The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-08-24
Foreign News.

The Catholic bishop of Three Rivers, Can
ada, has issued a pastoral fobidding the
women of his diocese to wear bangs or
frizzes.
A FARMER has been shot dead at Crusheen,
county Glare, Ireland.
A NUMBER of persons have been sentenced
in Dublin to long terms of imprisonment for
assaults growing out of the land troubles.
DURING the trial of man who was brought
to Dublin under the coercion act on a charge
of murder the Dublin Freeman's Journal
published letter declaring that the Jury in
the case were permitted to wander about the
hotel in which they were lodged and to drink
to excess. The foreman of the jury denied
these charges and asked for the protection
of the court Thereupon Mr.. E. Dwyer GRAY.
proprietor of the Freenidn's Journal, who ia
also member of parliament and high sheriff
of Dublin, and was at one time lord mayor
of that city, was brought to court; his request
for time to prove the truth of the statements
contained in the letter was refused and he
was sentenced to three months imprison-
ment, to pay fine of $500 and at the expir-
alton of his sentence to find sureties for his
good behavior in the sum of $1,000. The af-
fair occ; s'oned considerable excitement.
Speeches expressing indignation at the sem
tence were made around the new statue of
O'Connell, and the mayor of Dublin, together
with Messrs. Parnell, Dillon and Davitt was
obliged to issue a proclamation requesting
the people to remain calm.
WHILE Father Chapelliere, missionary
priest, with four Indians, was returning from
fishing excursion from Lake Maskegs, in
Canada, their boat upset and all five were
drowned.
AN insurrection has broken ont in Corea,
and the king and queen of that country are
reported to have been assassinated. The
japanese legation was attacked by natives
belonging to the anti-foreign party. Japan
ese men of war have been dispatched to
Seoul river. Corea is kingdom of Eastern
Asia, the greater part of which occupies a
peninsula which stretches south from the
northern part of the Chinese empire. It's
area is about $4,000 square miles. The king
dom is divided into eight provinces. The
king, though nominally vassal of the
Chinese empire, at least until the recent
treaty with the United States by Commodore
Shufeldt modified this dependence, is absolute
within his own dominions, and is the subject
of almost divine honors, it being sacrilege
to touch his person. The most striking fact
in relation to Corea is the extraordinary ex-
clusiveness which it had maintained toward
all other countries until Commodore Shufeldt
last spring concluded the treaty with the
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opened to citizens of this country, general
friendship is declared between the two
nations, and citizens of each are entitled to
respect and protection in the other. 1t is
probable that the antipathy on the part of
Coreans to foreigners is the cause of the
revolution.
Born houses of the British parliament
have adjourned until October "a.
A MAN named Joyce and his entire family
were murdered in their own house, near
Congin, county Galway, Ireland. The fam
lily consisted of Joyce, his wife, mother and
daughter. They were fired at and killed by
party of men. Two boys also were
wounded. 1t is believed i'll the locality that
the Joyces gave information relative to the
mufuef OF lne DulllIIS OF LORD ArdllOun,
whose bodies were found bound together
in Lake Cong.
A LADoRER while working on board a
steamship at Liverpool that had arrived from
New York found five Colorado beetles. The
privy council ordered that they be killed and
sent to London.
The village of Lindeburden, West Prussia,
has been burned, and 200 persons have been
rendered homeless.
In a fight with the Apaches in the Sahua-
hupa district, Mexico, the Me1icans lost
forty-tive men and the Indians left thirty
eight dead on the field. Eighteen women
and twelve children were killed on the road
between Sahuahupa and the Trinidad mine.
THE steamer Hope, commanded by Sir
Allen Young, G. B., which left England in
June last in search of the crew of the Arctic
exploring steamer Ezra, commanded by
Leigh Smith, has arrived at Peterhead with
the entire crew of that vessel. The Hope
picked them up in Matotshkin straits, Nova
Zembla, on August 8, they having lost their
ship off Franz Josef Land, and journeyed in
boats to the straits through the ice.