Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-02-25
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THE BREATHITT OUTLAWS.
Desperate Attempt to Escape.
LABOR STRIKES COLLAPSED,
FIGHTING THE PLAGUE.
OTHER EUROPEAN MATTERS.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Depression in the English Cotton

Trade.
PRESTON, ENG, Feb. 25.-The depression in
ire cotton has increased Healy & Co, have
given notice that they must stop their six hun
dred and eighty looms within a fortnight unless
trade improves. This Involves the discharge OF
from TWO to three hundred hands,
The IEome Rule Leader Sick.
LONDON, Feb 25.-Dr Isaac Butt, the home
rule leader, is suffering from acute bronchitis
A consultation of physicians yesterday pro-
nounced his symptoms favorable.
Queen Victoria Going TO the Cont.
nent.
ROME, Feb 25.-The ftatie reviveS the report
that queen Victoria viii visit the Continent
thls spring, going first TO Italy, where she viii
spend some time at Baveno. She will after
wards IL says, visit Coburn and Darmstadt.
burning Houses .n the Plague Dis
tricts.
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 25-The committee an.
pointed TO superintend the burning of infected
houses Ia the plague districts has commenced
operations.
The TWO Powers i'm Asia.
VIENNA, Feb. 25.-The ST. Petersburg dIspatch
or the political correspondence SayS:-"It Is
thought here that Lord DlfeTiu's appointment
as ambassador at st. Petersburg may lead to
renewal possibly, in an improved and extended
1orm OF the zone dividing he spheres Of the two
powers in Asia
Collapse of the Liverpool Strikers.
LONDON. Feb. 25.-All accounts agree as TO the
utter collapse OF the strikers OF coal beavers
ana dock laborerS at Liverpool
Austrian Influence south OF the
panGbe.
A dispatch from TirnOva 10 the Tt8Ces says
The Russians are perfectly aware of the in
tflgueS or the agents OF Austria TO promote
Austrian occupation OF the country between
Novi BaZar aud the -Egean sea. and they are
doing their utmost 10 quiet the Bulgarian 5i-
tation for a union OF Roumalia and Bulgaria
believing that further troubles at present would
tend to alarming1y increase Austrian influence
south OF the Danube. The BulC .I1ans are aware
OF these secret rivalrieS. TIE radical party are
endeaNorlng TO obtain tl.er ends by threaten
Ing TO throw themselves into the arms OF Aus
trla. III the European powers would consent to
aDf0cate the clause Of the treaty OF Berlin for
the establishment OF Turkish garrison in the
balkans, the moderateS would be able to con-
troll the bulgarian assembly. and the Rouma-
llanS would be sufficiently satisfied TO obviate
any fear OF disturbances The deputies from
Roumalia and Macedonia were merely admitted
TO tie opening OF the Bulgarian assembly as
spectators.
Russia Acting Square.
The COnStantfnOple correspondent OF the
Times also teStifteS to the loyalty with which
the Russians are fulfilling their treaty obliga-
uonS. A proclamation issued by General Stole
pine is extensively circulated In the districts
now being evacuated, announcing the re-eStab-
lishment of Turkish administration and dis
suading the Christians from abandoning their
homes.
The Egyptian Rate Of Interest.
Inc DdHy IeieGrGph's Paris dispatch denies
that England and France favor reduction OF
the EgJ ptian rate OF interest
English C0llieries Winding Up Rusi-
An action has been commenced for the CON-
pulSory winding up of the North StafordShire
Collery Company. 1t is said that another large
limited company near uanley is about TO vol
unfairly wind up its business