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Foreign Intelligence

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
September
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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The House ot Lords on tne sist uu. rejected the bill assimilatie tbc law in regard to registraron of voters in Ireland te the law in Eugland. According to a Madrid dispatoh of the 3d a military pontoon bridge on the River Ebro, whtch was being tested, had fallen through, and nincty-seven of a battalion of troops that were passing over it were drowned. The steamer Hardwiok which ran between üdessa, on the Black Sea, and Bris tol, Eng., lately foundcre 1 at sea, and all on board but one flreman were lost. On the 2d the House of Commons rejected the amendments of the House of Lordi to theEmployev'sLiability bill, but consented to change its opcration from two to Beven years. Düking the week encling August 28th there wcre twenty-cight daths irom yellow iever in Havana, Cuba. On the 3d William Henry one oi the originators of Punch, and associatea wit )i Charles Dickens in the publication ol lloiuiehold Word-t, died at hls home in London. Mr. Lowei.l, the United States Minister to England, has sent a circular to a number of Embista, autliors askin their views as to the aeceptability of a copyright treaty protecting books manufactured In the country grantine. the copyright by a subject or citizen thereof. A Beklin telegi-am of the 3d says it was authoritíitively annouuced that gold payments have not been suspended by tlie Imperial Bank of Germany, as reported. The Sultan has issued an irade autborizing the immediate cession of Dulchno te Montenegro. Accokdiníí to an alleged official dispateh received irom Quettah on the 3d, General Roberts had attacked and dispersed Ayoob Khan's forcea near Candahar, and captured twenty-seven guns. AN El Paso dispatch of the Sd says that a wealthy and publie-spirited Citizen ot Chihuahua, Mexico, had offered $2,000 for the scalp of Victoria, the Apache chleitain, and $150 a pece for the scalps of his warriors.

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