The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-05-23
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

FOREIGN NEWS.
The Russian army of occupation in
Turkey is being withdrawn with all possible
dispatch.
An experienced professor of veter-
mary r,edicne in Edinburgh has examined the
lungs of American animals, said by Govern
ment inspectors in England to be affected with
pleuro- pneumonia, and pronounces them
wholly free from any symptom of that disease.
The cattle were suffering with capillary bron-
chitis disease not contagious, and which
doubtless originated on the transatlantic voy-
age.
The city of Poonah, in India, an i'm
portant Government and military center, has
been devastated by fire. Orenburg, in Russia,
has also been visited by a second destructive
coLfagration.
Disastrous floods are again reported
in Hungary.
The Queen of England is now a
great grandmother, Princess Charlotte, Of
Prussia, having given birth to daughter.
An insect, which defies all attempts
at extirpation, is devastating the great grain
fields of Southern Russia.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says "the
disease which has broken out in the Caucasus
proves fatal in twenty four hours. In Derby,
which contains $50 houses, seventy persons
have died. In Medivricheni, with 200 houses,
there are 200 persons dead The mortality
elsewhere. is on the same SCALE"
The Panama Star and Herald gives
some incidents of the war operations in South
America. Pisaqua was bombarded and des-
troyed, causing loss of about 100000 soles
The launches at Mollendo were sunk, several
shots fired into the town. Iquique was bonn
barded for half an hour; loss trifiing.
During the bombardment of Pisaqua,
Rear Admiral Rodgers, of the United States
war steamer Pensacola, was putting off from
the shore to his ship with his family when a
shot from the CHILEAN boat carried away his en-
sign. The CHILEAN Admiral went on board the
Pensacola and apologized- Garces, who
had been proclaimed rebel, made an attack
with some 400 troops upon party of Hur-
tardistas in Amaime, in the Cauca valley and
met with complete defeat The dead are esti-
mated at from $50 to 500 This ended the re-
bellion.
France declines to join England in
assisting Turkey to obtain oan.
Empress Augusta, of Germany, has
been paying visit to Queen Victoria, of En-.
gland.
Wholesale arrests of Nihilist incendi-
aries are being made in Russia Seventy per-
Sons were arrested in Orenburg. Among those
implicated are several ladies belonging to the
nobility.
The death of Jacob Staempfi. ex-
President of Switzerland, is reported. He was
one of the Geneva arbitrators, and his services
in supporting our side on that occasion were
acknowledged by handsome service of plate
voted him by Congress.
The international Congress to dis
cuss projects for ship-canal across the 18TH
mus of Panama met at Paris on the 18th inst
Ferdinand De Lesseps was elected President
All the leading nations of the world were repre-
sented by delegates.
The cable reports the failure of sew
eral trading companies in Holland, with liabili-
ties amounting to nearly 100000.
A letter has been received at St.
Petersburg from Prof Nordenskjold, of the
Polar expedition, from Eastern Siberia, dated
Sept %, 1878, announcing that all connected
with the expedition were well.
The greater part of Lublin, city of
10000 inhabitants in Russian Poland, has been
destroyed by fire.
All the powers except England are
said to have agreed to undertake negotiations
looking to settlement Of the question of the
Greek frontiers, for which provision was made
at the Berlin Conference, but no steps have been
taken, owing to the unwillingness Of the British
Government to move in the matter.
Advices from India state that among
the principal points Of agreement with Yakoob
Khan are the British command of the passes,
with sufficient territory to constitute scientific
frontier the appointment of British resident
at Cabul, and the control of the foreign rela-
tons Of Afghanistan.
India items: Famine prevails in
Cashmere, cholera is raging in most of the
cities of the Punjaub, la~less bands of rob-
bers are securing the district of Poonah. In
portions of Bengal the drought still prevails,
and the indigo and other crops are suffering.