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return to France.
The railway from Stockholm to Chris
tisna. In Sweden. was opened On the 10th
=. Paris dispatch of the evening of the
18Th says $500 women convicted OF set.
/, ting fire or attempting to set fire to build
logs in Paris. had been sentenced to trans
portation to New Caledonia
Late Indian mails mention an earth.
quake last month on the Island Of Bing.
tang, in the Dutch city Of RHO, an active
trading post, with population of 10000
There was great destruction of property,
involving millions of dollars, and fully 500
persons persisted. RHO is fifty miles from
Singapore.
Concerning the terrible famine in Per-
sis, a correspondent writing to the Turkish
Journal from Tabreez, says:
tine details which reach us of the des-
titution and misery which the drouth OF
last year has caused in the central and
southern provinces Of Persia are fearfully
heart-rending. That the people are dying
of hunger, even in the streets OF the cap
ital, is a minor phase of this terrible ca.
lamity. In Khorassan, parents are selling
their children as slaves TO the Turcomans,
to keep them alive, and in Ispahan men
have been seized in the act OF digging up
the corpses to serve as food for the starv-
ing families. In ShiraZ, Kehman, and
Yezo the wretched sufferers ende avor to
live on grass and roots which they find in
the neighborhood Pestilence follows
hard on the footsteps of famine, and be-
tween them half Of the kingdom of Per
STA is becoming rapidly depopulated.
A Rome dispatch of the 18Th says plot
for the assassination Of the Pope had been
discovered. 1t was concocted in London,
Florence and Paris by members Of the
International Society. The assassination
was planned to take place on the nth.
In the French Assembly, on the Goth,
NJ. Theirs made a statement Of the finan-
cial condition of the couatry. He said the
German war had cost France three mil
lizards of francs. The deficit of the fiscal
year 1901 reached 1851 ,000, 900 francs,
but of this amount the Bank Of France
had advanced to the government ], 33O. 0O0,-
600 francs, so that the immediate deficiency
for the year was reduced to 301 600, 900
francs but to this must be added 436, 0O0,-
900 francs for expenses since incurred in
suppressing the instruction in Paris. The
total deficit of 737,000,OOO francs Theirs
proposed to meet by imposing new taxes
The situation, he said, was difficult but not
disastrous.
A special dispatch to the London Duly
Nees of the Goth says that instructions had
been given from Berlin to stop the re-
turn Of German troops from France, and
to discontinue the surrender of French
prisoners.
The French loan is popular in Berlin,
and arrangements have been made for
taking large portion of it by German
capitalists.
Alexander Dumas has received letter
from Theirs congratulating him on an ar
ticle lately written by him (Dumas) for
the Press in favor of the continuance of
the Republic.
The census Of England, Wales, and ire
land is completed. The population of
England and Wales is officially stated at
about 22,7O0,OOO, and that of Ireland at
about 100000.
A hurricane has destroyed the cotton
crop of the country around the town of
Banda, in the district of Surat, India. The
loss is estimated at 10000 and it will
take years for the planters to recover
from the blow.