The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-29
FOREIGN Tr1EeRApH1c NEWS.


An Austrian policeman has been muir
dered by anarchists.
William Blanchard Jerrold, the we'll
known writer, is dead.
Malta is mentioned as the place of the
ropes future residence.
Tseng, Chimes ambassador, has been or
oered to return to France.
The Lancet advises Gladstone to accept
a peerage in the Commons.
Mr.. Spurgeon, the eminent Baptist di-
vine, has fallen heir to large fortune.
The English House of Lords rejected
the motion to open museums on Sunday.
Matthew Arnold says that under no cir
cumstances will he write a book on Amer
lea.
The treaty of peace with Chile has been
ratified by the Continent Assembly of
Peru.
A writ has been served upon Mr.. Brad
laugh for illegally voting in the House of
Commons.
At the congistory in Rome last week, the
Pope created two cardinals and twenty
one bishops.
Nellis, who professed to know the muir
derers of Earl Leitrim. has been sent to
the mad-house.
4AO EuoSldn ISJOCU0u d IHOtlOn
to repeal the law abolishing the salaries of
Catholic priests.
The.brig Eagle, from Naples for Jersey,
is ashore at Cape Merler. The less of the
cargo is inevitable.
The English Parliament was asked re-
Gently for e3O0, 900 to cover the cost of the
Soudan expedition.
Mr.. Surgeons large fortune comes to
him through the death of Mr.. Joseph
Poole, of Leicester.
The murder of the policemen at Grunn,
capital of Moravia. is announced to be the
work of Anarchists.
The Imperial Parliament rejected Mr..
ParnelPs bill amending the Irish land act,
by vote of 325 to ".
General Negrier was in the recent pur-
suit of the defeated Chinese on the 10Th,
10th and 17th instants.
The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia will
reach England in May, on visit to the
Duchess of Edinburgh.
The vacant ribbon of ST. Patrick will be
bestowed ON the Earl of Howth, in room
of the late Lord Donegal.
Seventy picked London policemen have
been instructed in a system of espionage
on the dynamite conspirators.
The cattle disease bill passed a second
mons without division recently.
The French government is debating the
Chinese indemnity question. The lowest
figure proposed is 10000, 900 francs.
The snow was so deep on one branch of
the Canadian Pacific recently that no train
arrived at Montreal for eighteen days.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts, President
of the British Bookkeepers' Association,
recently presided at its annual meeting.
Lord Ripon will return home from India
in few months, and Truth thinks that
Lord Lorne will be his successor as Vice
roy.
The City of Montreal, arrived at Queens
town recently, and reported that she
passed an iceberg 200 feet high and 4OC
long.
Mr.. Herbert Spencer has been asked to
stand as a Liberal candidate for the En-
glish Parliament, but he declines to enter
politics.
1t is understood the Grand ViZier Of
Turkey has complained to the United
States government of Minister Wallace's
conduct.
The steamer Austral, of the Anchor
line, made trial trip on the Clyde las
week, and attained speed of seventeen
knots per hour.
Emperor William takes great interes
in General Graham's operations, and fol
sincere sympathy.
An influential deputation from Ireland
waited on Gladstone last week to urge al
extension of time for the repayment o
government loans.
Sir Moses Montefore, at 80, is England
oldest baronet, and Sir George Rose Sar
torious, Admiral of the Fleet, at the age
of SO, is senior knight.
A number of important Nihilist arrests
have been made at Kieff, Russia, and one
gen d'arme was mortally wounded while
assisting to make arrests.
1t has been discovered that Prince AL
bert, besides his income of 930, 900, drew
81, 100 yearly as Governor of Windsor Cas-
tie to the day of his death.
1t is generally expected in the High
lands that peerage will be offered to Sir
Alexander Matheson, on his retirement
from the House of Commons.
A boy named Lamont was fatally shot
by another scholar named New with a toy
pistol at Wellesley school, Toronto, re
Gently. New has been arrested.
Afreesh Bay Shilook, the negro whom
General Gordon made commandant of the
troops at Khartoum, won the Legion o1
Honor under BaZaine in Mexico.
1t is said to be in contemplation to con
fer the Freedom of the City of Lonon up
on Lord Shaftesbury, in recognition of his
lifelong labors as philanthropist.
Cavalry made reconnaissance, recently
In various directions near Suakem, with
out finding any rebels. Sheik Morghan
held conference with friendly sheiks.
United States Minister Wallace has haG
an audience with the Sultan, in the course
of which he complained of the Crane
Vizier's conduct in refusing to see him.
In an affray recently at Prena, in Italy
between railway laborers and the village
inhabitants, carbineers interfered anC
killed eight and wounded fourteen vii
layers.
Suakem is unhealthy, and it is proposed
to leave 400 English soldiers there, to b.
relieved every fortnight, and station the
remainder IF the troops at healthier
points.
Catholic circles in England are excited
by the report that DIR. Herbert Vaughan
Bishop of Stafford, has been appointed co
adjutor to Cardinal Manning with right o
succession.
Another suicide owing to gambling
losses has occurred at Monte Carlo, max
ing the nineteenth this year. The news
papers demand that France shall suppress
the scandal.
In addition to the invitation to dine
with Bismarck, in honor of the Emperor
87th birthday, Minister Sargent has ac
cepted an invitation to soiree to be given
in the palace.
1t is stated that the Queen has expressed
an eager intention to confer on Lord Ten
nyson the garter at the first fair opportun
ity. He will be the first poet who wore
the blue ribbon.
Spanish military officers and several
other persons suspected of completely in
the attempt to bring about revolution
in Spain, have been arrested at Lisbon by
voI;oo