The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-12-06
INTERESTING FOREIGN NOTES.

A great demonstration by unemployed
laborers has taken place at Balliner, county
Mayo.
OF the fifty members Of the London School
Board elected on Thursday, Of last week,
! nine are women.
NJ. Lepere, French Minister Of the Inter
ior, in his report upon the subject of plen
ary amnesty, states that only $50 deportes
remain unpardoned.
1t is officially announced from Constanti-
nople that the report of the assassination of
Ahmed Mukhiar Pacha by Arnauts is with
out foundation.
The London Times Constantinople dis
patch states that the split in the Cabinet
threatens to produce ministerial crisis.
1t is stated that the liabilities oftheMessrr.
Godfrey, at Hamburg, will reach $500 900.
The estate is expected to realize only small
dividend.
Rumors were current at Berlin Tuesday
that an attempt was made on the life Of
the Car while on his way to Moscow, but
no authentic details ol the affair have been
received.
The Dutch Minister Of Foreign AlIairs, in
| introducing the estimates in States General.
| Tuesday, expressed the hope that an extra
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soon be adopted.
An outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia has
occurred in Monmouthshire, England.
Charles Stewart Parnell has issued a let
ter stating that the Sligo prisoners will be
tried at Carrick- on-s Shannon on the ] lth in
slant.
The weather was very cold in Great Brit
ain and on the Continent Wednesday. Dis
patches from Rome and from Madrid report
heavy snOw-ialls.
There are increasing signs that the cotton
trade in North Lanoastershre is improving.
Some of the idle mills are preparing to start
again, and some irms have raised the wages
of taeir employees
a dispatch from Buenos Ayres, received
at London dated December 2. SAYS: "In-
teligence has been received here that the
Peruvian army is concentrating in the pro-
vince of larapoca, and that the Chilsns are
marching to meet it. An important battle
appears u be imminent"
Prince Gortschakoff has not yet rendered
his resignation. Should he do so Privy
Councillor Giers. who actually conducts the
Foreign Office during the greater part of the
year, is regarded as his most probable sue
cessor.
In consequence Of recent anonymous
threats received by the Commander of the
barracks at BiT, Lensier, the whcle Of the
ammunition, including several hundred
casks OF powder, has been removed under es-
cort to Dublin.
At meeting of the sugar refners oi
Greenock, Scotland, on Friday Of last week
is resolved to reduce the output by 1900
tons per week for the next three weeks, IN
conjunction with the London, Liverpool
and Bristol refners.
The Paris journal des Debats says: "ThC
result of the deliberation Of the bureaux o
the four groups of the Left, on Saturday, is
that the present Cabinet will be upheld
! conditlonally upon its eliminating the re.
, actionary elements from among the stat
officials"
The Faafulla states that the Pope ha!
I written TO the Irish Bishops, asking them Il
I interpose between the people and the Gov
ernment 10 avert strife and 10 pacfy the
) people by assuring them that the Englisl
Government will promptly examine intC
the questions which haYe caused the pres
! sent agitation.
J In the Prussian Diet Tuesday Count VoI
! Fulenburn, Minister of the Interior. reply
3 ing to questions as to the reasons for contIn
g uance Of the minor state Of siege, declare,
1 that the state Of things prevalent last veal
still existed. The secret Social Dramati
' agitation. he said, had increased, and th
/ connections with foreign agitators wen
/. maintained.
e The sentence Of death passed by the Mill
y tary Court, at 81. Petersburg, upon the Nj
hilist Mersky, convicted of attempting tn
i assassination o! General Drentelu, has beel
|, commuted 10 hard labor in the Siberial
n mines for an indefinite period.
o The Chemnitz (Saxony) TaqeJlah state
= that an explosion OF fire damp occurred IN
= mine in that district on Monday evening
and Il is losrod that from seventy t1 eight