The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-25
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Marx Lane Express, In It's laSt
review of the British grain crops, says: "In
consequence of the continuance of rain, wheat
made little if any progress. The ears have
scarcely begun to appear. The bulk of the
hay remains uncut, or, in cases where 1t has
been cut, has been left lying to rot
In Scotland, crops are fully three
weeks behind hand The pastures are
mostly well covered Potatoes are look
ing fairly. On the whole, the agricultural
prospects there, though far from promising,
are less gloomy than in England"
De Lesseps, in a recent speech at
Rouen, France, declared that the friendship
between France and the United States would
facilitate the construction of the Darien canal
He believed the canal would be completed in
fie or six years
Diphtheria is now raging as terrible
epidemic in Bessaraba, and dispatch from
Berlin announces that the Asiatic cholera has
made its appearance in Smolensk; so that what
with the Nihilists and the evils resulting from
an almost bankrupt treasury, Russia is having
more than her share of Affections
The question of the emancipation OF
the Jews in Roumania has reached its crisis
through the resignation Of the Ministers, who
state that they cannot obtain majority in ia
vor of the measure demanded by the powers.
1t is intimated that unless the Roumanians re-
cede from their position on this matter the ma
tons which have already recognized the indie
pendence of the countries will recall their Am
bassadors
Several disturbances have occurred at
number of officers are implicated and will be
punished
Advices from South Africa state that
the King of the Zulus had made fresh overtures
for peace, which the British military authori-
ties had met half way.
The purser of the steamer Etna,
which arrived at New York the other day from
Port au Prince, Hayti, reports as follows: At
Port au Prince Monday, June 80 Petit Canal,
brother of the President shot DeLorme, a
member of the Legislative Chamber A gen.
eral shooting ARRAY ensued, in which forty
other members and some Of Canals adherents
were killed.
Owing to the rot which has attacked
the potato crop throughout France it is estnna-
ted that the deficiency iii the same will amount
to Is, 000, 600 sacks
Bismarck and family have gone to
Kissingen
Advices from London state that E.
p. Weston will leave for New York with the
Ashley belt on the steamer Arizona in the last
week of August Sir John Ashley intends to
accompany him, aud several distinguished pc
destrians Corkey, Rowell Brown, Vaughn
and Hazael will follow to compete for the
trophy in New York in September.
1t is reported that the mental condi-
ton of the ex-Empress Carlotta is much i'm
proved
Harry Palmer, of the firm of Jarrett
& Palmer, New York theatrical managers. died
at London, on the Doth of July
A Moscow journal has just been sup
pressed for arguing in favor of larger liberty
for the press.
Late advices from South Africa re-
have made no progress of late. There had
been some light skirmishing, but nothing like a
battle.
Turkey has refused permission to the
United States steamer Quinnebaug to enter the
Black sea, the reason of the refusal being that
the vessels tonnage exceeds 800.
The merciless exactions of the tax
gatherers in portions of the Madras presi-
dency, of India, have driven the Hinioos to
open revolt. They are resisting the collection
of the tax on palm trees.
At a meeting of Bonapartists held in
Paris few days ago, it was resolved, after
some debate, that, by the death of the Prince
Imperial, Prince Jerome Napoleon became the
head of the Bonaparte family. The meeting
was composed of Senators and Deputies, and
only two of those present voted against the
formal recognition of Jerome.
In Yorkshire and Derbyshire, En-
glsnd, large tracts of land are flooded by rain
storms.
During the progress of fire at
Mini Novgorod, in Russia, an explosion oc-
Cured that killed twenty-one people.