The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-02-08
FOREIGN NEWS.

AFcnAS,-Shere Ali, on arriving at the Rus
sian frontier, was astonishcd to find himself
very coldly received and his followers disarm.
ed. lie expressed his determination, however
to proceed at once to ST. Petersburg, but with
out being prevented, yet found the Russian of.
! iiCialS inclined To cast every abstacle in his
| Nay.
HIS son lakoob retains possession of Cabul
and talks fight to the English, but his people
are not united and are fighting among them
selves. Wahh MahOmcd, another claimant to
the Afghan throne, applied to the English
commander at lIazarpi for British support, but
the feeling of the people in regard to him be
ing unknown, he got no encouragement Gen.
Stewards column, which has proceeded on the
road to Cabul beyond Khalati Ghilzai, had to
halt on account of the difficulty of keeping up
Icommlssary supplies, Cold weather and heavy
SHOWS have about put stop to army move.
mcnts
THE PLAaUE.-Not only have Germany,
Turkey, &c, established Il rigid quarantine
against Russia on account of the Plague but
Russia itself has drawn a strong military cor.
don, a thousand miles in length, around the in
tectcd district. There are reports of cases of
the black death" at Odessa, and dispatch
from Trieste even announces that Il disease
strongly resembling 1t has appeared at Xanthia
in TheSsaly The rigid quarantine of most Of
the European powers against Russia threatens
to be ruinous to her trade, and particularly the
grain trade of the Black Sea,
ENGLAND.-Ovcr 10000 engineers and dock
men and $500 IRON workers at Liverpool have
struck, causing the utmost inconvenience to
shipping, delaying the sailing of steamers &c.
Two of the Glasgow Bank officers have been
sentenced to Is months each and five to 8
months each in the penetentary.
The Theatre Royal at Glasgow was destroy
ed by fire on Sunday morning.
The Union Bank at lIelston, Cornwall, has
suspended. Liabilities $650,O00.
Drury Lane theatre, London, closed on Mon
day night on account OF strike among actors
10000 people at Glasgow are supported by
charity.
FRAECE.-Gambctta was elected president Of
the Chamber of deputies by "a vote OF 3l4 to
81. There is general rejoicing throughout
France over the peaceable termination of the
political crisis. Dufaurc, though earnestly en-
treated refused to retain Office and Wadding-
ton was directed to form new cabinet, which
be did by changing but three members Of the
old. President Grevy sent his first message to
the chambers on Thursday, and Gambeta fol
low,u reading By culogizing the great cit
iZcn' who had succeed to the presidential chair
and whose footsteps he proposed to follow as
President of the deputies.
GERMANY.-The committee of the federal
council has greatly toned down Bismarcks
gag bill, cutting out the clauses making mem
bers Of the reichstag amcndable to criminal
courts, and depriving them of reelgibility for
communistc utterances The bill, however,
is still offensive to the reichstag because it did
not originate among themselves. At special
election at Breslau the socialists cast ) l1J votes,
the liberals G,j6i and the conservatives but
2,Si5, The government is greatly annoyed at
the result