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DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

The President laid before the Senate at it's
session on the I'd inst, a communication
transmitting the report of the Mississippi
River Commission, with maps, etc. Ordered
printed. Mr., Garland presented the re-
monstrance Of certain merchants of Arkan-
sas against the increased duty on tin plates
Referred. Several petitions were
presented for the passage OF bill
giving an increased pension to
one armed and one-legged soldiers
Mr.. Garland, from the Committee on Judi
ciary reported the original bill rs a substi-
tute for the bills referred TO that committee,
providing for the forfeiture of certain rail-
road land grants. The bill cancels all grants
of land I'd railroad companies which have
made little effort to complete their tracks
within the time specified. Mr. Logan delivered
three hours speech in opposition TO the Eitz
John Porter bill In the House, bills were
introduced 70 transfer the revenue cutter
service to the Navy Department, and to
limit TO one year the presentation of claims
by States for moneys expended in suppress
ing Indian hostilities. Bills were passed: To
place tobacco exported by rail on the same
footing az that sent to Europe by sea, and to
permit Canadian farmers TO have grain
ground at mills ON this side of the border.
Mr. Logan finished his argument In the
Fitz John Porter case on the Sd inst, and q
motion for an indefinite postponement was
lost-2S TO 20--Mahone and Cameron, OF
Pennsylvania, voting with the Democrats.
A number of petitions were presented for a
constitutional amendment to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors
A statement from the Commission
er of Internal Revenue estimated the
amount required TO refund taxes
on tobacco and matches Mt s36,0So Tl6
In the House, a telegram was presented
from the ST Louis Mercantile Exchange,
. KING the Immediate passage OF the Bonded
Whisky bill The Army Appropriation bill
was taken up in committee of the whole,
and Mr. Brownies amendment for the
gradual abolition Of the pay corps was
adopted sharp debate took place over
the statement by Mr.. Hiscock that the
Democrats Mt the last session left deficiencies
in the appropriations amounting to ST.
0O00OQ
The West Point Appropriation bill was
passed by the Senate on the 4th inst Mr..
Morrill, reported the House bill to reduce In
tcrnal-revenue taxation, with an amendment
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12
LATER NEWS ITEMS

Dickson, who was foreman of the
jury in the recent star-route trials at Wash
ington, has been held in 81, 500 to appear be-
fore the Grand Jury for embracery.
+. b. Gowen was reelected Presi-
dent of the Reading road, vanderbilt's agent
giving him 20, 900 votes
Thomas Donahue, farmer of Will
JAMESTOWN, Mass, has petitioned to be placed
in a lunatic asylum, on account of a burning
desire to kill somebody.
A dividend of % per cent has been
made by the Tribune Association of New
York. 1t appears that Whitelaw Reid and
his relatives own 143 shares out of 200 The
incumbrance on the new building is only
100000
The canal within the limits Of Cincin-
natl has been declared n nuisance and q
bill will be reported in the Legislature TO
sell that portion of the bed, which is valued
at 81, 0o0,0o and reserve the proceeds as
fund to keep the canal system in repair.
What was known as the Telegraph
block in Detroit, on the corner of Griswold
and Congress streets, was ruined by fire At
the first alarm twenty-five employees of the
Western Union Company found their means
Of escape cut off, but all were fortunate
enough to reach the ground by the firemen's
ladders
Sagasta has formed n new ministry
for Spain, with Gen Martinez Campos as
Minister of War
GILES, Vienna journalist, was
charged by the German Government with
insulting Bismarck, and his extradition was
demanded, but the Austrians decided not to
grant the request
Marshall W. Polk. the defaulting
State Treasurer of Tennessee, was captured
at San Antonio Tex but as there was no
body on hand ready to swear that he had
been guilty of an offense against the laws he
was released and Immediately started for
Mexico.
Capt. W. 2. Black, independent can
didate for Congress in the Third Illinois
district, has abandoned his recently begun
contest against the Hon George r. Davis
The Madison Square company APP
pears this week at Mcvicker's Theater.
Chicago, in ~The I$ofessor,' highly anus
ing play that has enjoyed big run in the
Eastern cities There are sixteen prominent
characters in the story, and a large band of
auxiliaries-young ladies and gentlemen
to represent seminary girls and college
students, whose chief duty is to look pretty
and dashing and to sing college choruses
Mr.. W. H. Gillette, the author of the play,
personates the Professor, and Is supper ted
by an excellent company
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12
POLITICAL POINTS.

