Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1879-09-13
NEWS SUMMARY.

n the twenty. -four hoars ending
.rueldA at AoOil, eiirty-oile new cases
md twclve deaths 81 yellow RIVER were
repdIted = Memphis.
o. Wsines.lay, tho New Orleans
lNaid ii health DECLARED tbs city FREQ
from yellow fever, no new cues having
bssn reported during the twenty-four
houA preceding. Little danger IL mp.
pretended ut this late day.
Major Cavaghhari, the British Ambassa-
dor 1t Caba1,r AfxhaaistAn, with some
seventy five soldiers 81 his eecoft were
attacked 1t thu headquarters BY : body
'of Insurgents, and after most gallant
resistance, were n,ssatascred.
GLASGOW, Sept. 9--Thirty thousand
persons are unemployed here. While tho
iron trades are prosperous, the building
trades are in q fearful condition, and
measures for the reliGfOfthe unemployed
this winter will be necessary. i
ASHTON UNDkR-T TINE, Sept. 0-Ono of
the greatest struggles ever known in the
cotton trade here will probably DO enter
cd upon ut the end Of this week. En-
ployory decline to withdraw their notices
Of S per cent reduction Of wages, and the
spinnery and wcNvsry are determined to
resist the reduction. Il . strike ensuey
nearly all Of tho working people In the
Ashton district will be involved, and the
strike will probably bes protrncted one,
~ the Spinner Union isamply provided
with funds. =
Tho Spanish Government II SOON to
send. Il, 600 tro0ps r. Culpo. b
On tho 6th Inst, forty Indians stack
ed the Government guard hertliug cav
airy horses belonging to Capt. Rockers
company, near A Ocalisnts, New Mexico,
killing the guard and running of forty
horses. ~ "a .ti1s t
Eighty English farmers with their
families have arrived In New York Oh
their way 70 Texas. ii ~.
| The Republicans have carried tho
i Gen. Pred N. Ogden and the Hon. J.
| B. liam, decline TO be candidates for GU
bernatorial honors.
| Gen. Roberts has been ordered to
march on Csbnl, from JellAlabad, where
he has been organising ~ expedition
0ry cOrps., !aa 5thitie - as
The boysare n,archingin Now Orleans,
and tho unterriRed Democracy arc FORM
J Ing large clubs on every side. ~
The cotton crvp will bo shorter than
last year. SO say the rcports from COM
mvrcial circles. 1 iofl 1a
A Jewish merchant II Uniontown,
Mr.. Friendberger, committed suicide at
Freensburg, Alabama, on last Monday.
"A Murfreesboro, Tenn, darkey Is 10;
, years old. He has Just married his SOW
onth wife, who III ~ years old. There
nrs twenty -seven Of his children left to
: bless his declining years. it'sa
Russia has offered To rtstoo to Chn'
tho northeast portion Of tho occupied
territory, provided Kernig Nomad, VIII
fled to China, BIO returned.
Russian papers have resumed their Mt
tscks on Germany with Increased vir,
!. lence. IL tlipt 'itl
The Car has declined TO allow Primes
GortschakOff to retire.
> 1t is now stated many persons wer
: drowned during tho recent ihundation q
= st. Petersburg. i'H @
II Tho Gazette says: The massacre q
), members Of the English mission to Al
vhanistan Oblitcrates the scientific from
1 IsN6
: necessitates tho occupation Of tho Who'll
! Of Atghanistan by the British, but thi
is incompatible with the assurance give
Ivy England to Russia, with whom thel
,. must be MI understanding regarding til
u measures Of satisfaction to be taken b
i England. Tho Gazette recommends
1t solution by u partition Of Afghanista'
10 soas to bring tho English and Russia
dofniniOns In contact IN Central Asia.