The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-02-15
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Paul Gervaise; very eminent
French naturalist, is dead.
Elk Chief Justice Casey, of the
Court of Claims, died ON the 10th
inst, aged 81.
The village of Megninger, Swift
zerland, a great tourist resort, has
been almost totally destroyed by fire.
The sailors and coal beavers at
Liverpool, England, have struck.
Trade is paralyzed.
The Old Asbury University
building, at Greencastle, Indiana,
burned on the 10th inst.
The treaty of peace between
Turkey and Russia has been signed,
Podgoritza being surrendered to Mon
tenegro.
-Thos. S. Drew, who was elected
Governor of Arkansas in 1874, and
reelected in 1850, died recently in
Texas.
"A project is formulating, which,
it is expected, will lead to an agree
ment between Germany and the Vat
lean.
AT Troy, NY, on the 10th inst,
G. f. Simmons, crazed by the elope-
ment Of his wife, poisoned his three
children and cut his throat.
Sitting Bulls people are nearly
starved and are anxious to make al
most any terms for peace, but the
chief himself says he will never again
enter the United States.
-Four columns of British troops
have entered the territory of the King
of the Zlfius, in South Africa, and it
is believed but feeble resistance will
be made.
"A speed of mile a minute was
attained by an ice yacht in race on
the Hudson, Saturday, from Pough-
keepsie TO New Hamburg, distance
of ten miles.
Miss Jane Smith, young lady
about twenty-one years of age, re-
siding near Littleton, W. Va, was
run over by the cars near that place,
on the 10th inst, and instantly
killed.
The preachers and many Christ
ians Of Louisville, held meeting last
night protesting against Sabbath
breaking and adopting measures
tending to suppress Sunday amuse-
ment.
On the 18th inst. a fire broke out
in Gotthold, McCook d Co.'S whole
sale confectionery on North street,
Philadelphia, which almost destroyed
the building and contents. Loss
$25, GOO; insurance $4,000.
-Gambetta has been elected Pres
ident of the French Chamber of Dep
uties by 314 to los. This is consid-
cred as placing him in the line of
succession to Grevy as President.
His health is reported as impaired.
"A committee of three preachers
and two elders of the Brooklyn Pres
bytery,is to investigate Rev. I. Dewitt
Talmage, who is accused of crooked
ness in connection with the debt of
his church, the Brooklyn Tabernacle
The everlasting Schleswig ques-
ton has been settled for the present
by treaty recently concluded be-
tween Prussia and Austria Hungary
abandoning all pretense of protection
for the rights of the people of North
Schleswig.
"A terrible accident occurred at
Kansas City, Mo-, on the 18th inst,
by which six persons were killed and
seven wounded. A cut was being
made for a railroad, the walls of
which were ninety feet high. While
the men were at work the cut caved
in, burying men and teams under
six thousand feet of earth.
The Nez Perez Indians are will
ing to cede their lands, amounting to
about 4 800 square miles, to the gov
eminent, for six townships in the In
dian Territory and $250,000 in mon
ey. The Interior Department agrees
to these terms, and Congress is to be
asked to make the necessary appro
priation.
Evan Rice, Cashier of the VIII
mington and Brandywine National
Bank, Wilmington, Del, was arrested