The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-08-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Nihilism is increasing at an enormous
rate in Russia.
The GOODNESS between Russia and
Germany seems to be increasing; and the rela-
tons between Germany and France are notvery
cordial, owing to recent events.
Spain is going to erect large mill
tary station opposite Gibraltar
Some alarm has been created in Lon
don by the occurrence of two fatal cases Of
cholera. The disease is also reported to have
made its appearance in Constantinople.
The cable chronicles another victory
Saratoga having won the Runnymede plate at
Egham against strong field.
From full examination of South At
rican advices since the victory at Ulundi, the
London Times draws the conclusion that King
Cetywayo risked all on that battle, and, there
fore, that the conclusion of the war has been
reached.
A late storm in Denmark, which APP
pears to have been something like the lorna
does that have ravaged large districts in the
United States in the last two or three years,
destroyed hundred houses and vast amount
of property, beside killing fifty persons.
Russia has formed an alliance with
Persia
Count Andrassy, for many years
Prime Minister of Austria, has retired, and a
new Ministry, with Count Taafe at its head, has
been formed.
A dispatch from Sarajevo, the capital
of Bosnia, says that / ,476 houses were burned
in the recent fire. The loss will reach sc, 000,-
600 florins. Forty-six soldiers were killed and
wounded.
A cable dispatch states that, of the
10000 shares of the Panama canal scheme put
on the market about &c, 600 have been applied
for, and these chiefly through the syndicate
supporting the scheme. Despite this un-
doubted failure, De Lesseps, backed by men,
bers of the French syndicate, is determined to
persevere with the project
At conference of miners held in
Birmingham. England, the other day, it w&s
represented that there was "some opening for
miners in the United States, as during the re-
cent depression in mining industry in Pennsyl-
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other employments." Upon this statement a
resolution in favor of emigration to the United
States was unanimously adopted.
The United States Consul at Man
chester, Eng, says that the failure of crops is
much more serious than generally supposed
abroad. The demand in England for meats and
grains from the United States will be enormous.
Business is generally depressed. Last year
more than $4,000 persons were supported in
Manchester by the public. The coming winter
will probably witness still greater restitution.
Mrs. Nellie Grant-Sartoris is not dead.
The cable dispatch announcing her death was
mistake, the Sartoris who really did die being
another member of the family.
England has been visited by another
violent and destructive rain-storm. almost COM
pletely running the crops left standing.
At Lurgan, Ireland, 200police charged
on a mob with fixed bayonets. The police were
beaten back, and twenty of their number in
jured. The rival mobs fired at each other with
rifles. One leader of the Catholic party had
some dynamite, which exploded, iniuring him
fatally.
The illfated city of Szegedin, in
Hungary, has been visited by destructive fire.