The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-11-26

be paid TO become part OF the fund required in
the general plan to educate and ciyilize the
Sioux.
{ Nov. 10 reports that n body of Texas militia
! had followed band of Mexican cattle thieves
across tho Rio Grande and engaged them in
battle, killing four of them. The greatest ex-
element prevailed in consequence on both
sides of the river, and general war along the
Rio Grande in among the probabilities.
The banks of Washington, Baltimore and
Philadelphia have issued a circular urging
other banks to secure signatures to a petition
for Congress to repeal the law requiring the
Afixing of two-cent stamps on checks.
Foreign.
The Turks have gained a. important victory
over the insurgents in Bosnia
The letter which Don Carlos recently ad-
dressed to King Alfonso, mentioned heretofore,
did not make proposals for peace, but offered
to unite their forces and make common cause
against the United States should the Cuban
difficulties cause war between this country
and Spain.
The statement that the German Crown Prince
intended visiting this country next year is now
denied.
A Berlin dispatch says the German Catholic
priests are submitting to the ecclesiastical
laws.
The Spanish Gen. Quesada has been COM
manded, by royal order, to henceforth receive
no communication from Don Carlos, except an
announcement of the unconditional submission
of himself and his partisans.
The Prince of Wales has been very coolly re-
ceived in India by the native princes. Not a
single reception has been proffered by any one
of these in the Madras and Bengal Presiden-
cies. All the entertainments thus far have
been given by the English.
Madrid dispatches represent that the Car
lists are demoralized and exhausted and an
early close of the war is predicted.
The Italian Government has purchased all
the railways in Upper Italy, paying therefor
about s160 900, 600.
grand fete was given in Paris the other
day by the Franco-American Union, the object
being to give greater publicity to and extend
the subscriptions for the SCI ~ molu-
ment to Liberty in New h narbor. About
5000 people, including any distinguished
persons, were present, an great interest was
manifested in the project. The subscriptions
it is said are progressing favorably.
The London Times, discussing the Turkish
troubles, says: 1.-THE Sultan cannot save
Herzegovina. 1t is as fairly out of his grasp
as il destiny had settled it by conference be-
tween the powers. Peace can be brought only
by the extinction Of Turkish authority"
The coast OF England has been visited by an
other destructive gale. Fifteen or twenty
vessels were wrecked, and fifty or sixty lives
lost.
The Spanish Government has determined
that all foreigners who are to be tried in Cuba
for participating in the insuTection shall be
allowed to have counsel.
Francis ", Duke of Modena, who was dis
possessed in 1860, is dead.
A Berlin telegram says that in the negotia-
tons now proceeding for the settlement of the
troubles in the Turkish Provinces, the pro-
gramme put forward by Austria includes COM
paratively high degree Of self-government for
the Christian communities in Turkey. Russia
seems to demand only more faithful adhesion
to the promises of reform already made by the
Porte.