Alston Herald, and East Cumberland Advertiser. — 1880-07-10 (Alston, Cumbria, England)

FOREIGN NEWS.  Coal mints are about to be opened in Roumania. • The Ameri.mus make 11,740,800,000 pins a year, or 408 pins per person of the whole population, including Red Indians.  _ There are 600 miles of Wooden railway bridges in the States, and 300 of stone and iron.  A Constantinople telegram says a fugitive female slave demanding asylum has been received at the British Embassy by Mr Goechen. It is stated that the mother of General Skobeleff intends establishing a religious fraternity on one of the peaks of the fatuous Shipka Pass.  A duel was fought on Monday between M. Godlenki, the editor of L' Union, and M. Camille Pelletan, the editor of La Jastice. The Latter received a sword thrust through the thigh.  La Justice says that explanations have been demanded from the minister of the Interior respecting the recent arrest in Paris of two young Russians as Nihilists.  The General Synod of the Presbyterians Meeting in Brooklyn laat month solemnly condemned Freemasonry aa "anti-Republican, anti-Christian, and antireform."  The Liberte, Paris, reports the arrest on Saturday of eight Russian Nihilists or German Socialists, who were informed that they would be expelled from France. The Armenian Famine Committee at Syra has received no telegrams from Van, Erzeromn, or Diarbelcir for several days. Orders have been received at those places to rehtse the transmission of telegrams on the Buoy vt of the famine. The reason of the refusal is obvious.  A telegrainfrom St. John's, Newfoundland, announces that the steamer F. W. Harris, from Cardiff for Montreal, went ashore on Thursday morning, duriug a dense fog, 'at the north end of Chance Cove, and became a total wreck. The passengers and crew were all rescued and conveyed to St. John's.  According to the Philadelphia Dimes, a great American enterprise for developing the mineral resources of Rnssia i 8 being organised, the special object being the opening up of the great iron and coal fields near the Sea of Azov.  The news which has been received of the objections which some persons at home have raised to the Marquis of Ripon's appointment on the ground of his being a Catholic has caused (says the Calcutta correspondent of the times) no little surprise and some amusement in this country.  The harvest in Hungary has Num-named, and promises very fairly, both as tq quality and quantity.  It is considered probabla, owing to the state of public business, that Parliament will not be prorogued until about the middle of September. Mount Vesuvius has been lit up by the electric light, three lamps being placed ut the tramway station, nine along the tramway, and three on the cone.  A roll of Bank notes, value £5OO, wir dropped into the offertory bag at St Mary's Church, Chehnsford, on Sunday forenoon, for the benefit of the Chelmsford Infirmary. It about eleven o'clock on Monday evening a welldressed man committed suicide while seated on a bench in front of the Grand Hotel on the Boulevards, Paris, by shooting himself through the neck with a revolver. _ _  NEW WESLEYAN CHAPEL AT SPRINGwELL.—Tho foundation-stone of a new place of worship for the use of the Wesleyan congregation at Spring well, near Wrekeuton, was laid on Wednesday. A. letter was read from Mr C. M. Palmer, M.P., in which the hon. gentleman regretted hisinability to be present at the ceremony, but enclosed a cheque for £26.