The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-12-26
NEWS OF THE week.



News comes from Sonth America OF
another battle between the Gillian army and
the allied Peruvisns and Bolivians, in which
the latter were defeated with loss Of 5000.
Nearly twenty miners were killed by
an explosion of blasting material in mine in
Wurtembufg, Germany.
A serious famine is reported in Ar
menia
Much distress exists among the poor
er classes in Italy.
Intelligence from Afghanistan to
Dec 1s represents the military situation about
thus: Cabul was in the hands of the Afghans,
the British having been driven from the
citadel of Bala-Hissar to q fortified camp
two miles north Of the city Here were
assembled 5000 b. itish troops, confronted and
almost surrounded by $4,000 determined AZ
CHAN soldiers, well armed and well differed
Outside communication with the British had
been almost entirely cut of, but reinforce
ments were going forward Is rapidly as
possible
The Czar is using extraordinary pre-
cautions against any further attempts upon his
life
An official decree pardons $50 French
Communists
The evicted tenant who assaulted
Lord Fermoy with bludgeon in Limerick, Ire
land, has been sentenced to five years penal
servitude. The severity Of the sentence causes
much excitement in Ireland, and will no doubt
embitter the feelings of the tenantry toward
the landlords
The death-rate in London this season
is unprecedentedly heavy.
Details of the fighting at Cabul show
that the people of the city and Villages We'd
with each other in numbering and mutilating
stragglers and wounded men Of the British
army, some being actually murdered within 200
yards of the wall Of Shrpur.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg says
the police cannot discover the Nihilists because
they exist where the authorities do not
venture to look. The real conspira.ors are
to be found in the drawing rooms Of the rich
and noble.
st. Petersburg advices indicate that
Russian diplomacy is again being directed to
the re-establishment of the arrangement be-
tween the three empires, which, if consumma-
ted, would rendor them arbiters of the affairs
of Europe.
Yakoob Khan's buried treasure, re-
Gently recovered at Cabul, was all in Russian
gold. Some of the Afghan regulars were
dressed in Russian uniforms.
The Russian police have discovered
another secret printing establishment in st
Petersburg, from which seditious prints were
being circulated by the Nihilists
A international exhibition is to be held
in the city of Rome in 1892
The British Government has granted
annual pensions of $1,000 to the wife and $500
to the mother of Cavagnari, who was murdered
in the revolt at Cabul a few months ago.
A cable dispatch conveys the curl
GUS intelligence that the secret of making
diamonds artifcially has been discovered in
London.
The situation in Russia is not at all
hopeful Nihilist conspiracies are discovered,
revealing widespread ramifcations and involv-
ing parties who should be above suspicion
1t is rumored that several of the most aristo-
cratic families in Russia are on the march to
Siberia The condition of the Car ls not i'm
proving mentally or physically. He is
constantly apprehensive of assassination,
and very suspicious. The servants Of the pal |
ace are changed daily and the police closely
watched.
Lord Carnarvon and others have
been appointed commission to investigate the
defenses OF the British colonies
The French Ministry has resigned, !
and De Freycinet is to form new one.
Owing to the improved condition of
business in Mexico, the proposition to issue
$40, OOO, 600 in paper money, which was INTRO
duced in Congress some time ago, has been
withdrawn.
Charles S. Parnell, the Liberal mem
Der Of Parliament from Ireland, who is one of
the chief champions of the land-reform move
ment, has sailed from Queenstown for New
York. He is to raise funds for the movement
in this country.