The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-09-27
FOREIGN TELEGRAPHIc NEWS.

A union of Canada and Jamaica is
talked of.
The Irish Land League met in Dublin
last week.
France will not resume negotiations
with China.
Religious professions have been prohib-
tied in Naples.
Partisan newspapers are angry zat the
American press.
Germany is shipping large quantities of
bullion to Russia.
Logan, United States minister to Chill,
has arrived at Angel.
British Columbia crops have been dam
aged by wet weather.
The Stoney Indians on the High river
reserve, Canada, are starving
Workmen of Spezzia, Italy, are not al
lowed to leave the city to work.
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry have ar
rived in Montreal from London.
Admiral Courbet is still pressing France
for an official declaration of war.
A nephew of Osman Digma was killed
in recent skirmish near Suakem.
The Car of Russia will shortly return
the visit of the Emperor Of Austria.
1t is reported that Bismarck will visit
the Prince of Wales at Albergeldie castle.
The French embassy at Pekin is en-
route to Paris to report the situation in
China.
There was death from cholera at Stour
bridge, Worcestershire, England, a few
days ago.
Sir Stafford Northcote addressed a large
meeting of Conservators at Edinburgh
last week.
Henry M. Stanley, the African explorer,
Congo country.
corps which General Lord Wolseley has
given orders to form.
The Vienna police have discovered
band of forgers, consisting of father
and seventeen children.
The st. Petersburg Journal says the re-
cent meeting of crowned heads insures
perpetual peace to Europe.
Advices from Wady Halfa state that
the steamer Masifekhiar has successfully
passed the second cataract.
The American schooner Eliza and the
English schooner Helena have been
seized in northern Russia for illegal hunt
ing.
The lieutenant of the British war ship
Zephyr, wounded when the vessel was
fired on by the Chinese at Foo Chow, is
dead.
The Chinese have stopped supplies of
coal for the British gunboat Merton, sta
toned at Sharp Peak, where the cable
lands.
A monster mass meeting was held at
Shanghai recently. The present course of
France was strongly condemned as ruin
GUS to commerce.
The Victoria, B. c.. papers complain of
free use of the revolver and knife of late,
and blame the police for inefficiency in
failing to make arrests.
1t is rumored in Berlin that the Mormon
colonization society is about to send an
expedition to make an extensive acquisi-
ton of land in west Africa.
Admiral Courbet estimates that the
bombardment of the arsenal at Foo Ohow
and the forts along the Min rivee did dam
age to the amount of $lO,OOO,OOO.
The rowing race off Southampton, Eng
ot-war crew and the crew of the United
States flagship Lancaster, was won by the
former.
Two thousand French troops landed last
week at Kenpai Pass on the Mimi river
below Foo Chow, and attacked the Chi
nese. The latter were defeated with
heavy loss.
Hong Kong merchants are greatly irri-
tated at the action of French man-of-
war in boarding one of it's trading junks
and throwing its cannon, guns and am
munition overheard.
1t is said that France has demanded of
the Khedive of Egypt that the decree di-
verting revenues from the payment of the
Caisse debt be withdrawn, and that the
financial status quo be resumed.
A south-bound freight train on the Mex
lean Central Railroad was wrecked near
Calara, Mexico, recently, on account of
the washout. The engineer and fireman,
both Americans, and seven persons were
killed.
News from Halifax states that there is
an exceedingly cold wave in the maritime
provinces. In Cumberland county several
inches of snow have fallen. Crops are
suffering greatly, owing to the unseason-
able weather.
and the Car of Russia, all wearing Prus-
sian uniforms, inspected Russian regi-
ments at Skeinewich, last week, of which
the Emperors of Germany and Austria are
honorary colonels.
A Vienna dispatch says: The proprietor
of New York museum offered the au-
thorities at Vienna $780, 900 for the body of
Kammerer. the Anarchist, hanged re-
Gently for completely in several murders.
The offer was refused.
In the event the Nile route is adhered to
for the Soudan expedition, eight battalions
the other five push on to Khartoum. Two
other bataliens will guard the line of
march in the rear of Berber.
The grey nuns of Canada are claiming
exemption from taxation by the terms of
the cession of Canada by France to Eng
land. Suit is about to be begun against a
Montreal justice of the peace to secure
100000 secured by false pretenses.
Khartoum advices state the seige is
raised, and that the rebels have retired to
few days distance, but are increasing in
number. Wolseley's delay in proceeding
to the front is learned to be due to the fact
that the supplies intended for the army OF
occupation are already exhausted.
The exodus from Naples during the past
week has been so great that lodgings in
neighboring Villages are obtained only at
fabulous prices, sometimes as high as SOC
francs a month for single room. The
better sections of the town are deserted,
and all shops are closed at in the after
noon.
A Quebec, Can. dispatch says: Captain