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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1989, 21 December 1874, Page 2

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ENGLISH. ;f The following " Gazette,", dated " from Buckingham Palace, was published on the 15th? October :— ."This morning,,! ; at, , a quarter to three o'clock, her Royal and Imperial Highness the Duchess of Edinburgh was safely delivered of a prince. Hisjßoyal Highness the Duke of -Edinburgh -was present, as also the Earl of Derby, in-the ■absence of] the Secretary p£ JState ■ for the, Home Department/ ; Her Royal andYlihpenal Highness and the infant prince are doing perfectly well. The; happy -event was made known by the firing of the Park and Tower guns." : '•• ';■?■: .■.■• iv.v, The despatches received from * the steamer Faraday state that the fieetis now -proceeding successfully J yirith ;y the laying of the direct United States 1 cable, 126 miles of cable having.. been laid since the cable wasspliced VT ; :r A melancholy occurrence was discovered in Leith, Scotland, rece r ntJyT T. wfTsisters, named Ann Murray and Jane' Murray, residing; in Balfour sjtreet, were £rjown for some time to be indulging in intemperance, but, as their conduct was quiet and unobtrusive,- little attention was paid to them by their neighbors' until* very recently. The last time they were, both seen alive was on Tuesday. -' r Asiidthihg was. .heard of them from that time till Thursday evening the. neighbors began 'to suspectjth^t aU was; not right! ,l^TKe floor of their house was forced open, when a melancholy ; spectacle presented > itaelf. Ann. was found lying dead on the floor of an apartment, and 'beside her sat like a maniac her sister Jane. Both; were in a semi-nude state, - and the surviving sister seemed to be unconscious of the other's decease. When : questi6ned r a3 : tb~the;stiate of her sister/ Jane replied, "if isl all right, and she will soon be well again." A medical gentlemen was called, in, and he pronounced that Ann had been dead for several hours. From what we have learned, tho unhappy sisters have spent not less than LIOO in drink since spring. Details show that theuDuridee whaler Arctic was lost- under* extraordinary circumstances. When" the vessel was hope? lessly caught in the ice; /the i'crew, ; 6j4 in number, ina'de every possible' effort 1 to save provisions and clothi^^Wliil^^he operations wilr.e' ;.i^. '', progress,, a, '.fearful storm ; of yrind.; and rain came onT The men were standing on the ice, without shelter, when one-half of the vessel was ■ For rmciinder of New see- 4th page

crushed like a match-box. The other half caught fire, and from the inflammable nature of the cargo, there was soon a fire of immense brilliancy. The heat caused the oil to melt, and all that remained of the ship sank amid a hissing cloud of Bteam. The Arctic kad on board 171 -whales, 32 white whales, 8 ear whales, 10 ' seals, 3 walrusses, and 3 bottle-nosed ■whales. The crew suffered great privations before being rescued. An accident of an alarming oharacter has occurred at the chief pit belonging to the Stand Lane Colliery Co. (Limited), at Kadcliffe. The work of winding coal was proceeding as usual, when the guiding rods at the Bide of the shaft broke, and the .cage and its contents, falling crosswise, were wedged between the uprights and the brickwork. The consequence was that operations were suddenly brought to a standstill, and the whole of the men and boys, numbering upwards of 200, were imprisoned in the pit for many hours. An apparatus was at length rigged up, and the miners were slowly and safely wound out of the pit by means of an unused shaft situated at a distance from the one in which the accident occurred. FOREIGN. The village of Prest, in the Schausegig, Switzerland, was almost wholly destroyed by fiie, 85 houses being burned. The villagers were mainly poor people, who loße nearly all they possessed. The only church in the the place was destroyed. It is reported that Germany, inconsequence of the increase in the Bussian army, will add 20,000 troops to her annual contingent. A despatch from Borne (Nov. 7) says the Pope intended to receive a deputation yesterday morning, but fainted on entering the] hall. His physicians declared his indisposition to be slight. A special despatch to the " Standard " (Nov. 7) reports thai 10,000 'Republican troop 3 are collected in the