The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-27
FOREIGN NOTES.

-Parnell refuses TO go TO Dublin
to be present at the CONCLUSION of
the Irish state trials.
in the French Chamber of
Deputies Gambetta was reelected
president. receiving 2S2 out of $40
votes.
The Kurdish chief Sheik all Sa-
dyk has offered 10 furnish the Porte
with 5000 cavalry in the event of
war with Greece.
"A great battle has been fought
near Lima. The Peruvians were de-
feated and driven from their posi-
lions with heavy loss.
AT The Hague over six thousand
persons signed Prof. Harting's ad-
dress to the English people i'll regard
TO the independence of Transvaal.
The Porte has formally declined
the arbitration Of the Greek ques-
ton. France has not altogether
abandoned the scheme of arbitra-
ton.
1t is stated, At Dublin, that Rev.
Mr.. Condor of Lisburn has received
several cases of rifles and ammuni-
ton for distribution among Orange
men who drill nightly in Orange
Hall.
Bolton cotton masters, who own
nearly three-fourths of the spindles
of that place, will. close the mills if
the demand for an advance of wages
is not withdrawn before next week
The dispute affects $1,000 operatives.
In the House of Commons
O'Kelly asks the Queen to guarantc
the Irish people their constitutional
rights. A debate followed, at the
close of which O'Keily's amend
ment was rejected, "a to 173. and the
address was adopted.
The proposed meeting of work
men. in Berlin, to protest against
the anti-J ewish agitation was pro-
hibited by the police in virtue of a
provision of the anti-Socialist law.
The prohibition caused a considera-
BILE sensation in view of the fact that
the government has not interfered
with any anti-Semitic meetings.
The German government has
resolved to meet by a simple mega
alive WindehOrst's resolution in the
Lower House of the Prussian Diet,
that the administration of the sacra-
menL and celebration of mass are
not subject to the penal clauses of
the laws of 1873, 1874 and 1875. The |
ministry has already secured a ma
jority on this question.
In the House of Commons Sir |
Dixie, stated that the powers were |
still in active communication with a |
view to insure n pacific settlement |
of the Greek question. The prOpos- |
ed arbitration, he said, had been |
received from the Porte dated the |
18th inst. He could not vet state |
what steps the powers intended to
take.
"A London cablegram of the |
Goth says: "a dispatch from Lon
don says the great snow storm,
Kingdom under complete embar-
60, is general throughout Europe.
Communication between London,
Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam is
entirely stopped. The gale has
somewhat abated, but the force is
still great. Railway trains had to
be abandoned in snowdrifts where
only the funnel of the engine is visi-
BILE.
During the trial Of the travers-
ers at Dublin, A. Nj. Sullivan, NJ. p,
also of counsel for the defense, fol-
lowed on behalf of Hogan. He
drew picture of the harsh laws
passed since the union, and of the
sufferings of famine. Some of the
audience wept. He called upon the
jury to acquit the traversers, and
thereby condemn the sO-called Lib
eral ministers who had been bounded
on by the London press. Sullivan
to the jury not to incur
the obloquy that Gladstone had
asked them to at the time when he
was preparing measures of land re-
form to obtain for himself glory and
power. AT the close of the speech
the audience cheeIed loudly, and a
lady threw n boquet to Sullivan.
Counsel replying for the crown,
said the jury had to decide that So
cialism should not obtain a foothold
in Western Europe, and asserted
that traversers had preached sedi-
ton and murder. g..