The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-02-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The British troops have again been
defeated by the Beers, in South Africa.
The Archbishop of Dublin has replied
to the Pontifcal letter concerning the Irish
agitation, claiming that pernicious laws for
centuries have reduced the people to the e1-
IRENE of misery, and the abrogation OF the
cruel statutes is demanded that while deplora-
BILE 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 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 Foreig1
Minister, advising him to make peace openly
with England but in secret to prepare for war.
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 profcssedly settled the differences be-
tween Eng and and Russia.
At a 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
to 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 tho Chilians on Jan. Is, after two des-
perate battles, in which the losses are said to
have been $1,000 men, The Chinese quarter of
the city was burned by the Peruvians before the
surrender
The Christians of Macedonia are leay-
ing on account of ill-treatment.
Baroness Burdett- Coutts and William
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 sbout :10,-
00O,0OO left.
An Irish Land Lacquer named Habon
has been sentenced to three "o'l!s' imprison-
ment for making treason 10 speech.
Eleven out of this' ZEN Socialists on
trial in Vienna, Austli ., 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 oil arms have
been ordered to Natal to take the places of the
mon killed by the Beers.
Parnell aud six of his associates in the
Land League he'd q council in Paris in regard
to the funds of the organization.
Garibaldi was chosen President Of n
Notwithstanding convention at Rome.
A leading French journal agrees with
Secretary Sherman that the present proportion
of 1873 to between gold and silver should be
abandoned. Bismarc has declared in favor of
a double standard.
In the contest on the Thames for the
championship of England, the Sportsman cup,
and 81 100, Hanlan defeated Laycock by four
lengths
A joint-stock company has been
formed in Brazil to run line of steamers be-
tween Halifax and Rio de Janeiro, subsidy of
$4,000 having been granted at each end of
the route.
The Russian police have discovered a
plot to blow open the arsenal at Kieff, and
have made several arrests in connection with
the conspiracy.
Yhe alarm which prevails in England
receives fresh illustration daily. Sir William
Vernon Harcourt announced in the House of
Commons that James Stephens, the Fenian
head-center, had arrived in Paris. 1t is ru-
mored in Cork that the Fenians in America
and the United Kingdom are sending men and
money To the Rnnrg