The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-02-16
FOREIGN rEIEaRApHrc NEWS.

Is quite llls
In London in one year there were 133, ,656
births and 50, ,5S7 deaths.
The people of London. it is said, pay ST.
500, ,OOO for water sold as milk.
War material for six gunboats will be
sent to Tonquin from Paris soon.
The Peruvian government has taken
steps to encourage the immigration OF
Chinese.
The use of nursing bottles for children is
5strictly prohibited at the Paris Maternity
Hospital.
Admiral Seymour has received sum-
mons to be ready to set out for Egypt at an
hours notice.
Jules Verne is going ito the Southern
seas in his own vesselsto find more maner
for his stories.
The total number near Tokar, Egypt, was
2250, including 90 officers, OF whom 10
were staff officers.
Advices from South Africa report the
death of Cetewayo, the famous Zulu chief.
tain of heart disease.
Sames Russell Lowell has accepted the
presidency of the Birmingham and Mid
land Institute for 1884.
Henry Monteith & Co., of Glasgow, tur-
key red dyers, have failed. Liabilities,
2l03, 600; assets, E11O,0O0.
Ha1irOaQ companies III AuSJrla nave D0eu
forbidden to carry explosives without per-
mission of the government.
Relatives of General Gordon, at Ply
mouth, Eng, have telegram from him,
communicating that he is safe.
Henry Georges pamphlet, Social Prob
lems," has been published in London and
provokes much hostile criticism.
America has purchased the Dundee
whaler Thetis, of 600 tons burden, to be
used for the relief of the Greeley expedi-
ton.
A letter has been received from James
Kelly, Egyptian correspondent of the Daily
News, about whom much anxiety has been
felt.
The export of diamonds from the Cape
between August lst and November 5Oth,
inclusive, amounted in value to less than
$1,000.
The Ice carnival at Montreal, Can. COM
menced last week. Large numbers of Wis
itor arriving from all parts of the United
States.
Miss Fortescue, late of the Savoy thea
ter, has brought suit for ESQ, 600 damages
against Lord Garmoyle for breach of
promise.
The English government have ordered as
many marines as can be spared from the
Mediterranean squadron to go to Egypt
Immediately.
The Pope has granted the title of count
to the Hon. Edward Dunno, late Chief
Justice of Arizona, with reversion to male
descendants.
The Queens new book, Life in the
Highlands" is attracting considerable at
tention in England. The first edition was
100000 copies.
Russia makes formal demand that Tur-
key Immediately pay the 9250,000 still
owing as indemnity exacted after the Tur-
co-Russian war.
Herr Neve, formerly of London, manager
of the Socialist paper, Freiheit, has been
condemned to six months Imprisonment
for selling papers.
agreement for carrying out the work of
civilization, begun in Central Africa by the
King of the Belgians.
A land mortgage bank has been estab-
lished in the north of Ireland, backed by
the government, to assist occupiers of the
soil to become owners.
Lotta has gained signal victory over
Minnie Palmer in London. The press now
unite in saying she is an artist of rare
ability and originality.
Ouida, writing from Florence, describes
the recent reports of her alleged change of
faith to malicious person who had grossly
China is negotiating with an English
firm for the construction Of telegraph lines
to connect Canton with places in Tonquin
occupied by the Chinese.
A Madrid dispatch reports that danger
Gus symptoms of disloyalty are manifest
ing themselves in the Spanish army, and
that another revolt is feared.
The Khedive has a telegram from Baker
Pasha reporting his defeat, near Tokar
Egypt. His losses were 1900 men, four
Kurpp cannon and two gatling guns.
The editor of newspaper of Posen has
been sentenced to years imprisonment
for publishing an address congratulating
Cardinal Ledachowski on his birthday.
The Government of the Bernese Ober-
land in Switzerland has refused to pro-
hibit Mormon missionaries to preach, as
by 80 doing they are not within the pale
of the law.
General Luard, commander-in-chief of
the Canadian militia, has been recalled to
England. He became very unpopular,
owing to his bearing towards the officers
of the militia.
The official report of the committee ap-
pointed to investigate the earthquake on
the Island of Ischia, fixes the number of
persons killed at 2,3i3 and the seriously
wounded at 762.
The remains of Lieutenant DeLong and
comrades, of the jeanette, left Hamburg
for America by the steamer Frisia, es-
corted by Naval Officers G. b. Harder and
w. II. Schwetz.
The Khedive of Egypt appears to be in a
deplorable condition. He 1abors under the
delusion that there is plot to poison him
and sends his wife to the kitchen daily to
inspect his food.
Rernnuda advicee conn1ain af tho imam
diarism of the store of T. II. Pitt & Son.
Two steamers and the Trinity church were
also burned. A large reward is offered
The penalty is death.
Ten Invincibles from Irish prisons, who
were landed at Portsmouth by the frigate
Valorous, have been taken, along with
many others, to Chatham for confinement
in the large prison there.
Among the list of persons prescribed for
sentence of death by the Vienna Socialists
are Crown Prince Rudolph, Crown Prin-
cess Stephani and Baron Rothschild, also
numerous ministers, banker and mer-
chants.
Harrington, English Secretary of State
for War, has obtained sanction to the
scheme to increase the effective army. In
this scheme the recruiting system is modi-
fed and the standard of height made
shorter.
Tseng, Chinese Ambassador, denies that
he is going to resume negotiations with
the French government on the Tonquin
question. Last advices from Pekin in
struct himl to remain in England till
further orders.
The Emperor of Germany, renewing his
efforts to affect reconciliation between
Prince Frederick and his wife, has ap-
pointed Count Remnitz, on behalf of the
Prince, and General Blumenthal on behalf
of the Princess, to arrange a basis.
The Khedive has appointed British Ad-
miral Hewett commander at Suakem, at
ha -on1,ooA off In prif;aI A