Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-17

EXAGGERATED.
The Stories of Destitution and Suffering
in IreianI.


The Stories OF Destitution and Suffering
III ireland.
LoNDOE. Sept. 11.-Iho Dublin co: re-
srondent of The 1im1s says th.t there
is no danger OF any suffering in Ireland
before Christmas that the failure of the
potato harvest is far from general, and
that Cihe. crops better thll the ay-
elage Ee asserts that Dsards Of poor
law guardians and other bodies are at
telnItng 10 cTeae uulustiiiable appre
hensions Cf famine with the view of
influencing lubllc opinioN in Great
Britain and abroad. and representing
tie CO diJiol Of Ireland as much wo.Ae
than il really is.
Ihe ''New' Trade Unonisiu.
The leaders of the new" trade union
ism ule co templating certain changes
of importance. I he idea of co-opera-
tion ut the great English decks, which
is now taking practical sh; pc. hls earn
est advocates among the dock directors
themselves. and the union officials are
no less ami lis 10 hit on some plan of
working which will avert friction be-
TIVE en lhe companies and The men, and
tend to slit JuJ the skulKi aud in
competent elem eut. The tdict h 1 has
Just gone forth from Tho ecatiyc, t.
admit 10 mofe new members To the
Londcn branches of the dockt rs union.
is made III view of the umon be, oming
the great employer OF lrbor AZ the
decks. in this new caraeity it cannot
be doubted that the union authorizes
will find themselves unde.' tle nece 3lty
of dealing sulnma lily with maly of
their present membe,s.
Thr Revoit of sw ,ss l.. .berl's.
Tie body cf Councillor RUssi, who
was murdered by tie rGd;ca editor
Castislone duting the reccit lopular
revolt at BelIinzona, Canton licino.
SwitZerla Il, was Lulied Moaday with
public honols. His colleague ReSl ini,
who was kert Il prisoner to protect him
from the angry populace. has been lib
Grated, bpt is III danger of his life owing
to the still iriitated condition Of pnbic
feeling. The canton Is Outwardly tran
quill and he apprt aching election under
the supervision of the Ft deral auth, T.
tiles viii probably lass off pedceably.
The prosl ects are that the Liberal fac
tiol, which ilaug,lra.ed the revolt, will
triuml h at the L oIs and accomplish
then aim of oven throwing the old cleri
cal conservative regime.
Very hnpolitic.
A very unfavorable impression has
been cleated in Berlin and Vienna by
the speech of Gen FerrOn, OF thu
French army, in which he decla cd
Russia al le to overcome the triple alli-
ancc in war. AS the Austrian and Ger
man CmpeIors me, on " ednesday in
Silcsia. the speech i regarded as most
imUoltic in that it tends to bind Aus
trian and Germa intcre Is more closely
together and will undoub. edly Le sub
iect of discussion etween the ompcrors.
The prepal ations for the German army
maneuvels III Sile ia are on grnder
scale than any heretofore held.
The Grrman SLAYER, Proclamation.
The Zanzibar correspondent of The
Times says European q. .Cles are conf
dent that the Berlin government will
countermand the Ge1mal slavery p.o-
clamaton at Bagamoyo. but even that
will fail to remedy the irreparable harm
already done, The object of the Ge.-
mans is to attr CT wealthy Arabs TO the
Gt1man coast line. A German official
recently presided t t an tion sale IF
slaves Serious difficulties are certain to
ensue on the british coast line, and prob
ably tie Arabs VIII attempt 10 coe.Ce
the sultan to withdraw his decree.
Serious Fire start d by Cnrclessne.s.
A careless employe set fire to naphtha
stores in the FanlngtOn station OF the
Metropolitan railway Nj nday and
started disastrous confagration. he
heat ignited the gas in thir,y
main and twisted the large iron girders
of the station. There was extreme dan
ger for many hours of the collapse of
the bridge roadway. The valves OF the
fire apparatus wcle oIt of order, and
the flames were not extilguiShed until
night. Traffic was ae.io;.sly impcdcd.
Accident. nn German Riilroad,.
During the last few days there have
been several accidents on the main Ger
man railroad line. In "a coli ion be-
tween two passenger trains at n point
between Mont ,ioie and Kalterhberg
four passengers were killed and four
teen injured. 4 brakeman lost both
legs A tation master was arrested for
causing the accident through culpabie
neglect In tie other accidents no ole
was killed.
Does Not Like Our Mcat-Inspec;ion Law.
lie OIluuaiu says a fHoke outid5S-
ous enactment than the meat-inspection
law was never framed in civilized
country. 1t is the more irritating in
connectiol with the Mckinley bill. No
foreign state can submit to such threats
without ahiect humiliation. With Eng
land reprisals are out Of the question,
but the unfriendly attitude of America
will do nothing TO force cur hands
Ewpeyor william "A SaelsI Reforms.
BERLIN. Sept 17.-Empercr William
made an important speech at a banquet