The true northerner., 1876-03-10
CURRENT AFFAIRS.


urging the National Convention to nom
mate Secretary Bristow for President.
The Democratic Convention called at
ST. Louis will be the first national nomi-
mating convention ever held west of the
Mississippi River. Westward the star
of empire takes its way"
The Democrats in the Lower House
of the kentucky Legislature have been
examined on the Presidential question
by a correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, with the result Hendricks,
21 Allen, 1S /; Pendleton, Is F; Thurman,
6 Tilden, 3; Bayard, 3; Black, 2 /;
Randall, | Kerr, l.
GEN. Crook, the veteran conqueror of
Cochise, the Apache, has started with a
strong force to hunt down the impudent
and turbulent Sioux, who have been
threatening the scattered ranches in the
direction of the Black Hills and the Big
Horn mountains. III the Sioux don't lie
down and get out of Crooks ways, it is
certain that some of them will get hurt.
A CHICAGO inventor thinks he has dis
covered way OF heating railway cars
that obviates all chances of burning, in
case of accident. His plan is to use
red-hot shot that weigh 100pounds each,
placed in a box under the car, with regis
ters in the floor of the coach, the fur
naces for heating to be placed along the
road, at stations 100 miles apart Five
balls, he claims, would heat each car
comfortably for four hours.
WOMEN are-but we forbear to express
our opinion. The facts in the case, how
ever, are that, in the face of the sore
needs of their own sex, Miss Nose, of Bos-
ton, has given 1000 for the benefit of
INDECENT old men, and Mrs. Creighton,
of Philadelphia, has given the muni6-
cent endowment of 81, 1,000,00 to found
a college to educate poor young men for
celibate Catholic priests. The WOman's
Journal finds food for scarcasm.
GEN. W. t. SHERMAN recently deliv-
cred six-column address on education
in st. Louis. He spoke chiefly upon the
subject OF scientific branches of educa-
ton, and closed as follows: so sure
as truth will prevail over fGlsehood T; SO
sure as knowledge will prevail over ig-
norance ; so sure as the camps of the In
dian and the huts of the hunter must
give place te the farms, houses, gran
aries, schools, and churches of modern
civilization so sure as that the coal,
iron, lead, zinc, and copper, which now
lie round about us in their useless ores,
must come forth to be utilized by man,
so sure will scientific knowledge be in
demand right here in st. Louis, and the
demand for it will keep pace with the
population and wealth of the city and of
the surrounding country"
SPAIN has reason to rejoice at the over
throw and flight of Don Carlos, who has
maintained for SO many years desul-
tory and fruitless war, resulting in great
suffering and bloodshed. His hopes of
success since the accession of King Al
fonso have been very slight. This win
ter his army numbered only 80, 600 men,
while the royal forces exceed 100, 900.
BY bold strategic movements the AL
fonsist generals drove the Carlists from
the coast, forced back the forces COM
manding the passage eastward of Vito
ria, and finally captured Estella, the real
stronghold of the Carlist cause and the
objective point of the campaign. The
difficulties of the Spanish Government
are, however, by no means ended. 1t
llho obAil w SODttlltt Wlull hlluhSldl
ruptcy at home and the restless insurg-
ents in Cuba.
SILVER is getting TO be drug in all
the markets of the world. The whole
sale merchants of San Francisco re-
Gently held a meeting and voted that
"whereas the discount on silver has
reached such magnitude as to require
some united action, therefore resolved
that hereafter we will not receive silver
in payment of accounts due, and bills
hereafter sold, in larger sums than pro-
vlded by law, except at the ruling rate
OF discount when payment is made"
And the same paper in which these reso-
lutions appear declares on its editorial
page that "silver has become almost as
common as rag money aud at a discount
not much inferior ;" in other words. that
the paper currency of the United States
has continually risen in value as COM
pared with gold, while silver has some
what deprecated.
THE usual daily dispatches of wars
and rumors of wars in Khokand, growing
out of Russian schemes of conquest, will
now cease, Russia having formally an
nexed that province. Although a small
and comparatively unknown fragment OF
Central Asia, it is by no means an unim-
portant accession to the Russian domin-
ions. In area it is 165 miles in length
by So miles in width, or about the area
of the State of New Jersey, and is in
habited by 100000 people, or moro
than three times the population of the
latter. 1t has very productive sol, and
is noted for the excellence and variety
of it's fruits. Wheat, barley, rice, hemp,
flax, sorghum, peas, beans, madder, to-
bacco, and cotton are cultivated, and the
manufacture of fine quality of silk is
its leading branch of industry. In 1872
there were exported to Russia S,OOO,O 90
pounds of cotton and 200, 900 pounds OF
silk. The country affords pasturage for
large herds of horses, asses, sheep. and
camels. and coal, iron, naphtha, and pc
troleum exist in its Mountains. khokan
is the capital city, and has a population
of 10000, its principal trade being in
silks, woolens, and leather equipments.
ACCORDING to the Boston Journal OF
Chemistry there is now produced class
of goods made entirely of cotton, but
called merino, and which have the look
of the latter fabric, owing to the woolly
surface impaired tc them in the process
- ,.so at,,,o Thaca Goods ova fOun1