The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-08-29

THE HIws II BRIEF.
Mutual friend. Frank Moulton, isia Portland.
Henry o. Bowen Inc gone 70 Earops> prob.
ably - keep ffen being : witness IN the Bee
cher. rilton cas-. 81
TIE expIosion Of ! coal III lamp q Canton,
Miss, recently. caused condAerati0n which
destroyed 9100. 900 worth Of property.
The New York National Bank statement
shows specie decrease Of $685.. 900; depos-
ito decrease q SAG. 100; legal tenders increase.
$28.OOO; reserve decrease, e2272.67
The publication Of the Utah Mining Gazette
has been discontinued.
New York, August l7th-Europesn letters
cay Italy seems to have become hopelessly bank
rupt. Tho people are sincerely loyal 10 their
king, and the Ministers are almost pedantically
attached 70 the English theory Of parliament
airy government. The people have no bread
and no specie,.and they have doods, malaria.
bandits and paper money.
PARIS. Aug. 17th.-Victor Hugo was seri.
ously injured in this city Today BY being knock,
ed down by the pole Of cart. He was pick
ed up insensible and removed to hotel. but
subsequently regsined bis consciousness. al
though he still remains in . dangerous cOndi.
ton.
A dispatch from Fort Garry says Riel has
been again unanimously selected a. . candidate
for the Dominion Parliament, to be elected On
the 18th proximo. He will no doubt 60 in IN
opposed.
It 10 rumored that Moulton and Tilton are to
DO heard from again in the Beecher- TiltOn
scandal: also that the investigating committee
Al Akn:. a<,k 10
MoultOn documents are published.
A mass meeting Of fifty thousand miners was
held ut Durham. England, on Saturday the l4th
inst. and wns addressed BY John s. Bradlaugh
and Mr.. Donald.
The large fywheel in the hosting works Of
the B-lcher mine bursted on the morning Of the
18th, killing an engineer instantly. aud serious.
~ injaring the night boss.
Austria aud the Pope have recognized the
Spanish Republic.
The Cnrists officers who caused the execu
ton Of Schmidt. the German Newspaper cor.
respondent. have been arrested in Paris.
Salt Lake police officials are ON trial for in
citing riots at the late -l-cfmn.
Hon. George w. McCrary. member Of Con.
grcss fur the first Iowa District. declined RI.
nomination rendered him BY the Republicans Of
his District. He means to retire from Official
life.
The question Of mixed schoois 10 creating a
great deal Of excitement in the District III Co.
lumbia
A Republican State Convention il to b. held
in Worcester. Massachusetts,. on the 7th of
Ocf"ber.
An investigation shows that the guards Of the
81. Marguriir prison. connoiyed at the escape of
Marshal Baxaine.
G.r tats e
Ohio. tn Cincinnati. WAS q 800: for liquor Ii
c-ns~. II 600: iar minority representation. si3.
Tw" thieves named respectively H. ID Pal.
ser aud Eugene 81 Clair. br"k. jail in Port.
land n", long ago. and ~ d.. their escape. The
Sh-rli .:l.rs $3.50 for Palmer and 500 for st
Clair.
An American nnm-d Peace. has taken pos
srssion If Peel Island "sr III the Benin group
in the Pacific, and floats III" American flag
over IL 4 romantic sreraatiou. IA he waits
,e sell i, {" the United STATES
r II Harris Grand Secretary Of the Free
Ma.n. of Canada. il dead
Vici"r Emaaa~l is the ugrst man in the
world
The Emperor If Germany will visit Italy
during the year.
A negro church in Richmond Virginia. has
upwards ri three ihs usand m~,nb~is aud thirt,
dearonx
The increase If Protestant places in Rome
IL remarkable.
t,ap,ists "f South Car"lna have pledged
100000 Ia the Furman University during the
past two years.
German clergyman nrc 81 poorly paid that
there 10 q constant falling ri ef students ut the
theological institutes of learning
Professor Porter. of Belfast ireland. has n.
turned from the land of Noah. where he pen.
eirated to districts hitherto unvisited By Eu.
ropcans
Five years ago there wrrr but six Protestant
churches in Mexico. now there are ninety.
The Jewish Messenger d~nies that Judaism
il declining in the world. and claims for il .
condition at the present time equal to any 1t
ever before maintained. an assertion which it
says can be maintained BY the most substantial
evidence.
Mr. Taylor. the succ-ssfnl Methodist revival.
ist In Indiana, proposes to erect two houses If
worship in Madras.
Az INTERESTING DKcIsioN.-The United
States District Court Mt Lcuisville. Kentucky.
has rendered decision of considerable inter.
est to express companies and the public. A