Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-08
FOREIGN.
CUBAN REFoRMERs

Madrid, Dec 8-Conservative leaders, it
is said, threaten to abandon and defeat the
ministers, if the scheme for the rapid aboli-
tion of slavery and reform in Cuba was per-
sisted in. Under these threats Premier
Martinez Campo, permitted an alteration to
be made in the draft of the bill which has
changed the whole tenor of the measure to
such an extent as to convince the liberals
that Premier Campos has completely sur.
rendered to the conservatives. The resigna-
tion of the ministry would seem to indicate
that they had not surrendered, but that they
despair of carrying out the scheme of Cam
pos.
COUNTING OUT THE MAJORITY.
Sofa, Dec. 8-The dissolution of the Bull.
garian assembly BY Prince Alexander has
produced the utmost astonishment among
The opposition members, who being in the
majority expected to come into power.
CAUSE FOR A SCARE.
Vienna, Dec. 8.-Newe of the appoint.
ment of Gen. Ignatieff Rassiar ambassador
to Rome has created quite scare In govern
ment circles here. Semi-official newspapers
qualify it as provocation to Austria.
DE LEssEPs.
st. Hazaire, Dec. 8.-DeLesseps, promo
ter of the Panama ship canal scheme, has
sailed for Aspinwall. He is accompanied
BY his wife, three children and fifteen other
CUBAN AFFAIRS.
Madrid, Dec. Sit is learned from
Cuban members of the cortes that the
course pursued by Premier Martinz Campos
IN submitting to the amendment Of the
Cuban reform bill may lead to the serious
development of an autonomist movement in
Cuba, when the Creoles become convinced
that nothing can induce Spanish statesmen
to depart from the fatal colonial policy
which caused the first rising in Cuba.
s ACc1DENTs.
London, Dec. S.-The British admiralty
has q telegram announcing boiler accident
aboard the warship Pelican, BY which
three persons we're killed and q number
injured.
The fast train on the Great Western rail-
way ran off the track at Morning Tree,
Essex. The driver and stoker were killed,
and several passengers injured.
REwARDlNG THE HEROES.
l1ondon, Dec. S-Queen Victoria to-day
at Windsor Castle received the officers and
men who distinguished themselves In thu
Zulu war, and conferred the Victoria crosl
and other decorations on one corporal and
three privates. Newdieate. Creslock. Pear
son aud other South African commanders
attended the ceremony.
AN HISTORIC BUILDING DAMAGED.
Tho main chapel of the Wesleyan chape
was much injured BY fire yesterday and th
historic building. Wesley's morning chapel
was gutted. Wesley's pulpit was saved
I but the beautiful frescoed ceiling is irrepail
rably injured and great doubts are entel
tanned whether the roof can be restored.
FIRE ON STEAMER.
Only few bales Of cottor were damage
, by dre yesterday on the steamer Arizona.
! sPKcULATING.
Paris, Dec. 6.-Cerresponden are cal
. vassiug the probabilities Of President Gre
: W inviting The senate to dissolve the chan
' Der Of deputies.
= REHEADEp.
. Singapore, Dec. s.-Intellsence has bee
|. received that Psa Pecchs, son in.law
. Thomas g. Knox, late British polite
l. agent and counsul general At bangkok, ha'
J. been barbaroualy behssded at Piechir
y Sian, and that Psa Peccha's father q
lbfoshss hays bssa imprisooed.