River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-05-06
CABLEGRAMS.

A London telegram says it is rumored
that the liberals propose to convert con.
soils into stock bearing 21s per cent.
THE fifth consolidated Russian rail
way loan of $l5,000,000 will soon be is
sued.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of April
90 says to-day is the 62pd anniversary of
the cars birthday, and 5000 persons
are released from imprisonment.
LONDON advices of the Both of
April says no tidings are received of the
missing ship ATLANTA and the 800 naval
cadets. IL is generally believed that
vessel and all on board are lost.
THE Hungarian finan eial bill for 1880
shows deficit of 100000 dorins
which will be covered by ali issue of
| 5000 900 of gold rentes and the sale OF
ra lway preference bonds.
TWENTY SIX thousand weavers en-
ployed in 116 mills in Blackburn dis
| trict, have gwen notice that they will
| strike unless the rate of wages is adj
vanced to correspond with the recent
advance 10 spinners and card-room
| hands.
BISMARCK is suffering intensely from
x Z
| of important government bills by the
| reichstag to proceed TO Luxembourg.
| Count Won Halgefeldt, ambassador to
Turkey. will assume charge of the for
eign Office for the autumn.
PORTUGUESE newspapers assert that
Macao is blockaded. and that the Chinese
cruisers captured seventeen vessels in
| Portuguese waters, and in consequence
the government has telegraphed to Mo
zambique ordering the corvette Rainha
de Portugal TO Macao. One journal
complains that the Portuguese govern
ment withholds kilograms from Macao.
ADvIcss from London announce that
the new liberal parliament was formally
opened by Lord Selborne, Lord High
Chancellor, the Duke of Argyle, Earl
Granville. Earl Sydney, and Lord North
brook, acting as the royal commission.
The procedure merely consisted in sum.
moning the commons to the bar of the
house of Lords and requesting them to
elect speaker. Only twenty Tory and
fourteen liberal peers. Two Bishops and
fifteen peeresses were present in the
house of Lords. In the house of Com
mons there was a meager attendance OF
the Irish members. The conference on
the land question in Dublin to-day de
tains Parnell and his adherents. Some
Irish members, including O'Donnell and
Finyon, sat on the Tory side, and other:
on the liberal side. The house, floor
and galleries were very crowdt d.
A QUEENSTOWN cablegram or the Goth
says: The decks of the Constellation
presented busy scene today. In the
morning the Bruiser took on board fifty
barrels, while the Goshawk was
loaded by means of light
er with two hundred barrels Of
food supplies In the afternoon -four
hundred barrels were transferred to the
Valorous. All the British gunboats fly
the American flag at the fore, a courtesy
which the Constellation returns, accord
ing to the rules of naval etiqutte. The
American officers have each night more
invitations than they can possibly &C
cept. The duke OF Edinburgh takes thu
deepest intert st in the relief movement
and personally supervises every detail
of the business of transhipment Tit
freedom of the city of Dublin, which
was offered yesterday to Capt. Potter
was rendered to him as the representa-
tive of the American contributors in the
relief movement 1t is an homo
which has been conferred upon only
three persons, namely: the late Mr.. lsaa'
Butt, Mr.. Gladstone, and the ex-presi
dent of the United States. One thous
and invitati ons have been issued for thu
ball in Dublin next Tuesday evening.