The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-05-27
ing the servant girl. A general effort is
being made to catch the tends.
FOREIGN.

being made to catch the TENDS.
FOREIGN.
The pope has recently undergone sue
cessive painful operations.
Tue Emperor of Russia will visit the
Emperor William this summer.
THE cos: of the Afghan war now is
confessed to be upward of $4,000, 900,
and probably will be more.
THE Catholic bishop of Ossory, Ire
l land, in pastoral, condemns the land
league.
EMrERoR WILHELM has given his as
sent to the draft of measure modifying
the Falk laws.
WILLIAM LANG, Jr., & Co., lead manu-
facturers, of Glasgow, have failed, with
liabilities estimated at SAC, 900
THE commission on the question of
restoring the palace of the Tuileries, has
decided to restore and convert it into 8
museum.
A BERLIN dispatch says: Rumors are
in circulation that Russia intends to ar
range q fresh loan with the Roths.
childs.
AN order has been published tempo
rarily increasing the police force of st.
Petersburg by two hundred and fifty in.
spectors.
GEN. TODELBEN has been summoned
to st. Petersburg from Odessa. 1t is un.
derstood he will be appointed Cover.
nor General of Warsaw.
ABo1LERe explosion at, Birchillshall iron
works killed fifteen persons. Twenty five
persons have been taken to the hospital,
some in a dying condition.
IT is proposed to liberate 200 political
prisoners in St, Petersburg and 1000
throughout the empire, and to relieve
1000 from surveillance.
THE Irish solicitor general has been
reelected at Mallow, receiving 2O1 votes
against So for Kelley, Parnellite. Mr..
Parnell is furious over the defeat Of his
candidate.
MR.. BoURKE, uome- Ruler, attem pied
to address the county Mayo electors at
Ballina, and was very roughly handled,
and compelled to retire, notwithstandin
the efforts of the priests to allow him
to be heard.
THE Cunard steamer Tarifa has ar
rived at Liverpool, and reports having
passed on the way three large icebergs,
one of which was eighty feet high ~
400 feet long.
IA BERLIN correspondent says: ut is
reported here that the English cabinet is
endeavoring to effect European confer
ence to dispose of the points of the
Berlin treaty remaining in suspense.
THE position of affairs between Bis
marck and:the Reichstag is considered
| Hvo 1o,k SntV e<yoxr
duced an unmistakable tension, which
has not thus far abated
GEoBGE CLARK & Co., tea merchants,
have failed. Liabilities estimated at
from 100000 to 100000. The losses are
ascribed to speculation in tea.
A BERLIN dispatch says; "When all
new formations, planned and marked
out in their minutest details by the Ger
man war ministry, are completed, the
total strength of the army will exceed
100000, men,"
A PARIS correspondent telegraphs,
SERIOUS rioting in connection with the
strike occurred yesterday at Loubaix,
during which the soldiery charged the
mob. Further serious disturbances are
apprehended."
THE bundesrath will prolong its sit
ting some weeks longer. 1t will not be
prorogued until October, when Few
business regulations will come in force,
and the council will be composed quite
differently, as all leading German minis
ters will participate in the discussions.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch says
trustworthy news has been received from
Scutari that the whole of Northern Al
bania is in arms. The authorities seem TO
have lost all power. Scutari has already
sent 200 men to the insurgents, and the
entire population capable Of bearing arms
is ready to turn out in.case of need.
FAMINE in the Province of Azerbaiian
is increasing. The crop prospects are
bad. There have been 800 deaths from
starvation since January in the district
of Urumiyah. Twelve hundred chris
tians have left the country. Wheat costs
sixty pound sterling per ton in the fam.
inc stricken districts.
CONsTANT1NoPLE, advices state that
alarm has been produced in the British
community by attack on an Englisbman
named Burness and two ladies walking
in the surburbs, by three Mussulman
robbers, armed with knives. Burness
was severely wounded, and lies in pre-
carious condition. Two of his assailants
have been arrested, and will be court
| nartialed.
j. A PARIS correspondent says: premier
Gladstone prefers not TO open negotia-
tions for new commercial treaty until
the new tariff law has been passed by
the French Senate, in order to have q
sure basis for discussion. If Gladstone
persists in this attitude, it is feared, Leon
Saye may resign the French Ambassa.
dorship to England, which he cnly &C
cepted for short time, and solely for
the purpose for this negotiation.
The outlook in the cotton-spinning
district in England. is very gloomy. AT
Blackburn it is expected that all the
weavers will turn out tomorrow. Many
of them are on strike to-day. At Old
ham the prospect is extremely depress-
ing. The master spinners announce
their determination to close the mills for
a week, unless the men withdraw their
demand for an advance of per cent. in
their wages. A season of anxiety, dis
tress, and turmoil is feared.
The commission of the house of com.
mons to which was referred the case of
Charles Bradlaugh voted on the question
of his admission to his seat upon his
making an affirmation instead of taking
the customary oath. The committee was
equally divided on the question, and the
ch airman gave the casting vote against
dispensing with the oath. 1t is now be-
lieved in some quarters that Mr.. Brad
laugh will take the oath, but his more in
innate friends say he will not, and that
he can not without convicting himself of
: gross Inconsistency and Hypocrisy.
vienna cOrreanOndent of the Times
reports that affairs in Albania are not so
bad as special dispatches make out, but
there is sufficient cause for uneasiness to
raise doubt whether the question can
be settled without an armed conflict.
: Five or six thousand Albanians are as
sembled at Tusi, few miles from Pod
goritza. The Montenegrins ore concen-
, Turkish force in the province is only
: about 5000. Even if the porte is willing
! to execute the convention, it has not the