The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-11-14
NEWS OF The WEEK.


1t is said that Bismarck has requested
the Russian Government to withdraw the force
of q, 900 cavalry from Poland, on the borders
OF German territory. Usually request from
Bismarck is equivalent 10 a command, and is
pretty apt to be obeyed as such. Whether
obedience follows in this case time alone can
tell.
Details have at last been received of
the naval engagement between Peru and Chill,
which occurred last month, and resulted il the
sinking of the iron-cad Huascar, the most for
midable war-vessel in the feet of the first
named power. After long and desperate
battle, described by the victorious Chilians as
@the Trafalgar of the Pacific" the Commander
and both Leutenants of the Huascar having
been killed, it was compelled to surrender in
sinking condition. News of the disaster Gre
ated profound sensation in Peru, but only
served to stimulate the people to still further
resistance. Subscriptions were opened at once
for the purchase of another iron-clad and
men, women and children contributed houses,
lands, jewels and money with patriotic zeal
rarely witnessed commission has sailed for
Europe to buy the vessel which the Peruvians
hope will be an avenger
The Captain General of Cuba claims
that he has suppressed the new rebellion in
that island.
The pleasing intelligence is sent by
cable from Europe that the ex-Empress Car
lotta, who has been insane ever since her hus-
band, Macmillan, WIS shot to death by the
Mexicans, has recovered ner reason and men,
DRY, and now converses lucidly and intelli-
gently. She is now said to be engaged in tran
scribing her diary of the disastrous series Of
events in Mexico that eliminated in her hus-
bands death and the dethronement OF her own
reason
Germany anG all the Eoropean
powers heartily approve of the promptness of
Great Britain in demanding of the Porte
prompt fulfllment of its agreement concerning
reforms in Turkey. The dispatch of fleet to
Besika bay, and the strong language of Minister
Layard, have had the desired effect and the
Sultan sulenly submits to the demand that the
stipulatons Of the Berlin treaty be immedi-
ately carried into practical effect
Information comes from France that
the election of Humbert, the returned Com
munist, has been annuled by the Prefecture
of the Seine. This action will, of course,
erect Humbert into a political martyr of mag
nitude, and will, necessarily, embitter the
contest upon the question of plenary amnesty.
Intelligence comes from Mexico of
deep-laid conspiracy to overthrow the Diaz
Government.
Prince Jerome Bonaparte is said to
be Incorporating as candidate for the Presi-
dency or the imperial crown in France
Dispatches from Berlin state that
Bismarck's health does not improve. He is
suffering from overwork, and his physicians
declare that nothing but absolute rest will give
him any relief.
Private letters from Constantinople
confirm the reports of the extremity of the dis
tress in the financial matters of Turkey. Even
the pilgrimage to Mecca, which has hitherto
been provisioned at the expense of the Govern
ment, is unable to get any assistance, an event
which has never before occurred since the es-
tablishment of the Ottoman empire.
The Montenegrins are waging fierce
guerrilla warfare on the Albanians, and in a
recent encounter slew more than 800 of them.
Paris is about to spend the enormous
sum of s7000,000 to deepen the river Seine
sufficiently TO admit vessels drawing nine feet
of water to the eastern extremity of the city.
It is announced that the Spanish Con-
stitutional party has decided to support the bill
for the emancipation of slaves in Cuba, with
the amendment that the freedmen may work
for w bousoever thew chooea
The Turkish newspapers are very
violent against England. They declare her
demands are more unjust than the attempts of
Russia to interfere in Turkish administration,
in. resistance to which Turkey waged great
war.
The Catholic Bishops IF Ireland have
adopted resolutions appealing to the Govern
ment aud all public bodies and private indi-
viduals to help the poor, as the Poor Law act is
insufficient to meet the necessities of the i'm
pending crisis.
The South American war has at last
been the occasion of a little bloodshed. A tel
egram from Valparaiso states that the Chilians
have captured Pisagus after a desperate en-
gagement, IN which they lost 500 in killed and
wounded. It is stated that 800 children were
killed and wounded during the bombardment
Afghanistan advices report that the
suspicion which rested on Yakoob Khan, and
which was temporarily removed by his joining
Gen. Roberts at Kushi, is again settling down
on him, and he is now prisoner under close