The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04

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teen million francs
The United States steamer Kearsarge
now at Gibraltar, has received instruction
from Washington to make a cruise alonI
the north and west coasts of Africa.
INQUIRIES have been sent out to Quebet
by British cavalry officers as to the quality
and cost of horses to Ue obtained in tina
region for service in England.
The United States Consul at Marseille'
has made a report by which it is found
that the finances of Marseilles have beef
seriously strained, even the resources o
charity.
The noted trial of the directors of tht
Paris Banque Lyons ct Loire has ended
II. Savory was sentenced to five years anC
fined twenty thousand francs.
IT has been discovered that among the
things that went down with the Tallapooss
were twenty-eight cases of liquors belong
ing to Secretary Chandler.
THE GovernorGeneral of Canada ha:
been ordered to secure six hundred Cana
dians to go up the Nile in relief of General
Gordon.
DR.. SALMON, Chief of the Bureau of Ami
NAL Industry, recently submitted an inter
esting report on pleuro-pneumonia.
KINGPoI was bombarded recently by
Admiral Courbet.
A FRANCo-GERMAN alliance relative To
territory on the North Sea, was arranged
at Paris not long since.
GENERAL WoLsELEY sailed for Egypt q
few days ago to direct operations for the
relief of Khartoum.
RICHARD TWEED, eldest son of the late
William NJ. Tweed, died in a French mad
house August 81.
A FAMINE at Mysore is reported by Cal.
cutta parties to be inevitable.
OPERA MANAGER e. D. HESS has recently
had trouble with Abbie Darlington in add.
ton to his Mexican troubles.
A TERRIBLE cyclone visited Winnepeg,
Manitoba, on the 18th, and tore down large
blocks of buildings.
GENERAL WoLsELEY goes to Egypt to
assume command of forces in relief of
Khartoum.
IT is said that the hop crop is at least
one-fourth short this year.
The intense heat at Lang Song recently
caused suspension of all operations.
The German Emperor was thrown from
his horse aud slightly hurt recently.
IRVING played "Richelieu" to large
audience ut the Lyceum Theatre, August
18th, and announced in brief speech that
he would soon sail for America.
COMMISSIONER FINK has authorized a cut
on cattle rates of from twenty to forty
five per cent. The cause assigned was that
other lines in the pool have cut rates.
LONDON was all excitement recently over
the false rumor that Queen Victoria's pro-
tracted melancholy had finally resulted in
her death.
THE King of Congo has made a formal
protest against the treaties between the
Palla Balla Princes and the International
The first clause of the Education Bill
was passed by the Belgium Chamber of
Deputies, by a vote of seventy-eight to
fifty.
The British Government is expediting
the departure and increasing the reinforce
ments for Egypt. The staff at Woolwich
has been increased and additional bands
to put the transports in readiness.
Lately orders were sent to Plymouth to
hasten the fitting out of the transport
Poonah.
THE schooner Defiance, with eight thou
sand bushels of uninsured wheat aboard,
lately sank near Fort Donaldson, Ont.
PROF BRUGsCH will go from Berlin on a
mission to Teheran, Persia, instead of to
Egypt.
A FRANCo-GERNAN alliance has been
made by which it was arranged that the
countries assist each other in acquiring
colonies.
OWING to the failure of the noted sugar
house of r. Weinrich, the sugar trade at
Vienna has been greatly embarrassed.
THE British Government has decided to
Increase the Khartoum expedition to seven
thousand men. Seven hundred Royal
Scots will be sent from the West Indies,
he remainder from Gibraltar, Malta and
Cyprus. General Wolseley proposes to
each Dougola by November 9TH, as be has
1ut six cataracts to pass. Alderman Den.
son, of Toronto, will command the Cana
liam voyageurS.
DURING the absence of the Government
Troops from Lima, Peru, on Wednesday, a
eader named Caceres, entered with his
losts and nearly sacked the city, the loss
# life reaching one hundred and fifty. The
INVADERS were soon expelled by the regu.
ar soldiery.