The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-24
FOREIGN rELEeRApH1c NEWS.
Matters are quiet at Suakim.

LIE prague lS raging III 6aSUaU.
Liverpool had 91O0OOO fire recently.
Mr.. Davitt will go on lecturing tour.
The ENGLISH parliament has rejected the
crematory bill.
The Earl of Derby has been created
knight of the garter.
There is considerable falling off in
Quebec timber trade.
The Montreal and Sorrel Railroad is to
be thoroughly repaired.
Dispatches from Vienna state that the
Stadt Theater has burned.
Dynamiter Dennis Deasey died in
Chatham prison last week.
Troops have begun to advance to the re-
lief of Berber and Khartoum.
Doncaster, a Derby winner, has been
sold to Hungarian for go, 2o0.
1t is proposed to form Canadian Beef
Expectation Company at Montreal.
The York Pioneers will turn out in a
body at the Toronto semi-centennial.
The supply of spiritual consolation for
the English soldiers cost e57, 600 annually.
The Mayor of Victoria has called a pub
lie meeting to devise means for suppress
ing gambling.
The friendly relations between France
and Morocco are as good as ever, says the
Paris LIE Temps.
The majority of the Czarowith was cele-
brated at St. Petersburg last week by va
rious court and state ceremonies.
The Journal de Paris accuses Bismarck
of lying in a recent report presented at
4Ha fy.so of Il lr n
1t is reported that the Malagasy govern
ment offers France G1 100000 to renounce
all claims to territory in Madagascar.
Lord st. Leonards, arrested on the
charge of assaulting maid servant of
his host, demands a trial by his peers.
Commondetore Pericolli, well known
citizen of Rome, has been arrested
charged with fraudulent transactions.
The Bunderath has adopted bill to
subsidiZe steamship lines between Ger
many and ports of eastern Asia and Aus
tralia.
The acid works at Y ale, B. c., in con-
nection with the nitro-glycerine manufac-
tory, were destroyed recently. Damage
$4,000.
The steamship nlyron, from Liverpool
Cape Clear light, Ireland. All the people
were saved.
Trial by jury is going out in England.
In one court alone out of a total of l,O24
cases no less than 444 are to be tried by a
judge alone.
Lawson was at a reception to Winch,
an American tenor, and Miss Griswold,
when the news came to him of the failure
of his house.
Irish landlords have appointed deputa-
tion to explain to the English government
the misery caused by the deadlock in the
bond market.
The Berlin TageblaH says that Richard
Muckle of the Philadelphia Ledger, will
succeed Sargent as United States Minis
ter to Germany.
The English government has sent an or
der to Cairo directing that efforts be made
to communicate with Gordon by other
routes than Berber.
In duel with pistols near the City of
Mexico last week, between Terres Sonora
and Pedro Cora, the right hand of the
former was shattered.
The United States steamer Quinnebaugh
has sailed from Constantinople with the
remains of MacGahan, a distinguished
newspaper correspondent.
Grand Duke Louis, of Hesse Darmstadt
informed Madame Kolinine of his inten,
tion to apply for a divorce on the ground
that the marriage was informal.
The Partisan danes, having exhausted
the aviary, have now gone to the market
gardens fer novelty The latest novelty
is a hat trimmed with artichekes.
A telegram from st. Johns, N B., says
A Stn ia a Ra
Many ships are seen in the ice and grave
fears are entertained for their safety.
The Emperor of Germany has accepted
the resignation Of Bismarck from thu
presidency of the cabinet, and has ap
pointed as his successor Boetticher, Prus
sian Minister of State.
The English Conservative peers have re
solved unanimously to reject the franchis
bill. Lord Randolph Churchill has beer
unanimously reelected chairman of th
National Conservative Union.
:. The statement that Fenian plot to as
sassinate the Prince of Wales was brew
ing in Paris, is declared untrue. Tn
Prince freely moved about the streets AM
made many visits, unattended.
w. E. Belcher, agent of the Canada Pa
cifc Railway at Portage la Prairie, ha
been temporarily appointed assistan
traffic manager of the western division
vice William Harder, resigned.
The late Judah P. Benjamin left behin
no materials for biography. He destroye
his private documents, and was accus
toned to say that treasuring up of oil
papers caused half the misery of life.
Final negotiations in regard to the EgyI
tan conference have been concluded
France and Italy persistantly insist upo
their right to discuss the general ques
tions of the administration of Egypt.
The belief is general that Gladstone
preparing some expedition for the relic
of General Gordon. but he dare not say sc
lest he should thereby get that hero
threat cut before the expedition coul
reach him.
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies ha
authorized the President to contract
loan of $40, ,000, 600, covering $4,000, 600 a
ready received by the government loa
recently reported. 1t will probably be e1
fected in Paris.
The court-martial at Sargossa, Spair
for the trial of fourteen officers charge
with desertion, sentenced one major t
imprisonment for life. A lieutenant wa
sentenced to twenty years, and the other
fer twelve years.
Afbour Day, which was ordered to b
observed in Brantford Canada, as a pull
lie holiday, proved regular fizzle. Not
place eff business closed, and scarcely
single tree was planted or ether improve
ment made on the street.
Earl Granville has instructed the Ell
glish Embassy at Pekin to enquire int
the report concerning the terms of tn
Franco-Chinese treaty. England will de
mand equal rights with France to trad
in the Chinese southern provinces.
George Augustus Sala gets $4,000