Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-12-02

Barraboo on Monday. They were steal
ing ride ON the front platform of a
mail car, and the train ran into a freight
train.
MIR. William A. Russell, a merchant
in Reisterstown, Nd, was shot dead by
one of two burglars who had broken
into his store.
Fire broke out in four-story build
ing used for manufacturing purposes at
Providence, r. T., causing a panic
among the operatives. Several young
women jumped from the fourth story
windows to the street. Two of them
were killed and others fatally injured.
-Four additional victims have been
added to the list of killed in consequence
of the fire in the factory building at
Providence, r. /. A coroner's jury has
been impanelled to investigate the cause
of the disaster.
Since the action of the people of
New York State on the question of free
canals the merchants of Montreal have
set themselves to the task of persuading
the Dominion government that free canals
in Canada are essential to the export
trade.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
Several drunken British soldiers
stationed ut Ramleh have beaten an
Arab 10 death
One of the jurors in the Hynes muir
der case was stabbed to death III Dublin
Monday. 4 hailifl who was serving writ
III Dublin WAS seriously stabbed.
A train on the North Scotland Rail
way fell through bridge Monday kill
ing fourteen persons.
A French steamer was sunk bv a
collision in the British Channel on Mon
dry, fourteen persons being drowned.
Seven men were killed by the fall 81
> railway bridge at Bromley, near Lon
don. They sat under the bridge eating
their dinner when the bridge fell.
Widespread distress is feared in Ire
land this winter, particularly in the
Western counties.
Turkey asserts her supremacy over
the shores of the Red Sea rs far rs the
Calf of Bassora.
"A Madrid newspaper contradicts the
report that Spain intends TO liberate the
Cuban refugees.
A detective named Cox was shot dead
in Dublin by a man suspected Of
Fenianism. There was an attempt to
rescue the murderer, and a lively eX-
change of shots for some seconds between
the police and the men engaged i'll the
encounter.
Irish police are still sanguine of ar
resting the murderers of Lord Frederick
Cavendish and Under Secretary Burke
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in the Dublin municipal elections, re-
placing five liberals.
Negotiations hetween the Malagassy
ENJOYS and the French government are
to be resumed.
The steamship Coptic sailed from
San Francisco for Hong Kong Thursday
with nearly five hundred Chinese passen-
gers. three hundred and scvcnty-tive Of
whom had secured return certificates.
The State Department is well salts
fed with the result Of Commodore Shu-
feldt's negotiations with Corea.
Raids on the Grow Indians by Pie
cams and Flatheads are complained of.
The Porte Will send troops to South
Arabia to prevent intrigue by the False
Prophet
Russian police have occupied the
University of st. Petersburg.
Russia and Germany seem anxious
TO display friendly feeling for each
other.
"A sea captain passed off the coast Of
Norfolk large raft to which three or fom
corpses were dashed.
Mr.. Gladstone denies that the Ar
rears of Rent act has proved IA failure.
He saws that the English Government
evil not extend the period for the pay
ment OF the rent of 1881.
Mr.. Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for
Ireland, said that the system of relief
would be conducted with great efficiency
until the distress i'll Ireland was ale
waited by the gathering OF the next
harvest
The inhabitants of Skye are making
preparations to resist the forcible collec-
ton of rents on the island.
The Khedive is prepared to refer to
Great Britain the question of proceeding
with Arab Pasha's trial.
1t is said that the British Govern
ment has appointed Baker Pasha's scheme
for an Egyptian gendarmerie.
"A French traveller has obtained from
local sovereign the possession of the
Bay of Tajoorah, on the African side OF
the Gulf of Alden.
A telegram from Liverpool states
that the steamer Winton, with grain
from the Black Sea, has foundered of
the Island of Ushant, coast of France.
Thirty persons were drowned.
William Brockshaw, who was
charged with sending a threatening let
ter to the Prince of Wales, was found
guilty and sentenced to ten years penal
servitude
Michael Casey and the four remain
ing prisoners in the Joyce trials in Ire
land pleaded guilty. They were sen
fenced to be hanged, but were recon-
mended to mercy.
Three hundred and seventy soldiers,
sailors and marines have been decorated
at Windsor by the Queen.
Old English Divorce Law.
\ man being convicted of bigamy be
fore Mr. Justice Maule, the following
| dialogue took place:
Clerk of Assizc-What have YOU to SAY
why Judgment should not he pasScC
upon You according to law?
Prisoner Well, my Lord, my wifi,
took up with a hawkcr and ran away five
Years ago, and | have never seen hcl
since, and | married this woman las
winter