Connecticut western news., 1884-02-27
FOREIGN ITEMS.

President Solomon, of Hayti, has had sev- eral high functionaries court martialed and shot.
 A German paper suggests German sub scriptions for sufferers by the floods in this country.
 Weston, the pedestrian, has completed 1000 miles of the 5000 miles which he has un- dertaken to walk.
 -Tokar, the Egyptian town near the scene If General Bakers disastrous defeat, has sur rendered to the rebels. The Governor of To- kar, and Yakoob, with 150 soldiers left the fort Wednesday and had a barley with the rebels. When they returned to the town they announced that they were going to surrender themselves. It is not believed that the rebels put the population to the sword, for it is un- derstood that the conditions of the surrender provided that their lives should be spared.
 Thousands of people are dying of fever in the south of Java.
 It is rep orted that France will open nego- tiations with the Hovas on 8 new basis.
 Francis McGinity, engaged in the corn trade in Liverpool, has failed for 935,0OO.
 The harbor dues on cotton entering the Mersey docks have been reduced sixteen per cent
 Twelve hundred British troops are now at Suakim and 3,200 at Trinkitat.
 The London Times, in an article on the Lasker incident, implies that dislike of the country that deprives Germany of thousands of conscripts is the basis of Bismarck's action, and that MT. Sargent's resignation would strain the relations of Germany and the United States.
 General Gordon again surprises the world. He proposes to have face-to-face talk with Fl Mahdi.
 General Gordon found the prison at Khartoum, Egypt den of misery. In it were 200 wretches of all ages, loaded with chains. Many have never been tried and are innocent of crime or arc prisoners of war. They were all turned loose. Among the prisoners was @ woman who had spent fifteen years in prison for crime committed when girl. General | Gordon forthwith began to demolish this | bastile.
 -Advices from Tokar state that 200 of the | garrison made sortie, attacked the enemy and | killed and wounded several of them. They also captured number of cattle and camels.
 Addressing the people of Khartoum, upon | his arrival there, General Gordon said ''I | come without soldiers, but with God on my | side, to redress evils. I will not fight with any weapons but will mete out justice. There shall | be no more Bsshi Bazouks." | The National steamer France, from New | York for London, lost IA head of cattle during | the passage.
 The German Cholera Commission have dis. covered the cholera germ in water tank in a suburban village near Calcutta.
 A rumor that Russia would lead the war. | like Asiatic tribes in attack on India ii given as the cause of the submission of the | Turcomans.
 Mir. Bradlaugh has been reelected member of Parliament for Northampton, England.
 MT. Gladstone expresses his wish that Minister for Scotland be added to the Cabinet
 MT. Parnen is about to go to Ireland tC | electioneer in Parliamentary contests.
 Du;1 haa fandaraH tb. steamer Alert to the Greedy relief expedition and she will be used ss a supply vessel. | -German-American citizens who return tt Germany are again being vigorously subjected
 to military duty. The German Foreign Ofic ignores our Minister, Sargent, and conducts al negotiations directly with Washington.
 -GeneraI Gordon has reached Khartoum
 Some Egyptian soldiers have got them | selves out of active service and in durance vilt by protesting against the employment of Eng fish office IS for native troops. l Peasants in the south and west of Russit are threatening landlords. Troops have beer called out
 A royal commission is to inquire into the | condition of the dwellings of the poor in Great Britain and Ireland. | An attempt was made to wreck 8 train on which King Humbert was journeying in Italy. The Servian ministry has resigned, owing | to difference between the conservatives and the progressists. The echeme to turn the Desert of Sahara into an inland sea, such as it is believed L. have once been, has the sanction of the Bey oi | Tunis.
 A royal commission is to inquire into the condition of the dwellings of the poor in Great | Britain and Ireland. An attempt was made to wreck & train on which King Humbert was journeying in Italy. The Servian ministry has resigned, owing the progressists The scheme to turn the Desert of Sahara into an inland sea, such as 1t Is believed t1 have once been, has the sanction of the Bey oi Tunis,