The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-04-17

Tho work still goes on in many Ohio towns
but with indifferent success as regards the
closing OF saloons
AT Worcester, Mass, tho work is being Wig
orously pushed.
The war has spread into Maine, and enthu
siastic temperance meetings are being held il
| Bangor and other towns.
The ladies of Milwaukee, Wis, are busily
engaged in the work of circulating pledges.
Temperance mass meetings are the order Of
the day in Chicago and Cincinnati
At Lafayette, Ind, the saloon-keepers al
refuse admittance to the ladies, and then
prayers are offered on the sidewalks.
The prayer movement has opened in Osh'
kosh Wis.
Large temperance meetings are being held
in Cedar Rapids and Dubuque, Iowa.
Foreign.
Livingstones funeral will take place al
Westminster Abbey, the British Government
defraying the expenses.
William Kaulbach, the eminent German
painter, is dead.
The dispatches from the seat of war in Spain
are still conflicting. Upward OF 10000 Re-
publicans and Carlists are concentrated within
the space of few square miles of Bilboa and
it is evident that decisive battle must soon
be fought.
Paris papers publish the full text of the
dispatch from the Austrian Premier, Won
Beust, to Prince Metternich, the Austrian
Minister at Paris, dated July, 1870, saying !:
I'VE consider the cause of France as our own
but the alliance of Russia and Prussia prevents
the armed intervention of Austria" Won
Beust advises Prince Metternich to suggest
that the good will of Italy may be obtained,
and the mediation of that Government in the
settlement of the Franco-P russan difficulty
secured, if France will permit the oc cupation
OF Rome by the Italians.
Serrano plan of operations against the
works Of the Carlists before Bilbao has been
pronounced impracticable by a council of war,
and has therefore been abandoned
The "blue blood" of England has taken
ample revenge for the annoyance and alarm
caused by the attempt to gobbe the vast
Tchborne estate The claimant was several
weeks ago convicted of perjury, and sentenced
to a long term of penal servitude, and now
like fate has befallen Jean Luie and Capt.
Brown, his two principal witnesses.
The German Government has accepted an
amendment proposed by the Liberal members
of the Reichstag, limiting the total strength
of the army to 401, 600 men, and the period Of
service to seven years.
Ia L 10 20
telegraphs that the distress from the famine
is increasing in Tirhoot. and that, according
to official estimates, 4, 573 900 persons are still
suffering from starvation.
The report comes from Spain that Marshal
Serrano has made overtures for peace to the
Carlists, which have been defantly rejected.
The French Government has practically
taken the position that it can do no wrong.
A circular has been issued prohibiting news-
papers from making attacks upon the septen-
nat and declaring that President McMahons
powers are ncontestible. The septennat, or
term for which the Presidents powers were
fixed, was a measure of questionable exped-
ency, and some Of the more independent of
the French papers were disposed to advocate
its repeal. But discussion of the measure
is prohibited, and Mcmahon must be permit
ted to exercise those powers uuquestioned.
The Ecclesiastical bills have passed the
upper house of the Austrian Parliament, and
all the Bishops have withdrawn from that
body
Hon. John Jay, United States Minister to
Austria, has sailed for home.