The Herald of Wales. — 1888-09-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CIVIL WAR IN A. GHANISTAN.  A Calcutta telegram on Monday morning says :—Anothar small affair has taken place on the Nimla Ridge, between a patrol of Ohoorkas and a foraging party of rebels. The encounter resulted in the capture of two of the enemy, and another being killed, without any lose on our side. The Thihetans chew no desire to fight, but run away when they can. Reports received from Gnatong state that the weather continues wet. The Times Calcutta correspondent, telegraphing on Monday, says :—The Black Mountain Expedition will be ofiicially known as the Thagara Field Force. The Government of Cashmere will furnish one thousand men to watch the frontier near Khagan. The Daily News Calcutta correspondent, telegraphing on Monday morning, says :—Two columns of the Ameer's troops are rapidly sdr/tieing on Isaak Khan, who is at Khanabad. Kamardfort, which has been captured, wee held by seven hundred rebels. The latest reports from Afghanistan are conflicting. The unsettled condition of affairs there renders it doubtful whether the devateh of the Cabul mission will not be indefinitely postponed. A Philadelphia telegram on Saturday says: —There is a great demand here for vessels for cotton freight. Many steamers now due have been chartered to New Orleans to load cotton for the United Kingdom.  Tbe Daily Now. Rome eorrespondent says The Scrivia has left Naples for Maetiowah, carrying a quantity of war material destined for the Abysainian expedition in November. Ten officers who are to take command of the Bashi Baronial have likewise started for the Red Bea. The tailor Onadig, at Pesth, who attempted to commit suicide after having poured molten lead into his wife's ear, has reooyered, and is now awaiting his trial. Els oonfesses to have tried to murder his wife not only with the , molten lead, but aLso in another way—namely, by giving her needles in her medicine. The man is certainly insane. Epworth, a little Lincolnshire town of some two thousand souls, will, in a few daps' time, be the scene of a ceremony of high interest to one of the most important religious bodies of the English-sp aking world. Bare eighty-Eve years ago was born John Weeley, and the birthplace is now to be formally dedicated to his memory by the erection of a memorial chapel and schools. At the Bristol police court on Friday, Elizabeth Bannatyne WllB charged with performing an unlawful oporation on a married woman, named Ellen Porter, and Kate Evans was charged with being accessory before the fact. Both the accused resided at IS, Summers MII, Tstterdown ; and Evans, it is stated was in the habit of "telling fortunes." The ease was adjourned until the 22nd inst. The Standard correspondent at Nev York says report has been published tore of an interview with the Canadian Premier. Sir John McDonald, which reprecente him as saying that the policy of Canada, in respect to t'-o retaliation measures of the United States, isone of entire enaction pendieg development of Greats. There is no expdotation that anything will happen until till r,paning of the fishing season next May. Biz John eludes that there Is any intention to discriminate against the Ainerioan conntesne oo Canadian ousels.