The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-16
Foreign Gossip.


THERE are a hundred publications il.
Melbourne, Australia.
AN exchange tells US that political
prisoners in Russia receive nothing but
bread and water, except by the special
permission of the Emperor.
FREIpRIcH SPIELHAGEN, the German
novelist, has declined an offer to become
editor-in chief of a German newspaper
published in st. Louis.
| FRIrz REUTER-, the. Low German
novelist, was recently offered patent
of nobility by the Emperor William of
Germany, but declined it.
The German feet, when the ships
| actually commenced are completed, will
number sixty-two vessels fit for service,
and mount five hundred guns.
A VOLUNTEER at Wimbledon, shooting
for the Queens prize the other day,
made the remarkable score of five con.
secutive bull's.eyes at 200 yards.
IT seems to have become matter for
notoriety that Baron Won Rhaden, hus-
band of Pauline Lucca, the Berlin can
tarice, has gambled away two hundred
dollars during the last seven years.
LOUIS ULBAcH, the Partisan journalist,
has been sentenced to four months inn.
prisonment for having written in his
newspaper, La Cloche, that 4" Rochefort's
condemnation did more honor to him
than to his judges"
A COMPANY has been formed in Eng
land, with capital of f500, 600, for re-
opening and working the silver mines
of Bolivia, particularly those of Potosi
and Caracoles, which are famous for
their wealth and apparent inexhasti-
bility.
IRON in vast quantities and of excel
eat quality is found in British India.
The Indian Mail says that the steel now
wrought in Clutch may vie in beauty of
flush and excellence of temper with the
best productions of Sheffield and Glas-
gov; that iron was lately turned out
from rude furnace erected in the hills
near Simla, superior to that obtained
from Glasgow and Merthyr Tydvil at
seventy shillings English per ton. For
sixty miles along the base of the lower
Himalayas extends rich iron-bearing
country, while the materials for smelt-
ing the ore lie close at hand in the slope
of hard timber. The iron-bearing tract
near Simla covers two hundred square
miles, and yields malleable ore like
that of Sweden.
The opposition of Bismarck which |
has developed itself so bitterly toward |
the Papal election, is explained by the |
late advices from Prussia. 1t is there |
known that the Cardinals have already |
chosen successor to the present Pope
Cardinal Patrizzi. He was one Of the |
prime instigators of the Ecumenical |
Council, and is a personal enemy of |
both Bismarck and Victor Emanuel. 1t |
is said that his succession will prevent |
the perfecting of the civil government |
of Italy, while it would carry confusion |
and discord into Germany. Bismarck's |
choice is Cardinal Hohenlohe, and the |
conflict is likely to be serious one.
The Spanish correspondent of the
Pail Mall Gazette says that we, the Ameri- |
cans, are anything but popular just now |
with Spain. In one of the Mediter-
ranean ports, where several of our men,
of-war chance to be lying, our officers
and men are at the lowest ebb of favor. |
And he cites as significant fact" that |
none of them 60 ashore except in full |
uniform. The Home Government
has one way of viewing the disturbances
now going on in Cuba, and our soldiers
have another; indeed, they have been
heard to say that under certain favor
able conditions Cuba is bound to
beat"-which view of the subject can
not fail to be distasteful to the Cuban
hating Spaniards.