The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-01-21

world, but the English ma lagGs will not agree
to this; whereupon Col. Gildersleeve promptly
telegraphs them to send on any sort OF team
they chose, bo the same English, Irish, Scotch,
or mixed.
The National Temperance Society has issued
a call for an International Temperance Con-
ference in Philadelphis, June IS, IA hitting
occasion to consider the relations of the tenn
perance reform, in its scientific, economic, in
tellectus, social, moral and religious aspects,
to individual and national life, its progress and
needs, and to invite the cooperation in its
deliberations of representatives of the cause OF
temperance from foreign countries.
Foreign.
We have melancholy news South Ameri-
ca. There we're thirty-seven earthquake shocks
in Peru on the 4th and 9Th of December, and
one town, Abancay, was entirely demolished
severe flood is also reported to have occurred
i'll Chill, the loss in property and damage in the
city OF Valparaiso alone amounting TO sl,-
| 500 900.
| The South American Republic OF Chill mas
taken step in advance OF the United States
Queen Victoria will visit Germany in April.
The Marquis Of Rpon the English nobleman
who recently embraced the Roman Catholic
faith has presented the Pope with fl0, 600
sterling.
A cable telegram reports that Russia is max
ing incessant and mysterious preparations for
the transportation of troops on a large scale
next spring on the Orenburg Railway and lines
running west from Moscow third track is
being added TO the line from Moscow to Polish
Iithuania. The work proceeds night and day.
Sir S. J. Gibbons, ex-Lord Mayor of London,
is dead.
The Egyptians have gained several important
successes in Abyssina.
Sorious discussions are reported among the
insurgent leaders in Herzegovina.
An armistice between Church and State has
been agreed upon in Germany.
II is rumored that Queen Victoria's coming
visit to Coburg Germany has reference to the
betrothal of the Princess Beatrice with Ger
man Prince.
A COnstantinople dispatch announces that
the powers have relinquished their intention of
making collective communication to the Porte
on the basis of Count Andrassy's scheme for
reform in the disafrected provinces. The Am
bassadors will now conGne themselves to oral
and friendly communications of counsel and
propositions to which the Porte is disposed to
listen.
John Lathrop Motley has been elected For
eign Associate of the French Academy of Moral
and Political Science.
4 Madrid dispatch reports that the Spanish
Government has sent out diplomatic note in
reply to the American circular on Cuban affairs.
The reply is quite belligerent in tone, and takes
high ground on all the questions raised by the
United States.
Elections for delegates to choose Senators
were held throughout France on Sunday, Jan.
16, and passed off quietly.
Germanys preparations for her display at
the Philadelphia Exhibition have been COM
pleted with the exception of appointment of
members of the German Jury and Compilation
of Catalogue.
The French Senatorial elections have re-
suited largely in favor of the Conservatives.
The Berlin police have discovered that
Thomas, the author Of the Bremerhaven
crime, was charged in 1866 with scuttling a
ship on board which he had goods insured in
England for e24, ZOO. He was arrested, but
subsequently effected his release.
Henry Marley the great English revvalist,
is dead
The commander of the China station tele-
graphs to the British Admiralty from Singapore
that the operations against the Malays have
been altogether successful.