Gen. Joseph Wheeler Oem.) was
elected for the unexpired term in the Forty
seventh Congress from the Eighth Alabama
district, defeating Mcclellan, the Independ-
ent candidate
j. ID. Taylor, Republican, was elected
to Congress az the successor of the late ]. T.
Updegraff, in the Seventeenth Ohio district
Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts, in his
inaugural message, recommends that all
votes at elections be inclosed in self scaling
envelopes of the same appearance The
Legislature is asked to make death the Pen
atty for the act of attempting to wreck a
railway train
Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks has suffi-
GENTLY recovered strength to write for the
Indiana Democratic Editorial Association
his views of the political situation
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The standard silver dollars in circu-
lation Jan. 1, 1889, numbered 80, 79l, o43 The
LIST of January, 1883, the amount was s3S,-
Cos, 1928
The Treasury Cattle Commission asks
for s2oo, 600 to stamp out the lung plague
and reopen the British markets to American
beeves
A committee of the House of Repre-
eentatives has ascertained that the clerk of
the Supreme Court had n net income of $50
600 last year. A recommendation for rea-
sonable salary will be made.
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The Utility OF Drunkenness.

Darwin shows that the onward pro
gress, the development, or what may
De described as the collective prosper.
ity of the species, is brought by over.
multiplication, followed by a necessary
struggle for existence, in the course OF
which the inferior or unsuitable indi-
viduals are weeded out, and "the sur
vival of the fittest" necessarily follows
these superior or more suitable speci-
mems transmit more or less of their adj
vantages TO their offspring, which, still
multiplying excessively, are again and
again similarly sifted and improved or
developed in a boundless course of
forward evolution.
In the earlier stages of human exist
ence, the fittest for survival were those
whose brutal or physical energies best
enabled them to struggle with the ply
steal difficulties of their surroundings,
to subjugate the cruelties of the pri-
meval plains and forests to human re-
quirements. The perpetual struggles
of the different tribes gave the domin-
ion of the earth to those best able to
rule it; the strongest and most violent
human animal was then the fittest, and
he survived accordingly.
Then came another err of human eff
fort gradually eliminating in the pres
ent period. In this, mere muscular
strength, brute physical power and
mere animal energy have become less
and less demanded as we have, by the
aid of physical science, imprisoned the
physical forces of nature in our steam
boilers, batteries, etc, and have made
them our slaves in lieu of human pris-
oners of war. The coarse, muscular
raving, yelling, fighting human animal
that formerly led the war-dance, the
hunt and the battle, is no longer the
fittest for survival, but is, on the con-
trary, daily becoming more and more
out of place. His prize-fghts, his dog
fights, his cock-pits and bull-baiting
are practically abolished, his fox-hunt-
ing and bird-shooting are only carried
on at great expense by wealthy resi-
dunn, and by damaging interference
with civilized agriculture. The unfit
ness of the remaining representatives
of the primeval savage is manifest, and
the survival is purely prejudicial to the
interests and future progress of the
race.
Such being the case, we now require
some means of eliminating these coars-
er, more brutal, or purely animal spec
linens of humanity, in order that there
may be more room for the survival and
of the more intellectual.
more refined, and altogether distinct
lively human specimens. 1t is desirable
that this should be effected by some
natural or spontaneous proceeding of
self-extinction, performed by the ami
NAL specimens themselves. If this
self-immolation can be process that is
enjoyable in their own estimation, all
the objections to it that might other
wise be suggested by our feelings of
are removed.
Now, these conditions are exactly
by the alcoholic drinks of the
present day when used for the purpose
of obtaining Internationally Mdttieu
Williams, ip Popular Science Month
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12
FOREIGN NEWS.

