Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-14
Foreign Intelligence.

THERE We're during the twenty -four hours
ended on the morning of the 9TH one hum
dred and sixteen deaths from cholera at
Damietta, Egypt, and forty-seven at Sam
anoud.
\ FARMER named Griffey, near Ennis,
Ireland, was shot and seriously wounded
few days ago for taking possession of a
boycotted farm.
y FIRE recently destroyed the Broke
Spinning Mill, at Mossley, England, con-
tanning 1900 spindles, together with a
large stock of cotton. Loss, $125,00O.
Ten THOUSAND English iron-w orkers on
a strike marched to Dudleyport, Upton
and Maxley on the 9TH, entered the mills,
and qucnched the fires in the furnaces.
THE Chief of the Yoqui Nation, Cajalnc,
in Mexico, was assassinated while coming
from mass during the feast at Hoqui River
on the 4th. 1t was believed that his death
would throw all the rich lands and mines
open to the white men.
FREIGHT trains on the Grand Trunk
Road collided near Port Hope, Ont, q few
ioiav, ago, the locomotives and twelve cars
being demolished and a brakeman fatally
injured. The property loss was placed at
500, 200.
THERE were one hundred and nine deaths
from cholera reported at Damietta and
sixtv-eight at Mansourah during the twen-
tv-four hours ended at nine O'Clock on the
evening of the 9th.
\ BANKING-HOUSE clerk at Turin, italy,
who cmbezzled 100000 lire and fled to the
United States, was captured i'll New orll
on the 9Th.
The wife of a shop-keeper at Ricksdorf,
a Berlin suburb, few days ago cut the
throats of her two children, set fire to
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self.
THE confession is made by man named
Nielsen, who was arrested at Copenhagen
Il few days ago for arson, that he fired the
Victoria docks, in London, two years ago,
for the purpose of plunder.
IT is reported that cattle-plague has
broken out in Egypt, killing ninety per
cent. of the animals attacked.
IRISH Catholic Bishops, at a meeting i'll
Dublin on the 9th, condemned State-aided
emigration, maintaining large tracts of
uncultivated land, if titled, would support
the surplus population.
IN the Surah District, HindOstan, floods
had on the 9Th effected great damage. Five
hundred houses alone had fallen at Surat,
and thousands We're homeless. Whole viii
lagos had been destroyed.
IN the House of Commons on the 9th Mr..
Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland,
stated that of one thousand emigrants who
had gone to the United States two families
had been inmates of the work house at Bal
mullet. He said he understood emigrants
were being sent back because they were
desirable settlers.
NATIVES recently attacked a detachment
of British troops i'll India at n village in
Assam, and fifty of the villagers were
massacrcd. The troops suffered no loss.
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at the Sligo assizes, in ireland, of conspir-
acv to murder. Two infOrmerS testified
that the prisoners acted under the orders
of a secret society.
RAINS in Mexico have damaged the
Central Railroad t. the amount of S2oO,o"0.
IN the infected Egyptian towns the chol
epidemic is spreading. On the Sth
there We're "tv-"'"r- '--''-, 90 h"'rAi
eta, forty-eight at Mansurah, six at
Samanoud, six at Sherbin and one at Alex
andria.
The plague has killed all the cattle in the
Behera (Egypt) district, and the cotton
worm was on the 9th rapidly destroying
the plant.
FIFTY-SEvEN deaths from cholera at Da.
mietta, Egypt, We're reported on the ?th.
provisions We're scarce, and a famine was
threatened. The plague had broken ont at
Swartow, China, and was ging with great
violence.
THE translator for the House of Com
mons. b. St. Aubin, fell dead in the streets
of Ottawa, Ont, the other day.
VENEZUELA advices of the 9th state that
the Iocusts were making havoc in many
parts of the country. They had reached
Puerto Cabello, Valencia, and inland dis
tricts in the same longitude. In one night
all the vegetation in the neighborhood of
Meron was destroyed. 1t was feared they
would soon reach the fertile valleys of
Caracas.