The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-10-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The opposition of the Magyars to the
Austrian occupation of Bosnia has eliminated
in the resignation of the entire Hungarian Min
istry, who allege their inability to provide the
money required as Hungary's contingent of ex-
penses of the occupation Count Andrassy de-
sires TO reduce the expenses by withdrawing a
great part of the army from Bosnia, but the
military party oppose this measure.
A Belgrade dispatch says that "news
from various parts of Bosnia show that the
Turks and insurgents have abandoned further
open resistance, having become convinced that
neither moral nor material assistance can be
any longer hoped for from the Porte unless
other political complications arise Upward of
1000 insurgents have fed to Servia, where they
have been disarmed"
The cable announces one of the most
stupendous bank failures of modern times, that
Of the City Of Glasgow Bank. The liabilities
re stated at $50, 10000 The failure amounts
national disaster, and will cause good
deal of suffering. Much of the stock is held by
ladies and gentlemen who lived retired on a
moderate competence, and now find themselves
reduced from circumstances of comfort to alb
solute want Seven hundred and fifty persons
employed by the bank and its branches are
affected by the failure. Various causes are
assigned for the catastrophe
The occupation of Bosnia and Herze-
govina has already cost Austria over 600 men.
Gen. Grant is back in Paris, where he
was dined in grand style the other day by Min
lister Noyes.
A negro instruction has broken out
at Santa Cruz, in the West Indies, and murders
and other atrocities arc being committed.
A dispatch from Rome says "the ne
gotiations between Germany and the Vatican
have failed. Germany will yield nothing and
the Vatican cannot yield all without alternating
its most faithful partisans"
A Sinla dispatch reports that "no
communication has yet been received from the
Amer of Cabul. The natives bring down
word that the Ameer is collecting his forces
from all quarters to oppose the advance of the
English"
Smith, Fleming & Co., of London,
East India merchants, and Potter, Wilson q Co.,
Of Glasgow, ship-owners and colonial mer-
chants, have failed, the former for $40, 900, 600
and the latter for 81, 100000. Their embarrass-
ment was brought about by the failure of the
City of Glasgow Bank.
Saad Getden Pasha announced to the
inhabitants of Podgoritza, in Albania, that the
Turkish Government had ordered that the town
be turned over to the Montenegrins, whereat
the enraged populace fell upon the luckless
Pasha and the 1856 officers and men under his
command and slew them.
The Porte has sent q circular to the
powers requesting them to compel Austria to
conform to the declaration of her plenipoten-
tiaries at the congress, and to stop the advance
and excuses of her troops pending the decision
Of the powers. Unless this is done, the circular
says, the Porte will consider Austria a violator
of international law.
Kingston, Jamaica, advices give some
particulars of the negro instruction in Santa
Cruz: "The firing of cane-felds in Santa
Cruz has been renewed A large number of
insurrectionists have been shot A French
frigate has arrived at the island and landed
roops. Fugitive women and children have
been shipped to St Thomas. Forty estates
have been burned Only fourteen are left"
A Kingston (Jamaica) dispatch says
the negro instruction in Santa Cruz has been
suppressed and the ringleaders arrested