Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1881-06-18

-Ihe divorce SUIT brought by Mrs.
Agnes Robertson Boucicault against her
husband, Dion Boucicault, was begun
before Judge Donohue by motion for
alimcny. Affidavits were offered by
each side.
AT the soldiers reunion at Hartford.
Conn.,, General Sherman replied mt length
tie charges made against him bv Jefferson
Davis in the Rise and Fall of the South
ern Confederacy," more particularly
those relating to the removal of non
combatants at Atlanta and to the burn
ing of Columbia.
FOREIGN NEWS,
Another Nihilist proclamation has
been issued from the office of the Nihilist
journal. IViU Of the People. headed
:" Trial and Torture" and declaring that
the assassins of the late Gar were tor
tured before their execution, Rousakoff
having informed the crowd to that effect
while on his way to the scaffold.
Special precautions have been taken
in London to protect the houses of Par
lament from outrages by "skirmish-
ers, and to prevent the introduction of
explosives in the coal bunkers of iron
clads. The two "skirmishers arrested
at Liverpool will be defended by Mr..
Commins, member for Roscommon.
The French General Detrie has de-
feated body of Algerian insurgents.
killing fifty of them. The French had
two men wounded.
"A hundred persons were killed and
sixty injured by the earthquake which
recently devastated a number of villages
IN the Pashalic of Van, Armenia.
An attempt was made in Liverpool
Sunday by some 300 men to release from
prison the two Irishmen who tried to
blow up the Town Hall on Friday last.
Fifteen members of an Italian ex-
plorjng party have been massacred in
the interior of Africa.
Mr.. J. r. Keene's bay colt Foxhall,
ridden by the jockey Fordham. won the
race for the Grand Prize of Paris. about
a mile and seven furlopgs, in 3. IL. beat
ing nine other starters.
Two men, recently from America.
named Roberts and McKevett were
arrested in Liverpool charged with at
tempting TO blow up the Town Hall.
They were disturbed by the police on
the steps of the building end fled, leav-
ing behind them a gas-pipe charged
with powder and gun-cottoa and 10
which a lighted fuse was attached. The
pipe was thrown into the street by the
police, where it exploded. The pris-
oners are also charged with having been
concerned in similar ATTEMPT to blow
up the Central Police Station in Liver
pool on May 16.
On Wednesday the cable steam
ship Faraday successfully landed the
European shore end of the new Ameli-
can cable at Whisesend Boy, near the
Lands End and will ri once pcoce ed 10
connect it with the Western shore end
laid from Canso Bay, n. S.
The Republic of Liberia hes elected
A. W. Gardner President for the third
term.
-Cablegrams from Ireland report
that large force of military was sent
from Cork to Skibhereen. The railroad
had been tempered with, but this was
discovered in time to prevent an acct
dent. The mob was 5 600 strong nj
Skibbereen. An attack was made ON
the branch of the Munster bank and the
military charged the rioters. There was
no loss OF life. The priests. fifty il
number, urged the people to dispense.
The general in command of the Cork
district has asked for more troops. 1t
is said thai the tenants on the large es-
tates in that cornty have combined to
strike against rents. There are rumors
of Fenian plot to blow up the Gov
eminent powder mills at Ballincollig.
four miles from Cork.