River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-05-20


Emperor William this summer.
THE Catholic bishop of. Ossory, Ire
land, in pastoral, condemns the land
league.
THE cost of the Afghan war now is
confessed TO be upward of $l3,Oo0,0C0.
and probably will be more.
THE commission on the question of
restoring the palace of the Tuileries, has
dec ided to restore and convert 1t into
museum.
A BERLIN dispatch says Rumors are
in circu lation that Russia intends to ar
range a fresh loan with the Roths-
childs.
I AN order has been published Temporal
| rily increasing the police force in st.
Petersburg by two hundred and fifty in.
| spectors.
GEORGE CLARK & Co, tea merchants,
have failed. Liabilities estimated at
from 100000 to 100000. The losses are
ascribed 10 speculation in tea.
GIN. ToDLRBHN has been summoned
to st. Petersburg from Odessa. 1t is un-
derstood he will be appointed Governor
General of Warsaw.
THE Cunard steamer Tarifia has ar
rived at Liverpool, and reports having
passed on the way three large icebergs,
one of which was eighty feet high by
400 feet long.
THE position of affairs between Bis.
marck and the Reichstag is considered
serious. His speech last Saturday pro-
duced an unmlstakable tension, which
has not thus far abated.
Mr.. BoURKE, Home Ruler, attempted
to address the county Mayo electors at
Ballina, and was very roughly handled,
and compelled to retire, Notwithstanding
the efforts of the priets TO allow him to
! be heard.
| LONDON dispatches say that new
rupee loan is the most likely mode of
meeting the deficiency in the budget
estimates. 1t is proposed to send com
mission to investigate the financial con-
ditIon of India.
VIENEA advices say that four thousand
horses 5000 Martini rifles and 10000
| cartridges have arrived at Scutari for
the Albanians, who occupy the whole
territory from Scutari and Prisrend to
Kanaja. The Turkish officers and men
everywhere are fraternizing with them.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch says
trustworthy news has been received from
| Scutari that the whole of Northern AL
bania is in arms. The authorities seem
to have lost all power. Scutari has al
ready sent 200 men to the insurgents,
and the entire population capable of
bearing arms is ready to turn out in case
of need.
FAMINE in the Province of Azerbaiian
IS increasing The crop prospects are
| bad There have been 600 deaths from
| starvation since January in the district
of Urumiyah. Twelve hundred chris
tians have lett the country. Wheat costs
sixty pounds sterling per ton in the fam
inc stricken district.
THE outlook in the cotton-splnning dis
trict in England, is very gloomy. AT
Blackburn it is expected that all the
weaveTs will turn out to morrow. Many
of them are on a strike to-day. At Old
ham the prospect is extremely depress-
ing. The master spinnners announce
their determination to close the mills for
week, unless the men withdraw their
demand for an advance of B per cent. in
their wages. A season of anxiety, distress
and turmoil, is feared.
THE commission of the house of com
mons to which was referred the case of
Charles Bradlaugh voted ON the question
of his admission to his seat upon his
making an affirmation instead of taking
the customary oath. The committee was
equally divided on the question, and the
chairman gave the casting vote against
dispensing with the oath. 1t is now be-
lieved in some quarters that Mr.. Brad
laugh will take the oath, but his more
intimate friends say he will not, and that
he can not without convicting himself of
gross inconsistency and hypocrisy.
A VIENNA correspondent of the Times
reports that affairs in Albania ale not so
bad as special dispatches make out, but
there is sufficient cause for uneasiness to
raise doubt whether the question can
be settled without an armed conflict.
Five or six thousand Albanians are as
sembled at Tusi, few miles from Pod
goritza. The Montenegrins are concen-
trating 1900 men at Podgoritza. The
Turkish force in the province is only
about 5000 Even if the porte is willing
to execute the convention, it has not the
power, and if unwilling, it is difficult to
see how the intervention of the powers
can be effectually brought to bear.
THE United States frigate Constella-
ton, left the harbor of Queenstown on
the 18th inst, for New York. She was
taken in tow by the tug Fergus McIver
A large number of gentlemen whose &C
quaintance Capt. Potter and the officers
of the Constellation formed during their
visit here accompanied the ship to sea,
and left the vessel only when it was alb
solutely necessary to return. The
beach was lined with the citizens of
Queenstown, who cheered Justify as the
Constellation passed out to sea. The
rarting farewell was as hearty as it was
spontaneous. The wind is exceedingly
favorable, ana it is expected the run out
will be a good one. United States Con-
sui Brooks directed all the arrange
ments, which were perfect in every re-
spect.
VICTORY upon victory for Parnell
Cork City, Meath, and Mayo, have pro-
claimed him as their choice; Wexford
and other places have returned the men
of his choice and now, although Kettle,
the Parnellite candidate, has been de-
feated in Cork county, the defeat has
been so nearly victory that the Parnell-
ties still rejoice. Many people have
looked on the contest in Cork with I'M
usual interest, since really the great
question to be decided by it was how far
the people were to be influenced by the
expressed wishes of their clergy. These
latter have always been able to bring their
favorite through triumphantly and many
find food for prophecy in the fact th az,
Notwithstanding all the bishops and
priests of Cork were arrayed against ket-
tie, and for Colthurst, the former lacked
but one hundred and fifty votes OF the
number polled for the latter.