European News.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 21, 3 December 1874, Page 6

European News.

A Beelin telegram says the Emperorhas approved Dr F'rjedenthal's appointment as. Minister of Agriculture. A labo.rerV wife' has died at Mortimer, a village near Reading, ; from 'the effects ofa hornet's sting. • :: Steam tramway cars are now in use in Chicago, steam sufficient for a. threemiles' journey being suppliedifrom a stationary boiler. A Central News telegram reports that five men lost tlieir lives at the Barrow Colliery, Buyn-Cethin, a stage giving way and failing into 25 feet of water. A boy only eight years old has been j summoned at the Thames Police Court, London, for refusing to pay the hire, of a cab in which he had ridden about for four hours. Don Francis, of Assisi, husband of Queen Isabella, has written to a Spanish paper to state that he takes no part in in politics nor in the education of his son. • The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John Ferguson to the church and . parish of Fearn, ; in the Presbytery of Brechin and county of Forfar. At the desire of the Empress of Austria, who has never seen a steeplechase^ a meeting will shortly be held On' the picturesque course near Ventnor. The Empress will give some of the prizes. Peru, like other countries, has its difficulties with the Roman 'Catholic clergy. The Bishop of Puno is to be prosecuted for disobeying the law by sending his resignation direct to the Pope iusfcead of to the Central Government. Two hundred men and boys were unexpectedly imprisoned for some hours at a Radcliff colliery, through the breaking of some rods supporting a cage, which fell and blocked the shaft. The colliers wez-e ultimately rescued by means of an old shaft. The Prince of Wales has given LSO towards the rebuilding of St. Mary's Church, Southampton, of which the Basil Wilberforce, son of the late Bishop of Winchester, is rector. The Duke of Edinburgh is also a subscriber, and the rector contributes LSOO. The Paris - Pays ' says it is perfectly I true that the Emperor of Russia has invited the Prince Imperial to attend the military manceuvers at St. Petersburg ' iu the autumn ; but ifc does not know I if the studies of the Prince will allow him to accept the Czar's invitation. The Paris journals record the death at Pau of the Countess de Bardi, sister of the ex-King of Naples, at the age of nineteen. The deceased Princess was married only a few months ago to the Count de Bardi, a nephew of the Count de Chambord. A New York telegram reports that the Upper Mississippi region is swarming with hostile Indians, A Republican Convention is to be held to consider the condition of the Southern States. A Soke beerseller, named John Simpson, has been fined L5 and costs L32 4s in all for having sold ale adulterated to the extent of 250 grains of salt to the gallon. Ifc was stated that the salt was put in in order to create thirst, so that more beer might be consumed. Five ladies, Mrs M'Dermofc and four daughters, have been committed for tsial at the next Dorset Sessions, by the Weymouth Magistrates, for stealing some spoons and knives and. forks from a furnished house which thev had taken. There are also other charges against them, for obtaining goods hy false pretences from several of the Weymouth tradesmen. The house, it is said, was taken for a Colonel Holt, for whose arrest a warrant is already issued, who married a daughter of Mrs. M'Dermot. The family^ represented that they had a large estate iu Roscom-: mon, but they had been residing in Jersey for six years in poor circumstances, and are alleged to be absolutely without means. The 'Brooklyn Argus' reports an extraordinary series of crimes. An Italian is most mysteriously murdered in Williamsburg, with his money and other effects left upon his person. A man commits suicide' by chloroform at the Ashland House, New York. A drunken man blows his brains out in Canal Street. A German shoots himself because a girl had jilted him. A retired carpenter shoots his wife because she had ill- cooked his paunes, and then kills himself, A woman in Elizabeth Port, after trying to cut her throat, throws herself under a passing . locomotive. One farmer kills' another in Pennsylvania for killing his dog. An old man of Ithaca is stabbed because he will not surrender his daughter to her newly-married husband'. One Hazel shoots a girl mistaking her for his own daughter. A man in Memphis is literally disembowelled in a quarrel over a small debt, . Mary Hodge, or Young, sixty-two years of age, wife of William Young, residing in Watt Street, Dundee,. was killed at the droughty Ferry Railway Station. The deceased with' her husband and some friends had spent the afternoon at the sea-shore, and returned about seven to the station, intending to proceed to Dundee. In the criish which ensued on the arrival of the train, Mrs \ Young was dragged away- from : |her husband and , was crushed in between two. Carriages. ; One. of . the wheels passed over her,' taking off her right arm and cutting her head in. two. '

