Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-06-30
FOREIGN Intellfgence.

Foreign Intelligence.
THE races at Stockbridge, Eng, on the
21st were won by Iroquois and Aranza,
two American horses owned by p. Loril-
lard .--s
On the 21st James Carey, the infOrmer,
was given the option of emigrating to a
British colony or remaining in Dublin
without police protection.
A REPORT was received by the French
Cabinet on the 21st that the Queen of Mad
agascar had been dead six months, but the
military party in the island had kept the
matter a secret.
FROM various points in Germany tele-
grams the 21st announced disastrous
floods. Those in Silesia were attended by
waterspouts. A large part of Hirschburg
was under water, and the water in the
River Nesse was the highest known in
fifty years. The mountain streams in the
Tyrol were rising rapidly, and it was ex-
pected that the " Beautiful Blue Danube"
would overflow its banks.
SUCH enormous numbers of caterpillars
appeared in several counties in Nova SEQ
tia on the 22d that railroad travel was im
peded.
RECENT Shanghai advices state that
France and China have reached an AMIGA
BILE adjustment of their diplomatic Difficult
ties.
THREE of the informers in the Dublin
prosecutions landed at Quebec a few days
ago, and but for police protection would
have been flung into the St. Lawrence
River by their fellow-countrymen.
RIOTs against the jews occurred recent
ly at ST. Gall, Switzerland. A number of
Jewish shops were pillaged, and the police
| were stoned while endeavorlng to stop the
rioters. The soldiers were summoned to
quell the disturbance.
THE royal palaces of the ancient city of
Athens were the odd threatened by an
archists with dynamite.
A FEW days ago Michael Flanagan and
his son were drowned near Hamilton, Can,
by the upsetting of a boat.
THE Canadian Government, owing to the
influx of emigration to Northwestern Can
ada, has decided to make no further sales
or grants of land for the present.
DURING severe fighting recently at Mira
goane, Hayti, General Casimir, the rebel
leader, was killed, and the Government
forces were in possession of the lower por
ton of the city. Twenty-four insurgent
ringleaders at st. Louis and ten at Cs Yallon
had been shot.
ADvICEs of the 24th from London state
that seventy persons were drowned by the
recent floods in Silesia.
AT the hospital in Vera Cruz, Mex, tel
deaths from yellow fever occurred on the
22d, and no less than one thousand deaths
We're reported for the past two months. AT
Havana, Cuba, fifty-two persons died OF
the disease during the week ended on the
sd.
THE Hurunui and Waitara, New Zealano
passenger vessels, collided in the English
Channel on the night of the 22d, and the
latter went to the bottom in two minutes.
The steerage and second-class passengers,
numbering twenty y-five, were all drowned
| AT Dametta, in Northern Egypt, a
cholera epidemic has broken out, and many
deaths were reported the oath. The
disease was spreading with alarming rap.
idity.
AT Paris on the 23d Louise Michel was
| found guilty of melting topillage, and was
sentenced to six years. Imprisonment and
/ ten years police surveillance.
DUBLIN has elected Alderman William
| Meagher as Lord Mayor.
AN affray occurred at the Currah of Xii
| dare, Ireland, the other evening" between
| North Mayo and Dublin militiamen, orig
I mating in gambling dispute. Five men
were killed and seventeen others were in
| jured.
A COLLISION on the Havana & Matanzas
Road in Cuba, a few days ago caused the
death of eight persons.
| ALONG the shores of Labrador the jam OF
ice was so great the 25th that spring
supplies had been almost cut off, ard some
deaths from starvation had already oc
| Cured.
On an island in the Neva, at st. Peters.
| burg, several buildings were destroyed by
| fire few evenings ago, causing loss OF
! 800 900 rubles.
| A FIRE broke out during performance in
a small theater at Dervio, in Italy, on the
evening of the 24th, and in the panic which
! ensued forty persons perished, while
| twelve others were wounded.
| In the western portion of England sligh,
! shocks of earthquake were felt on the 2oth
| No damage was reported.