The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-05-01
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Io-Dav's Dispatches.
FOREIGN NEWS.
FRANCE.

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FRANCE.
PARIS, May 1.-The French chambers
will be asked to assist the sufferers by the
cyclone in the Isle Of Bourbon, on March
10th, when 35 persons were drowned.
ENGLAND.
LONDON, May 1t is said that Gen.
Lazaret is organizing an expedition on the
eastern shore of the Caspian sea which is
destined for Afghanistan.
A telegram to the Lloyds states that the
Chilian fleet has retired from the Peruvian
coast, to protect Valparaiso and other ports
threatened by the Peruvian port.
LOrillard's two-year old Papoose won
the race for the two-year old spring stakes.
at New Market to-day. There were four
starters, khabora, second, Rome Rule,
third.
VIENNA, May Owing to heavy rains
in Hungary and melting of snow, the
waters haYe everywhere risen. The gaps
in the dikes at Szegedin not yet being
closed, the waters have risen in the town.
and are re-fiooding the ground already be-
come dry,
PEsTH, May IA violent hurricane
atlSzegedin yesterday, destroyed the works
prepared for restoring the railways, 1lling
the breaches in the dams. The barges
filled with building material and earth
were mostly sunk. The storm caused ex-
tensive fresh breaches in the railway en-
| bankment and laborers are in great dap-
ger. Relief has been sent them.
PRUSSIA
BERLIN, May l.-Prince Alexander, of
Boltenburg, just elected to the throne of
Bulgaria, has resigned his commission in
the German army.
The Emperor will return the eighth of
May.
The grand spring military review has
been postponed to the 28th.
The Gar will attend the Emperor S
golden wedding, and return to St. Peters
burg the 18th of June. He will pass the
summer at Peterhoff and return to Liva,
dea in the autumn.
RUSSIA.
, ST. PETERSBURG, May IA feeling of
} gloom prevails. The rigorous police regu-
latious respecting watches, houses and visits
and searches by night, to be more s;rin
gent After nine in the evening nobody
will be at liberty to show himself IN the
: street without a certificate. upon which
must be written and attested the place
from which the bearer comes and to which
he IS going. General Gourko, the governor
' general, planned this ordinance. Soor
. it will not be necessary to light the candle
before half past nine, yet at nine ever!
one must be indoors, and after ten as il
!. the barracks every light must be out. Not
lwithstanding all this precautlon the lDse
curity in St. Petersburg increases. Ever.
day grenades are exploded in the street, ant
I; the intention of the Nihilists is believed tC
# be to keep the police in state OF constant
excitement, and tire them out or lull then
= to sleep with the idea that the danger ha
been exaggerated. They also reckon OF
harsh measures and arrests procuring dis
content among many people who, whe
the time comes for grand attack on th'
government, would join tho revolutionists
One night recently, sedltious placard
were stuck up in the vicinity of the thea
tres and at the corners Of business streets
r. and although the city police and deteC
tives at once hurried up and tore down tn
maniiestos, they nevertheless appeare
- anew. In this one night upwards of Is
persons were arrested and among all thos
which appeared to have anything to
I with the proclamation The secret bi
sticker on the other hand went On with b
work, the police being unable to discovt
him, The alarm at last became so great th
m two companies under Col. Deburgen, we
IN posted at the entrance to number OF hous
Ios aud in the streets, but when the gual
had it's attention called to the right, bill
I hn iafE nd CFt hov7 h,
been torn down on the left they reappes
a. ed. Since an attempt on the lite of Il
u Gear, troops have been held III readine
= day and night La every regiment t'
e companies in marching order, eqlpp
70 with ball cartridges are kept constantly U
der arms. Batteries stand ready hors
D. and mounted in the barrack yards,
YER squadron of every cavalry regiment, stan
&C in constant readiness to mount, and d
and night divisions of Cossacks patrol t
streets.
O. On the 10th peasant was arrested
n whose pockets were found dispositions
We revolutionary troops. According to Il
Get. document active operations were to col
mence at night between the 10th aud II
n Instantly the government made the ID
N, extensive preparations for defense. 1
Grapde Duke Nicholas took up his gu
,.,,e ters with his entire staff in the Offices
the general staff, opposite the winter r
9to acc. In the riding school Of the guar
a regiment of Hussars of the guards '
quartered. while the barracks OF the z
loft and Preobrajenzki regiments W
crammed full of troops, and the whole
~ tilIery of the guards received orders
W. hold itself in readiness for immedi
y action. The troops continued several d
ton and nights in the places assigned to the
10 10. By the recent fire at Orenburg
$sb dwellings were burned besides many p
lie buildings The Czar has contribu
- ten thousand roubIes TO the sufferers
the fire.
PENNSYLVANIA.
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