The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-10-25
NEWS OF the WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
Turkey has fatty informed Austria
that she will resist the occupation Of Novi-
Bazaar.
A panic in the iron trade at Glasgow
is reported by cable Several heavy. failures
have occurred.
The Porte has warned the press of
Constantinople to avoid the expression of anti
Russian sentiments as Turkey is again on the
most friendly terms with Russia
The dispensers of prizes and pre-
miums at the Paris Exposition have been gen
erous to America. The awards to exhibitors
from this country number $50, of which 10 are
grand prizes," 1874 gold medals, 200 silver
medals, and the remainder bronze medals, di-
plomas of honor, and honorable mention"
In proportion to the number of exhibitors, the
awards to America are more numerous than to
any other country represented.
The Ameer of Aghanistan is endeavor-
ing to raise religious war among the Moham-
nedans of Central Asia against England.
A Belgrave dispatch says that differ
ences have risen between the English and Rus
sian delegates on the Servian Boundary Com
mission. Both have asked their Governments
for instructions.
Late advices from Rome say it has
been decided, in consequence of the utter fail
u.e of the negotiations between Bismarck aud
sthe Vatican, to endeavor to reach less radical
basis, under which the relations between
church and state will be regulated as nearly as
possible in accordance with existing German
laws.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says
that terrible hurricane ON the River Plata
caused a great inundation.
The Times, of India, publishes tel
egraphic dispatch stating that the Ameer's re-
ply has been received and is unsatisfactory.
The glut of cotton goods in Lanca-
shire is simply unprecedented, and the mill
owners are adopting measures to curtail pro-
duction
The Mohammedans of the Dobrudscha
are preparing to resist Roumanian rule.
Austria proclaims that full amnesty
has been granted to those Bosnian insurgents
who took refuge in Servia.
A conflict of opinion in the Italian
Cabinet in matters of internal government has
led to a serious ministerial crisis.
The official report as to the condition
Of the City of Glasgow Bank shows that the
actual loss to the shareholders will foot up the
enormous sum of s300O0,0O0.
The Fenian Clancy, who was SEN
fenced in 1867, has been liberated
A dozen people were killed outright,
and forty wounded, by a railway collision at
Pontyfridd, Wales.
All the managers and directors of the
City of Glasgow Bank have been arrested on a
criminal charge of fraud. A cable dispatch
says the city of Glasgow lis absorbed in melan-
eholy contemplation of the terrible picture of
crime and ruin presented in the official report
of the examiners of the broken Glasgow bank.
The figures and facts are 80 overwhelming
that even financial minds, familiar with fig
ures and cash books, seem utterly to fail to
grasp the situation. A kind of apathetic paral-
ysis appears to have seized upon the citizens.
The business exchanges are absolutely stag
nant. Signs of approaching punishment for
the Directors are visible, and eagerly hailed by
the whole community. The important feature
the report is the deliberate Justification of the
returns made to the Government of the gold
held by the bank against notes issued The
legal issue was limited to 972, 921, but at the
suspension of the concern the note circulation
was eS63, 403 and the coin amounted to only
e321 753, but the deficiency was made to appear
less by illegally including coin lying at the
banks branches. This scandalous proceeding
exposes the bank to tremendous penalties un-
der the laws of Great Britain"
The Sultan has authorized Baller
Pasha to employ 10000 men to complete the de-
fensive lines of Constantinople
President MacMahon, on behalf of
the Directory of the Paris Exposition, has
awarded the decoration of the Legion of
Honor to Commissioner Mccormick, Story the
sculptor, Profs Edison, Gray, and others.
You may do your worst, and the
issue is in Gods hands, is the Ameer of Afghan
istan's defiant reply to the English.