Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1874-03-21
OTHER LANDS.
Spain.

Spain.
Marshall Merrano with an army of
thirty-four thousand men, and ninety
pieces of artillery is now face to face with
a Carlist force of thirty-fi We thousand,
while General Iona, with a column
eight thousand strong, is moving on the
enemy's rear.
An Havana letter gives another ac-
count of the attack upon volunteers be-
tween Nuevitas and Puerto Principe. 1t
seems that upon the arrival of the first
band of volunteers at Nuevitas they
found the railroad leading to Purto Prin
cipe cut and attempted to March to the
latter place, when they were attacked by
the Cubans. losing twenty-five killed and
seventy-five wounded. The rest retired
to Nuevitas.
England.
Richard Assheton Cross, Secretary of
State for the Home Department has been
reelected TO Parliament without oppo-
sition.
One of the leading London dailies pub
fishes a laudatory obituary article on the
late Charles Sumner. Referring to the
! disputes between England and this
| country it says: 'sSumner was not able
to judge us dispassionately and we poss-
IDLY have not understood all the influ-
ences which made him apparently un-
lust. 1t is better we forget these differ
encies and remember the strong impulse
for good which first drew him from pri-
vate life to oppose that great national
wrong, slavery, and which in spite of
many weaknesses remained his guiding
principle even to the end.''
4 Russia.
Eighty thousand Mennonites have
packed their wearing apparel and house
hold traps, sold out their farms and fix
lures, and are on their way from Rus
sia to Canada and the United States.
The first detachment is coming by way
of Constantinople and the next will
take the Hamburger route. Five hun
dred families have arranged to settle on
the Canadian side of the line in the Red
River Valley, and nearly three times
that number will at the same time go to
Mennonite left in Rnssia. They are of
German origin, educated, industrious
and prosperous, and strict believels in a
peace policy, being sort of Quakers.
Their principle business in Russia was
wheat raising, they will probably carry
cause the Government cannot afford to
carry out its agreement to exempt them
from military service an i other imposi-
, tions repugnant to their principles.
Il Austria.
RI Austria and the Papacy are at logger.
+ heads, just as arc Germany and the
Pope. Until a few years ago, no conn
$ try in Europe was more completely un
t der the control of the Papacy than Aus
8 tria. The Concordat with the Pontifica
e Government gave very extensive powers
r to the Roman Catholic clergy in Austris
e Proper, but with the reorganization o
: the Empire in 1867 and 1868 these wer,
: all swept away by series of laws en-
most important of which-passed il
Is April, 1s6S-established civil marriag
g and the perfect equality of all religion
y creeds. The Pope has repeatedly pro
n tested against the abrogation of the Con
II cordat, but in vain, and the relief of tn
IS Empire from the incubus of the Papac
7. has tended to the intellectual improve
l. ment of the people. Schools have in
y creased in number and usefulness, an
ut illiteracy, which was all but universs
s. twenty years ago among the agricultul
c. al population, which form two-thirds {
I'D the inhabitants of the Empire, has bee
lie much reduced. Now the Reichsrath h:
ne before it series of ecclesiastical law
tie similar in spirit to those of German.
ld which will place the clergy under sti
ne greater subsection to the State. Again
lie these the Pope utters vigorous protes
T. writing to the Bishops to firmly oppo
n them and to the Emperor personal a
to peal to protect the Church in his d
p minions. Recent ecclesiastical even
ng in Germany bid fair to be reproduced
MS almost exact facsimile in Austri
he There is, however, this difference b
tween the two countries; Whilst in s
on Germany the Roman Catholics form b
ge little over half the entire popufatio
* and in Prussia but one third, the Rom;
it Catholics of the Austro- Hungarian FL
en- pire form sixty-six per cent, and tho
ng of Austria Proper over eighty per cer
er- of the whole population. 1t is easi
ra- for the German Emperor to set the
pacy at defiance than it is for the Au
aa friara En- To do