The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

huAOrlIleo.
Two murderers were hanged at Pittsburgh
Pa. on the 9th inst-Fred. Myers and VIM.
Murray, convicted Of the murder of Gottshardt
Vail, German farmer, near Allegheny City,
in November last.
John Stephenson & Co., the well-known car
builders of New York, have failed.
The bad little boy who has recently been
passing himself off at St. Adams, VT, for
Charley Ross, turns out, as was expected to be
bogus Charley. He was taken to Milford,
N. H.. the other day, where he was recognized
by his mother as Jimmy Blanchard. He is
precocious young rascal, and will some day
get into the Pententiary, or Congress, or some
other bad place.
Gov. Tilden refuses to pardon Stokes.
DIR. Samuel q. Howe, an eminent scientist
and philanthropist, died at Boston last week,
eyed IS years. DR.. Howe was the inventor Of
the alphabet of raised letters for the blind.
All the churches invited by Mrs. Moulton to
the Mutna Council have been heard from, and
all have accepted. The list is said to include
some of the most eminent clergymen in the de-
nomination.
The famous Singer will case mas been de-
cided in favor of Mrs. Isabella Energie Singer,
named in the bill propounded. The Judge
rules that she is the widow Of the deceased,
and her children his legitimate offspring. The
application of Mrs. Mary Singer Miss FOSTER,
the second wife, who claimed that she was en-
titled to a widows dover, is denied. The
amount involved is between $5,000,000 aud
$4,000, 000
Ockershausen Brothers, sugar refiners, of
New York, have failed. Liabilities, 1876, 600.
Messrs. Sherman & Stirling, counsel for
the Rev. II. w. Beecher, in the suit brought
against him for malicious prosecution by Fran
els ID. Moulton, have served on Gen. Pryor,
counsel for plaintiff, a demurrer upon the
ground that the complaint does not state facts
sufficient 10 constitute cause of action.
The West.
United States Paymaster Spaulding, of
San Francisco, whose Chief Clerk Pinney, was
so remarkably successful in defrauding the
Government has been arrested and imprisoned
on Mare Island. 1t is supposed that suspicious
of completely in the Pinney peculations have
led to the arrest OF Paymaster Spaulding.
There is believed to be imminent danger of
an Indian outbreak at the Red Cloud Agency
in consequence Of an insufficient supply of pro-
visions
At Osborn, Mo-, few nights ago. burglars
broke into drug store, and stole a quantity of
chloroform with which they drugged the whole
town. They went through both hotels, all the
stores, and many private residences. They
secured several thousand dollars and escaped.
Advices from the plains report an immense
herd of buffalo, so miles long, in the vicinity
of Cheyenne River Agency.
A rich deposit Of gold has been struck in the
Centennial lode near Laramie City, Wyoming
Territory.
Timothy Kirby, an old citizen of Cincinnati,
died last week, aged 81 years, leaving ali estate
estimated at between $2,000,000 and So, O00,
600. Among the few heirs are Dom Piatt and
Congressman H. B. Banning.
Missouri boasts of eight murderers under
sentence of death.
The Centennial Mine, situated near Laramie
City, Wyoming, is pronounced the richest gold
mine ever found on the continent.
bill to provide for compulsory education
has been introduced in the Ohio Legislature.
Washington.
Secretary Bristow gives it out that no COM
promise with the Chicago whisky thieves will
be tolerated.
A Washington telegram says there is to be an
immediate concentration of our available naval
force at Port Royal, s. c..
An important bill has been introduced in the
House of Representatives by Mr.. McCrary, of
Iowa, to reorganize the Judiciary of the United
States. The purpose of the measure is to facil-
itate the administration of justice in the Fed
eral Courts. This is a reform imperatively de-
manded. The business of the Supreme Court
is fully two years in arrears, and is constantly
increasing. There are over 800 cases upon the
docket now awaiting consideration. Mr.. McCrary
proposes plan by which the Circuit and Su-
preme Courts can be relieved without creating
new offices, and yet the right of appeal be pre-
served.
Representative Whitthorne, Chairman of the
House Naval Committee, is SAID to be in favor
OF the abolition Of all the New England navy
yards, and the committee will probably report
bills looking to that end
Speaker Kerr has appointed the following
committee to investigate the Rio Grande
troubles Schleicher A. S. Williams mich. },
the select committee on the Freedmen Bank
failure Douglass, Bradford, Stenger, Riddle,
Hooker, Bliss, Farwell, Frost and Rainey.
The following are the principal points of
Mr.. Morrson's new financial bill, introduced
into the House The first section requires
the Secretary Of the Treasury to retain all gold
not required for interest on the public debt I'M
til the amount If 80 per cent. Of the outstand-
ing United States notes. The second section
requires the banks to keep 80 per cent. Of all
interest received on bonds in coin to the account
of the legal reserves and also such additional
sum az, added to the amount of the reserve,
will equal 80 per cent. of the bank circulation.
The third section repeats the legal-tender act,
to take effect when tho first and second sections
is reached, and repeats to take effect at once,
30 much of the resumption act of 1875 as fixes
Jan. 1, 1879, as the date of resumption.
Mr. Davis OF West Virginia, has introduced
in the Senate resolution asking for commit
tee to investigate the Treasury bookkeeping
between the years 1869 and 1872. He claims