English News.

Clutha Leader, Volume V, Issue 214, 16 August 1878, Page 3

English News.

•Pope Leo has placed a Cardinal's hat afc tliß disposal of the French Government. Business is beginning- to invade the aristocratic Murray H ill quarter of New York. Gov. Nichols, of Louisiana, has only one arm and one leg*. There is a widespread famine in Morocco, Africa. The Sultan has repaired, bare-footed, to the mosque, to pray for rain. The Boston (U.S) city authorities imported 40,000 tulips for the Public Garden at a cost of LIG7. Charles Wood, aged fifteen, has been killed hy falling- from a cliff 200 feet high at Whiterose, Dorset. He was out bird-nesting*. bir F. L. Arthur was injured by a collision of cabs in Pall Mall. He was conveyed to the United Service Club, and expired within an hour It said that over L 125,000 have been raised by the Fenian managers, from first to last, and all from the savings of the very poor. A woman named Eliza Jane Holloway, aged 26, died in the Manchester Royal Infirmary lately from hydrophobia from the bite of a cat. According to the celebrated German botanist, Herr Schlieden, about 450 tons of beetroot are annually, in Thuringia alone, transformed into tobacco. While dining with Lord and Lady Cavendish, the Duchess of Argyle was seized with apoplexy, and died the next morning. The members of the Ohio Legislature have discovered that they have an exconvict among them, against whom grave charges are brought. The culprit, O'Connor by name,- offered to resign, but the House insists on investigation. O'Connor, with an amusing " derangement of epitaphs," protests against " opening the door for the protruding nose of inquiry to walk into the private record of every member." In spite of his protest, however, the protruding nose still goes marching on. At the Sunderland Police Court Edward Stanley and George Wilson, slaughtermen, were charged with having stolen irom John Summers' stable in Middle-street a retriever bitch, which is alleged to have been subsequently tilled, dressed as mutton, and sold as food for human beings. A constable exhibited a small quarter of dog, which had appearances very like that of mutton. The prisoners were. remanded. . On the framework underneath a third class carriage belonging to the London' and South- Western Railway a water wagtail has built its nest. . The . carriage forms part of a train that runs between Cosham and Havatit four times daily, making a total of about 40 miles, and while the journey is being performed the male bird promenades the turntable or _rests : on „ the } telegraph wires of Costiam Station, arid as sopn' as the' train arrives- hey returns to the rnest.ir The same pair of birds built; in /the same place "last year. . x "\ y A . .. *yy ,y V A . \ ,.

There are 356 colleges in America. Widows above-fifty- cannot marry in Portugal. Chicago has three hdy lawyers ir successful practice A Pru-fi-.ui' officer was recently losi in the crater of Vesuvius. Ohio (U.S.) has voted by a large majority against taxing church property. A New York Bank advertised for three Bauk clerks, and received over 5000 applications. Ihe introduction- of postal cards in Tnciia for everland and. inland correspondence is likely to take place. Bull fights have just been introduced from Spain into Marseilles (France), and attract immense crowds. The Daily News states that the three Emperors are expected to meet after the recovery of Emperor William. The death is announced at Paris of the widow of Hanhemanc, the founder of homeopathy, at the age of 78. According to a clause in the new Prisons Bill, Jewish prisoners are to be exempt Irom labour on the Jewish Sabbath. In Miss Burdett-Coutts' home for working women in England, a woman can get excellent board and lodging for 5s 3d per week. The Queen of the Belgians is one of the best lady whips in the world, and as fond of horses as her sister-in-law the Empress of Austria. A lady in Texas saw an advertisement in a l^ew York paper of an opium cure. She sent ior it, took it, and died in convulsions within an hour. About fifteen tobacco factories are to be in operation in Winston, N.C., tbis season, which will give employment to over 1000 hands, at L 217 a day. The English Government recently ordered 200 electric lights of Messrs Siemens,, of Berlin, for use at sea to detect approaching torpedo boats. The latest official enumeration in America gives the total number of Federal householders of all kinds and degrees at 85,870, one to every 90 voters. The Catholics have bought 7000 acres of land in Mecklenburg County, Va., on which they are going to establish an industrial farm for educating freed men. William Bryant, aged seven was burnt to death at Bull well, Nottingham, while trying to remove a kettle by which he. feared his young sister would be scalded. ' Russia preserves eight crowns of Provinces conquered at various times and joined to the Empire — Siberia, the Crimea, Kiew, Astrakan, Kasan, Finland, Poland, and Krussinia. It is slated that the plans for the erection of markets on a large scale in Dublin, the estimated outlay being nearly LIOO,OOO, have been accepted from an English architect. Three white whales about thirteen feet long have been safely imported from Quebec, and are distributed between the Westminster, Manchester, , and Stockport Aquariums. On the birth ot an heir to the tiny principality of Reuss, t\\e other day, the capital city was illuminated, and, as a German paper remarks, the candles shed their mild light across the frontier. A practical movement in the line of theatre reform is being made by its iri ends in Paris, where a serious attempt is being made to abolish the use of rich toilets by actresses on the stage. Count Basilewski, regarded as the richest man in Russia, and who had for many years past enjoyed an income of 5,000,000 roubles a year, died at St. Petersburg lately, at the age of 92. The Duke of Athole has been sued for a bawbee by Alexander Robertson, known as Dundonachie. It was held that the Justices had no jurisdiction, and Robertson appealed to the Quarter Sessions. The Greek Church in Russia has given rise to a ne*vv sect, called " Purifiers," It recognises the woman as the head of the family — requires every husband every week to confess his sins to his wife. The last " tall thing " in reports was the observation ot the transit of Mercury from a summit in the Sierra Nevada mountains, according to which from the elevation " they feared to interfere with the transit.'* During the funeral of the Duchess of Argyle, a servant girl, aged 22, dropped suddenly dead while sitting on a wall viewing the procession, and an old lady about 70 years of age had her leg and arm broken by a runaway horse. Her iMajesty's ship Wild Swan has made the first capture of any importance since the. operation of the AngloEgyptian Convention. She has, fortunately, seized in the Red Sea a vessel having on board 78 slaves. A hotel -keeper in Lawrence, Massachusetts, being taken ill, his physician prescribed whisky, whereupon the sick man directed that it should be procured elsewhere, saying that he would not dare to take that sold over his own bar. Isaac William Ogle, a Dublin solicitor, has been committed by the Bow Street police magistrates (London) for. trial on a [charge of obtaining money from the Hon. Mrs -Skeffington, by forging a telegram in the name of Lord Masareene. The Local Board oFMerthyr Tydvil are- perplexed, respecting -the " disappearance "of over 600 houses. At the census of 1871 there were 11,265, but nbW : there were r brilvrlo,s6B', and the .authorities. refuse to admit that so many dwellings could have "slipped through their iiand_. ? ' - -V Y-'-YY---Y.