Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1879-06-07 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

EPITOME OF NEWS.  BRITISH AND FOREIGN.  The Council of State ef canton Uri have submitted to the Great Council a law visiting wilful murder and Wee'sdiarlsm retaitlng In 1 Is of Me with the punishment 0 death. Xrecutions are te be private.  A mbustain peak by Lelia Balaton, fa Hungary, which has not been volcanic in historical times, Ass began to emit smoke, to the Weil of the neighbouring inhabitants, who apprehend am eruption. The Prbaton Town Connell have reeolved to memorialise the Government in favour of legislation which shall be sufficient to /nu, down the stray dog indsanoe.  , - - The Queen has bee graciously pleased to writer the honbur pt knighthood upon kir. Henry Bessemer. A young man named Conley was accidezitally struck by a cricket bail at a cricket match at iirikklen, on Monday, sad $o seriously ii.jured that his life was despaired of.  - A Wept= from Rome esys that in consequence of a rise in tUlrateris of The &Melo and Adige, an overflow of the Po Is apprehended The town of Bort° is sotiously threatened, and 2,000 workmen are employed in strengthening the (bares. Almost all parts of the towlsof Mantua are flooded. The emb,ukmeffs f she isttncio is in jeopardy. The Freoch Government are developing the carrier pigeon servlbe in earnest, for in Pols and twelve of the other fortified towns no toter than 6,000 birds are now fed at the public expense.  Accoedieg to the Lstokof Orenburg the number of houses burned in the late fire, and upon which insurance clanas have been established, amounts to 600, and the total policies recoverable to ,2,050.000 roubles, aris taking the rouble rOughly a. two *hilltops, to £305,000t This gives an average to eiteh house of £341 13s. 4d. the °gores are interesting as 'bossing how pectoral is the pl'aCtioe of hum&nee to so remote a plsoe, and also ler the idea they give of the value of house property.  In a Paris shop window appears the following : " English spoken here—% Jew " In some magasins, they do speak it a few—too few, too I—Court Journal. A mo6unuent is about to be erected at St. Rimy (Vargas) in memory ot the soldiers who Mill in the battle of Nompatelise, fought October 4, 1870. Francisco Gritnaldi,who spoke in the re liat railway debate in Monte Citorio is one of the ntst rapid onion oft record. lb. shorthand writers declare that he uttered from 170 to 200 words per mizrate. This wonderful orator Is sl3irty-efigt4 years old, sad was born at Catanzaro in the proviuce o Naples.  from did* ath Post Office authorities have yarned their officials tu.t spurious sovereigns made of platinum and electro plated wl.h gold, are again in circulation. Their ring is lilts that of a shilling, but they are deficient in weight. They can, however, be manufacsured at a considerable profit: for platlnam is only trom a quarter to a third the value of gold.  Sir &Cm Blyth, the Agent General for South Australia, haa reeetved a telegram from the Government at Adelaide, !dated the 30th ult.. stating that the eolith Australian Parliament met for the despatch of business on the 20th ult., and that plenty of rain ha ti fallen throughout the country,  The Panfulla Nava it is understood at the Vatican that for tile Golden Wedding of the Emperor oil Germany all the Bill vs in that country exiled from their dioceses, including Cardinal Ledochowslty, will be invited to return. This amnesty will be extended to the parish priests and the inferior clqrgy, but not to the religions orders on whose behalf, Including the Jesuits, the Pope had exerted himself,  • • At Messina, on the 27th of May, a severe undulatory shock of earthquake wu felt  During the past week there were 17 British and foreign wreaks reported, making a total of 710 for the pre• sent year, or an increase of 85 as compared with the corresponding period of isst year. The approximate value of property lost was £260,000, including B:1;151 142E1,000.  --- - . • At a sale of a portion of the Firma Didot Library in Paris, a missal bequeathed to Queen Catherine, wife of Henry V. ht E,gland, by her father Charles VI, and afterwards the property of Henry VI , Henry VII, and Henry