Savannah weekly echo., 1884-02-03
Foreign,

A NUMBER OF Irish farmers went to work
the other day, and assisted by l6O plougbs
ana so horses ploughed fifty acres of the es- |
tate OF MIR. Parnell, the Irish home rule lead
er
VIGNAUx, French champion, won the sec
ond five-night billiard match with Schaefer. |
American champion, in Paris, making a total |
OF 5000 points to 1853 for his opponent.
I 4 oIslTIe Al dnerences resulted in the res
ignaton &. the Spanish cabinet and the for.
nation of new cabinet with Senior Cano-
vas del Castillo, conservative, as president
of the council.
EIGHTEEN persons have been arrested in con-
necti0n with the discovery of secret print
ing Office in ST. Petersburg
OWING to the unsettle political condition
| or china, and the consequent deplorable
state OF the money market in that country,
several Chinese bankers have committei
suicide.
AMERICAN and English residents of Nice
are trying to suppress gambling at Monte
Carlo. -Four violent deaths all the result of
gambling, occurred at this famous resort in
enc week. These four deaths comprised three
men who lost heavily aud committed suicide,
aud a fourth who was murdered for the
money he had won at the gaming table.
GENERAL GORDON has been sent bv the
British government to the Soudan, to take
charge of its affairs there and direct the
evacuation of Egyptian troops
The London Times says that the evacua
ton OF the Soudan, south of Khartoum. is
the condition precedent of all healthy reor-
ganizatlon of the country A mass of Egyp-
tian soldiers, an official has estimated at 10
UVo, has been let loose upon the country in
the name of Occupation This lawless horde
OF piunderers, the Times adds must evacu-
ate the SOudan before that country can be-
come tranquil.
A LONDON dispatch says that five packages
OF dynamite were discovp ed in a tunnel |
through which special ira i carrying the |
Prince of Wales passed.
AN immense concourse of peasantry as
Sembled at Derrybeg. Ireland, birthplace OF |
Carey, and assisted in the celebration of |
mass for the repose Of the soul of ODonneI
After the mass mock funeral was held and !
a coffin was placed in the O'Donnell buryine
plot, the people kneeling in prayer around
the grave.
DR. JULIUS ROSENBERG, who killed Count
stefan Batthyany in a duel at Temesvar,
imprisonment and to ray the costs of the
IrlaL The cause of the duel was the mar
rage TO the count of lady who had been
engaged to DR.. Rosenberg.
MoODEY and Sankey's revival meetings at
Battersea, England, were great success.
;, HUGO SCHENCK, recently arrested at
Jenna for numbering four women after
having obtained their money under promise
II marriage. has confessed that he had
planned five more murders. expecting through
hem to obtain 81, 600, with which he in.
ended to escape to America
EARL GROSvENoR, son and heir of the Duke {
4 Westminster one of the wealthiest men
England, is dead in his thirty-second year.
SIXTEEN persons were killed and twelve i,
everely injured by an explosion in mine !
ear Berlin.
IHE Pope on the 21st of February will S
reate six new cardinals. +
A NEW comet has been discovered al Q
uenos Ayres South America. :
ARABS have recommended the slave trad n
n the west coast of Madagascar wbare
900 African slaves have been landed f