The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-02-28
INTERESTING FOnEIoN NOTES.

JOnn LemOlnne, editor oil the Garls jour
nW dcs DebDts, was Monday elected q Sena-
tor ror life.
Seven coolies were killed and four injured
by on accident on the Condahar Railroad ,on
the 18th inst, near Mitri.
The French Chamber of Deputies has ap-
proved the convention between France and
the United States for the exchange Of postal
remittances.
The London Standards Madrid dispatch
announces that intelligence has been re-
ceived from Tripoli that 800 houses have
been destroyed there by floods.
1t is understood that the English Foreign
Office is willing to pay reasonable ransom
for Colonel Synge and wife, now held by
brlgands near Salonica.
The London Standard states that rtmors
were freely circulated on both sides IN the
lobby, last night, that an immediate disso-
luton of Parliament is contemplated.
A dispatch from Calcutta to the London
Times says; "Chendrioh the leader of the
Rumpa Rebellion, has been beheaded by his
own followers. The head was brought in
and fully identified"
The Russian Embassy at Paris have re-
ceived documents with a view to proving the
the Moscow explosion, and they will be
handed to the French Government imme.
diately.
Diphtheria is raging in Central Russia.
1t has carried off since last November more
than 10000 persons in the two provinces OF
Clarkoh and Poltava alone, and in the
neighborhood of Walki whole villages have
almost died out.
Complete anarchy prevails in Abyssinia.
The attendance at the Sydney Exhibition
still continues good.
Trickett, the Australian oarsman, project:
a visit to England for the purpose OF rowing
Hanlan.
An English squadron has arrived at Sa
lonica to see was can be done for the release
of Col. Synge.
The bark Strothnairn, bound to Melbourne
from London, has been sunk by collision
Sixteen persons were drowned.
The Royal Tribunal at Madrid has con
firmed the death sentence otOtero the woulC
be regicide.
Cardinal Newman, now in his roth yea
is suffering from the effects of a fall, By
which one of his ribs was broken.
The German Emperor on Tuesday held
brilliant reception at the palace in honor o
the Grand duke Nicholas, of Russia.
Mr.. White, the American Minister to Ber
lin, entertained quite number of guests oi
Monday in honor of Washington's birth
day.
A cyclone and tidal wave at the Fiji Is
lands, previous to January 20, caused ser
ious loss Of life and devastation of propert,
and produce. A Queenland schooner wa
obliged to batten her matches, and of Is
natives on board 80 died.
The Cologne Gazette says that the nego
tiations between Germany and the Vatical
are at complete standstill, as a direc
agreement is not attainable. Prussia, there
fore, on the basis of the knowledge thus &C
quired, proposes to order her ecclesiastical
affairs in an independent manner, and tn,
Vatican assumes that the Ministry will lay
a bill before the Chambers TO this effect a
the supplementary session next summer
the India budget, as announced from
Calcutta, shows a surplus of fIl9,OOO fo
1880, aud the estimate for 1881 shows
surplus of G4l7 900. The above results ar,
reached after paying from the ordinary
revenue all charges on account of famine
the Afghan war and frontier railways
The war expenditure in 1879. so was 93 PIG,
900. The total net war expenditure to tn,
end Of 1881, including IS79-S0, is estimated
at E5,750,00O The rate of exchange for thj
ensuing year is estimated at Is. Sd. pc
l ruupa