The Worthington advance., 1880-10-28
FOREIGN.

minister of Italy, is dead.
The lower part OF Chesbourg, France,
is overAowed by rising rivers.
The French cabinet has decided to con-
tinue the enforcement of religious DEGREES.
A Paris dispatch says, Edward Wolf,
the Polish pianist is dead.
The Turks and Montenegrins have
| failed in their negotiations
Trenton and Sons, steel manufacturers
OF Sheffield, England have failed. Liabilities
24S,O0O.
4 Quesule, British Columbia, a village
Of forty houses, was recently wholly destroyed
by fire.
The lnsurgent Kurds have renewed
! their depredations and destroyed several more
| Persian villages.
Ten million francs in gold were with
, drawn from the Bank of France, Oct. 20, to
| send to the United States.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says the
storm of October 20, in Denmark did incalc,.
| liable damage to life and property.
Of 100000 quintals of grain import
ee into France the first eight months of the
P1SSSA9 yS0A ASAVoSooV iutAIol0 IduC HUH
America.
Advices from Dublin state that the
indictment against the land league agitators
will inclnde 200 speeches, the drafted testi-
mony OF $50 witnesses and various newspaper
articles.
The police commissioners of Ricnco,
France, resigned in body, Oct. %, rather
than enforce the decree against the religious
communities.
On the 18th of September a terrific
snow storm occurred in the province of Bue-
| nos Ayres, 8. A., in which 100000 cattle, 500,
600 sheep, and 25o,000 horses perished.
The ceremony of churching the Queen
Of Spain took place in Chapel Royal in Mad
rid, Oct %, in the presence of a brilliant as
semblage. There was an immense crown in.
side and outside of the chapel.
A Capetown dispatch says Major Car
rington has destroyed the native position out
side the colonial troops who were beleaguer-
ed, and subsequently completely defeated a
band of Basutos, numbering about 1000
The imports into France for the nine
months ending September 30th, increased
263, 600, 900 francs as compared with the same
period last year. Exports increased 189, 9,00O,-
600 francs and food exports incl eased 69,O0O,.
600 francs.
A dispatch from Paris Oct. the goth
says the Bishop of Montpelier will be prose-
cuted for his abusive exercise of power in ex.
communicating the prefect while the latter
was executing the decrecs against the relig..
ious orders in Monthellier.
A dispatch from Par1s OF October %,
states that It is announced that the bishops
Of Valence and Montpelier will be summoned
before the correctional police for reasonable
attacks upon the government, contained in
letters to the under secretary Of the interior
Parnell, speaking at a banquet in Gal
way, Ireland, Oct. q, said: II feel convinced
that If everyone calls upon your countrymen
in America for aid, and show them there is q
fair chance OF success, you will have their
trained and organized assistance for breaking
the British yoke"
2 A Paris dispatch Of Oct. 25th, says fif-
ty students who had left Meriden in a yacht to
witness the departure of mail steamer from
Amsterdam, vcntured too near the steamer,
and their yacht was buffeted against it's side
so violently that twenty.six students were
thrown overheard, twelve are missing.
A cable dispatch of Oct. 25 states that
German philosopher has enunciated the
opinion that the present production of grain
in the United States is due to IN excessive
drain upon virgin soil, which must be follow
ed by exhaustion, so that in course of time
the condition Of agricultural production of
America will fall to the European level.
Funds have been granted by the Rus
sian synod for the erectionj Of q Greek Rus.
sian church in San Francisco, and priest
has been appointed to proceed to California,
accompanied by deacons, sub.deacons,
acolytes and choristers. Five thousands
roubles have been appropriated for the pre-
liminary expenses.
Paris advices state that the Carmelites
were expelled from their establishment at
Rennes, Oct. 20. The police we're obliged to
force the doors, and it was necessary to sum.
mon the gems d'arme and 4 battalion Of infan.
try to maintain order tThe central commission.
sry OF police has resigned, as he deems the de.
crees illegal. The police were ordered to dis
perse the crowd collected near the Capuchin
establishment at Marseilles.
WEEKLY CASUALTY RECORD.
October 20, earthquake shocks were
felt throughout Spain and Portugal and