HOME AND FOREIGN.

Bush Advocate, 15 September 1888, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

. •. • ■■'•■+ •■ ■ " Paris, Sept. 12. V.- <"k serious affray is reported as having taking plaoe at Limoges, tlie capital -of the Department of Upper Vianne, between the navvies out on fltrijte and the police. The latter attempted to disperse a meeting bain sj held t>y the navvies, but ■were set upon and roughly used by them. *The women took part in the affair, and assisted the navvies by throwing boiling water on the police. The. soldiery were called out, but not before the police had been disarmed and severely beaten The military ferociously, charged j the mob with , fixed bayonets, and a large number of iioters were fearfully wounded. Several women were killed, and others terribly mutilated by the bayonets. Eventually the military succeeded in equalling the disturbance and restoring order. '. A French aeronaut claims that he has solved the problem of balloon • navigation, and asserts that by liis scheme he will bo able to travel in «• a balloon in any direction at the rate of , sixty miles an hour. A public trial of his invention will be made shortly. . Washington, Sept. 12, " ; Yety heated debates occurred during the progress of the Retaliation Bill. One speaker declared that the United States cared nothing for the British navy, whilst another condemned the colonial nad foreign policy of England, interference lately in several matters J> ad brought her. into unenviable prominence. The speaker last referred to counselled the house to deal with the Dominion of Canada and ignore Great Britain in arriving at a i settlement of the question. Constantinople, Sept. 12. „ Sir .John Pendor, who is visiting the Sultan, has been decorated with : the firstrdass ordor of the Medjidio. Ottawa, Sept. 12. Sir John Macdonald, Premier of Canada, will probably visit England at an early date with the object of urging upon Lord Salisbury the desirableness of granting several millions to the Government* of tho Dominion for tho purpose of constructing strngetic and 1 commercial railways which should be part of tKe: syatora of defence. .