The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-03-20

Foreign Flashes.
Crowds follow Mary Anderson in London as
| she goes to mass, and the ladies say of her:
s'Oh, she is So pious-and such lovely arm!'
| Natives recently attacked European factories
on the Lower Congo, plundered caravans, and
killed several Europeans. Assistance has been
sent the distressed settlers.
The death of the baroness Lionel de Roths-
child is announced She was the daughter of
Baron Charles de Rothschild of Naples and
was married to her cousin in 1856
| Gladstone's indisposition is said to be owing
| to disagreement with the marquis of Hunting
| tan, secretary of state for war, that England
must control the Red Sea ports of Egypt
While delivering lecture at Bridgewater,
against perpetual pensions, Bradlaugh was at
tackled by roughs and driven from the platform
by shower of rotten eggs fruit and fireworks
The roughs afterward wrecked the chairman g
house.
Much anxiety is felt in regard to the situation
| at Khartoum. The Times Alexander special
says: SIT is proverbial that three courses are
possible: To leave Gen. Gordon to his fate;
to dispatch English troops to Khartoum, or to
import Indian troops The policy OF doing
nothing has not hitherto achieved signal sue
cess"
sell in England a forged manuscript book Of
the Pentateuch, killed himself in hotel in
Rotterdam. He had not left his room for sew
eral days. The police forced the door and
found the despatched corpse upon the
bed. Letters showed he was suffering from
mental alteration
Paris Correspondent of the Times: The oc-
| cupation of Bacninh ends in nothing The
| rainy season begins in fortnight and will
postpose operations six months The delta OF
| the Red river is handed over to pillage and an
| archy. The French government will shortly
| be compelled to ask for credit of z, wv
francs, and eventually for 100, 600 francs,
which the chamber will certainly refuse. The
| expedition will require sixty-three ships and
400, 600 men. The end to be gained is out of all
| proportion to the outlay.
! passage at arms occurred last week be-
| twee Gen Wallace and the grand vizier at Con-
stantinople. Acting under instructions from
| Washington, Gen. Wallace has lately been
| pressing the porte very hard for settlement
| Of the petroleum question and American claims
| generally. The grand vizier, irritated at such
| persistency, refused to receive Minister Wal
lace when the latter sought an audience fol
! the special purpose of demanding some official
answer to his various long standing demands,
| pleading an engagement on important business.
An angry official correspondence elsAed, IN
tiers have net the same right to approach the
| grand vizier at all times as ambassadors
| possess.
A dispatch from Gen. Graham, date Osman
Digma's Camp, March Ii, 1880 a. NJ, says
''The camp of the enemy has been taken, after
| hard fighting since S a. M. Over seventy Bri-
| fish were killed and 100 wounded" Later dis
patches say the bivouac last night was exceed
| ingly unpleasant. The Arabs kept up a per-
sistent fusliade until just before daybreak.
The bright moonlight rendered objects dis
tinctly visible at a long distance, but prevented
the enemy from making sudden onset The
rebels directed their fire toward the hospital
wagons which were most CONSPICUOUS. The sur
geons and Gen. Grahams staff officers had many
narrow escapes At runrise Gardiner gun
and a nine FOUNDER were turned against the
| rebels, who were within / 800 yards of the
British position, and afforded most elegant
target. The Arabs were soon compelled to re-
tire to their main position near Tomai Wells
Col Stewards cavalry arrived at $50, and tool
| q position on the British left SO as to turn the
| enemy's right. Gen. Graham has taken quar-.
ters for the present in the camp from which
Osman Digma and the rebel hostiles were driv.
en-. The enemy fought most stubbornly, anG
the battle was much heavier than the engage
ment at Teb. The sailors, the Black Watch
regiment, and York and Lancaster regiments
| suffered the heaviest losses.