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Show LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH LAST KSGHT. Kptn.-Q rp---: y for tb Fi.t T-.ee Kri fry Wttrn luvB Tegrapii. The War in Europe. , j The French Goreriiiue ut j Furious Ara5tit ; England. i Bitter Feeling iu England Against France. Washburne will Protect Prussians iu France. France and England. New York, 19 The Tnhmu's Los-don Los-don special of this morning says private pri-vate tetters from Paris represesent the frospeet of serious trouble between ranee and England. The French government is furious at the tone of the English papers, and threaten to refuse all applications from the English Eng-lish for army passes. Certain members of the house of commons held a meeting yesterday to consider the propriety of holding a large gathering to express sympathy with Prussia; and prominent members have written letters approving the pro- I ject Th workingmen propose hold- j inga similar meeting. The feeling in London against Franee is intense. It is universally j believed that the troops recently called home from the English colonies have I been concentrated in anticipation of ; the present war. Great Britain has now at the home depots 95,000 troops, and can muster about 300,000. There is great activity in the navy. Chicago News. Chicago, 19. The European war still absorbs public attention, not only in the city but the country to a very remarkable degree. In some rural districts dis-tricts whose people are largely composed com-posed of Germans and French, where there are no daily papers, clubs are forming form-ing to obtain the latest telegraphic news. The telegraphic business has been immense, more dispatches having been handed into the Western Union office here than on any day in its previous pre-vious history. The Tribune's Washington special says the new- pension bill, pa.ssed near the close of the session, makes several changes which are important to pen sioners. Hereafter payments are to be made quarterly, the agent forwarding blank vouchers to each person on the rolls by mail, and on receipt of these vouchers in proper form, returning a check payable to the order of the claim- ant. Pension agents 3re allowed thirty cents for making out each voucher, which government is to pay, and no agent can eollect any fee whatever off a pensioner for his services. No attorney or agent is allowed to collect a fee of over twenty-five dollars for procuring any claim for pension or bounty. Horrid Outrage. Memphis,' 1?. The Ilumboidr Index In-dex says last Friday a number of disguised dis-guised men went to the quarters of some negroes named Oat hell, iu Davidson David-son county, broke open the doors, shot one man through the shoulder, and another in the head. Another was badly beaten and only saved his life by flight. They then outraged the girls. Next morning Squire Pierce summoned a posse, captured two men named Boyd and four others named Blantoi, Willis, Cooper an.l Hildn. who were fully committed. |