The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-14
CURRENT AFFAIRS.

IN NcW IOrh Guy, lOT TIC Chiieii'
year, the whole amount of the tax reach
es the monstrous sum of $50, 904, 1876. GA.
Huge as is the burden of taxation repre-
sented by these figures, it is still a re-
duction Of million and a quarter upon
the levy for 1875.
The withdrawal of Yale from the COL
lege boating association, followed by
that OF Harvard, and their agreement to
resume the old individual contests, have
made something of stir in college
circles. The course of the two leading
members is good deal criticised, they
are called snobbish and cowardly, and
Dartmouth and Princeton and some of
the other colleges vote to go along to-
gether without them.
Nor long ago the Prince of Montenegro
wrote to the Russian Government, that
in maintaining neutrality, against the
wishes of the people, he was endanger-
ing his throne and life. He asked per-
mission, therefore, to pitch into the
Turks, but the Gar advised him to keep
quiet and wait for the good time coming.
The Prince, thereupon, like good little
fellow, promised not to attempt to eat
any Turkey until Papa Alexander gives
him permission to "dive III.
STOKES, who killed Jim Fisk, has
applied to the Governor of New York
| for immediate release from prison., on
the ground that he has served out his
sentence. He claims that all the time he
was in Jail in New York, awaiting the de-
cision of the appellate courts on his
efforts to obtain new trial, must be de-
Quoted from his penitentiary term and
if the Governor refuses to see it in that
light, his lawyers will go to the courts
again with an application for n manda-
mus.
TwEED's whereabouts are still uncer-
tain. There have been reports of him
in Canada and in Havana, but neither
is confirmed there is growingly less
reason to believe that he is in or about
New York and new strength is given
to the idea that he got off in q special
private vessel to South America. Mean
time, the. great lawyer who led in the
exposure of his crimes, Charles O'Con-
or, continues to defy all medical opin-
ion, and get well. He is certainly eating
meat and sleeping, with the promise of
restoration to activity again.
We clip this item from the Chicago
Tri6une: "New corn is quoted in
Liverpool at 81 shillings per quarter.
That kind of corn can be bought in thu
market at II shillings per quarter, Eng
lish money. The cost here is therefore
to the cost of transporting it from this
city to an English market as II to 49,.
If we take the odd shilling at the profit
of handling on shore, after the payment
of what are called land charges, we have
two bushels in Liverpool worth five
bushels here, the cost of transportation
being $50 per cent of the cost here"
BETWEEN the devastation of the rebels
and the relentless policy of Valmaseda,
the sugar planters in Central Cuba have
had hard time. A prominent real
estate owner who had come to some
arrangement with the insurgents, by
which they spared his plantation, was
shot by order of Valmaseda for COM
municating with the enemy. There are
said to be 10000 troops in the Villas,
yet nothing vigorous is done for the
suppression of the guerrillas, and the
plantations are not efficiently garrisoned.
Rubi, the Royal { Commissioner who sent
home Valmaseda, is active in reforming
abuses at Havana, and we shall witness
more steady and determined effort to
quench the rebellion this winter.
KING ALPHoNso of Spain celebrated
his recent birthday by various acts of
clemency. Among them, he gave 20,
900 reals - five-cent pieces-to the fami-
lies ofsthose who died in the Madrid
Hospital on that day, and sent to each
convict in the Madrid prisons a rug, a
pair OF sandals, and the sum of sixpence
for cigars or tobacco. He also issued a
royal decree declaring remission OF
certain parts of the sentences of prison
ers, and free pardon to certain classes
of political prisoners. The decree, how
ever, does not apply to foreigners, assas-
sins, ravishers, robbers, incendiaries,
briberS, or fraudulent stock jobbers.
The classification of bribers and stock.
jobbers will occasion some surprise il
this country, where these classes MOI
only conduct their operations with i'm
punity, but are held in considerable
esteem.
FOREIGN advices represent that the
grain trade of Russia is in state of col
lapse, anu uudU II severe monetary Crisis
now exists at Odessa and other Blacl
Sea ports. One cause for this depressed
, condition CT affairs is stated to be tn,
immense falling off in the expectation o
} breadstuffs from Russia. 1t also appear.
that during the last eight years, Will,
this decrease in the Russian export trad,
, has been going on, the shipments O
breadstuffs from the United States t.
English ports have been gradually in
creasing. until the figures, which wer,
largely in favor of Russia in 1867, had il
: 1873 become reversed, SO that III tin
latter year Great Britain imported NOR
than twice as much grain and flour from
, this country aswas received FROM Russial
Y ports. a London paper, commentin,
on this fact, names as the causes thereo
4 the superior means of transit possesse,
8 by the Americans, and the great advan
tages from the newer soil and improve,
{ system of agriculture adopted by Amer
n lean farmers.
: CHARLES o'CoNoR
, Affections long time he bore
@ Physicians tried in vain
y To physic him but he refused
And thus got well again.