The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-05
NEWS FROM ABROAD
Here and There on the Other
Side of the Atlantic.
NOT FORGETTING OLD IRELAND
National Associated Press to the Star.
China.


National Associated Press to the Star
China.
LATEST FROM CHINA.
san FRANcIsCO, March 5.-The steame
Oceanica has arrived from Hong Kong will
the --latest advices. The news. apers o
Hong Kong discussing the effect which the
passage of the Chinese restricting bill woult
have, says California will be glad to get the
Chinese again when labor is needed fol
other railroads.
Much discomfort is manifested in the
Hankka Districts, near Swatow, and there
are signs of rebellion. There is large I'M
migration OF women to Hong Kong from
the turbulent districts
France.
NJ. LEPIE's SUCCESSOR.
PARIS, March Sat the Cabinet Council
held last evening. NJ. Tirard was appointed
Minister OF Commerce to succeed NJ. Lepre
AMNESTY BILL PROMULGATED.
PARIS, March 5.-The Amnesty Bill has
has been officially promulgated.
Afghanistan.
MORE GUERILLA FIGHTING.
LONDON. March 5.-A dispatch from the
NicerOy OF India says there has been further
guerilla lighting in Afghanistan.
Great Britain.
TIE LOST LIBRARY.
LONDON, March 5.---There was much con.
stcrnaton caused in literary circles here by
the dispatch from Edinburg stating that the
Law Library of that city had been de-
stroyed. 1t was for while supposed that
this dispatch related to the Advocates Ii
brary, the largest and most valuable collec-
ton of books in Scotland founded in 1862,
under Charles |, aud containingat the pres.
ent time 260, 900 volumes OF valuable works.
A subsequent dispatch, however, states
that the Library destroyed was that OF
Scots Law DEBATING Society, new and
comparatively insignificant collection. 1t
contained, however upwards of fifty thou
sand volumes, and its destruction is Sc
we're loss, especially to the legal fraternity
of Ednburg.
SEND IN YOUR CATTLE.
LIVERPOOL, March 5.-Authorities have
announced that the wharf and quarantine
houses for imported cattle on the Mersey,
are now completed and perfectly ready for
occupation. Importers of cattle from
America or elsewhere will be subjected to
no further Inconvenience than that which
will attend the landing of their cattle at the
designated wharf, and their quarantine in
sheds erected for that purpose.
DISASTROUS EXPLOSION.
LONDON, March 5.-An explosion has oc-
CURED in Deep Drop Coal.pit Wakefield
Nineteen persons were killed.
spain.
RESIGNATION OF TIE CABINET
LONDON, March GA dispatch from
Madrid says the resignation of the Cabinet
yesterday was followed by no increase of
excitement, in fact the interest taken in
the political situation is confined chiefly to
official or semi-official circles, and the gen
cral public show little anxiety or feeling in
the matter. The King is said to have be-
haved very well in the matter Heis quite
in favor of the Cuban reforms proposed by
Gen. Campos.
Germany.
THE PARLIAMENTARY DISCIPLINE BILL.
BERLIN, March 5.-The debate in the
Reischtag on the Parliamentary Discipline
Bill was begun yesterday.
Foreign Flashes.
Disastrous floods have occurred in Npn-
gary.
Numerous arrests of Socialists have been
made in different parts of Austria.
A Greek band has crossed the frontier
into Thessaly and destroyed village.
The Brazilian Government will probably
increase tobacco duties twenty per cent
The King of Sweden has undertaken to
act as mediator in the North SCh!eswig
question.
Five Of the crew of the Spanish steamer
Guillermo are missing and believed to be
drowned.
Lilly & Wheeler, merchants in the Afri-
can trade, Liverpool, have failed. Labili-
ties 5000
Nihlists at Cracow yesterday made an at.
tempt TO destroy the police Office, but were
unsuccessful.
A medical commission has been appoint
ed to investigate the alarming prevalence
OF diphtheria in South Russia.
The Hilltop Mill, at Burnley, England
running six hundred looms and thirty
thousand spindles. has suspended opera
tions. The depression is severe
The River Theiz has overfowed its banks
and inundated immense tracts of land
Shegedin and many other towns are greatly
endangered Troops with pontoons have
started to save life.
The Havana Government has advised
municipalities to establish public shools for
Colored children and wherever this can not
promptly be done colored children should
be admitted to white schools.