The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-07-18
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Marx Lane cypress, In lts laSt
weekly review of the British grain trade, says:
@The agricultural prospects cause very grave
apprehensions Should rain continue, the hay
crop will be useless except as manure The
condition of wheat is unimproved Barley IN
heavy land is nearly ruined. Nothing but the
speedy advent of sunshine can prevent the al
most general failure of the principal crops.
Advices from Kent state that the hop crop
threatens to be more disastrous failure than
for years past"
The houses of fourteen out of fifteen
wards forming the most important part of
Irkutsk Siberia, we're destroyed by fire on the
4th, and many of the inhabitants are homeless.
At Richmond, England, Kate Web
ster has been found guilty of the murder of
her mistress, Mrs. Thomas, and sentenced to
death. 1t was ascertained that Mrs. Thomas
body was boiled and thrown into the Thames,
and the head destroyed by burning.
The remains of the French Prince
Imperial arrived at London by steamer from
South Africa on the 10th of July.
The cholera is spreading in British
Burmah.
The report of the sinking of steamer
on the River Doubs, France, in a hurricane,
with great loss of life, is untrue
A Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times states that everything tends to show
that Prince Jerome Napoleon intends accepting
the position of the deceased Prince Imperial
The British House of Commons, de-
spite some objections by the Government has
voted seventy six to fifty six in favor of the
Enlistment of a Department. of Agriculture and
Commerce under special Cabinet Minister
Marshal MacMahon, ex. President of
France, asked permission to attend the funeral
of the late Prince Imperial at. Chiselhurst. A
special Cabinet Council was called and the ap-
plication rejected. The refusal was based
upon the ground that similar requests by
number of distinguished officers had been de-
MED The affair created great sensation in
Paris
One of the best-known agriculturists
in Great Britain, Mr. Mechi, insists that ''tin-
ishing stroke" has been put to the agricultural
disaster, and that it is now too late for crops to
recover. They are considerably injured, he
says, even on we'll farmed and drained lands,
"while on i'll. farmed end undrained lands the
matter is simply runous." He admitted. how
ever, that the damage is less to wheat than to
spring crops From most parts of the con-
tnent the news continues unfavorable, and a
material deficiency i'll the breadstuffs supply
seems to be certain.
The late elections in Austria have
been disastrous to the Liberals or Ministerial
party Their losses in the Reichsrath, accord
ing to the latest returns received, aggregate
fifty seats.
Advices from South Africa report
that the King of the Zulus will not submit to
lord Chelmsford's terms
A second disaster by fire has visited
hkutsk, Russia, destroying many public and
private buildings
A telegram from Odessa, Russia, as
serts that a transport which recently left
Odessa for Sagbalien with 40 Nihili-ts lost 200
from disease, in consequence of overcrowding,
and landed $50 others in dying condition.
The funeral rites over the remains of
the French Prince Imperial re held at Cam
den House, Chiselhurst, gland, OH the L 9TH
inst Many of the English royal family were
present, and there was an imposil 6 military
and civil escort The solemn ceremonies were
witnessed by many thousand people.
Information comes from the American
Minister at Der in that Bismarck has been con-
verted to bimetalism and is determined to use
his influence and authori toward the restora-
ton of the double standard in the German en-
pire.
The Egyptian steamer Samanoot,
bound from the Mauri ius islands to Alexandria,
was recently lost at sea; twenty-five lives were
lost
A dispatch from Calcutta reports that
the King of Burmah has massacred twelve per-
sons.