The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24
FRESH PARAGRAPHS.


CAPT. CRAPo's wife writes that they
would not undertake to cross the At
lantic again in cockle-shell for consid-
cradle. She tainted twice during the
voyage, slept in a wet bed for seven
weeks, and had aches in every bone OF
her body.
A ST.. PETERSBURG letter in the New
York World says that since the first
battle of Plevna Russia has been In
turmoil of enthusiasm, indignation, ha-
tired and political passions. The people
seem united in demanding more vigor in
the conduct of the war, and with this in
tense war feeling goes Indignation against
England.
The Eastern question is temporarily
lost sight of in England in the general
alarm over the American potato bug.
The Privy Council has taken up the
bug, and is considering him solemnly
and seriously. Each American pilgrim
will be searched for bugs at the custom
house hereafter, and if they are found
on his person both the man and the bug
will be confscated.
INDIANA and other Western States,
heretofore noted for the facilities they
furnished in obtaining divorces, may
now yield the palm to the District OF
| Columbia, which has acquired pecul-
inn fame for dissolving the marriage
tie. One of the Judges is kept constant
ly busy in this branch of business, and
the reports of his DEGREES fill no small
space in the daily papers at the capital.
In the absence of exciting news as to
battles and important army movements,
we are receiving elaborate accounts OF
horrible atrocities perpetrated by the
hostile armies in Bulgaria and Roume-
liza. Each party is endeavoring to pref
udice the civilized world against the
other, and the accounts are undoubtedly
exaggerated. If half that is said is true,
all civilized nations should promptly CO.
operate and interfere in the name of hui
mainly.
SEVERAL newspaper paragraphs have
been published stating that all the pub
, lie lands available for cultivation have
passed out of the Governments control
by presumption, subsidies, etc. Another
estimate alleges that not more than one
fourth of the surveyed lands have been
! disposed of, and that there are still
1872, $50, 244 acres of public lands in the
States and Territories over which the
surveyor has not run his chains OF
"blazed" the corner trees.
} SITTING BULL stands upol his dignity.
A letter from Fort Ellis, Montana, re.
ports that Gen. Miles attempted mission
to him failed because the chief refused
/ to see any one who did not come with
full powers to negotiate treaty. The
old savage gives himself the airs of &
; sovereign. If the President has any
, thing to communicate he must send 6
4 Minister Plenipotentiary. Sitting Bull
is not to be coaxed out from under the
. tail of the British lion without prelimi
/ nary diplomatic guarantees.
:. THE death of the late Lewis Brooks
3 of Rochester, n. Y, who had amasset
4 large fortune in the manufacture O
9 wooden cloths, has revealed public
benefactor. He retired from business
: forty years ago, and has since attended
: chiefly to his private concerns, and haC
) so disappeared from public view tina
4 his name was comparatively unknown
. even in Rochester. Since his death
. however, it has been discovered that h,
> had given $4,000 to the Rochester Cit
3 Hospital, $4,000 to the ST. Mary's Hos
/ pital, So, 600 each to the Industrial Schoo
> and Female Charitable Society, and
8 most munifcent of all, $4,000 to tn,
: Virginia University, and in neither cas-
: was the giver known. Numerous othe
5 gifts are now known to have come from
the same generous hand. He seems t,
3 have sought his opportunities for doinI
; good from the pure love of charity ant
with an aversion to public notoriety, an'
0 contributed them in such manner tina
. they could not be diverted from thei
s proper purpose. In his case the Shak
Q spearean maxim is reversed. The goo,
: that he has done lives after him and i
9 his noblest monument.