The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-11
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS
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will of the Prince Imperial. II says:
The duty which our house owes to our country
will not lapse by my death. The arduous and glo-
rious task of continuing the work of the First
Napoleon viii depend, in the event Of death. upon
the oldest of Prince Jerome Napoleon. who, by
the laws OF succession of our house, Is my heir.
trust that my beloved mother, by seconding him In
the discharge of the responsibilities and duties
which in the event Of my death will devolve upon
him. will give to me. when am no longer upon
this earth, this last and supreme proof of her alice
ton for me and of her love of France.
Matters are becoming interesting in
South America. The Chilians, to the number
of 10000 or 1900 are preparing descent on
the Peruvian capital. Such an expedition is
made possible by the absence of the Peruvian
army in the South, and the fact that the
Peruvian transports are blockaded in the har-
Dor of Callao.
Cable reports of the condition of
crops on the continent of Europe are of such a
character as TO promise a good demand for
American grain. In all the Governments Of
Southern Russia-the great wheat raising belt
of the empire-the wheat ID reported as almost
ucptIOycu W uhii, biaSohop-
pers and beetles In Northern Italy aud other
wheat growing countries the prospects are de-
plorable
Characteristic dispatch from Kings
ton, Jamaica: @Advices from Port-au-Prince,
Hayti, state that the populaoe fred upon the
Senate. The Senators fed. Many were shot
Fighting continues"
A dispatch from Odessa, Russia,
states that the trials of forty five Nihilists have
been concluded. Six were sentenced to terms
from two to three years imprisonment The
rest were acquitted.
The contemplated international in
iustrial exhibition at Moscow, Russia, is
postponed from 1880 to one year later.
Another coal-pit disaster took place
lately near Glasgow, Scotland Thirty-o ne per-
sons were in the mine at time of the ex-
ploslon. Four persons were burned alive.
Twenty one corpses have been recovered, and
it is probable all in the mine are dead
The ex,Khedive of Egypt has been
arrested at Naples.
A dinner was given by Prince Bis
msrck, at Berlin, in honor of Hon. Andrew d.
White, the newly arrived United States Minis
ter. on the I'd.
The Cuban Government has asked
Spain to send to that island and distribute
among the sugar plantations about 40, 900 troops,
to be employed in the double capacity of guards
and field hands.
A London dispatch of Sunday says
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cultural Hall that afternoon to two congrega-
tons of 10000 people each. Thousands upon
thousands of persons thronged the streets lead
ing to the hall for miles, almost blockading the
passage of vehicles and pedestrians. Many
people were crushed, and DR.. Talmage's car
riage was almost demolished by the crush Of
the great crowd, every Individual in which was
anxious to see the distinguished American
preacher.
The deposed Sultan of Turkey, who,
after being kicked out of the throne, was
placed for cafe keeping in one of the palaces
and guarded, has effected his escape, and there
is considerable excl ement over the fact in Con-
stantinople
Four hundred Nihilists were recently
arrested at Kieff, Russia, and great store of
weapons seized
The depressed condition of the agri-
cultural interest in Great Britain has finally
occasioned the appointment of a commission by
Parliament to investigate its causes.
In hurricane on the river Doubs,
in Frarce steamer with fifty three passen-
gers was sunk. Only five persons were saved.
A cable dispatch says the person who
supplied the pistol to Alexander Solovieff, with
which he attempted to assassinate the Emperor
OF Russia on the 14th of April, is a physician
from Weimar, Germany, who is also proved to
have procured the poison with which Solovieff
attempted suicide after his failure to kill the
Gear, and to have owned the horse by means
of which the assailants of Gen. Mezentsoff at
tempted to escape. telegram from st Peters
burg authoritatively states that he has been
sentenced to be hanged very shortly.
The crop news from Austria and most
of the grain producing regions of Eastern Eu-
rope continues unfavorable Heavy and contin-
uous rains have damaged the growing crops in
some places, while in others they are likely to
prevent successful harvesting
The work of destroying the great
Bulgarian fortresses, Rustchuk, Silistria, varna
and Widin, has been completed by the Rus
slams.
Cetywayo's obstinacy has dissipated
the English hopes of speedy termination Of
the Zulu war. The King of the savages had
not sent in hostages nor the cannon captured
at Isandula; and the Britons are beginning to
suspect that they have been fooled into the loss
of valuable time by his peaceful professions.
Berlin dispatches announce that the
German Consul at Samoa has been ordered to
abstain from all interference with the internal
affairs Of the country. Bismarck il understood
to be not in favor of annexing the Samoans.