The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-20
NEWS OF The week.
FOREIGN NEWA.

Ottero, the would-be assassin OF the
SPANISH King, has been sentenced to death.
Cremieux, Republican life Senator
OF France, and statesman of note, is dead,
at the age Of "a years.
The French steamer Valentine, from
Cardiff for Dieppe, has foundered. Sixteen
persons were drowned.
There were over 100000 deaths by
cholera in Japan last year.
The cattle plague has reached the in
terror of China.
The st. Petersburg police have seized
another Nhilist printing press.
The Empress of Austria gave 81, 900
to the Irish relief fund
Gen. Grant left Cuba for Mexico on
the 18th inst
Advices from st. Petersburg state
that the clandestine revolutionary agitation at
the Russian capital and elsewhere throughout
the empire las actively increased, and that the
feeling of opposition to the aristocracy is
strengthening despite all the efforts made by
the Government for the suppression of its
manifestations
The total expenses and loss of re-
sources to France from the Franco-German
war was IL, $50 0J0, 900 francs.
In the speech from the throne. on
the opening of the German Parliament, on the
10Th inst, it was announced that the principal
measures which the Government would bring
forward relate to the army, the Socialists and
commercial treaties with the South Sea islands.
The effect of the revival of business
in this country is beginning to be felt in En-
gland London dispatches report trade as
rapidly improving.
German newspapers defend the pro-
posed increase of the army on the ground that
it is necessary 10 keep pace with the armies of
France and Russia.
1t is reported that Persia contem-
plates charging her territory by adding slice
of Afghanistan, and that England will not OPP
pose the STEP
The proposition in the French Cham
Der of Deputies for complete amnesty to the
Communists has been defeated by vote of
1l5 yeas to 3l3 nays.
Prince Louis Napoleon is to be
monumented in Westminster Abbey.
Germany will continue the anti
Socialist laws until 1856.
1t is reported that Germany, Aus
tria and England have entered into an al
lance.
Gen. Grant and party experienced
railroad accident in Cuba. When proceeding
\ 30 IIax bx,O al in ,a
locomotive struck a COW, the cars going off the
track on an embankment, but luckily without
serious consequences.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts has
determined to devote 81, 100000 of her great
fortune to the amelioration of the condition of
the poor farm-tenants Of Ireland Her plan is
to purchase lands and lease the same to the
small tenants at moderate rates of rental.
England is believed to be scheming
for protectorate over Persia
The Duchess of Marlborough writes
10 the Mayor OF London that, in order to guard
against famine in Ireland next year, the COM
mittee has purchased 10000 worth of pota-
toes for distribution, probably for planting.
Russia is endeavoring to negotiate a
heavy loan in Berlin and Paris
Experts estimate the losses of the
farmers of the United Kingdom during 1879
at from flOoOO0,0C0 to $50, 100000.
1t is the opinion of the Duchess of
Marlborough that if the charity of the public
continues no person in Ireland need be allowed
to die for lack of food She estimates that &c.
600 week must be expended in relief measures
for six weeks to come. In tine House of Com
mons, Sir Stafford Northcote announced that
the Government would make an advance of
f150,0 coo to Ireland
Several chiefs have revolted against
King John, of Abyssinia, and his power is seri-
ously threatened.