The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-05-17
FOREIGN NEWS GOSSIP.

VA AAASA0oA AesoS. III I0u1OuJ 0l6 brewer,
has given the town of Derby, Eng, a fine
park, public baths and free library. al a
cost to himself of about $3.50. 600. 70 the
town OF Burton he gave two churches with
parsonages. schools and endowments val.
ued at over $3.50, 900, and an institute and
club house worth $500, 600. To Rangamore
he has given church and auxiliary insti-
tutions costing SIS, 200, and MANY other
places have received rich gifts from his
bounty.
London Cable.-Lord Randolph Church.
Ill is preparing bill to disqualify atheist
from sitting in Parliament. Herbert Spencer
Profs. Huxley and Tyndal, John Morley,
and about 200 of the leading literary and
scientific men of England. have signed q
memor1ei, protesting against the contin-
uance OF the imprisonment of Mr. Foote the
editor of the Free Thinker for blasphemv.
and asking for his release.
Lord Carlipgford, minister of agriculture
refused the request of cattle growers to seek
the enactment OF laws to prohibit the i'm
portation Of American cattle. He promised.
however, that the present powers Of govern
ment to prohibit the entrance of Injected
animals should be strongly enforced One
OF the objects of the deputation was to Oh
tam fresh restrictions on the American cat.
tie trade. " ~'''' Wv
London cable: Mr.. Gladstone is already
talking about dissolving the government
and appealing to TIE country. There seems
to be hardly any reason to doubt that the
premier will carry out the threat he now
makes, and if he does, England will be the
scene OF . political contest, compared with
tame.
Canada's grain export for 1882 fell of
nearly 1900, 900 bushels compared with the
previous year, and upwards of 1000, 600
compared with 1880. The duty collected On
gram and Hour imported last year shows q
ofgrain entered for consumption in the Do.
m1nion increased by 10000 bushels.
In the Bow street, London police cour,
recently, all the dynamite conspiracy pris.
oners. except O'Conner alias Dalton, whom
the authorities are unable to convict with
the Others, were committed for trial on a
charge of treason and felony. O'Conner wa,
discharged.
At Hamilton, Can, the premises of Len
nox, stoves; Mcmillan dry goods; Douglass,
boots; Bailey, saddlery: Bristow. tinware:
ness, were burned. The loss is heavy. s.
Il. Lennox was burned to death.
A large meeting of Bradlaugh's const,tu-
ents have been held at Northampton, at
which resolutions were passed in favor OF
bradlasgh's retaining his seat in the COM
mons.
The supplementary estimates of the Ca.
madam government for 1883 amount to g..
3OO, 873, making total estimated expendi.
ture for the year of $31, 374, $50.
Twenty-Five years ago there were nearly
fifty cotton uills in Glasgow, Scotland,
To-day there are barely a dozen, and those
likely to be closed.
The Berlin correspondents of the London
Times say the government and reicbstae
seem to be rapidly drifting into conflict.
The international fish exhibition in Lon
don was opened on Saturday by the Prince
OF Wales, with Imposing ceremonies.
Louis Blanc's will, just proved in Lon.
don, puts his personal estates in England al
So 1000.