The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-04-26
rcRusE rErusRApH1c NEWS.

Baron Nordenskjold is'getting ready to
go to the south pole.
Rosa Bonheur's hair turned white dur
Ing her recent Illness.
In London the tricycle. is fitted up for
milkmen and newsboys.
Advices from Shanghai report serious
political crisis at Peking
Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice
have arrived at Darmstadt.
An English lady has offered 926, 900 for
the rescue of General Gordon.
A Universal Ornithological exhibition |
was opened at Vienna April 4th.
Sebher Pasha refuses to accept the post
of Assistant Governor of Soudan.
Last year forty. six bodies were cremated
at Gotha, Germany, at cost OF $l44 Tor
each.
A line of railway cars with camels as the
motive power Is contemplated in Central
Asia.
A new natural history museum is to be
erected at Hamburg. The cost will be
945, 600.
An Anarchist journal appropriately
named The Explosion has been started at
Geneva.
Owing to the illness of the Empress, the
departure Of Emperor William for Weis.
baden is postponed.
Mrs. Kate Chase, formerly Mrs. Spragae
has taken house in Paris, and proposes
to live there for time.
A Lima dispatch says the city Of Juniu
was attacked by 1880 rebels few days
ago. They were repulsed.
Stanley, the explorer, according to the
Independence Beige, is in favor or aban-
doning the Congo mission.
Ell Mahdi has refused the Sultanship of
Soudan and has advised General Gordon
to become Mohammedan.
Queen Victoria has an allowance of
9384, 900 for household expenses, but of
this el31, 400 is paid out in salaries.
The South Kensington authorities are
engaged in giving artistic instruction In
the lace-making districts in Ireland.
In Havana the authorities are arming
all the laborers and other employees on the
public roads, causing painful surprise.
Pope Leo, it is understood, will person
ally rebuke Cardinal HoheAlohe for vari-
Gus derelictions from ecclesiastical duties.
In view of cholera in India the French
Minister of Commerce is preparing sys-
tenn of quarantine and inspection of ves-
sells.
Two black Pashas, whose treachery
caused the recent defeat of General Cor
don's troops, have been court-martialled
and shot.
Clelin, the youngest daughter Of Carl
baldi, who was recently married in Rome,
was presented by King Humbert with a
diamond bracelet.
The Birmingham police have made ad-
oitional discoveries in regard to suspected
dynamite plots in which DAILY and Egan
were implicated.
Slavery and the slave trade are carried
on to this day in Angola under the Portu-
guese flag, and the Congo treaty will as
suredly add to it.
The English government has decided to
postpone the contemplated reduction OF
telegraphic rates from shilling to six.
pence for twenty words.
Two men, charged with having explosive
bombs in their possession, were arrested
recently, one at Birkenhead Station and
the other at Birmingham.
At Berlin a private company has beer
formed, the object being to promote the
development of the German colonies in
agricultural and commercial matters.
Some Partisan medical men are about tC
organize baby show for the month o.
July, the successful babies to be decor
ated with medals, or to receive certificates
of merit.
Crown Prince Rudolph, of Austria, anC
his wife, Princess Stephanie, arrived a.
Constantinople last week. The Sultan re
ceived them at the palace with great pomI
and cordiality.
1t is said Rubinstein made $25, 900 at his
recent five concerts in Vienna. Before thu
last concert an eager crowd broke in thu
windows Of the music store where the
tickets were on sale.
The London Standard's correspondent
ut Cairo says there are l3o men, Womer
and children Of all ages in the infirmary
at Tounah, living like wild beasts, in in
describable filth and neglect.
DIR. Gastine Nachtigal, the celebrated
traveller, has left Tun1s for West Africs
and the Congo country He is sent out by
the German government. His mission has
political, scientific and commercial feat
ures.
At a recent contest in swimming
school at Manchester, England, a youne
girl swan 600 times around the bath
house, or a distance of eight miles, while
the best swimmer among the boys made
5W rounds.
Activity among Anarchists in France
continues unabated. Fenian agents il
Paris during the past week received 81, ,0O'
from America. Small packets of dynamit,
have been recently forwarded from Francs
to England.
Advices state that great fire is raging
at Rangoon, the capital of British Bur
nah, and that Mandaly, the capital o
Burmah proper, recently half destroyed b,
confederation, has been afflicted with an
other extensive fire.
A dispatch from the Governor of Trans
caspian, Russia, says that several trade
caravans had left Merv for Bokhara
Khiva and Mished. Turcomans bough
from the caravans their entire stock o
American cotton seed.
II is semi.officially announced the as
sumption of the Presidency of the Prus
sian Council of State by the Crown t,
Prince Frederick William is impractica
BILE in consequence of the responsibility.
thereby entailed on him.
Kassola is surrounded by 5000 rebels
who fire into the town nightly. 1t is re
ported that Osman Dig1na with 1900 fol
lowers again threatens Suakem, and if h
attacks the town many neutrals will joil
him against the hated Egyptians.
Says Paris cablegram: Not only ha.
Mile. Colombier been committed for tria
on charge of outraging the public morals
in giving "Sarah Barnum" to the press
but also the publishers of the book entitled
Marie Pigionnier," which was written al
reply to fsSarah Barnum"
Reports from all parts of the United
Kingdom indicate that the prospect fo
the wheat crop this year is about average
rains, though somewhat discolored by tn.
east wind that has prevailed for a fort