Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-01

ANtN AANNN NNtA VI ItNNtthni NlAtUtlNn
from persons who not long ago utterly ~
nored IL as unworthy OF consideration.
AN IRISH CIUR.
Prominent lrlshmeu In London have
combined to establish in the metropolis /
an Irish club on basis equally sound and |
respectable with that enjoyed by the best |
of the other great political clubs. This /
enterprise has already made considera-
bic advance suitable premises |
near the parliament buildings and |
business interests have already been Sc
cured, but great number of solid sub !
scribers must yet be obtained before the |
Irish club can be assured OF permanent |
success.
COMING TO AMERICA FOR PROTECTION. !
The depression In the fax-splnning |
trade In England Is very great. The |
great mil engaged IN this industry In
Leeds, and which employs 2000 operatives,
is threatened with closure on account OF
this depression, which has also decided
great nun.ber OF English capitalists en-.
gagged in flax spinning to close
out their investments in that
line In Great Britain and transfer
them 10 the United States. These CAPT.
talists frankly state that their reason for
doing this is to secure the benefits Of the
protection afforded their business by the
American tuid laws and escape the ruin.
Gus competition to which they are sub
iected under the free trade policy OF En-
gland.
SUCCESS or GERMAN ENTERPRISE.
Since Germany adopted the policy Of
stimulating her industries her merchants
have astonlshcd Europe ny their outer
prise. German competition is already
eating deeply iuto even the screw
making trade OF Birmingham, The MGR
chants of Germany have recently memo
rallied the German chancellor concern.
Ing the advantages England enjoys in
maintaining her commerce in America
Africa and Asia, by having wcll.paid
consuls at important points In those
countries, while the German consuls are
all merchants who are often aliens and
who all, as a rule, spend their time In
looking after their own interests, without
any desire to aid In the extension OF
the commerce OF the empire. 1t
is understood that Prlncc Bismarck
has begun the work inspired by this
memorial, and that he has replaced many
OF these merchants as consulS 10y we'll
chosen state agents. lie Intends TO follow
the English example everywhere that II rs
possible to Introduce German products or
manufactures with advantage.
a SOVEREIGNTY GoEs A-nEGGINu
| King Leopold, II Is reported, has all
ready found the Congo free state moro
expensive enterprise than he can carry
on unaidtd. ilis recent visit TO Wicsba-
! den was made, it Is said, for the purpose
/ of inducing some ono of the German
/ princes TO assume the sovereignty of the
/ Congo country in his stead Ilc has not
] ,t.t Nftnl "a. a a
I this failure Is attributed TO Prince Bis-
marcks opposition TO having amy of tie
German princes saddlcd with the weight
which King Leopold, with all his cuthu-
siasm, finds himself unable TO continue
carrying on.
WANTS IA WATER MS STOCK.
From Paris IL IL tclegrpphod tonight
that NJ. de leSseDs has applied 10 the
French government ior permission 10
issue new Panama canal bonds TO the
amount OF Sl20, 100000 10 dclrny what
he describes az needed eX-
pcnses In excess of the original
estimates for the completion OF the
isthmus waterway. In his application Nj
dc Lessops states that II the French
chamber OF deputies grants his present
request II will save $500, 900 francs IN
interest yearly, as the grant Will include
permission TO raise as much Of the money
as possible by the sale of tickets for lot
terry drawings.
STORY FROM ROME.
From Rome 1t is stated that some OF the
Genoa papers declare that with n view of
stimulating interest in the celebration of
the fourth centenary of the discovery OF
America by Columbus, the Chcvalier
Raldl has published the secret he has kept
for twenty years, viz; His possession of
the Identical chains with which dc Balboa
loaded the wrists of Columbus when the
latter was sent back Il prisoner TO Spain
In the year 1900. The chcyallcr
saws he secured these Yalua.
bic relics after long and expensive
journey made in Spain and America for
the purpose, and that he has kept the
story of his discovery and possession of
the secret for twenty years for private
reasons, which no longer are binding on
him.
AN INTERNATIONAL SCANDAL.
The scandal concerning the late Cardi-
/ nal Lorenzo Nina, pup1l secretary OF
state, to the effect that he had wife 10
whom he bequcathcd all his property on
the alleged ground of gratitude for hcl
services ms nurse TO him during "A long
period OF critical illness, Is revived by the
declarations of his relatives that they in
tend TO contest the will on the ground
that the cardinal was nnduly influenced
In making IL.
KING TiIEEBAw's RABBLE ARMY.
Letters from Mandalay, dated October
25, say that the Europeans there had not
been molested. Wurlikc preparations
were being made day aud night, under
the direction of Italian engineers in KIM
Theebaws service. The burmese army
except a small body Of soldiers, consist
Of an undrillcd rabble, and numbers al
, most g 600 men, but the number NIGH
be largely increased by a levy Of peasant
, ny. The only European officers IN Tho
army are Molinscril, an Italian, and Ire
yaillars, all'rcnchman.
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