The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-11-15
Foreign GOssIp.


LORD MAssEY's country seat at Linn
erick, Ireland, was recently DESTROYED
by fire, involving loss of $4,000.
The Bishop of Gloucester, whose sal
airy is $500 a week, expresses the opin-
ion that any man who pronounces the
agricultural laborers of England under
paid should be ducked in a millpond.
The said laborers receive about $3.50 q
week on an average.
Pooh Poland is suffering worse than
ever. The income tax which the land
ed proprietors are obliged TO pay is %
per cent of everything, and, in addition
to this, heavy impositions have been
laid for the benefit of the orthodox
churches. Surveyors are marking off
plats Of land which are to be coded to
the Government without compensation,
as glebelands.
Mr.. WAsHBURNE reports Paris but lit
tie changed. A few public monuments
are missed, he says; but the public
buildings destroyed are being rapidly
replaced. He thinks Communist
troubles are not likely to recur. In his
opinion, the French people will get on
well enough if they are let alone. They
are intelligent and industrious, and
there is no reason why they should not
be able to govern themselves in salts
factory manner.
The famous Maelstrom, which has
been the scene of so many thrilling
stories, is in reality very tame affair,
and would never recognize itself in the
turbulent picture drawn by the roman
GERS pen. An English tourist, writing
OF it from Norway, says: Every year
hundreds of our countrymen row over
it, doubtless even battle In it, for except
at certain periods, and under certain
conditions of wind and tide, it is COM
paratively harmless.
On reference to late statistical re-
turns from Ireland, and comparing
them with those of last year, we find
there is decrease of "a $50 acres of
land under wheat, oats, barley, and
SOP under potatoes l,200 under
vetches; 1867 under flax, and 29,l
under meadow and clover. There is an
increase of 500 acres under beans 1000
under mangold and beets 1929 acres
under turnips; 1854 under cabbage;
With regard to stock, on comparison
with 1871 we find an increase of 2,659
horses, S0,7Sl cattle, 2S,6S2 sheep, and
a decrease of227 ,027 pigs.
EYGLIsHMEN are beginning to discover
the superior ouickness of the mail ser.
vice by way Of the United States over
the service by way of India and Suez.
The last mail for England, by way of
San Francisco, reached London from
Yokohama in thirty.six days, while the
y Yokohama mail via the Suez Canal was
tifty-three and one.half days reaching
its destination. The difference in favor
of the American route in two weeks and
half, and knowledge Of this fact has
induced parties in London having rela-
tons with Japan to direct the trans
mission OF adyices by way of the United
States.
A REVIVAL of the Dickens separation
and its attendant scandal is likely to be
brought about by Mr.. Foster, Dickens
accepted biographer. In his second
volume Of the great novelist's life he
touches upon that part of it which
caused so much misery to himself and
family, and in his devotion to Mr..
Dickens does not hesitate to throw the
burden of the blame upon Mrs. Dick
ems. To this her son Charles objects,
and insists that justice must be done his
mother as well as his father, and that
the truth must be told on both sides.
And as the press very willingly takes
up the story, the "whole truth" is
likely to be told, with perhaps trihe
added.