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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 113, 10 March 1885, Page 3

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Eight««a violent maniacs have been burned to death at the Blockley Alms Hoom. — America. O'Lasry, a' Fenian, had a free fight at fcia Glasgow lecture on February Ist. He was excited by his references to ParBell, Kossa, and Ford. The Tichborne claimant has bow fallen to Uw that he appears in a provincial Tarietj compaaj in England, and takes bis tmrn between an acrobat stjled the Human serpent and the Cornish mute. Henry George, returned trom England, Mja that dynamite is damaging the Irian cause. Hia land-nationalisation ideas made more rapid progress in Scotland than elsewhere. It it reported that the existence of a powerful dynamite organisation in Pittsbarg are preparing for ■> socialistic outbreak. It causes considerable un•mumm, and martial law is proclaimed John her, ex conrict, who murdered Miss Lee, a wealthy lady, in her mansion at Balbicombe, has been sentenced to death. The War department are organising a eorpeof bsloonists from the engineers «orps for experimenting service in the Soudan. Leonard Courtner and John Morley, M.P.'s, are arranging for a conference of all members of Parliament opposed to the continuance of the Soudan war. Many •f the Liberals urge that the Soudan and Egyptian muddle shouid be handed over to the Sultan, i hej are alarmed at the prospects of the boundless expense. At a Liberal meeting held at Birmingham a resolution was unanimously parsed condoling with the Conservative Party •a the death of the galiant soldiers and kind'hearted Colonel Burnaby at Abuk- ]«*. His loss is greatly deplored in England, it being more spoken of than the battle itself. Frank Adams, a London barrister, who recently married Miss Coleridge despite th# savage opposition of ber relations. has begun a lib**! action against hi* father-in-law. Lord ColrriJge. P«rd, a London carriage builder, re erutlj shipped 1400 h:in<oin cab* to iSew York. i he Prince of Wales recently requested one of his sons to appear at and conduct services in the Boj's Refuge in the most inland part of London. At a ticket, office opposite Somerset House the duplicate emigrant ticket purchasi-d by Lucelle Dudley, Rossa's assailant, was exhibited on February 11th, and is dated August 21tt. One of the transatlantic steamship lines is about to issue tickets entitling passengers, merelj to lodging and conveyance. This is a encession to passengers subject to sea sickness. A - soldier wa« bayonetted to death on February 7th at a London arsenal. He would not give the countersign to advance m darkness to the sentry, and the latter, on a stranger attempting to pass the guard, stabbed him to death. Investigation showed that the tragedy was the result of a practical joke on the part of the dead man. The scenes of slaughter at Khartoum we described as surpassing the Bulgarian atrocities and rivalling the worst horrors •f the Sepoy mutiny. The panic-stricken Egyptians were captured in their flight, aad put to death with the most fiendish tortures. Some were transfixed with •pears and left to bleed to death. Most at the victims ware mutilated in the most - horrible manner. The eyes were gouged put, the noses slit, and tongues torn out by ■ the roots. In many cases the mutilated parts of the victims were thrust into their mouths while they were still living. The massacre included naay non-combatants, and the Egyptian women were subjected to the most shame • ful indignities. More than a hundred wosaea and young girls were given over to tha Mahdi's followers to be used as alavee. After the slaughter many of the Arabs were seen rushing about the streets with the heads of Egyptians impaled upon spears. The night was rt in a saturnalia of blood and debauy.