The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-06-28
FOREIGN TELEGRAPH1C NEWS.

A prison IS being built at Zacatecas,
Mexico, for women.
English soldiers and rebels exchanged
shots at Suakim last week.
The weather in England is so cold that
fears are entertained for the crops.
Dreysen, an eminent professor of his
tory in the University of Berlin, is dead.
A large number of houses were de-
stroyed by fire in Pisagua, Peru, recently.
Earl Spencer arrived last week at Bel
fast, Ireland. Great enthusiasm pre-
vailed.
Mayer has leased the Port st. Martin,
Paris, and engaged Sarah Bernhardt for
seven years.
Lowell, American minister to London,
will celebrate the Fourth of July, and has
issued tickets for dinner.
A Berlin dispatch says: 1t is stated
that bill is being prepared raising the
import duties on grain.
An Ontario village is lighted with gas
made from sawdust, said to be equal to
coal gas and free from sulphur.
The article in the divorce bill abrogating
the laws of 1916, which abolished divorces,
was adopted by the French Senate last
week.
The Spanish bark Angela, which left
New Orleans for Barcelona, was struck
by lightning and burned. The crew were
rescued.
An epidemic, believed to be the Butonic
plague, has broken out in the villages
along the right bank of the Tigres river,
near Bagdad.
Patti has signed an agreement with Ma
pleson to sing in America next season.
She will receive $4,000 for each concert
and all expenses.
A detective left Montreal for Quebec
last week with a warrant signed by Presi-
dent Arthur, asking for the extradition of
bank president Emo.
The steamship America made the trip
from New York to Queenstown in 6 days
and IA hours, beating the best previous
record by two hours.
A jubilee, in honor of the 50th birthday
of Spurgeon, was given at Holborn taber-
nacle, London, last week. at which 1900
persons were present.
The Prince of Oranges illness was
chiefly induced by the vitiated atmos-
phere in which he lived Sixty parrots
were kept in his bedroom.
The Dublin court fined William O'Brien,
editor of the United Ireland, 9500 for
contempt in connection with the action of
the libel against O'Brien by Bolton.
A washout on the Mexican Central Rail
road, occurred near Agusscaloentes, last
week. The passengers were transferred,
and the break was speedily repaired.
The Imperial canal of China is the long.
est in the world, and the greatest in point
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tions, is 2, 100 miles, connecting forty -one
cities.
The Transvaal deputation is concluding
commercial treaty with Germany. Az
cording to its terms Germany will be
placed upon the most favored national
footing.
Several foreign Anarchists were ar.
rested at Vienna last week. In their pos.
session was dynamite bomb of sufficient
power to blow up the largest public build.
ing in Vienna
The public of Madrid were recently
alarmed by the explosion in a house OF
that city, caused by bomb being placed
inside the doorway. The door was blown
out and the windows shattered. No one
was hurt
Elder Smoat Mormon missionary, has
been expelled from Bavaria by order o1
the minister of the state. Smoat had sue.
ceeded in making many converts, whom
he was preparing to send to Utah, but this
plan has been broken up for the present.
Miss Gertrude Griswold, niece of Bret
Harte, who made a brilliant success as 8
concert vocalist in Glasgow, Liverpool and
Manchester, and at the Crystal Palace
London, made her eperatic debut at the
Convent Garden Theater, London, last
week.
The Mahdi has again written to Mudil
Dongola, summoning him to espouse tht
cause. If he acquiesces he will be made
governor of the provinces, and allowed to
keep sll the taxes. If he refuses the lieu
tenants of Mahdi will murder all belong
ing to him.
look of affairs in Egypt, and he has ad
dressed circular to the powers insist
ing that England's self-imposed task o
restoring order in Egypt is so far com
pleted that army occupation ought to be
withdrawn.
On behalf of the cattle ranchcrs of Mon
tana, the Canadian Pacific Railroad au
thorities have represented to the minister
of customs at Ottawa the propriety Of al
lowing cattle from the western states t.
be carried through Canadian territory, il
bond, for export.
Ex-Minister Sargent was again compli
mented by public banquet given at tn,
Army and Navy hotel, Pail Mall, by
number of English and American gentle
men who are indignant at the treatmen
of Sargent by Bismarck. The principa
speaker was Minister Lowell.
An official inquiry has shown that tn
crowd which Kissed Prince Bismarck a
Friedricharna last week was composed o
Schleswig- -Holstein workmen, who wer
imbued with the bitter anti-Prussian feel
ing which has been entertained in certain
portions of that province ever since it
conquest in 1884.
Bismarck entertained last week at
parliamentary luncheon, cabinet minister
and members of the bundesrath and tn
reichstag. The Princess Bismarck at tn
same time entertained the ladies of thes
gentlemen. It was noticed that Bismarcl
conversed privately with Windthorst, tn
well known ultramontane leader
Some negroes have arrived at Lisbol
from Mozambique. They escaped from
stations formed by Henry III. Stanley, tn
explorer. The negroes have lodged com
plaint with the ministry of marine L
which they state that they have beel
fraudulently hired and that they hav
been subjected to much maltreatment.
In the English commons recently, th
under foreign secretary stated that the las
news heard from General Gordon was Apr
18th. He said twenty messengers had bee
sent to Gordon by different routes. On
messenger, who went up at night by boat
succeeded in entering Khartoum. On hi
return, bearing Gordon's answer to tn
government, he was pursued by rebel
and killed.
A Paris correspondent of the Londol
Times says: Stephens, the ex-Fenian heat
center, has forwarded to the active mem
bers of the brotherhood at Chicago,
manuscript circular summoning an earl.
meeting at Chicago of prominent Irish