The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-05-31
FOREIGN TELEGRAPH1C NEWS.

from Cairo to Assouan.
A serious fire is raging in Kief, Russia.
Many houses have been burned.
The wood yards at Aberdeen were burn
ed recently. The loss is 100000.
in Havana during the week ending Satur-
day.
The cable steamship Faraday has arrived
at Rockport. She is proceeding to connect
the cables.
There has been a terrific cyclone in Ak
yah, British Burmah. Immense damage
is reported.
King Leopold gave grand banquet in
Brussels recently to the King and Queen
of Holland.
A Sydney dispatch says that Hanlan
won the sculling match with Laycock by
half length.
The British ship Syria has been wrecked
on the Fiji islands. Seventy passengers
were drowned.
In India the natives have boarded ST.
0OO,0O0,O00 in gold, which cannot be got
into circulation.
Of II, ,488 natives who left Hamburg for
foreign countries during March, all but 75
were bound for America.
Mexican agents are persuading Cuban
tobacco planters to move to Mexico. Sew
enty-two have decided to go.
Swiss legislators are once more discuss
ing the propriety of suppressing the Sal
vation Army in that country.
In Sweden, it is said, there is law tax
ing away the right of suffrage from every
man who has been drunk three times.
Three cotton warehouses in Liverpool,
belonging to Molyneaux & Taylor, were
recently damaged by fire to the extent of
100000.
The steamer Castale Paterma, for New
York from Denia, Spain, jettisoned a part
of her cargo. Rough weather prevented
assistance.
The international exhibition of motors
and implements for the small Industries,
to be opened at Vienna on July 24th, will
close on October 18th.
The premier mayorality in England is
enjoyed by Winchester, and its seven hun
dredth anniversary will be celebrated in
the course of the present year.
Anton Dvorak, in addition to his work
for the Worcester and Birmingham festi-
walls, has undertaken to compose new
oratorio for the Leeds festival of 1866
Rubenstein's Nero was recently given
seven times in succession at Moscow, the
house being sold out each time. This
opera Rubenstein considers his best work.
A Spanish nobleman, named Count Er-
nest de Vallegas, recently pleaded guilty
in the Manchester police court to swim.
ding railroad company in the matter OF
fares.
A severe shock of earthquake was felt
recently through the peninsula of CyZicus
in Asia Minor. Several villages were dam
aged, many houses destroyed and twenty
persons killed.
The Pail Mall Gazette says: Wolsley
willcommand an expedition in the autumn
which will land at Tuskar and march tC
Berber. A military railway will be built
across the desert in June.
The festival of the celebration of th'
500th anniversary of the death of JohI
Wycliffe, the earliest English reformer anC
translator of the Bible, took place at St
Andrews church in London.
The law has been invoked in Manches
ter, England, to prevent cruelty to rats b,
surrendering them as prey to the mon
goose, which seems to delight in torturins
it's victims before killing them outright.
The Spanish Cortes have paid 936, 900 fo
the library of the late Duke of Osuna
The collection consists of 2,770 volumes o
manuscript and 33, ,567 volumes of printed
books, many of which in both patches ar
unique.
The present registered British voters ar
as follows: England, ,6l8, 453; Scotland
31O,441; Ireland, 224,O total, 3,152,9lz
The presnt number of members is: 10
England, 489; Scotland, 60; Ireland, 10s
total, 652.
~. "a L Ia
wife of the Grand Duke Louis of Hesse
Darmstadt, will defend herself against tF
Grand Dukes suit for divorce. He charge
that his wife concealed misconduct befor
marriage.
Private advices from Vice President an
Manager Van Horne, of the Canadian Pa
cific, say no new branches of the road vii
be built, or extensions of present branche
made this season. He says Stevens ha
failed in securing money in England fo
the extension of the Manitoba and South
western.
Thee duty on cattle and sheep has doubled
lie Paris says: French artists will re
yenge the refusal of the United States Cor
gress to reduce the duty on works of art
They will, the paper says, demand that tn
French salon exclude the works of Amer
can artists.
The Crown Prince will attend the mai
riage of the Grand Duke Sergfus, brothe
of the Gar, at St. Petersburg, June l.
The Czarina passed through Berlin las
week on the way to Rumpeneheim. TIL
Emperor was at the depot and greeted tn
Czarina cordially.
The second game of American lacross
was played in England last week. Th
Lancashire opponents of the American
won four to nothing. During the play fC
the second goal one of the Lancashire me
was compelled to retire from the field o
account of injuries received.
The Monterey Revista, an infiuentis
journal, in an editorial upon the preser
state of affairs in Mexico, closes with thi
significant sentence: SIT is the function:
law of the nationalists that excessive ty
amy will sooner or later produce libert,
. Do you understand Our final destiny
to become Yankees.
The London Telegraph and Standard d.
vote leading articles to Sam Ward. He
spoken OF as generous and sympathetic
and as most genial and cosmopolitan. II
last arrival in London, it is said, was halle
with chorus of delight. Princely house
opened their doors wide and welcome
him with hospitable warmth.
in few days, will make proclamation
the ratification of the treaty entered int
between the United States and Mexic
To make this treaty effectual legislation
required by Congress, and bill will be il
troduced in the House as soon as the of
cial notification of the ratification of IL
treaty is received by the President.
In the Commons recently the bill amen
ing the Irish laborers act of 1883 was r
jected, 138 to IS. Parnell complained
the opposition offered by Trevelyn, chi
secretary for Ireland. He said the COVER
ment must not find fault if it meets wit
retaliation. He asked if the governmel