The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-31
GENERAL.

THE Hudson's Straits Exploring Expe'
dition sailed from Halifax, n. S. recently.
JOHN c. Enc has rented a splendidly
furnished residence on st. John street,
Quebec and has been Joined by his wife
and three daughters, from New York.
THE American bark, Jonathan Bourne
from New Castle, n. S. W., for Manila,
was abandoned in a sinking condition.
The passengers and crew were landed at
Apo, one of the PHILIPPINE Islands.
! A CORRESPONDENT of London journal,
who was sent to investigate the CONNER
cial resources of Mexico, reports having
been so badly dubbed by bandits that he
lost his hearing, but he boasts that he
killed his assailant.
A LONDON dispatch says the Egyptian
conference met at the Foreign Office. Earl
Granville, Secretary of Foreign Affairs,
presided. The conference continued its
session only an hour when it adjourned
sine die. 1t was considered doubtful
whether it would reet again for a long
time.
A DISPATCH from Havana, Cuba, says:
Half the buildings at Jeremie were de-
stroyed by fire. At Antigua public meet
ing was held to consider the depressed
state of the sugar market, and resolutions
were adopted to secure for the colony from
the United States the most favored nation
treatment and to obtain the introduction
of produce free of duty. At Kits and
other places there were reports of sharp
shocks of earthquake.
DE LESSEPS announces the international
technical commission, which has been
| studying the question, decided in favor Of
widening the present Suez Canal instead
of building another parallel with it.
THE first suit under the new French
divorce law will be that of Madame Patti
against her husband, Viscount Caux.
DURING an Interrogation of the anarchist
rioters on the 22d at Marseilles, the leader,
a man named Cuisson, was seized with
cholera. He was taken to the prison hos
pital. There were fifty-seven deaths from
cholera at that city on the 22d. At Vienna
two cases of cholera were reported.
SHOCK of earthquake was felt recently
on the Island of Ischia, in the Mediterra-
mean Sea. The inhabitants were greatly
agitated.
AT meeting of the Municipal Council
of Paris, on the 22d, the Director of Public
Aid declared that no case of genuine Ash
attic or sporadic cholera had been reported
at the Paris hospitals. He said the deaths
attributed to cholera were really due to
other causes.
The treaty recently negotiated by Great
Britain with the King of Abyssinia binds
the latter to abolish slavery and the slave
trade within his kingdom.
THE deerstalkers, gillies and laborers on
the estate of the American millionaire,
Winans, near Inverness, Scotland, en-
gagged in terrible fight recently. A gillie
named Campbell killed a laborer named
Macgillivray. Campbell was arrested.
IT was officially announced on the oath,
at Paris that the cholera epidemic at Mar
settles and Toulon was decreasing. The
health of Paris was good.
IRELAND won the Elcho shield at the rifle
match at Wimbledon on the 24th.
The London STANDARD had a dispatch
dated "Malagasey Camp, June 81, saying
that one thousand two hundred French
troops attacked the Hovas at six O'Clock
on the morning of that date. The French
had mounted gendarmes, and infantry and
artillery. The artillery had six field pieces
of three mitrailleuseS. The attack lasted
three hours, when the French retired.
A MAN named O'Brien, of the crew of
the steamer st. Dunstan, at Liverpool from
Marseilles last week, and having had two
cases of cholera on board, took lodging in
a densely populated quarter of Liverpool,
where he was seized with cholera symD-
toms and was forthwith isolated.