The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-07

THE press on both sides of the British
channel is filed with enthusiastic notices
of Capt Paul Boyton's last maritime feat.
They regard even his failure rs a success
full demonstration of his undertaking to
swim across from Dover to Boulogne,
and as an immense triumph for humanity
and science.
WE have been visited by Princes and
Grand Dukes and a Kanaka King, but
we have never had real Princess among
us except the Princess Salm-Salm. Now,
however, it is announced that the Prin-
cess Louise of England, the very much
the better half of the Marquis of Lorne,
will visit us next fall.
OUR Canadian neighbors complain of
a violation of the Washington Treaty on
the part of the United States govern
ment in exacting tariff on packages of
preserved fish exported from Canada,
thlN ~ 10 SAIL Vic LULU
will make demand for PREPARATION and
a future observance of the terms of the
treaty.
Prof. RENAUD, of the Heidelburg Uni
versity, an eminent German jurist, has
lately published an exhaustive review of
the Tilton-Beecher case, in which he
states that it is the conviction of the legal
minds of Germany, Austria and France
that the plaintiff, Tilton, has no case
whatever, and expresses surprise that
under the laws of America he should not
have been non-suited after his evidence
was in.
We have read of a nervous patient, in
the hands of a dentist, dropping dead
while losing a tooth, but the case was
reversed lately in Hampstead, Texas.
The dentist dropped down hfeless while
endeavoring to extract one of lady's
molars. Probably he was so anxious to
accomplish his task without paining his
customer that he over-excited himself,
and stirred into deadly activity some
morbid condition of his vascular system.
THE amendment to the Postal laws,
smuggled through at the close of the
last Congress for the benefit of the ex-
press companies, pans out immensely
for those corporations. Under the new
rate for third-class mail matter, the ship
ment of bullion from the gold-producing
regions to Chicago and the East will be
taken from the mails and transferred to
the express companies, who will be able
to exact from shippers three or four
times what it cost them before.
TIE Brooklyn scandal is having its
effect on the eyes as well as the morals
of the public. In the Hartford Co,trant
we find the following CDR. Bacon, of
New Haven, while in Meriden few
days since, to perform an operation, in
all earnestness assured gentleman that
the number of cases of eye diseases he
treated was unusually large since the
Beecher trial commenced. In almost
every instance the patient sat up late
night, reading the great trial reports"
AT late meeting in New York of the
Directors of the Northern Pacific rail
road, statement was made of the La
bilities and assets of the company. Ac-
cording to this exhibit the assets consist
of $50 miles of finished road, and over
100000 acres of land, while the liza
bilities are mortgaged bonds to the
amount of $30,0OO,OOO, stock to the
amount of $25, 100000 which was dis
tributed as premium to the bonds, and
a floating debt of less than 500, 900, OF
which 100000 is due to the Directors
of the road.
THE treaty by which the Sioux In
dams hold possession of the Black Hills
was made to secure the Union Pacific
railroad from molestation. The treaty
was negotiated with them by Gems
Sherman, Harvey, Terry, and Augur
and Messrs. J. b. Henderson, Nathanie
G. Taylor, John b. Sanborn, and Samue
f. Tappan, Commissioners on the par
of the United States, at Fort Laramie
Wyoming Territory, on the Goth and fol
lowing days of April, 1868; was ratified
by the Senate of the United States Feb
16, 1869, and was proclaimed by the
President on the oath of February, 1869
A WASHINGTON dispatch states tina
there are still remaining in the Genera
Land Office undelivered nearly 300, 0Ot