The New York herald., 1879-01-07
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
From All Parts Of the
World.
GROWING DISTRESS IN ENGLAND.
A General Railway Strike
Imminent.
THE FRENCH SENATORS.
Ravages Of Terrible Plague in
Astrakhan.
GROWING DISTRESS IN ENGLAND.
HE FRENCH SENATORS.
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LONDON. Jan. 2, 1879.
HARD TIMES IN GREAT BRITAIN.
The weather is again cold and frosty. There has
been daily increase Of the popular distress in every
quarter during the past week. On Friday at
Manchester there were 5000 applications from
heads of families. representing 1880 per-
sons, to the Relief Committee. and on Satur-
day 1900 fresh applications. During the
week 1900 families have been relieved in wolver-
hampton. A considerable increase of distress
also reported from Sheffield. The notes of the
Cornish Bank are changing hands at considerable
discount. and the depositors and creditors
arc not 80 sanguine of receiving full payment
The South Yorkshire Coery Operatives Association
has decided. at meeting at Barnsley. to submit to
no reduction Of wages. largely attended meeting
or the Council of the North Derbyshire and
south Yorkshire Association also decided to-
day to make concession to the owners.
and that the owners be required to withdraw
their notice of reduction Of wages 1t is calculated
that more than one Thousand men employed rail-
road freight train guards on the Midland Rail-
way are strike. The guards in the Leeds
district decided yesterday to remain duty
The signal men, whose wages to be
reduced on the 10th Of january. resolved at meet
railway directors report that tho goods traffic is not
Interrupted. except as regards Goals and heavy
materials. Accidents on the road. of . or less
serious character have occurred In consequence Of
the strike.
STRIKE ON THD BRITISH RAILWAYS.
At q meeting Of tho Midland Railway strikers. In
London yesterday. the chairman said that the
drivers at Manchester. Birmingham, Toton
and Derby have expressed . strong deter
mnation not to work with incompetent
guards. The drivers at Wellingboro have already
refused to work. kilograms were read from all sta
tions declaring the determination Of the strikers TO
persist. The strikers have issued an appeal to all
railway employees and trade societies declaring that
the present action Of the Midland Railway Company
Is only part Of movement to enforce general re-
ouct1on OF railway wages 1t 10 believed there are
now l,6O0 men concerned in the strike. The
leaders Of the Midland Railway strike held
consultation with the directors Of that road
ut Derby. but the result deadlock the directors
refusing to withdraw any of tho obnoxious new
rules At meeting OF the employees at all the Lon
uon freight depots Of the London and Northwestern
Halfway resolutions unanimously adopted to do
their utmost to resist the attempt to extend their
hours and decrease their wages.
Five hundred coach builders have struck in Liver
pool against the increase Of their hours from fifty
three to ffty-sx and half per week. Stimuli
taneousy with this movement similar
strikes have occurred in many large
towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Five hundred
shipwrights. employed in Middlesboro ship.
yard. struck against . reduction of wages.
The paid of and the yard
closed. The Britannia Iron Works at Middles-
boro have been closed throwing 200 men out of EN-.
ployment. The Midland hallway employees at Car
Isle have yielded.
FRENCH SENATOR'S.
The Paris newspapers of yesterday. commenting on
the results of the Senatorial elections agree that the
event is a crushing blow for the Bonapartists The
majority in the Senate now consists of mod
crate republicans, and its is considered prob
able that the Dufaure Cabinet will remain
in Office The Senators of the Left met last night to
discuss the situation created by the elections Two
detachments Of the gendarmerie of Versailles have
been sent to the departments of the Herault aud
Eastern Pyrcnces to put stop to the attacks made
by armed brigands from Spain, which have alarm.
ingly increased Of late.
TURKEY AND HER LOSSES.
General Todeben and staff expected to arrive
at Constantinople on Saturday next. The departure
of the commissioners charged with the surrender
of Podgoritza to Montenegro has been postponed.
The Times Vienna despatch says:-"The difficulties
which had arisen regarding the Russian evacuation
of Dobrudja said to have been smoothed away,
and General Todleben has ordered the evacuation to
begin on the 18th Of January
THE THuSDERER DISASTER.
1t is stated that the reports regarding the condition
OF the wounded by the explosion Of the gun board
the turre ship Thunderer representing that several
have died ard many others have become blind. arc
exaggerated. Admiral Hornby telegraphs that the
wounded are doing well. and that the life of only one
seaman Is endangered
PLAGUE AsTRAKHAN.
Official confirmation at st. Petersburg is given of
the report that the plague has broken in Astra
khan. II is said to have been introduced by Co.'S
sacks returning from Turkey. A supplement of the
O6ca, Gazette of 81. Petersburg announces that the
plague in Astrakhan. which was absting, has revived
with great viruence since recent thsw The authori
ties Of sarstow are taking every precaution to pre-
vent the spread of the epidemic. A conference OF
medical officials and other functionarcs will be held
tomorrow, under the presidency Of the Minister of
the Interior TO consider measures for sampiny ont
the disease.
GERMAN socialist SUCCESSES,
The socialist democrats of Germany nave lately
carried most Of their municipal candidates in the
districts around Leipsic. socialist will stand for
Breslau at the forthcoming election for The Rechssg
CABLE NOTES.
The Russian cruiser Asia, Of the two vessels
purchased for the Russian government which sailed
from Philadelphia the 2st OF December arrived at
Cherbourg on Saturday and will resume her voyage
in day or two.
The report Of the death OF Admiral Touchard, Of
Paris is false.
band OF Mahsua wazrys recently made an incur
sion into British territory. They plundered the in
habtants and burnt tank, aud then retreated to the
hills. They were pursued by cavalry, and part of
the band was cut of. Rcnforccments are being sent
to prevent . repetition of tho raid.