Gambetta's death is attributed to the
unnatural stoppage of the suppuration of
the wound in his hand, which was effected
by the physicians upon command of the pa
tent, who was anxious TO appear in public
The post-mortem showed that there was no
bullet wound in the abdomen The fortune
of the deceased is placed at 49, 600 francs
Biggar, member Of Parliament, was
committed for trial at Waterford Ireland,
on the charge of high treason, for utter
ances in a recent speech Bail was ac-
cepted
An ex-suspect named McDermot was
committed for trial at Sligo for declaring that
innocent blood had been shed by partisan
Judges and drunken jurors
While three emergency bailiffs were
approaching Upper Cross, County Tipperary,
going for provisions, they were attacked by
some peasants and a struggle ensued The
bailiffs fired Mt their assailants, killing one
named Gleason and wounding some others
Five of the attacking party were arrested
At Dublin Delaney, for alleged con-
spiracy TO murder Justice Lawson, was SEN
fenced to ten years penal servitude.
The Rev. Titus Coan, "the Apostle
of the Sandwich Islands," died at Hilo, at
the age of 81.
John Sheridan, an ex-suspect living
at Ballinamore, County Leitrim, and a
farmer residing at Bradford, County Clare
were murdered
The Chief Secretary for Ireland and
priest of Donegal visited twenty families
in one parish, and found not a morsel Of
food.
Edwin Booth has arrived in Berlin,
and will probably accept an engagement
Clemenceau, who is regarded as the
successor of Gambetta in France, once resid-
ed in this country, and practiced medicine
in New York city He is said TO be n man OF
great natural ability, but is lacking in polish
and brilliancy of parts
A man and his wife starved to death
walls in many sections.
The documents relative to Benjamin
Franklin owned by Harry Stevens, of Lon
don, have been purchased by the United
States Government
Gen. Chanzy, one of Frances most
distinguished men, has closed his earthly
career
The funeral of M. Gambetta, at
Paris was the OCCASION Of one of the most
imposing pageants witnessed in modern
times The remains OF the dead states
man were escorted TO the cemetery by a
procession estimated at 800, 600 persons, and
the procession was witnessed by Paris
and suburbs, who had gathered along the
line Of march, some of them many
hours before Twenty regiments of the
garrison were stationed along the route.
Every Ambassador was present, and sent his
carriage to join the cortege. At the entrance
TO Pere la Chaise orations were delivered by
eight leading spirits Reinade, an intimate
friend of Gambetta, declared that death
arose from an accident in handling pistol,
and that the woman mentioned as an assas-
sin nursed Gambetta devotedly for thirty
four days
Over ZOO houses were washed away
in Frankenthal, Germany, by the recent
overflow in the Rhine, and sixty persons
were drowned
A bloody fight occurred between
Albanian and European members of the po-
lice force at Alexandria
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12
Abandon the Old Idea.

Let the idea be abandoned, as Dr.
Draper says, that girls education is
to be completed before she is Is or 20
years of age; let the veneering process
of fashionable schools and the cram
ming methods of normal colleges give
place to courses more simple and thor
ough, let woman have chance to pro-
cure an education in the same manner
that man can, and all complaints as to
her health being injured will be no
more heard.-Sprinltield Republican,.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12
Statement of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency.

statement OF the comptroller OF the Cur
rency.
The following is the statement OF the
Comptroller of the Currency, showing the
amounts of national bank notes and of legal
tender notes outstanding at the dates of
the passage of the acts of June 20, 1874,
Jan IA 1875 and May 81, 1873, together with
the amounts outstanding Jan. l, 1888, and
the increase or decrease:
NATIoNAL~BANK NOTES.
Amount outstanding June 90 1874 .S34o, 1874, 1872
Amount outstanding Jan. IA, 1875. 351 1861, 450
Amount outstanding May 81, 1878 -, 800, '55, 965
Amount outstanding at date. 361 gu AGO
Increase during the last month. $50. l2',291
Increase since Jan. !, / 80. ........... 437, $50
LEGAL-TENDER NOTES.
Amount outstanding Ju 20, 1871. $3.50 oOO, 900
Amount outstanding Jan. Il, 1875 -. $50 00O, 900
Amount retired under a { of Jan. Ii,
1877, e. MAY 81, III ................ 35,31s, oS4
Am mt outstanding on and since May
81, 1878 ..,.......... s4ees1, ole
Amount on deposit with the Treasurer
OF the United States TO redeem notes
OF insolvent and lquidating banks
and banks retiring circulation under
act of June 20, is 4.................. 99,e4o,s15
Increase in deposit during the last
month ........................ 1884
Increase In deposit since Jan 1882. 10404, 1873
sCirculation Of national gold banks not included
In he above, $729.7G9.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12

