Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-02-16
Foreign Intelligence.

Ell MEHDi'S Insurgents on the 9th cut to
I,ieces Tew TX Bev and four hundred fol-
Lowers, who attempted to force their way
from SinkIt TO the coast.
OK the 9Th the steamship Fri5ia, with the
remains Of De Long and his companions
on oard, left Hamburg for New York.
AT Lancaster, Can, passenger train
struck a cutter at crossing few days
ago, killing Alexander Richardson and
William Aynos.
In Parma, Island of Majorica, three ed
itors have been con,lemiI- ii to eigh5 years.
imprisonment for violation of the press
laws.
TnG United Ireland, a Dublin paper, on
the 9Th cxulted over the Mahdi's victories
in Egypt, hoped thai Baker and Cor on
would meet the ia of General Hicks, and
trusted that the Soudan ica ions would soon
arrive at Cairo.
AHRF SIS were announced on the Sth at
st. Petersburg of hundreds of persons
pc ted of being Socialists.
ABOUT fif cen thousand striking weavers
of Blackburn, EnS., recently marched to
the house OF a manufacturer to hang him
in eff ". The police charged the process
sion, AMI ord Il was only restored by the
arrival of OH :erS from Manchester.
Mr.. PARHELL moved an amendment in
the British Ious, OF Commons on tine S,h
to the address OF the Queen, rrting that
the Government policy i'll ireland had
caused the prohibition of public meeting,
and had interfercd with the free iona of
speech, and demanding the immediate
abandonment of State cIniS niSration.
A MEMBER of the New y ork Legislature,
named Douohue, went to Montreal to at
tend the ice-carnival, and was ARE ted Oh
the Sth for completely i'll the Fcnian raid
of 1866.
ToNoUIN dispatches of the Sth announced
that the rebels in the provinces of Nam iinh
and Sontay had been dispersed with heavy
losses. The rebel leader Deloc was
wounded and took refuge in Bac-Ninh.
Between four hundred and five hundred
r.b l. slain. At Scavalow nests of
pirates had been destroyed and many
were killed.
AT a recent banquet to the members OF
the French scientific press, De Lesscps
stated that Roudiere, the French hydrog-
rapher, would soon begin the work of
creating = sea in the Desert of Sahara
MEXICAN soldiers in large numbers were
on the 9th dispatched to Omitlan to quell
the outragcs by Indians, who had muir
dered most of the inhabitants. An at
tempt of civil force to put down the rev
oiutionary mob was defeated with 4 loss
of twenty men killed.
THE vast fields of ice encountered by
steamers crossing tho Atlantic in dictate an
open winter in tlc y tic regions =
\ RIOToUs mob ut San Juan, ArGent;ne
Republic, kille the Governor and wound
ed many persons 4 few nights ago. Senator
Gomez was forn | murdered in the bush.
Snow STORMS and heavy gales were pre-
vaiIiag throughout Scotland and y rth
Wales on the 1ith, doing great damage.
The British House of Commons on the
1lth once more expelled Charles Iii adlauSh
by Il vote of DPS To 10.
LoNDoN advicas of the ! 1th state that the
Chinese in TonIuin hal IuaSsacrcd over
two hundred and fifty Christians, de-
strovcd the homes of the dcfeuseleSS pc0-
pie, and also demolished one hundred AID
ei Ght mission houses.
WHILE crossing the River ThcisS, near
Do,nrad, Austria, a few days ago thirty
ing the bride and groom, We're drowned hy
the breaking of the ice.
THE death Cuncod of John Hutton
Bal four, of London, the distin l,;Iished Brit
ish botanst and physician, at the age of
seventy-six years.
LoNpoN advices of the 11th state that
Captain Gardner and seven men of the
bark Channion, from Baltimore for Ham,
burg, were washed overheard during a
cued bv the steamer Sirocco, after being
in the rigging four days without food, and
badly rost-bitten.