tonight. Two colored men,
who had purchased tickets for the dress circle.
Epplied for admission, and were refused and