approaches to Irun, for the relief of the town, but the Carlists occupy the intervening passes in great force. The proposed marriage of the Prince. Imperial to the daughter of the Russian Grand Duchess Marie is considered in Bonapartist circles as an important event. It is said that evidence is accumulating that Count Von Arnim has for some time back been setting Court circles against Bismarck, and that the Count seriously entertained an idea of shortly occupying a leading position in the Imperial Government. . The Russian Government has ordered 18 iron ships for its fleet in the Sea of Aral, and two light-draft steamers for service in the Amudury River. A brutal murder of a mother by her sou has just been committed at RheilhacChampinier (Dordogne). The man, named Lesport, and aged 34, had frequent quarrels with the woman. A few days he was about to draw a load of wheat from a barn against the wishes of his mother, ■who threatened to cut off a leg of the cow harnessed to the cart. As he persisted in his intention, she struck the animal with the. handle of a bill-hook. The son then knocked her down with a pickaxe, and repeated the blow twice on her head when she was on the ground. Then, finding she was- dead, he took her by the legs and drew her aside to let his cart pass, and went off whittling with his load of corn to market, : leaving the .body on the ground. He was arrested two hours after.| The French papers state that Charles Killick, an English jockey, has been arrested for stabbing a Paris coachman, tinder the following peculiar circumstances':—The victims was driving his vehicle with a fare when Killick seized the bridle of his ricketty old horse, and aaidj ; " Why, this is Volunteer, that I won a dozen races with. On his refusing to leave go the driver struck him with his whip, on which the jockey rushed upon him and stabbed him twice in the bosom with a knife, and, while the two lady passengers were alighting in a fright, stabbed the. horse as well. He then quietly delivered himself up to the police. AMERICAN. Sir Edward Thornton, Lord Gaithness, Lord Bostwick, and Judge Peabody are at present in New York. The President's son has taken unto himself a wife. The lady is Ida Maria Honore, of Chicago, the daughter of a millionare. The papers overflow with descriptions of the happy event and of the presents. Mackin and Co., bankers, Newark, N.J., failed on 22nd October, from over speculation in real estate. The "World" publishes a long article on the condition of trade in New York City and the prospects of the poor for the coming winter. From statistics adduced by the "World" it appears that fully one-third of the common; or unskilled laborers in the city are now idle, comprising a population of 90,000 beings, now in want, who have been unemployed for pix months, and with no prospects of work before next spring. The outlook for the poorer classes in the coming winter, the "World" Bays, is horrible. The discussion in the New York Episcopal Convention to-day on the canon forbidding ritualism was very animated. It was finally adopted by the following vote : — Of the 41 dioceses represented, 38 voted aye, 2 no, 1 being divided. Lay votes, dioceses represented, 38 ; ayes, 34 ; noes, 3 ; divided, 1. Herman Schilling, aged twenty-three years, a watchman in v a, Cincinnati tannery, was missed this morning from his post. A search showed a bloody pitchfork with hair on ib in an adjoining stable, and bloody tracks were traced to a furnace under which a hot fire had raged all nigt. In the mouth of the flue, down which an effort had been made toithrow him, the body of the missing man, roasted to (fragments, was found. Suspicion pointed to Andrew Egner and Fred Egner his son, whose daughter Schilling had been criminally intimate with, although not, as alleged by that Egners, her seducer, her moral character being bad. Since her death, Egners has often made threats of killing Schilling. They were arrested, and with them one George Rufer, an employe of the tannery, who had been recently discharged. at Schilling's instance, and who it is thought joined the plot, because he had fired the factory whose Btnoking ruins are opposite the tannery, and bechause Schilling suspected and was about to denounce him. The struggle in the stable at 11 o'clock in the night, was overheard by one witness, who described the struggle as fearful. There is great exoitement in the city over the murder.