The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1880-10-30

The speech of the King of Greece in OPEN
ing the chambers, is reported as declaration
OF war against Turkey. His holiness, it is
said, is owing to recent promise of aid from
Englar when the conflict begins
The English government, it is reported, has
completed prepaf atiOns tor its prosecution OF
thirteen leading members of the Irish land
league, among them Mr.. Parnell.
Great excitement prevails in Albania over
the death of tour native chiefs, who are sup
posed to have been poisoned.
The city OF Hamburg, through her represen-
tative, viii shortly ask to be put in state OF
siege on account OF the nihilists. Prussia will
make similar request to Altoona, Ottosen and
Wendsbeck.
The Mornons have thirty lone missionaries
in Great Britain, and are about to send twenty
more.
bill authorizing American troops to cross
the Mexican frontier in pursuit OF INDIAN de
predators has passed the Mexican senate after
eucountering bitter opposition il that body,
aud in the press OF the cap ital. Inc bill IS
based on the condition that Mexican troops
shall in like manner be permitted TO cross the
American frontier in similar circumstances.
a severe shock OF earthquake, accompanied
by storm, has been felt over different parts
of Europe. In an Italian province several
houses were swept away By inundations and
number OF lives lost.
A railroad train from Dortmund Westpha-
LA, to Berlin, was precipitated down an en-
bRnkulent. Two persons were KILLED and
twenty-six injured.
a whole block of buildings in Russell street,
Bermondsey, London, occupied by leather
| merchants, a miller, a wool merchant and
others, was burned. involving damage to mer-
chandise to the extent OF $3.50 900.
Cape Town (Scuth Atrica) dispatches give
hatx4 ri,
British troops and the insurgent Basutos:
The ambuscaded yeomanry were charged by
A large body OF BasuJos, who DESCRIBED the
hills at full speed. 4 hand-to-hand fight en-
sued. The Basutos were armed win asse-
gals, initiating the Zulus, and killed twenty
| Jour yeomen. Reintorcements arriving, the
| Basutos were reruls Ell with considerable loss.
The Basutos made a second charge at full
speed, which was entirely checked by the
well-directed fire of the Cape Town Rifles.
The enemy were estimated TO be eight thou
sand strong.
The insurgent Kurds have renewed their
depredations and several more Persian VIII
| lagos have been destroyed. More Persian
troops have been sent against them.
| A fire which originated in a Chinese shanty
| destroyed forty buildings in Quesnelle Forks,
| British Columbia.
Alta Land League meeting in Galway, Ire
| iAIty 1p,oOU p6leOlS ntAc ptCoV+S sStAO nSAC
addressed by Mr.. P.rnel and others.
William Dempsey, convict, committed
| suicide in the pen;tentarg in kingsto1, Ont,
| by piercing his heart with piece OF y ire from
| "A common corn broom.
A serious fire has occurred in the Central
telegraph Office at Manchester, England. Two
hundred wiies convergiDg there were melted,
! and the whole system OF telegraph wire ter
| minatin in Manchester was destroyed
no iDnn TOIipun Perm i
| reported to have been almost totally destroyed
| by fire.
| General Gaibaldi and his son have with
drawn their designations as members of the
Italian parliament.
! The editor OF the Berlin Borsen has been
| fined five hundred marks tor a libel on Prince
| Bismarck.
OF the IA, 500, 600 quintals of grain imported
into France during the first eight months Of
| the present year, niue million qulntaIs came
| from America.
| Fifty students who had left Muiaen. Hol-
| lard, in a yacht to witness the departure of
| the mail steamer from Amsterdam tor India
| ventured too near the steamer, when their
| yacht was bnffeted against its sides so VIC
| lently that twerty-six students were thrown
overheard and twelve drowned.
There is a strike Of the miners Throughout
! Belgium.
| various parts OF ireland. A portion OF the
railway between Dublin ana Wicklow has
| been washed away.
The efforts OF Rear Admiral Stevens, of the
| United States navy, to open up the trade OF
| the Corean Peninsula TO civilized nations has
resulted in failure and the enterprise has been
abandoned tor the present.
Thomas P. OConner a prominent lea Ter OF
the Irish land league, asserts that the arrest 0
4 L. IL
by bloodshed and anarchy in Ireland
A Berlin dispatch says that the health OF the
car of Russia is 20 precautions as to be a source
OF grave anxiety to those around him. The
stroke of paralysis which he recently expert
enced is said to have affected his brain. Hopes
OF his recovery, however, have not been aban-
doned. he dspatca further states that an
escort OF Russian officers has passed through
Berlin, having charge of 5000, 600 rubles, said
to belong to the cars private fortune and
designed tor Investment abroad. What this
may possibly mean is obvious