English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 63, 23 September 1875, Page 7

English News.

Prince Amadeus and his wife are writing a story of Spain. A German Company is formed to explore Southern Abyssinia for scientific purposes. The « Levant Herald ' says the Government has authorised the circulation of the Bible in Turkey. Two students and several citizens of St. Petersburg have been imprisoned for advocating Socialism Eighty thousand persons attended a meeting ofthe Fenians Amnesty Association in support of liberating Fenians now in prison. There is great excitement at Memphis. On the llth August the floods on the Mississippi threaten great danger to the surrounding country. . Arabella . Goddard gave two final concerts at 'Frisco on the 13th arid 14th August. She was to leave for the Eastern States immediately. 2200 workmen employed at the St. Gothard Tunnel struck and rioted, j The Swiss Government called out the troops, who dispersed the rioters, killing two. The Duke of -Edinburgh is reported to have sold his right to succession to the throne of Saxe-Coburg Gotha to the German Government for an annuity of LBO,OOO Garibaldi has sent a letter of acknowledgement to the Garibaldi Guard, San Francisco, on receipt of the first instalment of an annual pension of 100,000 dollars which has been voted the general. Jacob Hascher, a German shoemaker at Louisville, committed suicide. He paid toll at Ohio Bridge, and when in the middle placed a pistol in his mouthy jumped over, and fired. The Calloa ' Times ' reports the body of a man found fri King's River' Bailyway Bridge, run over by a train, but bearing evident marks of death bymurder. His name, from letters foUnd on him, is supposed to be i Alonzb Quiredo. Queen Pom are went from Tahiti to Borabora, one of the Society Group, in a steamer belonging to the French' Government, to see the new Queen, aged seven years, enthroned. Borabora : claims allegiance to Pqmare, and not to the French. Messrs Moody and Sankey arrived at New York, per Steamer Spain, on the 14th August. Their plans are riot yet prepared. They go first to Torefield, and soon return to Chicago, whiqhwill probably be the centre of their labors*.. The' same programme is to be carried through as in England. At Pottsville on the 15th August, oh the first general pay day among fhe miners, great disturbances and several free . fights occurred; five men being shot mortally ; a Justice of fhe. Peace was shot and killed, while making 'out a warrant for the commital of the rioters, jj In the Queen's speech, referring to the preservation of peace in Ireland, she expressed gratification at the adoption of a measure " which,, while relaxing the stringency of former Acts is calculated to insure tranquility there." Mr Webb, _an Englishman who undertook to swim from Dover to. Calais . without a life-saving apparatus, yfailld j when half way across, 1 owing 'to the ! in- 1 creating roughness fof the : ;-^aves./:Tt I was thougnt prudent to take him' aboard j theattending sloop. He was 'apparently j much . fatigued. '*;:''' j Booker, .the postmaster of Siodn/:.pn ! the "Sioux " City ' and Pacific - ftailway, j rwas struck dead by lightning* bri- !( thei 15th August, The electric 'fluid' tore [ every vestige of clothes off his body, I and drove a' deep T hole in the grpun.d. ! The' ** Sioux" City Journal ' reports* a! mother arid daughter struck dead fromj same"cause. --;-—;--.- ,-y- -- « ; There is every, prospect of recovering j ! the 47,000 dollars bills stolen : /roni the I 'Treasury" a short time ago. Seve%l j arrestifihave: been! already! iriade, and ] | give out 50Q0 biUs sirecoyered. Other! ! traces of rgbberfts .are found, but not] j published/" A Treasury 'clerk named a%sefitfdritleave,'was arrested 0 ' at NftWJxqYorki yn Theodore ■ Breton/, .was arrested at W^hington.;, An attempt j was made to "have him out on habeas corpus, but it hasrbeen refused. !

