Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-04

and sanitary management on Atlantic
steamers. 1t was suggested that request
be made to the American Government to
contribute toward the expenses of vaccin-
ating passengers.
IT was officially announced by Sir
Charles Dixie in the British House of Com
mons on the 9th that there was no
Asiatic cholera in Europe, and that three
suspicious cases in England proved to be
simple cholera, of which this year there
had not been the ordinary average.
FEW days ago a man and two women
who had fallen asleep on the track of the
Matamoras s. Monterey Road in a drunken
stupor were run over by special train,
and the Mexican authorities placed all the
train employees in Jail.
IT was reported on the 9th that the re-
pudiation by Mexico of debts due to Span
ish subjects had brought about the recall
of the Spanish Minister. Serious CONNER
cial troubles were expected to result.
RECENT advices state that the British
Commander at Tamatave demanded that
the state of siege be raised, but Admiral
Pierre refused to comply.
AMONG the killed in the recent slaughter
in Zululand was a son of Cetewayo.
IT was reported on the Doth ult. from
Quebec, Can, that James Carey, the Dub
lin informer, had arrived in that city.
BY an explosion in mine at Gallant
setta, Sicily, recently thirty-five out of
seventy miners were killed.
THERE were forty eight deaths from yell
low fever in Havana during the week ended
on the 2Sth uIt.
A MADAGASCAR dispatch to the French
Ministry of Marine says that force of 500
French troops under Colonel Badens made
a sortie from Hanoi recently, capturing
seven pieces of artillery and killing 900
of the enemy. The French lost but eleven
men.
OK the 2Sth ult. a man named Terry left
Dover, Eng, n floating tricycle. and
crossed the English Channel, reaching
Calais, France, in safety in eight hours.
THE town of Casamicciola, in the Island
of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples, was al
most entirely destroyed by an earthquake
on the night of the 2Sth ult. Three thou
sand persons were killed outright and eight
hundred were injured.
The Spanish Minister to the United
States, Francisco Barca, committed suicide
with a revolver in a New York hotel on
the Goth ult. He was about to return to
Europe with his wife and daughter. FL
nancial troubles were supposed to be the
cause.
BY the upsetting of a boat at Matane,
Can, few days ago Joseph Hays, the
first officer, and G. Hays and Albert Cor
don, of the briGantine Olio, were drowned.
A LONDON dispatch of the 3Oth ult. states
that James Carey, the Dublin informer,
was sent to South Africa by the English
Government. While leaving the steam
ship Melrose, at Port Elizabeth, he
shot dead by man named O'Donnell, who
was arrested. The Government had taken
special pains to protect the refugee, and
intense excitement was caused throughout
the British Empire by the news of tho
tragedy.
A DISASTROUS fire which occurred
Gently i'll Semenov, a Russian town of 3 900
inhabitants, destroyed one hundred and
eighty houses.
THE deaths from cholera on the 29th ult.
were $50 at Cairo and 4i3 at twenty other
places between Minyeh and the Mediter-
raAean. The disease was reported as de-
creasing at Damietta and at Mansoura,
where nearly 5000 deaths had occurred. 1t
was still gradually spreading southwark
along the Nile districts.
THE loss of life by the disaster at Casa
micciola, Italy, was on the 3Oth ult stated
at four thousand, and the wounded at about
two thousand. Prof. Palmieri, director
of the observatory Mount Nesuvus,
claimed that the calamity was not due to
an earthquake, DuC 10 tne SuDsldeHce Oh
the ground.
SOCIALIST worlSmen at Geneva, Switzer-
land, held a meeting a few days ago at
which violent speeches were made, sum-
moning the State to provide employment
for workmen. The Socialists, being re-
fused an audience by the officials, un
furled the red flag. Several arrests en-
sued.
THE protracted wet weather in Great
Britain during July was reported as hav-
ing produced an unfavorable effect on tho
crops. The supply of foreign wheat at the
end of the month was large, which had
weakened the market.
DAUGHTER of Sir Samuel Baker, the
explorer, Miss Ellen Baker, committed sui
eide a few days ago. The young lady, in
ministering to the wants of the poor in
London, had overtaxed her strength, caus-
ing her mind to give way.