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Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 464, 5 January 1869, Page 3

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The Dowager Duchess'of Sutherland is dead. Several shocks of earthquakes have been distinctly felt recently in the western counties of England and Wales. Governor Reed, of Florida, lias been impeached by the State Legislature for high crimes and misdemeanors. A great fire occiirred, on ' October 15, in the petroleum works of Vendbots and Co., in Antwerp, Belgium. The bnilding r 2000 barrels of petroleum, and many millions of gallons of naptha were burned. T.ie loss is very heavy. At Huntingdon, England, a few days ago (says the Stamford Mercury), a man picked up a parcel containing a LSO note. He restored it to its owner, a stranger, who rewarded him by the present of one penny. The steamer Hesper left Memphis recently with 4000 stand of arms among, her cargo, intended, it is said, for the negroes in Arkansas. While she was wooding twenty-five miles below, forty men appeared in disguise, seized the boat and threw the arms into the river. They then disappeared into the woods. At Marysville a light shock was felt and at Grass Valley the shock was severe. At Sonora the shocks were. light but they 'continued nearly all day. All business, except of a retail kind, is suspended. The Chamber of Commerce held a meeting today and resolved to telegraph; to the Chambers of Commerce in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, London, Paris and Hamburg the account of the disaster. A mysterious explosion occurred on October 28, at Trinity Chambers, Damestreet, Dublin. Patrick Hogan, a porter, on opening the letter-box of Craig and Gardiner, solicitors, found a brandy-flask, which about twelve o'clock he proceeded to open, when it exploded, inflicting serious injuries on his face ; it is feared his sight is destroyed. \Np motive can be assigned for placing the' explosive substance in the letter-box. At the same time that the despot of Russia has been issuing an ukase against the practice of homoeopathy in his dominions, an opposite step has been taken by the Free Government of Hungary. One of the firsT acts of the Hungarian Ministry after the recent restoration of their constitution has been to take steps to make homoeopathy a public and obligatory study at the 1 National University. On Saturday, October 24, severe shocks of earthquake, followed by a loud rumbling noise, were felt at two places near Mallow, in Cork County. Houses were shaken, furniture broken, and the occupants greatly terrified. At the time the shocks were felt it was blowing a hurricane. The first shock was felt at Newtown, within a few miles of Mallow. Some gentlemen who were hunting near the place at the time state that the shock was followed by a loud rumbling noise and oscillation of the earth. In other places between Mallow and Kanturk, a distinct shock of earthquake was also felt. Houses were shaken from their foundations, and in some instances the furniture was thrown down and broken. The shock passed from north to south. [This was five days after the date of the earthquake that was felt in New Zealand.]