The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-12-01
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to the charges made against his sister.
Foreign.
IT is stated that negotiations are nearly
concluded for the sale of the Atlantic tele-
graph cable to the British government.."..
On the tete day of the ex-empress of the
French, a large deputation from Bath, Eng
land, proceeded to Chiselhurst, where they
offered their congratulations TO her ma esty.
THE steamer City of Brooklyn ran into
and sank the steamer Idea, in the Mersey,
and one officer of the latter was drowned.
..".. Disraeli has been elected lord rector of
the University of Glasgow, over Prof. John
Ruskin, who was also nominated for the
honor. Much excitement has been created
in the Spanish Cortes by Il speech from Senior
Figueros adverting to the REIMBURSEMENT by
Spain of San Domngo...... Advices from
Africa say that on the west coast the people
are dying off from smallpox like rotten
sheep.
A TREMENDOUS explosion occurred in the
colliery at Wigan at a late hour on Wednes
day. The explosion was heard in the coun-
try around for several miles, and much
alarm was felt. Fortunately the disaster
occurred after the working gangs had with
H.,
appalling. Six men were killed, and proba-
bly, one or two more will be found. The
cause Of the explosion is unknown......M More
than 800 lives were lost at Macao during the
typhoon of Sept. 2.... 1t is said that the Pope
intends to address communication to the
European powers, protesting against certain
acts as violations of international law, and
the rights and dignties of the countries con-
cerued. He will specify, among other acts,
the expulsion of nuns from converts, and
the torcible suppression and closing of GER
tain international religious houses.."..A
dispatch from Constantinople reports that
there were $50 cholera deaths there last
week THE new Governor of Yokohama
has entertained the foreign consuls at
dinner and made radically progressive
speech.
THE German Reichstag is engaged in the
consideration of the coinage bill. A vote
was taken upon a proposition to place the
efligy of the Emperor William npon all new
coins, instead of those of the Princes of re-
spective countries comprised in the Empire,
and it was decided in the negative by con-
siderable majority 1.-THE court-martial at
London in the case of the wreck of her Ma
jesty's ship Megera has closed its delibera-
tons, and rendered verdict fully acquitting
the captain, officers and crew.....A dispatch
from Rome states that the Pope consents to
the conservation of the Church of st. Suare,
which he had hitherto refused because the
church was the private property Of King
Victor Emanuel.
THE trial of parties accused of the assas-
sination of Gems. Thomas and Lecompte has
ended. Nineteen prisoners were pronounced
guilty. Verdeguire and seven others were
sentenced to suffer death one to imprison-
ment for life at hard labor, and ten to va
rious terms of confinement...".T The reorgani-
cation of the French army is making rapid
progress. By the end of the year the
strongest strategic positions on the eastern
frontier will be occupied by completely re-
constructed and thoroughly equipped corps
de arme.....Duc d'Harcourt, the French
Ambassador to the Papal court, states that
the Pope has expressed his intention of
leaving Rome when a bill is passed con-
vening the Italian Parliament in that city.
John Critic, secretary of the Total Abst-
hence Society, of Brxhan, England, publicly
accuses the Queen of intox ication The
charge causes a great uproar, and the local
authorities have commenced legal proceed
ings against the man who made it, cunt
Chambord contradicts the reports that he in
tends to surrender his hereditary right TO the
throne of France..... There are great com
plants of disorganizaton in the public de-
partments of Turkey. The Sultan's orders
requiring economy in the administration of
public affairs arc misinterpreted and not sat
isactorly carried out. Harmony does not
prevail in the Cabinet, and a crisis is looked