The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-28
CURRENT AFFAIRS.

EVERY OenatOr anu Representative III
Congress from Georgia is native of the
State.
THERE are three State prisons in New
York, with 3,481 convicts. Their earn.
ings for 1875 were 1868, 97S, or about
$105 head. Their cost was 1914, 52S
or $545, $40 in excess of their earnings
Each of them, therefore, costs the State
1923 over and above what he earns.
The power of the West in our politics
was shown in the Republican National
Committee. The East wanted to hold
the National Convention at Philadelphia,
but the West was unwilling, and Cincin-
natl was finally fixed as the future place
of meeting. This is an intimation that
the West will also insist upon having the
candidate.
The returns from the European grain
markets indicate a not far distant recov-
cry in prices, as the wants of Europe,
particularly of England, become more
conspicuous. The Mark Lane Express
does not anticipate such over-importation
as would induce another break in prices,
thanks to the closing of the northern
ports of Europe by winter and the mate
rial advance in quotations here.
THE st. Louis Globe Democrat says
Joyce is writing three-act play, "The
Whisky Ring" for which he has been
offered 81, SEQ. Among the characters
represented are Judge Krekel, Melon
aid, Babcock and of course Joyce, the
injured innocent, to be cleared of all
suspicion in the last scene. He has
stopped work on his book for the time
being, but will resume it as soon as the
play is finished, having been offered a
very liberal bonus for the copyright by
New York publishing house.
PROF. JENNEY, who is now in Wash
ington, has received letters from prac-
teal miner formerly attached to the
Black Hills expedition, and who is now
in the Black Hills country, stating that
gold has been found in the greatest
abundance in at least two places. and
that the mines are being successfully
worked even under great disadvantages.
The order of the Government prohibit
ing citizens from trespassing in the Black
Hills is still in operation, but the mill
tary force i'll that region is inadequate
to keep out trespassers.
In his argument for the meeting Of
the Republican National Convention at
San Francisco, the representative of Cal
tfornia insisted that his State was exactly
The center of the United States, instanc-
ing in proof, the fact that Alaska was as
far off on the other side as Maine on the
East If the forty-nine free and en-
hghtened citizens who constitute the
white population of Alaska are to be
made to offset the rest of the country,
we shall almost wish Secretary Seward
had not achieved the mighty and daring
craftsmanship which bound the fortunes
of that fertile and loving empire indis-
solubly with our our own.
The Illinois politicians have begun
their work early, and are talking over
the candidates for the various State
offices. The Republican nomination for
Governor is sought by the following
gentleman Gov. John l.. Beveridge,
ex- Congressman Shelby M. Cullom,
John Addam, John b. Hawley, r.. P.
Derrickson, and Milton Hay. The
Democratic candidates for the nomina-
ton are : Senator Alex. Glenn, Congress-
man VIM. II. Morrison, Judge G. l..
Higbee, the Hon. Thomas Casey, and
VIM. Brown. The Granger candidates
are Congressman VIM. b. Anderson and
Willard G. Flagg. All the other offices
have large number of seekers.
The New York Sun prints long story
of how Mr.. Orion bought the Tribune
after Greeley died, and how he lost it
without selling it. The pith of it is this
Orion bought it in order to restore it to
the Republican party and make Mr.. Col
fax editor. He and his hackers being a
little short, and Jay Gould handy, the
latter advanced the money. Colfax sud
denly dropped out, and the Orion ring
were Mt loss what to do next. At which
point Gould appeared and asked for his
money or the shares Mr.. Orion was not
ready with the one, and not willing to
part with the other Mr.. Gould said : 81
have sold the shares to Mr.. Whitelaw
Reid, and you must surrender them or
return the money" and Mr.. Orion,
finding himself in a corner, gave up the
shares, and kept the secret of his dis
com6ture.
The annual circular of the Commercial
Agency of Dun, Barlow e. Co., gives the
following table of failures, with the
amount of liabilities, in the United States
for period of nineteen years: