The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-04-16
NEWS OF The WEEK
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Liberal gain in England, up to
the 7th inst. was sixtv-five. This will be about
the number of the Home-Rulers.
In Cork, Parnell and DAILY, Home
Rulers, were elected to Parliament, defeating
Conservative and Liberal. Mr.. Parnell de-
clares that the Home-Rulers will use their
power to force concessions from the Wing
Government AZ they once did from the Tory
Ministry.
Bismarck resigned his Chancellorship
of the German empire lately, i'll consequence OF
a vote in the Bundesrath. correspondent at
Berlin reports that the Bundesrath passed the
Stamp law, but with certain notifications.
These were not agreeable to Prince Bismarck,
and he sent in his resignation to the Emperor,
who refused 10 accept it, using the word.
''Never" Prince Bismarck again sent III his
resignation. saying the vote i'll The Bundesrath
was not the sole ground for his action, but that
his health was such he considered 1t necessary
to withdraw from public life. Popular opinion
is that he will remain i'll office.
An English bark which sailed from
Mobile, on the Goth of February, had TO be
abandoned in mid-ocean after the loss of five of
her crew. The ship Shannon, from Baltimore,
rescued the Others ten i'll all.
Leon Say has been appointed French
Ambassador to England, with special instruc-
tons to negotiate commercial treaty between
that country and France.
The drunken King Thebaw, of Bur-
nah, has died of smallpox.
Russian troops in Southern Siberia
have been ordered to march to the Chinese
frontier.
Emperor William, in his reply to Bis
marck, refusing to accept his resignation, re-
quests him to submit to the Bundesrath pro-
posals calculated to bring about constitutional
solution of the difficulties of which he COM
plains.
The city of Paris is said TO be now
the principal center of Nihilism.
South American advices report a bat
tie between portions of the armies of Chill and
Peru. The Chilians were vanqushed with
heavy loss
1t is thought that the worst of the
borough reports that the distress is on the
wane, and she believes the various funds now
subscribed will be able to meet the necessities
of the sufferers
The Russian Government has decided
to make the Island of Saghalien penal colony.
Some 200 convicts have already been sent to
that place.
Famine is desolating Armenia, and APP
speals have been made to the Russians to save
the people from humiliation.
The non-Moslem inhabitants of Tur-
key are exceedingly well pleased over the fall of
Beaconsield, and predict that Gladstone will
turn the Ottomans ont of Europe.
Seven hundred men, women, boys
and girls have been burned alive in Rangoon,
Burmah, as sacrifice for the restoration of the
drunken Kings health There is a panic in
Mandalay, and hundreds of people are leaving
the city.
The beginning of the end of the Bea-
consfied Government is signalized by the resig-
nation of Lord Lytton of his position as Viceroy
of India.
The Russian Government is convinced
that the Nihilst Vaccinations find all their ele
ments in England and Germany.
During fire in n creosote manufac-
tory, London, one of the stills exploded, killing
eleven persons and wounding several
The 700 men, boys, women, girls,
priests, and foreigners sacrificed at Mandalay
Burmah, for the restoration of the Kings health
were buried alive under the towers of the city
walls-not burned, as heretofore stated. The
following is the explanation of the horror:
When city is built in Burmah human sacrifices
are offered. A new monarch usually has new
Capitol. The evil spirits are irritated.' There
has been no change of the Capitol, and, the viz
tue of the old sacrifices being gone, to appease
the evil spirits, the astrologers declared it ne
cessary to offer 700 lives. The sacrifices were
made by order of King Theebaw.