Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-09
Foreign Intelligence.

THE Austrian Government, owing to
fears of Socialistic disturbances, on the
3lst ult proclaimed martial law in Vienna
and two other districts, and trial by jury
had been Suspended.
IN the lelca -InrSd city of Sinkat, Egypt,
the residents had on the 3Ist ult. eaten all
the dogs in town, and nothing remained
but the horses and one bag of ba ley.
.sIHE British Governme on the 3lst ult.
steamboat trntIc on fhtc:sN iN iNhbJici hbJic B.. controls
steamer and sailing vessel ready to take
troops and stores to Upper Egypt and
bring away refugees from khartoum.
AT Hamilton, Can, four houses fell the
other day from the wei ;ht of snow on the
roofs, AMI Mrs. Burns and her child
fatally injured.
The firm of l.. W. Thomas Sons & Co.,
of London, brokers, failed recently for
fS:;J,OJo
a FIRE few nights ago destroyed Chap
man & Sons and Adamson'S elevators at
Toronto, Ont, entailing loss of $4,000.
y FIRE few evenings ago destroyed Il
lace factory ami numerous other buildings
near Pere la Chaise Cemetery, in Paris,
and on, hundred families Were rendered
homeless.
WHILE Baker Pasha was making a recon-
noisance Oh the ..l from Trinlitat, Egypt,
sued hv cavalry, and hundreds OF the rebels
We're killed..
LONDON advices of the Sd state that Sc
we're gales and heavy rains had caused
grca+ destruction of property IN England,
the Isle of Man and TIE Island Of Jersey.
The streets of towns had been inunG atcd, ,
bri lges demolished and bI eakwaters de
str"yri.
THE death of Euyene Rouhcr, the head
of the B"napartiSt party III France, oc-
cure on the Sd, after Il brief illness.
COMPLAINT made to tine Dublin al
thorites Il few days ago by William
Meacle. who was a witness III the EhHniiX
Park murder trials, that frequent assaults
and continued prosecutions had made his
lie miserable.
Or the Sd Li"utenants Sharber ana
Schuetze left Berlin for Hamburg en- route
to the United States with the remains of
Commander De Long and his companions,
of the i'll fated ,jeunnctte.
THE agricultural associations of sevcyAl
counties in En-IanI have passed rese,lu-
tions urging Parliament to restrict the i'm
portati ticn OF cat,le in order to prevent the
spread of the cattle disease.
AN American r:larnsnan named Captain
Austin was recently giving exhibitions of
his skill in Great Britain. At Leicester he
twice shot Il potato from the head of his
daughter, but n the third attempt the ball
plowed the SCALP, ard he was placed under
arrest.
IL Paris on the 81 a p.acard posted
urging the ds.sfectad AMI unemployed
provement of their condition.
AT CIonshanny, ireland, agrarian dis
turbances on the 4th resulted in the murder
of farmer name! E an. Several arrest
Were made.
THE other day munitions of war in
tended for the insurgents liz Hayti We're
seized on board a schooner at Richmond,
Va, and were forfeited to the Unit ed
States.
\ CHURCH, two steamers and n large
bL .incSS house III Bermuda were destroy ed
hv incen'liary fires on the 4th. Rewards
were offered, and the penaltv is death.
TEN THOUSAND visitors attended the
opening of the ice-carnivai at Montreal on
tie IL, among them being the Governor
General and party. The city was hand
! som.iy decorated.
HENRY MoNTIETH &c Co., dyers, of Glas-
gov, called a few days ago for SJl5,O0O.
\ PETITION has been issued 10y the Legrs-
lature of British Col,sInbia praying for a
restriction of the importation of Chinese
LAB ,rers, and stating that there were
eighteen thousand Cinnamon there now,
most of whom were destitute.
SPEAKING at a land-netionalizati ion meet
ing at Glasgow on the 4thn Michael Davitt
demanded fer Ireland a system of self
government similar to that of the Domin-
ion of Cana,H.