Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-12-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
MINISTER APPoIsTKD.
Assym Pasha has been appointed
Turkish minister of foreign affairs In place Of
Said Pasha
AN APPEAL.
An appeal is to be made to the pub
lie for help TO defray the cost Of the defense Of
Arab PashA. The trial has assumed the
character Of great state inquiry.
IN FAVOR OF IT.
Two thousand members of French
trade unions assembled recently and extended
greeting to IL delegates from English unions
who came to represent the views OF the latter
In favor OF completion Of the channel tunnel.
FALSE PROPHET oAPTURBD.
Advices from Cairo state that the
false prophet and the rebels who followed
him have suffered crushing defeat, the
prophet himself having been captured.
BROKEN BRIDGE.
Fourteen persons were killed and
many more seriously injured by the fall Of q
railway train through bridge In Aberdeen
shire, Scotland.
ARRESTED.
One hundred and eighty students
engaged In the recent demonstrations In st.
Petersburg have been arrested.
ACoNsPIRACY.
An extensive and murderous coz
spiracy Is evidently On foot In Dublin. The
ARRAY recently between Fenians and the sol
dlers and police, resulting In the killing OF
Detective Cox, IL followed BY the murder OF
Dennis Field, and the severe handling OF an
official while serving writ 1t Ii the opinion
OF many that conflict between the police Of
Dublin and organized lawlsssness has been
inaugursted.
In COMMONS.
In the House of Commons recently,
Lord Trevslyan, chief secretary OF Ireland,
urged upon the members not TO confound the
needs of Ireland with the crimes and violence
In Dublin. The government were doing all
In their power 70 pat Down the latest develop
ments OF disorder.
MURDERED AMERICANS.
News has been received in London
OF two American Citizens murdered on the
west coast Of Madagascar recently. This event
will probably urge the American government
to more positive action. and dispose 1t to lay
some share Of responsibility Ga the French
authorities, as the natives were prevented by
the French from sending q garrison to that
port.
CONTINUES TO RISE.
The Rhine continues to rise and at
some polnts has reached the grsstest height
Known In over century. All railway traffic
has been entirely suspended.
cosr OF WAR.
Up to October it had cost a3, 500.-
900 for the British campaign In Egypt.
AWAITING TRIAL
Sanders the man who sent threat
enipg letter TO Gladstone. has been osmmittes
for trial.
"lURFEw" Law IN DUBLIN.
The recent meeting of the privy
council TO consider the Dubln outrages was
one of the most protracted since the fenian
scare Of 1857. At this meeting 1t was resolved
to proclaim the city under the operation Of the
"curfsw" section OF the Repression Act, which
gives the police power to arrest oil suspicious
persons found on the streets an hour after
sunset and an hour before sunrise. The pow
srs granted by the "curfew" law can be used
only against persons believed To bs engaged
In criminal designs.
A REWARD.
A reward of $1,000 has been offered
for information |, aiding to the arrest and con-
viction Of Fields assailants with promise of
pardon and protection TO informers.
REGARDING MADAGASCAR
A deputation from parliament wait
ed upon Lord Granville recently and present
cd a memorial contcading that the French
expressing belief that there were I'VE times
as many Esglish there as French, and that
English trade quadrupled the French trade
Lord Granville replied that he was not aware
of any treaty which gave France the right to
exercise professionals over Madagascar.
| NO ABATEMENT.
There is no abatement in the floods
caused by the rise Of the Rhine. Forts along
the river have been emptied Of ammunition,
houses undermined by the flood have fallen In,
and.a number Of people have been drowned.
| cox's MURDERER.
Poole and Devine, the two men who
were arrested and examined for supposed
connection with the murder OF Detective Cox,
have been held for trial.
OFF FOR MADAGASCAR.
The British government has ordered
q war ship to Madagascar.
ADMITTED TO WESTMINSTER ABBBY.
A deputaticn from the Longfellow
memorial committee, headed by Lord Gran.
vile, recently waited upon the Dean of West
minister and asked his consent to allow the
bust Of Longfellow 10 be placed in westmiR-
stsr Abbey, and thus to bind In closer COM
munion the feelings of England and the
United States. The Dean unhesitatingly con-
scented, and after paying beautiful tribute 10
LongfeIiew, referred teuchingly TO Washing
ton Irving. and to the friendly relations be-
tween the tive countries.
FoR AMERICA
A special commission left CONSTANT
nople few days ago for this country to rep
resent the porte In suit against the Providence
tool company.
Floods in Germany have spent their
force, and a new hsrror confronts the people
in the shape Of wide spread sickness. Itisin-
possible now to state the loss. Bridges have
been seriously damaged, and railway embark
ments broken down. The dykes along the