The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-09-20
CABLE SPARKS.

Four OF the largest mills in Blackburn,
England, have shut dow, owing to the dull
ness Of trade.
A severe shock of earthquake was felt
throughout Greece, and serious damage was
done in several towns.
Baron Schim melpinninck Van Der Dye,
president of The First Chamber Of the States
General, died at the Hague.
The council of the French Legion of Honor
sired to'maintain friendly relations with
Bulgaria.
to the authorship of the anarchist manifesto
recently circulated throughout Switzerland.
He will ts fied for the offense at Berne.
The repainspf. Pascal Di raoli. the famous
Corsican patriot, who died In exile near Lon
don in 1907, have been eHhumed from st.
Pancres Church burying-ground and shipped
to Corsica.
The United States corvette Enterprise has
arrived at Plymouth, England. wuere she
will await ,the arrival of the United Stat0s
steamer Dolphin from Gibraltar, when both
will proceed to Ireland.
The mission sent by the King OF Shoa, an
independent State of Abyssinia, to the Italian
government was received in the throne. room
at Rome by King Humb .rt with great pomp
and ceremony.
royal order which has just been issued
at Berlin sanctions the creation in Jerusalem
of an evangelical establishment with corpo~
rate rights to preserve existing evangelical
institutions, and to add to their number.
Tire jury Of the Paris Exposition mas recon-
mend--l that gold medal be awarded to the
University OF Virginia, Cornell University
| and the city OF Boston for educ itional exhi-
bits
| 1t court circles at st. Petersburg it is said
| that the Russian goverameLt has discharged
| the debts owed by the Primes OF Montenegro
| to varios Austrian banking firms, amounting
to over 100000 rouHles.
William o, Brien was sentenced to two
months and James Glhooly TO six weeks
| imprisonment, without hard lator, in Cork
| Qrrland) Jail for holding national meeting
| which had been proclaimed by the Eng slish
government
| Dispatches have been received at Paris to
| the effect that he people Of the New Hebrides
| Islands and forty-two En- ylsh residents have
petitioned the Governor of New Caledonia to
| annex the islands.
Two engineer officers have been sent from
| Constantinopo to Crete 10 inspec. the va
rious Notifications there, with view OF
strengthening them aSainst attack in cases OF
| future Instructions.
The German government is preparing q
| bill for submission to the coming session OF the
Reichstag for credits to augment and reor-
ganizs the army in view of the continual in
crease of the French and Russian arma-
ments.
The Sultan of Zanzibar has signed a cons
cession giving to the British East Africa
Company the Lamu Island aud the Benagir
coast-line from kipini northward, including
Kismayu, Brawa, Merka, Magadish and
| Uruti.
The collapse of tho Magdeburg sugar syn.
dicate has seriously affected the sugar refin-
cries at Stettin, Prussia, and the Hamburg
authorities have ordered an investigation 10
discover why the proper OH ials had no,
, controlled the brokers trading
Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, under
: a lie sentence at Woking prison for poison
, ing her husband. James Maybrck, a Liver
, | pool broker, is permitted by tho prison a,i
thorities to take exes else in the prison yard
Her health is improving, and she still main
tains her cool demeanor and seems TO DO set
Q | tling into the routine Of prison life.