The Northern Pacific farmer., 1881-11-17
FOREIGN FLASHES.

Twenty-Five nihilists are booked for trial on
the Goth. Ausl the great nls i,rity Of them are
booked for the gallows, and the rest for frigid
Siberia.
The Indictment against three high police of
ficials OF st. Petersburg, who failed to discover
The Little Garden street mine, charges that
their negligence contributed to the death If
the czar.
Although private meetings, even in the
north Of Ireland, are still held, of tenants who
we're members of the land league, yet the or
gan ZatioD, as en- organization for league pur-
poses, is practically dead. Total nuL,ber of
applications made to the land league commits
sion, 1871.
A liberal member of parliament, who Loyalty
just that rents be lowered because of the waste
and improvideuce Of tenants, as it would be to
raise on improvents il rents be reduced, be-
cause Of the increasing age and feebleness of
the tenant the landlord should be compensated
by the government
The Foreign Missionary seminary at Paris
has telegraph from Hong Kong stating that a
terrible typhoon ravsged Western Toruni
All the churches, thirty-four parsonages and
colleges, and 1000 houses we're destroyed,
5000 Christians ruired and withontresources
lhe loss are immense, and the distress is ter
rible. They telegraph for aid.
An arrangement between landlord and ten
belonging TO all ex- member of parliament for
county Mayo. The tenants lake lesses for ff-
teen years at reduction of from E3 to los q
year on each holding calculated on the rent
psid the past ten years. In consequence of the
arra1 cement several tenants have withdrawn
notices they sent to the land commission.
AT the banquet of the Lord Mayor of Lon
don, Lord Granville said: ''Ever since the
United States became an Independent power
there has never been time when the seme
friendly feeling xisfed as exists now between
the great English speaking nations I know
has been shown Of sincere and deep grief in
EoglaEd in regard to the death of tho president,
and the devoted regard of Americans to our
queen.
Immigrants from Elk steamers we're landed
at Castle Garden last Friday morning. The
steamers were the W. phalis, with from
Hamburg: the Alaska, with 800 from Liver
the Rhinelana. from Anto erp, with $3.50; the
Alex tndr'a, 444, from Gibralter; and th. d Won
wit 81 from Bristol, making = total of 2, 1870
immigrants landed at Castld G .rden. Nearly
two thirds Of the new. cOmers were composed
Of Germans, the majority being bound for the
West
The land court decisions during the Last
week follow similar lines to those previously
reported No case has Yet been reported in
which tenant establis!inga plausible claim
hae1 lleO 10 OBS I'm large Q uct OIL rent. he
principle laid down in The Cra wford cases has
been steadily acted on by other commissions.
Four Thousand new applications were received
last saturday.
Jennings Special: The land court is ad-
ministering the land act 18th drastic vgor,
that probably surprises even Mr. Gladstone.
The premier says that no rest manifesto is
policy Of publ G p under, but if it is plumber to
nay the landlord nothing, what is It to knock
of six or eight pence in the pound from his
rent roll? II is rather hard for a widow who
has invested her all in Irish property, to be told
that in the interest of peace and justice she
must sac-ifice third OF ber income. do not
see how the government can refuse to grant
the landlords compensation, but if it commits
itself to this doctrine in Ireland, how can they
refuse to grant state aid tu enable the Engllsh
and scotch tenants to secure a reduction Of 80
per cent It Is evident that the principal Of the
Irish land act is the thin edge Of wedge tn It
will vet split asuuder the whole fabric Of land
property in these XII g'lom+.. It will take years
10 convince all the farmers that America can
beat England, and the change viii ruin thou
sands. Of landlords and tenants alike,
but the step the times advises, diversified ag-
riculture must be taken.
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