The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-26
FOREIGN NEWS.
The ConNuest OF soudan.

The London AfnlU ana Navy Gazette informs It's
readers that Sir S. Baker Pashas force for the
quest Of the Soudan will consist of two regiments
OF infantry each 800 strong, one regiment of rregu
lars 600 strong two regiments of cavalry each 450
strong, two light batteries and heavy battery
in all force of some 5000 men, The country is diff
ncult, the climate very damp and feversh There
is opposition to be apprehended in the field, but
il Will be Interesting to see how Baker Pasha, who
power of life and death In his command We
hope he has power to watch over his own life and his
health.
An extraordinary confession of murder is reported
to have been recently made in the neighborhood OF
Hull, England. Thirty-three years ago old woman
named Lister disappeared very mysteriously from
Stockton -on-Tees, and some months afterwards her
dead body was discovered In hedge. Her only son,
who bore a bad character, was suspected OF having
murdered his mother, the suspicion arising mainly
from the circumstance that on the morning before
her disappearance the old woman said her son was
pursuing her TO murder her and to rob her of two
pounds. At the coroner's inquest an open verdict
was returned, the jury incning TO the opinion that
the deceased had committed suicide from the fact
that razor was found lying beside the body. The
son died a few days ago at Hull, and, conscience
STRICKEN he confessed on his death-bed that thirty
three years ago he murdered his mother in planta-
tion at Elton, near Stockton-on-Tees.
BIighted Affections.
. Twenty shilings worth of consolation was recently
adjudged to a candidate formatrimony in Scotland
for blighted hopes wasted affection, etc. A woman
Leslie sued William Oldham, a tailor, in
FyVie, Aberdeenshre, for twelve pounds OF
damages in consequence OF defender having engaged
to marry pursue r. and failed TO do So Oldham is
over 20 years OF age; his woud-be wife between 40
and 90. Before going into the merits, the Sheriff
gave defender last chance of closing the by
taking the LADY. "Are you quite sureyou won't have
her yet old gentleman?" The 'old gentlemaa" de-
clined the offer, and the Sheriff found for the pursuer
He thought, however, twenty shlngs would cover
all the loss she had sustained.
The International Race.
The Pail Mall Gazette thus speaks OF the approach
ing rowing match between the boat clubs Of Har-
ward and Cambridge
The Harvard boating men are doing their best to
prepare for the contests to which they have invited
| Oxford and Cambridge. They are not accustomed
| to with coXswain, but they practising al
most daily with what they call their "deadweght "
| and the crew are all picked men, The captain, MIR.
Lorng, is said to be the best man or his time at an
oar. There are TO be several spare hands brought
over, In any Of the chosen crew fall in. Two
OF these reserves close upon six feet In height
| and muscular in proportion The race will excite
great interest In the United States aud at Harvard
much anxiety is felt that oxford should send its best
representatives. that II may not be said hereafter
1f we had put sO-and-so in the boat could have
beaten yOu.o The London Rowing Club are pre-
pared 20 treat their transatlantic friends with great
hospitality, and they may safely calculate on receiy
| ing equally kind treatment wherever they CO. II Is
Only TO be hoped that the experiences OF the last
match between oxford and Cambridge Will not be
| forgotten, and that by some means or other the
steamboats Wiz he bept under proper CONTROL