The Pacific 'lSiJ^^onlp^ny have just jlaunohed another.mag.nificent steamer, % C Mrfsfal%ders4 fcPpff TfieWebfie^filton Ms^ S to be retried.^! RotKia&echefrs;?^ ,^9»gi s ,Ob^ m™il& yy Jrnnce Arthur has purchased tl -B.uck*f ingham Castle, BpyJ.e, County "Sli'gbV land intepds fqsi4,e, there.. nrt . . r . ., .- | The Channel Tuiinei' fei'li; wfiich I passed the Housejyf Commons^ passed j its second "reading, , ii^. , "House jLordsc ' ; i ,;;; (i ;'y n v >J ' C} I Baldwin and StoheJ ' a dealing and |com;mission ;house ih^: Chicago", .'have ! failed for. a large surn,. ; and. drawn; others j down'.with them.' feared.. N | A despatch from'" Berlin * says' "Count !D. Oimbecli, his'm other, aTid chamber- ; maid, have ": beeh' - arrested- at^liandbeck,' ! in the: district of Bresleani'chafged With being concerned in 'the- conspiracy to assassinate Prince ' Frederick . > Official despatches received at (Madrid 1 announced that supplies of. heavy ordnance and .other seige materials haye been forwarded for the attact on heb deUrgle. The-fire on:the besieging battries exploded a magazine in the Carhst defences. :.■.-■ The action brought in Paris by the publishers of Napoleons's 'Life ofC&sar,' against, the author's heirs, in which the plaintiffs claimed 'io%ooo francs in r deminity for loss in consequence of the non completion of. the work has been dismissed, with costs. The waters of the river Nen, at Peterborough, England, oh 23rd rose from 15ft. to 20ffc. above tho ordinary level.: The rise was so sudden that bedrooms in buildings - along, the river were . flooded. , Three, thousand cattle are deprived bf pasturage. The water is 3ft. to-4ft. : deep'on-45 acres of land near Whittlesea. , ' A cyclone passed through Harveysburg. Fountain County,. Indiana, last Sunday night, tearing houses to pieces, uprooting trees, ' and sweeping things generally before it. -Five woman were killed. Among the names of the killed, thus far ascertained, are Mrs Howers, Mrs Savage, and Mrs Patterson. A hired girl, and a little child of Mrs Howers', are also among the victims. . Alexander and William. Collie hare been sent''tp,Newgate,- where they will remain. tilFbaUdspTpcured. The prosecuting TCOUnsel, ; to*day slated that *fi\bm 7,tfoo,ooodolXto B,7oo, CjO'pdbl;; of -fraudulent, bills of the firm Were afloat, of which 'the>, London and Westminster Bank had 1,250,00.0 dol. After crediting all, /that ' : b(nild be recove'redtfrom the bankrupt estate, the loss -to .the bank Would be" from 1,006-;6Oo'^^ Heavy ''floq^s;haye^ccurred- ; :in Lan-cashireTand-3forlcsh^rfii^ The; riyer;(3aldfef^pyeiflpwod>irs\b^ri'^^^ ; r'.l'pr, 20-milfes fromlHaiifaM^^ are submerged, - also "many streets and houses in Tbdmdrdeh, and the eastward bridge has floated s- away. The -Don threatens to' ihuridltte ! the - low lying parts of Sheffield, y The . Pi]bble rose, and. has. overflowed ; the country for n distance pf 30" miles. " . .. . Jjerusalem is", again agitated by re* ligibus dissensions. .";On Day an encounter "toofe place ; between the Greek . Armenian priest's, who had been allowed by the.-Latins to make use of the chapel belpngihg to, and built over, what. is believed t'q be the Saviour's foot-print. Some dispute concerning precedence ' rekindled thei hostility of the rival parties, and soon* the interior of the. chapel was turned into a. battlefield. The priests, fought up and down the edifice uhtii they. were, separated 1 by a company of Turkish' soldiers'. Two .Qreekrpriests ,w*ere wpunded in the fray, and spme of tl^e combatants. s . One ofthe soldiers^ trying to restore ;peape, is said to;have:lost an c} r e during vtheyscuffie. Aflfairs of this kind; occur periodically at Jerusalem. : .; :y; . . A damagin^hurricane, and hail storm at pontoire, twentyrmileanorth-wejstof Paris, occurred,- and, many houses were unroofed* and . windows, and .chimneys demolished, ,■,-,•;. in- <* the.4-, surrounding country, for several miles in every dh rection,, cattle jyerp: killed, fruit: trees and vines destroyed,- and; a J number of people -inj ured- by- the-hailstones, which were, enormous<r r It is feared some will die from r fhe injuries.