The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-23
FOREIGN rrIEeRApH1C NEWS.
Paris has branch Of the Gospel Arr

The Porte has resolved to protest against
the abandonment of Soudaf1.
Australian advices report 25.OOO 900
bushels OF wheat ready for export.
Rev. Spingson, the famous revivalist, is
slowly recovering from long Illness.
Brigands captured the Judge and other
ofncials OF Monastir, on the Albanian from
tier.
1t Is announced that King Humbert and
\ the Queen of Italy will visit the German
court in March.
Cardinal McCabe writes to the Dublin
branch of the Peace Society that he has no
hopes Of its aims.
Howard Russell, the well known war
correspondent, is shortly to wed Countess
Melvizzi, Of Ferrara.
Six warehouses in so-called Moscow,
Russia, were destroyed by fire recently.
The loss Is enormous.
1t Is stated there are 1900 infected farms
and 81, 900 cattle suffering from foot and
mouth disease in England.
A violent earthquake occered at Bittles,
Asiatic Turkey, recently. A number of
buildings were destroyed.
A battery of the first brigade of artillery
at Chatham has been placed on full war
footing, for the foreign service.
The French Chamber of Deputies has
passed the bill for the suppression of se-
dition demonstrations in the streets.
During the races at the Montreal driving
park recently pool box containing 81, 800
was stolen, it is believed by Americans.
Matthew Arnold will soon publish i'm
pressions of America, along with lectures
he delivered while in the United States.
Louis Bilio, Cardinal Bishop of Sabina,
cd lx1 IL, he of
He the confidential friend of Leo XIII.
1t is stated that the most extensive mea-
sures are being taken on the east coast of
Africa to suppress the inquitous slave
trade.
Gladstone stated in the House of Com.
mons that England would defray all ex-
penses of the British expedition to the
Soudan.
The original Of Tom Lewis, in Daudets
play, "Rois en- Exile" has absconded from
Paris. He is a defaulter to the amount of
2120,0O0.
Mr.. Onderdonk is alleged to be lobbying
at Ottawa Can, for q further subsidy on
account OF his railway contract in British
Columbia.
The Academy of Medicine, Paris, with
one dissenting vote, has pronounced in fa-
vor of repeating the decree excluding AM
erican pork.
William Meagle, an important witness
in the Phoenix Park trial, claims that his
life is made miserable by continued perse-
tions and assaults.
The Spanish government recently forbid
the citizens of Madrid to hold public
meeting In commemoration of the procla-
nation of the republic.
M. De Lesseps has been invited to an
dertake the completion of the canal which
Is to make st. Petersburg a sea port and
independent of Constadt.
A duel between M. Lauguerre and M.
Chaurlance, members of the Chamber of
Deputies, occurred recently. The former
was wounded in the knee.
Every available steamer, barge and boat
on the Nile, controlled by Thomas Cook &
Co., have been engaged to convey troops,
stores, etc., to Upper Egypt.
There were SO, 900 deaths from diphthe
ria in the province of Kharkof, in the
southern part of European Russia, be-
tween the years 1878 and 1882.
Admiral Hewitt is advancing his lines
four miles outside of the Suakem zone.
His trenches are within reach of the guns
OF the English fleet and the forts.
In an affray at Batna, Algeria, between
bodies Of Spahis and Turcos, three men
were killed and many wounded. French
garrison troops finally restored order.
Gladstone, while recently walking down
Bond street, London, was assaulted by an
unknown man. 1t is presumed that his
assailant made the attack on a wager.
General Gordon's parting words to Nubar
Pasha were: 81 will save the honor of
Egypt" Nubar Pasha replied: "Never
mind Egypt; save the women and chill.
dren."
The press and peoplesof Germany con-
denim the action of Bismarck in returning
to the House of Representatives of the
United States the letter of coincidence on
Herr Lasker.
The Arabs gave no quarter to the panic
stricken and pleading troops of Baker
Pasha in the massacre near Tokar, either
deliberately cutting their throats or trans
fixing them with spears.
Sheik Monghani and Colonel Messag-
daha, sent from Suakem to stir up the
tribes in that vicinity, report that they
only succeeded in securing a promise of
neutrality from the chiefs.
The Grand Trunk Railway has entered a
protest against the Canadian government
loaning any more money to the Canadian
Pacific Road, on the ground that it is used
to compete against private enterprises.
Nearly $15, ,0OO, 900 worth of real estate,
Dc4OuRluR 10 OITOQdKOQud, Will De SO1Q ana
invested In Italian bonds in trust for Pro-
pagonda, in accordance with the decision
lately passed by the Italian Supreme Court.
Prince Napoleon Plon Plon) have adopted
resolutions demanding revision of the con-
stitution, and according to the people the
right of direct election of the chief of
state.
A meeting attended by about 15, 200 peo-
pie was held at Sheffield last week. The
mayor presided. Resolutions were adopt
ed denouncing the Egyptian policy of the
government asa sacrifice of national honor
and prestige.
Rev. W. G. Lane, of Halifax, N. S., mar
Eied a soldier and his sweetheart without
q license, and after few days the bride
groom deserted his wife because the union
was illegal. The clergyman has been or
dered to pay penalty of 5000.
Great excitement was occasioned in
Cairo, Egypt, by the action of English and
French officers seiZing the Italian flag,
which was unfurled at a circus by an
acrobat. The Italian Consul has de-
manded satisfaction for the insult.
The construction of an elevated railway
from France to England is talked Of The
Minister OF Marine of France opposed the
project saying that such a work would be
dangerous to shipping, and any way it was
necessary to obtain England's consent.
Between Montaiba and Corneto, Italy,
four men fred at carbineer guarding the
Kings train. The carbineer fired at the
men, wounding one. He also made harm
less a bottle of gunpowder, which, with a
lighted fuse, was thrown aboard the train.
Captain Austin, the American crack
shot, while giving an exhibition in Eng
land, on the third trial shot potato from
his daughters head. He inflicted a flesh
wound on the girls scalp and was imme-
diately placed under arrest by the author.
tiles.
A son of the late General Ord is at Hav.