The Hawaiian gazette., 1884-09-10
LATEsTFoREIcN NEWS
Per Australia.

Per Australia.
The action of Blaine in instituting proceedings
in the indianapolis Islander case is condemned
throughout the East. The paper has yet made no
attem t to justify the publication of the libel.
Patti has petitoned for a divorce from the Mar
quis de Caux.
The Texas and Pacific road will withdraw from
the Transcontinental Association in ninety days
from July 3lst.
The French flag has been hoisted over the cita-
del of Hue, the capital at Anam.
Bismarck and Count Kalnoky are making ar
rangements to take common action against France
and England for harboring anarchists.
BosroS. August 16th.-P H. Morris, acting for
John Teemer, writes to the Sunday Herald and
makes the following proposition: John Teemer
will row with Edward Hanlan or William Beach
for 50 800 side, over any suitable lake course in
England within four months, five miles with one
turn The course to be mutually acceptable. We
will pay our own expenses and will make the
London Sportsman stakeholder if necessary
send 500 as earnest"
NEw YoRK, August l9th.-A San editorial says:
Blaine, we are told, recognizes the propriety of
public demand that the Office of President shall
be filled by a not only with clean public
record, but with a clean private character. This
Is well. 1t is precisely what we believe IN, and
what we supposed the Independent folks believed
in. until we found some people lately beginning
to argue that the private character of the Presi-
dent was matter of comparative indifference. 10
say that 1t does not make any difference what
minister practices, so long as he breaches well,
would not be regarded as sound proposition
Does it accord with morality much better to hold
that the people of the country should not be any
wise concerned about the character of their Presl
dent as man, so long rs his character as an Off
Ger is satisfactory? We think not. The Republican
candidate has acted wisely in branding the cal
umny against his private character as lie, IN
stead of treating the falsehOod with silence. The
Democratic candidate ought to follow his exam
pie.
DELpHr. August I9th.-A little after this morn
irg the body of VIM. Whistler, late a member of
the Greedy party, was eThumed. There were two
physicians present, Whistler's father, GRANDPA
ther and grandmother, half a dozen laborers and
several reporters. The face and trunk were in
good preservation, and the red hair and beard
easily identified him to his friends All the flesh
had been cut from WhIstler's arms and legs.
The limbs were perfectly bare of muscle. The
right foot, which had been frozen, had not been
touched by the knife, and the left hand was cut
only TO the wrist. The breast was not touched,
but every particle of flesh was stripped from the
back The physicians found nothing in the
stomach. They will make no report of. their OBJ
| servations unless asked TO do so by the Govern
| ment,
| LONDON. August 2lst.-The Times Pekin dis.
| patch of this date says: The French Consul low
cred his flag at o'clock to-day. The interests OF
the French subjects have been entrusted to the
| Russian Minister. China absolutely refuses to
| admit the French Claims.
Pans, August 2lst-One death occurred from
| cholera at Naples to-day The soup kitchens at
Marseilles will be closed from September LIST, Ow
| ing to the restoration of confidence and reviya
| of employment. Cholera is spreading rapidly IL
northeast France
reported along the Russo-Chinese frontier. 1t il
| uncertain whether Chinese emissaries are fomen
| ting the disturbances.
| LONDON, August 2lst-Advices from Africa state
| that the natives of the Zambezi country revolteC
| and massacred the entire Portuguese force.
NEW YORK, August 2lst.-'rhe Tj1ah's latest sen
| satiOn is the following This morning intense ex
citemeut prevails in Jersey City over the repor
that a number of cases of leprosy have been dis
covered i'll that city. 1t is claimed that there
no longer doubt that number of lepers could b'
found among the Celestial laundrymen. count,
physician, when asked about it, said: 1--WE ar
fully alive TO the importance of the charges made
but can take no action until some specific com
plaint is formulated"
NV YoRK August 2lst-ATss Lillian T. Smith
of jacksonville, better known in her neighborhooC
as - the California Girl the champion rifle sho
of to- world is DESTROYS of achieving still furthe
Game by winning few more victories with til
rifle. The youthful Diana will be matched by he
father against DIR. Carver Eugene Bogardus, I
L. Stubs, or any other professional shot in tn
world to shoot in bona hde contest with til
rifle,
| NV York August 2lst.-Prcsident Arthur thi
| morning received at the flILu avenue hOItl
officers of the Greedy Relief Expedition, includin
Commander Sohley, Commander Coffin, I.ieuteT
ant Emery, Chief Engineer Melville, and doZe
| otherF. Secretaries Chandler and Lincoln an
General Butler who had called to see the Presi
dent were present. Secretary Chandler il
formed Commander Schley that the President ha
decided to appoint him Chief of the Bureau c
Equipment and Recruiting in place of Commodol
Earl English, who commands the European Squat
ron. With the Office or Chief OF the Bureau
the Navy Department goes the rank of Comm
dore.
