The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-26
FOREIGN TELEGRAPH1C NEWS.

Inc eAOuuS lrOH AoulOH Is increasing.
Weather in England at present is un-
settled.
London, England, has 100000 of work
ing people.
Two cases of cholera have developed at
SaluzZo, North Italy.
1t is rumored that cholera has appeared
in Alexandria, Egypt.
Bellins is the name of the new Presi-
dent of San Domingo.
Subscriptions for S5O,Oe0 theater have
been secured in Victoria,
Twenty-Five hundred troops will leave
Paris fer Tonquin in August.
Advices from Tein-Tsin state that China
has rejected Frances ultinatum.
The English newspapers heartily rejoice
over the rescue of the Greedy expedition.
Advices from Havana, Cuba, state that
financial panic is reigning at Santlagode,
Cuba.
Over six hundred deaths from cholera
have taken place in Marsellles since the
disease first made it's appearance there.
Several large houses in Mexico are clos
ing up and their proprietors will return to
Europe.
Havana has instituted strict quaran-
tine against vessels sailing from Med1ter-
ranean ports.
The New Brunswick cotton mills, of ST.
Johns, n. B., have suspended work. Liza
bilities, $225, ,0o0.
The three sons of United States Consul
Piatt were drowned last week while bath
ing at Queenstown.
The Chinese government is preparing for
the safety of its merchant vessels in case
of war with France.
Tho funeral of the late Prince of Orange
took place at The Hague, Holland, last
week with great pomp.
Diplomatic circles in Berlin are still
worried over the insult given the German
flag at Paris on the 18th ult.
The enthusiasm in London over the
movement for the abolishment of the
House of Lords is at high pressure.
i. The police at Vienna have been ordered
to arrest all Mormon missionaries de-
tected while endeavoring to secure con-
verts.
The apology of Prime Minister Ferry to
the German government for the recent in
suit to the Prussian flag at Paris, has been
accepted.
The Cuban insurgents under the leader
ship of Auguero recently repulsed the
government troops in a pitched battle
near Jamaica.
The municipal council of Dover, Eng
land, is preparing for anti-cholera meas
ures. Vessels will be examined before en-
tering the harbor.
The Duke de Chartres has arrived at
Toulon from Paris with the gift of 92, 800
donated by the Compte de Paris family te
sufferers from cholera.
The English House of Lords has pre-.
sented an address to the Queen asking fol
an autumn session of parliament to con
slider the franchise bill.
The trial at Pesth, Hungary, of 42(
peasants for completely in the anti-Magyel
escutcheon riots of September last re
suited in convicting 296.
Labouchere, of the London Truth, says
that Moody, the American revivalist, is
one of the most famous and effective pul
pit orators in the world.
The printers who were on a strike al
Toronto, Can, have returned to thell
cases, having succeeded in their efforts
and old rates are restored.
1t is currently reported in London thai
the eldest daughter of Matthew Arnold Is
engaged to be married to Frederick White
ridge, a New York lawyer.
The Prince of Wales has presented Cap
tain James b. Eads, the well known Am
erican engineer, with the Albert medal Of
the Society of Arts for 1884.
The latest scare in Berlin is the rumo1
of conspiracy to blow up the German
monument at Neiderwold, as well as tC
kill the Emperor, the Crown Prince anC
Bismarck.
It is rumored in Montreal that negotia
tions are progressing favorably between
the Canadian Pacific and the Boston anC
Lowell, for through traffic between Bostor
and the West.
The Inter Oceanic Railroad Company
which is building a line from Vera Cruz
via Mexico, Irolo and Morleos to Acapul
co, receives all it's rails and rolling stocE
from Germany.
Michael Muldeweny, ex-constable o
Sligo, Ireland, has been sentenced to deatf
for assisting to murder Doherty, a farmer
in 1884, who was guarding the residence
of Thomas Henry.
Health officers of London are organizing
a service in case the cholera make it's ap
pearance. Hospitals for cholera patients
have been established at CheassO, Switzer
land, and Luina, Italy.
The charge against the commissary O
Paris police, alleged to have thrown {
Prussian flag to the mob during the re
cent disturbance created by the AsatiaI
societies, has been dismissed.
Holland and England have agreed t.
Jointly demand of the Rajah of Tenom
under pain of punishment, the surrende
of the crew of the Nisero, which wa,
wrecked on the coast of Sumatra.
Unofficial advices from Marseilles stat,
that the situation there is becoming NOR
grave. The heat is unbearable and NJ
wind stirring. The epidemic is spreading
and the mortality daily increasing.
The colonizing fever has spread to Aus
tria, and the imperial government at Vi
emma is planning for the establishment O
colonies for Austro- Hungarian workmen
modelled upon those proposed by Germany
A movement is on foot in Germany fo
the erection of monument in memory @
Weber, the composer, at his birthplace, t
be unveiled in December, in 1885, whicl
will be the one hundredth anniversary o
his birth.
The Academy of Medicine has unani
mously decided that land quarantine il
France is impracticable; that the disin
fecting process is inefficacious and il
lusory, and urges the establishment @
cholera hospitals at large at the railwa
stations.
A Paris cablegram says: The Gazette d
France says Admiral Courbet has beel