NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1942, 27 October 1874, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

On Saturday, 22nd August, the great hosiery factory of Messrs Morley, at Swinton, near Nottingham, was burned down, and LIO,OOO worth of property destroyed ; 500 persons were thrown ont, of employment. Incendiarism is bus-'... pected. Early on Sunday -morning.:' Messrs Richardson's large mills, uear : Jarrow-on-Tyne, were consumed. The estimated damage is Ii60;000. On Mori- ' day an extensive conflagration occurred in Southampton docks, resulting in the destruction of the range of buildings occupied by the Royal Mail Company, and ~ used as workshops.- The : loss is estimated at several thousand pounds. ~Onv~ Tuesday a fire broke out in the top floqg of the South Prison, at Glasgow. The flames were not sabdued until the west vying was gutted. On the 16fch August, owing to the ignition of a thatched stack, a considerable part of the town of Market Harborough was burned down. A destructive fire occurred at Mr Gresty's timber-yard, Manchester; the loss wife L 40,000. Sir Arthur Guinnens's exteii-'---sive porter stores' at Shannon Harbor have been totally destroyed by fire. A deplorable accident has occurred in Little Strand street, Dublin.; It appears that between 20 and 30 persons were assembled in a room, attending 'the' wake of a child not more than two months old. The flooring gave way, burying no less than 20 people in its ruins.. Men and women were dragged out from the heap ' ti'' debris, as- well as the corpse of the infant, which, with the living; had been precipitated through two floorings of the house. The horrors of the scene were aggravated by the breaking oub of a-fire^ which for a time threatened to complete an awful tragedy. In the falling of the. floor of the room the candles 'which' hadj been used at the wake ignited some of the; bedclothing. upon which .the. childi lay» The people in the upper rooms shrieked for assistance, and in their frenzy of %'ay actually threw i child from one of the upper rooms, which, through a merciful interposition, was caught bysomepefstins below and escaped without hurt; The" flames grew apace ; but the work of drag* ging out the people was persevered in, and the police and the fire brigade men ultimately succeeded in rescueing all from their fearful position. No lives were lost, but it is likely that at least one life will be sacrificed. One woman," ;; Mra Wade, was in so hopeless a condition that she received the rites of her church soon sifter she was brought into the hospital, [t is thought she cannot suryiye the injuries she has received. The child which • was thrown from one of the windows of the third story was brought to the hospi;alin, as it was thought, a lifeless state, jut after the administration of restoraives, and an examination, it was found o ha ye escaped entirely free from in j ury. The labor market' still remains in '■% lighly inflamed condition, and the wajjes luestion proves difficult of adjustment. L'he Belfast strike; affecting 40,000 persons, after lasting eight weeks, was ter«

« ■.■ » . . minated on 26th August, by submission to the masters' terms. On the same day, at a meeting attended by 10,000 persons, some quarrymen, near Bethesda, it was agreed to accept concessions offered by Lord Penrhyn, subject to the dismissal of two obnoxious agents, and minimum weekly wages to be 30a to skilled men. . These conditions being refused, the men have cleared out their tools from the quarry. The miners of Pifeshr.3 aid Clackmannanshire have refused to submit to a reduction of 15 per cent ; the masters have decreed a general, lock-out. Thu men, however, are not agreed ; 2100 voted for resistance, and 3154 for an acceptance of the terms ; 3300 have not voted, and secession from the union is probable. In Wast Lancashire, Flintshire; Lanarkshire, and Durham, notices of reduction have been given by colliery owners. A similar movement is impending in Northumberland. The Yorkshire and Derbyshiie masters and men submitted the question of reduction to arbitration in London, and the decision affirmed the demands of the employers for 12£ per cent, rebatement. Some Leicestershire miners have struck against the reduction of 6d per day. After protracted resistance and several conferences, the South Wales miners agreed to submit to 10 per cent, reduction, on condition that the wages are not again lowered during the present year. The bulk of locked-out laborers have obtained work without surrendering their tickets at improved wages. Any aged men, however, by joining the union will have to enter workhouses. The lock-cut lasted ten weeks, and cost the union L 25.00 0; 400 men have emigrated, and 870 have returned to work without giving up their tickets, and about 400 are still unemployed. The pilgrim band finally broke up at Halifax, only 21 of the original 100 remaining. At Bradford some were arrested on a charge of begging. About L7O was cleared. The methods of Carlist warfare, and the dash with which, they; are carried out, are curiously illustrated in. a report to General Dorregarry from the commandant at Pena Serrada, relating to an exploit in the neighborhood of Miranda, where the Republicans had their head-qnarters. Taking into account the transcendent importance of rendering useless the railway and telegraph which unite the stations of Logrono and Miranda, as well as the difficulty of doing so in consequence of all the bridges and fords being occupied by the enemy, the last being fortified, the commandant took measures for forming a section of swimmers, composed of a total of 20 men, who continually traversed the Ebro through the water for the purpose of annoying and attacking the parties holding the fords, and causing as much damage as possible upon the line. He then goes on to relate how these brave volunteers arrived at the station of Miranda, where they remained concealed until an opportunity presented itself for making prisoner an engineer who was preparing a locomotive to take a train to Logrono. Mounting the engine, they compelled the engineer to put it into movement, taking with it the train, in which no passengers had taken their places. On arriving at Harro, the detachment of Civil Guards stationed there were astonished at seeing a train pass of whose arrival they had received no notice. Confounded, they asked where it wa^" going, but our volunteers, who were hidden, did net allow the engine-driver to reply, and, continuing their course, stopped the tvain a little farther an a sufficient time to enable them to attach strongly to it the wires, which done it went on, thus destroying seven kilometra3 of the telegraph line. This had also been done previous to reaching Harro. Between Cenicero and Fuen Mayor the train was again stopped, and after removing some rails, the party returned, swimming the Ebro to the left bank to report the service they had performed.