The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-30
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Peace Still Reigns in Mexico.
France Besieged by Beyies Of Butter
flies,

Rational Assocsted Press to the Star
PARIS. June 3d. Swarms of butterflies
are reported from Southern and Central
France. They first appeared in Italy and
Spain, and recently the Marseilles coast was
covered with them. A cloud of white and
yellow butterflies passed the same day near
Mentelmar Station, the passage lasting fif-
ty minutes, while stragglers followed for
another half hour Tne invasion has ex-
tended as far as Alsace.
At Angers there was q swarm estimated
at twenty thousand, which, after passing
over the public walks, traversed the Rue
Du Mail at only a slight distance above the
ground. Westerly gales and occasional
thunder-storms have occurred simultane-
ously with this unusual phenomenon.
A DELICATE INSTRUMENT.
Herr Bunge, of Hamburg, has Just COM
pieted the construction of standard kilo
gramme for the International Commission
of Weights and Measures at Paris 1t has
occupied him eight months, and is of such
delicacy that the person using it must not
approach within two yards, as the warmth
emanating from his body might disturb its
action.
FOUND HIS MENTAL EQUILIBRIUM.
PARIS, June 30.-General Merten, Ex-
Minister of War, who disappeared eight
uOutHS ago, Dellr SuppoSe'l W nave CUIn-
mitted suicide or to have been murdered,
has just rejoined his family as suddenly as
he left it. The death of his son so preyed
upon him that he went into a Trappist
Monastery, and there stayed until he recov-
cred his mental equilibrium.
Germany.
RESIGNATION OF MINISTER'S.
BERLIN, June 30.-The rumor that Herr
Horbrecht, Minister of Finance, has re-
mgned is confirmed. 1T is also stated that
Hers Falk and Friedenthal will probably
resign.
INVESTIGATING THE PRINCES DEATH.
LONDON, June 3O-Further advices from
Capetown state that searching inquiry is
being made into the circumstances attend
ing the death of the Prince Imperial. The
proceedings thus far have elected evidence
of the most conflicting character.
The Prince Imperial's body has been
placed in coffinS OF lead and wood and all
medical arrangements for preserving the
body admirably carried out.
CAVALRY sKlRMIsHING.
Several heavy cavalry skirmishes have
taken place with the Zulus, who are nu-
merous and daring.
CETEwAYo SUES IN VAIN.
LONDON, June 30-Advices from Cape
Town state that peace messengers have ar
rived from Cetewayo for the purpose of en-
deavoring to obtain q suspension of the
advance of British troops into Zululand,
but their efforts have been unsuccessful.
Bulgaria.
PRINCE on HIS TR&vELs.
CoNsTANTINoPLE June 30.-Prince Alex
ander of Bulgaria, who has arrived here,
has been presented to the Sultan, who in
vested him with the Rerah. He will i'm
mediately proceed to Varna, thence to
Rustichuk, and thence again to Tirnoya,
the old Capital OF Bulgaria.
Egypt.
IsMAEL's FUTURE HOME.
CoNsTANTINorLE, June 30.-Ismael, the
deposed Khedive, who was offered his
choice of residence either at Smyrna or
Brousse, has selected Smyrna as his future
residence.
Great Britain.
FARMERS SHOW THEIR SPIRIT.
LONDON, June 30.-Thcre is great excite
ment in Williamstown, County Galway,
Ireland, in consequence of notices that
have been extensively placarded warning
farmers to refuse to pay their rent unless
they are granted an abatement of twenty
five per cent.
EMPRESS SERIOUSLY ILL.
LONDON, June 30.-Ex Empress Eugene
has to-day return Of her violent parox-
ysms, and her condition is considered very
critical.
SpR,n.
SATISFACTION OR BLOOD.
MADRID, June 30.--rhe Spanish fleet has
been ordered to blockade San Domingo un-
less satisfaction is given by the authorities
for the execution of two Spanish Generals