Show I 1 earthquake AT JEDDO IN JAPAN 0 0 i the ill lelh b of november at 19 1 0 p in a violen violent earthquake occurred at jeddo which wilch stroyd destroyed de ten housand thousand dwell awell inis fifty four temples and thirty thousand inhabit inhabitant ants anis fire broke out at the same time tim e in phily this ty dibbie diff rent parts of the he city til tiu eat fat th opened and clos cios A d ove tho thousands disands of guilfin bu ilfin s with their occupant occupants the shock was severe at S moda although Altho aitho ugh the distance from frota I 1 jeddo to simoda is but sixty miles it appears that no official account of the earthquake had been received at ilia tile latter place at the time lime of the ilia sailing of the schooner pac pay december loth the news diews was wag obtained through the dutch interpreter fer ter prefer preter the japanese seem d to attach but brit little importance to the catastrophe the inhabitants of tile the portion of the tile city destroyed were forewarned of the disaster and many of hem them escaped the buildings of jeddo jaddo are chiefly of one story and constructed of very light material The temples of worship howe however vei vel are lofty and in some somei instances are constructed of heavy masonry mas on news GREAT firk FIRE AND LOSS OF or LIFE IN on dec ath a fearful fire occurred at balia baila rat australia the flames burst forth from the U S hotel and spread with great teat reat rapidity to the adjoining houses the buildings burned were the criterion store adelphi theater Tl lealer iealer moodys moodus Moc moo klYS store adam adams co s express office U S hom hotel oak saloon and a number of small shops no less than ten burned bodies were fo folind in the thel ruins ruing ruins though from what cause canse such a fearful loss of life was occasioned the accounts do not state the only names mentioned of persons burned are a mr air nichols nichola and a miner nam d bob Sharr the loss is put down at sac union CHOLERA IN SYRIA A correspondent of the new york journal of commerce writing from beirut as late as dec loth states that they have had llad times limps in that city for six or seven weeks the cholera broke nut and made mada the city of souls a solitude from ten 0 o 13 have died did dally daily when it 5 would seem almost tile the entire population had hid li fled la the city the writer finally fled to a village at the he foot of the mountains where it is perfectly be healthy aliby there was at last accounts no abatement of the disease dise ae ibid SNOW ON THE PLAINS A dispatch dated on the alb of february from independence me afo to W M F magraw lU araw mail contractor on the paini in states that the thermometer is 22 degrees below zero and the snow three or four feet deep on cat a level on the plains the SantaFe santa fe and salt lace la e mails which started february have le turned returned ibid AMERICAN MINISTER TO greit BRITAIN mr buchanan was expected to leave Engl england arll aril for the united states on february unless the british should request liim him for important reasons to remain the he arrival of hi bucce ron sor mr air 0 TI dallas accepts the mission slon ston to Englan dand is to leave at once ibid EUROPE h ditore XI tope torE A gal pale e involving io coq 4 of property y in glasgow glaslow to the extent of about sterlins broke out and raged 11 on wednesday night feb ath A most fearful collision occurred in the hie en I 1 tish fish channel on foik folkestone Folk estone on the tile evening of I 1 the he ad instant between the josephine willit capt can canney ney one of the lor lot don and new zealand line of packet ships and a pow afo iron sch screw w eam ship called the manfo manro bound to the thames themes from limerick 1 merick werick which re bulted in the foundering foun derins of the he former ship and it was feared eared that over forty lives had bad been lost fi atie atle llie tile sana santa barbara gazette swi that head nead of cattle cattie cat tle ile have perish d in Ls angeles r county this spring springford for tor want of grass ICE they are packing ice thirteen inc inches h ea thick at cairo lil oli ill III the thickest A seen twenty five years BREAKING breaking VP UP OF THE AT cincinnati T cis cincinnati 1 Feb the licking river opposite this city commenced rising rapidly cesi yesterday t erday in rooming 0 rn intz iniz throwing immense immense quantities quantity quan titi of i nto the ohio thereby breaking bre akina up the ice in the latter the steamboats steam oats loats albertine flag bridge city cit Grapes grapeshot bot madonna salem and yorktown all stern wheel boat sunk and will prove a total loss several oher steamboats were injured A jarge number of barges and flat boats were also sunk the total los ios so eo far is estimated este mated at about and the he end is not yet the ohio riv rr fir is is risen about eight feet during the ast twelve v hours and ond is still rising live m misfortunes nes exceed 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