The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-02-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS

A bill for the emancipation of the
Jews has passed the lower branch Of the Servian
Parliament
The British troops continued their
advance into Afghanistan, and at last accounts
were well on their way toward CabuL
A definite treaty between Russia and
Turkey has at last been concluded, and peace
rs now established between the two countries.
In Afghanistan, Yakoob Khan's
troops are deserving by the wholesale.
Accounts from Upper Egypt give
heart-rending details Of famine there.
The English Government has pro-
hibited the importation of live cattle from
America
The Turkish Minister of Finance has
been dismissed because of his failure tc with
draw the paper currency.
A large quarry in the suburbs of
Oporto, Portugal, caved in, burying several
houses. The ruins then took fire, and many
persons periahed
Marshal MacMahon, President of
France, rendered his resignation on the 30th
ult In his letter of resignation he says that,
sbeing in disagreement with the Ministry, and,
being hopeless of forming another Cabinet, and,
unwilling TO assent to the measures which he
regards as contrary to good army organiza-
ion, he withdraws from power" M. Grevy
was at once elected by the Assembly President
Of the Republic for the term Of seven years.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has ar
rived in Russia
Germany is adopting vigorous meas
ures to prevent an invasion by the plague
The French Chamber of Deputies
has chosen Gambetta to preside over its DELHI
erations
Bismarck's protectionist tariff will in
dude duty on English coal of 10 per cent ad
valorem-
The report that England had forbid
den the importation Of American cattle is de-
MED
Several thousand Liverpool workmen,
belonging to the various trades, are on strike
against wage reduction.
A report comes from South America
That the terrible plague has broken out in the
province of Cara, in Brazil.
A correspondent at Rome reports that
a basis of agreement between Bismarck and
he Vatican has been attained.
Two of the Directors of the City of
Glasgow Bank have been sentenced to impris-
eminent for eighteen months, and five others to
eight months each.
A London cablegram says the great
excitement prevailing throughout Europe con-
serning the fate of Prof. Nordenskjolds Swedish
Arctic exploring expedition, which attempted to
find northeast passage from the Atlantic to the
Pacific oceans via the north capes of Europe and
Asia and Behring's straits, is daily growing
more intense.
The Russian Government has resolved
on extreme measures to stay the progress of
the plague. The villages in which the pesti-
lence originated and has prevailed with most |
deadly effect are to be burned, the inhabitants
being removed TO other portions of the quar-
antined district Troops are 10 be used In on
forcing the sanitary measures of the authori-
ties, who are given extraordinary powers.
The panic throughout European Rus
sia on account of the approach of the plague is
described almost incredible. Every class
and station in life have petitioned for the entire
cessation of all intercourse, even postal COM
munication, between the rest Of Russia and the
Volga. Letters sent from Astrakhan and Zaritzin
are not received by the persons to whom they
are addressed Some people even refuse to
take paper money, fearing the germ Of infec-
fon might be communicated through it. 1t is
almost impossible to describe the terror which
has taken possession of the people