^ T^e tempest lasted onlyr;h^lf-£n~hpuE.-r is estimated'at L160,6'6d. C lL T^hitr,' ! hews j has arrived ' at San IFi'ScfsW r fiSva'^e"s '/jSm % c island of. Oheoahpa,^.or..l)onanila, , ,are ehgaged'ih' a'fierce" war/ and 'practise horrible camiibalisna.* ° '" The French 1 auJfc¥6ritfe?if& r talan|* t'mSas'iir^'ito QeM brfe .tranquility,; 9114 (i capture;! the leaders.. , u^ben j closely,, <^.puriued^.qthe contending tribes-united against tlie 'jfrmifox njGmpvtinM 'm#emhst the :i Apaerjcam^ owluilipg;,fSesge^n^0 wluilipg;,fSesge^ n^ Show supplied the natives with 30661bs of powder and arms. It is likely to caus##cdurp lSrftf6li? d6CL f^ '^ i 3 <*& several- pWsoffer# were captured, excepHbur-m the worst class of'despeWddeS. 1 'Tfi%il tf^deWed ■&«o-#c«?^Me^^^^ect^^o find horses provided foi^^n^e^ca^. -Whe^ctfe^ 4e^«v?lf^«hßF'al '*te^L6 ranchemen. One was severely wotf frdsd^ escaped fc »ayiCheaoth6rai were" .Mllgd. Ai mm iJNr ssfesMfio^m^ff^o^a» Landow, a white lady. Mo§smßWsW men broke open the gaol and lynched him,

j .BigjoCwinner , sß s Ermlo^ L 250 at the late Wimbledon competition, Capt. Pearsepjf-the 18th Devon, j said,jon being^arried to his tentand having hiwhefilth (Mnk^fOne of |he j winners of this important prize attnbui ted his «u I ccess l td teHo r talife' lT, Now, 1 do not -attribute , .mine , ,to , .that; I & cswz. i sider 1 owe it to faith in my Bible^ j About lixm'otithssagoythatvfeelingjpMq^ ; oyer me, and since, then I heve. felt that ] everything I Have ! ? done ''has' b'een'dbhe' i with % higher^ -motive. I hoped to ,)^in, | this prize to-day, that I might "nave air jopportumty^bfi "Bftyingthis.? r ; That Op^; ■ portunity has come, and I am glad of • it. In the presenfstate of my feelings il hope you will excuse me saying any , more. On Monday last Captain :Webb, who j intends making an attempt to swim from the English to the. French coast next month, started from the pier at Dover, about 10 a.m , and swam to Ramsgate, a distance of 18 miles, arriving there at 6.35, after having been eight hours and forty minutes in the water. He did not at once stop to receive the slightest support. As he entered the harbor the people on the piers cheered him loudly, upon landing Captain Webb had a good rub down, and said he felt no ill effects from his long stay in the water. Pour hundred thousand pounds for a head of hair is a Startler. Our readers do not believe it ? Well, then, they must have a suspicion of the correctness of what appears in the newspapers. If we arc to believe a paragraph which has gobe the rounds of the press, Madame Nilsson possesses a head of hair which she -might readily turn into L 400,000. According to a medical journal, says the ' Universe,' there are from 1GO ; 000 to 200,000 hairs in a lady's head. Madame Nilsson possesses a splendid head of hair, and probably the full complement of individual hairs. We are informed by the same journal that the, gifted Nilsson sold a hair from her head for LS, and that "in a few minutes the' Swedish songstress was surrounded by admirers anxious to buy a hair at the same rate." The sale took place at a fancy fair in New York, and, we are glad to find, in the cause of charity. Just imagine the number of charitable institutions that might be established if the 200,000 hairs were sold at the same rate. A valuable natural head dress, truly. A duplex negro is the latest wonder in tho American papers. We are told by the New York 'Tribune ' that this highly favored crenture has acquired such powers of seli'-eontortion that, in exhibiting his dual organisation to a Wheeling doctor, he dropped his ribs one foot, and the doctor Felt another set underneath the first. He then an^nouueed he. would throw his heart