The Newtown bee., 1880-01-28

There have been fifty y-six cases of smallpox in Washington during the last few weeks. Nine ot the cases proved fatal.
 The National Woman Suffrage convention met at Washington a few days ago. Among the resolutions offered was one by Mrs. Sara J. Spencer maintaining that General Grant won his first victory through the military plan and genius of Anna Ella Carroll, of Maryland.
 The House committee on the Yorktown centennial celebration has instructed sub- committee to draft bill appropi iating $100,- 900 for a monument at Yorktown. Foreign NewA
 The recent duel in Pesth, Hungary, be- tween Baron Maythenyi and Herr Vernovay,
 editor ot a popular newspaper, in which the latter was mortally wounded, has led to seri- ous disturbances. The editor had attacked One Count Festetes, iellow-member with Baron Maythenyi ot the National Casino club, | and the baron intertered in the quarrel. The | editor is popular with the masses and 1t is charged that the baron had been put forward in the matter because he is professional duel- ist and the best shot in Hungary. A great | crowd of students and workmen gathered be- | tore the Casino club house, uttering hostile | cries and finally stoning the windows. The | police were repeatedly repulsed by the crowd, | and at last two battaions of infantry charged
 upon the people with fixed bayonets. The | crowd fired upon the soldiers, and about | twenty-five persons were killed or wounded. The government issued proclamation ex- | horting the people to obey the laws. Ill-feel 1 ing against the prevailing Hungarian govern | ment is said to have had much to do with the 1 disturbance.
 | The distress in Ireland is increasing daily. | A Cork correspondent states that. sixty able bodied men, with their families, were admitted in one day to he Killarney workhouse. A
 woman applied tor admission with three chil- | dren, one of W hom was dead in her arms from hunger and exposure, the woman having | walked 8 distance of forty miles. A letter from Lieutenant Baylor, com
 manding detachment ot United States troops on the rexas frontier, states that Chiet Vic 1 toria's band of Apache Indians waylaid 8 | force of fifteen Mexicans-the best citizens of 1 Carisal-who were in pursuit ot the savages, ] and killed every man. Thirty five more citi- zens of Carisal, who went out to look for their kindred, were also waylaid by the Apaches and eleven of their number killed. | James Mactear, the Scotchman who recently announced that he had discovered the pro-
 cess for making genuine diamonds, now states
 that he was mistaken. Diamond owners doubtless feel intensely relieved to learn that | their possessions are not yet to become as | plentiful pebbles.
 A landslip has destroyed the village of Alcala del Jucar, in the province of Albacete, Spain. Several persons were killed anl fifty families have been rendered homeless by the disaster.
 The American freight ship Formosa, last re-
 ported at Cebu, Philippine Islands, for Boston, has been lost at The vessel, with cargo
 was valued at SS240, 900.
 Five thousand Mohmunds who crossed the
 Cabul river, near Dakka, Atghanistan, have been comp .etely defeated by the British. In railroad disaster at Southport, on the southern coast ot England, three persons were killed and twenty in nured.
 Authentic reports lately rece vec. from the districts in Bosnia, where famine has pre- vailed for the past month, describe the situa- ton as heartrendering. Besides many other sufferers, over 5000 people are actually starving. The number ot highway robberies
 has increased alarmingly in consequence oi the famine.
 At meeting in London of the council oi the home rule league, resolution was passed thanking the people ot America for their prompt aid to the distressed in Ireland. The Duke Antoine de Gramont the French diplomatist, is dead in his sixty-second year,
 Five organizers of the late bread riots in Cork, Ireland, have been sentenced to SIX weeks Imprisonment.
 News has been received of disastrous con- fagraton in Tokio, the capital oi Japan, the
 third in seven years-the first in 1872 and the
 second in 1876. Nearly 15,000 homes have been destroyed and 50 900 persons rendered destitute. The actual pecuniary loss is still undetermined, but it is not so great as ii
 would be in Western countries, owing to the cheap construction of majority of the houses.
 The loss of lie is put down at about one hun dred. The number, however, Is quite uncer-
 tam, many in the rapid progress ot the flames having been overtaken and destroyed, and of whom vestge remains. In several in- stances numerous unreco9niZable bodies and fragments thereof were found among the ruins, and many died from exposure to the
 cold, the night succeeding the fire being ex- ceptionally severe. A considerah e portion oi he districs inhabited by foreigners was de- Atroyed, including several missionary estab- lishments, one church and the office of the foreign newspaper-the Tokio Tunes The United States legation escaped the flames. The Dublin Mansion House committee have issued a numerously and strongly signed appeal to America for the rel,e oi the increas-
 ing distress in Ireland. The appeal says that the distress is daily increasing in area and in intensity, and that it seems almost impossible to avert until the next harvest an absolute famine in many places.
 A Mr. Foster, ot Belfast, has published letter addressed to Mir. Parnell, the Irish agitator now in the United States. offering to give S75 900 to assist Irish emigration to Canada and the Western States.
 Jules Favre, the eminent French statesman and republican member of the senate, and also a member of the French academy, is dead in his seventy-secondy year.
 About seventy lives have been lost by a coll:ery explosion at Newcastle under-Tyne, England. Tine explosion is attributed to the gaseous nature of the coal seam. Shortly after it occurred thirty corpses were brought out, a majority of them being disfgured as to be unrecognizabe. After the explosion fire ragged in the pit with great violence, hin- dering the efforts of explorers and precluding all hopes ot any of the victims being rescued alive. 75'-~+s>aas
 Rio Janeiro, Brazil, has been the scene of bloody riot, brought about by public opposi- tion to the imposition, of tax, per passenger, on the street car traffic. A mob which destroyed the cars and tracks of the company was charged upon by body of troops. Three persons were killed and thirty wounded, in- cluding some policemen and soldiers, before order was restored and the cars permitted to run.
 Advices from Panama state that successive shocks of earthquake are reported from Salva- dor, and that it is generally supposed that the capital, San Salvador, has been leveled to the ground.
 By vote of 230 to 10 the Spanish senate has passed bill providing tor the abolishment of slavery in Cuba.
 Serious inundations and damage to property are reported m Holland and Poland