River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-01-06
FOREIGN

THE proceedings in the state trials con
tinue to excite but little interest.
FRESH cases of "Boycotting" are contin-
uaily reported from Ireland.
/ AT last accounts the CHILEAN expedition
against the Peruvian city Of Lima had not
vet reached its destination.
THE Dutch government is about TO APP
peal to the people of the British nation in
| favor of the independence of Transvaal.
/ THE Grecian premier declares that his
| government Will not recede an inch from
the position gained at the Berlin confer
| ence.
THE magistrates of Limerick have under
/ examination an army corporal charged
/ with drilling members of Fenian organ
ization.
The authorities Of Seny Austria, have
forbidden a meeting of the peasantry
which was to have been held in the in
terest of / he liberals
ALEKo PASTA has rendered his resigna-
ton as governor of Roumania, and asks
permission to go to Constantlnople to ex-
plain his reasons therefor
A DUBLIN dispatch of the eth says:
The land commissioners concluded their
! inquiry and communicated the result to
Gladstone.
THE Pail Mall Gazette of the eth SAYS:
/ We see not the slightest reason to believe
! it necessary for the marquis of Ripon to
I return from India.
A DUBLIN dispatch reports that many
| Jurors in the state trials are securely Boy
/ cotted. and will not answer to their names.
! There are two gun-boats in the bay at
/ Galway.
| A CoRREsPoNDEN Of the Times at Buch-
Arrest saws: Il hear on good authority
| that the commercial difficulties between
Austria and Servia have been arranged.
| THE north of England has a serious
/ freshet. The river IrweIl has overlooked
| its banks, flooding 4 large tract of country
! and filling the easements of houses.
| TIE friends OF Mrs. Cross George Eliot
are considering the suggestion that Dean
/ Stanley be asked to permit the interment
! of the remains of the dead authoress IN
! Westminster Abbey.
A REPUBLIC has been organized at Held
elburg. in Africa, by the Beers, who num-
! Der 5000, and a detachment of colonial
! troops has been sent to the scence of the
revolt 1t is thought in London that
! Wolseley will be dispatched thither with
/ a British army.
SOME of the protestant farmers of the
north are making determined stand
| against the land league. The military sta
toned at Cork have been ordered to sup
press a land meeting proposed 10 be held
! at Kanturk the % Of January.
4 DETACHMENT of the ninety fourth
! British regiment of $50 men, was attack
ed by Beers while on their way from
Lydenburg to Pectona. in the Transvaal,
ard 40 of them were killed. and the
others were made prisoners. The Bears
are greatly elated at their success.
4 NEWSPAPER of Quebec states that or
ders have been issued on the citadel to
serve out fifty rounds of cartridges TO each
man, double the sentries and pull in the
draw-bridges. This is believed to have
originated in the investigations of an i'm
perial government spy into the strength
of the Irish people in Canada.
| THE people of Dublin are surprisingly
indifferent to the result of the state trials.
Parneli. on Dec. 81, reached the court
room an hour after the opening ofproceed-
ings. A iuryman, who Was half an hour
late, was threatened with fine of El00
should the ohense be repeated.
TIE London Times OF the 9th, in lead
ing article SAYS: The reported seizure of
Z cargo Of arms appears 10 have originat-
cd in an error or exaggeration. Even if
no importation of arms for the purpose of
Irish American Fenians were TO be feared,
The danger Of allowing an excited and law
less population to carry about guns and
pistols Is manifest.
TuE Beers in proelaiming the Trans
vaal a republic, announce a struggle to
restore treaties broken By British
officers, and throw upon the latter the