The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1892-01-21
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS
INTERESTING HOME AND FOR
EiGM MATTERS.

Spain is trying to float the Cuban
debt in Spanish and French banks.
II is asserted by several newspapers
of Rome that Italy intends to send
warshp to Morocco.
Russia viii decline proffered Eng
lish loan of SO 100000, because the
terms are disadvantageous.
Hundreds of London workmen are
employed on the fireworks for the
Duke of Clarence's wedding.
Verdi has abandoned the Wagnerian
method in the construction of his new
opera, "Fallstatf," but has returned to
the Italian.
Fire broke out in Dahlgreen's cotton
factory at Nashville and destroyed the
dye houses. Loss $12, 1000, with full
insurance.
Six persons were killed and seven
severely burned recently by an explo-
sion of fire damp at the Wolfe coal
pit, near Essen, in Oldenburg, Ger
many.
The municipal election of Dyers-
burg, which was held yesterday, re-
suited in the election of the Peoples
ticket entire, with very little opposj-
ton.
The Paris Matn asserts that the
Pope has written to the Archbishop of
Paris, ceusuring the French bishops
for their attitude toward the govern
ment.
Different sections in Georgia, Flor
ida and South Carolina have been WIS.,
tied by cyclones, doing much damage
to property, and causing the loss of
few lives.
The new Khedive is lazy and fat,
but well educated and unusually In
telligent. Roman newspapers think
except for the famine Russia would
make trouble.
A dispatch from Taugier announces
the arriva. there OF the French cruiser
Caste. The rebels ARE active and in-'
sist that the Sultan should dismiss the
obnoxious governor.
The barn and gin house in Colonel
Zeb Wards plantation, ten miles west
of Little Rock, burned at an early hour
Saturday morning. Loss 81 800;
fully insured. Origin unknown.
A large meeting of Santa Fe en-
ploycs was held at Gainesville, Tex,
at which resolutions were passed not
to handle amy freight that came from
or went TO the opposition roads.
a lengthy dispatch was received
Saturday night from the scene of the
CARA trovbles, the substance of which
was that the United States troops were
unable to cope with Il handful of rev.
olutionists.
News has been received that two
men were killed by an explosion i'll a
coal mine on Lookout Mountain. This
makes four men who have lost their
lives ut these mine, in this way within
the last two months.
There is bad state of affairs at
cambridge, Tenn, on account of the
embezzlement of county funds and the
sudden disappearance of j. II. Meek,
chancery court clerk, lie is accused
OF beirg $50, 900 short.
A deputy sheriff placed an attach
ment of $50, 900 Friday upon the
property of Gen. Bulley, at Lowell,
Mass. The attachment is said to be
the result of an action of tort, brought
by Estes ~ Lauriat, Boston publishers.
The Louisville S Nashville shops at
Decatur, Ala, were destroyed by fire
Friday night. The shop was one of
the most extensive in the company's
system. The loss is $40, ,000,' fully
insured. Fifteen cars were also
burned,
The report of Warden Bolan, of the
Kentucky penitentiary, shows that
there are 93l convicts in the peniten-
tiary. OF these 100 are life prisoners.
Sixty-eight of the prisoners are under
Is years of age, and 1856 from 10 TO
/ 20.
The London Press begs the French
to believe ,hat the English do not
want to be sadded with the Egyptian
question. But the French are hard 10
convince that England Will abandon
Egypt to this youth. Spanish papers
think the statu quo should not be in
fringed. Roman prpers take the same
view.
Twenty sticks of dynamite were
placed around fire in a stone quarry
near Bellaire, Ohio, and catching fire,
the stuff exploded with terrific force.
John Walters, John Smith and seven
Italians were seriously injured, and
some of them will not recover. A
house near the quarry was blown 10
pieces.
At New York United States Judge
Lacombs has han led down a final
decree in HE suit OF The Brush Elec-
tric rarono,, - the Electric Con-