Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-16
FOREIGN NEWS.


FOREIGN NEWS.
The Cholera Situation.
LoNDoN, September l5th.-Thc exodus
from Naples during The past week has been
50 great that lodgings in the ueighb0rius
villages axe obtained only AZ fabulous
prices sometimes as high rs 800 francs
month being asked for q single room. The
/ better sections OF thG town are deserted, amt
| all the shops IN the Toledo are closed al
four O'Clock in the afternoon. The theatres
! are all shut, anG many Of the poorer streets
| are as silent as death.
4 mob attacked in the Via del purga-
| torio a man whom they suspected Of throw
ing poisonous powder over some cakes eX-
posed for sale on the P.aZzas. They dragged
him back and made him eat the cake until
the owner interfercd in seli-defenSe. Out
of sheer perversitv, the people ate more
fruit and vegetables than usual. In the
piazza in front of the Municipal palace two
loatcrs got q big basket of figs ana in the
presence of q large crowd began 20 eat them
! on a wager The police marched them 20
the jail. \ woman who was selling fruit
on the corner Of the Piazza del Martini fell
over. diving of cholera. The crowd made a
bonfire of her chair, stand and fruit and
left her to die. Nobody would carry her to
the hospital.
Under the inspiration of the Archbishop
the priests are now eXerting every effort to
! discourage professions and the like, though
with little success. There has been an
enormous revival of religious sentiment in
Naples. The street shrines which were
| walled up by Garibaldi in 1850 have all
been opened and the whitewash Scraped OF
the holy pictures. Crowds wild with i0v
watch the work and hail with shouts each
restoration. The professions are continued
| in the poorer streets chiefly bv women
The churches are thronged, and street
altars are being erected. The police DO not
! dare to interfere with the affairs. The most
! extravagant stories of miracles worked are
received with credulity by the people.
ROME, September 15th.-The bulletin
showing the rayages of cholera during the
past twenty-four hours indicates: Naples
city, 643 fresh cases and 231 deaths !;
Naples (provincel thirty fresh cases and
and four deaths CuncO twenty-one fresh
cases and thirteen deaths; Genoa, twenty
i've fresh cases and twelve deaths; ten
! other provinces (names not given, seven
teen fresh cases and ten deaths.
MApRID. September l5th.-Since last re-
ports six fresh cases of cholera and four
| deaths have occurred at Eiche. and four
| fresh cases and three deaths at Novelda. In
the city of Lcrida one fatal care Of sporadic
cholera occurred One suspected case is
reported in the suburbs of Barcelona, and
several suspicious cases in the proyice OF
TarregOna SIX Of which proved fatal.
France and China.
NV YoRK, September 15th.-The fol-
| lowing dispatch has lust been received by
Wo Kee & Co, 5 Mott street, from the head
OF their firm at Hongkong:
Discontinue orders to Saigon (Anam) until
further orders. SiXty-iye thousand men have
lust been dispatched Tor the aunihilati0n of the
French there, WO hEE Co.
The above firm is the leading Chinese
exporting firm in this city, and controls
nearly all the Chinese-American trade in
ginseng and kindred medical roots OF
American consumption between China and
Indies, Anam and India. They own the
large brick buildings which they now
occupy, and likewise several other buildings
on Mott street. The above dispatch was
Immediately posted upon a telegraph pole
in front of WO kee IL Cos store for general
information among the Chinese community,
and was carried like wildfre from place 10
place, until every shop and den in China
town was enthusiastic over the Govern
mMtS determination to take revenge upon
the French.
BLOCKING CHINESE RIVERS.
LoNDoN. September 15th-Advices from
China state that the Chinese have no inten-
ton of blocking the Woo-Sung or Wong
poo river, ON which Shanghai is situated,
unless the French make an attack. Hun
dreds of stone-iaGen boats are in position
TO he sunk on the approach of the French
fleet. 1t is believed that the neutral powers
will seriously object to the closing of this
? river, unless q formal declaration Of wal
shall have been made NJ Patenotre, the
French Minister TO China, is at Shanghai
intriguing with the peace party among the
Chinese. His hope is to bring about {
; revolution at the palace and cOpSequen
, overthrow Of the war party
No ARBITRATION WANTED.
PARIS, September 15th.-Le Paris pub
fishes an inspired article to-day, in which
the idea that the French should accept or
bitration in the difficulty with China is in
!. dignantly rejected. France, it says, IS de
terMined to settle her differences viii
China herself
FIRING on THE zEPHYR.
LONDON. September I5th.-A H0ngkong
| dispatch says the Chinese officials explain
= that they first fired over the British gun
. boat Zephyr and fired directly at her after
Z
. first shot.
] ADMIRAL COUEBET's 5 PLANS.
LoSDoS, September 15th-A Hongkonl
dispatch 10 the Times saws: Admiral Cour
. | bets plan of campaign is now supposed tC
: he to flank Kelung, and march upon Tam
I sui thus forcing the Chinese army south
ward where the hill tribes are hostile. tn,
, dispatch states that this campaign vii
probably fail, as the 900 troops from Ton
quin viii be inadequate to take Xelung
| and the road TO Tamsui is q mere ravine
The French bought two launches here.
;, Neutrality Proclaimed by Japan.
Y YOKOHAMA September 15th-The Japan
{ ese Government has proclaimed neutralit,
in the Franco-C Chinese war. Importan
questions may arise in consequence OF tn
r convenience of the coal supplies of Japaf
: for French cruisers, but no complication
o are feared Japan viii enforce medical in
= SpeCtion and quarantine of vessels arTiYin!
= from Annoy and New Chang, where choler;
/, prevails. The American Minister is thu
far the only one of the foreign representa-
tives who publicly indorses these measures
j., Reinforcements to be Sent to Albania.
CoNsrANTNoPLE, September 15th.-Th
, authorities are about TO send for l 600 re
! Inducements to Albania to queli disturb
: ances along the frontier
Crop Prospects in India.
LONDON, September 15th.-Advices from
3 India report that crop prospects are i'm
! proving There has been a favorable rain
( fall at Bengal, but the drought still con
tinues at Madras. In Mysore there have
: been serious foods.
{ The Meeting of the Emperors.
SKIERNEvIEcE, September 15th.-The En-
peror of Austria arrived this afternoon. Ht
/ Mas received hy the Gar and staff all il