Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-05-15
Foreign News.

The Allen line steamship Sandman
took fire from an explosion Of gas yes.
terday at the entrance Of LondondeT Y
harbor. She had over four hundred pas
sengers. most of whom were trans fer
red. Forty persons were injured and
three killed. Some steerage ps ssen-
gers and part of the crew were cat Of
from help, A majority Of the Servian
revolutionary cabinet aud twel lty.two
other conspjrators are condemn ed TO be
shot. At the instance Of foreign d.
plomats, however, Prince Milan de-
clines to sign the death. Rioting In the
Blackburn, England, strike district yes
terday was 0uelled by armed police
Pope Leo is i'll. The negotiations be-
tween the Vatican and Russia have fail
ed. Gen. Grant will visit the Paris
exhibition to-day. Pilgrimage wen the
one thousand guineas race at New
Market, England, yesterday. More
failures in England are anticipated. The
Cuban insurgcnt Maceo has surrender
ed. Todleben will make Adrianople
his base of operations in case of war
NEW YORK, May l0.-Captain Sem
etschkin, Of the Russian navy, in an i'll
terview said that the Cimbria was now
under hi. orders and he has his agents
in different parts of the country. This
vessel has a good store and transport
ship, but untitled for any other service.
He intended to purchase fast sailing
vessels and supplies no letters-oi-
marque would be issued by the Russian
government for any privateers, and no
privateering would be carried on under
the Russian flag. In making the pur-
chases in time Of peace neither any trea-
ties nor the laws of the country were
violated.
\ Russian squadron would s"on leave
tne Baltic for these waters. and the mo-
mrnt war was declared between RUSSIA
and England they would so away and
not trouble this country. The Russian
vessels would be cruisers under the
strictest naval discipline, and the Brit =
ish prizes that fell into their hands
would revert to the Russian Govern
ment, with the usual prize money 10 the
officers and sailors.
A Russian squadron had already been
stationed in the Pacific TO watch the
British there. The captain was asked
what he could tell about the reports OF
raisi. G Irishmen in this county for the
Russian army and fad to Russia by
the Irish. He replied lnat no attempt
had been make to draft any Irish in this
country and did not behave that there
was any truth in these reports.
A Cuban named Aguero. with eleven
followers, recently landed on the south
ern cost of the central department o
Cuba in lighter from Jamaica, in tbs
belief that the Instruction had broken
out again. Finding that tranquility
prevailed, and that everybody was OPP
posed to disturbance Of the peace, he
surrendered, indignant at being deceiv
ed. He offered to guide the govern
ment officials to the place where the
lighter landed him, tho vessel contain
ing arms, clothing and about twenty
boxes of ammunition. The genera
commanding the central department as
sured Aguero and his companions Of q
complete pardon.
Benjamin Hunter was arraigned in
Camden, n. j., yesterday for the MUIR
der of John NJ. Armstrong. He grew
very nervous, and walked backwards
across the platform within the narrow
enclosure set apart for the lawyers anC
jurymen, excitedly changing his hands
from one position to another. To the
question What have you TO say, guilty:
Hunter raised his hand above his head
and said Not guilty, 80 help me God.
The trial Will commence within few
days.
All quiet on the Bosphorus. Nj.
Gladstone has been making another
violent speech against the Disraeli
ministry and its policy. The British
commisssriat has received 1900 tons oil
preserved meat, principally from
Chicago. There will be a review OF
65, 900 French troops in Paris in the
latter part Of June. Gen. Grant Is
already on hand. The British steam
ship Chicago, bound for Boston, is
ashore at Harwich, England, abandon
ed. One large cotton mill in the Black
burn district. England, has resumed on
the operatives terms. Reductions OF
wages are announced at other points.
Mr.. TILDEN AND THE FLORIDA