Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-02-15 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

BEY.  The Kurds, says a Daily Neics Armenian correspondent, recently made a raid on the A rmenian village of Otz, in the province of Dersim, and carried off all the cattle of the peasants. The letter applied to this authorities for redress, hut no gen dames have been despatched in pursuit of the brigands. Another party of Kurds broke into the Armenian convent of St. Nishan, in the province of Van, and murdered the son of an Armenian priest named Mardiros. The victim's age was 22. lieli; Governor• General of Van,refrieed to cons!ders the father's complaint on the ground that it we actuated by political motives. Again, a band of Kurds killed an Armenian named Movses while on his way to Erzingian, and carried off the few cattle he WAS taking to market for sale. The Armenians of Hazro, in the province of Diarbekir, have telegraphed to the Forte to complain of Selides Bey's renewed raids and plunder on Armenien villages. The Kurdish chief was arrested sometime Lack and escorted to Diarbekir, to take his trial en the grave charges preferred against him. Si-lid in remained there some two or three months, not al an unoonvicted prisoner, but as the honoured guest of the local otlicials, who entertained hitt most sumptuously. He has now been allowed return to the village where he has resumed his vet career of crime and misdeeds of every deecripteei. Meanwhile, his accusers, 300 in number, are a.,Aating at Diarbekir the issue of the trial, which threatens to be as everlasting as that of Mousiei i] the Turkish capital. Mr. Kasper Gulbenkian, Armenian advocate, has been thrown into the •entral prison of Constantinople, for no it! • r crime than that of having stayed a few days, u his return from a'oroad. in one or two towns !im Bulgaria, inhabited partly by Airnenians, %hors patriotism is creating elarrn in Turkish otheiel circles.  THE AMERICAN GIRL OF THE FUTITR,F,. It is said that blondes are growing noticeably rarer in America. One writer, in fact, has recently declared that they have almost disappeared from New England, and the prediction is freely ventured that, as a result of the cosmopolitan mixing of races in this country, the American girl of the future will be a brown-haired, dark-eyed creature, smaller a, a type than the girl of to-day, but plumper and 1e..; angular. These evidences of the passing of the blonde may seem to be confirmed by a hasty examination of existing facts. The women one se. on Broadway, for example, or in the restaurants and theatres of New York and Boston, are in the main brunettes, and a blonde is conspicuous, usually, by her presence. And while New England, as has been said, is almost destitute of blondes, the most celebrated pretty women in Old England to-day have dark hair and dark eyes.  There is a rumour that the Speaker will short'y receive a mark of her Majeoty's favour in the form of the Grand Cross. This honour was conferred upon Mr. Peel's predecessor in the Chair, as an acknowledgment of his energy and courage in a most trying period. The rule might be very oonvenieltly established of anticipating the Speaker's Peerage by a more modest tribute of Ministerial confidence.