The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-02
roprrau Trr.roRApHrC News.

redeem the paper currency.
The thermometer reached 10 to 50 de-
grees below zero recently in Toronto, Can.
Austin's lace factory at Long Eaton,
near Nottingham, is burned. Loss, e10O, :
The French Senate has adopted the ex-
traordinary budget with some modifica-
tions.
The Rotschilds are negotiating for the
purchase of the French government rail-
ways.
A number of Krupp guns have been
landed in Madagascar and sent to the
capital.
Nineteen persons have been dangerously
poisoned by eating tainted meat in a Mon-
treal convent.
The city and guilds of London Institute
have established school of wood engrav-
ing for women.
The body of Herr Lasker. the German
statesman who died in New York, has ar
rived in Berlin.
Severe shocks of earthquake occurred
recently in the town of Castiglione, Sicily.
and the vicinity.
The heaviest snow fall for Is years oc-
CURED in Ottawa, Cam, last week. All the
trains were delayed.
thrown from his horse while hunting, and
kicked, died recently.
The Porte has decided not to send troops
to Soudan, but to ask the powers to settle
the Egyptian question.
Over 10000 women are engaged in the
matchmaking trade in Switzerland, doing
much of the finest work.
Anexplosion of fire damp in the Ferbuy
coal mine killed seven men. Twelve men,
all injured, were rescued.
While thirteen children were skating at
Rohr, in Pomerania, recently, the ice was
broken and all were drowned.
The Tagblatt, a German organ, publishes
a decree of the Emperor of China urging
resistance to the aggression of France.
There have been three suicides and one
murder this month at Nice and Monte Car
10 in consequence of losses.at the gambling
tables.
Twenty persons of the River Head riot
party have arrived at the ST. Johns, n. f.,
penitentiary to await the trial of willful
murder.
A sudden change is noted in the relations
between the Khedive and the Sultan. The
latter is manifesting more friendly feel
ing toward the Khedive.
LIE Temps denies the truth of the report
that the French bombarded a Madagascar
port because the surrounding houses were
flying British and American flags.
The French Government is reported tc
have been assured that England urged
China to accept the accomplished facts and
arrange terms of peace with France.
1t is said that Charles Russell, the Brit
ish lawyer recently received $4,000 in
fees in a single week, one of them being
the $4,000 fee in the O'Donnell case.
OF ITO English Liberal members of par
lament whose opinions have been obtained
only three are opposed to giving Ireland thu
same rights and privileges as enjoyed b,
England.
A short crop and high duty is causing
the heavy importation of American aoul
into Canada. In November, 1888, tht
monthly import was $316,398, agains
1892, PIT in 1882.
There was grand mass celebrated at the
Madeline, Paris, on January 2lst, the an
niversary of the execution of Louis XVI
which was made the occasion of Royal
ist demonstration.
The Irish Times states that the tour O
Henry George and Michael Davitt through
England and Scotland has been abandoned
owing to the hostility of one section of th'
Irish party to George.
The statement in the lumbermen's mem
orial to Congress that Chinese labor il
largely employed in British Columbia lum
Der mills is pronounced untrue. No Chi
nese are employed except as cooks.
A Commercial Museum" is being or
ganized at Brussels, which is intended t,
embrace a collection as complete as posi-
BILE of all the products which form tn
commercial exchange of the world.
The Chinese fear that the French are en-
tertaining designs upon Canton. The pee
Pile are very uneasy. From Halphong com
reports that Admiral Courbet would ad
vance upon Bacninh without awaiting re
Inducements.
The title by which Mr.. Tennyson i
raised to the peerage, and which has bee
approved by Her Majesty, is that 9
'EBaron Tennyson of Aldworth, in tn
county of Sussex, and of Freshwater i
the Isle of Wight"
Figaro asserts that direct negotiation
between China and France will be resume
on the basis of a new frontier for Tonqui
and amnesty to the Black Flaggs. Chin
must also guarantee free navigation {
Sang Koi river to Lao Kai.
Thirty-seven university students wer
recently arrested in Moscow for the mul
der of Suiderkin. They were arreste
through the information of cabman, wh
conveyed two of them from the hous
where the deed was committed.
Epidemic typhoid fever has broken OF
at st. Hyacinthe College, Montreal, and til
schools have closed. Five nuns, nurses
the hospital, have died. Many member
of religious communities are very ill. III
disease has taken alarming proportions.
Settlers in rear townships in Canada. al
in danger of starving, the snow stoppin
all traffic. Lumber dealers telegraph thu
unless they get provisions they will /
obliged to close down. Such state of a
fair never was known in this locality befor
The Figaro comments on the extraord
nary increase of suicides in Paris, whic
it attributes to the tremendous pace {
which they live. 1t estimates that durin
the year just passed, over 1900 person
have destroyed themselves in Paris alon
1t is stated that the Egyptian Cover
ment has given orders that when Kha
toum is evacuated that the guns are to b
spiked and the powder destroyed. 1t is b.
ieved that all efforts will now be concel
trated in the defense of Massowah an
Suakim.
Brisssn, on assuming the Presidency
the Chamber of Deputies recently, pointe
out that it was the duty of the Chamb,
to preserve the present generation frol
the severe experience of the past and lea
the country safely through whatever diff
culties may be reached.
A book containing series of bitter art
cles upon Berlin society, first appearing
the Nouvelles Revue of Paris, has bee
seized in Berlin. The articles are gross
libelous of the Emperor and the Imperi
family, and the German Ministry II
book causes great irritation to the Germf
court.
Two American officers passed Samama
recently, by mail train from Orenburg, co
veying the ten coffins containing the I
mains of Lieutenant DeLong and COZ
rades. The mayor and other officia
placed wreaths Of immortelles on the cC
fins, in the presence of multitude of l
spectful spectators.
Madagascar adviees state that the ca