Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-05
FOREIGN NEWS.

A peace conference was opened at Berne
yesterday.
Scott, of Philadelphia, won the cup at the
cricket match in London yesterday.
Mr.. Gladstone will ask for an expedition
to relieve Gen. Gordon. The Mahdi has
dispatched a force to khartoum, with in-
structions to take him alive or dead.
An attempt was made n Havana to kid
nap the Count of Deana from his plantation
"Manolito," but it was frustrated by the
hands on the place, who fired on the robbers.
Advices from Rangoon state that cook
there attempted TO poison family of nine
persons by putting arsenic in their soup.
The doctors, however, succeeded in saving
their lives
The opening session Of the French Con-
gress, which assembled TO revise the Con-
stitution, abruptly terminated yesterday by
the president suspendiug the sitting. The
disorder was too great TO proceed.
At the amateur athletic meeting Mt Bal
ham yesterday four hundred yard handi-
cap was framed for the purpose of produc.
ing fast time. Myers failed by 10 of a
second to equal his quarter mile record of
4S 3-15 seconds made at Birmingham i'll 1851.
NJ. Waddington, the French ambassador
at England, is in bad odor because Of the
failure of the Anglo-French agreement pre-
pared by him at the Egyptian conference.
Several French newspapers ask for his re-
call, and others predict conflict between
England and France.
The Florio, line steamer from Galoni-
ca, was stopped, by Turkish government
authority, in the Dardanelles yesterday.
No reason therefor has been given, though
it is known that it has no relation to quar-
antine regulations. Count Corti, the Italian
minister, has protested against the action OF
the government, and has demanded heavy
damages for the detention of the steamer.
The particulars regarding the collision
and sinking Of the steamer Dione in the
| Thames, Saturday night, are heart rending.
| There were great many pleasure passeu
gers OH board the vessel. 1t was o clear,
moonlight night and the collision occurred
at about midnight, with the large iron
steamer Camden, just off Gravesend. The
Done's port side was stove in, and the YES
8 Il keeled over and sunk in two minutes.
Those who were saved rushed on deck and
| jumped overheard, half dressed, and were
rescued by tugs. The scenes are described
as terrible and heart rending. Ladies' i'm
| plored men to save their children. Many
women were carrying infants. One mother
placed her infant on floating crate. The
crate drfted away, but was found later oil
Thameshaven, the infant alive and sound.
The captain of the Dione was saved, but was
badly hurt.
There were seven deaths from cholera
since II o'clock yesterday morning at Mar
settles. Sixty cases are being treated there
now. During the past twenty four hours
there we're twenty-eight deaths from chole'
IA at that place. There were four deaths
from the disease at Toulon Sunday night.
The physicians fear that the return of the
people to unhealthy lodgings will cause a
fresh outbreak, and possibly I'LL outbreak of
small pox and typhoid fever. No deaths
from cholera occurred there yesterday.
The total number of cases now under treat
ment is 100. There was one death yesterday
at Laseyne aud two at Montford Sur-Ar
gems. 1t is officially given out that in the
twenty four hours ending at midnight Sun
| day, two deaths from cholera occurred At
MontenotLe and one at Villa Franco. At
Panciieri there have been three fresh cases
but at no other points have there been any.
1t will be possible in few days to remove
| the sanitary Gordon.