The Holt County sentinel., 1872-05-10

tants were removing their household goods
Thousands were encamped in the fields. Ru
mors were current In London on the 26tl
that Of number Of persons whose curios
| ity had led them too near the volcano, sixty
were killed and wounded by shower o
lava.
A private dispatch received In New Yorl
on the 25th from Rev. 8. II. Calhoun and Rev
DR.. Jessup, missionaries in Syria, reads q:
follows Antioch and villages are destroy
ed, and the survivors are perishng. Con
thbutions are imperatlvely needed. Send
relief by telegraph"
The eruption Of Mount Vcsuvius continued
with undated violence on the 27th dis
patch from Naples on that day states that
only twelve persons had so far been killed
and twenty injured by running lava. The
villages Of San Sebastian and Massadissom
ma had been almost entirely destroyed, but
the inhabitants had succeeded In getting
away safely. The lava was advancing to.
ward the villages of Ponticclli Ccrcola, ST.
George and Portici, which had been aban
doned by their inhabitants.
Miss Nellie Grant was presented to Queen
Victoria on the Goth.
The Tichbornc claimant, In recent letter
to the public, returns his thanks for previous
subscriptions in his behalf, and asks for an
additional $4,000 to enable him to continue
his contest for the possession Of the Itch.
borne estate.
proclamation signed by Don Carlos was
circulating In Madrid on the Goth, in which
the prctender exclaimed "Thank God
am once more permitted to kiss the sacred
soil OF my country, and be again among
Spaniards."
An official decree has been issued at Paris,
warning all Frenchmen against participating
in the insurrectionary movements in Spain,
and providing heavy penalties for all viola.
tions of 1t.
Miss Nellie Grant and party arrived in
Paris on the Goth.
A Naples dispatch of the Goth says the
view Of Mount Vesuvius from that city was
the grnndcst that had been witnessed since
1851. Ashes were falling in the streets Of
Naples like snow, and had already reached a
depth of two or three inches. Rumbling in
side the volcano continued but no fresh era.
ters had opened, and the lava had ceased
flowing. Lightning dartcd necessarily from
the summit of the volcano, and the quakings
Of the mountain were still violent and fire.
quent.
The London Times of the 30th, in an cdito-
rial upon the present phase of the Alabama
claims question, congratuatcs the United
States Government for proposing that the
liabilities Of ncutraJ shall never extend be-
yond the direct consequences of the breaches
of neutrality; "thus," says the TineS
"paving the way for Il satisfactory settle
ment of the differences existing between
England and America
A Madrid dispatch of the evening of the
30th announces that battle had been fought
at Taudela, Navarro, between the Govern
mcnt troops and insurgents. The latter were
defeated, with loss of 800 in killed and
wounded.
A Berlin dispatch Of the Goth pronounces
positively untrue the report that Blsmark
had expressed approval Of the claims for in
direct damages.
News from Matamoras on the 30th was to
the effect that the Rcvolutionists were ac-
lively bescging that city. Brownsville,
Texas, was overlooking with women and
children from Matamoras.
A letter from Emilio CASTELAR,, received in
New York on the 1st, explains the troubles
In Spain, and the cause of the election out
RACES. He says the opponents of the Minis
terialists were outraged by arrests and i'm.
prisonment The polls were surrounded by
Ministeralists to prevent opponents reach
ing them The forces of the army and navy
went to the polls in regiments in line Of bat
tie Their votes were given them by their
officers. Besides this the returns were falsi-
fed, and in some districts the Judges of
Elections turned enormous Republican ma
jorites into minoritcs by system Of
false counting.
II was officially reported at Madrid on the
1st that the Carist bands had disappeared
altogether from the Departments of Guipuz-
Goa and Huesca.
1t was announced on the LIST that subscrip.
tions were being solicited in London for the
relief of sufferers by the recent earthquake
at and near Antioch, Syria. Parties who
have the matter in hand remit all the funds
they obtain to the American missionaries In
the desolated city.
In the British House OF Lords on the Cd,
Earl Granville, in reply to an inquiry from
iIull itNlhN' SUM WV 'Ni'J Va WV
Government on the subject of the Alabama
Claims had been received and considered in
Cabinet meeting. 1t gave grounds for hope
of settlement of the entire matter satisfac-
tory to both parties. lie begged the House
not to ask for the paper at present.
Telegrlms have been recently received in
London, from Bombay, announcing the
safety of DR.. Livingstone. The steamer
Abydlas, which carried the English Living
stone.scarch Expedition to Zanzibar, had ar
rived at Bombay from that place, with In
telllgence that Livingstone was safe with
Americans at Stanley.
A cable dispatch of the I'd says General
Cessey, French Minister of War; had inform,
ed the Committee of the Assembly that the
Government had decided to court-martlal
Bazaine.