The National tribune., 1884-01-03
are thirty-one synagogues in New York. and
the Jewish population is estimated at $4,000.
THE OLD WORLD.
Something About What is Going On in Other Lands
Than Ours.

terrible explosion, supposed to have been
caused by an internal machine, occurred at
Birkenhcad, England, on the 9th ult. Nobody
was killed. A lamplighter named Butler OBJ
served two men watching a canister burning
opposite dwelling house. Going up to the
canister he kicked it a few yards when sud-
denly an explosion occurred, breaking the win
dows of all the houses in the vicinity. The
two men who had been watching the burning
canister escaped and there is no clew to their
identity. a fuse foot and a half long was
found near by, together with leather match
ease-The Orange procession was Tired into
at Harbor Grace, N. f., Oh the Goth ult Four
men were killed outright, eight reported TO be
mortality wounded, and about twenty slightly.
The steamship Geliert, which arrived at
Plymouth England on the Beth ult., reports
passing the steamship Celtic at sea on Deem
Der q, proceeding under sail with broken
shaft"A st. Petersburg police official has
been murdered. -Captain Mehl of the for
eign legation, was killed at the capture of Son.
tay.-Egyptian troops at Dongola have at
tackled and defeated band of insurgents
marching toward Berber. - The captain
and first mate Of the Swedish brig Natal,
from Boston, have been wounded III d mutlny
at sea. and the second mate was killed.
1 Colonel Henry Rathbone, of Albany. N. T., IN
a fit of temporary insanity, killed his wife at
! Hanover Germany, last week, and attempted
/ the private-box at Ford's Theater in Washing
! ton with President Lincoln when the latter
( was murdered, and received a severe dagger
I stab in the arm from the assassin Booth
1 Thirteen hundred Egyptian troops have ar
4 rived at Kh8rtoum from Fashoda. They met
with no resistance on the way. These troops
4 raise the garrison at Khartoum TO 1000 men.
4 female slave who was captured by III Mahdi
1 after the Staying of the Kabobish chief, her
master, and who recently escaped from FL
Obeid reports that El Mahdi is in great fear
|, and has sent his family to place of safety,
4 and that the neighboring tribes have refused TO
help him. An emissary of Ell hIahdi has been
arrested at Munich, which is about one hum
i dred and forty miles above Cairo, on the Nile
| River. He declared that it was his intention
to proceed to Cairo and Mecca. A Suakim dis
patch of the 18th ult. states that the rebels are
menacing Riwayeh, and an Egyptian gunboas
] viii embark the garrison and inhabitants OF that
+ place"It is rumored in Paris that French
I troops have landed upon the Island of Hal
1 Nau, opposite the mouth of the Red River
delta 1t is also reported from Canton that
the viceroy has ordered troops TO be sent to the
| Tonauin frontier 1t is rGmored that the
French have besieged BAG Ninh.-Captain
Scott of the lost steamer PIantyn, who with
I ffty-two others has been landed at Oporto
gives thrilling account of their suffcrings
! Mr.. Bradlaugh announces that he will
! attend on the opening OF Parliament and dc
his best te take his seat--Grand Duke Mich
olas of Russia, unhappy in bis exile, has made
q vain effort TO escape on horseback into India
The importation of American salt meats
into France will be prohibited after January
20, 16S4.-It is Tumored that the Khedive OF
Egypt contemplates abdicating the throne.