The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-10-17
Foreign Items.

AN extraordinary scene recently &C
Cured at West Hartlepool, i'll England.
Mr.. Edward Turnbull, solicitor, one of
the Town Improvement Commissioners,
had given notice of a motion III favor of
cremation, as it was proposed to pur-
chase land for enlarging the present
cemetery Before the Commissioners
assembled, about two hundred women,
mostly belonging to the working classes,
forced their way into the room and
freely expressed their opposition to Gre
nation. The meeting was finally broken
up amid cries of "Bun Turnbull,"
LET him taste it first. &c.
WITH regard to the plans of the Car
lists, says the Pail Mall Gazette, it may
be stated that they have no intention of
entering the plains of CASTLE or adj
vancing upon Madrid for the present
Their supplies in the BASQUE provinces
and Navarro are abundant, and General
Elio's plan of not leaving the protection
of the mountains until they are equal, OF
nearly SO, to the enemy i'll artillery, will
be carefully carried ont. The Carlist
commanders have issued an order to all
the alcades or mayors III the Basque
provinces absolutely prohibiting, under
severe penalties, the tenants of propri-
etors residing i'll towns held by the gov
eminent to pay their rents i'll wheat or
any other produce, III order to prevent
those places from increasing their stocks
of provisions
A LONDON correspondent writing un
der date Algiers, September 3, says:
Yesterday evening the steamer York
shire, from Calcutta and Colombo for
London, with general cargo and pa,
sengers, put in here on fire. She was at
once taken into the docks and the
troops were called out to assist i'll extin-
gushing the flames, which had by this
time obtained complete mastery of the
fore part of the ship. The greater por-
ton of the cargo in that part of the yes
sci is either completely destroyed or
partially damaged, the dock yard being
strewed W it'll piles of charred coffee,
cinnamon, COR, Jute, &c. The deck
and fore cabin are completely destroy
ed, and at this moment dense cloud of
smoke from the Inflated vessel shows
that the fire is not yet eXtinguished.
The passengers are proceeding to Lon
don via Marseilles.
| A GREAT disturbance took place at an
| eisteddfod at Pontypool recently. A
prize OF ESQ and g10 for the conductor
has been offered tor the choir number
ing not less than one hundred, which
should best render Mendelssohn's
"Thanks be to God" The Ebbw Vale
and Pontypool choirs were among those
entered, and the Judge gave the prize
/ to the latter. No sooner, says tbs
! Western Mail, was this announcement
/ made, than the conduit of the Ebbw
! Vale men became most disgraceful.
| Unable to bear their defeat like men,
rney behaved like llnatics, and indeed,
some of them, when asked where they
came from, replied, From Abegavenny
Asylum They hOoted, yelled, Jump
ed on the platform, surrouned tie Judge
and chairman with threatening gestures,
and were deaf to entreaties to lis
ten to reason, and behave themselves
with something like decorum and the
police had at length to clear them out.
NJ. LICHrENsTEIN, IL French entomol-
og1st, who for SIX years has been inves-
tigating the habits of the phylloxera,
has addressed letter to the Minister of
Agriculture and Commerce, III which
he shows how the ravages of that insect
may be checked. During the present
ihou1II tilt pIyIloASId Is winged, ana
repairs III enormous numbers to the
trees which border the vineyards, where
1t deposits an egg, or rathera chrysalis,
whence perfect insect energies. The
insect Immediately breeds, but he has
not yet ascertained how the offspring
reaches the vines. He recommends the
vine grower to SINCE the tree-a kind Of
oak, OF no value-on which the phyllox-
era has settled, and thus destroy millions
of insects.
HE materials of Northumberland
House have just been sold at auction.
The great lot of the day was ''the stair
case, consisting of a centre flight of
thirteen moulded vein marble steps
seven feet wide, with centre landing
twenty-five feet four inches by six feet
nine inches, SIX inches thick, polished
both sides, seventy feet run of moulded
vein marble skirting, the polished sides
under centre flight with skirting and
p1lasters, two circular plinths, and the
handsome and richly guilt ormolu scroll
balustrade, with moulded Spanish ma
hogany hand-rail''. The auctionecr's de
scr1ptlon by no means over estimates
the beauty of the materials, and vet the
whole lot only fetched $500.