The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-01-20
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The next Union Republican National Con. |
vention for the nomination OF candidates
for President and Vice.President of the
United States will be held In the CITY OF
Cincinnati on Wednesday, l4th day OF June,
1876, at IL o'clock, noon, and will consist OF
delegates from each State equal to twice the
number of its Senators and Represe n tatives
10 Congress, and OF two delegates from each
organized Territory and the District OF
Columbia
Notes from ABROAD.
A train filed with military recruits ran off
the track near Odessa, Russia, and plunged
down an embankment. The wrecked cars
caught fire before all the men could be ex-
tricated, and many were burned to death.
The total number killed is sixty-eight, and
ffty.four are injured, several fatally The
Vienna correspondent of the London Times
announces that France has unreservedly &C.
cepted the Austrian note.......The Duke of
Norfolk, President of the Catholic Associa-
ton of Great Britain, calls for subscriptions
to aid the prosecuted German priests. The
Duke subscribes five thousand pounds, and
Cardinal Manning one thousand five hun
dred pounds.
A Paris dispatch says that N. Dufaure,
the Minister of Justice, has issued a circu-
lar to the Procurator General saying that
the new press law Is solely intended to re-
press violent language against, and secure
respect for the Constitution, aud is not to
touch the liberty of public discussion.
Magistrates are recommended not to under
take political prosecutions, as the act only
deals with ofenses punishable at common
law. The circular is very liberal and mod
crate throughOut......lt Is reported that when
the Egyptians recently occupied the town OF
Bravs, belonging to the Sultan of Zanzibar,
Mr.. Kirk, British Consul in Zanzibar, who
went to seek explanations, was obstructed
on entering the town by the Egyptian troops.
The commandant refused to apologize for the
insult. Mr.. Kirk accordingly threatened to
order up the British man .of.war Thetis, and
lombard the town. The Egyptian COM
mandant sent an apology to the Consul an
hour before notice of the bombardment ex-
pired. The lhetis had already taken up her
position, and was cleared for actiOn..... The
EpOcd, at Madrid, in reply to an article in
the London Times holding the Spanish Gov
ernment responsible for any injury done
British vessels by the Carlists, says Spain
can do nothing beyond Furnishing the au.
thors of damage to foreign s.ipping....-..
Seven OF the crew arrested for the mutiny
on the bark Lennie have been acquitted.
Seamen Vandernot and jolly have been de-
tanned in custody, and sent before tie Mar
atime Project for trial.
A remarkable crisis has occurred in the
French Cabinet. Say, Dufaure and Wallen
have resigned. lie Temps gives the follow.
ing account of the crisis i'm the ministry :
NJ. Leon Say, Minister of Finance, in con.
junction with NJ. NJ. Ferry and Boucher,
who, like the Minister, are candidates for
the Assembly from the Department Of Seur.
ct. Disc, issued joint manifesto to the
electors. President MacMahon, who did
not consider the manifesto sufficiently
conservative, on Saturday summoned NJ.
Say and requested him to withdraw his
name from it. The latter asked time to re-
fleet At a second interview, the President
said the discussion in the Cabinet was be-
coming patent. The name of the Minister
Of Finance figured on the list of candidates
hostile to the government. M. Buffet con-
sidered The hOmogeDeousn ess OF the Cabi-
net irreparably compromised, consequently
NJ. Says withdrawal was necessary. NJ.
Say thereupon said, "Y0u ask me to re-
sign?" The President intimated that he did.
NJ. Say reminded Mac Mahon Il at several
times previously he had offered to resign,
and only remained at the earnest request of
the Executive. He concluded by offering
Several women have been registered in
some of the towns of Chilli as qualified
voters, and will exercise the right of suffrage
at the approaching elections. 1.-THE Mar
quis of Ripon, an English nobl, man who re-
Gently embraced the Roman Catholic faith
at Rome, has presented the Pope with fl0,-
OC0.....A Berlin dispatch sets at rest the re.
ports to the contrary, by stating that the
Prince Imperial Frederick William has de.
cided not to visit the Philadelphia Exhibit
tion for several reasons, the most important
of which is that the condition of the Empe-
ror's health renders the absence of the heir
to the throne inadmissible......A dispatch
from Paris to the London Daily Telegraph
says the French Ministry Of Works will
send to the Philadelphia Exhibition the
plans of the recent public works, and the
Municipal Council OF Paris will contribute
the models Of the squares and public build
iDgs which fguredin the Vienna Exhibition
.....A royal decree has been issued at Mad
rid disqualifying generals, and all public
functioDaries who receive above $500 per
aDnum, from sitting in either house of the
Portes. The government has authorized the
publication Of fourteen new journaIs......
The Star and Herdid, of Panama, contains
the following: Letters from Lima announce
the complete destruction, by earthquake, OIL
the 4th OF December, of Abancay, between
four p. m. Of the 4th aud five q. m. of the
9th. No less than thirty-seven shocks oc-
Cured. A severe flood Inundated the bust.
ness part of Valparaiso. Two lives were
lost, and 81 100000 worth Of property de-
stroyed. so
The proclamation of President Mac Mahon,
countersgned by Buffet, was published Jan.
uary IS. In IL the President appeals for the
support of law, order and good government
at the coming general election, and hopes
the country will secure the necessary repOse
after being torn and distracted by agitation,
discord and misfortune. He says that it is
known he did not desire his present power,
but, having been invested with IL, France
could rely on him exercising it without
weakness. He hopes that God will
aid him aud the Cabinet, and that
the support OF the nation will not fail
him in the fulfillment of his mission ......
The French Cabinet, it seems, have had a
meeting In which the threatened ministerial
was averted......A special from
Paris says MacMahon's proclamation has
caused great sensation. The Liberals blame
what they call "MacMahon's interference"
and appr.hensions of a recall of the Assembly
are exDressed