The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-15
FOREIGN rEIrGRApH1c NEWS.

Tahiti on her arrival In Paris.
The betrothal of Princess Elizabeth of
Hesse, is officially announced.
Three dynamite suspects have left Havre
on the st. Lawrence for America.
The new speaker PeeD took the chair at |
the English House of Commons last week.
The franchise bill passed to the first
reading in the English House of Commons. |
Colonel Stewards second expedition up |
the White Nile met with better reception. |
General Graham has been instructed to |
return to Trinkitat to wait for further or
ders.
Extraordinary precautions are being
taken to insure the safety of Buckingham
Palace.
Admiral Hewitt accompanied Captain
Speedy on his mission to King John of
Abyssinia.
Princess Clotilde, sister of the King of
Italy and wife of Prince Napoleon, is dan
gerously ill.
All the powers have been instructed to
compliment the government upon General
Graham's victory.
The Oshawa Cabinet Company has as
signed. Nominal assets, 500, 600; liabii-
ties about $4,000.
The Merchants Hotel and other large
Manitoba, last week.
The steamer Berthe collided at Gibraltar
with the Norwegian bark Alalaia. Nine
persons were drowned.
An Egyptin gunner from Tokar states
that he and seven others were compelled
to serve the rebel guns.
Hong Kong advices state that collision
has occurred between Chinese soldiers and
Europeans at Shanphai
General Gordon believes that the slavery
question will settle itself within year,
by the rising of the slaves.
The sixth anniversary of Pope Leo was
celebrated at Rome with great P0mp. The
Pope looked feeble and aged.
General Gorden asks further supplies of
money, and the treasury at Cairo sent 94O0
and number of decorations.
An Anglo Portuguese commission has
been appointed to regulate and protect
navigation upon the Congo river.
Sheiks of several tribes sent ENJOYS Of
fering to desert Osman Digma and assist
the English, if paid for their services.
The London police are in possession of
information in regard to the dynamite out
RACES that will lead to important arrests.
The English government will introduce
into the House of Commons motion to
amend the purchase clause in the land act.
The Canadian government has decided
TO send an exploring expedition to Hudson
Bay and Straits, to remain out for three
years.
The French Consulate at Cairo has re-
fused to serve ministerial writ for sup
pressing BosphOre, the Egyptian news
paper.
Three hundred and thirty sick and
wounded sailed recently from Trinkitat
for Suez, where they were placed in the
hospital.
Twenty-seven hundred bodies were
buried at Teb, including Egyptians killed
in the fight between Baker Pasha's troops
and the rebels.
A dispatch from Madrid says: Specu-
lators have subscribed 100000 to raise
revolutionary movements similar to that
of August, 1888
Joaquin Limerdaux, a directori of the
Havana Saving Bank, committed suicide
recently and the bank has suspended pay
ment in consequence.
Reports have reached Suakem that the
Bedouins of Jeddah are in revolt against
Turkey. 1t is expected that state of
siege will be declared.
A number of Socialists recognized de-
tective in tavern at Pesth, Hungary, re-
Gently, and badly beat him. He is now in
precarious condition.
1t is now almost certain that the dyna-
mite outrages committed in London were
the work of four men who arrived from
America on February 10Th.
Anglo-American cable shares on the
London market have risen on reports of
dispatches between the projectors of the
Mackay cable and ambassadors.
Peter Jones, alias Burke, and Thomas
McGinnis, were arrested recently in Cork
on suspicion of being implicated in the
late dynamite outrages in London.
Captain Speedy has started for Abyssinia
with letter from Queen Victoria to King
John. Captain Speedy will probably re-
main in Abyssinia as an English resident.
Cumberland, the English mind reader,
entertained select party recently in the
apartments of Crown Prince Adolph, at
Vienna, showing most of the tricks of
spiritualists.
recently, and rejoined her husband and
mother at the railway station. Later in
the day she was received by the Emperor
and Empress.
Captain Mason, English agent at Mas
souah, is organizing an Abyssinian con-
tingent force under English officers, to
operate on Khartoum if Ell Mahdi con-
tinues fighting.
Marquis Harrington, Secretary of War,
states that General Graham has not been
ordered to retire to Trinkitat, as was ru-
mored. He has not been directed to at
tack Osman Digma.
American Consulate Dunno has asked
the captains of whaling vessels to keep a
lookout for Lieutenant Greedy in Baffin's
Bay, in view of his driftinp from Smiths
sound on an ice foe.
Lieutenant Lloyd, brother of Clifton
Lloyd, Under Secretary of the Interior at
Cairo, will present TO Queen Victoria the
standard captured at Tokar. The British
buried 300 rebel dead.
Prussia's proposal to the Bunderath re-
garding the anti-Socialist law, is to pro-
long the law until 1886, on the ground that
many attacks upon life and property are
traceable to the Socialists.
General Graham has arrived at Suakem
Troops are embarking at Trinkitat for
Suakem already. Before leaving Tokar it
was discovered that Osman Digma is sta
toned ten miles from Suakem.
Paul de Cassagnac, Bonapartist, writes
in lie Mati7a urging that the Bonapartists
and Royalists should unite, with view of
effecting the downfall of the republic, the
Napoleonists and the Orleanists.
Prince Napoleon has recalled his son,
Prince Victor, from Roumania to Paris,
having been warned that the government
will not permit French soldiers to enter
the military service of foreign govern
ment.
Advices from Madagascar state that the
natives have succeeded in landing a num-
Der of Krupp cannon and other munitions
of war An English colonel has obtained
command of the Malagasy army and will
soon attack the French.
Police surveillance has been extended to
Hamburg, Antwerp, Brest and Bordeaux
by the English authorities. The registers
of hotels at Brussels, Paris and other CEN