Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-09-20
Notes. on Cur-en. Events.

According to one account, the
British victors at Tel-ei-kebir were so
indignant at their enemies for resist
ing that some of them could with diff
fcultv be restrained from giving no
ouarter. This may help to explain
! the remarkable lumber of the dead in
prop )rtion to the wauad4d said -
have been fouHd on the field at the
I c.cse OF the engagement.
The unsatisfactory trial Of the Star
Route postal conspirators, which ended
last week, consumed three months,
and cost the government more than a
hundred thousand dollars, 1t is re-
ported by certain of the jurors that
emissaries Of the defense tried To brihe
them, aud the public Will be glad to
learn that Attorney General Brewster
has ordered the immediate retrial of
Brady, the two Dorseys and Naile.
As long as people continue to eat
mushrooms, and mistake the deadly
toadstool for them, sad occurrences like
the following will be recorded: Mrs.
Stephen Richev, a widow residing on
REYNOLDS Avenue, one day last week
went to the hill side and gathered a
basket of mushrooms, took them home,
prepared them for supper, and she
and son of six years of age ate of them.
Some hours after eating, both were
taLea sick, but thought nothing of it
until the symptoms became alarming,
when DIR. c.. j. Jessop was called Ia,
who found that they had eaten
some toadstools and were thereby
poisoned The doctor did everything
that was possible, but could not save
the boy, who died Sunday. Mrs.
Richey, at time of writing. is in very
critical condition.-Kltt0nalng Press.
The NeU York Tribune lately con-
tanned an exhaustive article on the
wheat crop of this year, and what is
likely to be done with the surplus.
Nobody estimates the crop at less than
500, 100000 bushels, and it may reach
600,000,000 The home consumption
cannot exceed 100000 900 bushels if
past years may be taken as any guide,
and thus nearly half of the crop will
be available for export. But the crop
in Europe is measureably sure to be up
to the average 1t is estimated that
England will have to import this year
about los, 600, 600 bushels, France not
more than 100000, Switzerland
about 100000, and the rest of
Europe little or nothing Admitting
that all the grain imported by these
countries will be taken from the
United States, which is far from
probable, at least half our surplus will |
have no market. The Tribune con-
cludes, therefore, that a considerable !
surplus of American wheat will have |
to be carried over to another year if |
the smallest estimates are correct /;
but if the larger estimates prove cor
rect, there will be too large a surplus
to be carried over and prices must
decline heavily.
When the Corean massacre took
place, and japanese fed for their
lives from the Hermit Kingdom,
there was shrewd suspicion that the
mob was not driven to its atrocities
solely by its hatred of Foreigners.
China was supposed to be seeking in
Corea the influence which Japan
thought it had acquired by treaties
and Russia by force of arms. To-day
we learn that the king whom the peo-
pie deposed and whose queen they
killed has been reinstated by Chinese
troops. We learn, too, that China has
instructed one of her provincial
governors to assist the Annamese, if
the French make any effort to profit by
their recent capture of Hanoi and to
push their conquests further on the
southern frontier of the Empire.
These warlike movements are hardly
in keeping with the meek attitude as
sumed by China in her recent quarrel
with Russia At the same time they
may show that she is looking for a
foe whom she fears less than her great
neighbor in the North.