New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-12-03
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORL1

A LONDON dispatch of the 23d an
nounces the death of the widow Of Charles
Dickens.
A NEW scheme for the construction of
the Turkish army has been inaugurated by the
Sublime Porte. The plan contemplates COM
pulsory universal military service, to be per-
formed by every able-bodied subject of the
Sultan, men to serve two years in the in
fantry, three years in the cavalry and five
years in the reserve.
A PASTORAL letter to the clergy of
the Dublin Diocese was issued by the Arch
bishop of Dublin on the 23d, in which he de-
nounces the men who were going about the
country disseminating doctrines which strike
at the root Of that good faith and mutual con-
fidence which are the foundations of social
life. He says if just debts fairly demanded
arc not honestly paid principle will be es-
tablshed that will be fatal to the prosperity
of Ireland.
On the 23d the prison authorities at
Sligo refused to allow Davitt to continue his
correspondence with American newspapers.
The examination of the three Irish
agitators arrested at Sligo, Ireland, was be-
gun on the Oath. DAILY was held for trial and
bail accepted. Killen and Davitt were re-
mandcd for further examination.
JOHN T. DELANE, for many years
editor of the London Times, died on the oath.
He was sxty-two years old.
A DISPATCH was received from CAL
cutta, India, on the c4th, stating that the
northwest provinces of India, especially the
districts of Allyghur, Boolundshuhur and
Mecrut, were suffering from severe cpl
demic Of malarious fever, which had increased
to an enormous extent the death rate, and
had temporarily disabled large proportion
of the agricultural population.
Mr.. GLADSTONE made furious at
tack on Lord Beaconsfeld at Edinburgh,
Scotland, on the 25th, in which he character
lied the Premier as a veteran trickster and
political posturer, devoted to his own selfish
interests regardless of the true interests Of
the realm.
DAv1rr, another of the alleged Sligo
acitators, was held to bail for trial in the sum
of $4,000 on the 25th.
A CoNsTANT1NoPLE telegram of tho
26th says the Porte's financial affairs were
very much straitened, and the condition
was considered desperate The palace pur-
yeyors had stopped furnishing supplies, pend
ing the payment of their old bills.
GABRIEL RAINIER, the Communist
who Superintendent the destruction Of the
Vcndome column, died on the Goth.
The statement was made from st.
Petersburg on the Goth that England had de-
tached Persia from Russia, by giving her the
west half of Afghanstan.
RowELL, the champion pedestrian,
has decided that the next contest for the
championship shall take place in England.
AN Alexandria (EgypD telegram OF
the Goth says the mission of General Gordon
to the King of Abyssinia had been unsuccess-
full. The King insisted upon the payment OF
his price for Massowah, and threatened, II his
demand were not complied with, to detain
Gordon and declare war against Egypt.
The Swiss Federal Council, having
received pressing memorials from several
quarters urging it to stop the propaganda OF
Mormon missionaries in divers parts OF Switz'
erland, has decided, in view of the powers
possessed by the Cantonal Government for
the punishment of polygamy, and in view OF
the efforts being made by the United States
Government to suppress the institution in
Utah, not to take any general action, but to
act only in special cases.
A DUBLIN dispatch Of the 28th an
nounces the murder Of bailiff who was exc
cutting some processes on farmer neal
Sheer, County Kerry.
K1LLEN, the last of the three Sligo
agitators. has been also hold 10 hail fnr tri''
INTELLIGENCE reached CONSTANT
nople on the 2sth of the massacre of Ahmed
Mukhtar Pasha and almost the whole Of hi
command, by the Arnouts, at Gusingi.
A ROME telegram of the 28th says the
Vatican has decided on the establishment OF
three new Bshoprics for the United States to
DC under the jurisdiction of Cardinal Nc
ClOskeY.