The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-11-26
NEWS OF THE week.
FOREIGN NEWS.

hanged at st. Petersburg.
Eight thousand riAes have been SAINT
from Italy 10 Ireland, and Irishmen from the
united States have been buying arms In
Switzerland
John Bright, in q speech at Birming-
ham, denounced the Irish land laws, and at
trfbuted the state of affairs in Ireland t. the
rejection by the Lords Of the Compensation
for Disturbance bill He declared force would
avail nothing. The project for transfer Of the
land to tenants he styled "ohimsrioal" The
remedy was in giving the tenants secure pos
session and protection against constant raising
Of rents.
Gen. Cluseret and the manager OF La
Commune, in Paris, have been sentenced to ins
and imprisonment for defending criminal act.
Another journalist is condemned to Ike punish
ment for insulting President Grsvy.
The capital of the Panama Canal Com
pany, to be organized at Paris, is 800, 0OO. 900
francs, and the estimated cost is 100000, 600
francs. A special American committee vii be
created in New York.
The differences in the British Cabinet
upon the question of coercion in Ireland are no
longer concealed. Bright and Chamberlain
continue firm in their opposition TO the rigor-
GUS measures which are warmly urged. The
London Times says every days events tend to
the success of the stand taken by Mr.. Bright,
not be worth while to attempt
to enforce the opposite view. Mr.
Parnea telegraphs that Boycott will re-
quire a guard of 1000 troops for fourteen
days to enable him to harvest his crops. The
cost to British taxpayers will be from $4,000
10 $4,000 per day, making them pay at the
rate of 25 cents pound for his potatoes. The
Catholics of Belfast held great mass-meeting
to express their sympathy with the Land
Leaguers.
A great battle has taken place at
Urumiah, the loss being heavy on both sides.
The Kurds were repulsed, but burned the VII
hge and massacred 200 citizens.
A British regiment at Halifax has re-
ceived orders to sail for Ireland.
The burning of sugar refinery at
Etienne, France, wiped out 10000 francs
Eighteen families of miners suffered
eviction during snow-storm at Durham, En-
gland.
Germany is to establish politico-ec
nomical council Of seventy-fve members.
An anti-Land-League movement is
reported to be spreading in the North of Ire
land.
Twenty seamen and seven passengers
we're lost on the steamer Alsa which foundered
of the British coast.
An Irish " care-taker," in charge of a
farm from which the tenant had been evicted,
was shot near New Pallos, while on his way
home. He is not dead, as first reported, bat is
in precarious condition.
A terrific fre-damp explosion occurred
in a coal PIT near Mons, Belgium Twenty
seven men were In the mine at the time, all of
whom are believed to have been killed
A St Petersburg dispatch says that
"a large number of Nihiist placards have just
appeared upon the walls of st. Petersburg,
some Of them In the most frequented parts of
the city. They proclaim in flaming characters
the beginning of fresh revolutionary move
ment, beside which all former agitations will
be considered puerile and insignificant Om-
nous warning is given that the throne of
Alexander viii be vacant before the dawn of
another year."
The tenants throughout Ireland seem
to have organized universal strike against
paying higher rent for their farms than the
Government valuation, and in some instances
they refuse to pay even that The combination
against the payment of rents is extending into
hitherto peaceful districts. Evictions are all
bat impossible, and although there are quite
number OF soldiers aud constables in the coun-
try there are not enough to form body-guards
for all the obnoxious landlords, agents, bailifYs,
careta1ers, etc. The agitation is being
pushed with Tgor and determination, and
the proceedings instituted by the Government
against the leaders seem to have had only ons
ehect-that OF rendering the leaders more
popular. The address Of the Irish National
Land League Is temperate, manly, we'll
considered, and weil-w1itten document. It de-
claxes that the aim of the League is to accom-
paish reform in the infamous land laws OF Ire
land through reasonable, peaceful, and thor
ouehly legal means, which will "offend in NO
degree against natural right, moral obligation,
or intelligent human law"
Edwin Booth achieved great tri-
umph m London in his impersonation of tho
historical character of Richelieu
A Naples dispatch says the activity VI
Mount vesuvius increases. Lava flows abu,-
dainty on the side toward Naples.
Liverpool reports the arrival of 16. 1859
head Of American cattle from New York, Bos-
ton aud Baltimore during the past three
months. The number lost an the passage was
Ills head
Several Kurdish villages have been
destroyed by the Persians, and the Kurds have
retreated fifty miles.
Sir Alexander Oockburn, Chief Jas
tice of the Queens Bench, and Bleld Marshal
Sir Charles Yorke are dead, the former at the
age Of Is, the latter aged 30.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
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