The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-07-02
Foreign News.

UNLESS previously disposed Of at private sale
the Great Eastern, the largest steamship in the
world, will be sold at public auction next
October.
Nh. PARSELL will come to America in August
to make q tour of the country for the purpose
of raising funds for the Irish land leagne.
Az important Nihilist, the daughter of a
Russian priest, has been arrested at Kieff. She
was participant in several attempts to a=sas-
sinate the late car.
THE pedestrian race in London between
Weston and Rowell for the Ashley belt proved
fizzle Weston was taken sick and retired
after he had made pol miles, Rowelps score be-
ing 278 miles
GREAT BRITAIS's population is shown by the
new census to be above 35, 600, 0O0-an increase
of 100000 in the last ten years.
PLAcARDs were posted at Marseilles declar-
ing that all works where Italians were employed
would be burned down. This threat has been
partly realized, as two oil mills and MANI
factory, where Italians only were employed,
have been almost totally destroyed b fire,
the loss being 81, 200, 900 There have been
numerous stabbing ARRAYS and quarrels be-
tween Frenchmen and Italians . various parts
Of France. Many Italians living in France
have fed the country. Throughout Italy the
feeling against France is also intense, and
there have been various anti-French demon
STATIONS in different Italian towns.
By an explosion il coIliery near Dortmund,
Prussia, seventeen persons were killed and five
injured.
A FRIGHTFUL railroad accident is reported
from Mexico. Heavy rains carried away a
bridge on the Morelos railroad near Cuatula,
| and train fell through the structure, killing
$50 persons, most of them soldiers, and iniuring
great many more
The death is announced in Paris Of the en-
inent French statesman Jules Armand Stanis-
las Defaure, life senator and member of the
| Academy, aged eighty-three.
THIRTY thousand nail makers in Stafford
shire, England, have struck for an increase Of
| wages.
| PARTICULARS received of the railroad disaster
on the Morelos railroad, in Mexico show that
| it was most appalling. The disaster occurred
at II O'Clock at night, as the train-which was
| long one and drawn by two engines-was
passing over the wooden bridge For moment
after the plunge of the cars from the bridge all
was darkness. Suddenly 100 barrels Of brandy,
| loaded on two Of the vans, caught fire, and the
burning fluid inundated the mass of passengers
struggling in the ruins. Only a few, who were
not disabled or hopelessly wedged in the tim.
/ bers, escaped. The dead and living were wrapt
| in sheet of fame and slowly burned before
the eyes of the survivors, who were unable to
save them. The latest accounts of the disaster
report that seventeen officers and 1877 privates
were killed This list does not include the
railroad officials AMI employees, or the women
and children of the soldiers, many of whom
were on the train. Only sixty persons in all
were saved alive, and forty of those were more
or less injured.
An international billiard match between
vignaux and GARNER, the French champions
and Slo.son and Plot, representing America
was played in Paris, the former winning By
tRentysnine NQiQIs.