The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-06-29
stolen several thousand dollars from registered

etters.
WASHINGTON.
THE report of the commission appointed TO
investigate the charges Of extravaganza in the
Printing Bureau of the United States Treasury
at Washington shows recklessness and waste
of the public money greatly to be censured.
The names of 95S persons were upon the pay
rolls Of the bureau at the beginning OF the in
vestgation, about 90 per cent of whom were
not necessary for the prosecution OF the busi-
ness. The number has since been profitably
reduced TO 367 persons.
THERE were 5000 bids for the $50 mail con-
tracts recently advertised by the Postmaster
General Three-fourths of the contracts were
secured by professional bidders, who farm ont
the contracts. The new per cent. Govern
ment loan which il for thirty days open for
private subscriptions before being placed with
the syndicate, il not subscribed TO with the
avidit" that the administration could desire.
A DESPERATE attempt was made to rob an ex-
press car on the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern railroad, near Ligonier. Ind, few
nights ago. Four desperadoes boarded the
train at Ligonier, and Immediately after it had
passed beyond the town limits the robbers en-
tered the express car and assaulted the mes
senger. A detective and several assistants,
who had been notified of the plot and had
secreted themselves in the car, at once
pounced upon the robbers, and, after
desperate struggle, subdued and handcuffed
all four of them. They proved to be
four desperate characters that had for long
time infested Ligonier. Their names are
Latta, Bllman, Hathaway and Christy On
Lake Minnetonka, Mimi, few days ago,
little excursion steamer carrying five persons
blew up with frightful effect Three of those
on board were instantly killed, and the other
two badly wounded. Fragments Of the boat
flew $50 feet in the air and then sunk III forty
feet of water Three little boys were drowned
in the Chicago river, at Chicago, few days
ago, while bathing. The clearinghouse of
S. Pulsifer g. Co., OF Peoria, one of the largest
financial institutions in Central Illinois, has
suspended "A horrible triple murder was
perpetrated, a few days ago. in Hooking county,
Ohio. John Weldon, his sister and laughter
were murdered at their home, their heads
being crushed with an AK. The murderers,
William Terrell and Joseph King, have been ar
rested, and have confessed to the butchery, the
object being robbery.
SECRETARY MoCRARY has sent a dispatch to
the Governor of Utah, stating that, while the
administration does not apprehend a Mormon
uprising, additional troops will be sent to Utah.
| ~ G.. Wiley Wells, of Mississippi, is to be
appointed Consul General of the United States
to China. =. The President has commissioned
Daniel Il. Boynton as Pension Agent at Knox
vile, Tenn. Samuel Post, Pension Agent at
|
at st. Louis.
PRESIDENT HAYES and family, accompanied
by Secretaries Evarts Devens and Schurz, raid
a flying visit to New England last week. =. . The
commission recently appointed to investigate
the affairs of the New Orleans Custom House
report reforms that will effect saving to the
Government of some $4,000 per annum.
POLITICAL.
THE President has addressed the following
circular letter to all prominent Federal officers
throughout the country
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WAsHINGToN June 49,
SIR desire to call your attention to the fol-
lowing paragraph III q letter addressed by me
to the Secretary of the Treasury on the conduct
to be observed by officers of the General Gov
eminent i'll relation to elections:
"No officer shall be required or permitted TO
take part in the management of political Or
| CARNATIONS, caucuses conventions, or election
| campaigns. Their right to vote and to express
their views on public questions, either orally or
through the press, is not denied, provided it
does not interfere with the discharge of their
official duties. No assessment for political pur-
poses Of officers or subordinates should be al
! lowed"
This rule is applicable to every department
of the civil service 1t should be understood
by every officer of the General Government
that he is expected to conform his conduct to
its requirements. Very respectfully,
r. b. HAYES.
A CIRCULAR has been issued by the Secretary
of the Navy, commanding that laborers shall
be employed in the navy-yards, by the proper
officers in charge, with reference to their skill
and efficiency alone, and without regard to po-
! litical or personal considerations Workmen
are not to be required to contribute money for
political purposes, nor discharged on account
of their political opinions
GENERAL.
The city of st. Johns, New Brunswick, has
been almost obliterated by fire. The flames
broke out in the afternoon of June 20, in Nc
Laughlin's boiler-manufactory in Portland, a
suburb of st. Johns, and ragged for twenty-four
hours. strong wind was blowing at the
time, and the fire spread with incredible
| rapidlty toward the business portion of St
John, clearing in its career entire streets of
buildings. The entire business portion Of the
city, including all the banks. hotels, news
paper Offices, the Custom House, telegraph
offices, number OF churches and public
schools, besides hundreds of dwellings, were
reduced TO ashes in few hours. Several
schooners and larger vessels were burned
| Crafts laden with goods and household wares
readily caught the flames and were consumed.
| The fierce wind drove the flames TO the south
and east and destroyed everything they reached
to the waters edge. Five men and two infants
are missing. The loss is estimated at from
S10,000,000 to $15000,000 and the
insurance will not, it is thought.
exceed s6,OOO,OOO. The area burned
over is about 200 acres. Thousands of people
are rendered homeless, among whom there is
much suffering .. The fast trains between the
East and West have been withdrawn, and one
of the shortest railroad wars on record is at an
end. A report is received by way of Victoria
and San Francisco of an uprising by the Black
feet Indians Of British Columbia. The Rocky
Mountain camp of the Canadian Pacific rail-
road was attacked by the savages, and all the
men killed save one, who escaped to tell the
story.
The Sunday-school Assembly to be held at
Lake Bluff camp grounds, thirty miles north Of
Chicago, July II to ~, promises to be one OF
the most important and interesting gatherings
of Sunday-school workers held for many a day.
Railroads will give reduced fares, and ample
provisions will be made to entertain, at small
expense, all those who may desire to attend.
DISPATCHES from st. John, N. b., furnish
the following additional particulars of the ter
rible confagration in that city: The entire
business portion of the city is destroyed. Not
a leading establishment has escaped All the
principal dry-goods stores, the leading grocers.
all ghip brokers commission merchanfs all tha