The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-26

BARON STEIN, in whose honor monu-
ment has Just been unveiled in Berlin,
is the Jefferson of Prussia. He was
the founder of the Prussian bureaucracy
and military systems which have Melted
that kingdom such handsome dividends
of late years.
CARL SECURE has not, as has been er-
roneously reported in the papers, taken
ND his residence permanently in New
York. He has only established his fam
ilv there Tor the winter, that he may
have a more convenient headquarters
during his lecturing tour.
Gov. DIN6LEY, of Maine, i'll resuming
the editorship OF the Lewiston Journal,
saws he does so with a stronger con-
viction thar ever that no position in life
is more honorable, or opens larger OPP
portunities for influence and usefulness
than that Of the journalist
READER, don't sleep with your mouth
open. A Chicago man did it the other
night, and when he awoke in the morn
ing he discovered a full grown, able
bodied spider in the act of lowering itself
into the orifce in his countenance, like
a workman going down i'll coal
mine. Nowanights he ties mp his
mouth with mis- watch-chain.
THERE is something mysterious in the
way mining stocks increase or decrease
in value. Now, there are the Bonanza
stocks. BY the fire at Virginia City the
property OF those mines was damaged to
the amount Of $500, 900, and yet the next
day the shares shrunk 1916, 000,O 900, and
the shareholders at San Francisco are
beginning to inquire into the matter.
Or the 292 members of the House Of
Representatives of the Forty-fourth Con-
gress, but los were members of the
Forty-thir and preceding Congresses,
thus leaving 1874 whohave never served in
the National Legislature. OF the los who
have been reelected, the Republicans
have IS and the Democrats 40, but
among the latter are several whose term
of service exceeds that of any member
on the Republican side.
THE Louisiana sugar industry, which
was once large enough to supply nearly
he whole South and West with sugar, is
rapidly recovering from the disorders
brought on by the war. In 1861 the
crop reached 400, 410 hogsheads, the
largest ever raised. The war seems to
have completely annihilated the business
of sugar growing, as in 1864 only 10,3S7
hogsheads were produced. Since that
time it has been gradually growing, and
the crop OF 1875 is estimated at 100, 600
hogsheads
THE annual report of the condition of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is a
most gratifying exhibit of the finances
of that corporation. The total revenues
of all the branches for the year foot up
S14, 426, $50, and the expenses S6,1Sl,
972. The entire mortgage Indebtedness
of the company is $28, ZIG, 1894, and the
surplus fund S34, 026, 566, or $5,307, 232
IN excess OF the Indebtedness. The
management of the Baltimore and Ohio
is conducted on strict business princi-
pies, and this splendid finant ial exhibit
is the result. 1t is an eloquent argu-
ment in favor Of honesty in railway man
agement, and if other companies would
initiate the example we would not only
have fewer bankrupt roads, but vastly
lower freigh. and passenger rates.
The Texas Constitutional Convention
has adopted most comprehensive ar
ticle providing for State control of rail
roads. Il gives every road the right tx
construct and operate connections will
intersecting roads; prohibits consolida
ton of parallel or competing lines, o.
the consolidation by contract or unde
judicial sale of any road within the STATE
Nth one organized under the laws o
another State, or of the United States
and reserves 70 the Legislature the RICH
to establish reasonable rates and to enac
laws prohibiting determinations. Tn
farmers in the Convention dictated
clause requiring any road hereafter con
structed to within three miles of
county-seat to lay track thereto an
establish depot there.
A CHICAGO man, according to tin
Tribune, has perfected new moto
which appears to be, in general way
similar TO Keely's invention, though
differing in application and effect. TIL
Chicago motor, like the other, derive
its power from water and air, and is con