The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-12-19
MISCELLANEOUS aLRANIN0A

The report to Congress of the nation
al commission appointed to investigate what
ever pertains to the yellow fever in Cuba
makes public the startling fact that the fever
prevails at every point on the island, 30 far as
inquiries have extended. No place in Cuba
seems 70 have been discovered which is exempt
from the plague its ravages depending mainly
upon the number of unacclimated persons
within the inf uence of the infection.
The National Board of Trade held
its annual session at Washington last week.
By the explosion of dynamite at Tan
geer, Nova Scotia, George Ferguson, his son
James, and nephew, Joseph Ferguson, was
instantly killed.
Delegates to q convention called to
organize the American Agricultural Society
met in New York city last week. There was
large attendance, and variety of inter
esting topics were discussed, and a
number of valuable papers read John
Merriman, of Maryland, was elected permanent
President of the society, and a list of Vice
Presidents, representing every State in the
Union, was chosen. A Board of Directors, con-
sisting of nineteen, five of them to serve for
one year. seven for two years, and seven for
three years, was elected
Several of the Canadian cities are
afflicted with an epidemic of smallpox
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany refuses to deliver copies of the messages
sent and received by Mr. Ingalls, during the late
Senatorial canvass in Kansas
At the international Dairy Fair, just
held in New York, Illinois led all competitors
in the display of butter, while Wisconsin made
the finest display of cheese.
A party of engineers have just LETT
New York for Mexico, to locate and superintend
the construction of railroad across the 18TH
mus of Tehuantepec. The promoters of this
by completing their work at an early day to de-
feat the canal project.
Gen. Grants reception by the people
of Pittsburgh was big demonstration-only
little less in the number of the people and the
length of the procession than the Chicago
affair, but far exceeding it in gush and
enthusiasm, according to all accounts.
burgh reception, and the one most
likely to be remembered aud recalled, was the
speech of Gen. Grant in reply to some remarks
of Prof. Fulton, the spokesman Of the prin-
cipals of the public schools, who called upon
him in a body. The Generals speech. which
was much longer than usual and which is apt
to become as memorable in certain sense as
the famous Des Moines speech, was as fol-
lows
GENTLEMEN: There is 4 interes in our coun.
try which feel deserves more TO be fostered than
that of the public school. Intelligence is the Sc
curity of the republic, ignorance is the uphold
er of monarchy. To insure ourselves against the
disasters of war, particularly of civil war, want
education diffused, that the minds of our youth
may be sufficiently taught to read and to distin-
guish between right and wrong. and with such ed
ucation universally diTused the republic never
be in danger. Only regret that tho statistics show
in our country much illitcracy is shown.
was surprised at some figures that h. ard repeated
within a few days; but, when consider the in
fancy of our public-scbocl system, IL is probably
not so much TO be wondered at. My hope is that
the day Will come, and that not far distant when
the school facilities everywhere will be so that
every child may have the opportunity of receiving