Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-22
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A DOUBLE EXECUTION.
Two Negroes Hanged.
The SOUTH CAROLINA FRAUDS.
FRANCE BACKS ENGLAND.
THEINTERNATI0NAL WALK
O'LEARY STILL AHEAD.
A DOUBLE EXECUTION,
Two Negroes Hanged.
THE SOUTH CAROLINA FRAUDS,
FRANCE BACKS ENGLAND.
THE INTERNATIONAL WALK
OIEAltH STILL AHEAD.
FROM EUROPE TO-DAY.
O,LearY Still Ahead.

LONDON, March 2.-O'Leary, the American,
continues to lead in the international walking
match. At III O'clock this morning he had com
Pleted 4O3 miles; Vaughan had travelled $40
miles, and Brown 363.
Gen. Grant i'm Europe.
ROME, March 0-Cardinal McCloSkey and
Humbert's aide-de-camp) have visited General
Grant
France Backs England.
LONDON, March 22.-The Times Paris dis
patch says: The questions which France de-
manded should be excluded from the congress
were those touching the holy places as intro
g Guclng needless complication, and touching
syria because Syria might have been offered
TO her as compensation for English occupation
OF Egypt, and because she considers that the
tWo-told question of Syria and Egypt might
impair good understanding with England. A
great change has occurred in the last few dayS
in the opinion about England'S policy. The
Journal deS Debdts and Bepubyjque Francois
commend England'S attitude, and this feeling
IS shared, with few exceptions, by men and
Journals. of all parties They feel that, by
placing herself on the platform of existing
treaties and insisting on the right of the con-
greSS to discuss the whole treaty of San
Stefano England has restored TO Europe the
hrm ground of principles which was slipping
from under ii. England'S firm adherence to
her conditions is deemed the surest means of
lnsurlng that the congress will result in
durable peace
Stagnant Iron Trade.
LONDON, March 22.-The Times states that
the iron trade in South Yorkshire is in a most
stagnant condition. Large numbers OF men
are out OF work, within the past few DAYS two
OF the leading works in RotherSham have
stopped owing to the scarcity of orders and
about one thousand additional men are rem
dered idle. On these establishments the Mid.
land Iron Company had during the last ten
years paid dividends averaging fifty per cent
per annum. 1t is also feared that the Golfers
Will strike against the reduction of wages i'm
which case $4,000 men will be unemployed.
Horrible OUtrages by Turks i'm
The Times has dispatch from EalO saving:
The villages of Olympus, RepSana, Caria.
and LetOchaTe have been sacked and burned
by the Turks. The women, children and old
men were maSsacred, except some who
escaped to the mountains, which are covered
with snow. Unless ship is sent TO relieve
them they viii probably perish from cold and
hunger. The lnSurrection progresses steadily.
The COnsistOry.
LONDON, March pa special dispatch from
Rome to the Times SayS:-COunt Gabraic is
expected to replace Baron Baude as French
representative at the vatican. The ConSiStory
will be held on the 18th instant No encycli-
cal will be issued, the Pope not wishing to
commit himself to any definite policy i'm the
present complication of European affairs His
Holiness will only deliver an allocutiOn avoid
ing all political illusions.
The Jesuits Opposed to Leo.
The Standard has a Rome dispatch saying:
The head of the JeSuitS recently proposed to
return to Rome, but the Pope received the
proposition very cOldly. The JeSuitS are
therefore, opposing the Pope's general policy