Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-01-28
Foreign Intelligence.

The British enter Lapwing was recently
attacked by natives Of Santa Cruz Island, her
crew ovcrpowered and massacred, and the
vessel burned.
A Berlin dispatch OF the 10Th says Germany
would soon have fifty guns on the northern
coast Of Spain to sustain any demand she
may make for indemnity for the past and Sc
curity for the future
The first and second Kings Of Siam, father
and son, have quarreled, and the latter has
disbanded his forces and taken refuge In the
English consulate at Bangkok.
The English astronomers at Greenwich
have given TO the public the results OF their
first tentative computations from the data
obtained through observations Of the recent
transit OF Venus. Rcmarking upon these re-
suits, an American astronomer states the
suns distance from the earth to be 81, 443, 726
miles--6,926274 miles less than the
distance AZ computed by Encke from observa-
tions OF the last transit He says at this rate
Of progress the earth will fall into the sun In
about !, 40 years, But as the earth's motion
win be greatly accelerated through the
Increased influence of the sums attrac-
ton as the two bodies approach each
other, the catastrophe may, and In fact must,
inevitably occur much sooner, unless the
SUMS force should be proportlonately de-
creased or It's volume reduced.
A Madrid dispatch OF the 18th says Cas-
telar had declared that he would not take his
seat in the Cortcs II he Is required to swear
allegiance to the Monarchy. The Spanish
squadron had arrived at Zaranz. Its com
manders had been instructed to exact from
the Carlists indemnity for the owners and
crew of the German brig Gustav and the pun
ishment of her assailants
A Berlin dispatch OF the 18th says the
Prussian authorities had closed the Catholic
seminary at Fulda, expelled the head priest
from German territory and sequestrated all
the property Of the Bishop OF the diocese
Dispatches OF the 10th state that on account
Of the fragrant ontrages on railway trains and
employees the Spanish Government had deter.
mined that every armed Carlist found in the
vicinity OF any railroad should be shot. A
delegation from the Carlist Committee
Of London had gone to Spain to inform
Don Carlos that the English bankers with
whom the Carlist loan was lodged had re-
fused to make further advances. II was un-
dcrstood that Spain would pay Germany an
indemnity equal to the value OF the Gustav
and cargo, even II she be unsuccessful In ex.
acting the same from the Carlists at Zeranz
A Paris dispatch Of the Goth says that lead
Ing Spanish Republicans were arranging with
the Carlisle to bury their political differences
and unite In general uprising against the
authority Of King Alphonso, and that, should
the project succeed. It was proposed, by Q
plebiscite, TO decide between monarchy
with Don Carlos as King and republic.
The London Pail Mall Gazette Of the 20tl
says that war, II not actually declared, was
resolved upon by Montenegro against Tur
key. European powers had In vain tried t
bring about . peaceable solution OF the diff
cultics between the two nations.
The East.
Lewis Jarvis and Ebert Jackson wcr,
hanged In New York, on the 18th, for thu
murder In June, 1873, OF Samuel Jones. Jack
SON made full confession. The hanging o
Jarvis was bungling and horrible affair, thu
rope breaking the first time, and the secont
time slipping out Of the latch-ring. TIT
poor wretch then exclaimed, For Gods sake
make Il sure this time," and the Sheriff's as
sistants seized the rope and hauled him "
BY hand, when be was stranglcd to death.
At Norwich, Conn, on the 18th, by order o
the Mayor, national salute was Hired II
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