Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-10-28
Telegrams to The Star.
HANLAN AND COURTNEY.
Another Fizzle Probably.
EUROPEAN POLITICS.
Speech from the Prussian Throne
DROUGHT IN THE WEST.

DROUGHT IN THE WEST.
FRIGHTFUL BALLOON TRIP.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
A Confession of Murder Retracted.
LONDON, Oct. 2s.-GeOrge MOntagu, alias John
Henderson, on committal to Maidstone JAIL who
confessed that in july, 1877, at Baltimore, he
murdered fellow soldier named Henry Saun-
ders by stabbing him and afterward threw the
body in well, yesterday on completing his
term of Imprisonment was rearrested and held to
await the action of the American authorities.
He now says that the confession was a false
hood, cOncOcted to avoid being imprisoned here.
Looking Out for British Interests in
China.
The Daily Standard says: "We understand
that the corvette Comus and the Sloop-of-war
AlbatroSs will proceed to the China station as
soon as they are ready for sea, in view of the
pending rupture between China and Japan and
the friendly attitude OF Russia towards China"
They Don't Want Don Carlos.
PARIS Oct. 2s.-It is reported here that Don
Carlos, the Bourbon pretender to the throne of
Spain, will be requested to leave France in con-
interchanges of courteses with army officers,
some of whom have been subjected to army dis
cipline for the same cause.
A Warning to Austria.
The Journal des Deb0ts condemns Lord Sails
bury'S optimism touching an AuStrO-German
alliance, and says: ''The result will be European
complications which will leave Austria without
allies confronting all the christian nations of
eastern Europe whose legitimate ambitions she
seeks to Stifie for her own advantage"
A Counterpoise to the AustrO-Ger.
man Alliance.
LIE SOleH reports interviews of one OF It's CORE
spondents with Italian statesmen OF various
shades of opinion, all OF whom advocate an un-
derstanding between the Latin and SclavOnic
races as a counterpoise to the Austro-German
alliance.
The Spanish Harvest.
MADRID, Oct. 2s.-In consequence OF the salts
factory results of the harvest, the Spanish gov
ernment has decided not to reduce the duties on
the Importation ofcereals
An African Explorer Ill.
LONDON, Oct. 2s-The Times says:-''We regret
to hear that Major De Serpa Pinto, the distin-
gushed African explorer, is seriously i'll OF dis
ease Of the lungs"
Revival i'm English Iron Trade.
LEEDS, Oct. 2S.-Additional hands have been
taken on at several of the leading iron works in
Leeds district, orders having been received
which will provide occupation for them during
the whole winter. The coal branches OF the
trade are also improving.
Eng1and's Trade with Australia.
LONDON, Oct. 2S.-ArrangementS have been
concluded between the Orient steam Navigation
Company and the Pacific Steam Navigation Com
pany of Liverpool, under which the two COM
panies will run steamers fortnightly between
LONDON anu AuSUTalld COII1u6nCln8 LII
January next. Hitherto the steamers OF the
Orient line have sailed at intervals of four weeks
The magnitude of the trade and the increasing
degree In which the Australian colonies are at
tracing settlers and visitors are believed to
justify the extension of the enterprise. The eX-
tended service will retain the name OF the Orient
line, and be conducted as heretofore by Messrs
+. Green & Co. and MeSSrS Anderson, Anderson
Co., the joint managers OF the Orient company.
A Fatal Dose of Ether.
AYLMER. ONT, Oct. 2s.-Dr. Charles Clark,
homeopathist, administered ed; dose OF ether THIS
extract tooth. She became inSehSible and
never recovered.
The Political Situation i'm England.
LONDON. Oct. 2S.-The Daily Netrs foundS its
theory of the contemplated dissolution of parlia-
ment before the end Of the present year on the
allegation that the results of the recent new
registrations are very favorable to the liberals
the beginning OF 1880, an immediate dissolution
would deprive the liberals of the benefits there
of. The Daily NeacS says:-"The probability OF
such resolve is increased by the fact that Right
Hon. II. AShetOn Cross, home secretary, has
telegraphed to the Philosophical Institution of
Edinburgh, postponing his lecture before it on
the ground that series of cabinet councils will
be held next week, at which his presence will be
indispensable. 1t must be sudden change OF
purpose on the part of the government, which
demands so sudden telegraphtc poStponement
of an only recently announced engagement"
No FavOrs to the Convicted Editor.
LONDON, Oct. 2s.-AdolphuS Rosenberg, con-
victed Of hbels upon Mrs. Langtry, Mrs Corn
wallis West and Lord Londesborough, was to-
day again placed in the dock at Old Bailey,
when Mr. Justice Hawkins said it appeared to be
the impression that the prisoner would be
treated as a firSt-claSS miSdemeanant able to
receive his friends and furnish his own ma1nte-
nance. ''This," he said, lis incorrect Short of
hard labor Rosenberg will be treated the same
as any other prisoner"
BERLIN, Oct. 2s.-The speech from the throne
at the opening of the Prussian diet declared that
the improvement In the estimates expected to
result from the reform in the system OF imperial
taxation cannot, in view of the present financial
situation, affect to an appreciable extent the
estimates for next year. The principal measures
announced comprise loan for covering the de-
fic1t; bill for applying the surplus OF the i'm
perial taxes to the reduction of the income tax;
bill for taxing the retail trade in brandy; bill
for the purchase of railways by the state, and
for the construction OF new branches, and bill
for modifying the superior departments of the
administration and for the extension of the
administrative jurisdiction. No alluSiOn was
made to the foreign or the political situation.
The Beet.ROOt Crop.
LONDON, Oct. 2S.-The beet-root crops through
out the governments of Podolia and Kieff, Rus
sia, where much sugar is produced, are very
plentiful.
Hard Fighting at Shutargardan.
dispatch to the Standard from Kusm an
nounces the arrival there of convoy from Shu-
targardan. The oficer in command states that
there has been some hard fighting at the latter
place for several days and that many Ct the
enemy nave Hell SuOW Is dutduy Ut
ginning to fall in the hill districts.
A Dying Queen.
VIENNA, Oct 2s.-The ex-Queen OF the Two
Sicilies is dangerously Ill. The Count and
Countess de Chambord have gone to visit her.
Distress Caused by the Drought i'm
the West.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2s.-A Louisville, KY, special
says: The Ohio river is nearer dry than has been
known for many years. Thousands OF passen-
gers and large amounts of freight hitherto going
by river are now compelled to swell the earnings
OF the Louisville and Nashville railroad. TIL
low water Is the occasion Of much distress here
and the coal supply, which comes by river from
PittSburg, is now exhausted, and all fuel In US
in households as well as by manufacturers, ha
to be brought from Kentucky mines,
Death of q Priest.
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Oct. 2S.-The Rev. James
Tehan, s. j., assistant pastor OF st. Joseph
Catholic church, died this morning. He was
native Of Frederick, Md, and has been pro
fessor in Loyola college, Baltimore, and vice
president of Worcester Catholic c0llege.)