The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-28
ABROAD.

ABROAD.
DURING storm on the northeast coast
of Scotland, on the 10th, three vessels were
driven ashore, and the crews of all were
drowned
Ar Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland,
on the 25th, forty farmers were arrested
for taking part in calling meeting.
FIFTEEN women, injured by the explo-
sion of the cartridge factory at Mt Valer-
ian, France; on the 18th, have died.
A BAND of forty brigands made sud
der, ,attscls npen the aap4of Ahuaeatian.-'
Pueblo. on the 10Th, and by the display of
firearms overawed the inhabitants, who
fed terror-stricken to their homes The
brigands seized and bound the Mayor, JUS
tice and Aldermen, and carried them away
captives, intending to .hold them for
large ransom.
DAv1rT, speaking at Stalybridge, on the
Goth, said the land question had assumed
| feverish phase. The English mind had
become excited in consequence of renewed
outrages and murders. Crime, he said,
should be- swept away, whoever was re-
sponsible for it To it was due the death
of the Land League.
| AT Pembroke, Ont, on the Goth, the
Copeland Hotel and adjoining block was
destroyed by fire. Guests at the hotel es-
capped with much difficulty, and some mar
row escapes are reported The total loss is
estimated at s1O0 900, divided among J.
Copeland, T. & W. Murray, Edward Be-
han, V. Charron, R. B. Gray, E. Martin &
Co., and Frank Thompson. Three lives
were lost-two French boys, servants at
| 4ba 1a}o1. opd Jonos aoeut for
J. r. Booth, of Ottawa
| CHAMBERLAIN, President of the London
Board of Trade, speaking at a meeting of
the National Federation on the Goth, ener-
eetically condemned the doctrines of mon
! Intervention, and peace at any price," as
ignoble and unworthy of great nation.
England. he said, had great legitimate in
terests in Egypt, which should be guarded
by the establishment of stable institutions,
leading toward self-government; but pro-
tectorate or annexation would be disas-
| trous.
AMERICAN MINISTER HUNT, at st. Peters
burg, telegraphed on the 21st that the Rus
sian Minister of Foreign Affairs thinks the
removal of the bodies of DeLong and men
is impractical at this time.
NOTWITHSTANDING the reported denial Of
the Sultan to a political parsonage that he
was in daily fear of assassination, recent
movements in the interior of his Palace Of
Yieldez show that he is taking most ex
traordinary precautions for his personal
safety. More than hundred Circassiar
ladies of the imperial harem, suspected oi
being accomplices of their kinsmen of the
bodyguard which was recently disbanded
have been exiled to different parts of the
empire. The Circassian element is JUS
now an object of considerable distrust a
Yieldez The life led by the Sultan is sale
to be most terrible. Yieldez itself is sale
to resemble fortress rather than palace
His Majesty carries a loaded revolver con
stantly with him, and he scarcely leaves
the shelter of his harem, and partakes o
little nourishment for fear of poison bein,
mixed with his. food. With the Sultan il
this state, it is not to be wondered at tina
the people are discouraged, and discon
tented, and reform in any shape is de
SPARED of.
A PoRr TOWNSEND dispatch of the 21s
says: sFor long time an organized sys
tenn of smuggling has been carried on b!
sloops and boats between Victoria, B. G.
and variouH points along Puget Sound
which the Custom-house officials have beel
unable to detect. Last night, however,
sloop was seized at Laconner, w. t., OIL
board of which was found large quantft.
of Chinese wine. The owner of the vesse
was arrested, and the sloop brought her
by a revenue cutter"