Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-15

that recently failed are believed to
amount to over one million pounds.
JUAN MONCAsI, who attempted to as
sassinate the king Of Spain Oct. 25th
last, was executed at Madrid Jan 4th.
The supply of bar silver in London
has dwindled down to a very small mar
gin. There is little demand for it, how
ever.
IT is reported on good authority that
! the pope is consulting as to the advlsa-
bility of calling new ecumenical coun-
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The Nihilists continue to cause great
CONSERVATION in Russia. The police
have more than they can doto track
the ccnspirators.
A BOMBAY telegram Of Dec. 31st says
The government of Candahar has
ordered levy of the whole male popu-
lation to resist the British. The people
have responded heartily.
A ST. PETERSBURG cablegram of the
Sth says the KharkoH Veterinary School
has been broken up, and the Kiefi Univer-
sity closed, in consequence of riotous
demonstrations Of the students. ~.
OWING to the depreciation Of coins
and the high price Of provisions in Con-
stantinOple anonymous letters have
been addressed to the Porte threatening
serious riots if the coins are not with
drawn. Military precautions have been
taken. ...
A LONDON cablegram ofiuJan. End
says over one thousand dock laborers
struck work at Hull, contrary to expec-
tation. Nearly all the masons at Shelf
field struck against the reduction which
they were notified on Dec. &c, would
take effect to-day.
The Consett iron works CON-
pany, the largest makers of ship
plates in England, a employing. from
5000 to 1000 hands, and owning nine
Golfers, owing to dullness in business,
has been obliged to temporarily sus-
pend work at most of their mills and
FORCES, and discharge 800 miners.
The Spanish brig Encdrnocion, from
Fernandina, Fla, for Ferrol, Spain,
landed there Jan. 9th, two of the crew
of the steamer Bdgdrd, which foundered
at sea Dec. 10. All the remainder of
the crew were drowned. The Baydrd
was a British steamer of 964 tons, COM
manded by Capt. Everett. She sailed
from New Orleans Dec. 4 for Rouen.
The French elections which occurred
on Sunday, January 9Th. resulted in a
great republican victory, all republican
senators whose terms expire on the
18th inst. having been returned. The
republican majority in the senate will
be about 81. -.....'..'-.
THE king Of Holland was married to
Princess Emma Of Waldeck Pyrmont,
January 9TH. The 'happy couple
can hardly be said to be we'll mated as
regards age, for the groom is fourteen
years older than his father-in-law, and
has son nineteen years older than his
new wife still the match is a very bril-
liant one socially, and may yet assume
an aspect Of political importance.
A Cork dispatch Of Jan. 9Th says AT
meeting of the town council yester-
day, after several bitter speeches by
catholic members, the motion that the
letter Of the U. S. consul at Queenstown,
announcing General Grants coming, be
simply marked read" was carried
without q dissenting vote. A previous
motion to give Gen. Grant a proper
reception was ignored. ut. .a
THE Cornish Bank at Truro, Cornwall,
Engiand, closed January 4th. 1t is
| hoped that the suspension will be only
temporary. The bank did a very large
business IN mining and other CONNER
cial enterprises. The bank belongs to
Tweedie, Williams & Co. It was estab-
lished ITO years ago, and has branches
at Falmouth, Penryan and Redruth-
shire. Frederick Williams, a member
of Parliament for Truro, who died re-
Gently, held one-thlrd Of the concern.
The bank had authorized securities Of
forty-nine thousand pounds. IS
THE plague has caused gen
eneral panic in Astrachan and
Saratow. A correspondent of the
GoLos writes: The plague common
ced IN a village in the district Of Emo
tavsk. Precautions against the disease
were at first neglected, as it was mistak-
en- for typhus. When the weather be-
came warm er the people died like flies.
The dead lie upburieu in the streets.
The infected districts have been sur
rounded by troops. Communication
with Moscow has been stopped. Gen
eral anxiety prevails throughout Russia.
1t is supposed that deaths have been
more numerous than stated.
A SUPPLEMENT of the Panama Star
and Herald of December 20th
gives ii the story Of the at
tempt at revolution on the night of tn e
81: An attack was made on General
Aizhurn, ex-president OF the state, and
some of his friends, and that gentleman
and others were wounded. Subsequent
ly, Zugundo Pena, the newly appointed
governor of Detroit, while passing
through the streets i'll charge of some
policemen endeavoring to restore order
was fired upon by parties concealed. An
attack was made upon the Citadel,
and two men lost their lifes. The OBJ
ect Of the revolution was TO place in
power state government to be more