Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-21
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Seventeen Smugglers Killed In an Ava.
lanchc-Kaiser wilhelm Buying
Christmas Presents.
The Priest who Asked To- Mercy for His
Poor Flock 10 Accorded Grand
Ovation at Galway.


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VfYNNA, Dec 20 An avalanche has
killed band OF seventeen emugglers,
VINO were In hiding near VicenZa.
NOBLE PRIEST.
DUBLIN, Dec. 20.-Father Fahey, the
priest who early in September was SEN
fenced TO six months imprisonment for
refusing 20 give bail for good behavior,
was TO. day released Internationally from
Galway jail, in which he had since been
confined. IL will be remembered that
Father Fdhey interceded with Agent Lewis
OF tine ClanricRrde estate In behalf OF a
number of tenants belonging to the
priests parish In Woodford, who were
unable TO pay rents. Eviction was
threatened and Father Fahey went
TO save them from being put
into the roadway. Lewis treated the
priest horribly and as the latter left he
said TO Lewis: "You are hard.hearted
towards Gods poor; may you repent It,"
Lewis at once had the priest arrested and
charged him with threatening his life,
even going 80 far as TO declare that Father
Fahey said he would have him murdered
The magistrates ordered Father Fahey to
give bail for good behavior or go to jail.
He refused to furnish bail for the reason
1t would be regarded as an admission that
the charge against him was true and he
was accordingly imprisoned The priest
met with an ovation on his release, The
city Of Gal way will be illuminated to-
night in his honor.
FRANCE PREPARING FOR THE CONFLICT.
PARIS, Dec 20.-rhe three rowing Bull
gariun elegates-Storioff, Grekoft and
Catcheff-are received coldy by NJ.
Goblet, who regards them very much as
NebuchardneZzar did Shad ach, Meshach
aud Abeonego, and no doubt would like
to cast them INTO burning lisry
furnace, for the Bulgarian question
il felt to Oe like an escape Of gas.
IL causes bad smell in the diplomatic
atmosphere, and may any moment result
In terrific explosion. Bulgaria to-day
is what Schleswlg- was twenty
years agn, when Lord Palmerston de-
scribed IT as the match that set fire to Eu-
rope, John Lemainne, one of the shrewd-
est political observers in France, says
that as the Schleswig. Holstein match lg-
nited Sadowa and Sedan, so the Bulga-
RAN match may set ablaze still larger
coDhagrations. France feels that
her only natural ally in Eu.
rope is Russia. To this she sacri-
fees her sentimental fondness for the
Bulgarian people, and 1t was on this &C
count that the French chambers declined
to put forward NJ Floquet as prime min
lister. Frenchmen feel that Germany may
at any moment demand serious eXpla.
nation as to the now rspldly-lucreasine
| lighting strength thai France is achieving
under the leadership of Gen
Boulanger. The temper of the people
would not tolerate anything OF
the kind. Rightly or wrongly, the French
people feel that they have not finished
with Germany yet, and while holding out
their arms to Russia look forward TO the
spring with confidence. In fact, nevel
before has Gen. Cnanzy's famous saying
been more keenly appreciated by tn,
French people, namely "The Frenchmal
who talks Of revanche should be shot; bu
the Frencbman who does not think of I
should be hanged"