The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-09-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


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Not long ago the Emperors of Ger
many and Russia had a secret consultation.
Now il is announced that Bismarck and Gort-
schakoff, the Premiers of those two Govern
ments, are to have a conference at Berlin
IT is admitted by Paris journal that
France will be compelled this fall to purchase,
bushels of wheat, thus coming in direct compe-
tition with England, whose demand will be
great. Besides these markets for the United
States crop surplus, Spain, Belgium, Holland
and Italy are expected to appear as large buy
ers of food supplies on this side of the ocean.
A GLASGOW dispatch says it is esti-
mated that 80 900 persons are still out of work
there. The iron trades only are doing well.
The building trades are in the worst condition,
and it will be necessary again to make provision
to assist the unemployed during the coming
winter
A number of tenant-farmers selected
as delegates from Scotland, England and Ire
land sailed on the steamer Peruvian, which
left Liverpool last week, for Quebec and Mont
the auspices of the Canadian Government, to
investigate and report to their constituents
the advantages which the Dominion presents as
field for settlement
A Bombay dispatch says: Serious
riots are proceeding in Cabul, and many traders
and citizens have been killed. Messengers
have reached Candahar from Cabul urging a
general rising against the British. Similar
messages have been dispatched to other Afghan
cities
The st. Petersburg Gazette advo-
Gates boldly carrying out what has been called
the secret Anglo Russian programme in Asia.
This is to divide Afghanistan on the line of the
Hindoo koosh mountains, Russia taking the
northern section and England the southern.
1t has been limited that England has been NOV
ing slowly in carrying out this programme, be-
cause the Government was not sure of popular
support. But the massacre at Cabul gives the
Government its opportunity.
The industrial depression continues
to grow no better in Great Britain, and wage re-
auctions and strikes are of everyday occur
renee in the manufacturing districts.
N hOnuOh OClCSIdlu VI Ulc IobA
says: Dispatches to the Government con-
firm the apprehensions of an organized OPP
position by the population of Afghanistan.
The viceroy, however, is sanguine Of speedy
success. Reports from Mooltan state that
Herat Badakshan and Balkh have all revolted
against the Ameer. A holy war is being
preached throughout Afghanistan. The Hin
doc attached to Maj Cavagnaris mission, who
concealed himself during the attack by the
mob, and who escaped at night, has arrived at
Kiratza. He reports that the embassy was
attacked in the morning, and set on fire at
noon, bat that it held out until evening. He
believes all the others connected with the mis-
ion were killed"
King Mtesa, ruling near Victoria Ny
ANA, Africa, has abolished slavery throughout
his dominions.
The deficit in the French harvest is
estimated at about IL, OOO, 900 bushels. Twenty
eight millions of francs worth of gold left that
country last week for America.
The st. Petersburg Gazette warns it's
readers against the treacherous assertion that
1t is necessary for England to conquer Afghan
deadly enemy of Russia. The policy of Russia
In Asia can only consist of reprisals against En-
gland. 1t is necessary to expel the British from
Central Asia
Gustave Hippolyte Roger, the famous
French tenor, who made the tour with Jenny
Lind in her first visit to England is dead aged Ga
A dispatch from Capetown, South
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continues hotly. He has split up his party and
taken to the bush"
A Constantinople dispatch says that
advices from all sides represent that Eastern
Roumelia is in a state of complete anarchy.
There has been a series of massacres
There is serious famine in Rou-
mania, on account of the failure of the maize
crop
Upward of 10000 cotton operatives
are on a strike at Ashton, England.
A dispatch from Berlin says, the cat
tie plague having appeared in Russian Poland,
Germany has forbidden importation across
the frontier of live stock from Russia or
Austria
Advices from India say: It is be-
lieved in the best-informed circles that the
Ameer was undoubtedly in completely with
those who committed the assault upon the
British Embassy at Cabul, if he is not guilty
of directly instigating the affair himself
Suleiman Pasha, whose death at
Bagdad is announced, was a conspicuous figure
in the Russo-Turkish war. His heroic but ill
advised assaults on the Russian posts in the
Balkans will be remembered as among the
most brilliant exploits of that bloody struggle
When the Russians overrun Roumelia he was
deprived of his command and imprisoned.
Later it was reported that he had been thrown
into the Bosphorus by order of the Sultan, but
the falsity of this was established soon after by
his temperance in Punishment.