ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1323, 24 August 1886, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

London, July 31. Eight thousand Orangemen paraded hi Glasgow recjn’ly. They subsequently held a mass meeting. A resolution was adopted declaring that, if necessary, they would establish an armed Union of-the Irish and their English and Colonial bre hreo, jand resist to the death tha separation of England and Ireland. The Queen has received at St George's Hail, Windsor, ninety natives of Ceylon, Africa, Guinea, Hong Kotg and Cyprus. The natives were arrayed in native costumes, many of them picturesque. The Indians bowed to tin ground before their Queen and Empress, and offered presents of go l d and silver, which the Queen and Empress touched and returned. Recitations, singing and war dances wound np a miscellaneous entertainment, all of which gratified the natives and highly am need her Majesty. In view of tbe results of the English elections the Pope requested a congregation extraordinary on ecclesiastical affaire' to examine attentively the whole Irish question, in order that he might determine. upon tbe coarse to be panned bjT the Irish clergy in certain contingencies.

RUSSIA AND TDREJEY. A London despatch from Sophia states that the collection of war stores and anrs and drilling of troops are going on with renewed activity. Military preparations are also progressing on the Servian line of frontier. The situation in both oo no tries indicates unceitiinty as to the duration of peace. Reports from Montenegrin sources show that Turkish forces In Albania are receiving reinforcements, the intention apparent y being to bring the garrison up to a war footing. The necessity of supporting Turkey against further Russian enroachments in universally assumed. Sebastopol and other Black Sea porta are now protected by electric apparatus placed In the sea to destroy torpedo boats; The construction of the apparatus, which Is the work cf American engineers, has been kept a secret.

SHOOTING NIAGARA RAPJDS IN A TUB, The New York Correspondent of the Standard 'gives the following account of the shooting of Niagara Rapids :—“A man named Carlisle D Graham, a cooper, of British birth, resolved on the day ha heard of Captain Webb’s death to attempt to pass through the rapids of Niagara. He succeeded in his rash enterprise on Sunday. The only precedent is the escape of the steamer Maid of the Mist from the Sheriff’s pursuit In 1861 by shooting the Rapids below the Falls. Graham built a barrel 7ft high, the bottom having a diameter of 23in ; 2ft below top diameter was 33:n. The staves composing the barrel p ere of oak 2Jln thick, and they

were bound together by thirty four iron hoop*. This curious vessel was ballasted that it would cw.'m upright. It had a manhole in the top. A sack inside for the body was stayed with abort ropes. The con;S3 of the barrel was very erratic, as may be Imagined. After it waa submerged it was rcarcely ever upright, and was dashed about with tremendous violence, but escaped being driven upon rocks oc being detained in the whirlpool, where Graham even ventured to open the manhole. Whan hia dangerous journey was over he emerged dizzy but unharmed. He declare a his belief that he can go over (befalls themselves with safety. Bat an hour after his release, having recovered from his exhaustion, graham thus told hia story—l was that rattled with getting off la a hurry {that 1 didn’t ping the airbole, and when 1 tried to do |t afterward#

I could not do it. I could not see. of course, but I could feel. Lord, how that river drops under the bridges! I felt irl ;hty queer when I struck that place where I got to where the water breaks, and went underj it just poured in at the open air hole. It wcs awful hot in there When I was drifting slowly up above I thought I would die, but the water cooled me and didn’t wet me much, for you see I was inside (he canvas. When 1 got t< the whirlpool I took off the c .ver and could see out, but I was carried along so fast that I put ib'cn again in a hurry. Then I got dizzy with rolling <.ve*, and pretty sick 1c my stomach. In the Devil’s Hole rapids I got a worse sinking up. Then I was all right enough till they pulled joe o»t. I never want to try it again for fun. I'll do it again for money, pretty quick.” AMERICAN NEWS.

Most distressing accounts come in from the rice fields along the Santee River South Carolina. The whole country for miles on each side of the river in Williamsbury, Georgetown, and Berkley counties is covered with water, the rice in most ciaes being totally destroyed. The condition’ of the colored lab 'rets i? pitiful in the extreme. Their garden? have been washed away and they have nothing to eat, and no probaiblity of getting work before spring. The water showed no signs of falling off on J uly 27th, and a terrible stanch had arisen which is the precursor of malignant fever Political corruption in Canada on the

part of the Legislature, the members of Sir J. Macdonald’s C b’ne , has become so apparent, that the approaching general elec ton will probably unseat the present Ministry. Ex-President Arthur is reported to be dying of Bright’s disease, indigestion, and softening of the br*in Thr cashier and chief book keeper of the American Baptist Publication Society. Wm. P. Pierson, wib arrested in Philadelphia for swindling the cor earn out of 60,000 dollars. The labor disturbances in Pennsylvania have been serious, On July 27th two mining settlements were burned by a mob of anarchist rioters, who also compelled every miner at the point of the Knife or revolver, to sb p work. A company cf Chinese miners working at Horland Flat, in S erra County, Cal., on art red, on July 25 h, a nugget of gold weighing 153 pounds, and worth 35,(00 dollars. It rinks third in size with th»big nuggets found in the world. The fortunate Chinese had recently purchased the claim for 300 dollars.

A DIVORCE SHIT. Baton de Worms, who was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade !a Lord Salisbury’s Cabinet, brought an action for divorce against hi* wife on the ground of adultery. Ho alleges bis wife made frequent visits to the Tyrol alone He suspected nothing at first, because she Is a native of Austria, bOrg the daughter of Baton Yon Tidiscn c f Vienna, but he discovered that the obj-c*. of those v si s waa neither patriotic mr innocent, but to meet In criminal intercoureeßaron Meeron who made appointments for her Secret iry to receive him there Baron de Worms then secured evidence sufficient to base his complaint on, and made the Btroi esi surrei der the correspondence, and Baron Meeron and the Baroness de Worms have concluded not to enter any defence. Baron dn Worms wa» Tory mrm’er f- r the Fuxte'h divisi >n of Liverpiol in ;he late Home of Commons. Ho is f nty years of age, and is an hereditary biron of the Austrian Fnijire. Bis wife is a handsom ■ and s'a'.ely woman, a Icndor of fashioLable c'rcles and a general social favorite. A deer.- e nisi was granted to Bsr -n de Worms on July llth. The petitioners allegations concerning the lady’s general relations with Baron Meeron in the Uyrol were fully proved The evidence showed that the B roness made exceptionally long sojourns on the Continent, obtaining her husband’s permission to go away frem hon e and pretending she was suffering from ill-health which rtqulrei Alpine atr. .She bad also, it was shown, managed to conceal the purpose cf her visits to the Tyrol, which was to meet Baron Meeron. by hiring his castle She gave him 100 000 dollars for the use of it for a few years. Before this Baron Meeron was in a state of poverty, Baron de Worms has been awarded the custody of bis three children;