The Newtown bee., 1879-05-13

under like regulations as govern examinations made by the United States Circuit Courts.
 At recent sitting of the Cabinet the prin- cipal question under consideration was the threatened invasion of the Indian Territory by squatters. The Attoney-General gave a yer bal opinion that under the treaties ot 1866 with the Creeks and Seminoles, by which the lands were surrendered in consequence of the desire of the government to locate civilized Indians and freedmen thereon," the lands were not open to white settlers. It was decided to call upon the military, in of necessity, to as- sst in eiecting intruders.
 Foreign News.
 The city of Orenburg, Russia containing a population of 35,000 souls, has been almost totally destroyed by fire. There was n high wind during the fire, and the flames ragged furiously for two days. One-half the popula- ton were rendered homeless and destitute, and the suffering which followed was intense. A number of persons were burned to death It is charged that the Nihilsts set fire to the city.
 Forty houses have been destroyed and sev- enty families left without homes by a fire in the suburbs of Montreal. The total loss ex- ceeds $l00,000.
 More serious floods at Szegedin and other parts of Hungary are reported.
 The race tor the " First Spring Two-year- old Stakes at the Newmarket races was won by MT. Lorillard's American chestnut Ally 1upooSe, SlSter Ol IaIOle'
 The German Industrial Exhibition in Berlin has been formally opened
 About one thousand buildings were de- stroyed at the fire ill Orenburg, Russia. About forty heads were broken by the police and policeman's skull was fractured during two days riot in Cork, Ireland, arising out of n difference between rival bands. A London Times dispatch from Calcutta India, says that nearly d million pilgrims as- sembled at Hurdwar Fair carried the cholera in various directions, and that 25,000 deaths ! have already occurred.
 | Advices from Panama state that there was a revolt against the government last month, which was promptly checked. The revolt arose out of an attempt to upset the state gov | ernment. Alter fighting in the streets fourteen hours, during which time thirty-ive officers and men on both sides were killed and many | hundreds wounded, the revolters surrendered conditionally to the government troops.
 Isaac Butt the leader of the Irish home rule movement lawyer of great repute and a member of the British Parliament, is dead in his sixty-fourth year.
 Edward Hanlan, of Toronto, easily won the three-mile boat-face against John Hawdon, at | Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. match be- tween Hanlan and Elliott, the English cham pion, has been arranged, to take place next month.
 An explosion of dynamite, on car laden with that material in the Grand Trunk freight yard at Stratiord, Ontario, blew two men into fragments, seriously injured several others, utterly demolished about fifty freight cars and wrecked several frame buildings. The center of the town, although mile distant, was shaken as if by an earthquake.
 A gentleman who has just returned to New | York from Havana states that he was an eye witness to a series of fires in Cuba, last month, which destroyed sixty-eight large sugar plan tations, valued at more than one hundred mil 1 lion dollars The censorship of the govern ment over the press of Cuba was vigorously enforced to prevent n true account of these | heavy losses from being given to the world.