The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-03-06

killed.
The motion in the House of Com
mons, on the 25th, that the summary prohi-
bition of importation of cattle from the
United States was calculated to destroy an i'm
portant trade and deprive England Of the ad-
vantage Of cheap meat, was postponed for
four weeks.
The London Times says: Neither
England nor France would be disposed to wit
ness with indifference the success of q coup
d'etat which would place Egypt again under
the personal rule of the Khedive.
AT a meeting of the Mersey Docks
and Harbor Board in Liverpool on the Goth It
was decided to spend EDS, 900 in erecting
slaughter sheds and lairage necessary to the
continuance Of the American cattle trade.
The Khedive of Egypt was shot at
on the Goth, the ball passing close to his head.
THE number of ship-builders on a
strike in the Tyne ship-yards has been in
creased to 5000.
NEGOTIATIONS between China and
Russia are at a standstill, the latter refusing
to surrender Kuldja-
A PETITION from the workingmen of
Austria, asking for universal suffrage, has
been presented in the Lower House of the
Reichsrath.
A NUMBER of young citizens of Zu-
rich have started for Georgia, where II is pro-
posed to establish a Swiss colony under the
auspices of the workmen's society. Others
will follow.
TRANQUILITY has been restored at
Cairo, Egypt.
The Italian Government has prohib-
tied the importation of American swine or
any preparation of their flesh as q precaution
against the trichinosis.
A CALCUTTA dispatch on the 21st
states that great CONSERVATION prevailed at
Mandalay in consequence Of the royal murders.
The victims numbered eighty-six. The de-
tails OF the massacre are reported horrible.
The thermometer at Toronto ON the
21st fell from zero to IS deg. below.
BIsMARcK's speech in the Reichstag,
on the 2lst, was coldly received.
TREMENDOUS storms prevailed in the
South Of France on the 26th. Hundreds of
people were thrown on public charity by the
destruction or inundation Of their houses. In
Spain the tempest lasted four days and there
from Rome reports that the sea inundated a
large portion Of Venice. The coast from Ge-
noa to Naples was strewn with wrecks.
A DISPATCH from Vienna on the 9th
ult. stated that an avalanche near Marburg
killed twenty-one persons and destroyed nine
houses.
PRINCE KRoPorKINE, Governor of
Charkoff, Russia, who was shot by an un-
known assassin, has died of his wounds.
A PARIS dispatch, on the 9th ult., .,
stated that of forty y-nine persons on board the
ship Adriatic wrecked near Dunkirk q few
days before, seven only were known to be
saved.
An outbreak of Yellow fever of a
very severe character, has occurred among
the shipping at Rio de Janeiro.
The Mayor of Sheffield, England, on
the 2sth ult., stated that in one district of
that town there were 1000 persons destitute
and 400 families actually starving.
TwENTY-THREE Spanish sailors, on
their way tpena- Esxrol. on the 2sth ult-, To
spend a carnival in their native villages, were
drowned. Their bost was capsized by q squall.
THE publication of the Russian secret
press declares the Governor of Charkof had
been condemned to death by the Russian So
cialist party for iuhuman treatment of politi-
cal prisoners. The act of assassination was
consequently executed by one Of that party.
The publication charges the Governor with
beating students nearly to death, and con-
cludes with the declaration Of "death, for
for death, terror for terror. This is our an
swer to all threats and prosecutions Of the
Government"
The Vlceroy of India has received a
letter from Yakoob Khan, son Of shere All,
Ameer of Afghanistsn, announcing the death
of the latter, which occurred Feb. 81.
A MADRID dispatch, on the Sd, stated
that Prime Minister Canovss had presented
and the King had accepted the resignation of
the Cabinet. A new Cabinet under Senior
Canovas will be formed.
APPREHENsIoNs exist in German Of
fetal quarters that the returning French Com
munists will unite with the German Socialists.
IT is rumored that the British Gov
ernment is about to lay q cable to Zanzibar,
Mauritania and Natal from Alden, where It
would Join the Eastern Telegraph Company's
system.