The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-12
and VI. Leon Say AZ Ministers Of Foreign
Affairs and Finance respectively.
A Dienstrcua Fire.

A Disnstrcus Fire.
ST. JouS's, y. B., November IA ter
rible fire broke out in Woodstock at mid
night. II commenced in the Institute
building, and Is supposed to have been the
work Of an incendlary. A high wind pre-
vailed at the time, and all efforts 10 stop the
progress Of the hamos were unayailing.
The Western Union Offices on the station
n the New Brunswick and Canada railroad
and The regular Office are destroyed, and IL
i impossible 10 get full particulars. At .
a. n. the operator in the general Office
said: "The upper half of the town Is gone
and part of the lower. The flames are all
around ne, and il is getting too hot to stay
longer"
Or. Smiths residence Il gone. the Free
Baptist church has been burned, and the
Registry Office Is in flames, aud efforts are
being made TO ave the new hotel, but il Is
now in great danger. II the hotel goes il
WIN lie difficult 20 save the town. These
are the last particulars that have reached
Sc. John. II IS feared there has been loss
Of life. Woodstock is on the Il. John
river, and r. the shirctOwn Of Carleton
county. II contained over one hundred
stores. had large number o. hotels, seve-
Idi lNWNlllfN Nilu AatAnlAtNF anu HNEN-s
ton Of f0uY,Or five thousand.
Bismsrck's RcsisnRtion, DC.
COLOGNE, November 1.-THE Gazette
SAYS: "sh0uld Prince Bismarck resign the
chanceilorship, we hope the Empcror's an
swer will he now - previously. Never
a. Far a. the guidance Of Germany foreign
relations are concerned; but with regard
10 her domestic and social policy, may IL,
in Gods name, be entrusted to some less
hasty and more skilful hand"
Lord P0uOrlingtOn writes to the Times
pointing out that on old hereditary estates
rents have not been raised for many years,
and II .ub-commissi0nersr reduce these rents
anything like - per cent. q cry OF c0nilsce-
ton will be rightly raised, and Mr.. Glad
stones declaration in the House OF Com
mons relative to compensation will come to
the front with irresistible force.
From China.
SAN Francisco. November 1.-THE
steamer City OF Pekin from Hong hong
has arrived here, and brings the following
intelligence:
Hong Kong. October IA women's
hospital was opened 20 Tien Tsin on the
Sth instant I'm the presence OF II Hung
Chang and other Chinese officials OF
high rank. Mr.. Angel, United States
Minister to Pckin, who Is about
70 return home ria Europe. deliy-
cred an address. Miss D.. r. Howard,
IN American missionary lady, who was
successful in the case OF Lady Ii, wife
% the Viceroy. when her life was de-
SPARED Of by al Of her Chinese medical
attendants, last year, is in charge Of the
bcsuital lust established I'm Ticn Tsin.
Another hospital erected in Pekin is solely
due 20 the work q Miss Howard.
The question u the right Of foreigners
70 trade I'm Pekin has been revived on ac-
count Of q Danish trader being unrepre-
scented. Denmark having had no minister
NJ Pekin for many months. The foreigners
in Shanghai and Tien Tsin claim that this
treaty ought % Dee abolished, and Pckin be
opcned. with other treaty ports, to Eu-
ropean and American trade.