The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-01-09
FOREIGN SUMMAR Y.

p A LARGE force-ofs Afreedees attacked the
British troops in Khyber Pass on the 29th
December, but were repulsed with a severe
loss. =
JUAN MoNCAsI, who attempted to assas-
sinate the King of Spain on the 25th of
OctoberSlast, was executed Saturday morn
ing, the 4th of January. ,s-
THE London Times Vienna dispatch
says: =" 1t is stated that eighty persons
were killed or wounded in e recent en-.
counter between the militia and students
at Kieff." . q
A DISPATCH from Ismid says athirty y-eight
ton gun burst during practice on board the
British man-of-war Thunderer. The ves-
sePs turret was destroy &c, ,sevensmen killed,
and forty wounded.
| Ow1Ka to the depreciation of paper
| money and the high price of tprovisions,
anonymous letters have been addressed to
the Government of Turkey, threatening
serious riots if relief is not afforded. Mil
itary precautions have been taken.
| The Cornish Bank of Truro, Cornwall,
England, closed Saturday morning. The
bank did a large business in mining and
commercial enterprises. Deposits in the
bank amount to s5,0O0,OO0. A further
stoppage of Cornish mines is inevitable,
and the failure of many private firms must
follow. t.s
THE London StandarPs correspondent
with the Kuram column telegraphs that
General Roberts convoked the principal
inhabitants of Kuram Valley at Peiwar and
Ali Khayl and informed them the Ameer's
rule had passed away forever, and hence
forth they must look to the Empress oi
India SsS2S 30 > - - 9
T The Senatorial elections, which took
place in France, on Che 5tL, resulted lin .
great Republican triumph. OF ferty-sever
CONSERVATIVE Senators whose. terms have
expired, only thirteen have been reelected
All retiring Republican Senators have beer
reelected. The general result shows th'
election of fifteen Conservatives and sixty
four Republicans. The Republican major
itv in the Senate will be about fifty-seven
, Second ballots will be necessary in tn
departments of Haute Garonne and Landes
THE severe cold which has visited thi
, country seems also to have swept owe
nearly the whole middle and northern
Europe. 1t has come to the British Island
: at time when the humber classes are i
deep and terrible distress, and it ha
brought new suffering to thousands VIII
were already miserable. Last year and th
r, year before British philanthropy poure
= millions of pounds into India for the r.
lief of the starving people, This year
: stronger appeal to benevo'ence is made b
, cold and hungry people at home, and til
Il answer is likely to be generous one.
GENERAL GRANT arrived in Dublin, Ir
n land, on the Sd of January, accompanied
. General Noyes. The President was met /
7, the Lord Mayor. On arriving at the Ci
e Hall, General Grant was cheered BY tt
o large crowd who had assembled to seeh
=. The Mayors in presenting the freedom
y the city, referredz to kthe cordially alwa
"a existing between America and Ireland, al
's hoped that in America General Grant wou
~ do everything he could do to help a peop
10 who sympathize with every Americ
a' movement. The freedom of the ci
was inclosed in an ancient carved bog o.
Us casket.
ry - A NUMBER of very alarming and sen.
I'd tional reports have been. received in Lo
no don, respecting the industrial and inanc
Ie. condition of England. The wages of t
ID, miners and operatives in all trades ha
q been sreduced to what the men consider I
ne lowest living point; but the masters s
'pf they can not go on without a st;ll furtf
re reduction, and can scarcely see their "
&c to going on even with reduction. CIR,
ny uneasiness exists also among the tena
"a farmers, who are finding Il almost impo'
he Bile to pay their rents and to keep out
ses debt. The stoppage of the export trade
in America aud the great influx Of Amerit
to- produce increase, the difficulties of
he situations fEft