The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-09-06
Foreign.

Foreign.
1t is announced that Pope Plus TX. is to seek
an asylum in Belgium, and that arrange
ments to that end are now being consum-
mated.
There is a bread famine in Dublin, caused
by strike among the journeyman bakers.
The Belfast riots have been finally queled
but not until recourse was had to the military.
The troops charged the rioters, killing and
wounding many of them.
Brazil and the Argentine Confederation have
adjusted their little difficulty, and all fears of
war have disappeared
A splendidly equipped band of engineers
recently started out from Rio Janeiro for the
purpose Of locating the proposed Brazilian
railroad to. the Pacific for the construction
of which English capitalists are to furnish the
funds.
The weather in Switzerland is unprecedent-
edy warm. The heat at times has been almost
imbearable, and it is said that the cattle even
retire at daybreak to the stables, to avoid the
intense heat of the suns rays.
The Toronto Leader reiterates the statement
deavorlng to enlist recruits, notwithstanding
its denial by the Cuban Adjutant General at
New York.
Frederick Brewster, an American, and
Count de Salla, an Italian noblemaD, fought
duel short time ago, at Leghorn, Italy.
The weapons used were pistols, and the
Italian was killed at the first fire. Brewster
was unframed, and subsequently fled from
Leghorn.
It's announced from London that Gladstone
& Co., large East India and China merchants,
have failed. Their liabilities are stated TO be
10000, 900.
The Emperor of Russia assures President
Theirs that the Berlin convocation Of crowned
heads is not aimed at France.
The Prince of Wales, on his recent visit to
Trouville, the great French watering place,
was cordially received by TLiers, and the two
promenaded the beach together
The sessions of the International Statistical
Congress were opened in st. Petersburg, with
solemn and impressive ceremonies, by the
Grand Duke constantine, on the 22d of Au-
gust.
All the Mexican revolutionary leaders except
Cadena have accepted the amnesty offered
them That chief, however, has been cap
tured, and the revolution may be said to be
practically ended. The new President has ne
gotiated a loan of S50OOO0, which shows
marked Improvement i'll the credit of that UNI
fortunate country, being the first loan she has
been able to obtain for many years.
Over quarter of million dollars worth
of property was destroyed by the Belfast Gre
land) rioters.
The last news from the South African dia-
mond fields is of very favorable character,
The precious stones continue TO pan out
without any apparent diminution in the yield.
Alexis, at last accounts, had arrived at Cape
town, South Africa, en- route for the East
Indies.
The Lancet, the well-known British medical
journal, speaks in high praise of the hygienic
arrangements of the American fleet recently
anchored at Southampton.
A Santiago de Cuba correspondent writes
that the Spanish regulars and volunteers are
III open hostility, that they curse and abuse
each other roundly, that everything forbodes
complete bankruptcy, and predicts that great
events will happen before the 10th of October.
The cause of the revoutionsts never looked
so bright, and it is evident that the grasp of
spain on the Queen of the Antilles is gradually
and surely slackening.
An American named Hopkins has been con-
victed, in the South African diamond fields, of
stealing precious stones, and sentenced to two
vears' iunrisonmeut
The cable continues to send rumors of plots
and counterplots in Spain, but no outbreak
has yet taken place. 1t is said the Carlists in
the northern provinces are organizing for a
formidable instruction.
The English railways are about to abolish
all class carriages.
Mitchell, Ontario, has had 800, 900 fire.
Havana, Cuba, is overrun with scoundrels
and murders and robberies are constantly
committed, the police being powerless.
The Cuban insurgents are said to be mass
ing all their forces for grand movement
against the Spanish troops at Cinco Villas.
All is quiet once more in Belfast, and the
large reinforcements of troops that we're sent
there have returned home.