The examiner., 1885-06-13

many who have loaned money on his paper, believing him to be perfectly sound. His term of office as governor expired last week, the day before his failure was an- nounced.
 MT. Robert Treat Paine died, June 3, at his home in Brookline, aged 80 years He was born in Boston and was the grand son of Robert Treat Paine, distinguished jurist of the last century. He graduated from Harvard University in 1922. Dur ing the greater part of his life MT. Paine devoted his time to benevolent and scien- tific Iabors, his interest in matters relating to astronomy being especially great. Feb 12, 1881, he observed the annular eclipse of the sun from Monomoy Light, off Chatham. On it's recurrence, fifty four years later, in March of the present year, it was his intention to go to Monta- na to witness it, but failing health pre- vented him from carrying out his plan. In 1946 he went to Sagua Ia Grande, Cuba, for the purpose of witnessing the great eclipse of the sun of that year.
 Mrs. Nettie H. Bringhurst, the daugh- ter of Sam Houston, who is now in New Orleans. says her father died of broken heart When the rebellion broke out he was Governor of Texas and was opposed to secession. He took the position that if Texas had come voluntarily into the Union she must stay. But the Conven- tion and the Legislature were against him, and finally @ resolution was passed to de- pose him from office. The day before this resolution was to take effect he re- signed. Before this President Lincoln of fered him troops to keep the State in the Union, but he declined assistance. He was offered place in the Cabinet, but he declined this, and retired to his farm in the country and grieved over the breakup of the Union, and, literally speaking, died of a broken heart. He left no property. FOREIGN.
 The French man-of-war, Renard, with crew of 92 souls, is believed to have foundered in the Red sea.
 The cholera has evidently begun it's work anew in Spain. In Valeucia it is said that 45 per cent, of those who are attacked die
 A water-spout burst Sunday about eight leagues east of Lagos, Mexico. Immense quantities of water swept down the moun- tains There are already 100 lives report. ed lost and the list may be swelled still larger.
 In the English House of Commons on Monday night the Budget of the Govern ment was defeated by 12 majority. There was great excitement, and it is expected that the Ministry will resign.
 The Suez canal company at its meeting recently unanimously approved the prop osition to empower the directors to bor row $20, 1000, GOO to enlarge the canal. All the English directors have been elected by large majority, in spite of the opposition of Chauvinist shareholder.
 
 On Sunday May 31 8 severe earthquake shock was experienced in Cashmere. For ty natives were killed outright and fifty soldiers of the garrison of Serinagur were injured. The shocks have been repeated at intervals since. In The Vale of Cash mere several villages have been swallo ed up and great distress occasioned.
 A terrible railway accident is reported in Russia between Kosloff and Rostoff on the river Don in Russia. A bar of iron, placed across the track by robbers, threw train from the rails. The number of killed and wounded is 70. The robbers, who were waiting for the smash-up, plum dered the train. The wounded and other survivors were completely terrorized and could make no resistance.
 Fire broke out in the Philadelphia col fiery, near Durham, Eng, at noon, June B. Three hundred miners were in the pit, and all attempts to subdue the flames or render assistance to the imprisoned men were at first unavailing. A large force of men were kept at work at the colliery try ing to rescue the men who were in peril Forty miners at least, it IS supposed, have perished. The fire was caused by the ex- plOsiOn of fire-damp