The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-01
rOpueN rELEaRApH1c NEWS.

India over the Nero oasis.
The Belfast ship-builders who recently
struck have resumed work.
Colonel Barnaby repulsed body of
rebels approaching Suakem.
81 The British Columbia Legislature has
voted 1851, 600 for public works.
Bradlaugh was reelected by majority
of seventy six, the largest ever had.
There are seventy-fo cases of yellow
fever at last accounts at Rio Janeiro.
Havre, France, received 1876, 900 boxes of
meats from the United States in 1880.
Mr.. Browiley, counsel for Arab Pasha,
says Arab viii return to Egypt soon.
Severe gales and snow.storms are pre-
vailing in Scotland and North Wales.S
The Dean of the Consular Corps has ad-
dressed note to the English Government.
The steamship Germanic was twenty-six
days in transit from New York to Liver
pool.
The Clepington waste works at Dundee
were burned recently. Four firemen were
killed.
Two thousand Jamaica negroes are en-
ployed, under French engineers, on the
Panama canal
The steamer France has arrived at Lon
don from New York with loss OF ia
head of cattle.
Banker Radille of Paris, has suspended.
Liabilities $4,000 francs, chiefly peas
ants earnings.
Advices state that the commercial treaty
between Spain and the United States will
be signed shortly.
Members of fashionable club in Paris
have been robbed for some time by means
of marked cards.
The porte will send 10000 men to Jed
dab, Arabia, to be in readiness for service
in Soudan, if necessary.
The new Governor of Turkistan is de-
sirous ofinitiating pacific policy, in order
to soothe English alarms.
It is reported from London that gales
have caused serious damage in various
parts Of the United Kingdom.
Eighty officials and 300 men have been
discharged to curtail expenses on the
Mexico and Vera Cruz railroad.
A number of authors have established
q company in London to obtain copyright
convention with American authors.
The Spanish Government has begun an
anti-Republican crusade. CaStelarS or
gan, Ell Globe was seized on Monday.
The strike of coal miners at Auzin,
France, has assumed large proportions.
OF IL 400 miners, only 1900 are at work.
Serious disturbance have arisen among
the natives of South Africa. English and
French men of war are landing their
troops.
The funeral services over the remains of
Herr LaskeF, at the new synagogue in
Berlin, on Monday, were attended by 5000
persons.
There was an explosion of ire-damp in
colliery at Rowley, Staffordshire, Eng
land, on Monday. Five men were badly
burned.
A cornerstone and marble altar slab, for
the memorial church to Daniel OConnell
at Cahiriveen, have been sent from Rome
by the Pope.
The roof of the Jesuit college at Carton
de los Condos, Spain, fell in Monday. A
priest, workman and thirteen students
were badly hurt.
The iron masters in north of England
have reduced the wages of their working
men on twenty-four hours notice, owing to
depression of trade.
General Stephenson has apologized, in
the name of the British army, to the
Italian Consul, for the insult offered the
Italian flag by British officer
Assemblyman Donohue of New York
was arrested while attending the carnival
at Montreal. Donohue was identified with
the Fenian raid into Canada in 1866.
The French Government has called the
attention of the English cabinet to the
danger of an uprising and massacre at
Cairo, if the English garrison is weakened.
Many Christians have been murdered in
AMMAN since the beginning of January.
The Chinese yiceroy ordered the Black
Flags to murder every Christian in the
city of Sontay.
General Lord Wolsely has ordered the
expedition to Tokar to be finished in three
weeks, and troops to return to Cairo. The
people of Khartoum hailed General Cor
don as deliverer.
The proprietor of the great Cafe Bauer
in Berlin has established reading-room
in which 700 journals in eighteen langua-
ges, including Turkish, Chinese and ia
panese, are regularly filed.
Monsieur Richepin has deserted Bern
hardt for an actress of fuller proportions
manager disputes bill for her dresses,
though the total is only 5000.
The situation in Manitoba is becoming
serious. There is strong talk of secession
among the people, who are extremely in
dignant at the manner in which they have
been treated by the Ottawa Government
French bondholders of the Suez cana
admit the necessity of second canal. Il
is stated that Minister Ferry refuses tx
open diplomatic negotiations on the sub
ject because the canal was purely private
work.
Professor Lenz of Nuremburg, Germany
has an order from San Francisco for
bronze statue, ten feet high, of Presiden
Garfield. The model was made by Sculp
tor Happersberger of Munich, a native O
America.
The Cuban revolutionists held an indig
nation meeting in New York City or
Monday, in regard to the arrest of Col
Carlos Aquero by United States authori
ties at Key West, on the charge of being
bandit.
General Gordon has posted proclama
tion recognizing FL Mahdi as Sultan OF
Kordoran, remitting half of the taxes, an6
placing no restriction on the slave trade
The Arabs at Khartoum express great sa
tisfaction.
Reports from General Gordon state thai
after the restoring of order he will leave
Colonel Stewart in command of Khar
toum, and proceed to Kordofan. His OBJ
ject is to interview Ell Mahdi, in order tc
learn the fate of Hichs Pasha.
Emile & Cordier, shippers at Rochefort
was a branch at Bordeaux, have failed
Liabilities $500, 900 francs. The failure in
wolves firms at Angoulme, La Rochell and
Mort. A stock broker named Maynier
who was involved, hanged himself.
The Chinese regulation act of 1884, re
Gently passed by the British Columbia
Parliament, and sent to Ottawa for the
Governors sanction, imposes tax of SIC
on every native-born Chinaman over IL
wears of age, and yearly tax of $40 as
long as he remains in the country.
Tricou, formerly French Minister to
China, has just arrived at Paris, from
Saigon. He states that the Black Flags
always place Cinnamon in front of them
in battle and massacre them if they refuse
to fight. He says 400 Chinese have beer
killed in that way in battle.
Orders governing the expedition for the
relief of Tokar have been issued. The
troops will take provisions sufficient te
last two weeks. They will bivouac upor
the line of march, each man CARRYING