Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16

Bismarck rendered his resignation as Chan
cellor Of the Empire, on the 6th because ofthe
vote on financial reform In the Federal Coun-
cil The Emperor refused TO accept the resig-
nation.
Parnell was elected TO Parliament on the6th.
The Governor General OF East Siberia has
telegraphed to st. Petersburg that they were
not Chinese troops, but irregular Tartars, who
invaded Russian Territory.
A Rangoon dispatch says several Chinese
firms there have received intelligence that
Theebaw, King Of Burnah, has died Of small
pox at Mandalay
A private letter received at London from
Aleppo, dated the 18th Of March, says in con-
sequence Of famine 1900 Koords descended
from the mountains, plundored the town Of
Mardeen, Asiatic Turkey, and murdered a
number Of priests and nuns and some Euro
pean merchants.
The medical students Of Queens College,
Cork, have been suspended one year for get
ting up an address to Parnell.
The Tories charge the Liberals with fraud In
the recent elections in England.
Ex-Empress Eugenie, before starting for
Zuzlulaud, presented her very valuable crown
TO the church Of Notre Dame des Victories at
Paris.
Eighteen hundred pitmen Of the South Het-
ton and Murton colleries at Durham, England,
struck on the Sth because the managers re-
fused to put out the usual ayerage-board show
ing each mans earnings. The men had re-
strlcted their labor for two weeks SO that the
earnings we're below the average.
The Panama Star and Herald of March 81
states that the Chilians are reported to have
met with disaster near Moquez. The Minister
Of War, wishing to surprise the Peruyiansi
marched under cover Of night to the attack,
He fell into an ambush, and Of one regiment
Of 100 only sixty-seven escaped. The
Chilians lost 1 300 killed besides the wounded
and prisoners. The Huascar and Magallanes
I'm the attack on africa, lost twenty-five men,
killed and wounded. The Huascar was seri
ously damaged by the Peruvian man-of-waI
Nance Capac carrying American guns. Many
houses I'm the town were knocked down, and
several women and children were killed.
The report that King Theebaw, of Burmah
had died from smallpox recently, has beer
contradicted.
The wife Of President Diaz, Of Mexico, died
On the 9th
In consequence Of a famine at Mosul, Turk
fish Koordistan, four thousand people fed tc
Bagdad and hundreds died on the road.
The London Times says Lord Beaconsheld II
preparing to retire.
The Russian Government continues to sup
press newspapers for political purposes
The Liberal majority in the English Parlia
ment will be at least eight over the Conserya
| tive and Home Rulers.
Prince GortschakOif was reported danger
ously i'll on the 11th.
Great floods have recently occurred in tn,
neighborhood Of Ismid, Turkey, causing great
distress among the inhabitants.
A Paris paper contained an article on The
| llth, supposed to have been written by NJ
Gambettn, denouncing the Jesults, Bonapart
lists, Jeromists and the church as sworn foes o
the Republic.
A Rangoon dispatch, on the 18th, state'
that seven hundred persons had been burned
alive at Mandalay as a sacrifice for the resto
ration Of King Theebaw's health His diseas
Is said to be leprosy. The panic in Mandala.
was frlghtful and hundreds were leaving til,
city.
The famine In Armenia Is on the increase
In one village one hundred and fifty peopl,
have died Of starvation.