Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-28
Foreign Intelligence.

A BATTLE occurred the other day at HUI
anoco, Peru. between the united forces of
CarccreS, Recabarren and Gilas, in which
Colonel Garostiaga obtained n complete
victory, killing one thousand men and
capturing all the artillery of the army.
In Lima, Peru, earthquake shock of
long duration was felt "a few days ago.
THRoUGHoUT Northern Italy the crops
were on the 10Th said to have been wholly
destroyed by heavy storms of rain and
hail.
NEAR Ncwry, Ireland, four farmers
were arrested on the 18th for beating near
ly to death Il man who took farm from
which the previous tenant had been
evicted.
IN London a few days ago Miss Anita
Theresa Murphy, of San Francisco, Cal,
was married to Sir Charles Michael Wolse-
ley, baronet.
OK the 20th the steamer City of WASH
inGton arrived at Havana from Vera Cruz
with twenty-seven cases. of yellow fever
on board.
AT Cairo one hundred cases of cholera
We're reported on the Goth, -twcnty-four at
Mansoura, twentvfour at Samanoud,
twentyeight at Ghizeh, f9rty-four at Shir-
bin and three at Damictta.
4 POWDER explosion killed nine persons
at st. PctcrsburGh Il few days ago.
ADvICES of the 20th from Vienna state
that Il villaG in S;yria was recently burned
while the irhabttnts We're absent from
their homes, to give welcome to the En-
peror of Austria. 1t had been discovered
that IrrcGentists from Eudine set the will
age on fire, and five incendiaries were ar
rested.
DURING the seven days ended on the 22d
the deaths from yellow fever i'll Havana
were thirty nine.
IN Canada quarantine has been cstab-
liShed on all vessels from Mediterranean.
ports.
THE death of James NJ. Priest, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia, is
announced. He was IA native of Kentucky,
and went to Liberia in 1880.
THE British Rifle Team defeated the
| American Team i'll the great international
| long-rangc sl.ooting match at Wimbledon.
| The aggregate score of all the ranges, ut
the close on the 2Ist stood: British, i,Gl
points: Americans, 1,93i-the British team
being torty-five points ahead.
CHOLERA in Egypt is reported to he
| spreading to an alarming degree. At
| Cairo on the 2lst there were three hundred
and cighty-one deaths, thirty-three at
Mansoura, ninet y-thrcc at Shirbn, and
! over one hundred and fifty deaths in other
egyptian towns. All clIOEUS To ctpIililc INC
| plague had SO far proved unavailinG.
| The recovery of one hundred and
| twent y-threc bodies from the steamer
| Daphne, recently wrecked at Glasgow,
| Scotland, was announced on the 22d.
\ WIND and rain-storm of great severity
| passed over Exeter, Ont, on the evening
| of the 23d, and Great ed I'M ense excitement.
| Hotels, churches and houses were badly
| damaged: There was no loss of life.
BARNu4'S "Prince," said to be the best
! performing elephant on the cont inent, died
| at Hamilton, Ont, a few days ago. He
| was thirty-cight years old, and valued at
| 100000.
| In Egypt on the odd the deaths from
| cholera We're reported follows: At
| Cairo, 295: Damietta, Il; Mansoura, 10;
! Samanoud. %: Tantah, II; Chobar, Il;
! Shirbn, :3; at nine other places, - In
| addition to the outbreak of cholera ut the
! town of Fareskour, eight miles southwest
| of Damietta, leprosy had appeared there
| and was spreading rapidly.
THE death of MajorGeneral +. O. c.
| Ord, of the United States army (on the re-
! tired li,t), occurred at Havana the 23i
| of yellow fever. He born in Mary
| land in 1878, graduated at West Point, and
was Il corps commander IN the rebellion,
| participating i'll the capture of Lees army.