The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-02-04
FOREIGN.

One thousand more cOlliers have
struck in North Wales, owing to a reduction
of wages.
A large failure in the silk trade is re-
ported from Lyons, France. Liabilities are
said to be 100000 francs.
The Prince of Wales has left Delhi for
Lahare and Cashmere. The raah of
Cashmere is preparing a magnificent reeep-
ton.
A telegram from Berlin asserts that
Prince Bismark is personally drafting an ad-
ditonal clause for the penal code against
crimes like that of Thomas at Bremen
haven.
The Italian minister of public instruc
ton has accepted the proposal of the United
States government for the exchange of scien-
| tifc publications of the two countries.
The CarIist leader Tristany notified
the Spanish consul at Boyonne of his unre-
served submission to Alfonso. Gen. MartI-
nez Campos' army is concentrated in the
neighb Orhood of Pampalua.
Havana journals assert that the Cuban
sugar crop will certainly be thirty per cent.
less than last year. They also consider the
coming tobacco crop of Nuelta Abajo almost
totally destroyed, owing to the drouth.
The secretary of the London mission
ary society has received an offer of S25,00O to
establish mission at Lake Tanganyiks,
where Stanley met Livingston. \ committee
has been appointed to carry out the project
A Madrid paper states that when the
Carlist war is at an end a weIl-trained army
Will be maintained in Cuba as a precautiOn-
| airy measure, and batteries of heavy guns
placed on the coast for protection against
| invasion.
An UltTamontane newspaper at Erus-
sells says that Louise Lateau is dying. She
is the peasant girl who some time ago at
tracted crowds of pilgrims by the exhibition
OIL her person of the alleged miracle of
| stigmdta.
A correspondent of the London Hour
states that Germany has hnted to France
that she will transfer Lorraine to France for
the little consideration of S400,00O,OOO in
gold. The French will not, probably, buy
back their own territory, as they hope some
day TO re-annex il by the power of the sword.
A Bonapartist association, styled the
| conservative national convention, has issued
q manifesto announcing that they will sup
| port MacMahon until the expiration of his
term in 1855. They will then demand that
an appeal to the people be made for deter
| mining the future form of government for
France.
Advices from London state that the
| product of the quicksilver mines of the
world for the year 1875 was as follows
Almaden mine, of Spain, $4,000 TASKS; New
Almaden and others, of California, 10000;
Idria, of Hungary, 5000; Palatine, of Ger
many, 1000; other German mines, 400
| TASKS. By the contract of the London
Rothschilds with the Spanish government,
having thirty years to run, the RothschiIds
control all the Spanish mines, and through
them the European market. San Francisco
advices report that China purchased $780,
600 of the California product of quicksilver
for 1875, and New York city 81 100000.
News has been received from Havana
that a force, led by Henry Reeves, twenty.
five hundred strong, has invaded Sagua
county within week past, and destroyed
| sugar estates, some of which are valued at
! two million dollars each. Sagua La Cbica.
! at the mouth of the river of that name
where there were warehouses with sixteen
hundred hogsheads of musoovado sugar, has
been burned, and all the sugar consumed
| The estate of Senior Nugarica is in the pos
session of the rebels, and, of course, de-
stroyed. 1t is located on the south of the
island, whilst Sagua county is on the north
shore.
A Ragusa correspondent telegraphs
that there has been two days fighting be-
tween the Turks and the Herzegovinian in
surgents, during which three hundred and
eighty of the former were killed. The in
surgents lost one hundred killed, and
wounded. Trebinge is threatened with.
famine. II is reported that the porte has
unoficially accepted Count Andrassey's pro