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3
Month
February
Year
1881
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TIn' Hoorn have taken up a strong ; position at Drakenlmrg pass, where tliey await an attack frons Sir (xeorge ('olley. Their force is between 2,000 and 3,000. A mol) of minan raised a desperate riot in the Engllsh mhliDg ilistricts and the hussars, wbo were present, charged apon the mob and several miners aiul policeman were iujured. The revenue of the l'russian kiugdom aml Oermau empire have botU unexpeotedly im■ ■■!, aml Ihe pïopusfid Kxluctloff 6f 14,000,ikii) nuiiks taxaiion for this year is to bc made perpetual. jitSTRÊSa AMONO THE IKISH P(K)R. A Kanlurk correspondent describes a remarknble scène al the meeting f tin por law inotTdians. The day was bitter cold and aboni 200 famlsbed persons stond without the work-house, wüeTe toe goantiane met. Ailiotig them were 80 stalwarl bul huugry-lodkJnffiaborers who loudly deinanded work, luit the iuanlians C(jii11 give them noue. In the midst ot the meeting word was brought that the laliorers were torctng their way into the Imilding. Business vv:is susiwuded and a dead prevailed. Immediately afterward fiotstfiK were benrd ascending the stairs. Tlip door was almost (ken from its Muges with the kiekint; and pushin it received trom the ontside. Several voiceswere lieard callinj; on the guardians to open tlie door and ffive them relief. The door waa opened hy .Mr. Uauliffe, oue of ilie ({uardians, who was ibou to leave the room when he was throwu back and informed thal nelther be nor anyother tniardlan in the room shonld leave unt.il tuev had done aoinetblng fur them. The passage onthestairs was throngod with sullen, faiuished lookl&g men. A scène of confusión en-ucii whicli lasted severa! minutes, in the background BorhB poor fe.llows were wéeplng Uier m Unie the iihni ;ot to underslau.l that they could find bread and tea in the hallr and ihat their families would receive onfaktOI relief for i week. The beseiged giiai'dia9 were, on this understanding, allowwl to go uninterrupted. News trom Aerquez states that in a sortie the Turcon:; d S0 soliücrs, whom they ttnmediately murdered. The Askkbad Tiiroomans captared and killed 100 Pèrelan flders. The Boen foimht with dfMngólabed gallantry at the batl'r óf Drakenburg, and the Englisll suffered a very heavy loss. In the Portuguesa cliamher of deputies a motion w;;s Introduced proposlng that Porta gal medíate hetween Knglaiul aml the Boers. . BrdnetOO Bome Rule memlierof parliament for Lorigford oounty, basseoeded trom Parnell'a p;nty. The case of Mrs. Fletcher, the so-oalled spiritual medium, accused of íefraudiiiíf Juliet A. Davits, has been adjourned for a l'orinight. Jiilni lieiliiiDii.l.land leaguer, who announces iiiniselt as adotermined eneoiy of English rule I, has been eleeted toparliameutfioin Vew Hoss. No ne was bold enough to ruu in Öppositloo, tor fi'ar oí heing '"lioycotted." epa reporta Uní Tu dnefneers, su. mdeute and dectora Jvvve be#n ssni lu tlie (-(liinus to superintenl the labor on the Panania eenaL ■ I HrilWi regiment have nrrived at '■ 'apeTowu asrelnl againsttbe'Boera, und havï beer fmwardfd aH rapidly as possible to the Heat o war, (i ni Etaníburg has destroyed the largpr porlionof asilk f ctory Inaured for i,luo,ouo marks, piostly in Engltsb companies.

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