Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-07
Foreign.

| The Rhine valley has been swept by a
terrible cyclone, which uprooted many
trees and destroyed a large number of
houses.
Advices from Allahabad,say tits believed
there that General Roberts will urge an
| increase of the Indian army BY 10000
British troops and LEO natives.
From Berlin it is rumored Prince Bis
marck intends to propose to the Reichstag
further increase of duties on cereals
against all countries but Austria and Hun
gary.
Information has been received at Cairo
that hostilities have been suspend ed at Kas-
sala. The garrison still holds It's own and
| has possession of the town, which is fed by
| friendly Halinkas.
The employment of bicycists as scouts
| for intelligence in the Department of Mil
itary Maneuvers by Austria has proved a
great success. They have surpassed horse
| men in endurance.
General De Courcey, the Frelch com
mander in Anam, telegraphs from Hue
that serious disorders have occurred in
Qmnhongs Numerous Christians were mas
sacred and number of villages burned.
Artists from Berlin, Munich, Hamburg
Dresden, Carlsruhe and Vienna lave been
invited to attend sixteen gratuitous per-
formances of Parsifal" "TuStan and
Isolde" to be given at the Beyeruth thea
ter.
Stallo, the new United States Minister at
Rome, has been heartily welcome ed BY the
Italian press. He will visit Signor Depre-
It's, President of the Italian Ministry, at his
villa near Lake Como before presenting
his credentials.
pruSSia hoe CONDITIONED ,,Io, n ,,,.~,
jected ship canal which it is proposed to
cut from Kiel on the Baltic to a point on
the lower Elbe, near Cuxhaven, in the Ger
man Ocean. The entire cost of the work
is placed at 156, 100000 marks
Riots between Germans and Czechs in
Bohemia continue, and greatly disturb the
Austrian Government. 1t is feared Ger
many may take umbrage at the state of
affairs, and demand heavy indemnities for
the Germans injured in the rows.
The American projectors of the famous
Topolobampo Railroad will shortly hear
from the Mexican Department of Public
Works, and, unless a good account of their
stewardship can be rendered will suffer
forfeiture of the land and other advantages
granted
A London dispatch says: The report
arising during the Prince of Wales trip to
Norway that his eldest daughter, Princess
Louise Victoria was betrothed to the sec
ond son of King Oscar of Norway and
Sweden, Prince Oscar Charles, is officially
denied. 1t is not unlikely, however, that
there will be another royal marriage before
very long.
Secretary of State Bayard has received a
dispatch from Consul French, at Barcelona,
saying that since August LIST the cholera has
slowly spread to all the city districts, so
that the Governor could no longer DENY its
existence, and so officially declared on
August 18th. The disease continues to
spread in southern Europe On Friday 10
deaths occurred in Spain from cholera. II
in Toulon, on shipboard at Cardiff and IL
in Marseilles.
a dispatch from Santiago de Chile saws
the following Ministers designations have
been rendered and accepted: Interior j.
NJ. Balmacea; Foreign Affairs, A. Verarga-
ra Albano; Finance, r. Barros Luca. The
new appointments are as follows Interior
Z. Barros Lucca; Public Works, Pedro No
lasco Grandarillos Foreign Affairs, Ami
bal Zanarata. Seniors Jovergara, Minister
of Justice, and C. Antunez, Minister of War,
Will retain their portfolios. the new Min
istry, it is said, is favorable to Balmacea.
A cable special to the New York World
from London says: Society and the clubs
are engrossed with the probable revelations
of the coming trial of Stead, editor of the
Pail Nal Gazette and others, in connection
with the Eliza Armstrong abduction.
Stead has decided to conduct his own de-
Tense on Monday, as his counsel is I'M
avoidably absent. The greatest curiosity
is manifested as to whether or not he will
summon for the defense the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Cardinal Manning or any other
member of the Mansion House Committee
Startling disclosures are expected