The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-03-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Portuguese explorer, Pinto, has
trsversed Africa from west to east, and has
reached Transvaal
The people OF Cashmere, in India,
are diving of famine like flies, and the province
bids fair to be depopulated in a few months.
A st. Petersburg dispatch reports
that two fatal cases OF plague have occurred in
that city Spotted typhus, which is almost rs
fatal as the plague, is also prevailing.
The German Parliament has rejected,
by an overwhelming vote, motion in favor Of
an European Congress to arrange for general
disarmament
A royal wedding of unusual brillian-
cy was consummated at Windsor Castle, in
England, on the 18th inst The high contract
ing parties were the Duke of Connaught, son
of Queen Victoria, and Princess Louise Mar
garet, q granddaughter of King William of
Prussia
The city of Szegedip, in Hungary,
has been overtaken by terrible calamity. The
river Thesis, on both banks of which the town
Is situated, burst the dams which confined its
waters and the flood swept everything before
many people drowned, and thousands rendered
homeless. Szegedin is the second commercial
town in Hungary, and has o population Of
$4,000.
The Conservatives in Office in France
arc being swept out as fast as the new Radical
broom can reach them.
The French Government has char
red steamer to fetch 600 amnested Commun-
Is from New Caledonia.
In France the proposition to i'm
peach the De Brogie and Rochebouet Minis
tries has been defeated in the Chamber Of
Deputies by large majority. As a comprom-
Use measure, resolution was then adopted de-
claring that these Cabinets, by their culpable
schemes. betrayed the government they should
have served
A London dispatch says the British
steamer Severn, from London to Quebec,
ran down, off Dungeness, pilot cutter, having
twelve pilots and crew of eight on board.
Ten pilots and five of the crew were drowned.
War has broken out between Chill
and Bolivia.
A dispatch from London says
the Portuguese explorer, Pinto, has ar
rived at Pretonio, South Africa, with eight
followers, all that remain of 400, with whom
he set out on the expedition.
The international Court of Appeal
has sent strong protest to the European pow
ers against the Egyptian Governments non
payment OF the sums decreed against it. The
court requests the powers either to insist upon
,avt roll nf tba dntu IF hoe ~
cases against the Government
The Szegedin (Hungary) calamity
turns out to have been of more appalling pro-
portions than even the first reports indicated
OF Q, 200 houses, all except 26l were swept away
by the avalanche Of waters that rolled sud
denly upon the doomed city dis
patch from Pesth says @the lowest estimate
now current fixes the number drowned at
1000 Many persons believe that 1900 per-
ished, as the gale prevented majority of the
inhabitants from hearing the first alarm. The
whole country below Bzegedin and Temisvar is
strewn with caravans of people. All viii
lages and boroughs have Hospitality
opened their houses and stores to the refu-
gees.
There was an exciting discussion in
the German Reichstag the other day. Herr
Lebknecht Socialist, declared that his party was
the party of reform, not revolution. He de-
Tended tho course of the Socialist Deputies in
not rising from their seats when cheers were
given for the Emperor. The President of the
Reichstag, amid cheers, remarked that this con-
duct offended the moral sense of the Chamber.
Herr Lebknecht continued: IF repub-
lie is established in Germany" He was un-
able to finish the sentence in consequence Of
the uproar which the words occasioned The
President threatened to deprive him Of his
right of speech. At the close of Herr Lieb-
knecht's speech, the President of the Reich
stag threatened him with forcible removal from
the tribunal The tumult at the time was in
describable.