The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-10-20
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LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

LHtCoi TUnEiuN NEWo'
General Gordon having recaptured
Berber from the Soudan rebels, ii is
believed likely General Wolsclcy may
be recalled and the Nile expedition
abandoned. A Cabinet Council, at
all events, was suddenly called for
the 9TH, upon the news being rccciv-
cd Of Gordon's success. The rebels,
in cvacuating Bcrber, succeeded in
removing the treasure. The account
of Gordon's operations shows that
he arrived at Shendy with four
steamers. Finding the place desert
ed, he nailed to tree proclamation
offering pardon to the people, and
then started for Berbcr. On the day
of his arrival he placed two steamers
in the middle of the river and opened
bombardmcnt on the town. The
bombardmcnt lasted until late in
the afternoon, and when it ceased
the rebels and hostile inhabitants fed.
After the evacuation Gordon pro-
ceeded in the direction of Diolizen
1t is stated in Madrid that the Uni
ted States in commercial negotiations
offered largely reduced duties on
sugar and raw tobacco imported
from Cuba, in return for reduced
Cuban duties on American cereals.
A terrible hurricane on the coast
of Iceland on Sept. 18th destroyed
nineteen trading vessels and sixty
fishing boats, and disabled thirty-two
vessels. Appalling loss of life is the
worst part of the calamity, but fig
ures are not given for it.
At Chicago Commodore Kittson's
PAGER, "Johns,on, lowered his record
of 2.1O to the unprecedented time of
2.0G4. At San Jose "Jim Douglass"
won the novelty race and $3.50, run
ming the mile in 1.i2. which has only
once been cXcellcd on the Coast
The South Australian Assembly
has passed law abolshing judicial
oaths. (The California paper from
which this is taken must surely have
meant extra judicial oaths.-ED.)
Judge Zane has over-ruled Il de-
murrcr in Salt Lake, deciding that
Mormons could not sit on the Grand
Jury in cases of polygamy.
Hays, Field & Co., wholesale shoe
dealers, Philadelphia, have refused
to sell to houses whose members are
Hebrews, on the ground that they
lose more than they make in the
Jewish trade. The Hebrews are
indignant and excited.
Five aristocrats were arrested at Il
prize fight surprised by the London
police. Many of their companions
of rank escaped, and these thought
they were being driven away in
safety, in covered furniture van,
while they were being driven to the
police station. Constables who had
overtaken the vehicle convinced the
driver that he had better direct his
course to that point.
The bark Monrovia sailed from
New York, Oct. LIST, for Monrovia,
Liberia, Africa, with forty-seven
colored emigrants, who came from
the Western States. They were
mainly farmers, with the exception
of a few who were carpenters, brick
layers, stone-masons and black
smiths, and were sent out by the
American Colonization Society.
When the passengers reach Monro-
via they will be sent to the interior,
and each head of family will re-
ceivc twenty-five acres of land, and
single men ten acres, with necessary
farming implements and six months
provisions, supplied by the Govern
ment. At the expiration of that
time they are expected to shift for
themselves.
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