Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-02-24
FOREIGN.

In the contest on the Thames for the
championship of England, the Sportsman cup.
| and 81 900, Hanan defeated Iaycock by four
! lengths. A joint-stock company has been
! formed in Brazil to run a line of steamers be-
| tween Halifax and Rio de Janeiro, subsidy of
! $50, 600 having been granted at each end Of
| the route.
SIaIsMUND IiAcRoIx, Radical. has been
elected President Of tho Municipal Council of
Paris The Canadian Government wants
s4S, 46T. 526 to pay the expenses of managing
Ire alfairs Of the Dominion for the current
year. 1T is stated semi-oficaly that Ger
many has taken the initiative this time In
| bringing about a peaceful settlement of
Turko Greeian difficulties. All the Span
sh Ministers to foreign countries have
been requested to resign. The new Mn
stry has also determined to withdraw all suits
under the P,ess laws. Stephens, the Fenan
| ex-Head- Center is in Paris, and his presence
| there is source of uneasness to some mem
bers Of the British Parliament. 1T is said
| that negotiations for peace are being
carried en- by the British Cabinet with
the Beers through Sir George Colley.
A plot to blow mp the arsenal at KeR, Russia
was discovered recently. Numerous arrests
have been made Traffic through the Suez
canal has been temporarily suspended, owing
&c the fact that the British steamer Tantalon Is
! aground near Port Said.
PARNELL, accompanied by O'Kelly
and Sexton, two Irish members OF Parliament,
and Brennan, prominent Land-Leaguer, has
arrived in London from Paris Propositions
for peace between the Beers and the British
have been put forward The one most likely
! of acceptance is that which would con-
| fer independence on that portion Of the
Transyaal to which the Beers have an
undoubted claim, and to annex the
other portion to the British dominion.
5even thousand men are at work on one section
Of the Railroad from the City OF Mexico to
Toluca.
Two HEAVY failures have been report
ed in Groat Briv;in-viz Kert Bros. non
masters, of Glasgow, and Morrison Bros. of
Workington and AIarypor;, England. Further
correspondence from Lima confirms the ac-
count of the capture Of that city by the
Chilans. The lstest accounts exone:ate Gen.
pierolR frsm all blame in the matter. II ap-
peags that he had retired exhausted, after
being nesriy four days III the saddle,
when the ordtr for retreat was given
Women and children will not be exefnpt from
tire operation of The Iiish Coercion act, a mo.
ton exemptipg them having been rejected in
the House Of Commons. Opposition to the Oh
strlcton rules does not seem to be confined TO
the Tories and Parnei'ites. The advanced l. b.
erals are $50 dissatisfied with them, ana il is
probable that the most Objectionable rules viii
be withJ raHn
THE Gar has sent Aides-de-C Camp to
distribute money in the faminc-stricken vii
lagos Of Russia. The costumes Of some art
students at masquerade in Munich, Ger
many, caught fire, and eight young men were
burned to death. The French Government
has put an embargo upon the importation of
Ameli an ssl'ed pork, lacon and ham
Marseilies maintains IFS reputation as the most
RADICAL city Ct France Its corporation. by an
ali but unanimous Votes to has refused
to permit the erection OF q statue of Theirs
within the corporate limits, on the ground that
he was opposed to republican principles and
IDEAS And yet to Thiors as much ss 10 Gam
beta it is owing That France has a republican
goytrament to-day