The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1884-02-27
Foreign,

! 'N''NNNi ''N'tuIii NoIc uIOWlltu
ENGLISH troops have been ordered to the
Red Sea ports, to defend them against FL
Mahdi's rebels.
Two mandarins have been executed for
instlgatIng the recent massacre OF Christians
In TOnquin.
Mexico wants 10000 feet of space in tho
main building at the coming New Orleans
exposition, and l2O 900 feet outside for tho
Mexican garden, the building for the Next
can commission, and for a camping ground
for battalion of Mexican troops. Over
s2UO,OOV has been APPROPRIATED by the Next
cans, who VIII send Il magnificent band OF
| musicians and corps of cadets.
SEVERAL persons were drowned, and an
Immense pecuniary loss was sustained by u
waterspout in Arequipa, Peru, and It's en-
virons.
MURDERS are now very numerous on the
lsthmus OF Panama.
LoNDoNs lord mayor presided over mass
meeting denunciatory Of tho British govern
ment'S policy in Egypt.
Two members of the French chamber of
deputies have just fought duel, one receiv-
ing n wound in the knee.
FL MAuDI's forces have evacuated their
position ten miles from Sualiim At Sinkat
lllfl hlllIu AuI NOllltll anu u NUMBER OI
chiidren. III Mahdi recently sent two mol
labs u The ruler OF the Kafa province. ut
the source Of the Blue Nile to order him
aud his SUBJECTS TO renounce fetish worship
Ond embrace Islamism. Tho molahs, after
they had delivered FL Mahdis orders, were
strangled by the natives.
DURING fight between whites and ma.
tives in the province Of Angola, West Africa,
an ex 'losion of gunpowder killed forty Of
the latter.
PARNELI., the Irish home rule leader, de-
clnrcd IN an amendment TO the Queens
speech, proposed by hun in the house OF
commons, that highlands policy in Ireland
had failed TO tranqulize the people, wantonly
prohibited public meetings and incitol i'll
will and strife between the different classes
OF the country
A PROCESSION Of 1900 striking weavers
at Blackburn, England, carried the efligy of
manufacturer with the intention OF hang
ing IL in front OF his residence. They were
charged by the police and several persons
were injured.
Miss CLARA BARTON, president OF the
American National Association of the Red
Cross. ACCOMPANIED by Doctor Hubbell, the
special field agent OF the association, has
gone from Washington to the scenes of the
flood along the Ohio for tile purpose Of af-
fording relief by distributing supplies to the
sufferers
NEARLY 5000 bills, most OF them Of a
private nature, have been introduced so far
In the present session OF Congress.
GREAT dissatisfaction has been created
throughout Great Britain by the govern
ments yacillating policy concerning the
crisis in Egypt. Az ono dispatch puts it:
"Peoplc cannot understand policy Of in
difference 10 maSSacres in n country where
England rules and of Indifference Xix ewse
TO the defeats of armies which Englishmen
officer"
A BAND OF 500 Indians murdered all the
principal residents Of Omitlan, Mexico, and
plundered the town.
AT a banquet given in Paris to lea1ing
members of the scientific press, NJ. de les
seIS stated that the scheme for creating a
sea in the great Sahara desert in order to
transform the arid sand into fertile country,
would shortly he commenced
MIR. BRADLAUGH, elected to the British
house OF commons, but refused permission
to take his seat because he declined TO take
the prescribed oath for members, entered the
chamber during a session and administered
the oath to himself. Upon motion he was
excluded from the precincts of the house.
IT is announced from Sicily that Mount
Etna is in state OF eruption.
THOMAS CHENERY, editor Of the London
Times, is dead.
WHILE wedding party was crossing the
/ River Thesis, near Domrad, Hungary, the
ice broke and thirty-five members OF the
party were drowned.
| THE French bishopin Tonquin reports that
one priest, twenty-five catechists and 2l5
| Christians have been maSsacred, and that
! los mission houses have been destroyed.
QUEEN VICTORIA has just published book
containing Il record of ner life for the past
twenty years, describing her personal emo
TONS and State affairs and family matters,
and highly euogizng her late body guard,
John Brown.
SINRAT, in the Soudan, has been captured
by III Mahdis rebels and its force Of so
Egyptians under Tewfk Bey cut to pieces
A MOTION to ccnsure Gladstone's govern.
ment for its vacillating policy in the Soudan
was passed in the British house of lords by
ISL yeas TO 81 nays.
A VIOLENT earthquake has occurred al
Bitlis, Asiatic Turkey, destroying a number
of buildings.
BRADLAuGH has given up the long strug.
gle for possession of n seat in the British
house of commons, and new election in his
district has been ordered.
PARNELr., the Irish home rule leader, de-
81 red IN an amendment to thu Queens
Spo, cb pro scd by hrl in the house of
COMMON, that Eng = ,aS policy in Ireland
hat laiei 10 tlanlu.liZe the people, wantonly
prohibited public me tings and incitel III.
Wi and strife between the different classes
of the country.