Jamestown alert., 1881-11-11
FOREIGN FLASHES.

A Berlin correspondent says the editor Of the
Berresen Courier has been sentenced to eight
cen months imprisonment for imputing un.
worthy motives and actions to the minister OF
works, and insinuating that Bismarck as a
private owner Of Varzine used his public posi-
tion to circumvent and crush litigent peas
ant proprietor. What gives special interest to
the case and has caused no little sensation is
tice, decreed the immediate arrest of the &C.
cused on the ground that there was strong sus-
picion that he meditated fight. .--jsj
Henry George telegraphs tho Irish World:
Helen Taylor, daughter Of the late John Stuart
Mili, addressed tho ladies' land league in Dub.
lin. She said: "Never did Austria commit in
any Of her provinces in Italy any atrocities to
be compared with these now perpetrated in
Ireland under Gladstone's administration.
have travelled much, but only one country have
I seen where things happening in Ireland
would be possible. That country is ruled by
must soon awake to the sight of the crimes per-
petrated in their time.
Herald's Dublin special: Mr.. Sexton, imme-
diate]y after his release, retired to rest at
once, and was examined by medical man
Tho had been called few minutes after Mr.
Sexton reached homo. The physician stated
that his patient ia in very bad condition, and
very much woreo than before his incarceration
Mr. Sexton is suffering from complication
Of diseases. He has been ordered abroad when
he can be removed.
A sensation was created at Montreal on it be-
coming known that J. D. Carmichael, cashier
in the United States and Canada Express COM
pany's office, had become defaulter and alb:
seconded. The amount of the embezzlement is
stated to be over $4,000. Ho is believed to
have escaped into tho states. A young lady he
has been keeping company with has also disap-
peared.
Details Of the terrific temp est at Manzanilla
confirm the first reports of the loss Of life and
property The incoming Pacific mail steamer
is over due, and much anxiety is felt for her
safety.
Truth says that the late Baron JOS. Roths-
child incurred losses on the Bourea IN Octobe.
amounting to $4,000, 900 francs, ans, his:anx-
iety caused the bursting Of au anuerism.
Ex President Diaz, Of Ne xico, a gay youth
of past fifty, will soon wed the eighteen year
old daughter of Ramero Rubios 1tis political
not love match
Exports q Grain Falling on.
The exports Of wheat from the Att. lntic ports
from January !, 1881, steadily incre. 'sed, as
compared with 1880, until about the mid die
of July, when decline began, and since til at
date our foreign wheat shipments have fallen
of 81, zoe, 900 bushels, compared with the cor
responding time last year: Comparing tho ex-
ot lS, 100000 bushels of wheat and II, ,OUO,-
900 bushels Of corn, or a total Of the two COM
bined of 35, 200, 900 bushels Thus the fall
ing eff at New York i, greater than the total
shipments from Baltimore by aboutG ,OOO, 600
bushels. AT Baltimore the decrease has been
10000, 900 bushels of wheat and 1900, 900
bushels Of corn. Philadelphia has lost
| 1900, 600 bushels Of wheat and 10, 400, 900
| bushels corn. At Boston the decrease has been
200, 900 bushels wheat and 2, 500, 900 bus hels
corn New Orleans has lost l, $1,000 bushels
| wheat and 1,4OO,OOO bushels corn, while
Montreal shows q decrease of GOO. 600
bushels wheat and 3,3OO,OOO bushels corn.
The aggregate exports Of wheat and corn this
year from all the Atlantic ports have been
\ 49,, 900, 900 bushels, while for the same time
last year the amount was 2OS, 100000
| bushels.