MAIL NEWS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1891, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

DISTRESS IN CORK COUNTY. ALTERATION IN AUSTRIAN UNIFORMS. EXCITEMENT IN MANICOLAND. PARNELL-O'SHEA RUMOSS. KING HUMBERT ON RELIGION. PARTICULARS OF (KOCH'S CURE . The Committee having the matter m charge has reported m favor of the draft of a Republican Constitution for Brazil. From Vienna it is learned that Kossuth is not suffering from depressing poverty, as has been reported, but is m comfortable circumstances. At Monte Carlo, Midale, an aged Russian, ■was playing heavily, when he suddenly fell dead at the roulette table. The body was removed by the attendants, and m a few minutes play was going on as usual. The Board room of the School Union, County Cork, was besieged by a great crowd of small farmers and laborers, who came to implore the guardians for either food or employment. The applicants, some of whom carried black banners, numbered fully 1,500. The latest trial of Nihilists presents the same features which have been noticed- m former ones, that is the arraignment of •women and the severity of the sentences pronounced against them. It is said that Nihilism would die out but for the participation of the women. The Reichstag will be asked for 50,000,000 marks for the army, partly to provide new munitions, and partly to alter uniforms. Henceforth no glitter of headpiece or arms will be permitted. A sombre uniform is considered necessary since the invention of smokeless powder.' The decomposed body of a man was found near Isellis, Belgium. The appearances indicate a case of suicide by means of prussic acid. The police believe that it is the body of Padlewski, the Nihilist, who recently murderered General Seliverskoff, a Kuseian police agent m Paris. Advices from Capetown state that the excitement over the situation m Manicoland is increasing. The Portuguese are said to be meditating on attack on the forces of the British South Africa Company. The natives fayor the British m preference to thePortu* guese. At Clermont Ferrand, France, a wedding procession was leaving Church when sud - denly two shots were heard and the bride and bridegroom ftll dead. The assassin, who subsequently committed suicide was a rejected suitor. The Duke of Veragua, the only living descendant of Christopher Columbus, and late Minister of the Interior m a former Cabinet, is very ill, and will probably only live a short time. President Camot has signed a Bill granting to Greece the benefits of the most favoured nation clause, until February 1892, on condition that Greece reciprocates by admitting French Jwines free, and reduces duties on laces 75 per cent., and on velvets 50 per cent. fe Since the Parnell-Gladstone disruption a story is afloat to the effect that when Pafnell and Gladstone were negotiating an alliance, Mrs O'Shea and Gladstone took dinner at the Thomas Hotel. Another story is that O'Shea was offered £30,000 to leave the country before the divorce trial. The Emperor William m course of a conversation after a party dinner given by Caprivi, condemned all dogmatic discussion and animadverted upon the futility of Social Democratic congresses. In the Italian Parliament, King Humbert said that Italy was faithful to her foreign alliance. In conclusion he said, " Following my father's example, I always respected the rights of my ances'ors religion, but I will never suffer my sovereign authority to be derogated m that religious name." The utterance was greeted with enthusiastic applause. It ia the intention of the French Government to construct an entrenched camp at Toul, department of Meurthe, on the left bank of the Noselle canal, on the railway from Paris to Strasburg. The defences of the camp will be capable of resisting the strongest German artillery. An analysis of Koch's lymph has been made m Paris, and reveals that the remedy is composed of ptomaines of tubercular bacilli, which is a virulent poison, cynayde of gold, and glycerine. Lebon, a wine merchant of Nancy, sent a barrel of rum to a friend at Maisalon on November 25ih. The friend took out the head of the cask and found that the cask comained all that was mortal of M. Me Lebon, who had disappeared mysterionsly three weeks before. When the police arrived they found that Lebon had already killed himself. Four workmen and two relatives of the woman have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned m the crime. The latest developments or Koch's discovery of a cure for diphtheria and j tetanas were limited to teet experiments with animals until December 5 th, when the remedy was applied to several human subjects through transfusion of blood from animals not susceptible to diptheria bacteria or tetanus. It was found that the blood of rats and mice had a destructive effect on the virus of diphtheria, while the blood of rabbits transfused had a similar effect on tetanus. Before transfusion, the blood must be freed from coagulum, and otherwise prepared. A patient m a Vienna hospital ■who was under treatment by the new method, died suddenly as soon as re-action, following inoculation, set ia ; and a 17 year old girl who was inoculated with lymph for lupus, at Innsbruck, died from paralysi3 oi the heart.