The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-02-19

that one of the Beecher jurors is sick.
The wonder is that the stream of filth
under which they are compelled to sit
day after day has not sickened the
whole twelve.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, ,Jr., thinks
the Changers have proved the best
friends of the railroads. They have
stopped construction, which is a good
thing. If the mania for railway building
had gone on unchecked much longer
there would have been nothing left but
railroads III the country. Everybody
would have taken to making tracks.
THE proposition of the Union Pacific
Railway to compromise the suits brought
against it by the Attorney General, by
paying into the United States Treasury
$500, 900 yearly for twenty years, and
$3.50, 900 annually thereafter, is re-
garded with favor at Washington, and
will probably be accepted by the gov
ernment.
THE Hon. Thomas Durfee, Rhode
Islands new Chief Justice, has requested
the Legislature to reduce his salary from
81, 900 to 1850, because he thinks there
should be no more than $500 difference
between his salary and that of the Asso-
ciate Justices, who receive $4,000. He
thinks that Judgment, Like charity, should
begin ut home.
THAT loathsome disease, smallpox,
has been doing bad work i'll many parts
of North America during the past few
weeks. We hear of it in the Eastern
States, in Canada, and lately it has
closed large Catholic school in one of
the principal towns of Texas. 1t prevails
TO n greater or less degree in most of the
largo cities, and many of the smaller
cities, of the Union.
An imaginative correspondent of n
Chicago daily paper thus depicts scene
in the Illinois Legislature Nervous
hands sought imaginary pistols, nervous
fingers grasped material inkstands and
prepared for the fray. But ere the first
blow was struck, ere the first ink was
split, the clear, ringing voice of the
Speaker fell with magic influence upon
that wild, tumultuous throng, The
Clerk win call the roll. "
MINISTER SCHENcK writes TO his friend,
Gen. Young, of Cincinnati, explaining
the story that he had published n book
on the art of playing poker. he says
that, when leaving a country residence
in Somersetshire, he was asked to write
down the rules of the game as played in
America. He did SO, and heard no more
of the matter until he received copies
printed for private circulation by an
amateur compositor.
TRAINING for the witness stand is an
other one of the new things born of the
great scandal case. 1t is asserted that
Moulton kept in vigorous physical and
mental trim throughout his examination
by going through course of training
every morning like pugilist. Mr..
Beecher, we are told exercises half
hour every morning with dumb bells,
sponges himself down with alcohol,
breakfasts on raw beefsteak, and washes
it down with Dublin porter.
Apv1cEs from the Eastern and Middle
States represent the prevailing drought
rs very serious. In some quarters melted
snow is the only drink that can be fur
nished the cattle, and in others their
owners are shipping them off to prevent
their dying of thirst. There were nc
rains previous to the beginning of cold
weather, and unless there are heavy
spring rains the dry ground may prove
as detrimental to the Eastern crops as the
grasshoppers have to those of the West
BY way of contrast, California has been
deluged by the excessive rainfall.
THE Chicago Tribune has two special
correspondents attending the Beechel
trial. That they are trustworthy and re-
liable we are assured from the following re-
perts printed the same day. Speaking Of
Beechers appearance while Tilton was
delivering his testimony, one CORE
spondent says: q" His face was very calm,
and was almost constantly turned to the
witness chair with an expression of quiet
interest" Says the other: His face
was as livid as the face of n corpse, and
he looked palsied by shame and anguish.