The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-12-13
FOREIGN rEIEGRApH1C NEWS.

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in London last year.
Nicholas Fish, United States Minister
to Belgium, has resigned.
Bands of Bedouins are robbing all cara
vans of pilgrims to Mecca.
Earl Granville is trying to effect peace
between France and China.
The smallpox fever at North Hastings,
near Belleville, Ont, is subsiding,
A telegram from Dongola re-asserts that
General Gordon has taken Shendy.
Queen Victoria and the Duchess of AL
bany will pass the winter at Cannes.
The revolutions in Panama, Cundina-
marca and Sanlander have terminated.
Queen Victoria has granted the widow
OF Balfe, the composer, an annuity of 940O.
Five heavy shocks Of earthquake were
felt at Graetz, the capital Of Syria, last
week.
The United States flagship Hartford, of
the Pacific squadron, has arrived at Val
paraiso.
The troops advancing up the Nile are
ready to proceed at once from Hangdak to
Debbet.
The NatioRalists of Dublin have decided
to contest the next election with two can
didates, Parnell being one.
A London dispatch says: Rev. Edward
Girdleston, a well known advocate of the
agricultural labOrer, is dead.
The Toronto Free Press correspondent
telegraphs that Wolseley forbids any Ca.
nadians to write for the press.
President Diaz has started in to govern
the interests of Mexico in a way that Is
giving great satisfaction to the people.
An epidemic of hydrophebia prevails in
Berlin. Already eighty cases have been
reported, eleven of which proved fatal.
Alexander Shearer, agent of the Union
Bank of Halifax, at Annapolis, N S., is
missing, and Is supposed to be defaulter.
A dispatch from Halifax, N. S., says the
Mary Joseph, which sailed from North
Sydney November 22d, is lost with all on
board,
A Berlin dispatch says England has
opened negotiations with the African As
ISOLATION, with view of obtaining formal
recognition.
The cable-steamer Faraday has picked up
the broken Bennett-Mackay cable and is
repairing it. The operation is favored by
calm weather.
The Madrid Epoca states that the COM
mercial treaty between Spain and Eng
land was never nearer completion than at
the present time.
D. Nicolopulo & Sons, London mer.
chants, have failed. Liabilities, $450, 600.
The failure is attributed to the financial
crisis in Danubian districts.
The English government has received
news that amicable arrangements have
been arrived at between the government
of Cape Colony and the Beers.
La Parts states that the secretary of the
Chinese legation at London has submitted
proposals to Earl Granville, British medi-
ator, which France can accept.
Adyices from the gold coast of Africa
state that trade riots had taken place at
Winnebah. Twelve men were killed and
a number wounded. The rioters were
finally arrested.
The Spanish cruiser which captured the
supposed smuggler In British waters, OF
Gibraltar, and was afterwards captured by
British steam launch with its prey, was
a revenue cutter.
Mr.. Stephen. President of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad, now In London, has ''as
certaIned the possibility of establishing a
line of steamers to run from British Co
lumbia to Japan"
Thornton, English ambassador to Rus
sia, has been appointed English minister
to Constantinople. Marier, English min.
lister to Spain, has been appointed sue
cessor to Thornton,
A dispatch from Dongola says that the
Mudir has received news that Ell Mahdi Ii
dead, and his followers dying fast. The
camel corps and Staffordshire regiment
have started for Ambukol.
Professor Goldwin Smith, chairman Of
the Common City Charities, of Toronto
has been authorized to wait upon the
provincial and dominion governments tt
urge the stoppage of pauper immigration
A dispatch from Suakim says: On Sat
urday the rebels closely invested the town
and ships and forts kept up q continua
firing all day. A force of 500 rebels attacked
the cavalry and camel corps, but were re
pulsed.
A Hamburg firm has started trading
company, with a capital of 5000, 600, tt
operate in the district in Africa between
the river Benone and the coast. The ex
plorer Flegel will act as pioneer for the
company.
Gladstone has requested Leonard Court
ney to withdraw his resignation as Secre
tary Of the Treasury. If the Secrtary per
sists in resigning, the office will be ten
dered to Henry Hartley Fowler, member
of parliament
The steamship Caspian, Baltimore tc
Liverpool, on her way over, caught fire
among the cotton. Arriving at Liverpool
the compartment containing the burning
cotton was flooded by the fire department
and extinguished.
In the House of Lords last week Ear
Derby, Secretary of the State for the Colo
nies, announced that the government in
tended to introduce bill dnring the pres
ent session of parliament establishing the
confederation of Australasia.
Verein's bank, in Bremen, has suspend
ed. The former manager suicided in pris
on. The present manager is under arrest
The suspension caused the stoppage of thu
business firm of Brunings, of Bremen
who are large shareholders in the bank.
A committee of the Italian House O
Deputies is to wait upon King Humber
to express it's admiration at the heroisn
displayed by him during the cholera epi
demic at Naples. The government Is sooI
to make sanitary improvements in tina
city.
ALondon dispatch says: Adams has ap
pealed against Justice Manestie's ruling
in the formers action for libel agains
Hon. Bernard Coleridge. Coleridge at tn
same time has notified Adams that he in
tends to move for a reversal Of the jury
verdict.
GRANVILLE, foreign secretary, has in
structed Sir Edward Malet, English dele
rate to the Congo conference to adhere f