Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-11-23

TWO CENTS.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
French Possessions i'm the South
PARIS, Nov. 23.-Owtng to the Increasing i'm.
portance OF the French possessions IN the
South Seas, the naval station OF Tahiti will
henceforth consist OF steam transport, a dis
patch boat and four sailing vessels.
The Outbreak i'm south Africa.
LONDON, Nov. 23.-The acting governor OF the
Cape Colony. summarizing the situation on
made TO the outbreak.
Hamburg and the Zellverein.
LONDON, Nov. 23.-A dispatch from Berlin to
the Morning Post says: The petition OF mer-
fon of 70 pnce ,S or the
represent the unanimous feeling OF Hamburg
but has served to bring out more clearly the at
tachment to the traditional free-t trade policy
stlll entertained by large proportion OF the
population. A counter demonstration Is afioat
With view to securing to Hamburg for the
future the privileges OF free port
War Between Egypt and Abyssinia.
The secretary OF the anti-Slavery Society
writes: IL is to be feared that there is little hope
that war between Egypt and Abyssinia will be
long ayerted. News has just reached me from
undoubted authority that orders have been is
by force. Two thousand troops are at Keren
and battalion has been sent to Sanhit. It Is
stated that 10000 soldiers have left Cairo A
German missionary In Abys states that the
King Is convinced that Egypt intends to attack
him, and has issued orders that all Mussulmans
must leave the country or be baptized.
Agitation for Advance Of Wages.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 23.-The Guardian saws.
The agitation for an advance OF wages In North
east Lancashire is renewed. At meeting OF
n ha DrAa
saturday, resolution was passed affirming
that an improvement has taken place in the
cotton trade, and expressing the hope that
employers would now give the promised in
crease,
Queensland Parliament.
BusBANBs Nov. 22.-The Queensland Parlia-
ment has been prorogueG. The governments
position is stronger, and they have succeeded in
passing the bill for the construction OF a trans
continental railway, and their other principal
measures
The Land League Prosecutors.
NEW YORK, Nov. PA special from London
great care that the speeches OF the public pros
ecutors In the cases against the members OF the
land league shall not become public before the
day OF trial, and thus betray the governments
course OF procedure 10 the accused. Each one or
the Queens compOSitors is guarded by detec-
tive, who watches every type as IL leaves the
case. The printers are sworn to secrecy. After
the speeches have been printed the proofs are
carefully sealed up and the type immediately
distributed.
a Turkish Alliance with the United
States!
The ConStantinople Fdh1t has Just assured
the Turks with great gravity that the United
States are burning with a desire to 90 to war
with England and inslnuates that Turkey is
about to enter into an alliance with Columbia
TO punish the common foe.
A Celebrated Painter Dead.
PARIS, Nov. 23-M. Leon Cogniet, the ce,e-
brated French painter, is dead, at the age of So.
The CZareWitch At Home.
ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. e3-The Czarewitch has
arrived here from Lvadia-
Has the War Begun,
CETT1NGE, Nov. 23.-Adv1ces from Anttvari
say the Montenegrlns, near Antiyari. reporf
that firing was heard In the neighb0rhood OF
Dulcigno throughout Sunday last.
The Albanian League Warned.
PAkIs, Nov. 2S.-A telegram from Bsdsic al
nounceS that Dervisch Pash8 has ordered the
committee or the Albanian league to dissolve
their organization under pain Of death. A
general assembly Of Albanians will te held to-
Gay.
A Struggle Against Hebrew InfIu-
ence in Germany.
LONDON, Nov. PA dispatch from Berlin to
the Times says:-"A pretty general feeling pre-
walls, which is founded on the utterances OF the
conservative semi official press, that the au
thoritfes are inclined to wink at, IL not openiN
encourage eil age the movement for stemming the
fislng Ihd ga tide Of Jewish power and influence ih
Prince Bismarck made no secret of his opinlo aa
Oh the subject, declaring in Parliament that De
was opposed to the admission OF Jews into
Office, and though subsequent events have
shown that he has somewhat modified his theo-
ries there is nothing to show that he does not
regard the more moderate phases OF the present
agitation With certain degree OF sympathy
In the last session OF Parliament Prince Biz
maIckS SOL introduced and got passed q bill
against uSuTy, but every one knew the rfal
author OF the bill. The court has not yet given
aDy distinct opinion In the matter. though 1t is
thought exceedingly strange that one OF the
EmperorS ctaplainS-Rey. Stoecker-Should
still have the courage 10 pursue his anti semitic
course with undiminished virUieDce.
Disrae1i's New Novel.
LONDON, Nov. %. Lord BeaconsneldS new
novel. in three volumes, entitled, "Endymion 9"
treats OF political events from the time OF the
death OF Canning, the eminent English states
man. up to about the year 1S42. The SdnddFd
reviewing the work this morning says: IL is a
political narrative which it Will probably be-
thought has less plot ana dramatic interes1
than almost any or even Lord Beaconsfeld y
novels. Among the characters supposed 10
nguTe In the novel under various pSeudonymS
are John Bright. Lcrd Palmerston, Lord Elcho
LORD Melbourne, Baron de Rothschild and Louis
Napoleon. II is doubtful whether q deliberar /.
peiusal OF the novel VIII enable any one to idea
tify the hero. ''EndymfoD," with any political
parsonage, but the manner I'm which Lady Mont
tort places herself and fortunes at the dispose
OF 'EDdymiOn" Will suggest to many an inci-
dent In Lord Beaconsfield's early public career.
Killed While Celebrating.