! PORTSMOUTH, On. H., August 17th.-For Il
! purpose of obtaining some idea of the generi
! nature and probable value of the scientific obse
yations made by Lieutenant Greedy, an AssOcii
! ted Press agent visited him Saturday Gree
stated that the object of the Lady Franklin Ba
| expedition was to establish polar station, one
: thirteen suggested by Lieut.. Weyprecht, of Au
4 tria, who discovered Franz Joseland. Simultal
: eous observations of all the physical phenomeI
were taken. The complete programme that VI
y to be followed was arranged by an Information
= Polar Congress, in which representatives of Il
. | thirteen nations took part. The observations,
y the making OF which the greatest possible acour
L CIV was to be had, were those of the deGlinatiO
y and deviation of the magnetic needle, temperate
u of the air and sea, the height of barometer al
= mean and maximum rise and fall of tides. III
d explorations TO be merely incidental to 9th
. objects.
q meeting of tine three Emperors of Germa
, Russia and Austria, each attended by his prin
d pal Minister, has been definitely arranged.
In addition to three Russian ironclads order
to re-enforce the Hussian flest IN China, the la
forces on the Corean frontier will he rosenfqrcl
d The Egyptian rebels attempted to capture XIII
e toum on the 18th inst, and continued the alta
until the II tn when Gen. Gordon cleverly Of
:; fianked them. Many rebels were killed duri
y the engagement
y A resolution looking to the open reputation
n the Virginia debt was offered in the Senate of Il
n State Saturday week.
Opium eating is on the increase in Boston. a
to the vile habit is denounced in the papers.
The crops In Ireland are said TO be superb a
he more noblemen and other rich landlords
spending the autumn on their Irish estates til
y; during many years past. This materially
ik proves business of all kinds.
IN An uprising against the authority of Turkey
Ia reported in Armenia.
he The route which the Gordon relief should foil
is a subject Of much contention IN kngiahq.
ly The class of men England has asked Canada
y: furnish to the expedition for the relief of
at Gordon are those whose constant occupation
ne been running timber on the Canadian rivers.
We is necessary to take tiat-bot;om boats up the
~ making portage around the rapids.
y 1t is rumoIed that the British miliyary auth,
ties will shortly test at Aldershot new AERIAL "
re ship the invention of a German, now citizen
- America,
of Grand Duke Louis OF Hesse- Darmstadt Is ag
giving trouble to the Queen. His latest fancy
nj lady connected with the Ducal Court at Da
stadt
IRE Adyices from Western Africa says that SIN
nd pox is raging at Coomassie, Ashantee. The X
of the country recently died and 800 subjects "
nd killed at the funeral.
lgs Prince Louise, eldest daughter of the Primo
nd Wales, Just ont of the nursery, has two sutOrs
the eldest son of the King of Sweden, and
ew other the Crown Prince Of Baden.
iy Fresh reports of gross prosecutions of j
on from, nuriuU ha la 81 tNra M
he jew baiters in various villages haYe butneJ {
IS 1000 Jewish houses, shops and synagogues,
"a There are good prospects OF final conolu'
Is of a treaty of commerce between the Tn
INC States and Cuba. The leading Spanish PAL
~, editOrially point to the fact that unless Cuba
Sie Porto Rico have a favorable treaty with
a. United States, the English at West India colo
''' will, which means death TO Cuba.
az At the Empire Bar-olaim, Honolulu dist
cal Klamath river, the miners c5ntsngp 70 have 3
me prospects, and also bones Of mammoth animal
mr. ancient times, similar TO those discOyered in
: a Centennial claim further down An immense
bone Of a masiOdon was found last Thursday,
ate sides several other petriied bones
rbo The Paris Journal des Debats states that the
The sion Of the Earl of NOrthbECok. British High
va missioner 10 Egypt, is to compe,-ths hhediy
lers grant all the concessions demanded, then (
him to abdeate the throne and finally to procl
80. his son Abbas khediye, intrusting the regenG
81 Nubar Pasha.
Eay PORTLAND. August l9ih.-A special TO the
goniGH from Roseburg says The principal |
EEs ness places of Roseburg were burned this N
tEE ing. The fire originated in the office of
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