Connecticut western news., 1881-08-24
FOREIGN.

CO1An40Ns
 The Irish agricultural laborers threaten a general strike for higher wages and for small buildings and graz ing privileges under the tenant.
 The Russian police do not deny that Hartmann is in the United States, but say that his story of the Moscow railroad explosion is grossly inaccurate. He and his associates did not dig mine from the cellar of their house under the track, but placed the dynamite in a broken culvert, and it was fired by a lever as the train passed over.
 The London Lancet says: :: "Presi- dent Garfeld's increased debility and persistent frequent pulse are elements ln the case of very grave import. Should it prove that gastric irritation has com pletely subsided and that the patient is able to take and digest suitable food. there will yet be room for hope of his recovery. On the other hand, if the improvement recorded on Wednesday is not maintained, there will be but small chance of combating successfully the extreme exhaustion"
 The Grown Prince of Germany is said to be taking an active part in putting down Jew batting in Pomerania. At Pultava, in Southern Russia, the anti Jewish disturbances have led to a col hsion between the mob and the troops.
 The wheat crop in England accord ing to that excellent authority, MT. James Caird, has been injured by rain and mildew. Owing to diminished cap ital, farmers have taken to lower scale of farming. Mir. Caird estimates that England will require 16,OOO,OOO quar- ters Q28,000,000 bushels) of foreign wheat. In France the wheat crop is scant. The live stock in Great Britain has decreased 12 per cent. within the last two years.
 The King of Bavaria has been be- trothed to the Archduchess Valerie ot Austria.
 The Grown Prince of Germany is said to be taking an active part in putting down Jew-baiting in Pomerania. At Pultava, in Southern Russia, the anti Jewish disturbances have led to col ision between the mob and the troops.
 The Emperors William and Francis Joseph will meet again at Gastein shortly. At Berlin it is feared that the triumph of Gambetta in the coming elections in France will lead to compli- cations between France and Germany.
 Serious rioting has occurred at Carrick- on Shannon, Ireland. The po- lice charged upon the mob, and several persons were seriously injured.
 Tt is rumored that many of the Rus sian nobility have recently joined the Socialists, and have furnished funds to kill the Czar and his brother Vladimir
 The association for the reform and codifcation of the law of nations is now n session at Cologne. Lord O'Hagan is honorary president. Several Ameri- can delegates will attend.
 -Advices have been received in Paris of the death of Admiral De Lanneau and eighty others by yellow fever at Sen egal.
 The latest advices from Marseilles are that IF persons were killed and 230 injured by the disaster at the bull-fght there on Sunday. The manager of the entertainment and the carpenter who constructed the seats which collapsed have been arrested.
 It is believed, says London dis patch, that the "suspects '" now lying in Kilmainham, Naas and other Irish jails will be released shortly after the propagation of Parliament, provided MT. Parnell and his associates have not renewed the agitation. The constabu- lary reports show that the country is quiet. The crops are abundant and the fisheries prolific.
 The Orangemen have organized a relief party of 45O laborers to gather the harvest and dig the root crops on the "boycotted estates. Trouble is feared, as the Land Leaguers in the West and South threaten to attack the expedition.
 The Arabs are still operating on the Gabes coast. A French camp was attacked the other night, and twenty soldiers were killed. A large body oi insurgents is within few miles of Sfax.
 A great Land League Convention will be held at Newcastle-on-T Tyne on August 29, at which Mir. Parnel will make a statement in regard to the future action of the Home Rule mem bers.
 Five rifles were deposited Saturday morning among cotton bales on the Nelson Dock at Liverpool. The man who brought them escaped, after 8 struggle with watchman. The affail has tended to revive the Fenian scare in Liverpool.
 The examination of the Russian Nihilist Grunberg, nobleman, recently arrested at Belgrade, has eicited noth. ing to prove his alleged design against the Czar. It has been ascertained, how ever, that he addressed threatening letter to the Emperor of Germany.