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Globe, Volume I, Issue 41, 17 July 1874, Page 4

The “ Armeno-Catholic difficulty,” as it is termed, seems to give a vast amount of trouble to the Turkish Government. The leading members of the Hassouuist Armenian Catholic community, according to the “ Levant Herald,” came to an understanding on, the Bth nit., with the Grand Vizier, that the Patriarchal Church of St. Saviour in Galata should bo handed over to the Turkish Government, in deference to the Vizierial order, on condition that the Government should not give it up to the auti-Hassonnisls. In pursuance of this arrangement a party of soldiers, under command of a major, proceeded on the morning of the 9th inst. to the church, and, having knocked, the door was opened to them and they entered. The officiating clergymen connected with the church withdrew to their apartments and the edifice remained in possession of the picket of Turkish soldiers and two Armenian watchmen. The first draft of the Vizierial order directed that the church should bo handed over to the functionary designated for the purpose by the Sublime Porto on condition that it should remain in the custody of the Imperial Government and not be delivered up “for the present” to any of the contending parties. The Hassounists, however, objected to these words “ for the present,” and they were expunged from the order as stamped with the seal of the Imperial Divan. The Porte, it is said, has determined upon convoking a conference of six leading members of the dissident or antiHasson nist Catholics to see if there be any possibility of arriving at a satisfactory solution of the vexed questions between them. In the meantime the picket of Turkish zaptiehs still remain in possession of the church.

An example of what may be done by lawless animals united together by a bond of what the Americans term “ pure cussedncss” is afforded by the conduct of a gang of wild cats which, according to the Vicksburg “ Times,” the other day attacked the house of a Mr Powell, on Sunflower River, Mrs Powell and a colored servant only being at home. The attack commenced by one of the cats jumping through the window as leader of a “ forlorn hope,” the doors of the dwelling having been closed on the approach of the invaders. The cats, however, had little counted on the resistance they would meet with. No sooner had their leader bounded into the room than Mrs Powell gallantly threw a blanket over it and pitched it out of itoe back door. Nothing daunted, the cats renewed the attack, when another of their number came to grief, being killed by a small axe brandished by the bands of tlie intrepid Mrs Powell. The colored cook had by this time become thoroughly frightened, and deserting her mistress, fled from the house. Shi: bad, however, proceeded but a few paces in her cowardly career, when she fell into the claws of the cats, and was “ pretty well chawed ” before she was rescued by a neighbor, who killed one of her assailants with a hatchet and then rushed to the relief of Mrs Powell, who was beleaguered in the house. In attempting to save the life of this estimable lady her defender nearly lost bis own, for he was severely wounded by two large cats before he succeeded in despatching them. At length the cats were beaten off with a loss of four killed and several wounded ; nor had they by the latest accounts rallied sufficiently to renew the attack.