The Newtown bee., 1880-01-21
Foreiun News

The health of the Queen or Spain has re-
 ceived severe shock through the attempted
 assassination of King Alfonso. The newly
 made royal bride has been attacked with
 epileptic fits, to which she was not pre-
 viously subject.
 Forty thousand dollars have been sub
 scribed in France for the purpose of raising
 memorial to Eugenies son, the late prince
 imperial.
 A conference of farmers clubs has been
 held at Mallow, Ireland, to consider the land
 question. Several members of parliament
 were present, among them Mir. William Shaw,
 home e-rule member of the house of commons
 for Cork, who said that the question involved
 was whether a million people, who might live comfortably in Ireland, were to be driven to
 the poorhouse swept away to America. Gonzales, the would be regicide, has written to King Alfonso, of Spain, asking to be par doned. -~ Twenty villages n Austria have been inun dated by rise in the waters of the r1ver Vistula.
 A Pesth dispatch reports that duel has been fought by Baron Maythenyi and Herr Vernovay, a member of the Hungarian par
 liament and editor of a Hungarian political paper, in which the latter was mortally wounded by pistol ball.
 John Humphreys Parry, of London, an | eminent sergeant-at-law, is dead at the age of | sixty.fve. The death ot Mrs. Parry, from | grief at the loss ot her husband, is also 1 announced.
 | The celebrated Krupp works at Essen, l Germany, are crowded with orders from l Europe and America for implements of peace as well as war.
 Advices from Ireland state that the distress
 iii that country is increasing Five hundred
 inhabitants of the Skulebog district, County 1 Limerick, who were on the brink of starva l ton proceeded in body to the town of Groom
 and obtained four cart loads of bread by the l urgent representation of their extremity. In l Cork large bodies ot men paraded the streets
 irving black flags and loaves of bread stuck l on poles. The provision shops and bakeries were closed, and the streets were patrolled by l mounted police in expectancy of serious i trouble.
 l A process server, accompanied by strong force Of constabulary, attempted to serve mo- l tices to quit on tenants in County Mayo, Ire- 1 land, when the police were attacked by the enraged people. So fierce was the onslaught | that the police were almost overpowered and 1 were compelled to use sword and bayonet lib- 1 orally. The women fought before the men, i and many of them were severely wounded. l The sight of the blood of the poor desperate
 women maddened the hearts of the men, and
 1t was with difficulty that terrible loss of life l was avoided.
 News has been received of terrible floods in l the island of St. Kits, by which 200 lives
 were lost, property amounting to S250, ,0J0 l destroyed and the whole island devastated. The floods originated in the ain streams, i which rapidly became torrents, rolling down 1 upon the arabic plain with overwhelming | power. The inhabitants were at once alive l to their danger, and there was a general l stampede toward the coast. The confusion l was terrible. Blacks and whites, natives and 1 English, all made for the nearest point oi l safety. The torrent rolled on into Basseterre, | the principal town, among the newly built l houses and pubic edifices, carrying with it 1 roots timbers and branches of trees Land l slips added to the terror of the scene. Sugar l cane was leveled to the ground or torn up in 1 masses, deep gulleys were washed in the
 roads, sugar-houses and dwelling places were | borne bodily away, and the waters rushed
 headlong to the sea with their freight of 1 drowned cattle and struggling human beings. l The island ot St. Christopher or St. Kits, is | one ot the British West Indies group, and 1 contains about %, ,000 inhabitants. The ex-Empress Eugenie will embark for l Sonth Africa March 26, and expects to | reach the scene of her sons death on the | anniversary of that event-June 1. 1 The fund instituted by the Duchess ot Marlborough, tor the relief of ,disu ess in Ire 1 land, amounts to about $l00, ,000. | NJ. Gambetta has been reelected president | of the French chamber of deputies by a vote 1 of 259 out ot 30S votes recorded. | Frederick, Duke of Schlesw,g Holstein, is 1 dead in his fiity- first year.