MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4667, 19 December 1883, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

The deafness of the Princess of Wales has been relieved, and she now drives around London daily with her daughters. The Glasgow upholstery warehouse of Wjlie and Lockhead, and the adjoining building, was burned on November 3, involving a loss of £300,000.

The marriage of Princess Louise Vie* toria Alexandria Dagmar, eldest daughter of the Prince of Wales, now 16 years old, to the young Duke of Portland, is mooted.

An explosion occurred in the Lady Pitt colliery, near Stoke-upon-Trent, on Sua* day, October 28, while the miners -were trying to extinguish a fire. Six men were killed and three wounded.

A miners' conference in Manchester on October 31, representing 200,000 men, resolved to send nctices to the miners' employers, demanding an advance of 15 per cent, in wages. Kossuth died in Turin on November 16. He had passed his 81st year.

Dr. Schlieman has abandoned his exca* vations for the present, and returned to Athens in broken health. ,

A new expedition, including three Swedish officers, left London on NovemV ber 15 for the Upper Congo country.

Cotton picked by machinery, the firat known, was exhibited on the 30th Oct., at the Charleston Cotton Exchange. The condition of the cotton was perfect.

A fat woman, Blamlie Gray, who died on the 7th, in New York, weighed 6001ba. Her husband sold the body to the surgeons, because, as he said, he was poor, and needed the 25 dollars he received for the remains.

Clement Bothemly, a rich young Englishman, who intended to go to Texas and start a sheep ranch, was killed in Indian Territory, on October 7th ult., by a beautiful and well educated young.bra* nette named Nellie C. Baker, with whom he had " hard-and-fasted " at St. Louis. While en route to Texas, she shot him through the head, and then took possession of all his money, valuables, and other personal property. She was arrested on November last, and held for trial before the United States Circuit Court at War* chita.

The Queen, in her impatience, has had a temporary stucco cast of John Brown's statue erected on the lawn at Balmoral, in front of her royal apartments. The cast has become the subject of so much discussion in artistic circles that Boehm, the sculptor, has had to speak in selfdefence. He admits it is far better looking than John Brown ever was, but says that Her Majesty came to the studio weekly to superintend the modelling, and insisted on one change or another until he thought he was doing the Apollo Belvidere in kilts. ,

A despatch from New York, October 31, says :—The newspaper accounts of the underground railway explosions in London were read with great delight at the Fenian headquarters, and O'Donovan Rossa, in reply to a reporter, said he did Hot lay claim to any personal knowledge of the events at Charing Cross and Praed street underground stations, but he believed a good many more like them were in store for the British metropolis. The explosions last night (he said) are the third shots of this kind fired in the camp of the enemy. The explosion which wrecked the. local Government buildings was the first, and the explosion in the Woolich Arsenal was the second. The credit of blowing up the Government buildings was claimed by a rival organisation, which has really accomplished nothing in the cause of Ireland.

The Tagblatfc of October 24 says tha Czar has decided to grant Russia more freedom, and such reforms as are suited to the spirit of the people. He has entrusted to Count Tolstoi and Count Katjoff the task of preparing a constitution. The latest Nihilist proclamaton demands that the Czar summon the representatives of the people, asks for a full amnesty, freedom of the Press, freedom of speech, and the right to hold public meetings, as the only means of preventing revolutions. The London Standard's St. Petersburg correspondent speaks of tho Nihittstiffas badly demoralised, and miserably weakened in men and means. The recent arrest of Vera Philipera, the actual head of the Executive Committee is the worst blow of all. She has written a voluminous corifesi sion.