down the sameydistance.' The stethe'scope was . placed , over it, and it was sho\vn to be beating regularly in its right place. He gave his body a jerk, and his heart was beating afoot below, as he had promised. After two minutes interyalj the active organ returned, ras the negro said it would kill him to keep it thereU'o'nger. ' : lie dropped; it again tho same distance on the right side,and held it. .there for the _ same length- of time. Then he stopped its beating altogether, and for the space of two , minutes there was no pulse in all his body. Wheirthis remarkable child of nature beg*an to manipulate his ribs, and do several things with his internal organs still more remarkable, some gentlemen present: fairitedi \lt is not said what has become of the man who wrote the story. • < J y The failure of' the ,well-know;n bank* ing firm of Duncan Sherman and Co. has caused intense excitement through all America.' The failure is said to' be the result ofthe recent financial troubles in. England,, and of the shrinkage r in value of Targe shipments of cotton consigned hy the' bank to their Etfglish agents. Thousands* of Americans tra- ! veiling in ! Europe- will be 1 placed^ in most painful circumstances, as it is calculated 10,P0Qpeople held the.firm's 'circular 'credits.' C, , ; " The * Medical Press and C,irctt?ar ; l says a " revival", jimonof' children has beeniin process in-San. Francisco..' .The little creatures from four to. tw^lve'years of age are gathered in a large church] and - after" having been~warmed~to"the <wdrk by thej-singirig of Hymns statihp' , how full of guilt they are, and the o!ay will come when n heaven and r ,earth will prfss awayji certain begin ;to stride up and down, clapping ! their hands^dh^cryingbut as^tfiey tell them-ofthe— hopeless— state-ot'-iniquity into; which they had fallenv.andi on^e ! probable early.; ;death^hnd certain hell I awaftih)rilienir ' Only J t&e t'mUsVunedtt- ! , c^ted°6i s£ gr6'ssly cai-elasS parents , wb/ulfl subject tbe fbrainSjjanci cnerypus 4 |Bysg^ms pfotheiro children r.to. avphysicalfjstraittiAO j unhealthyj/shd J bnly^th r o¥e: profpuiidly i tW B true < rel&^ign/jvQipflr reI ligionisoUghfri to hear toJihtfrnWilife ! would J r feoti!n'tehance' • sucfi r . 5 aP 'false Sand hurtf4,php^of it. (1 iJAAi Al ;! \ cin^i ! g^ e§ Es||^as^j|^ ( j T^ afook j 9M 99&?.4!1?5r k\pM ,«h f fc^ea]|»?iWrladers j I to the following statistics^te&ftffru '.the I mm a«wm r $wm ternkmoMpn: t theTlo*ase tfverrffgfe^reKcfcJmotifea^wt will destroy oSWul^i IPPi# $W i British Islands, over 4^000,000. casjjs multiplied by 20, gives an annual saving of L 80,000,000 worth of property."

j m^fPefeMbW^mo mefnif^ pffied^in 5 i hTve ; : been convicted, and .sentenced each to ;10 years' imprisonment.? Four other persons of, the- T same; J i d^nce^They:>erel sent ,tp'VpriYori'tor short terms, "':""" C '~ i „ T ,.mi11,3 : : baVe ;; beeri ? in i Aihtolrii'M are tfirown out, of employment. '-' y . .-rA :- vy Ao^i^jto ; the : London;^ 't)aily ; News^^irdm^Lisbbn „brpu^ht Reports thai: a'^oiigh^niseveral districts ; of "the province /tff [Minto r has destr6^ed : the crops andpastures^ and : a v famine is : thfreaten^aay^-Il'iots -agaihst'grain . ex- o , porters' are, itrxminent. Cattle' are- dying ;of hunger.:; .The local say it will be impossible to-collecfc taxes in ; many ? ,p,laces, and the attempt r tQ,do, so, they fear, would'^cause an insurrection. Accqunts irom Algrave shW a similar state" of affairs in r that province/ The Government, is . sending, relief- -to theafflicted,s'ectioris. ; . r . ACA '"■-. Don Carlos, in his. letter fo Alfonso',, states that the cruelty of the measures adopted by the Madrid Government is unprecedented,' and will shed the blood of martyrs, arid raise up Carlists everywhere. He says he himself, who comes to his country to be King of all Spaniards, allows Alfonsists to live peaceably within his territories. He say's he is. confident