Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-10-14
Foreign Items.


AN extraordinary scene recently Oc-
Cured at West Hartlepool, in England.
Mr.. Edward Turnbull, solicitor, one Of
the Town Improvement Commissioners,
had given notice of motion in favor Of
cremation, as it was proposed to pur-
chase land for enlarging the present
cemetery. Before the Commissioners
assembled, about two. hun bred women,
mostly belonging to the working classes,
forced their way into the room and
freely expressed their opposition to ere
nation. The meeting was finally broken
up amid cries of E'Burn Turnbull, y
Is'Let him taste 1t 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
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 in artillery, will
be carefully carried out. The CarEst
commanders have issued an order to all
the alcades or mayors in 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 in wheat or
any other produce, in order to prevent
those places from increasing theirstocks
of provisions.
A LONDON correspondent, writing I'M
der date Algiers, September 3, says:
Yesterday evening the steamer York
shire, from Calcutta and Colombo for
London, with a 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 in 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, coir, 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. .~Et l'.'.'. T.
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 MendelssoIln's
!" Thanks be to God" The Ebbw Vale
and Pontypool choirs we're 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 Ike men.
they behaved like lrlnatics, and, indeed,
some of them, when asked where thew
came from, replied, "From Abegavenny
Asylum" They hooted, yelled, jump.
ed on the platform, surrouned the 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. y.
4 NJ. LIcHrENsTEIN, a. French entomoI-
ogist, who for six years has been inves-
tigating the habits of the phylloxera,
has addressed a letter to the Minister of
Agriculture and Commerce, in which
he shows how the ravages Of that insect
may be checked. During the present
month the phylloxera is winged, and
repairs in enormous numbers to the
trees which border the vineyards, where
it deposits all egg, or rather chrysalis,
whence a perfect insect energies. The
insect immediately breeds, bat 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. 1IG4 g:3gsfta ea.a1ffsss -
-. The materials of Northumberland
House have just been sold at auction.
The great lot of the day was ''the stair
case, consisting of centre fight 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
pilasters, two circular plinths, and the
handsome and richly-guilt ormolu scroll
balustrade, with moulded Spanish ma
hogany hand-rail''. The auctioneers de-
scrlptlon by no means over estimates
the beauty Of the materials, and yet the
whole lot only fetched $500