The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-21
FOREIGN NEWS.

Jim Keene's celebrated horse Foxhal
coo. SO recently. Just before the start the
betting was 8 to against Foxhall. The Ameri-
can horse won in canter by almost ten lengths.
The Americans won upward of 100000 on the
result.
The French occupation of Tunis will
be restricted to fortified points commanding
the city and the road to the Bardo Palace and
Goletta. Since the evacuation of Hammamett
the rebels prevent communication from with
out and murder whoever quits the town. The
British residents demand immediate assistance.
The Portuguese court has ordered
four days mourning for President Garfield.
A Partisan newspapers publishes let
ter from Gen. Sir Garnet Wolsely, who depre-
Gates the construction of the tunnel below the
English channel, as he feels that it would be
lasting source of danger to England.
A new conspiracy against the life OF
the Emperor of Russia is said to have been
discovered.
The Hungarian Government Commits
sion has decided to continue the prohibition
against American pork.
The British steamer Corsica foundered
at sea off the Bombay coast
Foxhall won the select stakes at New
market His jockey Mcdonald. was given
$4,000 for taking the Czarowitch stakes.
The French wheat crop of the year
will yield about $4,000, 900 bushels less than
the crop of last year. The deficit must be
supplied mainly from this country, as the wheat
crops of the countries bordering on France are
rather short.
Parnell was arrested in Dublin under
the provisions of the Coercion act and taken
quietly to Kilmainham Jail. On the news
becoming known, there was intense
excitement throughout Ireland and among
the Irish-American population at this
side Gladstons announced the arrest of
the Irish agitator at the Guildhall, London on
the occasion of his formally receiving an adj
dress from the London Corporation, and the
announcement was received with tremendous
cheers. There IL no doubt that the arrest
meets with the approval of the English people.
1t il probable that Parnell's incarceration will
be followed up by the arrest of other
prominent leaders, and determined
and vigorous effort to suppress the Land
League organization. John Dillon has as
sumed the leadership of the league in the
place of Parnell. but il is not probable that he
will be permitted to retain the position very
long. In the meantime Ireland continues in a
state of ferment, and numerous murders and
assaults on bailffs land agents and landlords
are reported.
Lorillard's Iroquois won the Newman
ket Derby, in a canter.
Quinn, Secretary of the Irish Land
League, has been placed in Kilmainham Jail,
and a warrant issued for the arrest of Healy
Orders were received at Limerick to confue the
troops to their barracks.
Following the arrest of Parnell, q
number of other prominent Land Leaguers
have been arrested. among them being John
Dillon, Member of Parliament from TIpperary;
Mr.. William OBrien, the editor of United Ire
land, the Land-League organ; Mr.. James
O'Kelly. Member of Parliament for Roscom-
mon, and at one time a wel-known cUrrespon-
dent OF the New York Herald Mr..
Forster, the Irish Secretary, has is-
sued proclamation threatening with
arrest all persons who participate in "boy-
cotting." The arrests and the proclamations
seem 10 have had little effect OH the agitation.
At meeting held in Belfast, attended by 5000
persons, including twenty priests, general
strike against rent was advocated. A similar
meeting was held in Limerick. Several
additional outrages have been reported.
Proclamations forbidding the Sunday meeting
at Limerick were torn down before daylight.
The commander Of the Scots Guards warned