The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-11

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IT is thought probable that the meeting
of Irish Bishops arranged to take place at
Rene this Autumn will be postponed in
consequence of the continued illness of
Cardinal McCabe.
The municipal authorities of Dublin ex-
plain that hospitalities were not rendered
the Duke of Edinburgh and the officers of
the Channel feet, solely because no official
notice of their visit was received.
GENERAL GORDON wrote on June 18th
that Khartoum can hold out until the mid
die of November.
THE decrease in the public debt during
August was SS,542.S52. The gold and silver
certificates outstanding are each in excess
of 1921, 100000.
Mr.. KAssoN, United States Minister to
Germany, has left London for Berlin. He
will stay at Ostend, Belgium, for a few
| days.
| A LIBERAL demonstration against the
Clerical party's Educational bill took place
at Brussels lately. There were ninety
thousand present.
OWING to lack of transports and supplies
the organization of the expedition for the
relief of Gordon is proceeding very slowly
at Cairo.
THE Emperor of Austria, in replying to
an address from delegation of Hebrews,
asked every citizen, whatever his religious
views, to rely on the protection of the
| Government.
| CHOLERA has made its appearance in the
Spanish province of Alicante, five deaths
beirS reported in one town. Hundreds of
people have fed from Napels, where
twenty -one deaths occurred on the 1st.
AT recent review of the German troops
at POtsdam, in honor of the anniversary of
the Sedan victory, Emperor William was
overcome by fatigue and was obliged to
| dismount and enter carriage.
| THE latest phase in the Francois mis-
cegenation case is that Francois intends to
! sue Governor Ireland and others of Texas
| for one hundred thousand dollars dam
ages.
IT was recently reported that the
Mahdi's troops at Berber sold the people
| of that city as slaves and are subjecting
the women to horrible atrocities.
HARTMAN, the Socialist who was not
| long since warned to leave France, went
| to London. A conference of Socialists is
called to meet in London in October.
GLADSTONE, in a late Edir burgh speech
said that the Egyptian policy was forced
upon the Government by obligations en-
tered into by the Marquis of Salisbury.
ENGLAND will not discuss the Egyptian
question with the Powers until Northbrook
sends in his first report, which will be in
readiness for the winter session of Palia-
ment.
HARRINGTON, M. P. for West Meath,
says he will submit to Parliament deposi-
tions, yet unpublished, made by Patrick
Joyce and Casey, asserting the innocence
Of Miles Joyce, hanged for murder.
THE French newspapers are taking UNI
bragg at the new law promulgated by
Baron Manteuffel, Governor of Alsace and
Lorraine, which, by obliging adult sons of
Frenchmen to either become naturalized
Germans or quit the country, tends to pre-
vent increase in French families.
CHOLERA is spreading with alarming
rapidity in Italy. At Naples September
3rd there were one hundred and seventy
three new cases and seventy-six deaths;
at La Spezzia there were thirty-ni new
cases and thirteen deaths. The total of
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thirty-four, and the deaths one hundred
and thirty-ive.
The cost of the sanitary Gordon on the
Adie, the Lake of fGarda, and along the
Tyrolese frontier, is estimated at five thou
sand four hundred dollars a day.
THE cotton crop of Egypt is reported to
be uncoPponly good.
ASSIGNMENTS have been made by the
dry goods house of Brooks, Miller & Co., of
Baltimore, and the woodenware firm of
Barrett, Waters & Lewis, of Cincinnati.
Dr.. MCEACHRAN, inspector of the Cana
dian cattle quarantine, urges upon the
Minister of Agriculture the necessity of
complete system of quarantine to prevent
the Introduction of pleuro pneumonia from
the United States.
TWENTY lives were lately lost by fire
in sulphur mine at Nicosia. Sicily.
THE Chinese are said to have cut mill
tary road through the French cemetery at
Canton, destroying the mausoleum and
rifiing the tombs.
EDWARD J. HOWE, cashier of an insur-
ance agency in Montreal, after openly
speculating for some months, has disap-
peared, leaving a deficiency of four thous-
and dollars in his accounts.