A CONVENTION of Baptist preachers
was held at Pittsboro, n c., a few days
ago. On the opening day two young
clergymen we're married, and after the
ceremony the bridegrooms appeared be-
fore the committee of arrangements to
be assigned TO temporary "homes" in
Pittsboro. The waggish members of
the committee, learning that the breth-
rem had been married that morning, as
signed the brides TO home at one end
of the town and their husbands to q
home at the other end.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12

The Nickel-Plate road elected full
board of Vanderbilt directors, who chose ].
H. Devereux President
Michael Rourke was executed at Mil
ton, Ont, for the murder twelve months
ago Of Patrick Maher, aged s. and Bridget
Maher, his daughter, 80 years old
The American expedition sent to the
Cape of Good Hope to take observations of
the transit of Venus has arrived in England
with 236 photographs
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12
The Schools.

/ dislike TO say anything against the
public schools; but see, in its present
development, that the best is linked
with the worst; the growth with the de-
cay and the decay will overcome. /
have thought that the fathers and moth
ers enter too little into the life of their
children. A baby is taken from the
cradle and turned over to the care of q
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

Near Little Rideau, Canada, r. W.
Cooke, his wife, eldest daughter and son
George were murdered by hired man The
assassin seriously wounded two other child
dren.
The bark Star of the West, from
New York for Bremen, was lost at sea, the
officers and crew, fifteen in number, perish
ing.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12

A PHILADELPHIA newspaper qualities
it's assertion that it takes liz time for
a man to obtain social footing in that
city by adding: Still, money is not a
bad credential. Decent fellows with
bags of coin may pass the inner doors
without knocking very hard
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12

WHEN Oscar Wilde first saw Niagara
Falls he exclaimed: Bulk, but no
beauty" When little Detroit boy
first saw the sublime cataract he sol
EMMY whispered: mamma, feel like
taking my hat off to God" That is the
difference between embryo idiocy and
an embryo Observation-Disclosures
Neics.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12

schoolmaster aud into book before it
gets over winking from surprise. Stand
ing a boy upon end, like sausage, and
stuffing him full of facts is not the best
way TO make men.-Aibion W. Tour
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12

An English paper says the Queen OF
Greece keeps a lap-dog. 1t is not
known in what court the King will file
his petition for divorce.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-01-12

THE New Haven Register knows Of
one dramatic paper which it believes to
be sincere and honest. Please don't
mention the name. We don't want to
see you laughed into lunatic asylum.
Detroit Free Press.
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CEDAR KEY, Fla, ships 10000 fish
per week
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PUBLIC TREASURY.

Monthly Statement of the National Debt.
The following is a reoapitulation OF the
debt statement issued on the I'd inst:
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-24
cone for the Ladies' -

The movement which was inaugurated a
few years ago OF electing ladies to the school
board has proven so successful that the
scheme is now being adopted in seven wards
OF the city, 1t was first done in the Thir.
teenth ward where Mrs. Harriet Paist was
chosen. The first reforms she instituted
were no smoking in the board.r room and no
elevation OF the heels OF members on par
with their heads. The Twenty-ninth ward
followed and elected Mrs. ]. p. Mumtord
and Mrs. DR.. Bodley to its board. This
year other wards have followed the exam
pie, ard Mrs Clarissa J. Dye, wife of the
chief of the reglstery bureau of the Sur
yey department, has been named in the
First ward. Mrs. Elizabeth l.. Bladen a
well'known writer has been named in the
Fourth ward. Mr.. William McMullin
whose interest in popular education has al
ways been directed to the most approved
methods, was one OF her strongest supper
tiers. a, Bergen has been named in the
Ninth ward, Mrs. Harriet Paist, who won
her laurels as the pioneer of the women's
movement will come before the Twentieth
ward electors Tor their sutirages, Mrs S. b.
Mitchell II widow, and Miss Murdoch, a
teacher ofelocution, will confront the mixed
clements Of the Twenty-iourth ward. DR..
Ella Ridgway claims attention in the Twen-
ty-titth ward, and Mrs. II. IL. Souder, and
Mrs. Divine will have their names sub.
United TO the voters OF the Twenty sixth
ward. Experience has proven, so tar as the
ladies' are concerned, that they are most
formidable competitors. Nearly every
man who comes up to vote says: I'm put
one in for the women, anyhow The re-
suit has uniformly been that the ladies
have polled the largest vote ard the men
are left TO struggle among themselves
Philadelphia Record, February u.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-24
He Understood IL

