Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-08
APPOINTMENT.


/ the Danube.
APPOINTMENT
London, Aug. In the house ot COM
mons this afternoon the appointment Of VIM.
II. Smith as one of the Joint secretaries to the
treasury, as successor of Right Hon. Geo.
Ward Hurt, first lord of the admiralty,
deceased, was announced officially.
TIE FAMINE.
Calcutta, Aug 8.-The famine is ncreas-
ing in Madras presidency.
CUBAN ITEMS.
New York, Aug. S-A Havana letter re-
cords number of disastrous business fail
ures with increasing commercial and fnan-
eial trouble. Gen. Jovellan has been re
lived from the command and Gen. Blanco
appointed He viii arrive in few weeks
Sick and wounded soldiers are constantly
arriving and the hospital room is taxed to
its utmost.
EGYPT THREATENED
London, Aug. 8A Daily News special
from Alexandria saws it is rumored that the
Abyssinians are massing troops onthe Egyp-
tan frontier and threaten descent on
Egyptian territory unless the traitor Walda
Mikail is delivered up Immediately. Gen
Gordon is expected on the frontier shortly
to prevent further complications
A DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT.
The Standard understands that Dr. Butt
viii resign his seat for Limerick and offer
himself for reelection in order to decisiyely
test the opinion of the people of Ireland as
to the relative authority of himself and Mr.
ParneIl.
BAD FOR THE BOYS.
Kingston, Jamaica, Aug 1-Some horri-
BILE disclosures have been made as to the
treatment of boys in the government re-
formatory, who were 50 i'll fed that they
were only getting bread on Sunday, and
one salt herring 10 eight youths Accord
ing to the testimony of Dr. Campbell the
medical officer whenever they got at lib
erty they rushed to pigs troughs and raven
ously ate putrid oflal and food that had been
thrown there for the swine
REBELLION IN HAYTI.
New York, Aug. S.-Advices from Hayti
state that the revolution has again broken
out in that republic The insurgents are in
force about ten miles from Port au Prince
which is declared in state Of siege. A
large portion of the city was fired and the
conhagration continued for two days and had
not been extinguished when the mail steam
er left. Priest Casalas is unpopular
with the native element.
From his known feeling of cordiality with
foreign merchants and foreigners in gener-
al he is suspected accordingly on that ac-
count He is good soldier, however, and
however strong the foreign element may be,
it cannot protect him from the designs of
those who seek to gain the object OF
their ambition by assassination General
Solomon, black man, formerly minister to
England under the imperial rule of Solon-
que, is the present aspirant to the Office and
says when he gets into power the colored
man and white man may both look out as a
black republic will make the streets of Port
au Prince run rivers with the blood of both.
The southern side of the island is equally
disatfected and at JAG mel the newspa-
pers are openly at variance
with the existing administration.
Numerous arrests have been made by the
! ,ro,rorn want rbia0, o,,Ipn ,,arcOoc e,,c,,on4
ed of being secretly engaged in revolution
ary plots.
A long and important dispatch from Bas-
sett L. S. minister, has been sent to the
state department on the subject of Ameri-
can interests in the present crisis