The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-12

Ir is now cheaper to travel than it Is +
say at home. The railroad war ha
made it on object to follow Lord Bate
mans example, and "go abroad strange
- countries for to see"
AFTER receiving $40, 900 for their seIy-
ices, spending $4,000 for kilograms, and
large sums for the distribution OF 10000
circulars, the detectives engaged to dis
cover Charlie Ross have found clew-a
"A straw hat worth 80 cents.
n Gov. HENDRICKS recently vetoed a
bill passed by the Indiana Legislature
roviding for the incorporation OF camp
netting associations, ON the ground that
w e. creation of religious interpretations
;s1Ss Nn X harmony with the spirit OF the
.s6vernment\
Dvpppc1AT1A Nv of values of real estate,
s+ocks bonds, Nnd other property held
in and about NeTA York Alone since the
September panic, set down as high as
81 .o0O, coo, 900. IN e estimate is care
fully made upon press prices and those
of thirty months ago.
CeSaRrss has now taN en- three long
strides toward revival of \ the ranking
privilege. The sending freA of public
documents and of Congressional Rec
orols by Congressman, and ON garden
seeds by the Commissioner of LSgricult-
ure, was authorized. Only one more
step remaius TO be taken, namely, apply
ING deadheadism to letters.
TIE express companies have Ven a
victory thai viii have very substi tial
results to them. After several year of
hard work they have succeeded in hay pg
the postage on al packages weigh 30
over four pounds considerably increased.
The effect of this viii be to compel peo-
pie to send all such packages by express
instead of by mail Us heretofore.
PINcHBAcE, Collector Casey, and Con
gresham Sheldon, recently INDUCED in
quiet little game of draw at the national
capital. When the sitting was over, the
coffee-colored statesman was richer by
nine thousand dollars than when he sat
down. After this, who will deny that
Pinchback possesses the qualifications
necessary TO seat in the national Con-
gTess
THE Force bill, which passed the lower
house of Congress, but failed i'll the Sen
ate, probably excited more bitter oppo-
sition than any measure that has been
before Congress for years, the Democrats
having used every appliance known to
parliamentary tacticians to defeat it.
On its final passage thirty-seven Repub-
Icans voted with the Democrats
against IT.
A DISTINCTION which has long been an
eye-sor to Western dairymen and deal
ers is wiped out by the action of the
Natioal Butter and Egg Association,
recently in session in Chicago. There
will DO no longer grade known as
"yestern" butter, term heretofore
in,lying inferior quality, and the ship
pnts from the West will go upon the
,arket on their merits.
THE House of Representatives at
Washington, on the last day of the ses-
sion, seated George A. Sheridan as Con-
gressman-at-large from Louisiana, his
contestant being Pinchback. 1t also at
the same time unseated j. Hale Sypher,
of the same State, and gave the seat to
Efingham Lawrence. Though the
Congressional career of these was very
nGsf-only about six hours-it was suf-
long to entitle them to draw
hcAe.s alaN for two years, amounting,
tue ,nileass, to some so, 900 piece
newspapers inform us that the
snperor died of smallpox 1t was
pne time thought that he was recover
e, and arrangements had been made
for grand festival in honor of the God
n dess of Smallpox, when quantity of pa
~ per offerings We're to be burned in front
of the palace. As the disease appeared
on the very day of the transit of Venus
the Chinese attribute it to that event
saying that smallpox scar, not STAR
passed over the face of the sun.
THERE were printed during the year.
1874, over 2S,00O,OOO copies of the Phil
adelphia Ledgcr, or an average of more
than 10000 day. and yet you will see
people who don't think the Ledger
much OF paper after all. The secret of
its success consists in the wonderful
completeness of its local news. of which