Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-11-10
Foreign Intelligence.

The City Hall at Londonderry, Ireland,
was seized by Orangemen on the 1st to
prevent the Lord Mayor of Dublin from
making Nationalist speech therein. When
the procession escorting the Lord Mayor
to his hotel passed the building the Orange
men opened fire, and also threw states
from the roof and windows. One man was
killed and another man and boy were
probably fatally shot. The police dis
persed a mob, and soldiers were parading
the streets.
In the Canadian Northwest twenty
thousand Indians have been SO successful
in raising grain this season that the Gov.
ernment will reduce their -four rations fifty
per cent.
The announcement was made on the I'd
of the failure of Carver, Derbyshire & Co.,
merchants, London and Manchester, for
1000, and Hollinshead, Tetley & Co.,
coin brokers at Liverpool, suspended with
liabilities of $JOC, 600.
On the railroad between Brest and Paris
a recent collision resulted in one person
being killed and seventy-nine wounded.
PRoTowsKI, Polish actor, who was ar
rested ut Dirschau, East Prussia, on the I'd
confessed that he was Nihilist who had
been selected by band of conspirators to
assassinate Prince Bismarck.
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in Glasgow, Scotland, a fire broke out on
the Sd and spread with great rapidity, con-
sumng several business structures and in
volving a loss of $2,OOO,OOO. Many wound
ed persons were taken to the hospitals,
and it was feared several lives had been
lost.
IT was reported on the Sd that Afghan
istan was in a state of complete anarchy,
the exchequer without funds, the troops
demoralized, and the Ameer a plaything in
the hands of the Ghilzais.
THE British Cabinet decided on the Sd
that war between France and China was
imminent, and instructions looking to the
conseT vative interests of Great Britain
were issued to all departments.
ADvICEs of the 4th state that the Marquis
of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Can
ada, had received several letters threaten
ing his life.
AT Londonderry, Ireland, ARRAYS con-
tinued on the Sd between Orangeman and
Nationalists, one of the latter being
stabbed. Several hundred factory women
struck against man whose political senti-
ments were obnoxious, and on parading
the streets they were stoned by a mob.
DEATHS from cholera to the number of
two hundred and forty occurred at Mecca,
Arabia, during the week ended on the Sd.
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY began a
mission of six months on the 4th in Lon
don, in an iron chapel seating five thousand
persons.
THE firm of 'Draugnault & Co., bark
dealers of St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, failed
on the Sd for 100000.
THE Princess Louise, the Marquis Of
Lorne and Lord Coleridge arrived in Liv-
erpool on the 9th from the United States.
A CoAL-sHED at st. Johns, N. F., fell
few days ago and two laborers were
crushed to death and four others were
riously wounded.
FIVE deaths from cholera occurred at
Alexandria, Egypt, on the 4th.
AT Crna Reka, Servia, four thousand
troops arrived on the 5th to suppress the
disorders. Fifteen hundred rebels, armed
with rifles, occupied strong position.
In Lyons, France, Anarchists on the 9th
exploded an Internal machine in front of
the house of a wealthy merchant, damag-
ing the building greatly, but injuring no
one.
A DISPATCH of the 5th announces the loss
of the whaling schooner Louisa, of New
Bedford, Mass, valued at $4,000, which
foundered in the Arctic, September %, by
colliding with ice, and six men perished.
FIRE recently destroyed the sheds at
tached to a distillery at Walkerville, Can,
and three hundred cattle perished in tho
flames.