Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-07-22

The River and Harbor bill was
taken up in the Senate on Wednesday i.
A number of amendments were made
increasing the amount of the bill to
500, 900, 900, and it was then passed by
39 yeas to % nays.
The Senate added to the River and
Harbor bill as it came from the Com
merce Committee S763, 900, making a to-
tai of 500, 247, $40, or about 80, 600, 900
more than the largest River and Harbor
bill ever before passed.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
"A serious railway accident occurred
on the Taltal Railway in Peru on the
18th of June, in which ten lives were
lost and property valued at SIS, 600 was
destroyed.
"A horrible catastrophe occurred in
Buenos Ayres during the celebration of
funeral services in honor of General
Garibaldi. A curtain in one of the
lodges caught fire. The edifice was
crowded at the time, and in consequence
of the crowd OF people on the staircase
IN their anxiety to escape, wall fell
down, burying many of them. Twenty
bodies were subsequently dug out of the
ruins, and ten were seriously wounded
France will cooperate with Eng
land III protecting the Suez Canal.
Russian crops are said to be good.
A woman has been shot at Balla.
county Mayo, Ireland, for taking farm
from which the former tenants had been
evicted. She died soon after being
taken home.
An insurgent Herzegovinian chief
has killed district governor, who was
recruiting, and twenty-five of the SOL
dlers accompanying him.
The ruins of Alexandria are said to
remind the spectator of Pompeii.
The men recently arrested in Ire
land as the supposed Phoenix Park
assassins did not leave London, Ont.
until May %, and consequently did not
reach Dublin until after the tragedy
had occurred.
The British rifle team, to take part
IN the international rifle match at Creed.
moor, will sail for New York on the
Goth of August
Two brothers named Flaherty, who
recently returned from America, have
been arrested in the north part of
county Kerry on suspicion of COM
plicity in the Phoenix Park murders.
They were remanded for a week.
Thirteen counties of Ireland are to
he proclaimed under the Repression
act.
"A steamer from China with cargo
OF tea went ashore in the Suez Canal and
was plundered by Arabs.
The British GOvarnpanf 30 ,,ra,@o~
ing for campaign in Egypt.
A train with pit persons on board
ran off the rails between Tcherny and
Bastileur, Russia. One hundred and
seventy-eight persons were killed and
those who were saved were more or less
injured.
During the bombardment at Alex.
andria telephone was attached at Malta
to the Mediterranean cable, and though
it was impossible to communicate verb
ally, the commandment was plainly au-
dible at a distance of 1000 miles from
Alexandria.
An explosion of gas on Wednesday
In Rue Louis Philippe, Paris, destroyed
twelve houses. Twenty persons were
killed and forty injured. One hundred
were rendered homeless. The explosion
was the result of fire, nobody having
thought at the outbreak of the fire to
cut off the gas.
The Porte, on learning that Admiral
Seymour had opened fire. implored
Lord Granville TO order him to cease
the bombardment.
The British Consul at Port Said has
stopped ships from entering the Suez
Canal.