The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-10-18
FOREIGN TELEaRApH1c NEWS.

Justin Mccarthy wants an Irish parlia-
ment.
The Suez canal will reduce tariff on JAN
uary 1st.
General Lynch has been appointed Chill
ian minister to Spain.
The assessment of Toronto, Cam, shows
an increase of $3,645.6lO.
Edward McCrae, long-absent heir is
wanted at KINGSTON, Ont.
Montreal will grant land for the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad elevators.
Turkey has seized Montenegro ship
and the latter wants satisfaction.
An action for $50, 900 has been entered
against the Toronto Nail for libel.
The Gar and Czarina have returned to
the imperial palace in st. Petersburg.
Aviolent and protracted shock of earth
quake was felt in Santiago, Chill, recently.
The Chinese claim to have captured
three guns from the French at the Kelung
affair.
The Canadian contingent reserve has ar
rived at Assiout, and goes to the front i'm
mediately.
China has sent 10000 reinforcements
from Kierin, in the province of Mancloo-
ria. to Pekin.
The Liberals of Glasgow, Scotland, have
unanimously resolved to erect statue OF
Mr.. Gladstone.
Advices from Dongola state that the
Mudir is sending out spies to assist the
Nile expedition.
Edwin Booth, the American tragedian,
will commence series of representations
In Berlin, next February.
A battle took place last week before the
fortress of Dhofar, Egypt. Three hundred
rebels were killed and wounded.
A dispatch from Hopedale, Labrador,
announces the loss, last week, of a fishing
vessel and all hands, numbering five.
Joseph Thompson has completed his
book Of travels in eastern Africa, and 1t is
now the hands of London publishers.
The Kieff University has been closed by
order of the Russian authorities and stu
dents been forbidden to congregate on the
streets.
French cruisers have recently stopped
and boarded English merchant steamers
plying between Annoy and the island of
Formosa.
Over $50 small wooden portable houses
for the Panama canal have been built at
Quebec, Can, and are now being shipped
to Panama.
A dispatch from Constantinople states
that Marion Crawford, the American nov
elist, is to marry son of Colonel Borden,
the inventor.
The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has left
Dublin on visit to the Queen at Balmor.
al. 1t is rumored that he intends to offer
his resignation.
Gladstone has written to the German
periodical upon the opening of Germany
colonial policy, He does not consider 1t
inimical to England.
Shieks of the tribes between Khartoum
and ShendY have arrived at Ambukol and
have rendered their submission to the
Egyptian government.
most favored nation clause, the same
trade privileges in the West Indies as en-.
joyed by the United States.
A reward Of a200 has been offered by
the English government for the arrest OF
the persons who attempted to blow uI
the council house at Salisbury recently.
Several minor accidents to steamers oc.
Cured during the recent gale in Victoria
(B. C.) harbor, the steamer Enterprise hav
ing her funnel and life-boat carried away
in the squall.
The decline in the customs revenue OF
Italy, owing to the prevalence Of cholera
Is estimated at 40,000,000 francs. It is inn
possible to estimate the damage to the
general trade.
A duel was fought recently near Brus
sells between M. Gardier. editor of the IN
dependence Beige, and M. Volders, editor
of the National Beige. Both escaped
without wounds.
A hurricane, coming from the direction
of Jamaica, passed over Santiago De Cubs
last week. Some small vessels In the har
Dor and number of houses In the city
were slightly damaged.
The heroism of King Humbert, of Italy
In going through the cholera-infested
means to stay the pestilence, has won en-
coniums from many sources.
Says Rome dispatch of last week: In
telligence has been received of cyclone
on the island Of Sicily. Trees were up
persons were killed and fifty injured.
1t is stated that one of the objects ol
Herbert Bismarcks mission to ENGLAND
and France is to obtain the extradition oi
German socialists as common law offend
ers. 1t Is thought he will be successful.
The breach between the English parties
regarding the franchise bill is apparently
as wide and deep as ever, although it Is
persistently rumored that the Queen is
trying to mediate between Gladstone and
the Tories.
Among the recent arrivals in London
are Mrs. Bayard Taylor, widow of the
late American minister to Germany, and
daughter of Professor Hanson, and JOIN
Davis. Assistant Secretary of State of the
United States.
A secret society has been organized al
Victoria, B. c., among the lower class o.
Chinese, whose purpose it will be to pillagt
from the wealthy class. Gambling is rife
among them, and several serious melees
have already taken place.
The bombardment of Tamsui by tn,
French feet has ceased. The Chinese
forts are all destroyed. The houses O.
Europeans in the city are riddled will
shells, but the inhabitants have not suf
fered any fatal casualties.
A very ambitious project for the i'm
provement of the waterways of Europe
Is under consideration at Vienna and Ber
lin. The proposal Is to connect the Blacl
Sea with the Baltic by means of canal
extending from the Danube to the Ode
river.
Advices from Suakem state that the re
bellion is increasing. Two fresh tribes
have Joined FL Mahdi. Osman DiRma hai
abandoned his attack on Suakem, and Il
now engaged in massacreing women ant