The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-10-10
NEWS OF The WEEK.


Another installment of 450 pardoned
Communists has arrived in France.
William Ringgold Cooper, an Ameri-
can by birth and education. formerly OF the
United States navy. but one of the most daring
and successful forgers who ever operated, has
been arrested in England, where he has been
doing some tall work in the forgery line.
The Mark Lane Express estimates
the wheat crop of Great Britain for this year al
80 per cent. below the average, and that l6 DOC,
600 or IL, 100000 quarters will be required from
abroad to supply the deficiency. The supply
of last years crop now held throughout the
United Kingdom is estimated at AZ, 900 quarters
less than at the corresponding season year
ago The samples of the new crop thus far ex-
hibited are inferior in quality.
A st. Petersburg paper says that
1854 persons were incarcerated in the central
prison at Moscow during the summer, 10, AT OF
whom were condemned to exile in Siberia.
In fight near Castlebar, Ireland, one
person on each side was killed The fight grew
out Of the anti-rent troubles
In Italy there is much dissatisfaction
among the people, and Garibaldi risings are
predicted There is also Il very uneasy state
of affairs in Spain, and pronunciamentos are
considered certain to follow the recent whole
sale arrests of alleged conspirators against the
Government.
Arctic weather has closed the Siberian
seas, recently navigated by Prof. Nordenskjold,
and rendered the northeast passage Impractical
BILE. Several English merchant-vessels bound
for Russia's polar possessions have been forced
to return, owing to the solidity of the ice which
they encountered.
The great depression in the cotton
trade in England is indicated by the fact that
in the Lancashire district alone 5,000,O0
spindles are now stopped. In one of the manu-
featuring towns of that region it is reported
that pauperism is nearly four-fold greater than
twoyears ago.
DISPATCHES from India state that the
British camp at Shutargardan was unsuccess-
fully attacked on the Sd of October by some
independent hostile tribes of that district. The
enemy was repulsed with the loss Of twenty
killed. The British loss was six wounded. A
telegram from Peshawur states that Gen. Cor
don, who is holding Peiwar- Khotal is sur
rounded by hill-tribes: that his position is
critical; and that the Eighty-ffth and Ninth
Lancers, and part of the Eighty first regiment,
have been sent to reinforce him.
The alliance between Germany and
Austria contemplates principally and chiefly
the Strengthening of the commercial relations
and facilities of the two countries. 1t is not
denied, however, that it embraces, in certain
contingencies, agreements for closer union,
involving both defensive and an offensive al
lance.
1t is said that Russian agents have
been stirring up sediion in several German
provinces, and are intriguing with Poles against
Prussia. The reported illness of the Car
proves to be fiction.
There was big meeting of discon-
tented land tenants at Cork, Ireland, on the
9Th inst Parnell, M. p, the leading spirit in
this agitation, boldly counseled ply steal resist
ance to the unjust demands of the land owning
aristocracy, and declared that robbery and OPP
preston would prevail in Ireland so long as
Englishmen were permitted to rule.
News comes from South America of
a serious Communist outbreak 1t consisted
in the seizure of the town of Bucarainaqua, in
New Granada, which, after being plundered,
was given over to a reign of terror for four
days. After having fired the place the Com
munists retired short distance with their
booty and intrenched themselves The Pres
ident Of the State, with small force, attacked
and repulsed them, killing several and captur-
ing number. The affair appears to have been
that of banditt rather than political
King Cetywayo, in the keeping of his
British captors, yet retains royal notions of his
own as to how royalty should be treated even
in captivity. He demands whole OK roasted
daily for his dinner, and, when informed that
he would be treated according to his station,
straightway asked that ten more of his wives
be sent for at once.
The Russian press make fresh out
break of hostility against England and Ger
many. The st. Petersburg Noyoe Vremyo
says : Sooner or later war of life and death
with England is inevitable. The only question
now to be considered s, which is the most
available route to Hindoostan."
The Duke of Beaufort, proprietor of
large estates in England and Ireland, says it is
impossible to compete with American produc-
tons. He advises that British farmers should
devote their attention to raising cattle
Revolving details of the sufferings of
the famine stricken people still come from
Cashmere There is reason to hope that the
worst is over, but undoubtedly the relief meas
ures have been miserably mismanaged by the
Maharaiah and his advisers, and the loss of
life has been terrible