The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-14
NEWS OF the WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Beers have entered Natal. and in
tend to oppose Sir George Colleys force on the
Natal side of the Drackensburg England has
asked permission to march her troops through
che Portuguese colony on Delagoa bay.
1t is officially reported that in the
province of Sarnton, Russia, $50, 900 peasants
are starving, and in Samesa upward Of 1000, 900
are In absolute want.
The armories of the volunteers in the
southern part of London are kept under strict
guard through rumors Of q contemplated
Hsnian raid.
DIR. Schliemann has presented his col
lection Of Trojan antiquities to the Emperor
Of Germany, TO be placed in the Berlin Mu-
scum.
An effort is being made to induce the
German Parliament to adopt custom war du-
hes, which it has hitherto refused to sanction
The death of Gen. Moriones, one of
the ablest officers in the Spanish civil service,
Is reported by cable.
1t is believed at st. Petersburg that
the Gar intends to center equality OF civil
rights on the Poles.
A London dispatch announces the
death OF John Stenhouse, tho chemist f; John
T. Towson, the noted writer OH navigation;
Baron Simon Won Oppenhem, the head of the
great London banking house Of Oppenheim
sons and DIR. Frederick Jobson, the emi-
nent Methodist di, inc.
A military commissioner, who has
been investigating affairs i'll Ireland. has made
IN fha Rr Ha
prehends no organized rising, though such q
catastrophe might have occurred had de-
termined leader taken the necessary steps be-
Gore the country was filed with troops. There
Is no occasion. in his opinion to fear that the
presence of additional troops will aggravate the
disorders, and he thinks the adoption Of strict
measures for the repression Of lawlessness will
be followed by peaceful solution of the diff
culties.
A mob near Claremorris, Ireland, dug
deep ditch to obstruct the passage of police,
and threw stones at the officers. bayonet
charge was made, and four persons are be-
Geved to have been fatally wounded.
The funeral of Louis Blanqui, the
Socialist, took place in Paris on the 3rd inst.
Thirty thousand people followed the remains to
the cemetery, and large crowds lined the streets
through which the cortege passed.
The ship Indian Chief was wrecked
near the entrance of the Thames river.
Eighteen persons were drowned and eleven
saved.
Bonds Of the Northern Pacific road,
20 the amount of so, 100000, having been
put on the market in London, the subscrp-
tons were found to quadruple the sum de-
sired.
The English steamer Harrelda aud the
Spanish steamer Leon collided of Cape Roca,
and both sank. A party of survivors from
each vessel landed at Lisbon, but large num-
Der were doubtless lost
The gun-makers of Dublin are doing
an enormous business. Another Of the men
bayoneted by the police near Caremorris has
died. Thirteen members of the Mulliravat
branch of the Land League have been arrest
ed for "Boycotting." Large quantities of
buckshot have been shipped TO Ireland from
London. The Pope has written a pontifcal let
ter to the Archbishop OF Dublin, expressing
sympathy with the irish Catholics, put urging
them to strictly obey the laws. A care-taker
mas been brutally murdered near Parsonstown,
County Louth.
The Parliament Of Great Britain met
on the 9th inst. The greater portion of the
Queens speech was devoted to Irish affairs.
After referring to the prevalent distress and
awlesGness, 1t recommends the further dcvel-
.opment of the principles of the Irish Land act
of 1876, both as regards the relation OF land
lord and tenant, and with a Wow to effective
efforts for giving to the people, by purchase,
proprietary interest in the soil. 1t also an
nounces that bill will be submitted for the
establishment OF county government in Ireland
upon representative principles.
A dispatch from Rome says the Pope
has sent fresh instructions to the Irish Bishops
looking toward the restoration of order.
The Judge of Toxic. Japan, was assas-
sinated in the street. on Dec. II, by man
whose father had been condemned to death
fifteen years ago.
The French elections have resulted in
pronounced Republican victory.
Sixty-four lives were lost by the
tounlering of a steamer in one of the inland
soas of japan.
Advices from Bombay report the dis
covery of plot in Kalapore to depose the
Rajah and massacre oil the European resi-
dents while in church. Many natives have
been arrested.
Mr.. John +. Swift, one of the Com
missioners TO negotiate treaty with China,
has arrived i'll this country. He states that one
clause ill the agreement gives the United States
the right to terminate at any time the residence
OF Chinese laborers in this country.
A colored woman was found dead from
starvation in one Of the suburbs of Toronto,
and her husband lying beside her, dying from
the same cause.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.