The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-03-05


railroads. Eleven lines in the State,
embracing a total mileage of 2, 1856 miles,
have gone into bankruptcy within the
last few months, and are now in the
hands of receivers.
THE members of the Louisiana Inves-
tigating Committee are agreed upon only
one point-that the Conservatives were
illegally deprived by the Returning
Board of a majority in the Legislature
which met on the 4th of January. Upon
everything else they have agreed to dis
agree.
The absurdity of ante-dating news
papers is well illustrated by New York
hebdomadal issued, according to the
date-line, on March s, and in its leading
editorial announcing that "this number
of the - makes it's appearance on the
anniversary of the birth of George Wash
ingtOn.
DAN RICE, the celebrated Snowman,
has just gone through his regular annual
bankruptcy process. This year he owes
over two hundred creditors, scattered all
over the United States, and his indebt-
dness amounts to $2OO,0OO Assets, one
old WORKOUT trick-horse, $3.50; one suit
of clothes, S75; total, $3.50.
GERMANY controls 2,S00,000 men for
military purposes. Russia has more,
and France and Austria nearly as many.
They and all other European powers are
perfecting their armies. This does not
look much like the millennium. The
plowshare and pruning-hook transfor-
nation scene seems to be indefinitely
postponed.
THE youthful Alfonso is making the
unpleasant discovery that he is not to be
carried to the Spanish throne on fowery
beds of ease. With the Carlists provok-
ingly obstinate in the north and assassins
lying in wait for him III Madrid and else
where, the young man is beginning to re-
alize some of the perils that environ the
man who wears crown in Spain.
WE learn from report recently sub
mitted to Congress that the number OF
bales of cotton seized III the South under
orders from the Treasury Department
after the close of the war was 33, 63S
gross proceeds, $7,65O,676 total ex-
penses, $2,160,434 proceeds released,
$6O3, 570 proceeds i'll the Treasury,
$4,SS6,672.
WESTERN lyceums will be either
pleased or terrified to learn from the
GOlclcn Agc that James Parton has 6
remarkable faculty for putting himself
all over into a sentence and sending il
like blazing shell right into the eye OF
subject, carrying an unusual quantity
of daylight, and making something of nj
explosion among the audience, if no
where else.
IT appears from official data that the
number. of Indians captured by United
States troops in 1873 was '227; Indians
killed by United States troops, 405; citi
zens killed by Indians, Al; soldiers killed
by Indians, 4S; and during six months
of 1874 the number of Indians captured
by United States troops was 73; Indian
killed 10y United States troops, 15S; citi
zens killed by Indians, 36; soldier
killed by Indians, 3.
ONE who attempted to work through
the middle of the great scandal case
gives us as the result, that ate
one week he found his mind giving way
the next he felt q gentle haze of mild In
becility stealing over him, and the thir
he came out confirmed idiot. Their
was no need of excluding jurymen frol
the box on the ground of having forme
an opinion +; the trial is fatal to the min
itself, of which not one vestige will b
left by the time it comes to verdict.
GENTLEMEN intending to be robbie
would do well to have the operation pc
formed in railway depot. MIR. Jaso
Weeks, who was attacked by highwa.
man in the New Haven depot, IN Ne
York, several years ago, and robbed Z
$4,000, sued the company for Il
amount and has just obtained a verde
on the ground of negligence on the pa
of the company in protecting its passe
gers. III the decision Is sustained it w
be precedent which will be awkwal
for the railway companies.
WASHINGTON presents some rather
,oortoble phases of social life There