of success, for it is impossible that.Spain can flourish under a government of chance. The letter contains no threat of reprisals on the part ofthe Carlists. A most sickening sight is reported in the Panama, ' Star and Herald ' of July 8, as occurring-at San Miguel on the 20th June. One Catholic priest preached a voilent sermon, which was forbidden to be published, when a mob arose, murdered the General ih command, liberated the prisoners, and set fira to the principle houses, doing damage' to the amount of 1,000,000d01. Another account says when the priest referred to was forbidden to be allowed to publish the Bishop's pastoral, he made preparations to frustrate it by the most diabolical of plans. He got together a band of the worst characters in the population, and offered them spiritual blessings' for the next, world, and the pleasure of pillaging the rich storehouses '. of the city, if they would attack the cabilold and set the 200 prisoners at liberty. • This was done, after, killing the sentinel on guard. They tb'eri; burnt several public buildings, and attacked, the barracks, where the soldiers deluded their General, and favored the mob;- The General Espenoga was then killed, and his body cut to pieces, which the mob threw ateach other in satanic glee. General Castro had his^head split open, and his body thrown, still' living, at his mother. Order was rastpred/by the troops, and the prisoners and 100 others were placed in irons.' .'. C Oil the r loth of .June the Presbyterians .of _, .the : Dominion of Canada united- in-one .Church, embracing 700 ministers and- congregations, 100,000 cornmunicants^ahd 500,()00 adherents, and extending /froni '.? Newfoundland to British Columbia; The four Churches which united 'Were tlie Canada Presbyterian Churchft^e' Synod of Canada in connectidn\Jwiih.' the fl Church of Scotland^ the Synod, of the Lower .- Provinces, an r d the Synod of the' Maritime Provinces.- f^ere-was an attendance of about .900: ministers and. elders, and 500,0 . people, ;? t The^ Rev r . Dr Cook r , Wf s uhariimously '. elected, first . Moderator. Congratulations were received from tbe Assembly'; of the ' Irish Presbyterian Chuicli, the Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, of /the.. United. States, from the. iiiontreaj 'Diqcesan "Synod, and the Qiieb s 3c Dibceasan J Synod .of the Episcopal Church, and the' Methodigt Conference. . Tha ; greetings of the Montreal Diocesan -Synod were con-veyed-by Bishop- Oxenden, the metropolitan,., in , perspn,7rand those of the Assembly of th.e :v Anierican Presbyterians; by~Dr 9rmsbyando r tbers.r ;The tf'nited Cliurch Ms' Tour colleges, with fully faculties. On J;h'e first AsselhrJly all ivas delightful, breathing th'e^spint^f devdtibri to -God and love toihe^farrexfieirdihg brotherhood.; anr. 'j 'Ai t ? v: n ;t" t"" .' "; '. y The ship Glance,~w;hich has arrived atLondo/nNfrd'm^ ing a vessel named ?/i tliie The captafri^pOj^'' f ~t^J one of the crew went* mad yand^^p'rdceeded aloft. All efforts .tq^ (jfisjo^ge- hira-.forrfive days woved^^ trn~suW^sMr" TH^bWaiFcutfirig the rigging, ana threw down a block* breaking, the boatswain's leg*. The captain? deemed titAfiecessary .for irth'e safety of the shiplfo' shd6't him, and did ■ so WJteWiPkeMiAj^e^r^se.Qce of • the officers. H ; s~body fell on the deck. ; te A^re^nteis/fffJGirculattdnl at^Haiiftis?, N.S., that a sailolp?fjnamed Greenwood has'Jreyealedlaisfrighttfulf./crim'e . at'-Tsea two vears.agq. —The- schooner Mary jk^fto^em® Si^fMelboilri ne, comfng^f6^iS6W6'n^Ba r d H 'paSse'rigers (sisteftT^n^me^^^eri^y i ' 'During the voyagf^bmte #ere^ y dutragfed by the captain and cEdwsahd brutally murdered --thF^^^egbMfidi T>Tht.fnenlMded, and »spof^T;hji^ in ,a BtormTlS& ves f3 nad Been on her beam encls and tjfe women wcfre washedrroverboard. The The ds&ia,Tißim]E§fe §wafij Sis now former says nenad notmng to do w|fl| the crime, but had tafkeri an oath not to divulge.