The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-01-13
Foreign.

OF attempting 10 leave the city when arrested, |
says he went to Jersey City for the purpose
of arranging his obligations to the firm.
Foreign.
A decree has been issued at Madrid i'm.
posing penalties upon the press for attacks
upon the Royal family and constitutional
monarchy, and instituting tribunal COM
posed of three Judges in each of the Royal
Courts to try newspaper of1enses.
royal degree is promulgated in Spain
convoking the Cortes February Is. Depu-
ties and Senators are to be elected by uni
versal suffrage on this occasion ouly, the
election to commence on the 10th of January
in Spain. The decree further provides that
the towns in Bscay and Navarro free from
hostile factions, shall elect Deputies and
Senators for the parts of those provinces |
occupied by the enemy.
The Canadian governme It has been mott
fled that the Surveys of the Canadian and
Pacific Railway, from opposite ends of the
route, have been connected. The connection |
is in latitude $50 s. SO" north, longitude |
1130 q 45' west. These surveys, by accurate
instrumental measurements, are the first of |
the kind that have ever been made between |
the Atlantic and Pacific within the limits of |
the Dominion.
A London Standard Madrid special says
the decree convoking the Cortes declares
that the programme of the Ministryis based
upon connivation policy, but rejects i'm
practicable theories of religious intolerance.
1t was to be submitted Immediately after
the assembling of the Cortes. Vigorous ef-
forts to restore order in Cuba are promised.
The decree declares that all may participate
in the elections except the declared foes of
the dynasty and the monarchy. The de-
clarations of the Government have created
very favorable impression.
The note drawn up by Count Andrassy,
Austrian Premier, relative to reforms in
Tdrkey, has received the approval of Russia,
and is understood to have been dispatched
to guaranteeing powers. The note proposes
the equality OF all religious denominations,
and the introduction of provincial and COM
munal selfgovernment, and that the first
results of these changes in the insurgent
provinces shall be the imposition of taxa
ton by the provinces themselves, and the
abolition OF serfdom.
Archduke Rudolph has been made King
of Hungary. A Vienna dispatch says the
reason for his coronation as King of Hun
gary is that the Hungarian Government has
resolved to make a great demonstration of
loyalty, by which it hopes to gain the sup.
port of the Imperial Court in the pending
negotiations with Austria relative to the re-
vision of relations between the two halves
of the empire. The feeling in Vienna is
very bitter. All journals declare complete
separation of Austria and Hungary is prefera-
BILE to compliance with Hungary's demand
for forced circulation of Hungarian bank
notes in Austria, and bankruptcy. which
would inevitably ensue. The trouble may
lead to the resignation of the entire Cis
Lothian Cabiner, of which Prince Amers-
berg is President.
Mrs. Thomas, or Thomassen, widow of the
Bremerhaven dynamite assassin, has deliv-
cred to the Berlin police her husbands vo-
luminous correspondence.
The Cologne Gazette remarks that the
American attempt at Intervention in Cuba is
singularly ill-timed. The European govern
AiSheo VIII UeCduSc lu6y
wish, in the interests of order, to see King
Alfonso's authority more firmly established.
A monster procession, composed of trades
unions, orders, and citizens generally,
turned out in Dublin, Ireland, on January
6, to witness the unveiling of a statue of
Grafton on College Green, in front of the
old Parliament House.
The Paris Presse has received information
of terrible landslide in the Isle Reunion
on December II. Sixty-two persons were
killed and many injured. Buildings and
plantations were destroyed.
The American schooner Jefferson Borden,
has been towed into Aberdeen disabled. She
was sixty-seven days out from Booth Bay for
Gloucester, England, and the crew were fam
ishing and unfit for duty. Their ration was
ca, cupfu each per day.
London dispatch of January s, says that
a large barque, name unknown, was ashore
all day on the Shipwash sand, ten miles east
of Harwich, under circumstances similar to
those of the Deutschland. Twelve men
were seen on board. Boats were unable to
her during the day. A tug left
HarwiCh at midnight to go to her assist
anCe.