The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-06-25
Foreign Gossip.

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organized parties securing the reserves for
plumber, and will arrest all marauders
against whom evidences of guilt can be
proven.
The Oxford university convocation has
conferred the degree OF doctor OF divinity
upon the bishops ofWinchester, Gloucester,
Bristol and Bath, upon the revisers OF the
Old Testament and upon Rev. Phillips
Brooks OF Boston.
The Standard announces that the mar
quis ofSalisbury, in addition to the premier
ship, will assume the duties of foreign secre-
tary; that Lord Randolph Churchill will be
secretary OF state for India and that Sir
Michael Hicks-Bach will be Conservative
leader in the house OF commons and prob
ably chancellor of the excheqner.
London Cable: A semi-official letter from
St. Petersburg to the Vienna Poltische in
dictates that although Russia is not averse
to the partition OF Afghanistan between En-
gland and Russia, she is willing to continue
to negotiate with the British government
on the basis OF the Granville arrangement,
if that course of action should be adhered
to by the next ministry.
The native African prince Allogogha OF the
Brossavier territory, upper Guinea, while
trading at native village, was shot and
wounded in a shoulder by native, who es-
capped. The prince took nine villagers
hostages, and failing to produce the would
be assassin, he had them cooked and eaten.
Missionaries say the prince professed to be
g. Christian.
Lord Salisbury has definitely accepted
the premiership. It is stated that Sir Stat
ford Northcote has accepted a peerage,
leaving Sir Michael Hicks-Beach to lead the
Conservatives in the house of commons.
Lord Randolph Churchill will have an i'm
portant position in the cabinet, but the
distribution OF portfolios will not be decided
until the arrival of the queen.
Pierce NJ. B. Young, consul general at st.
Petersburg, ia 2 native OF South Carolina,
and forty years old. He graduated at
the Georgia Military institute in 1857, was
cadet at West Point, and was within one
month OF graduation when the Rebellion
commenced. He then resigned and entered
the Confederate army. He rose by promo
tions to the rank Of major general, and was
twice wounded. He has served four terms
| in congress as the representative OF the Sew
enth Georgia district, and was one OF the
commissioners to the Paris exhibition Of
1878,
The composition OF the new British cabi-
net has been partially settled as follows:
The marquis OF Salisbury, prime minister
and secretary of state for the foreign de-
partment; Sir Michaei Hicks Beach, chancel-
lof Of the !excheqqef; Lord Randolph
Churchill, secretary Of state for india, Sir
Richard Ashton Cross, secretary OF state
Ter the home department.; Rt: Hon: .l EEdMarq
Gibson, ttc*d chqpesllor OF ireland; 1T: Hon:
William H. Smith probably secretary ioF
war; Col. Frederick Saleay, secFetary !oF
the colonies the earl of Carnarvon OF VS.
count Cranbrook, lord lieutenant ofIreland;
and Sir Stafford Northcote, lord president
of the council Arthur j. Balfour, NJ. F.,
nephew of the marquis of Salisbury, has
been appointed chief secretary for Ireland;
Mr.. Holmes, attorney general, and Mr..
Monroe, solicitor general.
An Ottawa, Special says: The crow4
counsel who are to conduct the prosecution
on behalf of the government in the Riel trial
are here receiving instructions, and up to
this time the date OF the trial has not been
fixed. It is understood that the defense will
first endeavor to prove Riel's American citi-
zenship. This fact established, his counsel
will point out the fact that he can only be
tried for waging war against a foreign coun-
try. The trial would then have to be under
q court martial, but as martial law does
not prevail in the dominion, the trial could
not be conducted in this way and would
have to be abandoned. If tried as Cana
dion citizen, it must befor high treason, and
as three out of the six jurors are to be halt
breeds, it is believed the jury would dtsagreR:
This would involve a new trial, when tho
same difficulty would undoubtedly be en-
cQuntered.