The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-01
FOREIGN.

Inc Dust OF LOnBtellOW III west
minister Abbey will be placed between the
tombs OF Chaucer and Dryden
From Berlin comes report that be-
fore the Gar quilted the Winter Palace at
St Petersburg an attempt was made upon
his life by means of an explosion
The members of the Bundesrath
Quilted the German Reichstag in a body DO.
cause Johannsen, a Dane, persisted in de-
manding reply from Minister Schobz as TO
whether North Schleswig Germans, who be-
came Danes after the war, would be permit
ted to again become subjects of the Empire.
Immense crowds, whose enthusiasm is
officially reported as unbounded, witnessed
the entry Of the Car Alexander Ill into the
sHoly City" of Moscow. The entire route Of
the procession from the Petroffsky Palace
TO the Kremlin, distance of four and one
half miles, was decked with flags and the
streets were packed with people Alexand-
der and the Czarina were escorted by lancers
Dragons and armed Cossacks, and the city
was filed with troops.
The harvest prospects in France are
considered favorable.
A true bill has been found against
Louise Michel the Partisan socialist, for in
citing to pillage.
The Office of the Kerry Sentinel has
been seized by the police for publishing an
invitation to men to join the InvinciDles and
for reasonable references to the Queen
The ceremony of blessing the lmpe-
rial flag was performed in the Kremlin, Mos
COW. on the I'D of May, in the presence Of
the Emperor and Empress, the Imperial
family, and the Emperors military house.
hold The Emperor and Empress drove to
Kremlin without escort
John Dillon, in letter to the Free
mans Journal, advises the Irish people to
make the Parnell fund such success that
the Pope will realize how grievously he has
been deceived by the English Government
and the miserable pauper landlords who in
fest Rome
The alleged dynamite conspirators,
Kennedy, Oherlihey, O'Conner, alias Dalton
Deasey and Flanagan, were formally com
mitted for trial on the I'D of May, at Liver
pool They reserved their defense.
be % per cent less than last year
The English Derby was witnessed
by the Prince Of Wales, the Duke of Albany,
the Duke of Connaught and thousands of
the uppercrust of English society, while
several hundreds of thousands of ordinary
citizens enjoyed the days outing and looked
on at the defeat of the favorite as usual
nf 4.
lard Walton and Ten Brock were the most
notable. The race was won by st Blaise.
The betting against the winner at the start
was to |, aud against Galliard who finished
third, was to 2 An immense amount of
money changed hands on the result
Advices from Madagascar state that a
French detachment landed and carried
several military posts erected by Hovas in
the Sakalava territory in defiance Of French
rights The French Admiral Pierre. has oc-
cupied the Custom House at Majunga, se-
curing the road and waterway to Tananrivo
Fifty houses at Vars, France, town
of about %, 010 inhabitants were destroyed
by fire, several persons being burned to
death.
At public meeting held in Cork,
81 200 were subscribed to the Parnell testi-
monial The action of Mr. Parnell and the
Philadelphia Convention were approved
unanimously.
Two distinguished authors have just
died in Europe, the most famous being Ed
Guard Rene Lefebvre Laboulaye the French
jurist and writer on law, and the other
Philippe f. Y T. Heuschling, the Belgian
writer on political economy
Alexander Ill was crowned En-
peror and Autocrat OF the Russias, at
Moscow, with imposing religious ceremonies
on Sunday, the nth of May. A full rep
resent alton of foreign Governments wit
messed the coronation. The Emperor wore
the white uniform Of Colonel of the I'm
perlal Guard and the Empress was attired
in the Russian national costume of black
velvet emblo idercd with diamonds and
grded with belt of precious stoneS The
ceremony, which was according to the ritual
of the Greek Church. was conducted by the
metropolitan of Moscow, Novogorod and
Kieffe, assisted by large company of minor
ecclesiastics The cost of the coronation is
estimated at $40, toJ,00
A plot to kill the King of Roumania
at the opening OF Parliament was discov-
cred, and some Of the conspirators were ar
rested
London papers publish statements
that o'Donovan Rosa and Peter J. lyman