Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-07-02

THE PLAGUE.

THE PLAGUE.
THE CHEAT 0HOLEKA PANIC.
kOtting In India Warehouses;
Egypt's Ancient Curse.
A panic in breadstuffs now threatens
England. Its imminence is due chiefly to
the cholera blockade against India. There
seems to be no relief except from the
United States, and Americans, because of
the probability of an epidemic of Asiatic
cholera, which will practically cut off the
Indian supply of cereals, have before
them the best grain market ever given a
nation. There are many elements in this
probable breadstuffs panic which bode
great ill to the large European speculators
in human food. Nearly all the London
East Indian houses that deal in cereals,
by an apparently concentrated action,
early in the spring took steps to forestall
the American supply by securing corners
in Indian grain. The reasons they allcge
for their action were that they possessed
information showing that New York and
Chicago speculators had arranged to Sc
cure in advance the control Of the Amer
lean grain supply for the present summer,
and that all reasonable meteorological cal.
culatiOns pointed to bad grain weather
throughout England. They swarmed In
dia with experienced buyers and bought
up monopoly of the present harvest.
This is now reaped and is on their hands.
Tho weather throughout England has
| turned out, contrary to calculation, to
have been uncOmmOnly tiua for grain
growing.
The Suez canal is practically closed be.
cause of the absolute necessary quaran-
tine. Cholera is ravaging the country on
both sides of this necessary commercial
thoroughfare, and the people of that
country, in state of wild panic, are rum
ming for their very lives away from their
avocations. Grain lies piled up in Bombay
and Calcutta and in all the other Indian
ports, with prospect of rotting where it
it lies before either labor can DO got to
handle it or q way bo found to get it to
market. At this very moment the holders
of grain at both Bombay and Calcutta arc
Offering it at bidders prices. without find.
Ing takers, and the specularors who find
themselves in need of cash money are Of
fering discount rates double those which
are usual during even monsoon. 1t is
difficult to convey full idea of the state
| of apprehension which exists in CONNER
cial circles affected by the grain trade.
The latter is threatened with absolute
paralysis. and unless the cholera in and
around Egypt is speedily suppressed or
confined the most certain thing in England
is great panic in the grain trade.' The
signs of the impending crisis are already
alarming in the Indian ports, where the
in lott o1rn1 md xvyynn
the dealers are being pushed to extremi-
ties for settlements.
A Panic In arls.
In Paris there is semi panic on account
of the cholera. Throughout France
there exists feeling that ENGLAND is
| directly responsible for tho present state
of Egypt. The small holders Of Suez
| shares, who need their interest and have
staring them in the face the prospect of
no income from the canal for an indefinite
time to come, are to-day in q state of
rage against England. They point to the
present Egyptian crisis as tho first fruit of
English control, and are cursing the day
| on which the Suez company allowed the
| British fleet free access to the canal as q
basis of operations against Arab. 1t
cannot be denied that there is q general
feeling in Europe that the English govern.
| mont, since its occupation of Egypt, has
devoted almost it's entire energies there to
politics and has neglected all those sani-
tary measures, which any careful govern
ment should have felt itself bound to
| carry out when put in possession of a
country to which they are so peculiarly
essential. In this view, England is held
responsible for the present condition of
Egypt and for tho danger to Europe which
| that condition threatens. Astounding as
it may seem, the government, with that
peculiar disposition to " drift" as Lord
Salisbury describes it, appears to be &C
tually inactive with regard to the whole
matter. 1t has gone SO far as to say that
| the French panic has undoubtedly been
caused by exaggerated semi official com.
muniqucs, based probably on bogus press
| reports, and that there is ground for sus
picion that these false reports have been
made with the political purpose of in
creasing the tendency towards an animosity
between the two countries. This in face
OF the fact that all the countries surround
ing Egypt are straining every nerve to
secure perfect quarantine.
Mail Miscellany.
1t is believed that if the condition of tho
treasury will permit, a call of bonds will
be made during the present month. 1t
will depend, however on the demand made
by pension agents and other disbursing
officers, and tho effect produced upon the
revenue by the operation of the lew tariff
act. Saturdays treasury reserve amoun-
ted to $145, 900, 900. - The steamship
Nevada arrived a New York yesterday
morning with $50 Mormon converts from
Sweden, Denmark, Wales, England, and
Norway.-A base ball game which was to
have been played at Columbus, Ohio yes
terday, was prevented by the authorities
The temperature at St. Paul. Minnesota,
yesterday reached 101 degrees in the
shade.
In Milwaukee on Saturday morning, the
horses attached to q farmers wagon ran
away, having been frightened by 4 band
of music in procession of public school
children The animals dashed through
the ranks of the little girls, and trampled
the spectators on tho sidewalk, where they
broke loose. A little girl was killed, and
a man was fatally injured, about five chill
dren sustaining dangerous injuries. Some
others were cut and bruised by the horses
hoofs.
In Geneva, Ga, IS crowd attending
Prof. Robinson's hop at the City hall was
leaving . stairway fell and precipitated
thirty or forty men, women and children
in a confused heap twenty five feet below,
Two daughters of Philip Heidlingsfelder,
a young lady who was with them, and T.
L. Crosby, J. J. Jordan and Pierce Wes-
ton wora SeriOuSlv hurt Others were