The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-21
FOREIGN

SYMPTOMS of discord are showing them
selves In the county Of Westmeath. Ire
land.
LORD BEAcoNsF1ELD has surprised his
Hughenden tenants by returning 20 per
cent Of their rent for the past year.
THE German parliament will meet Nov.
18th to consider Bismark's economic
scheme.
The Sultan has again telegraphed the
Emperor of Germany, who has advised
him to accept the proposition Of the Euro
pean powers.
LORD MoUNrMoRR1s, a small landlord
in Galway, ireland, was murdered.
on the 2Sth inst, by his tenants, with
whom he was on bad terms.
AT meeting of the land league. Dillon.
Sexton and Sullivan strongly protested
| against the pastoral letter Of Archbishop
McCabe of Dublin.
PARNELL has issued a circular to the
trader and farming classes of Cork, invit-
ing them to a meeting, for the purpose of
establishing !, land league on a new basis,
intended to give the new body wider
scope.
A FRESCh newspaper hints that the sui
tan is demented, and that his dethrone-
ment may become necessary. The Otto
man palace contains none but sots and
idiots: and new sultan would not be an
improvement on the old.
THE king of the Hawaii Islands has. IN.
der the influence of foreign residents and
the business interests of the kingdom,
changed his policy, appointed new cabi-
net, and withdrawn the extraordinary DOW
ers he had conferred on Mareno as minis
ter plenipotentlary to the United States.
England and France. A telegram
was sent to Mareno at Washington recall
inr his mission, and Diminishing him abso-
lutely from all office in the Hawaiian GOV.
eminent. The following compose the new
cabinet: William L. Green, minister of
foreign. affairs; Henry A. P. Carter. min
lister of the interior; John S. Walker, min
lister of finance, and attorney general ad
interim. waiting the arrival Of William
Nevins Armstrong.
The British government has declared
counties Galway and Mayo to be in a
state of disturbance, and to need addition.
al police. The landlords are threatening
to protect themselves, if the government
can't or won't protect them. The London
Times is discussing the propriety of sus-
pending the habeas corpus in Ireland.
A DISPATCH from Teheran says: The
AAuAOo Io recently cllIcIcO IcfSlan tGrrl-
tory are still in the Marragha district.
The inhabitants of Soutchtrulka, the gov
ernor Of which fled at the approach Of the
kurds, have sworn allegiance to the
kurds. The town Of Mirandab and four
large villages have been pillaged and the
inhabitants massacred. The Persian GOV
eminent has ordered the dispatch of
twelve battalions Of infantry and 1000
cavalry with twelve guns, but they cannot
reach the scene of action for ten days.
Two battalions occupy position between
the rebels and Tawris, where tile Persian
general has already gone to collect troops
THE st. Petersburg, Nocost; (newspaper)
publishes telegram from the municipali-
ty of Novo Teherkask which states that
the merchants there have in view an in
sufficient supply of cereals for consumption
by the population. and they petitfoned
he minister of the interior to prohibit
the export of grain at Azof. General
Louis Melikof chief executive of the
government. visited the St. Petersburg
corn exchange for the purpose of inquir-
ing the price, stock and amount of ex-
port grain. 1t is stated that he contem-
plates stopping the expectation of cereals
to foreign countries. Large quantities of
American maize and Chillian wheat are
being sold here. and -four is being imported
by way of Stettin.