General News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 443, 7 October 1881, Page 18

General News.

A writer in the Dublin Review says :— " I rememember seeing, a few days after the battle of Worth, a party of German infantry paraded for guard duty. One of the men had his accoutrements out of order, upon which the inspecting officer slapped his face." And yet the men thus treated want to emigrate. Mayfield and Adley lived in adjacent farm-houses at Strayburn, Miss. One went out to call his cows at the same time that the other was calling his hands to dinner, and confusion resulted. Neither would wait until the other was through yelling, a fight followed, and Aaley was killed.

The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Gazette says that the recent journey to Moscow was made because of the discovery of an extensive conspiracy to assassinate the Imperial family. During the *"£ I I a Peterho * , th . c P° lic e. on the 27th of July, stopped a boat which had succeeded in passing the guardships and arrested th.> occupant It was subsequently discovered that sixty persons, some of them of high rank, were involved in the plot. The Virginia Episcopal Convention passed a resolution at the late session in Danville affirming « that the time had now come when the clergy should recognise the fact that negroes within their parochial bounds are an integral part of their parochial work, and that such work cannot longer be ignorned or neglected." The Sl n l ° f * tb . e res olution seemed to imply that the time for effort in behalf of the negroes had not arrived until now, or recently, and as if some special dispensation or new revelation had been made known, admitting darky souls to the blessings which have hitherto been the exclusive portion of those of fairer skins. Whatever may have gone wrong m the past, it is cheering to know that salvation is now to be offered to coloured folks as well as white.-Si" American.

cmE^S?' y « &~" A ?**?. al to the nmes from San Francisco, California, says : "News has been received here that Bishop Philip £. n rf nn p mith ;, at °??. time Of hi * h standiQ g and influence in the Mormon Church and the exposer of the Mountain Meadow massacre! ,^ ai £ Cipant er^ mm ' ls dead ' His hod y was foQnd « a prospect Son S^H' M^!? 0> T der ««««»*«« indicating Murder. ?S#fs m f•??"? he 60 ** 1 - convicting John D. Lee of the Mountain Meadow massacre, he said : < I know the church 52™ llm £ sooner or later. It is only a question of time.' After an^ fi f a 2^£ c ,i ml '^ °^ r of the church his wife left him, £^SoSS m AriMML In that ««y *^ ThP S^™ U *T Dt ? l°^ c relea f ed on baU, and we hope he will be. The course of law is tedious at best and it might be a good idea to let fi» monumental criminal take his chances with the publfe. ffis to n h?s m c^?yt e^l^ lled to "^ he — tQmed °- .Sj; Um^ ain t ere sting young Bedouiu Arab, at present stranded m Boston, is good enough to teU a Boston Herald reporter a lot of hitherto unpublished facts about Stanley's famous discovery of Dr Livingstone. According to the narrative of Selim, he accompanied Ihe work L*£2 tu T d .°^ t tb f - stanle y was utterly «*t * > «mduS the work he had undertaken, being cowardly, ignorant cruel and SSSSSfSff-h 8 ? A J a |y°^ of thirteen boWly tEk ?inn g fii^ • 6 b i IS^ e 181 8S ' and brou S ht ifc t0 a successful conclusion Sehm is a wonderful young man. His only prototype in our truth, the public can rely upon what he says." It muft be borne in mmd, however, that Selim left home very young. We believe he is now soliciting backsheesh to take him back We trust the nnbli> 2?^ libe^ lly '. H - is P resence in «* count rTff a perSS rebuke to the tame imaginations of our local liars —Alot perperaai In Forestville, Michigan, lives a little girl, who is not vet sKSnr 6111011601 the lar * c comprehensive |eoSphS witnout writing the name. So vivid seems her memory and R n mn Gracie can play four or five different pieces on thl organ havhS EtSriF ° l MP< T * 0< MagiUl^ C^eS