. ; .The chief clerk of the Gibraltar Poshl Office has absconded, with L2OO. '..fl „ The ruler of Klash'gar, Yakoob Khanf! has placed the Sultan's name on hiscoinll age, and has declared himself his vassal! xA young woman has been killed in I shocking manner by being twisted] round a shaft at the . Foxhill Banl-I Printworks, Blackburn. I Mr Morley, brother of John Morleyj ofthe 'Fbrihightly. Review,' has met! his death, in Bombay by falling over! the roof of one of the principal hotels. | Prince Napoleon* was recently robbed] of 1 ,500 francs : at the railway station 1 of Geneva,' and several large thefts have! taken place in the stations of Berneyl Lausanne, and other towns. 1 The Queen stood as godmother byff proxy to the twin sons of Lord Odo4| Russell, who were christened at Woburn 1 Abbey. The Crown Prince and Princess f of Germany, also stood sponsors. | . A letter published in Paris in re- J ference to the re-incorporation of Nice 1 with Italy, states that when in 1870,. f the Italian Government were sounded 1 with the view of ascertaining how they I would receive any demonstrations on | tlie. part of the inhabitants, they strongly 1 condemned any such proceeding. \ H.M.S. Albatross, lately, built atChatham, aud sent out to tne Persian Gulf, on her first commission, has just been , sent home as uriseaworthy. A thorough investigation has brought tonight the. fact that porous timber was used and bad copper. The workmen concerned have been dismissed. In a field on the farm of Muirhead,. occupied by Mr; James Davie, a fine mare belonging to him, valued at between LBO and L9O, was killed by a reaping machine while, being drawn* down, hill , , without a brake. The machine came against the animal's hind legs, causing her. to kick, and in- thisway she received shocking injuries;---j. According to the Press Association anew association is about to be set on foot by Evangelicrl Churchmen andi Dissenters of various denominations, to be called " The. United Protestant Alliance," and to have for its : objects "thebanding together of all sections of Protestants against the attempted revival of superstitious teachings, and the protection of Protestant interests in allParliamentary reforms." A private letter to a gentleman residing near Birmingham says — " I have just come from Milbank, where -Lady Tichborne,' Lord Rivers, and another, who will not fail to let the world know of it, had a sight, of * Sir Roger.' I can hardly call it an interview— only a few minutes — but we were not allowed to go near him. Lord Rivers tells me he is very well, though seven stone* lighter." It may not be generally known that the Baroness Burdett Cou'tts presented Mr Henry M. Stanley with a magnificent dog valued at £5()0, and that he takes the animal and a number of other dogs out with him to Africa, in the hopethat they will live and return with him.. The experiment will be a very interesting and valuable one. It is said that there is a girl in Leicester who has not partaken of food for upwards of eighteen weeks. She is dedescribed as being in a state of semiunconsciousness,'and it is said that the local medical gentlemen are " baffled,"' though one of them "is unwilling tobelieve in the possibility of any person being able to exist the above-named period of time without any kind of sustenance whatever." The girl is seventeen years of age. The increase in the frequency and brutality of wife beating and similar cases has induced London Magistrates and Judges to impose heavy sentences' jon the offenders. At the Middlesex sessions, one wife -beater was sentenced to two years'. imprisonment, with hard labor, and another to nine months. The German Gymnastic Society of London celebrated the Sedan anniversary by a banquet. Telegrams of congratulation were sent to the Emperor and Prince Bismarck, and from both of those august personages responses were received. , Mr Plimsoll, M.P., speaking at a " demonstration "of Cleveland miners on Saturday, said no one out of Bedlam would, deny thatthere were weekly and monthly dozens and scores of seamen • being sent down to death in order to enable greedy scoundrels, who cared nothing for others, to add to their wealth. The Duke of Bedford and Mr Samuel Morley,' M.P., have each given £100 in aid of the proposed Artisans' Institute for Promoting General and Technical Knowledge among Skilled Workmen in London, and Mr. Morley has also guaranteed. £100 a year for three years. The institution will shortly be opened in St Martin's. Lane. Perhaps the- largest salmon on record killed in the Firth, was captured -on Messrs Annerson's water near Stirling. On' the, making of the. tide; on Monday* several gentlemen who were angling at Causewayhead; stream^ saw what they thought alarg-e sturgeon, and; intormed the fishermen of the consequence, the men ; all hight v w,ere on the look-out, and about one o?ciock one of the crews enclosed rift their nets the supposed' sturgeon. , After- careful handling, they succeeded in landing thgfmqnster,iwhich turned dut ; to", be^salmon Thefish vvhenpiitinMthe'scalatnrnea out. to be withiri a few; ounces of slfbs In shape it was a -perfect model. Upwards of fifty other salmon were caught during the night. B