The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-10-18
FOREIGN FLASHES.


Simla: The restrictions against news
paper correspondents accompanying the
British army in Afghanistan have been
withdrawn.
Paris: Arch Duke Frederick, brother
Of Arch Duchess Marie Christine, the
future queen of Spain, Is dangerously
i'll of typhoid fever.
London: A dispatch from Cabul
says that three Afghan chiefs are now
imprisoned. The British military COM
mission meet this evening.
Vienna: Snow is falling here thickly
and is now six inches deep. At Gratz
the snow is several feet deep. Such
weather Is unprecedented at this time
of year.
Manchester: The marquis Of Sails
bury to-day received an address from
the Manchester chamber of commerce
recommending the establishment of a
ministry Of commerce.
There is reason to believe that the
Chinese government will readily agree
to such notifications Of the present
treaty as Judge Field proposes, which
will make 1t all o. X. in the spring.
Vienna: Count Albert Appouh, one
of most notable oppositionists, has re-
signed his seat in the Hungarian diet.
The count intends to pursue scientific
studies in the United States.
Berlin: After his defeat by the
Turcomans. Gen. Lomakin, the COM
mander Of the Russian expeditions in
central Asia, was ordered to desist
from the offensive and await the arrival
of Gen. Fergurkasoff.
London: The excitement in the tin
and iron trades continues. Yesterday
a further advance Of from 81 to e3 per
ton for sheets was noticed. There was
further relapse In the Glasgow pig
iron trade. Warrant iron is quoted at
SO s. 10 d. bid and 81 8. asked.
Montreal: The dense smoke on the
river continues and navigation is en-
tirely suspended. The Sarmatian
which left yesterday for Quebec, after
a prolonged detention here from the
above cause, only got forty miles down
the river when it was forced to go in
to shore.
London: Advices from Pretoria
state that an officer will go to the
country of Chief Secocoeni, previous to
the commencement of hostilities, to
make final attempt to arrive at q
peaceable settlement. The conduct of
Secocoeni is lately becoming more hos
tile.
Constantinople: The Albanians ap-
pear determined to use every means to
prevent the cession of Epirius to Greece.
The attitude of the Albanians renders
it difficult for the porte to accomplish
a cession of the Albanian territory to
Montenegro as stipulated in the treaty
Of Berlin.
Constantinople: 1t is rumored that
a crisis impends in the Turkish minis
try. The disturbance occurred in Leba-
non, Syria, between the Druzes and
Marionits in consequence Of the abb
duction of girl. Several Maronits were
killed and the government has asked
the porte for more troops to restore or
der.
A Victoria dispatch says large pub
lie meetings have been held on Van
couver Island and on the main land of
British Columbia, at which resolutions
were passed and petition to Sir John
A. Macdonald, premier of the Domin-
ion government, signed, protesting
against the employment of Chinese
labor in the construction Of the Canada
Pacific railway.
Manchester, Eng: Lord Salisbury
made a great speech. at the banquet
here tonight, in which he remarked
that the opposition leaders after attack
ing his circular in reply to the San
Stefano treaty, and after having per-
mittei Gladstone to expend the limited
resources of his sophistry upon it, had
had now veered around and asserted
that that the government had not acted
up to the circular by opposing Russia
sufficiently.