The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-06-15
FOREIGN.

The Mayor of Moscow has been ban
ished to his estates for expressing the hope
at a recent banquet that the Car would in
stitute constitutional regime.
Edward Harrington, member Of Par
lament and editor the Kerry Sentinel, and
the publisher of the paper named have been
sentenced, for the publication of seditious
placard to imprisonment for six months
Two compositore who assisted" in the pub.
LEGATION have been sentenced to two months
imprisonment
James II. Keene's Blue Grass won the
Ascot Biennial stakes for 3-year- odds at Lon
don, there having been seven starters in the
race
Queen Victoria Is afflicted with drop
sy, and her physicians consider her condition
unsafe Recent fits of dependency and
melancholy have effected serious results,
and it is feared that in a short time she will
be confined to her bed.
One of the good old, but happily now
extinct, Puritan customs, from which a hill
near Salem, Mass. has derived an immortal
name, has been resusciated in Sierra Leone.
with, no doubt, gratifying results to the
strait-laced inhabitants Some fifty persons
suspected of indulging in witchcraft have
been burned alive in the Sherbro district
War preparations on a great scale
are being made in Paris for war with
China
Sir George Bowyer, the English
legal writer, is deed
Eighteen Egyptian officers have been
found guilty of completely in the burning of
Alexandria Two of them were sentenced
penal servitude.
Carey, the Dublin informer, who is
kept locked up because he refuses to quit
Ireland, says, if finally compelled to go, that
he will return
A powder magazine at Scutari, Al
bania, was exploded by lightning, and many
persons were killed
De Lesseps' recent statements about
the Suez Canal are unsatisfactory to the
English directors, and a committee of In
fluential ship-owners decided at London to
proceed vigorously with the new canal
Lord Randolph Churchill made q
bitter attack upon the Gladstone Ministry In
the House of Commons for its course in the
late war in Egypt
The poorer class of the Russian peas
antry are to be relieved of the poll-tax, and
the rest of the people are TO be granted
reduction of one-half in the same tax
The Turkish Government has virtn-
ally raised the duties on liquor by compelling
its storage at Smyrna, ana intends, when
the treaty of commerce expires, March Is
next, TO stop the importation of American
meats, lard oil, etc. Gen Wallace has en-
tered n protest
1t is believed Lord Errington had
published the recent circular of the Pope to
the Irish Bishops, when they desired that it
be kept secret Errington is now in dis
grace with the Sacred Congregation, and
Pope Leo refused him an audience, causing
dismay among the English party at Rome,
which hitherto has been very influential.
l.. s. Chamberlain, late private sec
rotary of James Gordon Bennett, begins the
publication IN Paris July of a new Ameri-
can daily, TO be called the Dispatch. Albert
c. Ives, late of the New York Times will as
sist in the conduct of the paper
An effort was made in the British Par
lament to induce the Government to ask for
a stay of the sentence of death in the case
of Suleiman Daoud, the alleged Alexandrian
incendiary, whose execution, it was charged,
was being fastened to prevent his making
damaging disclosures regarding the Khedive.
Mr.. Gladstone refused to interfere, stating
that the British representative in Egypt had
not informed the Government that injustice
had been done the condemned man. The
sentence was accordingly carried out, and
Suleiman was hanged at Alexandria.