The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-06
FOREIGN.

Cable dispatches report that the
panic over the plague in Egypt has spread
throughout Europe. The German Govern
ment has sent medical experts to Damietta
to investigate and report whether the fatal
malady nowraging there is veritable cholera
The Turkish, French Italian and Austrian
Governments have ordered strict quaran-
tine against all vessels arriving from
African ports. A dispatch from Damieuta
says that city is being rapidly deserted All
steamship beRths for week hence are
already engaged One hundred and eighty
refugees from there are quarantined in the
vicinity of Port Said Many fatal cases of
cholera are reported from Port Said Rosetta
formed to provide means for protecting
| Alexandria against the malady.
Negotiations between Russia and the
Vatican have been concluded. Freedom in
| matters of faith is conceded, but no inter
ference by the church with questions of
state will be tolerated
An exploring party has left Mel
bourne, Australia, for New Guinea for the
purpose of formally annexing the unoccu-
pied portion of the island to the British
empire
Mr.. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for
Ireland, stated in the House of Commons
that no work-house inmates had been sent
out by the steamer Anchoria; that all emf
grants forwarded by the Commissioners had
been supplied with funds, and that no pau
pers had been sent by the Board of Guard
ians
A desperate attempt was made in the
carriage of n railway-train running from
Calais to Paris to murder and rob the Rev.
Mr.. Witchborne, an English clergyman. The
murderer attacked Mr.. Witchborne with a
chisel, stabbing him five times The assassin
tried to make his escape when the train ar
rived at Amiens, but was captured after a
terrific struggle.
Distressing reports come from the
away diamond fields of South Africa
In parts of the country there has been no
rain for three years, and the people are
starving. To add to the sorrowful condition
of affairs produced by the failure of the
crops, the Kimberley diamond mine, which
is $50 feet deep, has met with a serious dis
aster The soft debris has fallen back into
the mine in such quantities that eighteen
months will be required to repair the exca-
vationR
Europe is thoroughly alarmed over
the outbreak of cholera in Egypt The
Spanish Sanitary Council advises the en-
forcement of quarantine regulations on all
vessels from infected ports The steamer
st Bernard, from Bombay, put into Havre
with a case of cholera on board, and Paris
journal shows that every country except
England is taking precautions against an
epidemic.
/ Bismarck's health is rapidly improv-
! ing. and his jaundice has almost disap-
peared.
Senator Jones, of Florida, was given
banquet by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, at
which Parnell, Sexton, OConnor and Healy
were present.
Mr.. Parnell has been making a
thorough investigation of the assisted" i'm
migrant question in Ireland and, it is as
serted, will shortly, I'm Parliament make a
speech on the subject in which he will
charge the British Government with having
corrupted New York officials and by that
means effected the landing mt that port of
thousands of INDECENT persons
A cable dispatch of the I'd inst,
says that 119 deaths from cholera occurred