The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-07-19
FOREIGN TELEGRApH1c NEWS.

War between France and China is now
considered inevitable.
1t is rumored that there are several
cases of cholera at Nice.
General Norton is arranging for an
American exhibition in London in 1886.
An investigation of the Wellington col
lery disaster is now in progress at Nana1mo,
B. c.
The jute spinners at Dundee have re-
duced the wages of their employees per
cent.
Sugar, it is said, can now be purchased
in many parts of Cuba for two cents per
pound.
A new asteroid of the twelfth magni
tude has been discovered by Palisa, of
Vienna.
The Island of Anticosti, Gulf of st.
Lawrence, has been sold to T. w. Stock
well for $l01, 900.
Joseph Simmons, the English aeronaut,
has been condemned to two years impris-
onment for perjury.
A Paris dispatch says: Two cases of yell
low fever are reported in Cazaretto, at the
mouth of the Gironde.
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public hospitals of London, and the dis
ease continues to spread.
The village of Bertischuryl, in Switzer-
land, was burned recently, and 200 people
have been left homeless.
Recent statistics show that out of every
66 emigrants that leave Great Britain and
Ireland, "a go to America
The King of Cambodia has transferred
the administration of his kingdom to the
French governor of Saigon.
The embezzling manager of the Can
tonal Bank at Neufchatel, Switzerland,
closed his career by suicide.
English steamers, about score, are re-
turning from Montreal to Great Britain
in ballast for want of cargoes.
A Berlin dispatch says the government
has given an English firm an order for the
largest torpedo boat ever built.
A Victoria dispatch says: The run of
salmon at northern canneries is good.
That on the Fraser river is slight.
The Russian Emperor has contributed
100000 toward the relief of sufferers in
the inundated districts of Poland.
London has forty-th theaters' includ-
ing the suburban houses, an increase OF
y
Baron Arthur de Rothschild is having
steel steam yacht of $50 tons built at Firth,
England, which is to be named Eros.
The percentage of recruits in the Italian
army who can neither read nor write va
ries from % in Piedmont to IA in Sicily.
1t is rumored in London that negotia-
tions are afoot between England and
France regarding the Dutch succession.
A post office order of the denomination
of $3.50 can be obtained in the United
Kingdom for two cents and 50 for three
cents.
The Canadian government has granted
permission to the Canadian Pacific tail
road to carry Montana cattle over it's line
in bond.
The 100-ton gun at Gibraltar, recently
injured by the bursting of the shot before
leaving the gun, cost the English govern
ment 916,000
Forest fires have done vast damage in
the vicinity of Kingston, Ont. One tract
of fourteen miles by three was destroyed
by the flames.
1t is feared the exodus from Marseilles
and Toulon will result in spreading the
cholera. Migration from Paris to the sea-
side is unexampled.
A virulent epidemic is reported near
Kerbela, near Asiatic Turkey. The Rus
sian government is adopting precautions
against this special disease.
The young Queen of Holland is very
fused more social life into court circles
than has been known for years.
The cracking of gallery in Methodist
church at Anglesea England caused a
stampede, in which many persons were
trampled upon and severely injured.
Mexican gamblers propose to put two
gambling cars on the Mexican Central
Railroad, as there is a great deal of quiet
gambling done on the smoking cars.
The first Odd Fellows international
demonstration ever held in Canada,
opened last week at Brockville, Ont, un-
der the most favorable circumstances.
A four-masted iron ship, Holt Hill, of
$500 tons net register, was recently
launched at Southampton, England. She
is the largest iron sailing ship ever built.
The famous Pasdeloup Sunday SYM
phony concerts in Paris are to be stopped.
M. Pasdeloup, who is 63 years of age, has
already carried on the concerts twenty
three years.
A dispatch received at London from the
steamer Faraday, laying the Bennett
Mackay cable, states that she had picked
up the Irish-coast end, 200 miles out, and
laid 250 miles more.
Tawhiao, the Maori King who arrived
in England recently, is a member of the
Blue Ribbon army now, but is said to have
been formerly given to drink. He is an
inveterate cigarette smoker.
A Paris dispatch says there is general
feeling of surprise at the silence of the
government regarding the situation in
Tonquin. It is believed matters there Iare
in graver condition than has been ad-
mitted.
of Paris have volunteered to permit NJ.
Pasteur to try upon them his incubation
experiments in relation to hydrophobia,
all expressing willingness to die, if need
be, for the sake of science.
1t is rumored in London that France and
Portugal have concluded secret treaty
against China, by which France is allowed
to make Macao the base of land attack up
on Canton. Action will be taken to COM
pei China to recognize Macao as Portu-
guese territory, which hitherto has been
refused.
A dispatch from London says that for
eign passengers are now examined, and
any Infectious cases will be taken to
Gravesend hospital. The authorities have
been asked to intercept vessel from Mar
seilles for Cardiff, on which there are two
cases of cholera.
While little is known about the details
of the arrangements by which the Fortes-
cue-Garmoyle breach of promise case has
been privately settled. English papers
agree, as one of them puts it, that 1.-The
actress comes out of the dispute with
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