A woman who got aboard the eastern.
bound train on the Detroit, Lansing &
Northern at Howell the other day was &C.
companed by big dog, and after the
train moved out passenger walked back
to the stove and asked ofthtee or four young
men sitting around there:
Can any of you talk to deaf and dumb
person by signs?"
al can, though I'm out OF practice" re.
piled one.
Very well, wish you'd go and ask
that woman over there il she expects
friends to meet her in Detroit"
The young man walked up to her, tapped
her on the shoulder TO attract attention,
ami began series of gyrations with his
fingers which attracted the eyes OF every
passenger in the car. The womans ewes
opened and her Jaw fell with establishment,
but after minute or two she colored up as
red as beet and called out,
Yes, I've got my dog under the seat and
If you mean that you II tell the conductor
on me | mean that I'll hire some one to
pitch you into snow drift If | have TO
mortgage my farm ~
The deaf and dumb language chopped oil
right there.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-24
The Archbishop of Canterbury

Although appointed by her majesty, DR..
Benson did not become archbishop Of
Canterbury until January %, on which day
the chapter of Canterbury cathedral gath.
cred in the cathedral library, and in strict.
est privacy performed the quaint ceremony
which has been regularly observed in elect.
ing every archbishop since the time of
Henry VIII. The dean announced the
purpose Tor which the chapter had been
called, read the congo 'elire, accompanied
by the letter recommendatory from her
majesty, and voiumiuous formula requir.
ing the chapter TO elect the right Rev.
DR.. Benson, bishop of Truro, as archbishop
OF Canterbury. The chapter then proceeded
to the election, each member voting sepa.
rately on paper, the royal request being
observed by the unanimous vote Of the
chapter. Two official notifications of the
proceedings were then prepared, one for
the crown and one for the archbishop, set.
ting forth that DR.. Benson was elected
archbishop, A record of the proceedings
was then read and signed by the chapter
and four witnesses. A thanksgiving poal
was rung on the cathedral bells at the
close OF the chapter, and the dean an
nounced the election to the congregation al
the cathedral in the afternoon when a spe
c'al Tie Deum was sung.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-24
THE EFFECrs OF PRoHIBIrIoN
Abstinence Not Promoted by Le.islatiy,
Enactment.


II is always an interesting social question
whether temperance or intemperance is
making the most Roadway in the several
states. Any 6gsres bearing upon the sub.
Jet are ap, to be uckly utilized by some
alleged temperance reformers If they favor
tho issue they make. The data upon which
the claim Is based that ia.emperance is ON
the decrease under license laws they take
good care not TO commend. And this leads
to brief consideration of some interesting
figures iurnishedbya census bulletin, which
gives the total number of liquor saloons in
the several states for the years 1881 and
1882
II is noticeable that In many of the
southern states the number OF saloons has
decreased since lSSl, and this decrease has
been under license laws. The prohibition.
lists, however, will probably jubilantly refer
TO the TACT that In Ohio and Arkansas there
has been very substantial decrease. but
the prohibitionists of Indiana where the de
crease is only three saloons) aud of Iowa,
Nevada and Oregon, have not caused a re.
duction OF very alarming proportions, when
IL Ia remembered that for almost every
saloon thay have closed two or three prl.
vate ones have been promptly started for
thirsty individuals. Some Of these
western states are having the same
experience which Massachusetts has had
with prohieitory legislation. They are
closing some public bars but private ones
are thriving, and no substantial progress Is