The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-07-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEW 8

The young Queen of Spain, Mercedes,
dead. She was greatly beloved, and VIII be
deeply mourned.
Earthworks are being constructed at
the northern outlets Of the Carpathian passes,
and the mountain roads are being made practi
cable for artillery on both sides of the frontier.
A Berlin dispatch says the English
man, Bishop, charged with bribing officials to
obtain the plans of the Notifications in Ger
many, has been convicted and sentenced to two
wears and half imprisonment.
The Sultan has summoned 10, 600
fresh troops to Constantinople on account OF
the agitation and excitement caused by the
movement in favor Of Murad.
The European congress has settled
affairs in Eastern Europe so far as Bulgaria is
concerned, and. has erected that long-suffering
Christian province into an autonomous prin-
cipality, with the Danube and the Balkans
as its northern and southern limits. The
claims of Servia and Montenegro are also in
the way OF settlement. The only state that re-
mains In doubt is Greece, and she is clamoring
to have reorganization of Thessaly and Epi-
rus, and an extension OF her frontier.
A recent letter from Havana says the
campaign Of the Spaniards against the Cubans,
without any battles, cost the latter $4,000 men,
and the island is a vast cemetery. Five steam
ers are reported on the way from Spain to
carry home troops. Martinez Campos has be-
gun the reduction Of Government expenses on
the island by giving up one-half of his own
salary as Captain General.
The gold medal of the French Geo
graphical Society was presented to Henry M.
Stanley, the explorer, in Paris the other day,
in the presence of brilliant assemblage.
A splendidly contested match took
place in London, on June %, between Capt
Bogardus, the famous American pigeon-shot
and Pennel, the no less well-known English
man. 1t resulted in victory for Pogardus,
who killed seventy birds out Of 100, Pennel
killing sixty-eight.
A Paris dispatch of the LIST inst. says;
"The national festival in honor Of the Exhi
bition yesterday was great SUCCESS. Hun
dreds Of thousands of people poured into tie
city, and, when the unwilling Of the statue Of
the Republic began, the mass of spectators
was immense. Demarcere, Minister of the In
terror, unveiled the statue and delivered an
eloquent speech. He declared that the Repub-
ican party had now become the nation, and re-
generated France was determined to enjoy the
benefits Of her dearly-bought institutions in
peace"
Austria will send civil officers with
the army which is to occupy Bosnia
and Herzegovina, and proceed Immediately
with the reorganization of the government of
the provinces.
The congress has decided to cede to
Russia that portion of Bessarabia which she
lost in 1856, extending from the Pruth to the
Kilia valley. The congress has also decided
to transfer the Dobrudscha to Roumania.
A petition from the British Anti
Slavery Society asks the Berlin Conference to
declare the slave trade piracy, and refuse to
recognize slavery as legal institution in any
state represented in the congress-. The
memorialists assert that the slave trade for
the supply Of Cuba and Mohammedan coun-
tries consumes half million negroes from AZ
RIGA annually.