The Grange advance., 1874-07-08
NEWS Of the WEEK.

News Of the WEEK.
TUESDAY, June 30.-The Jewish City of
Be-ditcher in Volhynia, Russian Poland,
mas had recent succession Of great fires.
One day si1 hundred houses we're burned,
and the next'day nearly as many more
were destroyed. The two succeeding
Gays the town was again visited by fires,
and whole streets we're laid in ashes....
Marshal Concha, the General.in.Chief Of
The national army of Spain, was killed
Saturday in leading division Of his army
20 an attack upon Carlist position at Es-
leila. The repulse Of his command was
attended with heavy loss of men aGd line
officers - President NacMahon hos of
tended the legitimists of France by an-
nouncing his determination to remain at
the head Of the nation and plainly intimat.
ing that he was not keeping the place for
any one else, 40 tho monarchis,s hoped. e.
One hundred Of the locked nut farm labor.
ers OF New Market, Eng. have started on q
pilgrimage through the agricultural dis
t-icts, to plead the cause Of labor in the
principal towns. :. The license bill failed
TO pass the Massachusetts Legislature, yes.
serday, over the Governors veto ... The
railroad shops at Fl. Wayne, Ind are
r:anning only five hours day, which re-
Guoes 'laborers and wipers wages to fifty.
six cents q day. Four hundred depart
ment employees are to be dismissed at
Washington this week with two months
extra pay allowed then. Bill
Davis, well known over
river bartender, was sho: and
norsallg wounded at Little Rock, Satur.
Gay, by Capt. Bill Forest. Another well
dressed young man, name unknown, com.
mitted suicide by jumping from the Saint
Louis bridge last night. The Washing
ton Chronicle of this morning says Gen.
Sherman would not leave Washington if
he had any duties to perform, but he has
none, the Secretary Of War havlog imme.
date direction Of all army operations. =. e.
The grasshoppers moving slowly north
ward before the prevailing Winds, and
making daily halts, are reported to be
making terrible havoc among the growing
crops in Watonwan county. In Cotton
wood, jackson and Martin counties and
the western part of Fsrbault county, also,
grea: damage is reported.
WEDNESDAY,, July 1.-The employees
dircharged from tha Treasury Department
Al Washington yesterday included 375
women, a,number Of whom tainted on be.
inc informed Of their dismissal. Notwith.
standing the two months extra pay al
lowed to each discharged employee, much
distress is feared among the six or seven
hundred dismissed from the several de.
partmeats. o.. The President goes to Long
Branch for the summer and Mr.. Fish to
his residence on the Hudson, both leav-
ing Washington Friday. The United
States government, through Minister Cush
ing. has made peremptory demand upon
Spain for indemnity for the Virginius
prisoners slain BY order Of Gen. Bursiel.
....nr. CressweN took leave of the Post
Office department last evening, at aa A.
sembly Of the clerks, Who adopted resolu
lions compliaentary to the retiring Post
master General. 1. AZ compared with the
same months Of last year immigration has
fallen off the 1rst six noaths Of this yea.
20 to SO per cent. The decrease is prin.
cipally in Germans. The late arrivals are
said to be nearly oil young Irish girls, com
ing out to work as housekeepers. The
question Of home rule or local parliament
for Ireland was up in the British Parlia
meot yesterday and received very little
encouragement. The second Dutch ex
pedition to Acheen has met with most dis
astr0us defeat. March 10th the Achineet
St night carried the Dutch fort by assault
killing 1000 and wounding 4,50O of thu
garrison aud colonists. >. Marshal serrant
takes the place Of the late Marshal Couchs
in command of the Spanish national asm1
operating against the Carlists. =. . james P
Saunders, = prominent lawyer of Youkers,
N, T., and Past Grand Sire Of Odd Eel.
ws, was fatally shot in court yesterday
. man whom he was prosecuting. >.
Ass Katie Wet Of Paris, Ky., the village