The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-02
FOREIGN.

patches say that advices fIen Vienna
announce the suspension of SchIld &
Co., large firm of diapers. The la-
bilities amount to 500, 600 florins. Sew
ersl Paris aud Lyons houses are among
their creditors.
Siever & Jerabat, cotton merchants
at Vienna, have also failed. Liabilities
200, 600 forms. The latter failure af-
fects parties IN Manchester and Liver
pool.
The suspension of the Hsmberg house
of Mestern, already announced, in
wolves that of Meyer, of Lagos, with
600, 600 marks. Liabilities 600, 900.
Several Manchester houses are among
the creditors.
LONDON, September 3O.-Scilly and
Southern Italy was visited by great
storm Sunday. 1t carried away the
RAILROAD bridge between Giro and Cru
celie, hurting the express train into
the torrent. The engineer was killed
and all the passengers more or less in
jured.
Elliott challenged Boyd to row for
e200 a 81 ie. The offer was accepted.
Eastern Siberia is menaced with q
famine. Grsin is dearer than ever be-
fore. The poor are suffering severely.
CITY OF MEXIco, September 23.-The
Presldent's message was delivered to
Congress on the sixteenth. 1t was long
and devoted principally to lnterna-
tional affairs, but says the foreign re-
lations of Mexico are of most AMIGA
BILE character.
No new embarrassments have arisen
to render 1t difficult to complete the
agreement with the United States. It
refers to the great prosperity of the
country and declares against re-elec-
lion.
VIENNA, September 30.-It is said
that the Emperor of Russia is suffering
from mental fatigue, and is &C instantly
growing worse.
LONDON, September 30.-The Pail
MqU Gazette, in leading article, con-
cedes that the complaints of the Irish
tenant farmers are mostly genuine, and
thst they are for the moment unable TO
pay their rent, and that they believe
in their right TO remain on the land in
any event. They are fresh from the
exhortations OF the most popular poll
tician in Ireland (meaning Mr.. PArnelD
10 stick to their homesteads at
whatever consequence. II a general
refusal to pay rent is followed by
wholesale eviction, this will again al
most certainly be followed by series
of agrarian murders, and unless the
Irish executive is prepared to support
the landlords by measures amounting
to little less than military occupa-
ton of the country, the landlords
will have to choose between virtually
conceding the tenants claim, fixity of
tenure and giving signal for the out
break of something hardly distinguish
able from civil war. The anti-tenant
agitation is only one among the symp-
toms of the general unrest of Ireland.
For the moment it is very urgent
but even if the worst pinch in the
sgrarian distress were relieved by the
universal reduction of rent, there
would still be much to disquiet US in
the condition of the country. The en-
thusiasm by which Mr.. Parnel's pro-
gIess has been attended has infinitely
weakened the hands of more moderate
home rulers and emboldened ultras.
Among its first results was a somewhat
too precipitate proposal to assemble
national convention. The fate of this
particular project is at present uncer-
tain, but the agitation upon which
the more violent section of the Home
Rules have entered, will, in one shape
or another, produce Its inevitable re-
volts. The party is generally trouble
some. The prospect in Ireland is not
really affi cted by the success or failure
of any given scheme for organizing
the pressure upon the government.
The present temper Of the Irish people
and their leaders concerns US more Sc
riously than any particular proposal
from its manifestation, and while this
temper remains what it is the semi-se-
dicious among the people and the reck-
lessly lncendiary among the leaders
will create trouble. Whether the con-
ventlon ever meets or not, the situation
must be grave one. 1t should be
noted that the old statute which pro-
hibited conventions in Ireland has
been repealed.
LONDON, September S0.-A Simla
telegram from Shutengarden, dated on
the twenty seventh inst, says that Gen.
Sir Frederick Roberts has arrived there. |
His party was fired at by large body |
of Mongals near Jagsthena and five |
Skins killed. The MoDgals were re-
pulsed with loss.
The latest news from Cabul states |
that all is quiet there. DAkka was oc-
cupied yesterday without opposition.
News from handalay mp ID the |
twenty-second reports all quiet there. |
LONDON, September 30.-A meeting |
OF delegates from the Sluth Yorkshire |
and North Derbyshire miners associa-
lions at Barnesley decided to resist
any reduction Of wages to the utmost. |
The iron workers ct Hartlepool and
Stockton have followed the example OF
the iron workers At Jarrow and resumed
work under protest against the award
Of Mr.. Dale, the arbitrator.
The strike Of the cotton operatives
continues.
About 1000 operatives at MnssIey
have accepted the masters terms.
LONDON, September 30.-A Berlin
OF the Times says that
the elections which take place to-day
and next Tuesday will be most critical.
10 the to-day's issue, by common ed
it 10 reduced 10 q simple pei
sonsi one for or against Prince Biz
The correspondent expresses
the belief that the Liberal course is
hopeless and that Prince Bismsrck's
success is q foree one conclusion.
ST.. PETERSBURG. September 30 =
The In1alid Rslse gives the foiloging
details OF the affair Ct Geok-Tepe: The
rurcomans, numbering Is. 900 combat
Lants and 500 non-combsttants, retired
10 the fortified village of Dengii-Tepe,
after having several times unsuccess-
EulIy attacked the Russians. The Rms
han attack on DeDgil-Tepe lasted the
whole day. The village was stormed
L 5P. n. The Russians were too tired
% pursue the enemy. Ii
An official dispatch from Gen. Lams- |
rim confirms the report Of the Russian
Iuccess, aud says the Russians occu- /
lied Beurma on the seventeenth Of
september.
iosDox. September 3o.-Dlspstches