Arkansas weekly mansion., 1884-04-12
Foreign Intelligence.

ADvICES OF the ID state that Osman Dig
ma was actively engaged in preparing for
further offensive operations in the Soudan
A FIRE in London, Eng, a few days ago
burned out twelve large publishing firms,
including the Religious Tract Society,
causing loss of S3,0Oo,oOo.
BY the wrer king of a Danish bark off the
the Shetland Islands few days ago fifteen
persons were drowned.
On the 81 the steamship Neptune ar
rived at St. Johns, n. F., with Al 800 seals,
valued at $4,000, which We're taken in
twelve DAYS This was the largest catch
on record.
IN tlic Province of Kazap, Russia, famine
prevailed on the 81, and many persons
were dying.
If WAS claimed by the British Govern
ment ON the 4th that plot by Irish In
vincibles to blow up Mountjoy Prison had
been unearthed Letters found in cell
showed that the wa~dens We're to lie bribed
to place an Internal machine in the prison,
and that n noted conspirator was to be
thrown over a balcony and killed.
NEWS received at Ottawa, Ont, on the
4th from the lumber woods on the upper
Ottawa reported the death of five Italians,
who died of exposure during the last cold
snap. They were found dead in their lum-
Der shantv.
NEAR Wales, Ont, an express train on
the Grand Trunk Road leaped the track
and the engineer and fireman were killed
and twelve passengers were injured.
THE British Cabinet after an exhaustive
discussion decided on the 4th against
formally establishing n Protectorate over
Egvpt-
OFF Sambro, n. s., the steamer Daniel
AMY =
of thirty four men and ninety passengers,
was wrecked on the night of the Sd, and
the Captain and five of the crew were the
only survivors-i1S persons prrishing.
ADvICES of the 9th from London say
that great havoc was wrought along the
British as: by recent gale. A Danish
bark was wrecked and fifteen lives were
lost II was believed hundreds had me;
waterv graves. The destruction of ship
! ping was great.
Up to the 9th nothi"e '''" '''ii "''
! from Chinese ,iGrdOn for two weeks, ana
| II was i,nDossible to forwar! kilograms tC
| Kb,rtoum. Nubar Pasha had resigned
the presidency of the Egyptian Council OF
| M:,i.tarS and the dissatisfaction VIII
| Euronean agents in Cairo and Alexandria
| was said to he intense.
| CHOLERA made its appearance i'll Cochls
| China ON the 9th. Precautions against its
| spread were being taken.
| Jx como of the Russian Provinces Agra
| r;.n .:-inss were reported on the 9th, IT
| which several policemen had been killed
ADVICES of the 9th state that one hun
dred and twenty nine persons persisted
| by the recent wreck of the Daniel Stein
| mann off Saubro Island, y. =. The shiI
/ sunk immediately upon striking the ledge
and the passengers, who had been sum
| moned to the deck by the Captain, wcrt
! swept away by the mountainous waves.
| The Canadians express alarm over tho
| magnitude of the emigration to the United
| States. A party of three hundred ant
| twenty-five left one parish Il few days ago
! two hundred of them to remain perma
| nently.
| THE resignation of Nubar Pasha OF the
on the 9Th withdrawn until the English
| Government could decide i'll regard to the
| relative powers Of the Egyptian Ministers
| and English officials.
| IN the City of Mexico and surrounding
! country all the stores were closed on the
| 9Th as a protest against the stamp act, and
none would be openel unless by police
| force. Business was suspended, and riot
| ing was imminent.
| ATTENTION was called by the Granu
| Jury at Ottawa, Ont, on the 9Th to the fact
| that an American citizen charged with
murder had for thirty months lain in jail
without trial during five sessions of court.