The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-11-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Marshal Canrobert, who was recently
elected member OF the French Senate as
Bonapartist candidate, is to be removed from
the Presidency of the Commission for the Pro-
motion of Officers in the ARMY.
AS an offset to the proposed British
railway line to India, certain Russian financiers
have under discussion plan for the construc-
ton of another road from Orenburg to fash
kend, and thence by way of Samarcand to the
Russian frontier.
A London newspaper again gives cur
rency TO the report that England and Russia
will come to an agreement respecting the divis-
ion of territory in Asia Schouvaloff's two in
been satisfactory to both.
Add ell Kader, the famous Algerine
chief, died recently at Damascus, aged ~ years.
It is stated that the British Govern
ment has information from New York, through
the British Consul there, that the American
Fenians are offering money and arms to the
Irish tenant farmers to enable them to resist
evictions.
The South American war has at last
been the occasion of a little bloodshed. A tel
egram from Valparaiso states that the Chilians
have captured Pisagua after desperate en-
gagement, In which they lost 500 in killed and
wounded 1t is stated that 800 children were
killed and wounded during the bombardment
Afghanistan advices report that the
suspicion which rested on Yakoob Khan, and
which was temporarily removed by his joining
Gen. Roberts at Kushi, is again settling down
on him, and he is now a prisoner under close
guard.
A correspondent at Cabul says it is
rumored that combined Russian and Persian
force has been defeated by the Turkomans near
Sirako
The diphtheria epidemic has assumed
alarming proportions in Russia. Thousands of
adults have died of the disease since 1876, and
it is believed that in many districts the deaths
have greatly exceeded the births. An idea of
the frightful mortality among the young may
be gained from the statement that in Odessa
since the LIST of last May fully rs per cent. of
the children have died Of Hypnotic diseases. The
plague has become 80 general and the mortality
so enormous that the Government has appoint
ed special commission to inquire into the mat
ter and adopt measures for the extinction of
the malady.
A dispatch from Cabul says: "The
general belief of the completely of Yakoob
Khan in the massacre of the British embassy
gains in strength. The Ameer and his advisers,
it is thought, did not anticipate wholesale
massacre, but only sufficient intimidation
to induce Maj. Cavagnari to report his position
in Cabul as untenable. The affair, however,
went beyond their control, and they then acted
on the principle that dead men tell no tales"
The Spanish Government has be-
come thoroughly alarmed at the threatening
aspect of the new rebellion in Cuba. Capt.
Gen. Blanco has telegraphed Gen. Martinez
Campos, Minister OF War, that new bands of
insurgents have msde their appearance in
provinces in the center of the island, and has
asked for reinforcements, chiefly of cavalry.
The Government has decided to embark them
Immediately on steamer at Cadiz, Santan9er,
and Barcelona.
A dispatch from Glasgow, Scotland,
says that thirteen persons returning from
fair were drowned while crossing the Lochin-
daal of the island of Islay.
On the arrival at Lima, Peru, of news
of the capture of the iron-cad Huascar, a riot
Gus popular military demonstration against the
President and Government was made, and the
Peruvian Cabinet was forced to resign.
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, now visiting
Paris, has just lost his daughter, Miss Laura,
by an elopement with an adventurer in Europe,
named Mccarthy, a Southerner, and long
married man.
A revolution has broken out in the
State Of Chihuahua, Mexico.
A dispatch from Cabul says the in
quiry into the Ameer's connection with the
massacre of Maj. Cavagnari and his party has
begun Forty-nine Afghans have 80 far
been hanged for completely in the massacre.