The true northerner., 1879-10-24
NEWS. OF The WEEK.



saws the camp at Ali-Kheyl has been attacked
by large numbers of neighboring tribes. The
attack was repulsed. Twenty-three Afghan
corpses were found, and it is believed many
more were carried OF. The British casualties
were only five wounded.
The tenant farmers in two counties OF
Ireland are practicing as wen as preaching.
Five hundred agriculturists met in County
Mayo and solemnly pledged themselves to pay
no rent until reduction shall be granted pro-
portionate to the fall of prices of all kinds Of
produce.
Opposition to the new tariff and to
the proposed emancipation of the slaves in
Cuba is increasing in strength and virulence in
Spain Apparent inability of the Government
to carry out it's proposed measures had already
caused Gen. Martinez Campos, Minister of War
and President of the Council, and Albacete, Min
lister of Colonies, to tender their designations,
and it is generally believed the entire Cabinet
will speedily follow their example.
While IN this land we are rejoicing
at our plenty, the distress in Hungary, among
the agricultural classes rs such that it is feared
the measures undertaken for their relief by the
Government will come too late to enable them
to do their fall planting in season. Through
out the country thousands OF people are with
out money with which to buy food.
A dispatch from Cape Town, South
Africa, says that Sir Garnet Wolseley is at Pre-
toria, where he has publicly declared that the
annexation of Transvaal is irrevocable. The
committee of Beers have adopted a resolution
that nothing will satisfy them but the restora-
ton of independence.
A dispatch from Madrid, Spain, says ::
@On the subsistence of the floods in the Prov
ince of Murca thirty dead bodies were found
is believed that over 100 persons perished.
A dispatch from Murcia says the police esti-
mate the damage caused by the floods at l5,-
000000 pesetas. The floods extended 120 miles
in Andalusia, Malaga, Alicante and Murcia.
Several villages are in ruins. Railways are
destroyed and crops devastated. From Muir
cia the Governor reports that the loss of life
will exceed 30O.'
The Afghan regiments which left
Ghuenee to join the mutineers were routed
and dispersed twenty five miles from Cabul.
The recent inundations in the Span
ish provinces constitutes one of the most ap-
palling disasters of the century. In the Malaga
and Alicante districts alone 1000 houses were
swept away by the floods The damage to
property is estimated at &c, 900 OOo francs. Five
hundred and seventy bodies of the drowned
have already been recovered. How many have
been carried to the sea is matter of mere con-
lecture, but it is estimated that not lees than
1000 people were overtaken by the flood and
perished.
Yakoob Khan has notified the Brit
ish Of his intention to abdieate the throne of
Afghanistan Gen. Roberts is said to have at
tempted to dssuade the Ameer from his pur-
pose, but without effect, his determination be-
ing unalterable.
The French Government has taken
means to protect itself against the Communis-
tic and Bonapartist agitators by ordering the
procurers general to suppress publications and
disperse meetings hostile to the republic.
A dispatch from Afghanistan reports
that the magazine at Balahissar, at Cabul, has
been blown up. Twenty-seven of the British
force and many Afghans were killed by the ex-
plosion
The German papers announce that
the revival IN the iron trade has reached Ger
many.
There has been another bloodless rev.
olution in Hayti. The Government was over
turned in a day, and new one formed, without
the firing of gun.
The latest great Russian engineering
project-that of connecting the River Oxus,
through its ancient bed, with the Caspian sea
it is stated has been abandoned Upon survey
the obstacles to its consummation were found
TO be practically insurmountable.
The explosions which wrecked Bala-
Hssar, the citadel of Cabul, were two in num-
Der. Their violence may be judged when it is
considered that the magazine contained six
tons of powder and nearly 100000 rounds Of
shot and shell.