The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-23
NEWS or THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Mark Lane Express, in its last
review Of the British grain trade, says the
wheat harvest promises an Improvement on
asst years.
It was officially stated in the British
Parliament that the number Of deaths from
the famine in India reached the appalling to-
tai of 1880
France is to get something in the gen.
eral redistribution of territory, after all, it
seems. A Paris dispatch says that the Western
powers have consented to a French protector
to over Tunis fine Turkish province in AZ
RIGA, Immediately adjoining Algeria on the
east.
A Vienna dispatch says the Emperor
of Abstracts much affected by the resistance
offered to the Austrian occupation Of the Turk
ish provinces. The resistance does not come
from Mussulmans alone. Revolutionary Pan
Slavism is behind them"
Joseph Naudel, the well-known French
historian, is dead.
The Russians have occupied Varna.
The garrison is to consist of 10000 men with
100 guns.
The Austrians have again been badly
defeated in an encounter with the Bosnian in
.surgents. Thousands of Turkish troops are
dining the latter, and it is reported that the
main Austrian army is falling back upon the
river Save.
Hoedel, who made the first of the re-
cent attempts on the life Of the German EN-
peror, was beheaded at Berlin on the 10th OF
August.
An attempt was made in st. Peters
burg, the other day, to murder the chief Of the
Emperor's private police. He was fired on by
two persons, just as he was leaving public
shop, and was wounded. His assaiants drove
off as soon as he fell, and were lest sigh Of.
Queen Victoria, in her speech from
the throne proroguing Parliament, says tha
the peace which has just been concluded il
satisfactory to her and the other powers o
Europe; it is likely to be durable peace, ont
that will promote the best interests of her sub
jects. The independence of Turkey has beer
thoroughly secured, and it can be upheld
against aggression from every quarter.
All the banks in Chill, South America
have suspended specie payments.
A Belgrade dispatch says that "thre'
Austrian Serb regiments when near valik
Zworrick having refused to advance, wer
decimated. AS they still remained mutinou
further executions took place. The remainde
were sent prisoners to Austria"
The Rhodope International Commits
sion has returned to Constantinople. The re
port of the Commissioners, when issued, vii
more than confirm the terrible statements o
Bulgarian cruelties and outrages. Tn
members give fearful accounts of the barbara
ties committed in Southern Bulgaria since thu
arrival of the Russian army.
The Porte, replying to the represent
atoms Of some Ambassadors, declares it has NJ
money 10 organize gendarmerie, emplo.
Judges, or otherwise realize promised reforms
The Porte's attitude toward Greece
its delay in evacuating Batoum, resistance t.
Austria's occupation Of Bosnia, and refusal I,
surrender the territory assigned by the congress
to Montenegro, are regarded by Austria as 81
many evidences of a deliberate policy which
aims at stultifying the Berlin congress and it
results, and the feeling against Turkey is ex
tremely bitter in consequence.