The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-07-10
CHRONICLES BY THE C4BLE.



All accounts from Tonquin shov
the rayages of disease among the Frencl
troops there appalling Three thousand in
valid soldiers have been sent home. Tire
hundred more are down with the disease an,
await transportation. The deaths among tn
troops are from fifteen to twenty daily.
Rev. Lingi Bonnonie, priest. for ;
long time captive in the camp of Ell Mahdi
has escaped and arrived at Dongola. He re
ports that the magnitude of the revolt II
Kordofan is much overratcd and confirms the
report that the forces of Mahdi were re-
peatedly defeated by the governor of Senaar-
He states, however, that famine AMI disease
is ravaging and making waste at Kordofan.
Another letter received at Cairo from Mahdi
states he will arrive at Wady Halfa after the
Romadan. Mahdi has issued twelve COM
mandments. He enioins the killing of all
foreigners unless they become Musselmen.
| The garrison at Kassala continues to receive
supplies by raiding.
The Jewish Chronicle" of London
says The elevation of Sir Nathaniel Roth
schild to the peerage, sheds lustre upon the
entire Jewish community. The creation of
the first Jewish peer is one of the most sig
nifcant acts of Mr.. Gladstone.
In the French chamber of deputies a
committee was elected to examine the Franco
Chinese treaty, submitted by M. De Freycinct
minister OF foreign affairs. The treaty defines
the rights of France over AMMAN, fixes the
boundary lines between China and the French
dependencies, and determines the conditions
upon which the commercial relations of
France and China are to be maintained. The
committee chosen is favorably disposed to
wards the treaty and its election only means
that the chamber of deputies requires to have
explained some vague worded commercial |
uses.
A Madrid dispatch says: Robeldo,
Minister of the Interior, and party, who start
ed on a tour of inspection of the cholera-in-
fected districts, were received at the railroad
station in Murcia by large crowds of people.
who manifested the greatest enthusiasm over
&c arrival Of tbs distinguished officials. The
lamp established for the reception of cholera
patients and the quarters of the city inhabited
Inspected. The official report of cholera for
June oath is as follows: Madrid, new cases.
Deaths Valencia City, 63 new cases, 25
eaths; Valencia Provinces Excluding
ity) $40 new cases, 314 deaths;
iurcia City, 106 new cases, 81 |
eaths; Murcia Province Excluding city,) s
Us new cases, 81 deaths; Castellon Delapla I
a, 50 new cases, so deaths; Glen Pazuelos ,
new cases. deaths; Toledo City. new :
lses, deaths; Toledo Province, Excluding c
ty), 10 new cases, deaths P
The United Irishmen, ParnelPs paper, says r
the recent speeches of Chamberlain surpass k
their cynical hypocrisy any we have ever V
cen even from british statesman. His 4
roposed tour is SIMPLY adding insult to in G
Try; and we regard it as mere electoral q
laneuver." In another article called Bait 7
lg the Trap" it says: This gentleman, who b
as been party to every act of despotism W
by Forster, Trevelyan and Spen- Y
'r 1or the past five years, no sooner gets his tc
cells cleared OF Downing street than he has in
lie affrontery to attempt to pose as the cham n ~
on and vindicator Of Irish freedom.
Salisbury telegraphed Wolseley in Egypt
lat he is in full sympathy with his views re-
riding the withdrawal of the British troops
ON Soudan. Errington, the semi-official r
preventative OF England at the Vatican
is been made baronet. Lionel Sackyille
est, the British minister to Washington, o
IS been invested with the order of St. q
lchael and st. George. 70
The French senate has unanimously an he
owed a credit of 10000 francs for the pur- 81
Sc Of burying Admiral Courbet with public be
nors. til
t is reported chat Kadelifa Pasha is now fe
rneying toward Cairo with letters from Ii
hdi to the khedive. Mahdi has also writ 10
to the emir of Shendy enclosing a sum of 1; -
ney which is to be augmented by the ran &c
ms which Mahdi expects for the Christian II
ssionaries and nuns whom he holds as w
soners. The money is to be used to estab- n
school of divinity to accommodate two GU
ldred and fifty students of the new faith. M
hdi, in proclamation to the army, prom m,
immediate entrance into elysium to sol 50
rs who fall in battle against infdels. AT
points the renewed activity of Mahdism
es credence to the report that the govern
ut will re-occupy Dongola, point much
ter suited for the military protection of WI
Ipt than Wady Halfa, the present frontier IA ~.
t. co
ladstone has addressed a letter to the GA
tors in his parliamentary district, in which Bf,
ays he had not expected he should not Bu
in ask them to return him to par ~ ~
lent, but events have recently transpired CHI
CHI render it necessary that he should take IN ~
tep that might imperil the unity and eff ia
ncy of his party. This is considered tan Ok pl'
cunt to an admission of his intention to Po
ain the leader of the liberal party. Ell
the last New Zealand mail important HA
her evidence is sent from Auckland of ia
wells guilt consisting of sworn descrip- W.,
S by L. Preller, brother of the victim, of wn
les, coins, trinkets, books and music and Col
r articles in the possession of deceased, POI
samples Of cloth and buttons supplied to LAI
by the London tailors, all of which were
ID in Maxwell's possession. E,'S
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