Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1884-08-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

GENERAL, NEWS.  IntelLgetsee hoot 8t Peter.beerg mutes the Feet fah. et Nigel Notgo7orl to he • failure. The greet trial of officer. ae,need with hithilheo tak_ place at St. Petereberg in three week's tine.  ' The Right IL.. W. E. Foriner left Lodnn on Salur,lay nmening, fro the eontioent, Iroute, fne weveral weelu. 'The Aatraban blvlkr 71-arh defeated lianlan over the Panamint* course, on Saturday, by seven lengths.  The oterlso steam/lip Lydian Monarch ain rirod aafely New York on Friday availing. All were 1,11 on henrd. Coptain Coral (Away, who contottod Radnor at the lut elonino, died nt Brighton on Sundny night. . _  lier hinjoaty th. Queen Idle ',Woody eonmeted to 1* the petrvueve or the 24 atiooal to:dared a Wake, to b. held at Liverpool this Antes.  Ow Saturday night • damtardly attempt waa made to wreak • Saul from Burnley It Ana. A mono, anAghing tifty pourolx, wao pLual on the lin.. los astlowt 1,41 soul,  ' Maser, Waterman, Itevot,port, lone re. aired inatructi•matt, bd, within obe ten whalers, emit to marry three tot, f or wren. Oh the Nile will] the Ciyrdvn rai,f All,ka, • smell plane in Ilinue,ads, hoe been almost etenglete.y destroyed by fire. The 1.04 lot roughly estimated st million dollars. Wsohlisarn's sew mill being the only building of impoaseee oovou.  The Cram Gazette " beam from Warsaw Maki Ruariaa ofhe irrim n Imieved Caar pro-ted fnm the Polu.h mrotal to Berlin. The report u.ay ,ry turu out  The " Daily Telegra, h•• correspondent at Vienna, trlegrephing on Sunday night my. is reported f met Madrid that KIIIkg Alphinano wiLl prayed on his coast tour hy the aorice ot his physicians. The Ilnit meeting of the creditors of Charles Woodward Wallis, of hew Square, Lincoln's Inn, banister and company promoter, was held . at the Landow Bankruptcy Coon on Moeda/ ' The liabilities ale eatinuded at IIO,UOO and the age, am believed to be smell.  _ The mecond week of the Shoebory nese *mope'Wong opened eat Holiday, watber very favourable for shooting, the light being gook end good wore. are anticipated. The Liveryw el voluateer, who wee suffering from baglish shalom, is :riposted well. A curious complaint is wad. by nearly every ow of Her Majesty's whool inspectors thi• ear. It is that tbe children are not taught to read. They are taught reading, yet they read neither with deem, nor expremioa—are not, in fart. so uglat to read that other. use readily ander. totaled what they read.  Ilyaia, in Russia, is again di•gracing itself by anti-Jewish riots. Seven Jews are reported to have been killed on C.Mtnt PLiter's estate at Dombrova, whilst defending their property again the mob. In cations other Ruswian detricts popular tumults against the Jews have also taken place. Violent thandemloratt have occurred in the asatern dietricts of France, emetielly in the Weave and in Burgundy, 'where great havoc ha. been yrnnaht to the vines. At Arboie hailstones weighing thirty gramme, were picked op, the Tines in that part of the country being gouty deetroyed.  From' raria, on Friday morning, we are %formed that the •' Motto" prefers to believe the information it publidued yesterday as to the respture of Tamatave, in preference to the inaccurate eatements of Y. Ferry, which are made to deceive the public. Many opts:Mane journals folkwin tbe tame strain, and profess belief in the news published. A platelayer has had a miraculous escape mar Talbot-read Stadia., Blackpool. Ile wee of , work in the trsek of the line up, end did not peer to to notice that • tram wee appromhing at a nry rapid rate. The alarm wm given, but he hid n it time:to get away, and he had the penof mind to throw himself gat on his face. In • meN n I the whole train swiftly rweed over the, and he got op much alarmed and with only one or two slight bruise.. The Central Newa learn. that no confirmation haa riachid either Fara or London of Me drelaration of war by China agaimt Four*. If each • step had been taken, it is ommiderei certain that the French Government would have heard of it.. well an the Chinese Ambaesader, who vrold have pulled down his dug. In Erglieh oflleial circles the news a dis,  William Barlow, a schoolboy, aged nine years committed suicide at Blackburn by banging himself in • bedroom. at the residence a hi, father Laving been moinsoned at the instanoe of Scheel Board, in emiemperes of the Isere abeence Irani !shook had threatened to thrash hilft if he old not go to schad that afternoon. Instead of going the boy told hie stepmother he was piing to bed, and was after ward. fund dead in the-manner stated. The "Daily Nears" correspondent at Varna, telegraphing on Sunday night says The Pone, Imeing received assurances from Lord Granville that in the appointment of lird Northbrook, and in the metteurm tote taken in Egypt, respect would he peid hitbero to de Sovereign Eights of the Sultan, has de. ided to I accept them mauraneee, and for the present to Mho no further steps in the mattes. There moss tribes have joined the insumaetion in Yemen, and all available troops are bring demafehia from Sync tel the Arabian pors. latellireee from New York oo singing rsth dal« thak the exhumation of the body et Lien!. Kielingbary, of the Creel, Expedition, hoe mused a profound sensation, and iv regarded as affording full proof of the chargee of cannibalism against the expedition. The other bodice alao be exhumed. The friends of Lieut. laningbury revive the etory that lieut. Oreely erae jealous of him, and hint that the expedition was divided into two parties, one of whi,ll periahed because the otter secured possession of  ;he provision,. They demand an Cnventigatinn.  e-denoonce the offi,iale for concealing the truth. The " World " mys that one of the joulornffiooruOfthr relief 'easels boorelatml • story of the bodies having been eaten .0 10 was ! told to him. The man ahm said that each who pat took rut off his own portion of flab. A @Wenn., hacing gone mond the paper, whi.h api owed flout to • Germs. paper, is to the , effet t` st Germany cannot continue its friendlinem t wards Engler thsre being no reciprocity on England's part. Tile "Deily News" of , Saturday reviews the *auction, and ear "There is certainly no ill-feeling towards t iermany on thi. part .4 England. We dour t I sr y gun mil whi..ls tieriaaoy 000ia hurt for tower:. this country In all the re• ent oliti el negotiation, dime the Exrptisii : iroublee broke out, the two States have:gone r holly hand in hoot, If Prince Bismarck yenta In keep wme purpcse of prof.iond wenn, no! yet allows certain English journels to know all about it, h.. tot exactly the man we took hisa le be. We do not me anything on Kakoky's visit to justify alarm."