The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-22
FOREIGN rr1reRApH1c NEWS.


Over 100000 persons are employed in
lace making in France.
Australian carpenters work only eight
hours per day, and have half holiday
every Saturday.
The Czar will make his proposed visit to
the Emperor William in Nav, before the
latter goes to Ems.
The newspapers at Berlin accuse
Sargent of intimacy with Herr Bunder,
an enemy of Bismarck.
American companies have spent over
$50, ,0OO, 900 on railroads in Mexico, and
{ and completed 900 miles of track.
Fenian O'Leary writes to the Pail Mall
Gazette, stating that the doings of the
dynamiters are utterly abhoTrent to his
nature.
Trichinosis. engendered by eating Ger
man pork, and in no wise due to American
products, is ravaging in various parts of
Germany.
Seventy picked detectives have been
collected in London, and instructed In
system of espionage in regard to the
dynamiters.
The French advance from Bacninh has
begun. General DeLisle is marching up
on Thoinguyen, and General Negreier up
on Langson.
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nounces that he is unable to extricate the
garrisons on the Blue Nile and the White
Nile without troops.
A. mechanic named Nels Nelson has
been imprisoned for life, at Copenhagen,
for arson. He confesses to have set fire to
the Victoria dock in London in 1854.
Degaiff, the Russian Nihilist believed to
be the leader of the party that murdered
Colonel Sudeiken, arrived in England re-
Gently, and has departed for America.
The international convention for the
protection of submarine cables has been
signed by twenty-seven delegates in Paris,
iucluding those from the United States.
At meeting of the Liberal Union in
Berlin the Secessionists decided to join
the Progressionists. The Fusionists will
adopt the name of the German Liberal
party.
The Black Watch regiment have ad-
vanced eight miles and encaped in front
of the enemy's lines. It is estimated that
Osman Digma enrolled 5000 men at
Sinkat.
The Canadian government has objected
to some of the emigrants sent by Luke,s
committee, and has notified the English
government that many are unsHited for
colonial life.
Russia produces annually about $4 ,0O0,-
besides 5000 pounds of wax, worth $2,000,-
600. 1t is nearly all consumed in the
empire however.
NJ. Mace, the great French detective and
terror of the Paris evil-doers, is just five
feet tall, if it be proper to use the term
tall to such a stature. He has been thirty
years in the service.
French silk manufacturers are reported
to be very hopeful as to the capabilities OF
a big spider lately discovered in Africa,
which weaves a yellow web of great
strength and elasticity.
Survivors of the Sinkat butchery have
rebels tore the body of Tewf1k Bey into
pieces, and devoured his liver, in accord
ance with their superstition.
The steamer Helmdale, from New York
for Christina, reports that she spoke the
Dutch steamer Leardam, Captain Steiren
dragt, from New York for Rotterdam
which had lost her stern post and rudder
A paper called Sicobodnoje Sloacn, OF
free sport, has appeared in ST. Petersburg
1t summons the youth of Russia to oppose
the despotic form of government, and says
the Russian state machine is rapidly de
caying.
Gladstone is reported to be very i'll. He
appeared at council recently and his ply
sicians warned him against work, bu
allowed him to be present. in view of his
mental disquiet over the position o.
affairs.
Hugo Schenk, who confessed to having
murdered four women whom he had mar
ried for the purpose of plundering them
and Karl Schenk and Carl Schlossarek, ac
completes, have been sentenced to death
in Vienna.
Colonel Dobrinski has been appointed
successor to Colonel Suideiken as Chief Of
the Department in the Military Governor
ship at ST. Petersburg, for the preservation
of order A large secret fund has beer
placed at his disposal.
The private feud between the Prince ot
Wales and Lord Randolph Churchill has
been formerly arranged. 1t arose out o.
the relations between the Prince and Duke
of Marlborough while the latter was the
Marquis of Blandford.
The memoirs of the Princess Alice will
be published by Murray. The Princess
Christian edits them. The book viii
appear the first week in April 1t will
contain number of unpublished letters
of the Princess to the Queen.
Prince Henry of Prussia and the Ger
man Ambassador were at the Paddington
room, in which dynamite was recently
found, and at the exact moment of the
explosion at the Victoria depot.
1t is reported that Sheikh Obeid, on the
other side of the Blue Nile, has risen. Il
this be true the telegraph lines will be
cut forthwith. 1t is improbable that the
rebels will attack Khartoum. The viii
try to starve the city into submission.
Several registered letters have been
stolen from the Post-office at Place de la
BourSe, Paris. A letter containing 80 ,00(
francs was stolen between Paris anG
Toulouse. Post-effice robberies during
the past week amount to 100000 francs.
Niobean Pasha, Prime Minister has
temporarily assumed direction of the
Ministry of the Interior, in place of Sabet
Pasha, resigned in consequence of dis
putes with Clifford, Under Secretary
The latter virtually controls the depart
ment.
It has been rumored that the English
government, desiring to test the opinion
of the country in regard to its Egyptian
policy, and fearing that obstruction in the
present parliament will thwart the fran
chise bill has decided to dissolve parlia
ment.
The Court of Queens Bench has decided
that Lady Aylesford's "molestation" can
cells her husbands convenant to pay hel
an annuity This moleStation consisted
in calling his illegitimate son Lore
Guernsey, the second title of the Earl Of
Aylesford.
Bradlaugh, while delivering lecture al
Bridgeway, last week, against perpetua
pensions, was attacked by roughs and
driven from the platform by shower Of
rotten eggs, fruit and fireworks. The
roughs afterwards wrecked the chair
mans house.
Osman Digma has written to Sheik
Morghani, declaring that he is deter
mined to drink the blood of the Turks an6
their allies. He will strengthen the re
ligion of Islam with the sword of Mahdi
He advises the Sheik to attempt the con
version of the English to the Moslem