The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-12-29
Morning Star and Catholic &3ss.en or.
TRLRaRAPHIc SUMMARY

T6Lk9RAPHlC BUAMAhxs
ICondensed from Associated Press Telegrans.I
FOREIGN
FRANcE.-G .mbetta, speaking at q banque
at the Grand Hotel on the Gath, said that
anticipated q Republican majority of twenty
i've in the Senate, and said the duty OF tn
Republic would be to solidy it's own party sn
govern the others.
Forty.eight children were drowned las
Tuesday, by the breaking of the ice on q pon'
at Chassole Moche in the Department of Orne
Duke DAudriffet Pasquier has been elect
ed q mem ber of the French Academy, vic
Archbishop Dupanloup. deceased. Pari
dispatch states bat wolves have penetrated o.
far as tho gates { Metz. There is more SNOW
on the Vosges than the Oldest Inhabitants re
member.
SwIT Dec. 26 The Great
Council of Geneva has accepted the principle
Of separation of Church and State, and has sp,
pointed o com mittee to examine the separation
bill. In Geneva 400 men and $50 horses and
carts are constantly occupied in clearing the
streets of snow The oold is most Intense
and communication with Germany and other
countries has been cut off.
GERMANY-The statement is Ifnoially de-
MED that the Emperor, on the pocHsion of his
resumption of the Government, received let
ter of coDgratul alton frem tire Pope and re-
piled to 1t. 1t is pure invention.
The Germania, the leading Catholic paper,
referring to the views Of the German Gazette
in regard to the Centre party, declares the re-
storation of peace between the Chnreh and
State on the basis of the May laws, is an i'm
possibility.
Bismarck's letter on the revision of the GUS
toms tariff advocates o return to the old Prus-
sian principle of duties on all imports except
the raw materials indispensable for home in
dustry, and which Germany does not produce
at all-such as &C ton, products in insult
cient quantity.
The Government is not relaxing its precau-
tions against evasion of the cription, even
to facilitate the departure of soeislists. One
MAndel, q naturalzed American, has been pro
hibited from lecturing in Berlin on the i'm
proved prospects of the Western States of
Ame1ics, on the ground that not only Social
ists, but considerable proportion of wel!-to do
Germans would emigrate.
ENGLAND London, Dec 23.-Returus, of the
Union Workhouse in the East of London
beginning to show the existence of widespread
poverty and distress In that part of the city
the applicants for relief are so numerous that
the house accommodation is inadequate at
the Shoreditoh the workhouse infirmary is
full (; ALSO the workhouse itself, and extra
Green Work-HOuse there are 1859 inmates, and
302 in the 1ufrmary. In Hackney there are
14l6 indoor poor ohargeable to the Union"
a visitation of the district visitors disoloses
9 vast amount of distress, and charitable
funds At their disposal are utterly insufficient
This is especially the case at Poplay and
lsborers are thrown out of en- ployment. Spitsl
Fields Lime House, South Hackney, and
Shsutwell and Haggerston, are severely feel
ing the Aouteness of winter. The tradesmen
of the entire eastern districts OF the metropo-
Lis are crying out about the badness of trade,
and even Christmas wares are heavy drug
In the market. 80 severe is the distress in
for the relief of the cases of extreme necessity;
but it will be greatly crippled through the
want of funds.
Britain. and the running of trains has been
suspended for hours at a time. In some places
the snow is four feet high.
TIE AFGHAN WAR On the Goth, General
rkn -
The. .Ameer has fled from Cabul to Tnrkistan,
and his son, great warrior whom he had i'm.
pr'soped on account Of jealousy, has been lib
Grated and placed in command Complete an
archy prevails in all that part of the country
not occupied by the British.
RUssIA.-The Mission TO Afghauistan, the
cordial reception of which, by the Aueer, was
one Of the causes of the declaration of war
against him by England, has been withdrawn.
The news reaching us of tho internal
state of Russia is of such a nature az to make
ineligible the pacific tendency ofthe Govern
ment. The report is full of the reappearance
OF the Nihilist spectre. Whether real i'm
eglnaTy, the spectre is believed in, and at
tempts are made to hunt it down by measures
tious are spprehended. The police are busy
every where tracking oonspirators, and within |
the last week number Of arrests, it is said, |
nave been made. Q ute q raid is made against
Cne students, who wanted to present petition !
to the heir apparent 1t is even rumored that |
The Government is seriously thinking of clos.
SAOAOAOo AOk OLAio So0Es Au0 police |
Oh st Petersburg are inforcing all repressive |
regulations in their power.
BRAzn-Rio de Jamerio. Dec ga telegram
from CoreA, in North Brazil, reports that the |
16eeths in that capital from small-pox number |
oOO daily. The distress in the interior of the |
province is sppalling. People are devouriug |
csrrion and corpses.
UNITED STATES.
The Secretary of War has Given Lieut. Fred. |
Grant year's leave, with pay OF lieutenant. !
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