The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-09-30
ENGLAND.
LONDON, September 90

The livery men of the city in accord.
AnCe with custom, assembled to-day and
elected Alderman Gills, John Gibbons,
Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. Glib.
bons Is Of Conservative politics.
Heavy gales continue. Several addi.
tional disasters to shipping. Minor casu-
alties are reported.
Gilmore has been promised tho use of
the band Of the Guards by the Secretary
Of War, for his musical festival In Boston
next year, . h
The London Times to-day advises the
citizens OF New York not to bo disheart.
ened by failures In their efforts to prove
the guilt ofthe plundcrers oftho city, for
1t says the Judges who disgrace the bench
can no longer resist the tide Of public
feeling.
Right Reverend Augustus Sclwyn,
Bishop OF Lltchtleld, has sailed for the
United States, 10 attend the conference Of
the Bishops Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
The New Castle miners on a strike
have proposed to submit the difficulty to
arbitration.
The Times, Of the 10Th, says an attempt
to solve the problem OF direct railway
communication between England and
India has Just been made by Wm. Lane
ind Geo. Thomas, Of Wrexharl and Car.
diff, by proposal to make use OF the OK.
listing lines OF railway Of Mont Gems
Tunnel to Trieste, and thence to construct
q railroad through Austria, Europe, Asi.
attic Turkey, Persia and Beloochostan to
Kurrachee and onward to Bombay, the
distance 10 be over 5000 miles by rail and
29,000 by sea- Its believed the whole
distance could be accomplished In from
six to seven days. The highest estimated
cost Of the undertaking Is, In round num-
bers, forty.One millions sterling, and 1t Is
estimated that the cost per mile ranges
from $4,000 to el7,0OO.gf ,.H 7GI
The Telegraph ol the 10Th says edltO.
rally there Is no longer much room for
doubt that to the misfortune Of a deficient
harvest will DO added the disease of the
cattle plague. The foot and mouth dis.
ease Is spreading among the horned stock
OF the three kingdoms with deplOrable
tapidity. Northamptonshire, Cambridge
shire, and Huntingdonshire, arc three
English counties chiefly afflicted, and It is
known with almost absolute certainty
that the present outbreak had It's origin
In the 81. Ives market. Northampton.
shire reports this week that about
1856 fresh farms attacked, as against SO
last week.. There are 81 infected in Cam.
bridgeshire. LeiCestershire sends word
that the pest Is spreading fast. Worces.
ter announces that in thirteen districts
there have been 1,349 animals stricken,
and out Of that number only 90 recovered.
Yorkshire is implicated in the mischief
which has spread beyond the border
as far north as Perthshire, although
the type appears milder in tho north.
To give a clearer idea Of the ravages we
need only TO cite the report from one dis.
trict. II Is that Of Preston, where, down
10 Saturday last, the number OF cattle at.
tackled was 4,874. According TO official
returns the foot and mouth disease exists
in seventy.three British counties, furnish.
Ing more than four thousand eight hun.
dred counties Of the Epizootic with cat
tic. The number Of cattle suffering is set
down at $4,000, but the pest involves
sheep and swine as well as horned stock,
and the loss Is probably far greater than
thengures represent, especially as so many
instances are concealed. The disease
has spread rapidly in ireland, and many
outbreaks have arisen from contact with
Irish beasts imported into the Western
markets. Besides the disease which
most attracts attention, another Is preva.
lent, the pleuro pneumonia. This is a
deadly malady, and ravages our herds in
thirty.One different counties in England,
and thirteen In Scotland. II Is doing a
certain degree Of damage in Ireland, and
altogether 200 centres of the disease are
reckoned, with probably from 400 to 500
cases.