The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-05

at night by hordes of cannibals, who over
powered the crews, plundered the ships, scut-
tied them, carried the prisoners ashore and had
big feast of them.
A Dispatch from Quebec states that during a
recent gale and snow-storm in the Isle of Or
leans an accident occurred at st. Famille, by
which about twenty persons lost their lives
The people, who were principally residents Of
the island, were returning from market and
were being landed from steamer in a scow
which capsized, and all on board, with one ex-
cepton, were drowned.
Political.
The official vote Of Ohio at the October cleo
ton, as returned to the Secretary OF State
shows the following results for Governor and
Leutenant-Governor: Governor - Hayes,
297, S13 ; Allen, 1872, 264. Hayes majority,
5549. Lieutenant Governor Young, 1917 931
Cary, 87,96S. Young's majority, 1893.
The official canvass of the votes of Nebraska
at the recent election shows 40, 900 cast. The
new Constitution carries by nearly 25, 900. The
coupon leaving to the people the power OF To-
eating the capital has $500 majority. The
coupon giving the people power of expressing
preference for United States Senator has Il, 900
majority. The Republicans elect everything
excepting two District Judges and one District
Attorney.
Foreign.
Advices from Madrid deny the story of the
love affair and assassination in which the King
of Spain was represented as the principal actor.
council of physicians has declared that
Count Won Arnim is unable to bear the pro-
longed imprisonment TO which he has been
sentenced.
Emperor William in speech to the German
Parliament the other day, said that 80 far as
human judgment can discern, peace is more
assured than at any time during the twenty
years preceding the reconstruction OF the en-
pre-"
A London paper, in an ARTICLE on the cattle
plague, says the number of casesin England for
the quarter ending on the 10th Of October was
as follows In Somersetshire, $4,000 Cheshire,
| 50, 600; Dorsetshire, $4,000; Glouceetershire,
Al 600; Oxfordshire, $4,000; Warwickshire,
33, 900; Norfolk, $1,000; Cumberland, %, 600.
Throughout England and Wales there were for
some time over 100000 cases. The money
damage il estimated at $l,e00,e00.
The Carlist committee in London claims to
have news of a great Carlist victory in the
Province of Navarro, Spain.
dispatch from Berlin reports that Arch
bishop Ledochowski will be expelled from Ger
many AZ soon as his term of imprisonment ex-
pires.
England, the Hong Kong dispatches state,
still persists in her demands which the Chinese
government characterizes as "unjustifable and
indecent"
A Cairo dispatch says the Egyptian army has
entered Abyssinia, and that the Abyssinians
are retresting, Offering no resistance
News has been received of the British expe-
dition to punish piratical natives on the Congo
river in Africa, for numbering English sailors.
The entire squadron on the west coas: Of
Africa was engaged and sent boats up the
river. Many villages were destroyed and a
large number of natives killed. The British
lost one man killed and six wounded.
A force OF 1900 Turks has been badly routed
by insurgents in Herzegovina.
A battle Was recently fought between Liberian
troops and a large body Of native savages in
Africa, in which the former were totally routed,
with the loss of their artillery.
Sir John Gardner Wilkinson the eminent
English archeologist, il dead.
The ship Catherine Griffiths from Sander
land England, for Rio has been wrecked on
the Sicily Islands. Eight of her crew were
drowned.
The German missions to Italy have been
raised to embassies.
More heavy commercial failures are reported
from London.