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Au armed gang attacked a sheriff uear Huttimore. Cork eounty, Ii eland, wliile lie wasperfonuing liisom'cial duties. The entire ueiuliborhood was thrown iiikia state of excitement and it was with difflcolty tliat tho sheriff escaped rough handiing. At a meeting at Londou, Tufsday, articles of aereeinent were si(;ued for a scnlling match betweep Lnycock and Haulan over ttie Thanies cliampiousliip course, to lake place January 17, lisKl, at 2:30, for L500 a siile, the Sportman's challenga cvip and the championsliip. The part ies have deposited L250 a side, the balance to be posted ou the titu of January. There lias been a grand volcanic eroption of Manna Loa, Sandwich Islands. Streams of lava 30 miles long, aud some of them 20 feet deep. The Chiliau army occupied Pisco, November 20, without resistance. A Dublin uewspaper says that arma find a ready maiket around Waterford, (Ireland), and the whole country is armed to the teeth. Boycott has been forced to take refuge in England. Both he and the keeper of the hotel where he stopped in Dublin recoived tlireatening letters. The Frencli chambers of deputieB will take a rest froui December 20 until January 11. The steanier Carotina lost 115 head of cattle between Baltiuiore and Lotidon A Dublin dispatch says: The real state of the country it is difficult, 'f not impossible, to discover. Only asinall proportion of the out rages and acts of violence reach the public, for the local newspaper correspondents in tlie country are comparatively few, while the pólice reports made to the castle are kept secret. The lord lieutenant of one of the most important counties in Ireland iuformed me a few days ago that not one-fourth of the illegal and seditious acts of the people were reported. He :ilso said that he could persoually testity to at least 20 outrage that had occurred in bis district during the last two months. They were not reported because they are now so frequent tliat no pratense is wade of reporting them fully, eveu to Dublin castie. There is a freBh issue of lava f rom Vesuvius, descending to the base of the cone. Gen. Gonzaies has been inaugurated President of Mexico. The various squadrons oí the fleet at Dulcigno have separated, going to different points oí the Mediterranean. The excitement over the Irish questiou increases in Kngland. Col. Gor don proposes that the goverument purchase the land west of Uie Shannon at a cost of LH0,OÜO,000. The Kurds have inflicted a crushing deíeat on the Persiana near Urumiah. The republic of France propones to sell the French crown jewels. The peace negotiations between Chili and Peru have proved unavailing, and liostilities have been resuired. AChilian expedition has been despatched against Lima. Tlio petition of the indicted land leaders who are meinbere of the British parliament to have their trial postponed on the ground that the date fixed would interfere with their attoutlance of parliament, has been refused, with cests. A petrified child ig the wonder of New Philadelphia, üliio, in dwath, as in life, tbe flesb on its body was hard alinost as etone. To tlie surprise of every onetheohild lived in thiscondition nearly a year. Tlio wife of ex-Gov. Sprague, of Rhode Island, wiJl sue for a divorce on the ground of mielty. The Verniont legislature adoptsa "nuisance bill" making any place wliere liquor is sold or given away, or where gambling isallowed a uuisance punishable witli tlire montbs' imprisonment and froin $20 to $200 fin. A cyclone devastated the town of Marshfield Mo. Houses were blown from their fonndatious, outbuildings scatterod, but nobody burt.