The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-12
roREraH rEIzaRApH1C NEWS.

Canada.
Wilkie Collins, the novelist. is just 60
years of age.
NJ. Tissol, formerly French minister to
England, is dead.
All vessels arriving at Madrid from Mo
rocco are quarantined.
Ports on the Mediterranean sea are
closed to French vessels.
Portugal has declared quarantine
against all English vessels.
London has greater population than
the entire dominion of Canada.
A woman from Toulon died at Vintin-
iglia, Italy, of cholera last week.
The gulf coast of Mexico is quarantined
against France on account of cholera.
The minarett of mosque at Cairo col
lapsed recently, killing twelve persons.
The first death from cholera occurred in
Toulon on June 4th, but it was kept secret.
Cholera has broken out in the neighbor-
hood of Pekin. Those attacked die in q
few hours.
ALI vessels arriving at Malta from Tou-
lon are subjected to twenty-three days
quarantine.
A st. Petersburg journal says that Rus
sia in annexing Merv only wished to fine
her frontier.
The government of Spain has been peti;-
toned to permit cremation of the dead
when so desired.
Passengers arriving at Geneva from
Toulon and Marseilles are disinfected at
railway stations.
T.,
rope. A few of the principal hotels in
London have them.
For the past thirty years Denmark has
contributed yearly average OF 900 peo-
pie to Mormondom.
All the bodies of the late colliery disas-
ter at Wellington,1B c., have been re-
covered and buried.
Belgium had the first railroads in CONT
mental Europe. The fiftieth anniversary
was celebrated May 1st.
The London World says it is rumored
that Earl Spencer will be appointed Vice
roy of India before long.
Prime Minister Castillo, of Spain, says
that country has absolutely no intention
of selling Cuba to the United States.
1t is currently reported that meeting
will soon take place at Danz.g, between
the Emperor of Germany and the Gar.
Glass is taking the place of wood fol
flooring in the stores of Paris. 1t costs
more, but it lasts longer and is kept clear
easier.
A Cairo dispatch says that the proposed
arrangements for the future of Egypt ere
ate a most favorable impression in thai
country.
The steamer Faraday laid 200 miles o.
the eastern shore end of the Bennett
Mackay cable, and returned to Queens
town for coal.
English watchmakers are considerably
exercised ever the fact that American
watches are driving English watches ou
of the market.
Victor Tissot, the author of the "Jour
ney into the Land of the Millards," has
just completed book on ''The Secret Po
lice of Prussia"
A residence has been engaged for En-
peror William of Germany, in Gastein
Austria, where he is expected to arrive
the latter part of July.
Mr.. Childers, chancellor of the ex
chequer, will attend the Egyptian confer
ence as representative of the hnancia
interests of the English government.
A dispatch from Cairo says letters from
Khartoum state that Khart0um was cap
tured during the latter part of May, with
out difficulty. There was no massacre.
The boiler of the Spanish man-of- wa
Ligero exploded at Las Nuevitas, Cuba
recently, with great violence. Three per
sons were killed and five severely injured
Vice Admiral Peyron, French Ministe
of Marine, has issued circular asking
for subscriptions to open fund for the re
lief of sufferers of cholera belonging to tn
navy.
The London World says the Fortescue
Gormoyle breach of promise case ha
been withdrawn. Earl Cairnes, Lord GaI
moyle's father, paid the fair plaintiff larg
damages.
Negotiations between England and Hol
land, in regard to the NiSerO crew, resulted
in a determination to use forcible measure
to compel the Rajah of Tenom to releas
the captives.
The conviction is increasing that th
conference upon Egyptian affairs will re
suit in failure. 1t is reported in Vienn
that Russia is trying to render that confer
ence abortive.
Further particulars from Khartoum sa
that General Gordon is quite safe, and i
allowed the freedom of Ell Mahdi's camp
El Mahdi himself is at Khartoum. Euro
peans are well treated.
DR.. Koch, chairman of the cholera com
mission of Berlin, is about to start TO
Paris and Toulin, to offer his services t
the French authorities to determine tn
cause of the epidemic.
At conference of the members of tn
Houses of Lords and Commons recently
it was unanimously resolved to introduc
the deceased wife's sister bill into tn
House of Lords at once.
The French Chamber of Deputies re
Gently, after rejecting the amendmen
abolishing the right of the President t
dissolve parliament, adopted bill ior tn
revision of the constitution.
A Lisbon, Portugal, cablegram says: Il
election riots on Cape Verdi Islands seyera
persons were killed and wounded. Tn
military restored order. The government
candidates were triumphant.
Bertier, Partisan actress, while taking
part in play in Marseilles theater las
week, heard that a spectator had beel
seized with cholera, and abruptly fled t.
Paris between the scenes in her theatrica
costume.
Certain young men of Oxford and Cam
bridge Universities have agreed, it is said
to organize and settle among the poor il
the east of London, and to do their bes
by precept and example elevate their les
fortunate brethern.
A convict named Stevens, imprisoned
at Plymouth, England, obtained his libert,
and a good reward by preventing the es
cape of other convicts who had beaten in
sensible the warden under whose car,
they had been placed.
1t is generally admitted in Marseille
that the worst of the cholera crisis is over
One feature of the disease has been tn,
shortness of the time between seizure ant
death. This would seem to indicate tha
the malady is Asiatic cholera.
Recent statistics give a STARTLING via1v n