The Newtown bee., 1880-07-21
Foreign News.


 Thomas Boothroyd, wealthy farmer oI Howard township, Ont, was attacked by boar, which threw him down and bit him in the side and throat completely severing the jugu- lar veia and causing his death in fifteen minutes.
 An official decree has been published in France granting full remission ot sentences to all individuals convicted of participation in the instruction of l870-'71 and subsequent insurrectionary movements.
 It is stated that there are already grave dissensions in the new British cabinet.
 The special correspondent of New York paper reports Letter times in Ireland.
 Dr. Paul Broca, a French senator and an eminent surgeon and author, is dead in his fitty-sixth year.
 The weather throughout Spain is intensely hot, and many cases of sunstroke are re- ported.
 A timber raft with forty persons on board was dashed to pieces in the rapids of the river Dnieper, and all perished.
 Tom Taylor, a well-known English drama rist, and at one time editor of London Punch, died in London few days ago, aged sixty three years.
 The capture of Africa by the Chilians is cen sidered death blow to the hopes of Peru, but President Pierola still urges war to the bitter end, and is taking the most energetic measures.
 Great damage to the standing crops has been sustained in tho western counties of Ontario by the recent storms.
 Two thousand Turkish soldiers, whose time of service had expired, threw down their arms and demanded their pay, but were over- powered and confined to their barracks. This occurrence induced the sultan to dismiss Osman Pasha, minister of war
 The Russian wheat harvest is reported to be failure.
 Lima, the capital of Peru, is to be besieged by the Chilian army if the terms of peace pro- posed by Chili are not accepted. Bolivia, be- ing satisfied with the offers of peace made by Chili, has withdrawn from the contest as Peru's ally.
 Six actors were seriously injured by leaping from burning theater at Perpignan, France.
 A London dispatch says that at the annual dinner of the Golden club J. W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, related hitherto unpublished anecdote which excited great interest. He stated that on the termination oi the civil war in the United States Mir. Richard Golden wrote to him and urged forcibly that the Federal government should adopt magnanimous policy toward the Southern leaders. The letter was read at a meeting ot the American cabinet, and pro- duced so great an impression that it turned the scale in favor of clemency.
 The national holiday of France-the taking of the Bastile by the French revolutIonists in 1789-has been restored and was celebrated this year with a grand military review, illu- minations and fireworks. The streets and houses oi Paris were profusely decorated, and there was general rejoicing.
 A boy in Stephenson township, Ont, saw bear passing through a clearing on his tather's farm and fired at it with gun, wound ing it. He then started in pursuit of the bear with an empty gun, whereupon the bear turned upon him, and before assistance could arrive had killed him and torn his body almost to pieces.
 By an explosion in coal mine near New port, Wales, 1l9 men lost their lives. The force ot the explosion was terrific, blowing to atoms the ventilating ian in the upcast air blast. The scenes about the mine are re- ported to have been heartrending Shortly after the explosion there was large thtong of people present, composed in great part oi the relatives and friends of the imprisoned miners. Among them were many women who were bewailing the fate of husbands and sons, while little children were asking anxiously 1 concerning their fathers, their inquiries draw ing tears to the eyes of bluff miners whose faces looked as hard as zheir hands, but whose | hearts were melted by the pitiful scene before them. The disaster is attributed by mining experts to unskillful management. The coal field is supposed to have been sunk below the shaft, causing detective ventilation. similar accident, causing the death of l53 men, oc- cured in the same colliery ill December, 1869. The harvest in France has begun and promises to be satisfactory. The destruction by fire of twenty stores in the business part of Arnprior, Ontario, caused loss of $50,00o.
 Montenegrin advance post has been sur prised by the Turks and cut to pieces. Ten men out of sixteen were beheaded.
 Henry Rocheiort, the well-known French editor and agitator, has established new paper ill Paris, in opposition to M. Gambetta. On the first day nearly 100000 copies were sold.
 It is announced that Peru and Bolivia are about to enter into 0 confederation and be- come one country under the name of the United States of Peru and Bolivia. Great forest fires are raging in New Bruns- wick.
 | The British house of commons has sap- l proved of placing a memorial to Eugenie's son, the late French prince imperial in Vest minister abbey by a vote of l6l to l47