The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-02-11
CURRENT AFFAIRS.

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demand goes on increasing.
The New Jersey Legislature is moving
in the right direction. A bill has been
introduced to abolish the compromising
of State officers by fees, and in lieu
thereof to appropriate stated salary for
each.
THOSE people who have been counting
on unusually low railroad fares during
the Centennial are destined to meet with
disappointment. The companies have
conferred together, and have patriot
cally resolved to make as much money
as possible out of the show. With that
end in view, they have agreed to sell
excursion tickets" to Philadelphia,
but will reduce the rates only about one
quarter.
The Russian budget estimates the
revenues of the Cars Government for
the coming year at $40, 900, 900 rubles,
and the expenditures at $50, 914, 900 ru-
bles, which will leave a small margin in
the Treasury. A ruble is silver coin
equal in value to 100 copper copecks,
and worth from rs to sc cents of our
money, according to its coinage. 1t is
the legal standard by which accounts in
Russia are kept.
The Providence Press says "When
Mrs. Whittlesey, the Northampton CASH
ier's wife, saw the burglars take her hus-
bands gold watch she kicked hers under
the bureau, and so saved it. And when
her new cloak was in the robbers hands
she said, Give me that old thing; I'm
/ oAl,l onI +Iot A IA.
keen-witted woman could have been at
the bank when the vault was opened she
would have persuaded the robbers that
half those papers were nothing but
family milk bills"
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Jr., has
made series OF Investigations and COM
piled statistics showing that only one
railroad messenger in 5000, 900 is killed,
and only one in 100000 is even so
much as bruised. In the year 1874 only
one person was killed on all the Massa-
chusetts railroads, while rs were killed
by accident in the city of Boston. In
fact, 1t seems to be considerably safer to
sit on safety valve or ride on a cow
catcher than to stay at home in your own
house.
IT having been brought to the atten-
ton OF the Secretary of War that there
are III existence in different sections OF
the country many records, such as battle
reports, correspondence, etc., relating
to the late civil strife, he authorizes the
statement that, if any one who has
original official documents pertaining to
the war, either on the Union or Confed-
crate side, will send them to the Secre-
tary, they will be copied for use in con-
nection with the publication of the
records of the war, and returned to the
owner II accompanied with such request.
The originals must be sent, as copies.
for obvious reasons, cannot be accepted.
AN official report of the prize money
paid during the civil war shows that Adj
miral Farragut receives 500, 443. Adj
mlral Lee, 800, 446; Admiral Porter,
$50, 34S; Admiral Dupont, $5S, 476, Capt.
Amy, So, AL Commander Lanson, $40
522, and so down. The largest single
amount paid was the prize money of
VIM. Budd for the capture of the Mem
phls, $3S, 318. The enlisted men got
sums varying from ID cents to 81 900.
The capture of the Albemarle by Lieut..
Cushing's picket boat Melted the boats
crew 81, 1884 per man. In all, $9,500,-
900 of prize money have been paid
thus far, and 600 captures remain un-
adjudicated, which will swell the ag-
gregate to nearly SIS, 100000.
A BRUSSELS paper, the Independence
Beige, undertakes to give an account
oil Mr.. A. L. Stewart, apropos of his |
purchase OF pictures in Paris, and some |
OF the anecdotes anent him from thir
source will be found quite new to read
ers on this sido of the Atlantic. For in.
stance, we are told that during the was
MIR. Stewart, having had extensive deal
lngs with the Government, was its cred
ltor to the amount of $50,000,O0O. One
day when the Government was in hob
Die about money, and some reference
was made to this Indebtedness, the great
merchant exclaimed, Fifty millions
Oh, don't mention such trihe," and
with one sweep of his pen transferred
the sum from one side of the account to
,he other. The revelation will give Mr..
stewart an excellent opportunity of
to find it fame.
The details of Mr.. Morrison's proposed
ariff are printed at length in the daily
papers. The more important alterations
ire as follows: A reduction of the duty
IN coarse manufactured cottons by one
half; finer goods one-fifth; yarns 20 and
pool thread 30 per cent. Woods and
voolen goods are greatly reduced, fine
yools more than half. Articles used
n wool manufacturing are put on the
rec list. Pig iron is to pay S5 instead
II 81 per ton; railroad iron $40 instead
II Sl4; steel, per pound, IL cents instead
# p. Coal, which pays rs cents per .
on, Is put on the free list. Cigars are
o pay uniformly So. 80 per pound instead /;
# $3.50 and % per cent. The chief !
tens of increase are in taking from the
rec list tea, which is to pay 10 cents,
nd coffee, to pay A cents per pound.
specific duties are largely substituted :
Or al VaLorem. q
The death of Francis Deak, the emf /
ent Hungarian statesman, was not GER /
linly unexpected; but it leaves a vast Z
acancy, and fills the hearts of a whole i
eople with profound sorrow. He was
ne of the first and most jealous of the {
aud OF Hungarian patriots, and after b
le victory OF 1913 he accepted the port C
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