The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-01-22
Ghe True 9ortherner
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.


THE number of "attorneys EN-.
ployed by the Pacific Mail Company is
something marvellous. Even Col. For.
ney got $25, 900 of that subsidy fund
for his services as attorney"
IT is estimated that during Deem
Der last two hundred newspapers
daily and weekly suspended publica-
ton in the United States, and that dur
ing the entire year of 1874 no less than
$4,000, 900 were lost in the newspaper
business.
THE House of Representatives at
Washington has passed a general law
granting to railroads the right of way
through the public lands of the United
States. The bill provides that the right
of way through the public domain
shall be granted to any road duly or
ganized under State or Territorial law
to the extent of 100 feet on each side
of the road.
THE King of the Sandwich Islands
has paid his promised visit to Chicago,
and of course all the toadies, big and
little, focked to see Aim. AS it is the
first time a real live king ever set foot
in the Garden City, little curiosity on
the part of the people to view one of
royal blood is perhaps pardonable.
The Chicago papers state that the
dusky monarch bore himself with be-
coming dignity.
DoN CARLOS, the pretender to the
throne of Spain, persists in his rebel
Gous movement, Notwithstanding the
restoration of Bourbonism under AL
fonso. The Carlist army continues to
maintain its warlike attitude. This,
threatened war with Germany, and the
continued instruction in Cuba, will
give the young King enough of bust
ness to keep his hands full for some
time.
The quarterly statement of the con-
dition of the eighteen Chicago national
banks shows that these institutions
have nearly regained their ante-panic
position. 1t exhibits an increase of
loans of 81, GAO, 900, and a decrease of
deposits of SO, 500, 900. This last item
shows an increased activity in bust
ness; il proves that people are not
boarding their means in banks, but are
putting it out where it will do the most
good, in their estimation. There has
been a slight decrease in circulation
from the previous quarter.
THs late Capt. Z. B. Ward, of De-
troit, died leaving property valued at
the sum of $o,25O,OOO. BY his will,
which has lately baen admitted to pro-
bate, he leaves the bulk OF lis property,
in real estate and bonds, to his widow
and children, and DEGREES that the rest
of his assets shall be devoted to pro.
yiding an income for the children and
family of his first wife. He remem-
bered a number of old friends, Ben
Wade among them, with a gift of
$4,000 each.
In the year ending June 80, 1873, we
exported breadstuffs to the amount of
1913 31S, 500, and in the year ending
with last June the amount was $780,
985,421 an increase of $63, 900, 900.
Provisions and petroleum were about
the same in both years, while cotton
fell off SIS, 100000 in the last year, and
tobacco increased $S,OOO,0O0. On the
other hand, the imports for the year
ending with June, 1874, were reduced
sos, 100000, thus showing that are we
finally getting the heavy end of our &C
counts with other climes, on our side.
THE great scandal suit of 1ilton
against Beecher, now in progress al
Brooklyn, bids fair to be one of the
longest and most celebrated trials OF
in choosing jury. Judge Morris,
leading counsel for Tilton, devoted
three days to his opening address, ant
over week was consumed in the exam
nation of the first witness, Moulton
As yet no testimony further than tina
contained in the celebrated state
ments" of last summer, has been brough
out. 1t is the opinion of counsel tina
the trial will be protracted through TIN
winter, and possibly far into spring.
GEN. S. V. BENET, Chief of Ordnance
estimates the number of heavy guns no,
in our ports at l, 745, of which 321 ar
15-inch Rodman guns, smooth bore
1924 10-inch Rodman guns, smootl
bore 80 S-inch Parrot rifles 40 1C
inch Parrot rifles. These Parrott ri
fes are so few in number as to consti
tute but an unimportant tie % among tb