The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-11-29
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INTERFERING FOREuGN NOTES.
The Car will return to st. Petersburg on
the 4th of December.
Baron LASER, of Austria, the distinguish
cd liberal politician, is dead.
BY the fall Of two houses In Tottehham
Court road, London, Thursday OF last week
one tnan was killed and seven injured.
Park Hall, near Eveshsm, the seat Of the
Earl os Yarmouth, has been buried, and
some estimates make the loss fl60,0O0,
Herr Won Schelling, Cnder Secretary Of
the Prussiau Ministry Of Juatfcs, has been
appointed Imperial Secretary Of the Depart
inent Of Justice.
The Countess-dowsger Of Montijo, mother
OF the Ex- Empress Eugenie Of France, is se-
riously i'll. The ExEmpress has started fol
Madrid.
The iron steamer Pallas, from Copenhagen
| bound 10 Amsterdam. is believed 10 have
fouudered off Heimsherk. Thirty persons
are supposed TO haye pershed.
Disturbance have occurred among the stu
dents Of the ST. Petersburg University re-
Gently, resulting in several arrests and in
the closing Of the library by order Of the
Governor General.
The French Jury on the Exhibition oi
Arms has awarded a gold medal 10 Mr.
Mackean, a citizen Of Illinois, for hs service:
in connection with the piercing Of the ST.
Gothard tunnel.
Lord Hathcrton, umpire in the dispute
| about the wages between the employers and
workingmen of the Staifordshre potteries
has made his award. 1t establishes a re.
duction of eight per cent. in wages instead
Of ten, as claimed by the masters. Over
forty thousand operatives are affected by the
decision.
Nothing is known at St.Petersburg about
the succession to the Chancellorship ol
Russia.
The Anchor Limo Steamship Company is
about to run steamers direct between Leith
and New York.
Republicans are said to be again threaten
ing the French Cabinet.
Baker Pacha's plan fixes the Turkish po-
lice force at $4,000 men. This force is also
to act as reserve in case Of war.
A snow storm in the Canton of Ticano
Switzerland, has interrupted all traffic and
destroyed thousands Of vines and trees.
The north west provinces of India, espec-
tally the districts Of Alyghur, Boolundshu-
epidemic Of fndlarial fever.
The London Agent General for SouthAus-
tralia has received q telegram from Caly,
dated the 2lst instant, which says Reapng
has commenced in the northern districts. It
is estimated that there will be 800 900 tons
of wheat for export.
1t is said that Russian foreign affairs are
about To be taken out of PriuceCiortschakoirs
hands and intrustod to Prince Walujen,with
the title for the present, of Vice Chancellor.
Prince Walujeff is believed to be friend of
Germany, and to be practically inclined.
The widow Of Charles Dickens died at
Gloucester Crescent, Regents Park, London,
on Saturday, after an illness Of eighteen
months.
The new Italian Ministry has been form
ed, with Signor Cairoh as Minister of For
elgn Affairs and Signor Depretis as Minister
OF the Interior.
In consequence Of the menacing attitude
Of Abysslnia toward Egypt the British gun
boat Sea Gull has been ordered to Massa wah
to protect the property of British subjects
there.
NJ. DeEreycinct, Minister of French Pub.
lie Works, has submitted to the Cabinet an
estimate of 900 francs for the expenses
preliminary inquiries in theTrans-Sahara
Rdilway project.
Another large fire occurred at Algiers on
Friday. The Theatre Pere and the adjoin-
ing houses were destroyed. Other fires oc-
CURED simultaneously at various points in
the city, but were quickly extinquished.
When the cx- Empress Eugenie arrived at
Madrid her mother (the Countess de Month
jo) was already dead. King Alfonso, who
was awsitngEugeuie at the station, commu-
nica,ed the news of her mothers death. Eu.
genie wished to go TO his residence, but was
prevailed upon to go to otheAlbaPalace, where
many thousand of persons called and in
scribed their names.
Winter has set in with great severity all
over the northern portion of Continental
Europe The streets of Berlin are knee deep
with snow, and Paris telegram says that
the early snow has driven the wolves from
the forests in the Department of the Marne,
and the peasants are organizing midnight
hunting parties to protect their farms.
Throughout England the weather for sever
al days has been cold, wet and snowy.
-The Standards Berlin correspondent
telegraphs as follows Anxious to coHcliiate
Germany, Russia has offered some long re-
fused commercial facilities by which Ger
man traders will no longer be subjected to
expensive exactlons by the Russian local
authorities.
John Thaddeus Delaue, late editor OF the
London Times, is dead, at the age of sixty
| two. He was born in 1914 graduated at
Magdalen College, Oxford, in lS47; became
assistant editor of the Times In 1899, and
two years later assumed full control of the
paper. This position he held without in
terruption till 1875.
The tinplate workers ofSouth Staff0rdshirc
and East Worcestershire, England, gave no.
tice on Saturday last of demand Of from
! i've to ten per cent. advance in their wages
| As the manufacturers have full orders both
for home and American consumption, q
moderate advance will probably be con
eeded.