River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-10-30

Three thousand five hundred houses and
| 100 mills were destroyed. King Alfonso
| has subscribed $4,000 francs for the relief
of the sufferers, and the Princess Astu-
rias 5000 piasters The Bank of Spain
has collected 10000 francs for The same
purpose.
A DISPATCH from Madrid of the oath
| inst. says the committee on reforms in
| Cubu have unanimously approved the
| bill providing that trade between Spain
and Cuba shall only pay coasting duties,
| which shall be reduced one-third from
| the 1st of July, $780, and entirely
| abolished in 1923, in favor of a moderate
differential duty. The bill also pro
poses to reduce by one third, for the
| period of three years, duties on articles
| for consumption imported into Cuba,
/ and to establish relations with the United
| States with aview to the developing of
the Spanish maritime trade between
! Cuba, Porto Rico and the United States.
ST. PETERSBURG advices under date of
! Oct. S4ih state that the possibility of
some trouble between Russia and Persia
! is a further reason for postponing the
/ Tekke Turcoman expedition. The
Persians are jealous of the CONNER cial
advantages gained by thorough treaty
between Russia and China, by which the
/ latter secures Kuldka and have made
/ claims which Russia is not likely to COM
ply with 1t is very generally believed
! that the Russian influence in Teheran
| is gradually being supplanted by the
British,
| KINGSTON, Jamaica, advices under
| date Jet 25th state that the great
rains in this island from the 18th to the
14th, did serious injury to property in
/ Kingston, St. Andrew and Port Royal
Mountains. Some thirteen lives were
| lost in Kingston, while horses, mules,
sheep, goats, huge trees, and timbers,
bridges, houses and sacks of coffee, and
| plantain trees were swept out to sea-
| Great distress prevails among the people.
The telegraph lines have been thrown
down, and communication with many
districts stopped Business has been al
most entirely suspended in consequence
Captain Webster. of the steamer -Etna,
reports that about twenty miles northeast
of Morant Point he passed a number of
dead horses, sheep, COWS, goats, logs OF
mahogany and cedar.
A CABLE dispatch from Dublin, of
Oct. 22d, states that conference of ten
ant farmers has been held there and
thirty-two Irish counties sent their dele
gates, Cork and Mary borough, Galway
and Ennisscarthy, and Ballinrobe. In
the county of Mayo, Tipperary ana Sligo
were particularly strongly represented.
MIR. Parnell, NJ. p. was present. The
conference was held for the pur-
pose of forming an Irish Land
League, which should compass two
main objects, the first being the retuc-
ton of rack bants; the second that occu-
piers of land might have facilities Ior
obtaining the ownership of it. Mr.. Par
nell was unanimously elected president.
Long discussions ensued, the sense OF
the meeting being that the time was gone
when landlords could be asked to abate
their rents; that the people who titled
the soil had the right to live on it and
that even if general abatement of rents
were II ade would avail little without the
security of tenure. The charges of VIC
lence brought against the movement by
Opposition journals were Indignantly
reluted, and the sending of coffi notices
and all violent measures deplored. But
letter was read from Maj. O'Gorman
NJ. p, in which the writer declared be
fore Almighty God that the Irish had
more cause for violence than had the
French in 1880. Finally, it was deter
mined to draw the counties together in
to a solid organization during the com
ing winter, and thus defend the farmers
against those threats of eviction, which
now hang over them. Resolutions were
passed inviting Mr.. Parnell to proceed tC
America, and there win the sympathies
of the Irish for their afflicted fellow
countrymen.