Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-19
Foreign Intelligence.

A BILL recently passed by the BRUSH
Columbia Legislature prohibiting Chinese
immigration, and carried into operation
March 81, has been vetoed by the Domin-
ion Government.
HAVANA (Cuba) advices of the 10th say
that Colonel Aduero had landed without
resistance. Numerous factions Joined him
on his march to the interior. His forces
encountered troops several times, but
obliged them to retreat. Great excitement
prevailed, especially in Havana, owing to
the concentration of large forces OF troops,
and the Government had teleSraphed to
Spain for more troops.
UNMARRIED women and widows in Nova
Scotia have been empowered to vote at
municipal elections.
IT was officially announced on the 10th
that the number of persons killed during
the recent Haytien revolution was seven
thousand.
BETWEEN Berber and Shendy, in tbe
Soudan, the tribes We're on the 11th report
ed to be in u state of insurrection. The
rebels were besieSing Shendy and a por.
tion of the Berber garrison had gone to
that city's relief.
THE death of Charles Reade, the popular
English novelist, occurred in London on
the afternoon of the 11th He was seventy
years of age. For some months he had
been in delicate health.
1T was reported from Cairo OH the 18th
that khartoum had fallen into the hands
of the rebels, and that General Gordon
was prisoner. British communication
with Berner had been cut off, and the
Arabs had raided the environs of the town.
On the 18th Aguero and his followers in
| Cuba Were marching toward Bazamo, the
seat of former instructions, and were
haileA with joy by the villagers on the
route. His band had been largely aug
mented. Some plantations had been
| burned, and tax-collectors despoiled of
their funds. A band of forty-two insur-
gents who were marching to join Aguero
were attacked by the Spanish troops, and
thirty-aight of the former were killed.
THE death of Edward NJ. Smith, United
States Consul at Mannheim, Germany, of
apoplexy, occurred in an English railway
| car on the 18th while en- route to this coun.
| try.
THE other night six ten-dollar Confeder
ate bills were successfully passed upon
liquor dealers in Montreal, Can.
| WITHIN the past three months five thou
| sand Iaborers on the Panama Canal had
died, owIHB .lI,rls.t~- aia-t Of tho
| victims were negroes.
In section OF Montreal the river wa.
! up to the doors of dwellings on the 14th,
and the water was still rising.
| ADvICES of the 14th state that the French
| Canadians continued to leave the Province
| of Quebec in large numbers for the United
| States. They find new homes, principally
| in the New England manufacturing towns,
| though form, colonization oolonioo il,
| Dakota and the Northwest.
| A FEW days ago a drunken soldier fired
| at a number of his comrades rOoming in
| the same dormitory at Naples, killing five
and wounding three others.
| THE resignation of the Local Govern
| ment of Manitoba took place on the 14th
because of the refusal of the Dominion au
| thorities to grant better terms to the West.
ern provinces.
| HAVANA advices of the 18th say tha,
Aguero had penetrated the rich jurisdic-
ton of Colon, receiving everywhere on the
| had burned various plantations where
| help was denied.
| AT Cahors, France, a statue of Gambetta
| was unveiled on the 18th. Premier Ferry
made an address eulogistic of the de-
| ceased.
| OFF Bahia, Brazil, the steamship Re
lance, valued at $35O,O0O, plying between
| New York and Rio de Janeiro, was lost a
few days ago, with cargo of coffee. Her
passengers and mails were saved. Among
the shipwrecked was Minister Osborne, of
| Brazil.
! On the 14th an attempt to assassinate the
| President of Guatemala was made, the re-
! suit being slight wound.