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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 103, 13 October 1877, Page 3

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.French politics- are at a boiling heat. A good harvest is expected. The Pope lives on. The church is without active opposition to the Italian Government. The Republican "party is generally divided. - Brigbam Young died on August 30. There was an imposing public funeral, and seventeen of his. wives were present at it. The succession is decreed m the Twelve Apostles. The- women" are staunch to polygamy. The business managers of the Mormon Church are expected to plunderjthe Saints. Brigham Young left a fortune of 2,000,000 dollars. A letter from Peru (Laf acunga, July 25) gives details of an earthquake eruption* At Cotopaxi streams of lava issued from the volcano, sweeping everything on the Callao side. Another irresistible torrent followed the course of the Sagumal Biver. An immense quantity of property was destroyed, and 1000 lives were lost. The country was like a sea of roaring waters with crashing houses. The volcano poured'out enormous quantities of cinders, darkening the air from 1 p.m. to 10p.m. . > A sharp earthquake was feft at 2New Jersey on-Septeiuber 11. Davenport, the great Shaksperian actor, is dead. '-'."• All New York Customs officials have been summarily dismissed. Fifty dwellings were destroyed m New York by fire. The scene was heart-rending-. Scores jumped-from- the windows, the ladders being, too short to reach to the top of most of the windows-. The latest estimate places the losses £t 350,000- dollars. The insurances- are 200,000 dollars. . These have been extensive firoftf »fe

Montreal, New York, and elsewhere. At the New York fire on September 3 there -was considerable loss of life and 1,000,000 dols. * worth of property destroyed. Three spans of the Union Pacific Railroad Bridge at Omaha were blown down m a cyclone oil August 25. A train from New London to Connecticut tumbled into the chasm and was washed out through the culvert. Several people wer*e wounded. A collision on the Hudson River Railroad wrecked a passenger train which went over a bridge near Des Moiiics. All except the sleeping car sank hx twenty feet of water. Pifty people were killed and several wounded. Matty casualties from fires caused by lightning are reported. Two steamers .were burned on Lake Ontario, iind one on the Mississippi. Yellow fever is raging m New York, Savannah, and Florida. There are large shipments of gold from London. A Correspondent describing General Timapuffs gallant attack, which drove the Turks across the Lora, says there was an armistice for the burial of the dead. The Russians and Turks fraternised heartily during the armistice, shook hands, -. exchanged bread, and bartered trinkets for tobacco. The entry into Lovatz after its capture by the Russians is thus described : — " Up the slope Where the Russians had charged the" re~doubtj I was surprised to find so few dead, the Turkish fire having been too. high. Inside the redoubt, corpses of Russians and Turks thickly strewed the ground. At the western end/ Where" the' Turks were jammed m, m their efforts to escape, a space of 50 by 20 feet was covered with Turkish dead and wounded to a depth of 5 feet— living and dead lying on each other m a dense mass, steaming with heat and v blood. -Around this Moslem pile, was a: fringe of dead Russians, showing the dreadful struggle which had taken place on this small space, The Russian soldiers were standing upon this mass of humanity, . and I watched them working manfully to separate the living from the dead ; but. m half an hour they had made scarcely any impression."