Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-08-21
FOREIGN.
Chnlera Rnnnrfs

LONDON, August 20th.-A majority of re-
ports received here give the number of
deaths from cholera at Marseilles at almost
double that already announced. a dis
patch to Reuters says the sanitary condi-
ton OF the city is alarming, and that the
epidemic Is extending northward.
MADRID, August 20th.-The only cleanly
persons who have been attacked bv the
cholera scourge are public officials who are
compelled to visit hotbeds of infection.
Many people are returning to the city,
which they consider safer than the PROV
lnces. Tuesdays returns show that there
were 322 new cases and 105 deaths in the
city of Granada, and 34S new cases and 125
deaths in the province. Two doctors who
went from Madrid to Genoa have died of
the disease. a doctor, who saved fourteen
out of fifteen patients in the second stage of
infection by administering an enema of
ether, has been authorized to apply the
remedy in the hospitals.
MARsEILLEs, August 20th-There have
been reported siXty-five deaths from cholera
| IN this city to-day, and seventy-nine in the
Pharo Hospital, showing a serious increase
OF the epidemic. 1t is believed the NOR
tally exceeds the number given in the
official reports.
Alarming Spread of SMALLPOX.
MONTREAL, August both. Thirtv-two
new cases of smallpox were reported here
to-day. Some of the affected persons re-
side on the principal west-end streets. One
case was reported in the lodge of Ravens
Craig, the residence of the late Sir Hugh
Allan. Theaters have all been closed.
Dlsinfectants are to be used in the watering
of the streets. The Provincial Govern
ment has been petitioned for the use of the
Exhibition buildings for smallpox hos
pital. AT a meeting of boot and shoe
manufacturers to day a petition was drawn
up; asking the City Council to prohibit
IpublIc meetings, circuses, etc, to build n
new smallpox hospital and to prevent the
health officers from riding on street cars.
The manufacturers said that the fall orders
rom the west were being cancelled on ac-
count of the epidemic in the city.
The Pearce Scandal.
LONDON, August 20th-'rhe London
newspapers generally denounce the Pail
| didH Gazette for refusing to publish the let
| ter of Miss a. NJ. Francis, generating Mr..
Pearce from the charge of having enticed
her from her home, recently published in
the Gazette. The solicitor for Pearce pub
| fishes letter in which he says that he
| has been instructed by his client to refrain
from prosecuting the girls father on
charge of common assault and battery, for
the Gaming he inflicted upon Mr. Pearce the
other day, on the alleged ground of his be-
trayal and cruelty to the young lady, be-
cause of the trivial penalty which would
| attend his conviction but to prosecute him
on a far graver charge. The solicitor has
asked the public to suspend Judgment on
the case until its merits are developed by
the Court
Tariff War Averted.
LONDON, August 20th.-The Vienna cor
respondent of the Times telegraphs that in
Austrian official circles the opinion is gen
orally entertained that, as a result of the
meeting at Varsein between Prince Bis
marck and Count Kanoky, the Austrian
Minister for Foreign Affairs, severe tariff
war between Germany and Austria has
been averted. The meeting, it is thought,
while it does not bring about a Customs
Union between the two empires, or even n
revocation of the German tariff on cereals.
has certainly brought about an under
standing between the two powers that the
German tariff is to be applied with less
rlgor towards Austria. In return for this
| concession Austria and Hungary are to
modify their pending tariff bills. which. as
at present framed, aim at extreme retalia-
ton upon Germany The Pesthe5. Loa,d. |
the organ of NJ. Tisza. Hungarian Prime
Minister, hints that the failure to secure a !
Customs Union was due to Prince Bis |
marck' 5 opposition, but the general opinion
is that at the Varsein meeting a way was
paved towards an eventual tariff agreement
between the two nations.
Murdered by Her Servant
PARIS, August 20th.-A rich maiden |
lady. named Alentray, recently disappeared |
female servant. named MERCER, told the |
neighbors that the lady had entered a con- |
vent leaving her TO manage the property. !
The servant brought her own relatives to I
the house to live. Suspicion being aroused. |
the police entered the house. and discoy- I
cred the body buried il quicklime in the /
garoan. The servant and her companions |
tried to escape, but were arrested
Germany PROTESTS.
MADRID, August Goth. Count Won Selma
Sonnewalde, the German Minister to Spain.
has protested against the dispatcn of Span