The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1882-10-25
Foreign News.

AN Irishman named McHugh died the
other day in Quebec aged 107 years.
ScoTLAND's fruit crop this year has been q
complete failure. 1t is the worst season in
fifty years.
The steamer Durham, which sailed from
England for the Cape of Good Hope q few
days since, had on board Professor Newcomb
and his party, sent by the United States
government to observe the transit of Venus.
A TRAIN conveying Chillian soldiers from
Pisco to leo, Peru, was partly blown from
the line by torpodoes laid by the Montoneros,
and some seven or eight soldiers were killed.
The Italian consul, Signor Picasco, was in
the train, and miraculously escaped injury,
but was captured by the Montoneros, who
asked $1OO,O 900 for his release.
A DISPATCH from Manila, Philippine
Islands, says that the fatal cases of cholera
in the town now average from thirty to forty
daily, and tho deaths from the disease in the
vicinity of the own average twelve daily.
SEVERAL slight earthquake shocks have
been felt in Panama.
SINCE January /, this year, the Cuban
board of freedmen have declared free
10000 slaves in accordance with the enamel
patton law.
The cost to England of the Egyptian war
is placed at e1O, 900, 900 to e2O, 100000, and it
wiz be raised by an income tax.
At q great fire in a hardware factory in
Paris the chief of the Partisan fire brigade
was killed and several men wcre injured.
Ar a conference of delegates representing
$4,000 English %colliers it was resolved that
notices to employers for an advance of fifteen
per cent. be given.
BISHOP WALSH, who has just returned to
London from a visit to Ireland, in st. Peters
cathedral referred to the Irish question. He
condemned in scathing terms the agrarian
crimes, but quoted statistics to show that
there was less crime in Ireland, proportion
ately, than in England, Scotland and Walos.
While opposing the d~isintegration of the en-
pire, the bishop favored home rule for Ire
land similar to that enjoyed by Canada.
DURING a dense fog the steamer
Herder, from New York for Ham,
burg, ran upon tho rocks q few miles
from Cape Race, N. f., early in the morn
ing and was completely wrecked. All the
passengers and crow were safely landed in
the vessels boats. Tho number of per-
sons on board was 235. The Herder was val
ued at 100000. and her cargo at $lS5,O0o.
IT is reported that England is trying to OBJ
tain q controlling interest in the Suez canal
so rs to ouat NJ. dc Lesseps.
ANOTHER comet has been discovered at
Athens, Greece. 1t is believed to be n frag-
ment of the great comet recently discovered
in America.
AN Indian from tho San Bias district in
Panama, on tho Atlantic, brings in a report
that on the day on which the earthquakes
occurred there were four tidal waves,
which overwhelmed and destroyed or badly
damaged six or seven little villages on tho
islands and mainland, and drowned about
seventy persons.
Four natives were executed at Daman-
hour, Egypt, for murder.
OWING to the alarming increase OF pauper-
ism in tho south of Ireland the Dublin Union
has taken the lead in a proposal to send
1000 ~able-bodied men and women to Canada
at a cost of about $4,000.
TIE coal mine owners of North Stafford
shire, England, have acceded to the appllca-
ton of the miners for an advance of ten per
cent. in wages. Twenty thousand men are
affected by this decision.
TIE indictment against Arab Pasha and
The other Egyptian rebel chiefs contains
three counts: First, instigating massacres;
second, directing the burning of Alexandria,
and, third, abusing the flag of truce.
EIGHT of Arab Pasha's companions are to
be arraigned with him for trial at Cairo.
INGEsTaE HALL, tho seat of the Earl of
Shrewsbury, situated near Stafford, England,
has been destroyed by fire. The loss is
estimated ut s. ,5OO,OOO.
ARAB PAslIA ably defended himself during
his examination at Carlo. He denied conf
plicity in the massacres and in tho burning
of Alexandria, and boldly indicated his
conduct as leader of the National party.
lie said that when no reached Cairo, after
his defeat at Tel-cl-Kcbir, and found tho
inhabitants unwilling to continue the
struggle, he Immediately bowed TO their will
and surrendered.
Two crernations-thc first which havo &C.
Cured in England-took place a few days
400. The bodies were those of Lady Han
ham and Mrs. IIanham, who died in Dorset
shire in 1877 and 1876 respectively, and had
EXPRESSED a wish to be cremated.