The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-12-19
NEWS OF The WEEK.
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There was a grand celebration at
Rome, ON the Sth of December, of the ami
versary of the proclamation of the dogma of
the Immaculate conception by Plus TX, In
1854
A battle was recently fought between
Montenegrins and Albanians, (which is described
as one Of the most savage, stubborn and
bloody conflicts of modern times. Both sides
fought with ferocity unparalleled, and left
thousands of dead on the field.
The Kashgar war has been ended,
with victory in favor of the Chinese.
A new Ministry has been formed in
Spain.
The Captain General of Cuba has
offered amnesty TO all insurgents who will sur
render
The general depression in Germany
continues, and, indeed, appears to be daily
becoming more severe.
There have been upward of 200 ar
rests made in Moscow ana its neighborhood for
supposed connection with the attempt upon
the life of the Gar.
France is on the verge OF Govern
mental crisis The Ministry and Chambers are
torn by discordant and contending factions, and
these dssensions extend to and are partici
pated in by all classes of people.
The Governor of st. Petersburg has
ordered every householder in that city to here
after display at his front door red light bear
ing the number Of his house.
Destructive floods are again reported
in Hungary.
Destructive floods, caused by over
flow of the rivers, are reported in Transyl-
vania, in Southeastern Austria.
Indictments have been returned
against Killen, DAILY anG Davitt, the Irish agi-
tators, and they will be tried for sedition at
Dublin.
Advices from Afghanistan report a
battle between a body of British troops and a
large number of Afghans, near Cabul, in which
the latter were defeated with heavy loss The
British loss was eighteen killed and twenty-five
wounded.
An assassin made an unsuccessful
attempt, at Calcutta, on the life of Lord Lytton,
yiceroy of India, firing two shots at him.
The political situation in Spain is
extremely serious.
In Berlin stock gambling has become
an irrepressible mania, and fortunes are won
nd lost daily.
1t is stated that the prosecution
against Davitt, DAILY, and Killen will not be
pressed
In Afghanistan the natives have
again been defeated by the British; in
South Africa, also, the natives have been
worsted in a series of encounters with the
British troops: and in South America the
Chilians have been disastrously defeated by
the Peruvians and Bolivians.
Gortschakoff is said to have present
ed to the Gar programme of his future poll
cy, which has for basis friendly relations
with Austria, Hungary and Germany
Dispatches from Cabul of Dec.
Is report the situation az serious in the ex-
treme. The Sepoys and hill-men who menace
the city are increasing in numbers rapidly, and
it is estimated that they now number not less
than from 1900 to 1900 fighting men. The
rtish have lost heavily, especially of officers
Renforcements are on the way, but it is feared
they will be intercepiedand cut to pieces by the
enemy, in which event the British will be
driven within the walls of Cabul and compelled
to stand siege.
Calcraft, public executioner of En-
gland for forty years, is dead.
An Irish farmer in Limerick, made
desperate by eviction, assaulted Lord Fermoy,
his landlord, knocking him senseless The
tenant was promptly lodged in jail