The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-12
FOREIGN rELEGRAPH1c NEWS.

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very cold.
famine prevails in the province of
Kasan, Russia.
Betting on the Oxford Cambridge boat
race is now even.
The remains of the Duke of Albany have
reached Portsmouth.
The bark Grasmere, from Portland, has
arrived at Queenstown.
General Gordon expects British troops
to be sent to Khartoum.
Baron De Staal has been appointed Rus
sian Ambassador at London.
The International Congress of Polar ex-
plorers met at Vienna recently.
The death of Gustave Richter, the
painter, is announced at Berlin.
Friendly tribes numbering about 1900
men attacked the rebels last week.
John Bright is better. He has been suf.
fering from congestion of the lungs.
Pettingill & Everett, importers and ship
ping merchants of Halifax, have failed.
There is a plot in Egypt to murder Ell
Mahdi and the members of his council.
The English government considers it
unnecessary TO dispatch troops to Khar-
toum.
General Graham telegraphs from Egypt
to London that the fighting campaign is
ended.
Reports are current in London that Gen
eral Gordon has sustained another reverse
in Soudan.
The ''Irish Publicist," Sullivan, ridicules
the Marquis of Lorne's views on Provin-
cial Government.
The British advanced on Tamaneib and
burned the village. The Arabs fed and
the lighting ended.
By colliery explosion near Cardiff,
Wales, recently, two men were killed anu
seventeen others entombed.
The English Cabinet, after thorough
discussion, decided against formally es-
tablishing protectorate over Egypt.
Recognition of the German Liberal party
as new and important force IN German
politics is daily becoming more evident.
A serious fire occurred in London re-
Gently. About a dozen houses, mostly
bookbinding establishments, were gutted.
It is semi-oficially stated that the
French would enter China and collect the
toms.
Ell Mahdi's position is critical. His
troops and the inhabitants are excited
against him, and his fall Is daily ex-
pected.
Twenty-four inches of snow fell at Lon
don, Ont, last week. The snow was ac-
companied by phenomenal thunder and
lightning.
The Canadian Pacific Rad has decided
to build an extension from Ingersol to
Detroit, to be operated in connection with
the Wabash.
Queen Tahiti has gone to Havre on
her way home. She breads the journey
per reporters.
The editor of the Madrid Comic Journal
has been sentenced to eight years impris-
onment fer publishing an offensive carica-
ture of King Alfonso.
A paper recently read before the French
Academy of Medicine expressed the
writer's conviction that one in every 5OOO
persons is buried alive.
Miss Goddard, an American lady, was
married in Paris last week to Prince Pom
iatowkf. The register was signed by
Morton, United States Minister.
The steamship Neptune arrived at st.
Johns, N. F., recently, with the largest
catch on record-41, 500 seals-valued at
$125, ,0O0, all taken in twelve days.
The Parnell branch of the Irish Land
League, in London, passed resolution
condemning Michael Davitt for inviting
Henry George to lecture at Dublin.
The population of Mexico, including
natives, Indians, Spaniards, and those OF
mixed blood, numbers about 1OOOO,OOO
The area of the country is nearly 8OO,O8(
miles.
A pamphlet is being circulated in Rus
sia, urging Russians to cooperate for the
overthrow of despotism. The Russian
revolutionary paper, Honon, has reap
peared.
A bill has been introduced in the En-
glish House of Commons restricting the
sale of patent medicines until they shall
have been examined and pronounced moi
poisonous.
The Japanese government has author
lied the establishment of tea guilds, to
which all producers and dealers must be
long, for the purpose of preventing the
adulteration of teas.
Edmund Yates, editor of the Londor
World, has been condemned to foul
months imprisonment for libelling the
Earl of Lonsdale. Judgment has beer
respited, pending an appeal.
In the House of Commons last week
James Bryce, Liberal, asked whether thu
English government is prepared TO remon
strate with the Porte for closing American
mission schools in Asia Minor.
A company has been organized in tn,
City of Mexico, under the auspices o
Porhrio Diaz, to construct railway from
Oxacia, to connect with the Mexican rail
way, distance of fifty miles.
A riot occurred near Canton on the It'll
of March. Three thousand Chinese de
clared against the present dynasty ant
demanded the re-establishment of tn,
Ming" or pure Chinese dynasty.
In the House of Commons, the Secretar,
of State for War said that it was not ad
visable to state what measures were con
templated by the English government fo
the defense of the Nile provinces.
Osman Digma is actively assuming tn,
offensive. He is attempting to cut of
friendly tribes about Hardoub and Tam
aneib from water. Sheik Mahmoud Is op
posing him. A battle is expected.
Minister Sargent stated that he refused
the St. Petersburg mission because b,
feared the climate of the Russian capital
and also because there were urgent rea
sons for his wishing to return to America
At a regular meeting of the Irish Lane
League, held in Dublin last week, tn,
treasurer reported that since the las
meeting there has been received e1, 172
including 81, 900 from Detroit, Michigan
Compte De Aubigny, Secretary Of th'
French Embassy at Berlin, has applied t,
the Imperial Prosecutor to have actor
brought against papers of that city which
stated that his wife was the author of
work entitled Berlin Society"
Pope's intended purpose to quit Rome, i
is mentioned that an inventory of fh,