The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-04
NEWS OF The week.
FOREIGN NEWS.

It is stated that the King OF Ashantee
oan put 10000 men in the field against En-
gland.
The British Government does not in
tend to follow the example Of France and pro-
hibit the importation Of American pork. II
appreciates the fact that such course would
iniict great suffering upon the poor and would
be no protection against trichinosis, which ex-
lists in other countries than America.
Gen. Solorzano has raised the stand
ard of revolt in Venezuela.
The italian Chamber Of Deputies vot
ted to abolish forced paper currency.
Nineteen of the prisoners arrested fol
conspiring to murder the European residents o.
Kalapore have been found guilty.
President Pierola, of Peru, refuses to
60 to Lima, and the Chilians cannot find any
body to sign tho treaty of peace,
English journals announce that in
Sligo many farmers who have hitherto refused
the demands of tho landlords.
Advices from Panama report that 6
revolution, characterized by the usual scenes Of
bloodshed, broke out in Antisqua, but it wai
finally suppressed.
Directors of arsenals in France have
been prohibited from selling arms or ammuni
ton, and Projects have orders to prevent arms
from leaving the republic.
Thirty-six successive shocks of earth,
quake occurred at ST. Michaels, in the Azores
One church and about 200 houses were de
stroyed, and several people killed.
Parnell has recalled his advice to ten.
ants to pillow up lands on being evicted, his
reason being that they would be liable to sever
years penal servitude.
More troops are to be sent to South
Africa.
George Berkeley, the English author,
brother of the Earl Of Berkeley, is dead.
Gladstone, while alghting from his
carriage, fell and cut his head severely.
Odo Russell, the British Ambassador
TO Berlin, has been raised to the peerage, with
the title OF Baron Ampthil.
Rev. Benjamin Spoke recently drowned
himself in England. He was brother of the
African explorer.
South American advices report that
peace has finally been declared between Chill
and Peru.
The new treaty between Russia and
China has been signed.
Parnell has gone to Paris. He is SUI
fering severely from nervous prostitution
The marriage of Prince William and
the Princess Augusta, in Berlin, last evening
was followed by grand court reception and
state banquet.
The birthday of Victor Hugo was
made the occasion of great popular demon
straton in Paris. A large number Of members
Of the Chamber of Deputies and other distin-
guished persons were received by Hugo. Dur
ing the reception about SOC, 900 people marched
to the residence of the illustrious author, who
saluted them from the window. Louis Blanc
delivered panegyric on Hugo at Trocadero.
In desperate battle in South Africa,
the British Gen. Colley was killed by the Beers
and his forces nearly decimated. 1t appears
that with twenty-five officers and over coo
men, he marched up Majola mountain and,
after four bloody charges by the Beers, the
British were forced to retreat for lack of am
munition. Not over 100 Of the British es-
capped.
A dispatch from Dublin says the av.
erage emergency committee are taking steps tc
procure Protestant tenants for Irish landlord.
who are about to evict the present occupants Of
their lands. 1t is thought there will be no lacl
Of applicants, for the passage of the Coercion
bill has emColdened all who were opposed &c
the Land League, Numerous evictions ar,
taking place all over Ireland, and the scenes il
some cases are said to be heartrending.
Another destructive confagration has
occurred in Toxic, Japan. Eleven Thousand
houses were destroyed, and &c, 0OO people rem.
dered homeless.
A party of fifty armed men are re.
ported to have visited several houses in Kerry
Ireland, stolen forty guns, and compelled the
farmers to swear that they will pay only Grit
fth's valuation.
Fenian lodges have been discovered il
Lancashire, England, and quantity of arms
seized.
Forty-fve carloads of munitions OF
war, destined for Greece have been embar
COED at Dunkirk. The authorities at Mar
settles have stopped large amount of dynam
lite which was on tho way to the Greeks.
Thomas Carlyle bequeathed his Dunn
friesshire estate to the University Of Edin
burgh.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.