Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1883-11-08


AK EXCITING MoNTH.-Allaf lha
explosion Of the ether evening The
people Of London and The British al.
ihoFities may be expected to be kept
in state Of alarm Cor some time.
There will he an abunAanco 81 mys.
ferrous letters and anonymous warn.
ings. Some Of these win Be sent Qua
Iualiciously and some By iokern.--
There is a class with whom the mot
TO is. anything To worry the police,
and those gentry for weeks win have
their hands full. The royal and gov.
ernmental personages will travel II
fear and trembling. and the moders
railway, which, with its speed and
luxurious appointments, has been pro-
nounced by an esaayist Of DR. john
ston's school the perfect realization Of
an Eastern fable. will not appear 30
attractive by a good deal. Friday
the Duke ard Duchess Of ConnanQht
made q trip By rail under very ner-
vous circumstances. An anonymous
communication to the authorities had
announced it as the intention Of the
Of the dynamiters TO blow the royal
couple up. Nothing Of the kind fol-
lowed. perhaps owing TO the precau-
tions that were taken. But it does
seem strange that if any individual,
or band Of individuals. had the pur-
pose Of attempting an assassination Of
this sort, he or they should send those
interested a notification in advance.
The attention Is certainly most
thoughtful and polite. and the con-
spirators must be credited with q
most Chesterfeldian regard for good
manners; but it il something very
unusual in the history Of such blood
thirsty doings. The plotters evil
IDENTIFY do not wish to take an unfair
advantage; but if they must kill will
at least do it in the genteeleA man
ner possible.
Apropos Of the London panic, the
month Of October just closed has been
remarkable for explosions, subter-
ranean disturbances aad accidents CT
various kinds. including earthquakes.
On the same day the powder works at
Pinole, California. blew up and forty
Cinnamon lost their lives. On the
2nd the cage in coal pit at Leigh,
England, fell and six miners were Ia
ken out dead. On the 18th the roof
fell in at the White Oak mines, Penn
Fylvania, and two men were crushed
u death. On the 18th there were
Ell thquakes at Agram and Azoria,
and on the l4th tremendous shocks at
Chios, Syria, Smyrna and Avail and
the loss Of life was estimated as high
as a thousand. On the 18th a num-
Der Of workmen persisted by the flood
ing of the London tunnel, England.
On the Doth there were seven
shocks Of earthquake at Gibraltar and
Bermuda. On the 2lst there were
explosions at the Carlton Mine and
the Lady Pitt mine, in England,
widely apart. Six men were killed.
On the 23d there was another earth
quake at Chios, aud on the same day
the squid factory at Kensington,
Pennsylvania, blew up and eight
children lost their lives. On the oath
there was a mysterious explosion in
the Royal Palace at Naples, by which
many people were hurt. On the 25th
there were terrestrial disturbances at
Agram and throughout Western Croa =
tia, and on the 26th some two hun
dref and fifty were killed and wound
ed by similar CONFUSION at Smyrna.
On the same day a tremendous ex-
plosion Of dynamite took place at the
Brook Tunnel on the Pittsburg and
Connellsville railroad, by which FIVE
laborers were blown to atoms. On
the Goth quantity of dynamite was
exploded in the Office of the chief
Of police at Frankfort-on-the-
Main, and there was shock of earth
quake at Kameniec, Russia. On the
3Oth the frightful affair took place
in the underground tunnel 10 London.
So that, as we see. October was in this
respect very remarkable month in
deed. and those fond Of studying the
theory Of cycles have plenty of mate
rial for thought.