Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-08-18


onies, the State to furnish them farms and
take mortgages as security.
THE outbreak in Spain had, according to
advices of the 10th, begun to wear grave
aspect. Bands of armed men had marched
to the north to concentrate for combined
movement. Ten battalions of infantry and
six batteries had been sent to SEQ de Urgel.
THE failure of d. w. & A. Dewhurst,
cotton spinners, at Manchester, Eng, Is
reported. Liabilities, $390,0OO.
On the 10th P. Caldwell and s. Hawick
were killed by boiler explosion at Fort
Williams, Ont.
IT was reported on the 10th that Hart
mann, the Nihilist, was making prepara-
tions in London for Socialist Congress.
The father-in-law of Livingstone, the At
rican explorer, DIR. Robert Moffat, dled In
London a few days ago.
A FEW days ago boat on the Yawaska
River, near Quebec, Can, capsized and
three young persons, Charles Lafieur, Eli
gene and Emile Pardis, all students of
Montreal College, were drowned.
In Ekaterinoslav, Russia, the anti-Iew-
ish riots were on the 10th reported to have
broken out afresh, and in the collisions be-
tween the military and the populace hum
dreds had been killed.
A GERMAN landowner, Baron Nolde,
was recently murdered in forest near Ii
ban. Russia, in consequence of the hostile
feeling steadily excited among the Lithua-
nian peasants.
THERE were ,115 deaths from cholera in
Egypt during the twenty-four hours ended
Oh the 11th. Hundreds of people were
fleeing from Alexandria to Cairo.
was reported on the 18th that Cete-
wayo, the Zulu King, reported killed in
fo ri n
THE recent floods in the Nile have Sc
! riously damaged crops near Assral, and the
! harvest would be ruined unless dikes We're
| built.
ENGLISH physicians, who have had ex-
perience in India, say the cholera i'll Egypt
| is different in character from the Asiatic
| type.
A FEW nights since another demonstra
1 tion against the Jews was made at Pesth,
and several of the rioters were wounded
by shots from the police.
| ACCORDING; to advices of the 11th the an
| nexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by
| Austria was being negotiated by the Ger
man, Turkish and Austrian Governments.
| THE New South Wales Government, ac-
cor,ling to advices of the 18th, had consent
ed to the landing of the Irish informers,
and had undertaken to protect them.
| STAR Music HALL, at Sunderland, Eng
| where two hundred children were suffo-
| Gated recently, took fire the night of the
| 11th during the performance, and was en-
tirely consumed. The audience reached
the street without a panic manifesting it.
| self, and no one was hurt.
| ELECTIONS were held throughout France
| on the 18th for members of the Councils
Generate, and seventy-One districts re-
| turned Republicans and twenty three Con-
| servatives, a Republican net gain of two.
THE chief prelates in America and
Europe have been summoned to Rome by
the Pope to assemble in the Vatican in
November. They will be consulted ps
to the means by which the Holy See can
maintain friendly relations with all the
powers.
| THE Spanish Minister of War, General
! Campos, reports the shooting of four rebel
sergeants at Santo Domingo. Small bands
! Of insurgents were seen on the 18th at Tar
racona and BarceIo Iona, and were being ac
lively pursued by troops.
| ADvICEs of the 18th from Laredo, Mex,
! stated that Cortina was at Queretaro Il few
| days ago with three hundred Revolution
| ists and that there were prospects OF the
| Northern States of Mexico being i'm state
! of revolution before the close of the pres
! ent year.
THE failure of A. B. Sheraton, carpets
and furniture, st. Johns, N. F., is an
nounced, for about S100,O0o.
THE deaths from cholera reported in
| EGYPTIAN towns on the 18th numbered i0',
| including twenty-One at Alexandra and
| eleven at Cairo. Cholera was also re-
ported epidemic at Acheen, the Dutch capl-
| tai of Sumatra.
THE case of Canon Bernard, who was re-
Gently acquitted of stealing securities
from the Episcopal palace at Tournay,
which were afterward recovered from
various repositories in America, has been
appealed by the prosecution on behalf of
| the Government.
A vIRULENT type of foot-and-mouth dis
| ease was reported on the 18th as having ap-
| peared at Bristol, Eng, among Canadian
| cattle.
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