Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-21
Foreign Intelligence.

LORD DUFFERIN, at banquet given him
few days ago by London club, pre-
dicted that Canada would have pOpula-
ton of 100000 before the close of the
next century, and expressed his belief that
the English Government would never re-
peat the errors by which they lost the U nit
ed States.
THE death is reported of General Moore,
American Consul atlCallao, Peru, of yellow
fever, whose residence was at Decatur, Ill.
MOBs ran about the streets at Newry,
Ireland, on the evening of the 18th, as
saulting all persons believed to be Orange
men.
SEVERAL Jews in Ostrog, Russia, were
recently reported to have been tortured
and murdered.
A DISPATCH of the 18th from Lisbon says
that the bark Pimpoa, from Boston, recent
ly went ashore on an island near Fayal
and all on board perished save three per-
sons. She had thirty-thre souls on board.
In Tonquin, China, anarchy prevailed on
the 18th, and many marauders who how
cred about and fired at the French outposts
had been captured and hanged.
TWENTY-FIVE deaths from cholera oc-
CURED at Damietta, Egypt, on the 18th,
twenty-seven at Samanoud, four at Shir-
bin, three at Malta and one at Mansurah.
The total number of deaths thus far was
reported at J, 139.
AT ROstov, u Russian town of $1,000
Inhabitants, great fire ragged on the 18th,
and the whole place was threatened with
destruction. One-fourth of the town had
been destroyed.
FOURTEEN prisoners were shot recently
by Peruvian troops at Huarica, Peru, one,
an American, named Purley, being eXecut-
ed for being Chilian spy.
DURING the week ended on the 14th fifty
five persons died of yellow fever at Ha-
vana.
TWENTY people lost their lives in re-
cent fire at Liptoszentmiklo, Hungary.
FIVE children, who had taken refuge in
a culvert at Barnsley, Eng, during re-
cent rain-storm, We're drowned by the sud
den rush of water. The corpses were swept
distance of two miles.
IT is announced that Cetewayo's follow
ers have massacred fifty Zulu men, women
and children of White River, on the bor-
ders of Zululand.
AT Ghizeh, a suburb of Cairo, cholera
made it's appearance on the 10Th, causing
five deaths. Great precautions were being
taken to prevent the disease entering Cairo.
About 150 deaths from the epidemic oc-
Cured on the 14th, of which fifty-one cases
were in Mansurah and forty-three were
at Damietta.
AT Wurzburg University the other day
student was shot dead in a duel His an
tagonist, a German American, fled.
WHEN the eLieutenant-G overnOr of Nova
Scotia was sworn in a few days ago, by
an oversight he was not given the power
to sign marriage licenses, and no legal
marriage can take place in the Province
unless the banns are first published.
THE Erie & Huron Railroad bridge was
carried away few days ago by the flood
in the Thames River at Chatham, Ont.
II is announced that the hop crop in the
Ottawa (Ont.) district has been ravaged
by q small green fly, and the yield would
be far below the average.
THE discovery was made on the 18th that
among tho Cuban Treasury bonds deposited
in the Treasury at Havana at intervals by
the Spanish banks there were $4,000 in
counterfeits. At the Matanzas branch of
the Treasury still larger amount of the
counterfeit bonds had been discovered, and
four books, with bonds representing S50o,-
OOO, had disappeared from the Treasury.
In Damietta there were thirty i've deaths
from cholera on the 10th, sixty one in Nam
soura, twenty-five in Samanoud and tweu-
ty in Menzaleh. The diseas had appeared
in Cairo, and spreading i'll the Arab
quarters. People were leaving Alexandria
in large numbers. e
A STEAMER from the Congo River ar
rived at Lisbon on the 10th and reported
Stanley in good health. Five Belgian
members of his party had died.
AN attempt to fire the house of James
Carey, the informer, was thwarted by the
Dublin police a few days ago.
A FIRE destroyed four grain and oil
warehouses at Hull, England, valued at
100000, q few days ago.