The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-10-11
FOREIGN rEIEGRApH1c NEWS.
The Nile river is rising.

The Hungarian reichsrath convened at
Buda-Pesth last week.
Cable connection between China and
England is interrupted.
Three hundred revolutionists are camped
within ten miles of Panama.
The report of the death of Rev. DR..
Fenouelle, at Paris, is denied.
Work on the Victoria, B. c., dry dock
will be resumed in few days.
The Belgian government has placed 10
per cent sur tax on foreign sugar.
Thirty persons were killed by a cloud
burst at Pachucla, Mexico, recently.
The assembly of South Australia has
passed law abolshing juicial oaths.
Patti has $4,000 damage suit on hand
for refusing to fulfill her Paris engage
ment.
great demonstration against foreign
labor took place at Hamilton, Ont, last
week.
Sara Bernhardts latest role is as a pa
troness of Capper, the English thought
reader.
King Humbert, of Italy, will reward
those prominent in efforts to suppress
cholera.
The steamer Coventry, from Liverpool
for Charleston, S. O., has put into Green
ock in distress.
A fire at Lachine, Canada, recently, de-
stroyed twenty three houses. Many peo-
pie are homeless.
Thirty prisoners escaped from the Zap
ties jail at Cairo last week. Seventeen
have been recaptured.
A
onism towards Europeans is increasing on
the part of the Chinese.
Vice President Van Horne. of the Ca
madam Pacific says that road will be
through next September.
The total number of deaths from ehol-
era in France the last week was IT.
against 2l0 the preceding week.
The song "He is an Englishman," dur
ing performance of "Pinafore, at Dub
lin recently, was drowned in Kisses.
The London Leader considers Green
wich the only meridian England will ac-
cspt as standard for measuring longitude.
Operators on government telegraph lines
at the City of Mexico have struck on ac-
count of the non-payment of back salaries.
Yokohama advices state that hostilities
between france dDOOQlnd are ulSdSlEOuSIy
affecting trade between Japan and China.
The powers are discussing the question
of a renewal of the London conference to
finally settle the Egyptian financial trou-
bles.
A son of O'Donovan Rosa, now in Paris,
boasts that he brought sc, 600 francs with
which to buy dynamite to be sent to Eng
land
The work shops Of the General Trans
Atlantic Steamship Company in ST. Ma.
zaire were destroyed by fire. The loss is
heavy.
Over twenty houses in Louisville, Can,
a little village situated about fifty miles
from Montreal, were destroyed by fire last
week.
The German steamer Martha, from Co
penhagen to New York, with $50 passen
gers on board, is ashore of Licomb, n. S..
disabled.
Admiral Courbet thinks nothing short
of q march to Pekin will compel China tc
accede to the demands of the French gov
ernmcnt.
An action has been begun at Cairo be
fore mixed tribunal against the Khedive
in consequence Of the suspension of thu
sinking fund.
There is a man in Victoria, B. c., with
project to build an electric railway from
Port Simpson on the Pacific to Hudson's
bay on the Atlantic.
Meetings were recently held at Capt
Town, Graham's Town, and other place!
in Africa, denouncing the proceedings O
the Beers in Bechuankud.
Jules Valles, in letter to the Paris l.
Matin FrGncdiSe, bids Germans ant
Frenchmen beware of rousing the dor
nlant spirit of Englishmen.
The Paris Temps says that the occupa
tion of Tamsul, in addition to Kelung
will be necessary to prevent the Chimes
from obtaining needed supplies.
Portuguese expedition accompanied
by 100Zulus and 250 carriers, will soon ex
plore the country between Mozambique
and Lake Nyassa, southeast Africa.
It is reported that the German ministe
at London has been instructed to motif,
Secretary Granville of the establishment
of German protectorate over the Cam
eroonS.
1t is reported that the British cabine
have decided to send to the Cape of Goot
Hope General Wolseley, to head an expe
dition to crush the Beers, after he has sue
cessfully settled affairs at Khartoum.
Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ire
land, mas reduceQ the extra ponce TAX as
sessed upon Limerick, which the corpora
ton of that city refused to pay. He viii
insist upon the payment of the reduced
amount.
Queen Victoria is attempting to restore
her Scotch neighbors to a sense of right!
of property, by having requests read ou
by ministers on the Sabbath, for the return
OF books borrowed from the royal free Ii
brary in Balmoral.
The steamer Lake Champlain, from
Quebec, Can, sank at the dock in Liver
pool last week. The sea cock was lef
open. The water in the ship is fourteen
feet deep, and is confined to the engin
room and stoke hole.
Heavy rains, floods and the maintenance
of cholera cordons and lazaretos sre par
alyzing trade throughout Spain. TIL
working classes are suffering greatly.
is expected their distress will increas
during the coming winter.
United States Consul General Heap ha
been urging the Porte to offer protection
to trade marks. The Porte, however, de
clined to take action in the matter on tn
ground that such protection should be re
ciprocal and Turkish industry does not re
quire it abroad.
A Spanish sergeant and seven private
on the northeastern frontier of Spain de
serted their post last week, and, takin
the treasure chest of their regiment wit
them, crossed into France, shouting 'Viv
ZOrillap' They were cantured dpDrivn