The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-02-18
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

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In consequence OF serious disagree
ment with King Alfonso In regard to refunding
the debt the members Of the Spanish Ministry
have rendered their designations.
Brennan, Secretary of the Irish Land
League, is coming to America TO collect meney.
Walsh, another Treasurer, is going to Aus
tralia for the same purpose.
The steamer Bohemian, which was
wrecked of the coast of Ireland, was valued at
e5OO,OoO and her cargo was worth half that
amount
The Skuptschina of Servia has resolved
TO close all the monasteries.
The British troops have again been
defeated by the Beers, in South Africa.
The Archbishop of Dublin has replied
to the Pontfeal letter concerning the Irish
.gtatlon, claiming that pernicious laws for
centuries have reduced the people to the ex-
IRENE Of misery, and the abrogation Of the
cruel statutes is demanded that while deplora-
bic acts and speeches have blackened Just
cause, it must not be forgotten that the people
have despaired OF justice.
The publication of the Russo-Afghan
correspondence reveals the fact that a secret
treaty was made by which Russia bound her
self to perpetual friendship with Afghanistan
and undertook to assist the Ameer against for
eign enemies. Two months later the Russian
Foreign Minister wrote to the Afghan Foreign
Minister. advising him to make peace openly
l..t.
A plan for melting the Mohammedans in India
to rebellion is also revealed. 1t is a significant
fact that the dates of the documents are all
subsequent to the date of the Berlin treaty,
which professedly settled the differences be-
tween Eng and and Russia.
At fair in Killkeely, Ireland, the
people stoned the police, and at Ballyhanis the
police charged crowd with bayonets.
The distress is SO great among the
Ural tribes in Russia that they are selling their
male children for grain and leaving their girls
TO perish.
Twelve OF the Home Rule party are
10 proceed TO Ireland and hold meetings after
the passage OF the Coercion act, thus inviting
arrest.
News is received Of the capture of Lii
ma by the Chilians on Jan. 15 after two des-
perate battles, in which the losses are said to
have been 10000 men. The Chinese quarter of
the city was burned by the Peruvians before the
surrender.
The Christians of Macedonia are leav-
ing on account of ill-trea tment.
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L. Ashmead Bartlett were married last week,
in Christ Church. London. Mr.. Bartlett will
assume the name of Burdett-Coutts before his
own surname. A great lawsuit will result from
the wedding Should the decision be adverse
to the Baroness, she will still have about &c.
600, 600 left.
An Irish Land Lacquer named Habon
has been sentenced to three months imprison-
ment for making reasonable speech.
Eleven out of thirteen Socialists on
trial in Vienna, Austria, for high treason were
acquitted. The remaining two were sentenced
to Imprisonment, one for four years and the
other for six months.
Several regiments of all arms have
been ordered to Natal to take the places of the
mon killed by the Beers.
Parnell and six of his associates in the
Land League held council in Paris in regard
to the funds Of the organization.
Garibaldi was chosen President Of q
universal-suffrag convention at Rome
A leading French journal agrees with
Secretary Sherman that the present proportion
of 1519 to between gold and silver should be
abandoned. Bismarc has declared in favor of
q double standard. n
In the contest on the Thames for the
championship OF England, the Sportsman cup,
and 81 600, Hanlan defeated Laycock 10y four
lengths.
A ioint-stock company has been
formed in Brazil to run a line OF steamers be-
tween Halifax and Rio de Janeiro, subsidy of
$4,000 having been granted at each end of
the route.