The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-04-02
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

BURNSIDE is so bald that the Washing
ton correspondents recommend a
clignon.
THE Joneses are in luck this year. In
addition to the two Senators OF that name,
from Nevada and Florida, another of the
family has lust been elected TO Congress
from the First District in New Hamp-
shire.
II has been discovered that Gen. But
Ter owns a house and lot in Province
town in the First Massachusetts District,
and this fact strengthens the rumor that
he will be candidate for the late Con
gresham Buffinton's seat
A RECENT local election at Greenbush,
y. Y, was attended by an elector named
Whalan, who is more than one hundred
and four years of age. He voted for a
Democratic Justice of the Peace, and
evinced much disappointment at his de-
, feat.
THE Changers of California have
formed chartered business association,
with capital of $1,0O0,0O0, to deal in
all kinds of agricultural produce. live
4 SlDth anu StIltIill W IlliiI
ter and load vessels, and to ship grain to
foreign countries.
ANDY JOHNSON ridicules the idea that
he secured his election by the payment
of $4,000, and says that since the fail
IRE OF Jay Cooke & Co., by which he
lost about $4,000, he has never had
money enough to pay for an election at
the usual rates.
ALABAMA comes forward with new
Legislative device for evading the pro
vision of the Civil Rights law which
meets with the greatest objection in the
South. BY single enactment the Leg
islature has withdrawn the licenses OF all
the innkeepers III the State, and given
them the power to make contracts with
bOarders.
Doctor HUBBARD, of Bridgeport, the
Republican nominee for Congress III the
Fourth District of Connecticut, was at
the time of his nomination in professional
attendance as physician on the family
OF William II. Barnum, his competitor,
at the home of the latter at Salisbury,
sixty miles distant from Bridgeport.
CHICAGO Tribune "The Hon. c.. b.
Farwell put in an appearance yesterday
at the Contested Election Court. During
the afternoon, after listening to the tedi-
Gus examination of dull witness, he
turned to Gus Van Buren,. his attorney,
and said, "Does lie Moyne stay here all
the time" On receiving an answer III
the affirmative, he added, "Well, he
is working for this position rs if it was a
seat i'll the Kingdom of Heaven, while /
don't consider it as good as a seat III the
other place.
The Senators who are responsible for
the new and oppressive postal law are
likely to find that measure n milestone
about their political necks. They are
denounced on every side, and no one has
a single word to say in their defense.
excellent suggestions on the subject:
There are two things which the next
Congress should promptly do. First,
repeal the law of which the express com
panies secured the passage, and then or
der an investigation into the means by
which such a law became part of an APP
preparation bill. Congress need not 90
beyond the express companies and their
lobbyists to get all the information nee
essary to demonstrate how utterly corrupt
were the influences at work to impose
this new and disgraceful burden upon
the people and the newspapers 1t
would be just as well that Mr. Ramsey
should be questioned as to what particu
lar arguments were employed to induce
him to advocate 80 strongly, and carry
through so secretly, Legislation for the
Post Office Department, which the Post
MASTER General declares the department
neither recommended nor asked for"