MAIL NEWS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4711, 12 February 1884, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

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A Dublin journal (United Ireland) 'on January 3rd published a fresh account of the killing of Carey, the informer, by O'Donnell, written by a gentleman who received it from the latter. It shows that O'Donnell deliberately killed Carey. There was no struggle, and Carey made no attack on O'Donnell. Had Judge Denbam permitted O'Donnell to speak, ha would hare told the whole story about the killing. O'Donnell was not acquainted with Carey on the voyage from England to the Cape of Good Hope, and was not a member of any society. He recognised Carey by-a wood cut which he saw. at, Capetown, and resolved to kill him. He intended to go with him to a farta at Port Elizabeth which Carey had told him he was going to take, and thus show there was no spot where Carey could be safe. Finding * himself, however, "alone with Carey,' he could not resist the desire to kill him. Carey perceived his danger, and said, "Do you know me?" O'Dou-.. nell replied, " You are Careyi. the "informer; to hell with you." l!he bullet sped' with the words, and the deed was done. Carey clutched his own- revolver, but too late; O'Donnell fired two shots, and Carey rolled to the deck^ Nobody saw the. encounter except O'DonneH's companion, who threw her - arms; around:him and filled the ship with her cries. He told her that morning he mean to kill Carey, and would hang for it. When Mrs Carey reached the scene, O'Donnell said to her,." I had to do it." The anniversary of the death of Louis XIV. was looked forward to as the dcca« sion of a Royalist demonstration. A large crowd of Royalists assembled at the Railway Depot on the 11th. when the Count de Paris left for Madrid, and handed him an address in the name of the Royalist League. Cries of " Vive- le Opmto de Paris !" and " Vive le Rorl" were raised.; Several persons were arrested. The Count went to Madrid on the invitation of King Alphonso. , • ••; The Figaro of Jaauary 12, : put9the number of suicidesin Paris for the year 1883 at four thousand." It says the number is unexampled, and accounts for the increjue by the "paeo at which we live/' Two meetings were held in Paris on January 15, in furtherance of the proposition to revise the Constitution.; Speeches were delivered favoring "social revolution, aad at one meeting it was decided.to organise a fund to. raise a monument to the Communists who were shot. A cable special from Madrid, dated January sth, says the.rupture between the Liberal factions is complete-, and the country is waiting to see whom King Alphonso will call to power. Great uneasiness prevail; the army is preparing for a revolt, and funds are failing. The language of the Republican, and even of the Ministerial, Press is hostile to the King. The crisis nominally turns on universal suffrage, but spoils and stealing are said to be the real cause. The apprehensions of a comiug disturbance' aro general, and King Alphonso's seat is considered to be Tory insecure. In the Cortes, on the Bth, Colonel Pornondo, Republican, declared that though the Republicans approved ofmilitary refo;\ra -■-, they did not support the Monarchy..-.A great tumult followed, and the Premier, amid cheering, observed that an officer who had taken the oath of allegiance to t!ic King could not as a deputy attack the Monarchy in the Cortes.

- The failure is announced of Girien, steamship ovrner for 2,000,0C3d015.

•Tiio liedmqnd Bros, were nunouueed to speak on Irish affairs ia Chicago on January 2s. Live stock dealers are petitioning Congress for protection against pleuro pneumonia,, by the slaughter of all infected

cattlo, an estimated expanse of a.million, and a half dols.

A leading American politician named Hewitt, who was a candidate for the Presidency, has incurred such odium as may lead to his retirement from Congress. He had introduced a resolution in Congress asking the President to obtain a retaissicu of O'Donnell's execution, and immediately afterwards he called ou the British Minister, Mr West, apologising to him, saying the resolution was only bunkum, intended to satisfy the Irish-American clamor. The affair leaked but; damaging Hewitt 'politically.*

Mormon leaders are becoming so bold that they 3 openly, defy Government, and urge the necessity of plural marriage.

Waterman and Co, a large shipping firm in San Francisco, has failed. Many large failures are announced in New York from the high charters and the low price of iwheat. ■ A mass meeting was held at New York under the auspices of an organisation known as the Army of the People, whose objects are the election of the President by the direct vote of the people, free postage, and Goyernment telegraph, a tax on all incomes over lO.OOOdols , unlimited courage in protection against monopolies, and other radical changes The estimated reduction of the United States debt in 1 ©ecember is-twelve million dollars!

Fredk. de Belleville, the actor, known in Australia, was divorced from his wife in New York. His wife is a native of Melbourne.

The Marquig of Lansdowne, GovernorGeneral of Canada, visited Chicago in a train strongly guarded, owing to the Fenian threats. On his arrival at Chicago, he was met by a hundred volunteers, who escorted him wherever he went during Ms stay.

The latest news from Panama says the men continue to arrive by every vessel for the Canal Company. The number now employed exceeds 14,C00, and it is hoped much progress will be made this ye&r. A graud winter carnival commences at Montreal on February 14th, iu honor of the Governor-General's visit. 10,000 blacks will bo used in the construction of the ice palace for the coming event. The great pleasure resort of the middle classes of New York was almost completely inundated in a terrific gale on January 9 Nearly a million dollars' worth of property'was swept away.

A railway accident occurred at Toronto by the collision of a passenger car with a freight train. Thirty persons were killed. The accident occurred when rounding a sharp curve. The boiler of the .engine exploded," and the steam scaldxdthe mangled- and bleeding men; fire then broke out, < ompletiug the sickening work of destruction.

The Orangemen's procession at New-' foundland resulted in riot; three men killed, and several injured. . ' The convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame, at Belleville, Illinois, was burned on the night of January 6; five nuns jumped from the fifth story window, and were killed. When the ruins had sufficiently coold, volunt?er3 commenced bringing out the bodies. Terrible sights were revealed at times: one searcher found two of the charred masses huddki closely together, seemingly seeking protection against the flame. The deaths numbered 27, of which 22 were pupils, and 5 sisters. The Sister Superior's body seemed to be the centre", of the ghastly circle of black remains. The convent was patronised by the Catholic pupils from all the country. % The. steamship City of Columbia, trading between Savannr.li and Boston, was wrecked on a reef off Gay He.d, near New Bedford, and more than a hundred lives were lost. The disaster occurred through the pilot fastening his wheel, and going to the smoke stick to warm himself; when he returned the ship had got among the rocks. The work of recovering £1,000,000 in treasure, supposed to havo been lost in the wreck of the British frigat' Hussar in the bottom of the East iriiver, New I'ork, just belo.r Fort Morris, has been commencrd. The vessel was wrecked in 1782, while on the way to Norwich, Conn., and the money was for the p-yment of the British troops. The 5 Husear bad also seventy American prLoners chained to her gun-decks. The company engaged in the work retain 90 per cent of their findings, the .U.S. Grpvernm&nt taking. 10 per cent.; "K r .-'■■.'.'.'•■. -^;k . ■--■>'\^ "■■ J: L The latest version of the accident to the Czar on December 17, while returning from a shooting excursion fo Balchina Palace in Austria, is to the effect that he was accompanied by his suite in eight sledges with a number of servants. Al» though'darkness was coming^ on, the party notie; i ahead six men, apparently peasants. The Czar's aiden drove forv ward and ordered the men to cl-ar the way. The men saluted the officers and appeared to-obey -orders,■"■bat when; the •Czar's sledge came on a level wilH them they suddenly wheel: i round, and fired at him thrice, and two of them ran towards the sledge. The horses attached became frightened, and . gallopi 1 come: hundred: pares, when the Czar was: thrown out of the sledge. A bullet lodged in the Czar's, shoulder, but it was not a dangerous wound.