The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-20
FOREIGN.

The French consul was insulted in the
street in Constantlnople.
Failure to pay his rates at Dublin has re-
suited in James Carey, the informer, being
declared bankrupt.
The Joint committee of the British Lords
and Commons on the channel tunnel has re-
jected the schemes to 4.
The plague has killed all the cattle in
the Behera EGYPT district and the cotton
worm is now rapidly destroying that
plant.
A strong feeling prevails at Berlin against
the Vatican, and a rupture of the, relations
between Prussia and the Pope Is not i'm
possible.
The British Government and M. De Les
sepS have entered into an agreement for the
construction of new Suez Canal, parallel
to the present one.
A bill was introduced in the French
Chamber. on Tuesday authorizing the sound
ing for piers for railway bridge to Eng.
land across the Straits of Dover.
The motion Of Republican member in
the French Chamber Monday to pardon
Louise Michel and the Paris and Mont
ceau.les-Mines rioters was rejected-3c4 to
50. ..
Detectives in Ireland have exhumed
box containing six thousand dynamite car
tridges part of the Quantity stolen two
y
easier.
The alarm in London over the cholera
caused discussion in the cabinet whether
or not to recall the British troops from
Egypt, but Lord Wolseey decided in the
negative.
James Carey, the informer, has been
taken by detective from Dublin to Lon
a written pardon. His family were sent in
advance.
One hundred citizens of Marseilles met
to take action on the sentence of Louise
Michel, and adopted resolution to murder
the jurymen who rendered the verdict
against him.
The House of Lords committee on the
land act reported that the immigration
clause Is failure, that the modes of valua-
tlOn are untrustw0rthy, and that the rela-
tons between tenant and landlord have not
improved.
Favorable weather in England has great
ly benefited the crops, and the breadstuffs
market Is stagnant. Domestic wheat sold
In London the past week IS Sd per quarter
lower than for the corresponding period In
1882. -,
The international fie match at wimble-
don bids fair to be n Ateat success. The
Canadian team has gone into camp and
there Is much regret that the Americans re-
fused to do so. The chief shots have petit
toned the executive committee to allow the
use Of tho wind gauge.
Bradlaugh recently wrote to Gladstone
that he intended TO take his seat in the
house Of commons, without regard to orders.
A motion by NOrthcote that the agitator be
excluded from the precincts of the house
unless he agree to keep quiet was adopted
by 232 to %.
Cholera Is raging with violence at Swa-
tow, China. A yacht will be held in readi-
no NJ n IN 70 70 IN 70 10 NIL
One European died at Alexandria, where
the abattOirs are in filthy condition.
Provisions are said to have given out at
Damietta. d.
At the Sligo assizes, in Ireland, four men
were found guilty OF conspiracy to murder.
Two informers testified that the prisoners
acted under the orders Of a. secret society
and attempted to blow up the Weston house
at Galway, for which they were to receive
from 200 to R500. They exploded lbs. of
dynamite on a window SILL no particular
damage being done.
In the British House of Commons Tues
day night motion was carried prohibiting
the importation Of cattle from countries
where the foot-and-mouth disease existed,
and where the necessary sanitary measures
had not been taken by the authorities
The motion was aimed Indirectly at Ameri.
ca, and passed by hare majority-20O
TO 19!-the government voting In the mega
tive.
n CopTIc cnurch Oh inc NTH century
has recently been discovered among the
ruins Of Thebes. The way down to II
Is by five brick steps, the floor is tiled
and the walls are Of rough bricks, bear
Ing inscriptions. On a stella. covered
with hard white substance, are 800
lines written in red ink in Theban, form
ing part Of q sermon directed against
heretics.
II is said that why so many married