Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-09-26
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

LONDON Sept 96-The Jockey Morley VIII
ride Mr.. Lorillard's stx-year-old brown geldiny
which Will come Off at the New Market second
october meeting on Tuesday, the 7th OF octo-
Der.
Ship Aground.
LONDON, Sept. 26.-The steamer De Ruyter,
from New York for Antwerp, before reported
aground In the Scheldt. has not yet floated, and
II Is probable that about 600 tons OF her cargo
win have TO be discharged into lighters before
she can be got of.
Scientists En- Route to Africa.
LONDON, Sept. 26.-A dispatch from Lisbon to
the Standard says: The distinguished German
geographers, Doctors Graefe and Gasser, have
arrived here on their way TO Africa. They have
been sent by the German government on a
scientific mission.
The Russian Expedition Against
the TurCOmans.
LONDON, sept. ga dispatch TO the Standard
from Berlin says that the Russian telegraph
lines have been repeatedly cut by the Turco-
mans. The news from the advanced detach-
ment OF the expedition against the Teke-Turco-
mans across the kopet-Dagh is accompanied
with an urgent petition for reinforcements and
another division has therefore been ordered to
assemble at Baku.
LONDON, Sept. 26-At a meeting or the master
fron-ship builders in the Tees district IL was
decided to ask their employees to submit to a
reduction In wages, which the men will refuse
1t is probable that the weavers in the other
cotton mills at Wigan will follow the example
OF those in the Victoria mills and refuse to
NOlh, uut lUDS TtSlSldHce Is nOU expected, as
rev or the operatives are connected with any
trade union.
The German Quarrel With japan.
A dispatch from Berlin to the Standard SAYS:
The German quarrel with Japan is getting to
be more serious. A German steamer was re-
Gently authorized by the German envoy to the
Mikado to break the cholera blockade at YokO-
hama, In consequence of which Japan Is chanp-
Ing the cholera regulations concerted between
Japan ard the Christian powers. America sides
with Japan, but England supports Germany In
this affair.
French Specie for New York.
LONDON, Sept. 26.-The Standard In its dnau-
cial article this morning says that one million
sterling Will leave Paris to-day for New York.
Irish Ante Renters.
LONDON, Sept 26.-Three hundred agrlcul-
tural tenants have arrived in the town Of TIP
perary, Ireland. They have refused to pay the
full amount of their rent and 1t is feared there
Will be disturbance over the matter.
CetyxyayO and His Chiefs.
A despatch dated Cape Town, Sept. 9, says
King Cetywayo left Port Durnford on the 4th
inst, and his arrival here is hourly expected
castle. All the remaining hostile chiefs in
Zululand have surrendered to the British au-
thorlties. Sir Garnet Wolseley arrlyed at
Utrecht Transvaal on the 7th inst.
French Affairs.
PARIS, Sept. 26.-The Courier du Soir says
that M. Blanqu is seriously Ill. The transport
Var has landed another convoy Of amne5tied
communists at Port Vendres.
Incendiarism i'm Russia.
LONDON, Sept. 26.-The Russian official Mes
Senger states that two thousand nine hundred
and eighty-seven fires occurred in Russia
during the month Of August, causing damage
to property to the amount Of twenty million
IoubleS.
RinderPest.
A dispatch to the Times from Paris announces
the appearance Of a case Of rlnderpest near
Konigsberg. The dispatch also says that the
disease is extending in Russian Poland.
Agricultural Emigrants.
LONDON, Sept. 26.-The last party of tenant
farmers sent as delegates to Canada to investi-
gate the advantages of Settlement in the Do
minion, who sailed yesterday in the steamer
Sarmetian, from Liverpool for quebec, repre-
sent portions Of Scotland and the north, east
and west of England. Seventy farmers from
Sweden also sailed in the steamer Sarmeten,
intending to settle in Manitoba. II their un-
dertak1Dg proves to be successful they will be
joined by six hundred SwedeS next spring.