The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-03-28
FOREIGN TELEGRAPH1C NEWS.
Over 81 100000 will be spent on public
education this year in London.

education this year in London.
The largest city in Japan is Osaka
which contains 1,585, ,695 inhabitants.
James Gordon Bennett left Nice last
weekin bis yacht for six weeks cruise
in the kant.
Vene ble emperor William, of Ger
many sent: a Bible to the youthful
Mix Japan.
Al powder, with fuse attached
has M discovered in the postoffice al
Bi5ra n1 &Peland.
ganis foset 81 English detectives te
copeWi thes{ s{namiters.
Yello~ evs is raging at Tehauntepee
railsaad nf5s. IS died a las last '" Week. dn''''
A railway 81 upon which Michael
non Day1ts e. I eontH resent1y Ty,ona wss fired
When f1 Empress of China was ad.
vised OF theziAli of Bacninh, she immedi.
ately sumeoned the military council.
1t is asserted that France will demand a
heavy indemnity from China and will oc-
cupy Chinese territory to guarantee its
payment.
lnent. He has gone to Switzerland to
avoid Arrest, taking with him all his papers
and valuables.
Mrs. Weldon has began an action
against Forbes Winslow for libel, assault
and false imprisonment. The damages
are put at e1O0,OOO.
The English troops manifest great dis
Content at the prospect of being ordered
= advance on Berber, as they consider the
'tHnpaign useless.
The American bell-punch has been dis
Io1 1-~r, r
considered a nuisance, and failed to pre-
vent knocking down.
Placards have been posted about Skib-
berreen, county Cork, Ireland, announcing
the outbreak of a civil war in France.
Police are removing them.
Ii Hung Chang, Viceroy of China, is
submitting basis of peace to the English
and American Ministers at Pekin and ask
ing them to intercede with France.
By an explosion of gas in the Merchants
House, at Paris recently, policeman and
fireman were killed and twenty persons
hurt, including number of passers-by.
The Edinburgh University is about to
confer the honorary degree OF doctor of
laws upon DIR. Fordyce Barker, President
of the New York Academy of Medicine.
1t is alleged that Sargent has been as
sured by Secretary Frelinghupson that he
has the option of remaining at Berlin or
becoming minister to some other court.
A silver mine near Schwatka, in Tyrol,
was flooded by subterranean spring last
week and several miners were drowned.
The damage to the works by water is very
serious.
1t is stated Bismarck is receiving nu-
merous kilograms approving his speech in
regard to the Lasker incident. He is as
tonished at the rapidity with which mes
sages of approval reached him from
America.
The bark Lucy, from Liverpool for San
Francisco. was sunk by collision. Six of
the crew were drowned. The captain and
three members of the crew arrived at
Youghal.
The police of New Castle-on-Tyne have
received information of a plot to explode
ing the Central railway station and the
postoffice.
There are now published in the United
Kingdom, 21O5 newspapers, of which Eng
land has 1,577; Wales, so; Scotland, 1S1;
Ireland, 156, and the Isles, 20. London
alone has 40l.
Latest advices from Bacninh state that
the French forces, while pursuing the
Chinese, crossed the river and carried
PhuIing fort. Three men were killed and
several wounded.
rennet but a substitute has been found in
a shrub common in Northern India, the
fermedtive principle of whose seeds is
said to have the same effect.
General Eddin, the Afghan Chief, who
is editing an anti-English paper printed
in Paris, but which is to be circulated in
Moslem countries, claims that he de-
scended from the Prophet. He promises
undying enmity to England.
The Chief of Police at ST. Petersburg
has received a letter from Nihilists
with death any one who in
forms against Degaieff, as to who was the
leader of the four Nihilists that murdered
Colonel Suideikem, December 2Sth.
The English steamer General Roberts,
from Galveston February 5th, has arrived
at Liverpool. She collided with an ice
field and had her bows smashed and her
fore compartment filed with water. A
part of her cargo had to be jettisoned.
A commission on the law of insanity has
been nominated by the French Senate.
The members will examine experts and
visit other countries in order to settle
all the details necessary to the prepara-
ton of a new law of lunacy for France.
The Australian colonies are gradually
forming navy. The Protector, a power
full cruiser, carrying six formidable guns,
has just been launched for South Austria
liza. Melbourne has torpedo and gun boats
and New Zealand has similarly provided
herself.
Owing to opposition by the Minister of
Commerce, the committee of the Chamber
of Deputies, to which the question of the
of pork was referred, has
abandoned the intention of making in
quiries of Consul Generals in regard to
American pork.
The Comte de Paris has chosen the
present moment, while the state of the
Paris labor market is occupying the atten
ton of the Chamber, for the issue of his
work, 'sThe Situation of Workmen in
England" The book particularly treats
of cooperative societies.
Several banquets were given in Paris on
st. patrick's Day. At Belleville were dis
played the words: "O'Donnells death will
be avenged" Several delegates of the
Irish Republican Brotherhood were pres
ent. Patrick Carey, in an after-dinner
speech, advocated the use of dynamite.
Rumors are current in the lobbies of the
House of Commons that the resignation
Of Gladstone and other members of the
Government has been under consideration
1T three Cabinet Councils. A majority of
The Council favor a prolonged occupation