The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-11-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

after an existence OF but q few weeks, has come
70 an end. Its fall is due to the vote Of the
Chambers, which, by majority OF 200 against
1873, contrary to the proposal Of the President
of the Council, decided that the law on the
reform of the Magistrature should be placed
at the head of the order of the day. The
Ministers thereupon rendered their designations
m body.
The Nihilist trials resulted In SEN
fences Of exile for three Of the accused, and
imprisonment for the other four.
The siege Of the Premontre Abbey at
Marseilles was q brief one, as the fathers
neglected to guard the door at which friends
were admitted
A London dispatch says the excite
ment in Ireland centers in Ballinrobe, where
troops are being concentrated to protect the
laborcrs engaged in harvesting crops for an
agent of Lord Erne, and where the excited
peasantry are also Aocking in large bodies.
The cable brings advices of the death
Of the Marquis of Avaido, Spanish states
man, and of Zamis, Greek, who was for sew
eral terms President OF the National Council,
rs also William Mure, Of the British Parlia-
ment. who served in the Kaffir and Crimean
wars.
Southern Austria had O shock of earth.
quake which killed several persons and injured
buildings without number.
Gambetta has been challenged to fight
q duel by Nj. Baudry D'Assen, Legitimist
Deputy, who was temporarily expelled on ac-
count OF supplementary language.
The British Postal Department desires
to stop the practice Of sending postal-cards
around the world the experiment having been
tried frequently enough to decide the question
Of time.
Kelly, the Australian bushranger, who
for so many years was a terror to the scattered
settlements has been hanged.
A remarkably disorderly and disgrace
full scene was enacted in the French Chamber
OF Deputies the other day. II grew out of M.
Baudry D'Asson's refusal to leave the Chamber
when ordered b y Gambetta. He had been ex-
sluded from the Chambers, but sneaked back
in defiance Of that body. A flo of soldiers
was brought in. NJ. D'Asson sat at his
StuA Will lOluCu tIluS, ny
q body-guard of Royalists and Clericals. A
hand-to-hand fight ensued. The Deputies re-
sisted the troops, and refused to Allow NJ
dAsson's expulsion. At last Col. Rim, the COM
mander of the soldiers, caught the bellicose
Deputy round the body, soldier took hold Of
his head. two more caught him by the heels.
and he was carried kicking and struggling out
q the house to a lookup in the palace. The
incident caused intense excitement.
An Irish land agent has been shot
dead in the County of Limerick
A cablegram from st. Petersburg
states that all the Nihilists implicated in the
plots against the Gear have been convicted
Eve receiving sentence Of death, eleven of hard
labor in the mines from lifo terms to fifty
years. and three women penal seryitude for fif-
teen years.
A letter-carrier of Paris had parcel
containing bank-notes representing 100000
francs stolen from him in the Rue st. Winnie.
Persuasion having had no effect. Der
yisch Pasha has ordered the Albanian leaders
30 surrender Dulcigno, and threatens to use
force to compel them should they refuse.
The Albanian leaders ask for months time
m which TO consider the demand and their ac-
ton thereon.
The origin Of the disorder in Ballirobe,
Irelap1, that eliminated in the sending thither
Of a detachment of Orange volunteers is thus
explained in o recent cable dispatchi "The
tenants on the estate Of Lord Emo became in
sonsed at tho harsh treatment OF Capt. Boy
eott, tho agent, and refused to pay rents to
him. A process-server who was sent round was
surrounded, together with his police escort, by
dangerous crowd, and was forced to fly for
his life. After three processes had been
served and DEGREES duly obtained against the
three persons who were served memorial
signed by all the tenants was presented to Lord
Erne. 1t recited the griefs against Capt. Boy
colt, and appealed to the old traditions of the
Erne family for considerate landlordism. 1t
intimated that, while the tenants were perfectly
willing TO pay their rents, they had come TO the
conclusion never again to work for or hold COM
munication with HIS present agent. The answer
was tirm refusal from Lord Erne to change
his agent at their dictation. The tenants as
serted their readiness to pay rents to any other
person whom his Lordship might appoint
Lord Erne ended the correspondence by a curt
note stating that he had no intention whatever
Of changing his agent, and il they would not
pay their rents to Capt. Boycott they might
take the consequence. The policy of isolation
was then entered upon"
A Dublin dispatch of the 10th says :
A meeting was held at Kockanrose Village near
Walshtown yesterday, for the purpose of for
maly "Boycotting" thirteen landlords, land
agents, and others, residing in that neighbor-
hood. Five thousand people were present.
James Malloy, tenant farmer, was President.
the following resolution was adopted "That
we pledge ourselves to Boycott these
thirteen men, and all who act like them, and
will endeavor to follow the example set to the
rest Of Ireland 10y the brave mon of Balnobe."
A dispatch from BalIinrobe says "The gem
eral opinion is that it will be absolutely noces-
sary for Boycott to leave the country, as he
will havo to 10 protected II he remain in
Ireland"