West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-01-18

there have occurred during the past year
some OF those acts of violence and lawless,
ness which in this State, as we'll as in other
sections of the country, ocoasIonally hap.
pen, and while startling and distressing the
mass OF the people, are practically beyond
the reach OF the constituted authorities"
Notos from ABROAD.
dispatch from Ismid says a thirty light
ton gun burst during practice on board the
British man-oi.wsr Thunderer. The YES.
sePs turrst was destroyed, seven men killed
and forty wounded.
General Grant arrived in Dublin, Ireland,
on the Sd Of January, accompanied by
General Noyes. The eI- President was met
by the Lord Mayor. On arriving a. the
City Hall, General Grant Was cheered by
the large crowd who had assembled 10 see
him. The Mayor, in presenting the free.
dom of the city, referred to the cordially
always existing between America and Ire
land, and hoped that in America General
Grant would do everything he could do TO
help people who sympathize with every
American movement. The freedom
OF the city was inclosed in
an ancient carved bog oak casket.....
The severe cold which has visited this
country seems also 20 have swept over
nearly the whole middle and northern Eu.
rope. IL has come TO the British Islands at
a time when the humber classes are in
deep and terrible distress, and il has
brought new suffering to thousands who
were already miserable Last wear and the
year before British philanthropy poured
millions OF pounds into India for the relief
OF the starving people. This year a stronger
appeal 20 benevOlence is made by cold and
hungry people ut home, and the answer is
like to he "A generous one.
The Senatorial elections, which took
place in France, on the 5th, resulted i'm a
great Republican triumph. OF forty.seven
Conservative Senators whose terms have ex-
PRED, only thirteen have been re. elected.
All retiring Republican Senators have been
reelected. The general result shows the
election OF fifteen Conservatives and sixty.
four Republicans. The Republican major.
lty in the Senate will be about ffty-seven.
Second ballots will be necessary in the
departments Of Haute .Garonne and Landes.
........Juan Moncasi, who attempted to assas-
sinate the King of Spain on the goth OF Oc-
tober last, was executed Saturday morning,
the 4th OF January Owing to the depre-
ciahon OF paper money and the high price
OF provisions, anonymous letters have been
addressed 10 the Government OF Turkey.
threatening serious riots il relief is not
afforded. Military precautions have been
ken............The Cornish Bank, at Truro,
Cornwall, England, closed Saturday morn.
ing. The bank did large business i'm
mining and commercial enterprises. De.
posts in the bank amount to $4,000, OOO.
further stoppage of Cornish mines
L. inevitable, and the failure
OF many private firms must follow.
\ London dispatch says that there has
been daily increase of distress in every
quarter. At Manchester, Friday, there
were 5000 applications from heads of fami.
lies, representing 1880 persons, to the Re-
lief Committee, and on Saturday 600 fresh
applications. During the week IL, 600 fami-
ties have been relieved in Wolverhampton.
Cons derable increase Of Distress il also re-
ported from sheffield. Three hundred
coach builders struck in Liverpool against
an increase Of their hours from fiftv.thrae
TO htty-siK aud One-half per week. Simul.
taneously with this movement cimilar
strikes occurred in many large towns i'm
Lancashire and Yorkshire Five hundred
shpwrights employed in the Middleboro
shlpyard struck against a reduction OF
wages. The men were paid of aud the
yard closed. The Britannia Iron Works at
hiddleboro closed, throwing two hundred
men out Of employment. TIE Midland
Railway employees at Carlisle yielded.