The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-08-09
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The potato disease in Ireland is so
widespread that fears of famine, such as pre-
vailed in 1s47, are expressed.
A Berlin dispatch says the returns
from the elections for members Of the German
Reichstag show that there have been elected
AZ Conservatives, IA National Liberals, 10 Pro-
gressionists 35 Ultramontanes, 2 Alsatian r.
reconcilables, Alsatian Autonomists, Social
lists, 8 Poles, and Particularist. Thirty-six
second ballots are necessary. A son Of Prince
Bismarck was defeated for Parliament in the
Luneburg.
Late advices from South America
state that a pestilence is sweeping the inhabi-
1ants OF Bolivia, and famine is threatened.
In the smallest curacy in the Department of
Cochabsmbia GOO bodies have been buried,
while in Sipesipe 500 deaths have occurred,
and the interment is daily augmented in num-
Der. The fields are desolated, crops remain
ungathered, unclaimed cattle roam in all direc-
tons, almost all the dwellings, are abandoned,
and all those which are inhabited are so many
scenes OF death and disease. Hundreds of
children remain uncared for, and sustain their
lives by eating grasshoppers. Many bodies,
in some cases those of entire families, remain
uninterred, because the grave-diggers are not
sufficient in numbers to execute the painful
duty.
The debate in the British House OF
Commons on the Government policy in con-
nection with the Eastern question terminated
on the I'd inst, when the condemnatory reso-
luton offered by the Marquis Of Harrington,
the Liberal leader, was defeated by vote OF
1876 yeas to 33S nays, and the Government
amendment approving Of the course Of the
Ministry, was adopted without division.
A dispatch from Rome announces that
an agreement has at length been reached be-
tween Bismarck and the Papal Nuncio relative
to the future relations between the Vatican and
the German Government.
The Russian troops are returning to
Russia to the number OF 5000 daily. The
Roumanian army is expected to make tri-
umphal entry into Bucharest, accompanied by
the Bulgarian trophies.
Modelling, the would-be assassin of
the Emperor of Germany, prefers death by
self-destruction to the certain and ignominious
execution at the hands of the law which awaits
him. pair of scissors carelessly left within
his reach furnished him chance to cheat the
hangman, aud he attempted suicide the other
day, but was unsuccessful.
In the late German elections the Con-
servatives nave increased their parliamentary
strength from n to 10. The Liberals proper
have been reduced from 1862 to 1872. The u
tramontanes in the new Parliament, as in the
old one, will have nearly hundred votes. The
remainder of the house will be made up of
about 60 of various subject races-Poles Danes
and Alsatians, and few straight Socialists and
some independents.
A grand banquet in honor of Lords
Beaconsfeld and Salisbury was given at the
Mansion House, London, on the Sd inst. Both
of them, in their speeches, painted the good
results to follow the Anglo-Turkish Conven-
ton in assuring the peace and independence
of Europe and in securing good government
for the Christians in Turkey. To the latter
aim Salisbury announced that the Government
would especially devote its efforts, having re-
solved to fully avail itself Of the right of inter-
ference conferred by the convention.
In the Parliamentary elections in
Hungary the Government has been badly
beaten. Even the Premier failed to secure
reelection.
The Austrian occupation of Herze-
govina and Bosnia is meeting with serious OPP
position from the inhabitants OF those prov
inces. Several collisions have already occurred,
and it is expected that some severe fighting
will occur as the invading armies advance.