The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-06-02
CURRENT AFFAIRS.

s..E.. .COhhEN AT rAAnOs \. |OIE
IT is thought Mr.. Disraeli's refusal to
grant amnesty to the Irish political prison
ers will intensity the smoldering discon-
tent in Ireland. - i'a' ~
MYRA CLARK GAINES, who claims to
own much of the land on which the city
of New Orleans stands, has received
much encouragement by the late ruling
of the United States Supreme court, and
has gone back to New Orleans, where
she will reopen her suits for the estate
which she has been fighting for for the
past half century.
The Canadians are putting up the
bars against our new silver coins. At
Windsor, opposite Detroit, the mer-
chants have made solemn covenant not to
receive it save ut these rates The three
cent silver coin at two cents the five
cent at four cents the ten-cent at eight
cents the twenty-cent ut sixteen cents !;
the twenty five cent at twenty cents the
fifty-cent at forty cents the dollar at
eighty cents.
The San Francisco papers are consid-
erably exercised over the silver problem.
They fear the silver paid out by the
Treasury department will rour in upon
California in such quantity as to prac-
tically supplant the gold currency.
Silver being now, this side the noun
tains, on psr with greenbacks, the
Caifornians want to know what is to
hinder its being sent there on specula-
ton to be exchanged for gol l.
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American notions to profit. A London
paper tells us that spelling bees are
making new profession. 1t is becom-
ing notorious that the large prizes given
at the nightly bees in London are won
by few experts who already have the
dictionary by heart. Most of these ex-
perts are employed by the publishing
houses. The manager of one house in
Paternoster row is said to be adding
f20 week to his salary by victories at
the bees.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, furnishes an in
teresting instance of intelligent discrimi-
nation in the administration of justice.
A young married woman on trial for
larceny pleaded guilty on four indict.
ments, and yet was acquitted and iber-
ated, while her husband, who was only
charged with having received the stolen
property, was given ten years in the
State prison. The explanation of the
matter is simple-the court ascertained
that the man was O professional thief,
who had used his young wife as tool.
ONE of the past great evils of the
Bankrupt law has been that limit has
been made when bankrupts could apply
for their discharge. One year has been
the time previously prescribed by law.
This has worked great injury for the
reason that in many cases bankrupts
have been too poor to pay the fees re-
quired to entitle them to their discharge
before the time had expired. A Wash
ington correspondent says members OF
the House Judiciary Committee have re-
ceived so many letters upon this subject
that they decided upon some action by
agreeing to an amendment to the law
extending the time indefinitely.
COUNT Won ARNIM, of Germany, is
virtually an outcast from his native land
and man hunted down by his own
people. Having been sentenced to i'm
prisonment, through the efforts of Bis
marck, on the charge of treason, an
official advertisement now appears in the
Berlin journals for his apprehension as
runaway criminal. Won Arnim is
supposed to be in Italy at present, and
will probably never return to Germany
to live or save his property from Gov
eminent confscation. His case is re-
markable one, and displays the enmity
and strength of the ruling Chancellor
as exercised toward would-be official
rival.
ONE of the most valuable features oil
the present Centennial Exhibition is the
careful preparation of statistics by ex
perts relative to the material prosperity
of various countries. They will consti
tute an invaluable collection for future
reference. Among those already made
is one of South Australia, which was set
tied only forty years ago-a colony
hardly known to the outside world. TIL,
statistics, prepared by Mr.. Josiah Booth
by, show that $4,000 men suppor
thrice their number of woman and chill
dren, occupy 100000 square miles o
pastoral country, and possess c, 1000, 00(
sheep. They own 100000 acres o
land, grow IL, 900, 900 bushels of wheat
conduct an external commerce of $145,
000, 900, and raise $5, 600, 900 of revenue
which is a pretty good showing for
forty year-old colony.
ALL quiet on the Bosphorus. Coun
Andrassy is happy. His programme TO
Turkish reform has been accepted al
round, particularly by the Sultan, VIII
was glad to get off so easily. The trutl
is that Russia is not ready to adopt de
cisive measures. The Gar thinks
wiser to wait and let the Turkish Empir
| go to pieces from interior demoralizatio
than to try to force operations agains
! the determined opposition of Austria an
| Germany and neither of these care t
fight at present. AS for the reforms
| they are perfectly innocent on paper
| and there is no danger of their gettin
r beyond it. To enforce them would rt
, quire q new set of officers backed b
Z foreign troops. The upshot of the cor
+ ference is that things are to be Above
to drift on for another twelvemonth III
less they reach crisis before that time
JUSTICE MILLER of the United State
Supreme court doesn't propose to TAX
| any "chin music from mere emperor
| when he is talking. Dom Pedro visite